ARTICLES BY UYLESS BLACK/SPECIAL TO THE PRESS
Goldman's Golden Fleecing
This article is written as a follow-up to the book titled, “The Nearly Perfect Storm: An American Financial and Social Failure,” available online and local bookstores. This piece discusses recent legal settlements that represent aftermaths of the 2008 financial meltdown. I begin with excerpts from the book about the issue.
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WELFARE and WARFARE on the RANGE
This article examines the confrontation between the U.S. government and several ranchers who recently occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon and others who are currently occupying government grazing land in Nevada. To set the stage for this discussion, here are several facts about the issue.
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The Bureaucrats of War
Americans celebrated Vietnam Veterans Day earlier this week. What some of our citizens do not know is that the war was started under false pretenses. As a Vietnam vet, I have been resisting this “rumor” since the Gulf of Tonkin incidents of Aug. 2 and 4, 1965. I have railed …
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Coming home to a one-finger salute
Editor’s note: This was written by Mr. Black last Memorial Day weekend.
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FBI vs. Apple: A fool's mission
Part one of two: Low Hanging Fruit
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Who controls the Internet?
For the past two weeks, this series has focused on current Internet issues, as outlined in the list shown in this article. One issue, the performance of America’s broadband carrier industry, was covered in an earlier series (July 31 – December 15, 2014) and bears reviewing and updating. A New …
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The Internet: Clouds - servers or oligarchs?
Cloud computing is being touted by cloud vendors as the best way for Internet users to back up their files as well as receive services, such as software support, including automatic updates to their applications. These users are individuals as well as small and large organizations. Some cloud vendors offer …
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The Internet: Eroding hard copy and concrete
With the increased use of the Internet for the transport of email, text, and instant messages, it is logical to assume there would be an associated decrease in the transport of hard copy mail. Likewise, the same idea would hold for an increase in online shopping and a decrease in …
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The Internet: Watching commercial surveillance
At the rate citizens are moving from conventional mail to electronic mail, texting, and instant messaging, it is reasonable to assume Internet correspondence will supplant postal mail as the dominant medium for sending and receiving correspondence.
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The Internet: The power of 'bigmeta'
How is it possible that marketing firms and intelligence agencies seem to know so much about us? Advertisements appear on our screens about products we actually like. Intelligence agents know where we are going before we arrive at our destination. Part of this powerful intuition is based on a technology …
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The Internet: Tweeting literacy away?
In the latter part of the 20th century, technology became available to allow researchers to examine the detailed structure of the brain. Various techniques, grouped under the name of neuroimaging, can now display the surface and innards of the brain.
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The Internet: Protecting user content
It was only a matter of time. The revelations that U.S. government agencies were conducting illegal surveillance on Americans put pressure on Internet vendors to place powerful security protocols in their products. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said the PATRIOT Act (a set of laws, some …
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Beware the freedom to kill the freedom of religion Part 2 of 2
The irony facing America (and some other non-Islam-based societies) is its legacy of supporting the freedom of worship of any religion, even if that religion contradicts the concept of separation of church and state.
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