Obdormition over Obama's obnubilation...

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The result of a scandal far milder

than the many we see today.

Obama's Blackwhite. No, I don't mean Obama's 'race name' if you followed the strange lefty liberal classification of white-hispanic George Zimmerman, but the Newspeak doublethink Blackwhite. Well, it's not really obnubilation (obfuscation, obscuring, obscurantism) because it's in plain sight and crystal clear: the excellent Samizdata blog has been highlighting Obama's obvious lies recently to such an extent that you begin to suffer 'Outrage Fatigue': "the condition in which so many awful actions by a set of State actors have been revealed that one can no longer hope to track the entire list of their offenses and crimes in one’s head."..."I have long since passed that point for the Obama administration in general. Imprisonment without charge, war crimes, coverups, the silencing of whistleblowers and dozens of other acts have become so numerous that I cannot hope to remember them all." [sic] "It is painfully clear that the contempt of the Obama Administration and its minions for the rule of law is near total, that their contempt for the truth is near total...". It may be silly season but what if Richard Nixon had merely promised "appropriate reforms"?

Obdormition over Obama's obnubilation...

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The result of a scandal far milder
than the many we see today.

Obama's Blackwhite. No, I don't mean Obama's 'race name' if you followed the strange lefty liberal classification of white-hispanic George Zimmerman, but the Newspeak doublethink Blackwhite. Well, it's not really obnubilation (obfuscation, obscuring, obscurantism) because it's in plain sight and crystal clear: the excellent Samizdata blog has been highlighting Obama's obvious lies recently to such an extent that you begin to suffer 'Outrage Fatigue': "the condition in which so many awful actions by a set of State actors have been revealed that one can no longer hope to track the entire list of their offenses and crimes in one’s head."..."I have long since passed that point for the Obama administration in general. Imprisonment without charge, war crimes, coverups, the silencing of whistleblowers and dozens of other acts have become so numerous that I cannot hope to remember them all." [sic] "It is painfully clear that the contempt of the Obama Administration and its minions for the rule of law is near total, that their contempt for the truth is near total...". It may be silly season but what if Richard Nixon had merely promised "appropriate reforms"?

Online Orwellian octopus...

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There's a reason for the octopus...With private investigators and hacking all over the news in the UK (well, most of the news media: some aren't as keen as they were over Murdoch bashing) Michele's ordeal should start to worry us all a bit: "Googling of certain things was creating a perfect storm of terrorism profiling. Because somewhere out there, someone was watching." I am sure you were already aware if not worried. Via Zerohedge we realise what Google (amongst others) knows about us: Tom Gara writing on Corporate Intelligence, the WSJ business news blog digs deeper and discovers a hackers' and hence PI's goldmine. Tom goes on to see the good side of this:

"There’s another side to this, of course. In the long run our online histories will become one of our most cherished forms of memory, in some ways far more powerful than anything our brains are capable of. Gmail was one of the first Google services we signed into, and that was less than a decade ago. The Chrome browser has been around less than half as long. Our web histories are still young.



Give them another ten years and they will paint a picture of our past — of who we were — more detailed than any memory."

There's also diaries and photographs of course but I know what he means!

Online Orwellian octopus...

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There's a reason for the octopus...With private investigators and hacking all over the news in the UK (well, most of the news media: some aren't as keen as they were over Murdoch bashing) Michele's ordeal should start to worry us all a bit: "Googling of certain things was creating a perfect storm of terrorism profiling. Because somewhere out there, someone was watching." I am sure you were already aware if not worried. Via Zerohedge we realise what Google (amongst others) knows about us: Tom Gara writing on Corporate Intelligence, the WSJ business news blog digs deeper and discovers a hackers' and hence PI's goldmine. Tom goes on to see the good side of this:

"There’s another side to this, of course. In the long run our online histories will become one of our most cherished forms of memory, in some ways far more powerful than anything our brains are capable of. Gmail was one of the first Google services we signed into, and that was less than a decade ago. The Chrome browser has been around less than half as long. Our web histories are still young.

Give them another ten years and they will paint a picture of our past — of who we were — more detailed than any memory."

There's also diaries and photographs of course but I know what he means!