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Other Than Nuclear War, the Digital Revolution Is Mankind’s Greatest Disaster

  Other Than Nuclear War, the Digital Revolution Is Mankind’s Greatest Disaster PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS   It has been clear to me from the beginning that the digital revolution was a massive catastrophe in the making. The digital revolution is a catastrophe across the board. It not only gives government ability to impose tyranny beyond George Orwells’ imagination, it subjects all accumulated knowledge to wipe out by an electromagnetic pulse, and it causes shutdown of worldwide economic activity because of a bug in cybersecurity software. We got a taste of this last Friday. All over the world flights stopped. People could not access their bank accounts. Stores could not process transactions. People could not purchase food or clothing. Emergency police, health, fire services could not be contacted. All of this and more happened because a Crowdstrike cybersecurity update contained an error that closed down services relying on the Microsoft operating system. Ask yourselves why humans, if they a

The Cyber Threat Intelligence League, Sara-Jayne Terp, and the unbearably idiotic schoolmarms who have been unleashed to censor the internet

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  The Cyber Threat Intelligence League, Sara-Jayne Terp, and the unbearably idiotic schoolmarms who have been unleashed to censor the internet EUGYPPIUS Michael Shellenberger, Alex Gutentag and Matt Taibbi have continued their reporting on the “Censorship Industrial Complex”  with a new piece on an odious organisation called the Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) League . Their revelations provide fresh details about the early history of the public-private campaign to censor the internet in the wake of the 2016 presidential election, and I have to say that this is one of the most amazing and bizarre stories I have ever encountered. The CTI League appear to be an organisation cobbled together in 2020 from two main factions. The first comprised  a group of computer security experts and military/intelligence contractors put together by a (former?) Israeli intelligence official named Ohad Zaidenberg during the early months of the pandemic , originally (and allegedly) for the purposes of prote