I just keep getting please wait and then, eventually, service error. I
may have to unplug my router for a few minutes.
___
Sam Harris
“Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen
yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence
as anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent that you give it. Tell
him that the book he keeps by his bed was written by an invisible deity who
will punish him with fire for eternity if he fails to accept its every
incredible claim about the universe, and he seems to require no evidence what
so ever.”
― Sam Harris,
On 3/1/2020 9:50 AM, miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I hope it worked for you. I didn't use any capital letters, just two words,
mint cast.
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On
Behalf Of Roger Loran Bailey (Redacted sender "rogerbailey81" for DMARC)
Sent: Saturday, February 29, 2020 9:37 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: more disillusionment
Okay, I tried that and it didn't work. Perhaps I somehow entered the letters
wrong. I will try again when I get off the computer and back to my Victor.
___
Sam Harris
“Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen
yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence
as anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent that you give it. Tell
him that the book he keeps by his bed was written by an invisible deity who
will punish him with fire for eternity if he fails to accept its every
incredible claim about the universe, and he seems to require no evidence what
so ever.”
― Sam Harris,
On 2/29/2020 9:07 PM, miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I found it by typing mint cast, with a space between the two words, and then
pressing the pound key. It was the first result.
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Roger Loran Bailey
(Redacted sender "rogerbailey81" for DMARC)
Sent: Saturday, February 29, 2020 9:04 PM
To: blind-democracy <blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: more disillusionment
I did a search for that Mint Cast. So far I only searched for it on my Victor
Reader rather than Googling for it. But I was unable to find it.
I searched for the two words together and got no results. I searched for the
two words combined into one word and that didn't work either. Then I searched
for just the word Mint. For that I got a long list of results and browsing
through them I saw that most of them could not be the one I was looking for,
but a few looked like they might be possibilities. I am supposing that you are
listening on your Victor, So I am wondering if you have the spelling right on
this list or if you do then how did you find it?
___
Sam Harris
???Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen
yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence
as anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent that you give it. Tell
him that the book he keeps by his bed was written by an invisible deity who
will punish him with fire for eternity if he fails to accept its every
incredible claim about the universe, and he seems to require no evidence what
so ever.???
??? Sam Harris,
On 2/29/2020 3:40 PM, miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Well, it turns out that it isn't only Democracy Now which is being
subverted. I have, for almost a year, been hearing discontent from
the journalists whom I most respect, about The Intercept. I know,
from my own experience, that there are a few Intercept reporters,
whose reporting I trust and others, not so much. Well, today I
listened to the Mint Cast episode which was an interview with Yasha
Levine, the author of Surveillance Valley, a book that I've read and
which is on BARD. His Russian Jewish family emigrated here when he was a child.
Did you know that this country had special rules for Jews emigrating
from Russia to make it easy for them like the provision of housing
and welfare benefits? That isn't because America loves Russian Jews,
but because they were used as pawns in this country's cold war
against the Soviet Union. Levine is a technology expert and he knows
a lot about the history of how the internet came to be and how it has
evolved. But one of the things that he talked about today, and that
was in the book, is Edward Snowden. You probably remember that
Snowden gave all of the NSA material that he had, to Glenn Greenwald
who, at the time, was working for the Guardian. The Guardian and the
Washington Post published some of Greenwald's stories about the
material, and then Greenwald, along with Jeremy Scahill, started The
Intercept as part of First Look Media, a project funded by the billionaire
owner of Ebay.
The Intercept published more of Greenwald's stories about Snowden's
material, and then it published other secret material given to it by
two other whistle blowers who were very quickly exposed and arrested.
But what the Intercept didn't do, was to publish the majority of
Snowden's NSA documents. So Snowden ended up stuck in Russia, unable
to leave because the US will immediately arrest him for treason, but
only a fraction of the material for which he risked his life, has
been revealed. Levine also explained that Snowden believes that
change should only come through technology, not through political
action or any other kind of citizen action. Because his life and
safety are now dependent on the Russian government and The Intercept,
he cannot complain about the fact that the Intercept hasn't followed
through on its commitment to him. I should also note that he's involved with
The Freedom of the Press Foundation, which is doing nothing for Julian Assange.
The fact that he has said almost nothing about Assange, was also mentioned on
the podcast.
There's a lot more of interest in the podcast.
Miriam
