Theme:
Dancing Amidst the Terror Game:
Nasrudin and the Plague
He was on his way to Baghdad when he met Nasrudin. This one asked him:
– Where are you going?
The Plague replied:
– To Baghdad to kill ten thousand people.
After a while, the Plague met Nasrudin again. Very angry, the mullah said to him:
– You lied to me. You said you’d kill ten thousand people and killed a hundred thousand.
And the Plague replied to him:
– I didn’t lie, I killed ten thousand. The rest died of fear.
~ Tale of Sufi tradition. (Special thanks to Andrew for sending this!)
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Catherine, thank you for recommending ‘The Pharmacist’.
we recognize the solution to bad speech is more & good speech.
we recognize the solution to bad people with guns is more & good people with guns.
why don’t we recognize the same about drugs?
and how do you feel about rx monitoring program medical privacy implications more generally; another reason to avoid going to the doctor?
most dont know the controlled substances they are prescribed are routinely perused by the DEA and really anyone with access to the database. DEA says they dont have ‘reasonable expectations of privacy’ in handing the script to the pharmacist.
Nick:
I believe that there is zero privacy in the US system – it all goes into digital data systems which all feed the US intelligence system and foreign partners which is then available to all the corporate contractors related to both US intelligence and foreign intelligence – it is a very wide spread. The only way to avoid it is to establish health care providers and institutions outside of the country who agree to keep your records off line. If it is digital it will be swept into the databeast – that is the goal of digital systems.
Catherine, thank you for recommending ‘The Pharmacist’.
we recognize the solution to bad speech is more & good speech.
we recognize the solution to bad people with guns is more & good people with guns.
why don’t we recognize the same about drugs?
and how do you feel about rx monitoring program medical privacy implications more generally; another reason to avoid going to the doctor?
most dont know the controlled substances they are prescribed are routinely perused by the DEA and really anyone with access to the database. DEA says they dont have ‘reasonable expectations of privacy’ in handing the script to the pharmacist.
Nick:
I believe that there is zero privacy in the US system – it all goes into digital data systems which all feed the US intelligence system and foreign partners which is then available to all the corporate contractors related to both US intelligence and foreign intelligence – it is a very wide spread. The only way to avoid it is to establish health care providers and institutions outside of the country who agree to keep your records off line. If it is digital it will be swept into the databeast – that is the goal of digital systems.