Johanna Faust, a mixed race Jew, prefers to publish pseudonymously. She is committed: first, to preventing war, ecological disaster, and nuclear apocalypse; last to not only fighting for personal privacy & the freedom of information, but, by representing herself as a soldier in that fight, to exhorting others to do the same. She is a poet, always. All these efforts find representation here: "ah, Mephistophelis" is so named after the last line of Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, whose heretical success flouted the censor for a time.

Google's New Motto (Because It Sure Isn't Don't Be Evil Anymore) RESULTS



These are the results so far.  Four categories became obvious at once, and so here goes:




Google's New Motto
or, words provided by Google for Google to live by
Don't Be Transparent
Don't Be Contrite
Don't Be Forgetting Your Campaign Contributions
Don't Have Other Gods Before Mammon Thy God
"Don't Be Google" ("A Little Zen Koan" From George At Whatreallyhappened)
Don't Admit To Any Wrongdoing
Don't Testify Under Oath
Don't Worry, You Will Not Be Held Personally Accountable
Don't Be Chaotic Evil
Don't Give A Shit
Don't Be In Danger Of Not Continuously Kissing The Ass Of Some Big Corporation
Don't Ask
Don't Worry It Will Blow Over
Don't Worry You Have Their Data
Don't Worry It Won't Stick
Don't Worry You Can Pay Your Way Out
Don't Think You Can Take It Back
Don't Be Evil: Outsource
Don't Be Evil, Become Evil
Don't Be Evil By Default
That Would Be Telling
The Gloves Are Off
Don't Seem Evil
Don't Appear Evil At First
Don't Be Afraid To Make Nearly Irresistable Offers Of Free Services To Make Your Evil More Palatable
You Did Want The Full Fucnctionality
Don't Appear Evil To Any End User In A Way They Are Likely To Notice Or Care About
Don't Be Evil; Be Greedy, And The Evil Will Take Care Of Itself
Don't Be Vile
Muah-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha
Don't Provide A Way To Opt Out
Don't Provide A Way To Opt Out Until Its Too Late (But Be Sure To Warn Everyone Loudly For A Month Beforehand)
Don't Provide A Way To Opt Out That They Can Find
Don't Provide A Way To Opt Out That They Can Understand
If Not Google Than Some Lesser Search Engine
Don't Gloat
Don't Be Revealed
Don't Be Evil, Profit From It
Never Say Never
Don't Be Responsible
Search And Destroy
Saerch Me (Please)
Search And Siezure
Serving The Deserving
Protecting And Serving Your Data
Its Not Personal, Its Personalization
Who's Your Daddy?
Who Said That?
Don't Be Held Criminally Liable
It's All Fun And Games Until We Call It Information. (thanks to Thelemic Waves)
Don't Be Late Cashing In
Just Do It (thanks to anonymous)
Don't Be Evil Officially
Don't Be Excluded
Don't Be Too Evil
Don't Be Evil™
We Won't Tell
Can You Keep A Secret?
Don't You Be Evil
Don't Be A Stickler
The Evil Is In The Details (And In The Tos)
Let's Make A Deal
This Is Your Life
You Don't Remember
Everybody's Doing It
Don't Be Defiant
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Don't Worry You're Not That Important
Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense
Who Knew?
We Recall
Get Used To It.
Google, Or Be Googled.
More Popular Than Jesus
If You Have To Break A Rule Break It Hard And Then Explain Yourself If Caught
Don't Be Evil. Be Medieval. Serf The Web.
No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition
Google Represent.
Google Perpetrate.
Don't Run: We Are Your Friends.
Don't Be Amateur. Practice Makes Perfect.
Don't Be Denied.
Google Does Not Disclose Its Personal Information.
Do What You Want To Do.
You Only Investigate The Ones You Love
Don't Be Evil, Be Amoral
Don't Beat Them, Join Them
Don't Be Waiting Around For Users To Make Up Their Own Minds...
Don't Be Caught
Don't Be Eager
Don't Be Trusting
Don't Be Surprised
Don't Be Obvious
Don't Be Stupid
Don't Be Ethical
Don't Get Caught With Your Pants Down
Don't Be Halfsteppin' W' Yo' Weapon On Standby
You Hide And Watch
Don't Say We Didn't Warn You
Mark of the beast (thanks to anonymous)
Whatever We Can Get Away With
Don't Be Shy
Maybe You Shouldn't Ought To Have Been Doing That, Hmm?
Whatever
Don't Be Civil (thanks to Pat)
Amor Boni Non Carborundum
Legitimi Non Conundrum








Google's New Motto as A Message To Users
or, words provided by Google for Us to google by
Don't Let Us Grind You Down Then Resell Your Dust
Don't Be Transparent
Don't Be Unencrypted
Don't Use Google - (Thanks Uppity Serf, Whatreallyhappened)
"Don't Be Google" ("A Little Zen Koan" From George At Whatreallyhappened)
GoogleCIA (Thanks To Uksecrets At Whatreallyhappened)
Don't Be A Fool. (Thanks To Michael Rivero, Webmaster, What Really Happened)
Don't Be Gullible
Don't Be Afraid, Your Search Results Will Be Unaffected
Don't Bill Us
Don't Be Evil*          *Limited Time Offer
Don't Be Leaving Us Alone With Your Children or Valuables
We're From Google, We're Here To Help
Let Me Put It This Way: Ethics Won't Be A Problem Anymore
Don't Think You Can Take It Back
Don't Be Surprised
Don't Be Scared
Don't Be Excluded
We Won't Tell
Can You Keep A Secret?
Don't You Be Evil
Don't Be A Stickler
The Evil Is In The Details (And The Tos)
Let's Make A Deal
This Is Your Life
You Don't Remember
Everybody's Doing It
Don't Be Defiant
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Don't Worry You're Not That Important
Don't Think About It
Oops! We Did It Again!
We Come In Peace
I'm Not Heavy I'm Your Brother
We Don't Want Your Soul
Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense
Don't Be Fooled Again
This Will Go On Your Permanent Record
Don't Be Posing As My Os Asking Me For My Password To Enable Third Party Cookies To Be Turned On So That Greedy Corporations Can Get My Info Especially When I Didn't Want To Opt In To Google Plus In The First Place
Don't Be Eaten
Don't Be Anal (About Retaining My Data)
Don't Bet In Three Card Monty
Who Said That?
Who's Your Daddy?
The Check Is In The Mail
I Wont Come In Your Mouth
I Will Only Put The Tip In
Its Not Personal, Its Personalization
Don't Be Nervous
Don't Look Nervous
Don't Look Evil
Don't Be So Butt Hurt
Serach And Cordon In Progress
Don't Be Throwing Stones
It Will Have A Good Sauce To It, If You Are Asked To Pay So Dear
How Would You Like To Be Taken Today
Don't Be Superstitious
Don't Be Evil. Be Medieval. Serf The Web.
Fooled You Once.
That Loud Sucking Upload Sound You Hear? That's Just Doubleclick. They Always Sound Like That. Or Its The Nsa. Or Omniture I Mean.
Who, Us? My Stars, We Would Never Do That. You Must Have Us Confused With Your Governement.
We Agree.
At Google, Your Privacy Is Important. To Us.
Move Along
Don't Be Paranoid
Necessarily In Your Back Yard
Get Used To It.
Google Or Be Googled
More Popular Than Jesus
Do As I Say Not As I Do
Don't Be Fooled
Don't Want Privacy
Don't Think We Won't Try
Don't Be Anonymous
Don't Be Naïve
There's A Sucker Born Every Minute
Don't Be Fucked
Don't Be So Picky
Don't Be Violated
Don't Be Curious
Don't Believe
Don't Even Think About It
Don't Be Stupid
Don't Bet Against The House
Don't Be Jacked
Don't Write A Check Your Ass Can't Cash
Don't Be Promising Doubleclick My Information
Don't Believe The Hype
Don't Be On The Wrong Side
Don't Bite The Hand That Feeds You
DON'T BE FUCKING EVIL




Google's Motto As A Message From Users, 
or, words provided by Gentle Readers to help Google wise up
"Don't Be Google" ("A Little Zen Koan" From George At Whatreallyhappened)
Google Escher Bot
Every Search Is Sacred Every Search Is Great If The Data's Wasted Google Gets Irate (Calls From Doubleclick)
Don't Do The Crime If You Can't Do The Time
Don't Be Doxed
Don't Think It Can't Happen To You
Don't Be All Ghetto About Being Evil If There Is The Slightest Chance You'll Be Found Out: Do It In Style. Get Passwords From The NSA Or Something.





Google's Motto As If It Were The Result Of A Google Search (Beta)
Don't Be Evil Translate This Page
Don't Be Evil Cached About: Blank
The Connection Was Reset While The Good Was Trying To Load
"Don't Be Evil" Link
Feeling Lucky?
Feeling Lucky, Punk?
Feeling Punked?
Did You Mean, Don't Admit To Any Wrongdoing?
Did You Mean, Google Minus?
Don't Be Evil Would You Like To Repeat The Search With The Rest Of The Results Included?
Did You Mean, Don't Believe?
Don't Be Evil: Repeat The Search With All Results Included
Would You Like To Repeat The Search With All Results Included?
Did You Mean Google Cash?
Don't Be Evil Google Code
Don't+Be+Evil?Q=Cache:
Don't Be Evil: 300 Million Intended Results
Sorry.Google.Com Captcha
404 File Not Found
That's All We Know. Sorry




Sigh.

Be Seeing you.

if you google whether Google is evil... | meme


If you google whether Google is evil, will the results be cursed or recursed
courtesy Corporanon and meme generator

Contest For Google's New Motto....



...cause it sure isn't 'Don't Be Evil' anymore.

Leave entries in the comments!

So far:

  • Don't Be Caught
  • Don't Be Eager
  • Don't Be Trusting
  • Don't Be Fooled
  • Don't Want Privacy
  • Don't Think We Won't Try
  • Don't Be Anonymous
  • Don't Be Naïve
  • There's A Sucker Born Every Minute
  • Don't Be Fucked
  • Don't Be So Picky
  • Don't Be Violated
  • Don't Be Curious
  • Don't Bypass A Dollar
  • Never Give A Sucker An Even Break
  • Give Me Six Posts From The Most Honest Of Bloggers, And I Will Find Something Therein With Which To Have His DNS Sinkholed 
  • Don't Be Surprised
  • Don't Be Obvious
  • Don't Get Caught With Your Pants Down
  • Don't Believe
  • Don't Even Think About It
  • Don't Be Halfsteppin' W' Yo' Weapon On Standby
  • Don't Believe The Hype
  • You Hide And Watch
  • Don't Say We Didn't Warn You
  • Maybe You Shouldn't Ought To Have Been Doing That, Hmm?
  • Don't Do The Crime If You Can't Do The Time
  • Don't Be Doxed
  • Don't Think It Can't Happen To You
  • Whatever
  • Don't Be Unencrypted
  • Don't Be Stupid
  • Don't Bet Against The House
  • Don't Be Jacked
  • Don't Write A Check Your Ass Can't Cash
  • Don't Be Promising Doubleclick My Information
  • Don't Be Ethical
  • Don't Be Posing As My Os Asking Me For My Password To Enable Third Party Cookies To Be Turned On So That Greedy Corporations Can Get My Info Especially When I Didn't Want To Opt In To Google Plus In The First Place
  • Don't Be Eaten
  • Don't Be Anal (About Retaining My Data)
  • Don't Bet In Three Card Monty
  • Whatever We Can Get Away With
  • Don't Be Shy


And to Google I say:

  • Don't Be On The Wrong Side
  • Don't Bite The Hand That Feeds You

and 

  • DON'T BE FUCKING EVIL.

Be seeing you.

VIDEO: This "Requiem" For 2012 Is A Fiction Worth Making Real


Just found this; its a month old.  Well worth it. Gives me hope.


From the Youtube post: "An Open Source experiment in overlapping the genres of trendforecasting and motivational speaking. Don't Panic, it's ART. Script and editing by Atlan Ezekiel. Re-upload, rate and comment as you see fit."







Thank you souluniteddk.


Be seeing you.

APOLOGIES








































APOLOGIES : 
CONCERNING THE REGRETTABLE, IF TEMPORARY, LOSS 
OF CERTAIN ONCE-PUBLISHED ARTICLES 
NOW ABSENT FROM THE ARCHIVES: 
MORE REGRETTABLY, 
THAT WHICH ONCE WAS FOUND HERE: 
TOWARD WHICH 
A NEGLIGENCE UPON THIS FAUST'S PART 
HAS RECENTLY BEEN MOST UNHAPPILY DISCOVERED; 
THAT MAY HAVE LEFT 
MANY GENTLE READERS BEREFT OF THE
BENEFITS, DELIGHTS, &, 
THE WHICH IS PERHAPS MOST REGRETTABLE OF ALL, 
HAPPY LEARNINGS & UNFORSEEN DISCOVERIES 
OF THIS INCREDIBLE, INTERACTIVE, & SCARCELY BLINKY 
AWESOME MIND MAP, 
ALL OF WHOSE 
REALLY USEFUL FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR CRISIS RELATED HYPERLINKS 
WERE ORIGINALLY MADE POSSIBLE BY 
THE DEDICATION, 
ATTENTION TO DETAIL, 
& UNWAVERING COMMITMENT TO STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE
 BY THE CONSISTENT EXCELLENCE OF WHICH ONE MAY RECOGNIZE
THE HANDIWORK OF THE ELUSIVE, &, DESPITE THIS TURN OF EVENTS, MOST APPRECIATED, 
MR. CORPORANON.
THIS WILL BE RECTIFIED:
FOR WHICH I HOPE & BELIEVE IT NOT TOO LIKELY RISKING A COMPOUNDING OF MY EMBARRASSMENT 
TO, IN ADDITION, & BY WAY OF REDRESS, OFFER:
THAT IT WOULD MUCH BEHOOVE ANY BODIE, 
TO RETURN SOME FEW DAYS HENCE.
PARTICULARLY THOSE FIT FEW WHOSE EYES, IN POINT MOST STRANGE OF CIRCUMSTANCE. FOLLOW HARD UPON THESE VERY WORDS:
THANK YOU.







Be seeing you.

Anonymous Hacked The CIA (again?)


screenshot of my attempt


This just in from RT.


Anonymous hacked the CIA
RT 
11 February, 2012, 00:23

Traditionally known as FuckFBIFriday, this weekend eve turned into FuckCIAFriday, as hacktivists downed the official website for the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States cia.gov. At approximately 3.10 p.m. Eastern time one of twitter accounts related to the hackers' group announced "cia.gov DOWN. 
Along with the secret audio leak, numerous sites feel prey to Anonymous’ crippling assault including several entertainment industry giants and government sites. The websites for the US Department of Justice and Universal Music Group were among the first to go, with the sites for US Copyright Office, Warner Music, BMI, and RIAA following suit shortly after. These attacks were in retaliation for a raid on Megaupload, where the feds raided the file sharing service site which led to more than 20 warrants being served and several arrests internationally.

Read more
Summary by Text Compactor



So after getting the warning message above, I did a traceroute.


Traceroute to CIA
personal info redacted

Start: 2/10/12    2:20:25 PM  
Find route from: 192.168.0.2
             to: 198.81.129.107 (198.81.129.107), Max 30 hops, 40 byte packets
Host Names truncated to 32 bytes
 1 192.168.0.1                      (192.168.0.1    ):  3558ms        0ms        0ms        0ms        0ms   

[snip]

10 ae1-40g.ar2.sjc1.us.nlayer.net   (69.22.143.118  ):    53ms       44ms       43ms       44ms       42ms   
11 tengige0-2-2-0.gw3.sjc7.alter.ne (152.179.48.21  ):    53ms       42ms       42ms       42ms       42ms   
12 0.ge-4-1-0.xl3.sjc7.alter.net    (152.63.50.97   ):    42ms       41ms       62ms       41ms       40ms   
13 0.ge-4-3-0.xt1.lax9.alter.net    (152.63.10.9    ):    51ms       52ms       51ms       54ms       51ms   
14 vlan20-tengigabitethernet9-0.sa1 (152.63.116.41  ):    51ms       52ms       52ms       50ms       51ms   
15     *          *          *          *     
•Cancelled by user•
     *     Start: 2/10/12    2:21:07 PM  
;; Query: vlan20-tengigabitethernet9-0.sa1.lax9.alter.net ,type = ANY , class = ANY

• Query cannot resolve name •
Start: 2/10/12    2:21:16 PM  
;; Query: 198.81.129.107 ,type = ANY , class = ANY

• Query cannot resolve name •
Start: 2/10/12    2:21:21 PM  
;; Query: 198.81.129.107 ,type = ANY , class = ANY

• Query cannot resolve name •
Start: 2/10/12    2:21:28 PM  
Whois user[@]: 198.81.129.107

[whois.arin.net]
#
# Query terms are ambiguous.  The query is assumed to be:
#     "n 198.81.129.107"
#
# Use "?" to get help.
#

#
# The following results may also be obtained via:
# http://whois.arin.net/rest/nets;q=198.81.129.107?showDetails=true&showARIN=false&ext=netref2
#

ANS Communications, Inc BLK198-15-ANS (NET-198-80-0-0-1) 198.80.0.0 - 198.81.255.255
Central Intelligence Agency OIT-BLK1 (NET-198-81-128-0-1) 198.81.128.0 - 198.81.191.255


#
# ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use
# available at: https://www.arin.net/whois_tou.html
#


• Whois complete 2/10/12    2:21:29 PM   •
Start: 2/10/12    2:21:39 PM  
PING from: 192.168.0.2
       to: 198.81.129.107 (198.81.129.107) Every 500 mSecs
 PKT# RESULT  TIME(ms) LENGTH     Min     Avg     Max  Timestamp

1 failed 2/10/12    2:21:44 PM  
2 failed 2/10/12    2:21:49 PM  
3 failed 2/10/12    2:21:54 PM  
•Cancelled by user•


Packets out/in/bad/%loss = 3/0/3/100.0
• Ping Completed 2/10/12    2:21:55 PM  
Start: 2/10/12    2:22:08 PM  
Find route from: 192.168.0.2
             to: 198.81.129.107 (198.81.129.107), Max 30 hops, 40 byte packets
Host Names truncated to 32 bytes
 1 192.168.0.1                      (192.168.0.1    ):     0ms        0ms        0ms        0ms        1ms   

[snip]

10 ae1-40g.ar2.sjc1.us.nlayer.net   (69.22.143.118  ):    47ms       44ms       45ms       43ms       43ms   
11 tengige0-2-2-0.gw3.sjc7.alter.ne (152.179.48.21  ):    42ms       42ms       41ms       42ms       41ms   
12 0.ge-4-1-0.xl3.sjc7.alter.net    (152.63.50.97   ):    41ms       41ms       42ms       41ms       42ms   
13 0.ge-4-3-0.xt1.lax9.alter.net    (152.63.10.9    ):    50ms       53ms       55ms       53ms       56ms   
14 vlan20-tengigabitethernet9-0.sa1 (152.63.116.41  ):    52ms       53ms       52ms       52ms       52ms   
15     *          *          *     
•Cancelled by user•
Start: 2/10/12    2:22:42 PM  
Find route from: 192.168.0.2
             to: cia.gov (198.81.129.107), Max 30 hops, 40 byte packets
Host Names truncated to 32 bytes
 1 192.168.0.1                      (192.168.0.1    ):    15ms        5ms        0ms        1ms        0ms   

[snip]

10 ae1-40g.ar2.sjc1.us.nlayer.net   (69.22.143.118  ):    43ms       50ms       44ms       48ms       43ms   
11 tengige0-2-2-0.gw3.sjc7.alter.ne (152.179.48.21  ):    41ms       41ms       42ms       42ms       41ms   
12 0.ge-4-1-0.xl3.sjc7.alter.net    (152.63.50.97   ):    48ms       44ms       41ms       41ms       41ms   
13 0.ge-4-3-0.xt1.lax9.alter.net    (152.63.10.9    ):    51ms       52ms       51ms       58ms       66ms   
14 vlan20-tengigabitethernet9-0.sa1 (152.63.116.41  ):    65ms       51ms       52ms       51ms       51ms   
15     *          *     
•Cancelled by user•


But didn't they do this recently?  Like on the second of February?  And ...  also last year, when AntiSec was first born?

More as develops.

Be seeing you.

Citizen's Police Review Board: Convened by Occupy Oakland Grand Lake Theatre, 2/9/12



At first all I knew was from the news (quasi-indy) -- and so I didn't know why theCPRB Canceled....

Citizens' Police Review Board to postpone forum on OPD, Occupy Oakland

Feb 2 
by Jennifer Inez Ward

The Citizens' Police Review Board has postponed a public forum on the Oakland Police and Occupy Oakland originally scheduled for Feb. 9 at Oakland City Hall.
[snip]
Caceres did not give a reason for the delay.
According to the CPRB website, the focus of the forum was supposed to be the Oakland Police Department’s response to the Occupy Oakland encampments and protests between Oct. 25 and Nov. 14.

"In the wake of recent Oakland Police Department’s response to Occupy Oakland protests, the Citizens’ Police Review Board received a petition, formal complaints from Oaklanders and numerous calls from around the nation and the world, prompting the opening of eight investigations into officer misconduct," the website states.

CPRB's website lists several goals for the forum including, obtaining testimony from people affected by the police response to Occupy Oakland. The forum also will be an opportunity for the city's police to respond to CPRB and "about the planning and implementation of police actions around Occupy Oakland and how the department is addressing misconduct."

Information about OPD’s policies on use of force, protests, crowd management and mutual aid, also were slated to be a part of the discussion.
Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan, along with community groups and people associated with Occupy Oakland, were expected to attend....

Read more



...but I knew that OccupyOakland had taken up the slack

Occupy Oakland Forum on Police Actions

Feb 9 
by Benjamin Philips

Occupy Oakland is hosting a Forum on Police Actions on February 9, 6:15 pm at the Grand Lake Theater.
The Citizens Police Review Board (CPRB) announced yesterday that they had indefinitely postponed a forum which had been in the works for months. This forum had been intended to allow the community to discuss the Oakland Police Department’s handling of Occupy Oakland.
Police actions on January 28 show that this forum is more needed than ever, and that the OPD has not made any significant progress or reforms since they shot Scott Olsen in the head on October 25.
Thus, Occupy Oakland is hosting a forum to take its place....
Read more:




As it turns out, the original CPRB was not gong to be about the police actions against the Occupatio on the 28th, and they had cancelled basically to regroup.  (I hope I have that right).  CPRB was at tonight's meeting -- they explain it better, no doubt.  So without delay, the recorded streams of the meeting -- which are very interesting.  First, a presentation on OPD Brutality, narrated by OakFoSho of various streamers' clips from  January 28th, 2012 -- the Oakland Rise Up Festival, a.k.a. move-in day.


 

 

 

 

 



This was followed by a short intermission and an open forum.

 

 

 

 

 


And here is another video streamer's point of view:



 

 

 

 

 


I can tell you that this occupation is every bit as beautiful as all that.

And more.

Hella occupy.





Be  seeing you.

A Response To A Response To
The NYT 'We The People Losing Appeal' Piece,
Or, Do Not Yell At Me



The NYT article is here. The Intel Hub Response, here. Although it was originally a comment over at WhatReallyHappenedI think the following stands on its own... 


...well, given a very short, uh, snippet (from the video beginning):  



Hey, I had to learn it just like every other individuating consciousness on the planet: 

raising one's voice is a measure not of the truth of one's message but of one's willingness to use to force or fraud as method to convince others of that truth

Call it 'winning hearts & minds' -- as the old saying goes,much more success is of course obtained by sweetness. One could argue that the truth itself needs no such 'spin' -- but alas, although it is true that many lies pass as truth for a time before they are unmasked, one cannot be equally as sure that truth may not be passed over and ignored for want of capable, effective advocacy.  Happens all the time. 

Had I not been willing & able to ignore the avoidance behavior triggered by finding myself yelled at, had I not looked up and read the original NYT article (in its entirety, and not 'snippets,' the use of which, may I add, is rather telling, given the context), I would have come away from this post with only a vague confirmation of my anti-MSM bias.  And with another reaffirmation of my general tendency towards loyalty to our constitution, reaffirmations now experienced so frequently there is a temptation to nurture that loyalty as an end in itself. 

Which it is not. 

The constitution is the means. Freedom is the objective. Freedom, and justice, and the pursuit of happiness. Furthermore, as it turns out, and strange though it may seem, there is much information and many interesting points raised by the NYT piece. You should read it, Gentle Reader. See for yourself how the meaning masquerades as the rational and intellectual inquiry upon which it was engendered. It does not raise its voice, yet leaves one -- leaves me -- convinced that this little piece will most likely succeed. 

Its intended purposes? 

Distraction. Manipulation. Disinformation.

Preoccupation. 

Make up your own mind where the evil is: it is not in the information presented in the article, but (as is to be expected from the NYT) in the slant, and the context of the debate. The slant creates propaganda from information. It really has nothing to do with the article's purported subject: the scientificallish study of modern government charters (quantification -- "coding" -- of their use of, or resemblance to, or basis upon, the US Constitution) and temporal analysis of results.  It has everything to do with the intensely emotional rhetoric one might expect as consequence. 

Such as the above.



Be seeing you.