(satire) *FBI Warns Oregon Fire Had Been Plotting Violent Takeover Of State For Years.*

Congress is trying to help people escape from abusive conservatorships that have been imposed on them by states.

I have not followed the Britney Spears case, but I think these reforms are good changes. They, and can help protect people from abuse by heir conservators, and I don't see that they are likely to do facilitate any sort of wrong.

(satire) *Hesitant Man Just Waiting To Observe Long-Term Effects Of Vaccine Over Next Several Eons.*

Each "smart"phone (for "smart" read "spy") has a unique "mobile advertising ID" number which supposedly makes it possible for surveillance capitalism to profile the user without knowing per identity. It sounds nice, but businesses that link that ID to the user's name and address etc. are in use on an industrial scale.

Given the powerful incentives to make nonfree apps malware, and make online services into dis-services, I think schemes like this are unlikely even to be effective.

I advocate going back to the World Wide Web of 2000, in which users sent a web site only the limited data they actually wanted to send.

Ralph Nader presents a list of major, deadly problems which the US government should have addressed decades ago, but interested businesses blocked action until the present.