It has occurred to me—and please understand I have no inside info here—that if what we are allowed to see is very bad, it is possible that there is some amount of secret activity that is much worse. https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4t2ziwnnescprzorvmrfduey/post/3me2t7ivyfc25 #USPolitics #secrecy

agreed echoesofgandhiintheanthropocene.blogspot.com/2026/01/one-... "Power should not erase crimes." DID YOU VOTE FOR A CHILD RAPIST IN THE WHITE HOUSE? #TrumpsEpsteinFiles #ChildSexTrafficking” DISGUST #FollowTheMoney #ProtectMidTermsFromTrumpFBIMuskandCronies #corruption #secrecy

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🌍 One Crisis, Two Faces: Ethic...

The #Trump Administration exempts new #nuclear reactors from #environmental review

Geoff Brumfiel, February 2, 20263:09 PM ET

"The Trump Administration has created an exclusion for new experimental reactors being built at sites around the U.S. from a major environmental law. The law would have required them to disclose how their construction and operation might harm the environment, and it also typically required a written, public assessment of the possible consequences of a #NuclearAccident.

"The exclusion announcement comes just days after NPR revealed officials at the Department of Energy had secretly rewritten environmental, safety and security rules to make it easier for the reactors to be built.

"The Department of Energy announced the change Monday in a notice in the Federal Register. It said the department would begin excluding advanced nuclear reactors from the #NationalEnvironmentalPolicyAct. The act requires federal agencies to consider the environment when undertaking new projects and programs.

"The law also requires extensive reporting on how proposed programs might impact local ecosystems. That documentation, known as an #EnvironmentalImpactStatement, and a second lesser type of analysis, known as an #EnvironmentalAssessment, provide an opportunity for the public to review and comment on potential projects in their community."

Read more:
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/02/nx-s1-5696525/trump-nuclear-safety-regulations-environmental-review

#NoNukes #NoNewNukes #NuclearPlants #USPol #PublicReview #Secrecy #NuclearSafety #NuclearPollution #EnvironmentalImpact
#NoNukesWithoutConsent #EnvironmentalLaw #TrumpAdministration #NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies

#ProPublica reveals identities of masked killers of #AlexPretti as two #BorderPatrol agents from #TX.

"ProPublica is publishing the names of the two federal immigration agents involved in the fatal shooting of #Minnesota #protester Alex Pretti. We believe there are few investigations that deserve more sunlight and public scrutiny than this one, in which two masked agents fired 10 shots at Pretti as he lay on the ground after being pepper-sprayed.

The Department of #Justice said it is investigating the incident, but the names of the two agents have been withheld from Congress and from state and local law enforcement.

The policy of shielding officers’ identities, particularly after a public #shooting, is a stark departure from standard #LawEnforcement protocols, according to lawmakers, state attorneys general and former federal officials. Such #secrecy, in our view, deprives the public of the most fundamental tool for #accountability."

https://www.propublica.org/article/alex-pretti-shooting-cbp-agents-identified-jesus-ochoa-raymundo-gutierrez

https://www.whro.org/environment/2026-01-16/federal-judge-rules-dominion-energy-can-resume-construction-on-virginia-beach-offshore-wind-farm “The government can't just wave around ‘national security’ as a magic wand” #secrecy #MagicWand #Virginia #DominionEnergy #CVOW #wind #energy #inflation #shortage #USPolitics #climate

Ontario school board invokes secrecy provision to withhold records on $34K fine art collection
The Thames Valley District School Board, a London, Ont., board taken over for financial mismanagement, is refusing to fully disclose its publicly owned art collection, citing legal exemptions to Ontario's freedom-of-information laws that preven...
#secrecy #accountability #publicassets #Ontario #London
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-ontario-fine-art-school-board-thames-valley-9.7038832?cmp=rss

Ontario school board invokes secrecy provision to withhold records on $34K fine art collection
The Thames Valley District School Board, a London, Ont., board taken over for financial mismanagement, is refusing to fully disclose its publicly owned art collection, citing legal exemptions to Ontario's freedom-of-information laws that preven...
#secrecy #accountability #publicassets #Ontario #London
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-ontario-fine-art-school-board-thames-valley-9.7038832?cmp=rss

Ontario school board invokes secrecy provision to withhold records on $34K fine art collection
The Thames Valley District School Board, a London, Ont., board taken over for financial mismanagement, is refusing to fully disclose its publicly owned art collection, citing legal exemptions to Ontario's freedom-of-information laws that preven...
#secrecy #accountability #publicassets #Ontario #London
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-ontario-fine-art-school-board-thames-valley-9.7038832?cmp=rss

Thames Valley school board invokes powerful secrecy tool over $34K fine art collection
The Thames Valley District School Board, a London, Ont., board taken over for financial mismanagement, is refusing to fully disclose its publicly owned art collection, citing legal exemptions to Ontario's freedom-of-information laws that prevent disclo...
#secrecy #accountability #publicassets #Ontario #London
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-ontario-fine-art-school-board-thames-valley-9.7038832?cmp=rss

Ontario school board invokes secrecy provision to withhold records on $34K fine art collection
The Thames Valley District School Board, a London, Ont., board taken over for financial mismanagement, is refusing to fully disclose its publicly owned art collection, citing legal exemptions to Ontario's freedom-of-information laws that preven...
#secrecy #accountability #publicassets #Ontario #London
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-ontario-fine-art-school-board-thames-valley-9.7038832?cmp=rss

A quotation from Montaigne

There are few men, that would dare to publish the secret requests they make to God.
 
[Il est peu d’hommes qui ozassent mettre en evidence les requestes secrettes qu’ils font à Dieu.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 56 (1.56), “Of Prayers [Des prieres]” (1572-1580) [tr. Florio (1603)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #petition #prayer #secret #shame #secrecy

An interstellar enigma and a wall of secrecy: CIA won’t confirm or deny existence of “alien mothership”
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=an-interstellar-enigma-and-a-wall-of-secrecy-cia-wont-confirm-or-deny-existence-of-alien-mothership
The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS exhibits unexplained acceleration and composition
#interstellar #secrecy #confirm #object

#secrecy : the state or quality of being hidden

- French: clandestinité

- German: die Geheimhaltung

- Italian: clandestinità

- Portuguese: segredo

- Spanish: clandestinidad

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Fill in missing or incorrect translations @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations

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"Follow the Money" Transparenc...

https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-jan-6-anniversary-police-plaque-f6fd39b437c339fa9ff477318a7d36e2 “For months, they’ve mounted poster board-style replicas of the Jan. 6 plaque outside their office doors, resulting in a Capitol complex awash with makeshift remembrances.” #USPolitics #PublicHistory #USHistory #secrecy #January6

London cops must disclose if they are Freemasons
#ausnews #vicnews #freemasons #metpolice #UK #London #secrecy

https://www.victoriannews.com.au/opinion/london-cops-must-disclose-if-they-are-freemasons/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

A quotation from Horace

To go on with my advice (that is, supposing
You need advice from me): Be careful about
The things you say and the people to whom you say them.
Avoid the man who asks too many questions.
No question but he’ll be a teller of tales;
An ear that eager can’t keep a secret for long,
And once a word slips out it won’t come back.
 
[Protinus ut moneam (si quid monitoris eges tu)
quid de quoque viro et cui dicas, saepe videto,
percontatorem fugito: nam garrulus idem est,
nec retinent patulae commissa fideliter aures,
et semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.]

Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 18 “Lollius,” l. 67ff (1.18.67-71) (20 BC) [tr. Ferry (2001)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/20802/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #caution #circumspection #confidence #confidentiality #discretion #gossip #hearsay #informer #prattle #prudence #secrecy #secret #tattle #trustworthiness

https://www.techspot.com/news/110723-nvidia-20-billion-groq-deal-looks-lot-like.html “The Groq deal fits a pattern Silicon Valley observers call a hackquisition – a transaction that isn't legally an acquisition but operates similarly in practice” #Hackquisition #corruption #NVIDIA #Groq #secrecy #AIBubble