Cassi Creek Espionage between nations is as old as human
kind.
City dwellers spy upon rural folks to see how the crops
look. City states snoop on the affairs
of other city states. The Vatican spies
on everyone, as does Mossad. The Soviets
carried out very successful espionage campaigns against NATO nations, the U.S.,
China, and the Warsaw Pact nations. The
Soviets and East Germans had massive internal espionage networks.
Not to be
outdone, the FBI did its best to convince the Boy Scouts to serve as junior
spies, hunting for communists in their neighborhoods. The BSA decided not to play along until the
target became open homosexuals.
Espionage is
much easier than we would expect because of our innate tendency to gossip about
others. That’s not going to change. Anyone who thinks that privacy still exists
at a personal level in today’s world has eaten one too many kind veggie
burritos in the parking lot. There’s always information flow on Shakedown Street.
High winds kept
us sleeping lightly last night. They
arrived and departed with the sunset and sunrise. We were lucky, had no damage. Down valley there was one Bradford Pear split
and fallen. Mike, our down stream
neighbor woke up to find 20 feet of pine tree fallen across his deck. Once again, we were lucky. There are large branches in the road all the
way down valley.
For the history majors:
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