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The Pyxis Memo: On Resurrecting the Free Web
The Pyxis Memo: On Resurrecting the Free Web
The Pyxis Memo: On Resurrecting the Free Web
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The Fracture of 2018 ended the United States as we know it. The fear, the violence, the bombs...where did it all orginate? And can the box of destruction be closed once it's been laid open?

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PublisherLyle Skains
Release dateDec 19, 2017
ISBN9781912110681
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    Congressional Research Service

    MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE PROVISIONAL UNITED STATES

    FROM THE INTERIM CONGRESS

    Date: 07/04/2021

    Re: Recommendation on re-establishment of public internet structures

    Based on the documentation provided herein, we cannot with good conscience recommend the reconstruction of the free and open World Wide Web as it existed before the Fracture of 2018. The Interim Committee agrees that the open, anonymous discourse and disingenuous activities represented in this file were significant factors — bordering on terrorism — in events that led to the disaster of 2018. These events include the election results in 2016, the disenfranchisement of the people by the ensuing White House Administration, the proliferation of false truths and the acceptance of unsupportable beliefs about factual world events, as well as the reports of the MARS pandemic and the eventual cataclysm that destroyed this once great nation.

    In short, if we are to rebuild, we must first find a foolproof way that the dark and ill-intended users of a national digital network, such as previously existed on the internet, cannot destroy us again.

    Signed:

    A. de Silva, Chair, Homeland Security; Chair, Communications, Technology & Internet Subcommittee (Sen)

    R. Li, Chair, Cybersecurity Subcommittee (Sen)

    M. Brown, Chair, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, & Security Technologies (HoR); Chair, Communications & Technology Subcommittee (HoR)

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    MEMORANDUM

    TO: Interim Congressional Committee of the Provisional United States

    FROM: J. Haacke, Lead Investigator, Media Team

    DATE: June 13, 2021

    RE: Retrieved online documentation, November 2016-June 2017

    EYES ONLY

    The requested research on online activities in 2016-2017 relevant to the events leading to what is commonly referred to as The Fracture has been completed. The attached file contains representative documents that could be duplicated within the given timeframe in the necessary secure medium; the full hard copy documentation, apprising some 10,000 pages, can be accessed in the secure archive facility designated within the former Library of Congress, in Washington, D.C.

    The subsequent documentation is presented to the committee members on stand-alone, air-gapped eInk devices, relevant to the questions surrounding the source of the MARS media attack. It is unlikely any collaborators remain, or that they have sufficient infrastructure to continue their activities if they do; nonetheless, top-level security protocols have been observed for the materials herein. All information has been transcribed and duplicated via manual means (e.g., re-typed) to ensure no microprograms could be attached to any electronically copied text or digitally duplicated documents.

    In order to ensure continued safety of these documents, the eInk device may only be accessed in the Committee Chambers, with the Lead Investigator or designated agent present. All eInk devices must be returned to the Media Team at the conclusion of each session. No imaging or recording devices of any kind are permitted within the Committee Chambers while these documents are being reviewed.

    All hyperlinks in the documents are internal cross-references; external URLs have been duplicated from the original documentation, but not activated (as their destinations no longer exist).

    List of included documents:

    Reuters: Florida Hospital

    BBC: Dayton Bombing

    AP: New York

    People for American Truth: Viral Post

    Rise & Shine Transcript

    Reddit Forum Transcript 1

    WSJ: Panic

    Investigator Note

    Wikipedia: Mission-CoV

    Wikipedia: Bolivian Flu

    Wikipedia Talk: Mission-CoV

    WCHN4: Troy, OH

    WCHN4: Sarasota, FL

    WCHN4: Lake Charles, LA

    CDC Mission-CoV Report: OH

    CDC Mission-CoV Report: FL

    CDC Mission-CoV Report: LA

    CDC MARS Timeline

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