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Israeli SOP
by Zenaan Harkness 13 Jan '17

13 Jan '17

When you are filmed doing something disgraceful, respond with death threats, which as we all know, works super duper well in this age of the Internet because you know, no such thing as the Streissand effect or nuthin: https://www.rt.com/news/373475-israeli-soldier-palestinian-shooting/ Israel, "the Middle East's only democracy".

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Astonishing Lie by Hillary regarding Trump "Choke"
by Big 'Uns 12 Jan '17

12 Jan '17

> On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 09:30:43 -0900 > "juan" <juan.g71 at gmail.com> wrote: > No, no, no. White christians descend from white christians. Sez the multi-"white"-lingual speaker. Cuz so do you =P > You can go back all you like and until reaching the origin > of the world, 6000 years ago, and all you'll find is white > christians. It's white christians all the way down, lol.

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Astonishing Lie by Hillary regarding Trump "Choke"
by jim bell 12 Jan '17

12 Jan '17

I'm really floored about how disgustingly low Hillary (and her cronies) will go to criticize Trump. A few months ago, both were invited to see the Mexican president; only Trump went. When Trump returned, he was asked by the MSM (mainstream media) if he had discussed who would pay for the wall. Trump said that he hadn't. For a few days, there was criticism of Trump for FAILING to negotiate this matter. That criticism re-surfaced within the last day or so (October 20), with Hillary claiming Trump had "choked". Well, as radio commentator Paul Harvey would have said, here's the rest of the story. It turns out that there is an American Federal law called the Logan Act which prohibits private citizens from engaging in diplomatic activity with foreign nations. It's been around for 200+ years, and violation is a felony...although there have never been any convictions and only one indictment in that entire time. It does not prohibit a person from merely meeting with a foreign government official, just engaging in diplomacy with him. (What amounts to "diplomacy" has not been tested, due to the virtual lack of prosecutions.) Hillary Clinton is supposed to have at one point been a lawyer. Not a good lawyer, I have to conclude. In fact, she must have been a very bad lawyer. But she has now outdone herself for criticizing Trump...for Trump's FAILURE to commit a Federal felony! You see, she has actually claimed Trump "choked": That Trump DIDN'T negotiate this matter, apparently not to Hillary's satisfaction. So, indeed, Hillary is blasting Trump for FAILING to engage in diplomacy with the Mexican president: For FAILING to commit a felony! And don't try to suggest that maybe, Trump did indeed secretly try to negotiate with the Mexican president, but simply failed to get an agreement. While such a hypothetical scenario might be called a violation of the Logan Act, at the same time it couldn't ALSO be called "choking": To raise the issue during the meeting, but to merely fail to get positive results wouldn't be a "choke", of course. So, by calling Trump's supposed actions (or lack of actions?) "choking", Hillary has essentially admitted that she DIDN'T believe that Trump had attempted to negotiate, and thus had not violated the Logan Act. But others in the media were even more clueless. And it's not that I'm the first person to raise this issue: Do a Google search for 'hillary trump mexico wall Logan', and you can even find some articles within the first few days of Trump's Mexican visit, claiming that Trump DID violate the Logan Act. If Trump had actually said he negotiated, you can be sure that Hillary would have accused him of committing a crime. But no, he didn't, so now she's accusing him of, in effect, NOT COMMITTING a crime. Failure to negotiate as a private citizen with the President of Mexico. Failure to commit a Federal felony. How awful! How cynical can a person be to try to prepare not one, but in fact TWO separate, and opposite traps for her opponent: If Trump tried to negotiate, she would accuse him of a crime. If Trump failed to try to negotiate, she would, and in fact did, accuse him of "choking". Is it possible to engage in a more disgusting and devious fraud in front of the entire world, and not be called out on it? How dishonest can a person get? To be sure, I'm still going to vote for Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate, as I always do. But I feel I must challenge anyone who would otherwise vote for Hillary Clinton: Do you feel proud that your chosen candidate is such a massive liar, fraudster, influence-peddler, scam-artist, and deviously corrupt woman? "And those are her GOOD qualities", I hear her supporters fawning. Jim Bell

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Fw: Germans need to arm themselves - civil uprising approaching
by Zenaan Harkness 12 Jan '17

12 Jan '17

How likely is a civil uprising in Germany? If I were living there, I'd certainly prepare... Z ----- Forwarded message from James ----- Subject: Germans need to arm themselves - civil uprising approaching Hi it might be advisable to encourage those you love who live in Germany, to prepare for a possible civil uprising over there. Learning some self defence is never a bad thing, I say. Best, http://www.dailystormer.com/german-government-takes-preemptive-measures-in-… ----- End forwarded message -----

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Govt Dismissing Darknet Cases due to State Secrets, Illegal Actions, Etc
by grarpamp 11 Jan '17

11 Jan '17

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/01/feds-may-let-playpen-child-porn-… https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/5n5cyi/feds_may_let_playpen_child_po… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13362555 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/playpen-story-fbis-unprecedented-and-… Rather than disclose the source code that the FBI used to target a child porn suspect, federal prosecutors in Tacoma, Washington recently dropped their appeal in United States v. Michaud. The case is just one of 135 federal prosecutions nationwide involving the Tor-hidden child porn website Playpen. The vast effort to bust Playpen has raised significant questions about the ethics, oversight, capabilities, and limitations of the government’s ability to hack criminal suspects. ........ Last year, a federal judge in a related case prosecuted out of Oklahoma, United States v. Arterbury, also ruled against the prosecution. The government eventually dropped the appeal and then dismissed the indictment at the district court in October 2016. Yet another Playpen case, United States v. Levin, where the defense prevailed initially, is currently on appeal at the 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals. Beau Croghan, a man in Iowa, was another alleged user hit by this NIT—his case was just one of three in which a judge ruled to suppress the evidence due to a defective warrant. Croghan's case is now pending before the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals. ...... Beyond Michaud, Fieman is representing another Playpen defendant in the same judicial district (the Western District of Washington) before the very same judge. In the second case, the evidence and legal questions are nearly identical. That case, United States v. Tippens, is set to go to trial on February 27, 2017 in Tacoma. ........

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[OT] [song] Galaxy Song - Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
by Cecilia Tanaka 11 Jan '17

11 Jan '17

The stars are so beautiful... :) [bcc] Thank you for always inspiring me, Solstag. I love and miss you a lot. Paris is more beautiful now and Sao Paulo, a bit sadder. :'( ====== *"Galaxy Song" - Monty Python's The Meaning of Life* https://youtu.be/buqtdpuZxvk Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, And things seem hard or tough, And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft, And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough, Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving And revolving at 900 miles an hour. It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned, The sun that is the source of all our power. Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see, Are moving at a million miles a day, In the outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour, Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way. Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars; It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side; It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick, But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide. We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point, We go 'round every two hundred million years; And our galaxy itself is one of millions of billions In this amazing and expanding universe. -- "The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented."

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Czech President Demands Citizens Arm Themselves to Prevent “Super-Holocaust” of Whites
by Zenaan Harkness 11 Jan '17

11 Jan '17

Like it or not folks, RaHoWa gets closer by the week these days. The following just in from Czechoslovakia: Czech President Demands Citizens Arm Themselves to Shoot Moslems to Prevent “Super-Holocaust” of Whites Alternative links: http://www.dailystormer.com/czech-president-demands-citizens-arm-themselves… http://bbs.dailystormer.com/t/czech-president-demands-citizens-arm-themselv… http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/czech-government-tells-its-citizens-how… http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-07/czech-government-fears-muslim-supe… https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/14/milos-zeman-czech-leader-refu… http://www.radio.cz/en/section/business/gun-sales-rising-sharply-in-czech-r… Alternative viewpoint / suggestions: http://www.dailystormer.com/time-to-stop-terrorism-we-have-to-be-super-nice…

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CCC-TV: Bootstraping a slightly more secure laptop with Heads (not Tails)
by Razer 10 Jan '17

10 Jan '17

Review: "Bootstrapping a slightly more secure laptop" by @qrs under-promises and over-delivers." ~Dino A. Dai Zovi, Co-founder & CTO @ Capsule8 https://twitter.com/dinodaizovi > Heads is an open source custom firmware and OS configuration for > laptops and servers that aims to provide slightly better physical > security and protection for data on the system. Unlike Tails, which > aims to be a stateless OS that leaves no trace on the computer of its > presence, Heads is intended for the case where you need to store data > and state on the computer. It targets specific models of commodity > hardware and takes advantage of lessons learned from several years of > vulnerability research. This talk provides a high level overview of > Heads, a demo of installing it on a Thinkpad and a tour of some of the > attacks that it protects against. https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8314-bootstraping_a_slightly_more_secure_laptop Downloadable files available in multiple languages

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Google plugs severe Android vulnerability that exposed devices to spying
by Razer 10 Jan '17

10 Jan '17

Malicious power chargers too! The internet of things hates you. Google has shut down a "high-severity" exploit in its Nexus 6 and 6P phones which gave attackers with USB access the opportunity to take over the onboard modem during boot-up—allowing them to listen in on phonecalls, or intercept mobile data packets. The vulnerability was part of a cluster of security holes found by security researchers at IBM's X-Force all related to a flaw—tagged CVE-2016-8467—in the phones' bootmode, which uses malware-infected PCs and malicious power chargers to access hidden USB interfaces. Patches were rolled out before the vulnerabilities were made public, in November for the Nexus 6, and January for the 6P. The exploit also allowed access to find the phone's "exact GPS coordinates with detailed satellite information, place phone calls, steal call information, and access or change nonvolatile items or the EFS partition." It was complex to activate, requiring the victim to have Android Debug Bridge (ADB) enabled on their devices—a debugging mode used by developers to load APKs onto Android phones—and to have manually authorised ADB connectivity with the infected PC or charger. However, according to the researchers, there were significant workarounds. More: http://arstechnica.com/security/2017/01/google-plugs-severe-android-bootmod…

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WTC [WAS] Do you have predictions about 2017?
by grarpamp 10 Jan '17

10 Jan '17

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