February 2017 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

North Dakota Bans Anonymous Speech To Kill Protests and Enhance Facializing
by grarpamp 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/07/north-dakota-house-passes-bill-prohibitin… http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/dakota-pipeline-protests/pipeline-proteste… http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/10/21/09/398D050F00000578-0-image-a-5_1… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Chanology Also, throwing food in protest is now a five year felony... http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/michigan-inmates-will-face-5-year-felony… https://media.clickondetroit.com/document_dev/2017/02/13/Assault%20sign_899… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States

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But but Moooslems! [TriggerWarning: Fundie xtian child-forker bashing]
by Razer 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

Washington Post: Why does the United States still let 12-year-olds get married? https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/02/10/why-does-the-un… Michelle DeMello walked into the clerk’s office in Colorado thinking for sure someone would save her. She was 16 and pregnant. Her Christian community in Green Mountain Falls was pressuring her family to marry her off to her 19-year-old boyfriend. She didn’t think she had the right to say no to the marriage after the mess she felt she’d made. “I could be the example of the shining whore in town, or I could be what everybody wanted me to be at that moment and save my family a lot of honor,” DeMello said. She assumed that the clerk would refuse to approve the marriage. The law wouldn’t allow a minor to marry, right? Wrong, as DeMello, now 42, learned. While most states set 18 as the minimum marriage age, exceptions in every state allow children younger than 18 to marry, typically with parental consent or judicial approval. How much younger? Laws in 27 states do not specify an age below which a child cannot marry. Unchained At Last, a nonprofit I founded to help women resist or escape forced marriage in the United States, spent the past year collecting marriage license data from 2000 to 2010, the most recent year for which most states were able to provide information. We learned that in 38 states, more than 167,000 children — almost all of them girls, some as young 12 — were married during that period, mostly to men 18 or older. Twelve states and the District of Columbia were unable to provide information on how many children had married there in that decade. Based on the correlation we identified between state population and child marriage, we estimated that the total number of children wed in America between 2000 and 2010 was nearly 248,000. Despite these alarming numbers, and despite the documented consequences of early marriages, including negative effects on health and education and an increased likelihood of domestic violence, some state lawmakers have resisted passing legislation to end child marriage — because they wrongly fear that such measures might unlawfully stifle religious freedom or because they cling to the notion that marriage is the best solution for a teen pregnancy. In this way, U.S. lawmakers are strongly at odds with U.S. foreign policy. The U.S. Global Strategy to Empower Adolescent Girls , released last year by the State Department, lists reducing child, early and forced marriage as a key goal. The strategy includes harsh words about marriage before 18, declaring it a “human rights abuse” that “produces devastating repercussions for a girl’s life, effectively ending her childhood” by forcing her “into adulthood and motherhood before she is physically and mentally mature.” The State Department pointed to the developing world, where 1 in 3 girls is married by age 18, and 1 in 9 is married by 15. While the numbers at home are nowhere near that dire, they are alarming. Many of the children married between 2000 and 2010 were wed to adults significantly older than they were, the data shows. At least 31 percent were married to a spouse age 21 or older. (The actual number is probably higher, as some states did not provide spousal ages.) Some children were married at an age, or with a spousal age difference, that constitutes statutory rape under their state’s laws. In Idaho, for example, someone 18 or older who has sex with a child under 16 can be charged with a felony and imprisoned for up to 25 years. Yet data from Idaho — which had the highest rate of child marriage of the states that provided data — shows that some 55 girls under 16 were married to men 18 or older between 2000 and 2010. Many of the states that provided data included categories such as “14 and younger,” without specifying exactly how much younger some brides and grooms were. Thus, the 12-year-olds we found in Alaska, Louisiana and South Carolina’s data might not have been the youngest children wed in America between 2000 and 2010. Also, the data we collected did not account for children wed in religious-only ceremonies or taken overseas to be married, situations that we at Unchained often see. Most states did not provide identifying information about the children, but Unchained has seen child marriage in nearly every American culture and religion, including Christian, Jewish, Muslim and secular communities. We have seen it in families who have been in America for generations and immigrant families from all over the world. In my experience, parents who marry off their minor children often are motivated by cultural or religious traditions; a desire to control their child’s behavior or sexuality; money (a bride price or dowry); or immigration-related reasons (for instance, when a child sponsors a foreign spouse). And, of course, many minors marry of their own volition — even though in most realms of life, our laws do not allow children to make such high-stakes adult decisions. Parental control over her sexuality was why Sara Siddiqui, 36, was married at 15. Her father discovered that she had a boyfriend from a different cultural background and told her she’d be “damned forever” if she lost her virginity outside of marriage, even though she was still a virgin. He arranged her Islamic wedding to a stranger, 13 years her senior, in less than one day; her civil marriage in Nevada followed when she was 16 and six months pregnant. “I couldn’t even drive yet when I was handed over to this man,” said Siddiqui, who was trapped in her marriage for 10 years. “I wasn’t ready to take care of myself, and I was thrown into taking care of a husband and being a mother.” Minors such as Siddiqui can easily be forced into marriage or forced to stay in a marriage. Adults being pressured in this way have options, including access to domestic-violence shelters. But a child who leaves home is considered a runaway; the police try to return her to her family and could even charge our organization criminally if we were to get involved. Most domestic-violence shelters do not accept minors, and youth shelters typically notify parents that their children are there. Child-protective services are usually not a solution, either: Caseworkers point out that preventing legal marriages is not in their mandate. Those fleeing a forced marriage often have complex legal needs, but for children, obtaining legal representation is extremely difficult. Even if they can afford to pay attorney’s fees, contracts with children, including retainer agreements, generally can be voided by the child, making them undesirable clients to lawyers. Further, children typically are not allowed to file legal actions in their own names. Regardless of whether the union was the child’s or the parents’ idea, marriage before 18 has catastrophic, lifelong effects on a girl, undermining her health, education and economic opportunities while increasing her risk of experiencing violence. Women who marry at 18 or younger face a 23 percent higher risk of heart attack, diabetes, cancer and stroke than do women who marry between ages 19 and 25, partly because early marriage can lead to added stress and forfeited education. Women who wed before 18 also are at increased risk of developing various psychiatric disorders, even when controlling for socio-demographic factors. American girls who marry before 19 are 50 percent more likely than their unmarried peers to drop out of high school and four times less likely to graduate from college. A girl who marries young is 31 percentage points more likely to live in poverty when she is older, a striking figure that appears to be unrelated to preexisting differences in such girls. And, according to a global study, women who marry before 18 are three times more likely to be beaten by their spouses than women who wed at 21 or older. Ending child marriage should be simple. Every state can pass the legislation I’ve helped write to eliminate exceptions that allow marriage before age 18 — or set the marriage age higher than 18, in states where the age of majority is higher. New Jersey is the closest state to doing this, with a bill advancing in the legislature that would end all marriage before 18. Massachusetts recently introduced a similar bill. But when Virginia passed a bill last year to end child marriage, legislators added an exception for emancipated minors as young as 16, even though the devastating effects of marriage before 18 do not disappear when a girl is emancipated. Bills introduced last year in New York and Maryland languished and eventually died, though Maryland’s was just reintroduced. Other states have not acted at all. “Some of my colleagues were stuck in an old-school way of thinking: A girl gets pregnant, she needs to get married,” said Maryland Del. Vanessa Atterbeary, who introduced the bill to end child marriage in her state. Only nine states still allow pregnancy exceptions to the marriage age, as such exceptions have been used to cover up rape and to force girls to marry their rapists. Consider Sherry Johnson of Florida, who said she was raped repeatedly as a child and was pregnant by 11, at which time her mother forced her to marry her 20-year-old rapist under Florida’s pregnancy exception in the 1970s. Additionally, teenage mothers who marry and divorce are more likely to experience economic deprivation and instability than those who do not. If the father wants to co-parent, he can establish paternity and provide insurance and other benefits to the baby without getting married. Legislators should remember that pregnant teenage girls are at increased risk of forced marriage. They need more protection, not less. Nor does ending child marriage illegally infringe on religious rights. The Supreme Court has upheld laws that incidentally forbid an act required by religion, if the laws do not specifically target religious practice. Besides, most religions tend to describe marriage as an important union between two willing partners. That sounds nothing like child marriage, which is often forced and which has close to a 70 percent chance of ending in divorce. “There was a concern that we would be offending certain cultures within our society,” said New York Assemblywoman Amy Paulin, who introduced an unsuccessful bill last year to end child marriage in her state. “So instead of seeing this as an abuse of young women, [some legislators] were seeing this as something we needed to protect for certain cultures.” Betsy Layman, 37, shares Paulin’s goal. Layman was 27 when she escaped the marriage that had been arranged for her in her Orthodox Jewish community in New York when she was 17, to a man she had known for 45 minutes. Even after she fled with her three children, the repercussions of her marriage continued to plague her. She was a single mother with a high school equivalency certificate, no work experience and no money for child care. The temporary and part-time jobs she managed to get couldn’t cover the bills. “I was on Section 8, Medicaid and food stamps,” Layman said. “There were times there just was not enough food for dinner.” When the electric company shut off her power for nonpayment, she would light candles around the house and tell her children there was a blackout. Only when her youngest child reached school age was she able to find full-time employment and gain some stability. “Legislators have the power to prevent what happened to me from happening to another 17-year-old girl,” Layman said. “I beg you to end child marriage.”

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"Left Attacks ACLU for Defending Milo Yiannopoulos’ Right to Free Speech"
by jim bell 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

http://observer.com/2017/02/aclu-defends-breitbart-milo-yiannopoulos-free-s… [partial quote follows] "On February 1, Breitbart technology editor and right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak at the University of California-Berkeley. Students at the university protested his speech, and radicals—many of whom may not have been students—turned violent."Yiannopoulos’ speech was canceled for safety concerns, as demonstrators threw rocks and fireworks at the building where the speech was set to take place. What began as a speech to 500 students expanded to thousands as the media (including this writer) wrote countless articles about the riots and Yiannopoulos."If the Left wanted to shut Yiannopoulos down, they failed by behaving in such a manner that raised his profile. Who knows how many people wondered who this person was who caused such a backlash, and how many of those people then found at least some of what Yiannopoulos says to be acceptable?"In a follow-up article on the riots, Washington Post columnist Steven Petrow spoke to a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, Lee Rowland. Rowland told Petrow that she finds much of Yiannopoulos’ speech to be “absolutely hateful an despicable—but those adjectives don’t remove his speech from the Constitution’s protection.”[end of partial quote]Jim Bell's comments follow:The ACLU is being correct, at least here. They were also attacked in the late 1970's, for standing up for the right of Nazis to march in Skokie, Illinois. That march (which never actually happened) was humorously portrayed in John Belushi's movie, "Blues Brothers". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTT1qUswYL0 (Head Nazi is played by actor Henry Gibson, perhaps most famous for the TV show, "Laugh-In". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k61ZJpMDBzU Jim bellT

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free speech soldiers on - not - [PFFR] Verge: YouTube is also cutting its business relationship with YouTube's biggest star, PewDiePie
by Zenaan Harkness 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

TRIGGER WARNING - the trigger warning is below. Well, another very happy day for Lauren Weinstein who incidentally escaped the gas chambers by thumping the guards as a 2yo, throwing his teddy as a distraction, all whilst whipping his blankie ("blanket") over the razor wire to facilitate his final "jump" solution. So it's just as well that Nazi collarborator PewDiePie is being justly served first de-monetization and now full de-association by Google! All Praise, corporate protection for YOUR Freedom of Speech. Thank you Google, we always knew you'd "Do no evil". TRIGGER WARNING: This email has been demonetized. From: "PFFR (People For Firetrucking Responsibility) Announcement List" Subject: [ PFFR ] Verge: YouTube is also cutting its business relationship with YouTube's biggest star, PewDiePie Verge: YouTube is also cutting its business relationship with YouTube's biggest star, PewDiePie http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/14/14608518/youtube-cancels-scare-pewdiepie-… YouTube's biggest star, PewDiePie, has always flirted with controversy. But his recent use of Nazi imagery and anti-Semitic humor went too far for his corporate partners. On Monday evening Disney announced it was severing ties with PewDiePie, and now The Verge can report that YouTube is also cutting its business relationship with its most famous face. PewDiePie was set to release the second season of his original series, Scare PewDiePie, a YouTube Red exclusive that the video giant paid to produce. The release of that show has now been cancelled, according to a YouTube spokesperson. PewDiePie is also being removed from the Google Preferred advertising program, which is reserved for its bigger and more marketable creators. That will have a direct hit on PewDiePie's earnings, as the Preferred program is home to brand advertising that generates more revenue than typical YouTube advertising. - - - Thank you Google for taking some appropriate steps here. I would go further and ban him from YouTube entirely, but then I don't run YT. Seriously though, thanks for these actions. --PFFLauren--

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Papers Please: India Worships Biometric Enumeration Too
by grarpamp 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

http://mashable.com/2017/02/14/india-aadhaar-uidai-privacy-security-debate/ In a bid to get more Indians to have a birth certificate or any sort of ID card, India announced Aadhaar project in 2009. At the time, there were more Indians without these ID cards than those with. As a result of this, much of the government funding for the citizens were disappearing before they could see them. But according to several security experts, lawyers, politicians and journalists, the government is using poor security practices, and this is exposing the biometrics data -- photo, name, address, fingerprint, iris info -- of people at risk. More than 1.1 billion people -- and 99 percent of all adults -- in India have enrolled themselves to the system. From a report: "There are two fundamental flaws in Aadhaar: it is poorly designed, and it is being poorly verified," Member of Parliament and privacy advocate, Rajeev Chandrasekhar told Mashable India. Another issue with Aadhaar is, Chandrasekhar explains, there is no firm legislation to safeguard the privacy and rights of the billion people who have enrolled into the system. There's little a person whose Aadhaar data has been compromised could do. [...] "Aadhaar is remote, covert, and non-consensual," he told Mashable India, adding the existence of a central database of any kind, but especially in the context of the Aadhaar, and at the scale it is working is appalling. Abraham said fingerprint and iris data of a person can be stolen with little effort -- a "gummy bear" which sells for a few cents, can store one's fingerprint, while a high-resolution camera can capture one's iris data. The report goes on to say that the Indian government is also not telling how the data is being shared with private companies. Experts cited in the story have expressed concerns that those companies (some of which are run by people who were previously members of the team which designed the framework of Aadhaar) can store and create a parallel database of their own. On top of that, the government is making Aadhaar mandatory for availing several things including registration for nation-wide examinations, but in the beginning it promised Aadhaar will be used only to help poor get grocery at subsidized prices. Ever notice how such things are spun as, never about not doing them in the first place, but about how to do it "right" to "fix" them... thereby enabling maximum possible tracking, control and oppression. Those who do not design out the means of oppression, will not be free.

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Happy Black History Month! Missouri KKK leader Dead, Jim...
by Razer 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

John Brown's Ghost on Twitter: > > So they just fished KKK Imperial Wizard Frank Ancona's bloated corpse > out of a Missouri river. Happy Black History Month, everyone! > https://twitter.com/jbrownsghost/status/830672802902601729 > Looks like he was killed doing Methamphetamine biz, but I'm speculating on the known fact White supremacists are only rivaled in their marketing of poison for income by the Hells Angels: > > "Dickey said his officers were told by Malissa (his widow) that Frank > got a call from his workplace and he needed to drive across the state > to deliver a part, which is what he does for a living. He had not made > contact with any family members which was out of his character. Also > his workplace verified they did not send him across state on a job." > > Officers had not been able to get ahold of Malissa and when they > finally decided they were going to enter the home to see if Frank was > in there, she was found in her driveway with her son, Frank’s stepson. > Officers found a safe that looked like somebody had taken a crowbar to > it and also beat the side out of the safe. > > Dickey reported everything was missing from inside the safe and he > didn’t believe it was a burglar..." > > Authorities recover remains of Ancona, investigation continues > > RENEE BRONAUGH 573-518-3617 Feb 11, 2017 Updated 12 hrs ago 0 > > Authorities have confirmed that the body of Leadwood resident Frank > Ancona, 51, was located earlier in the day outside Belgrade near the > Big River by a family who were in that area to go fishing. > > Washington County Sheriff Zach Jacobsen said on Thursday they learned > on Facebook that Frank had gone missing and they later learned that a > Federal Forestry Service employee had located Frank’s vehicle on a > forestry service road off of Route P in Potosi. > > “Deputies responded on Friday and located the vehicle and secured it,” > said Jacobsen. “We left deputies at the scene and secured it overnight > due to the loss of light. On Saturday morning we conducted a search of > the area by foot by member of the Potosi Fire Protection District and > the sheriff’s office. We didn’t locate much of anything in the woods, > but we did locate evidence of a burn pile near Mr. Ancona’s vehicle.” > > Jacobsen said they executed two search warrants and arrested a male on > an unrelated drug warrant out of Washington County. While they were > waiting for the issuance of one of the warrants he was notified by > their dispatch center that they received a call from a lady who was > taking her family fishing that they had located a body near the bank > of the Big River near Belgrade. > > “We processed the scene and the body was transported by the Washington > County Coroner’s office for an autopsy to determine a cause of death,” > said Jacobsen. “The body was positively identified as Frank Ancona and > his family was notified.” > > Jacobsen stressed the investigation was constantly changing after they > located Frank’s car. Leadwood requested the assistance of St. Francois > County Sheriff’s Department and Jacobsen requested the assistance of > the Missouri State Highway Patrol. > > “They responded in assisting us with processing these multiple scenes > and vehicles,” said Jacobsen. “Right now no one has been charged in > his death, but that may change tomorrow.” > > Jacobsen added he sat down with Frank’s son and his father to make the > notification. He said it was very tragic. > > “Law enforcement was attacked terribly on Facebook and officers were > called in on their days off to help,” said Jacobsen. “At the end of > the day the professionalism shined through all the negativity and we > were able to bring some closure to the family.” > > Ancona was reported missing Friday after his place of employment > reached out to the Leadwood Police Department with concerns of > whereabouts. > > THE INVESTIGATION > > Leadwood Police Chief William Dickey reported that Ancona was last > seen by his wife, Malissa Ancona, Wednesday morning when he was > allegedly leaving for work. Then Friday evening it was learned that > Ancona's car had been found in a heavily wooded remote area of > Washington County in the Mark Twain National Park. A preliminary > search of the area did not turn up the missing man, but due to > nightfall the scene was secured to be searched more thoroughly on > Saturday morning. > > Dickey said his officers were told by Malissa that Frank got a call > from his workplace and he needed to drive across the state to deliver > a part, which is what he does for a living. He had not made contact > with any family members which was out of his character. Also his > workplace verified they did not send him across state on a job. > > Officers had not been able to get ahold of Malissa and when they > finally decided they were going to enter the home to see if Frank was > in there, she was found in her driveway with her son, Frank’s stepson. > Officers found a safe that looked like somebody had taken a crowbar to > it and also beat the side out of the safe. > > Dickey reported everything was missing from inside the safe and he > didn’t believe it was a burglar.. He also questioned Malissa about a > Facebook post she wrote looking for a roommate and she said she posted > that the day that Frank left. > > Malissa stated to officers she made the Facebook post because when > Frank told her he was leaving to go out of state on this job he took a > bag of clothes with him and said when he got back he was filing for > divorce. Dickey reported Malissa told them she figured she would need > help to pay the rent, so she put an ad out looking for a roommate. > Get news headlines sent daily to your inbox > > Dickey also reported all of Frank’s firearms that were in the home are > missing and Malissa told them he took all of them with him. His > family, which lives next door, stated he would never have taken all of > his firearms with him. Also the gun he usually carries on him on a > daily basis was left in the house and Malissa turned it over to the > officers. > > Investigators resumed their search around the car and processed the > car early Saturday morning. At 1 p.m. Washington County Sheriff Zach > Jacobsen confirmed they had in fact found the vehicle and they were > still seeking the whereabouts of Frank. > > At that point they had requested the assistance of the Missouri State > Highway Patrol with processing the crime scene and were there at that > time. Jacobsen also reported they were working the case in conjunction > with the sheriff’s office in Washington County, St. Francois County > Sheriff’s Office, the Leadwood Police Department and the state highway > patrol. > > Around 2 p.m. investigators had made their way over to the Ancona > residence off Mill Street in Leadwood and were standing guard. They > eventually strung up crime scene tape around the house and blocked off > the street with it while awaiting a search warrant. > > Shortly after the search warrant came through and approximately 7 or 8 > officers were moving in and around the property - including Leadwood > Police and the St. Francois County Sheriff’s Department investigators. > > The Washington County Sheriff’s Department obtained a search warrant > for a second residence and searched the home and the home owner’s car. > > An autopsy is scheduled for Sunday afternoon. This is still a > developing story and the Daily Journal will bring details as they > become available. http://dailyjournalonline.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/authorities-recov…

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Re: Net Result of Snowden
by Ryan Carboni 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

> > As a > bonus, it has been established that the DCI can lie to Congress and > break into Congress members' computers with NO consequences of ANY > kind. > > Artificial conflict. Could have been avoided by demanding that the CIA copy the data and provide it for the Senate to view on their secure internal network. Our courts have secure classified facilities separate from the executive branch. Although maybe that would be a bad idea, it turns out that the upper reaches of our government has been penetrated by the Muslim Brotherhood. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-11/alleged-muslim-spy-ring-why-rex-ti…

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[DRUGS]+[NAZI] Wicious Terrorists stwike again - Nazi-era German anthem sung at tennis Federal Cup in the US
by justa 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

Damn! Nazis I tell ya! Narsty Narzis, like EVERYwhere like :D ** Nazi-era German anthem sung at tennis Federal Cup in the US (VIDEO) http://theduran.com/nazi-era-german-anthem-sung-tennis-federal-cup-us-video/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Nazi-era German anthem sung at tennis Federal Cup in the US (VIDEO) The seemingly innocent mix up of anthem lyrics left many deeply embarrassed and upset. And now, for something truly revolutionary and close to the heart of many a cypherpunkarian - an actual public debate on a contentious issue - how times are changing pepes; one for those who walk that <ahem> rayzer thin line of sanity or indeed fall way over the rayzer's edge :D ** Should drugs be legalized in first world countries? (VIDEO PODCAST) http://theduran.com/should-drugs-be-legalised/ ------------------------------------------------------------ I am a supporter of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, but in certain countries, a different solution is required. The post Should drugs be legalized in first world countries? (VIDEO PODCAST)

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Twitter working on identifying permanently suspended users, preventing them from creating new accts
by Razer 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

Accounts created specifically to harass. But they aren't saying how: https://blog.twitter.com/2017/an-update-on-safety ...and no one writing it up seems to know either

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[WAR] Trump’s National Security Adviser Forced to Resign After Lying About Being a KGB Agent
by Zenaan Harkness 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

Not good... Trump’s National Security Adviser Forced to Resign After Lying About Being a KGB Agent http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/trumps-national-security-adviser-resi…

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