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"Razer", the biggest / intensest fascist on the cypherpunks list
by Zenaan Harkness 05 Jan '18

05 Jan '18

Razer, you are the most fascist "idiot" (I'd prefer to say worse things, but I'm currently convinced you're just a marijuana fucked brain with legs) on this list. On the other hand, you've had very interesting contributions - also in the area of historical protests/ punch ups etc. So one might be forgiven for being somewhat conflicted about you. Bong on I guess... like, duuuuuuuuude! * Citation i Call to murder on the spot. Justification that "they don't debate your position", whilst of course Razer fails his own mass debate principle. Unfortunately there's no second option from hypocritical fascists like Razer, including no option to actually debate (see examples below). Subject: Re: Why Fascists Have No Right To Free Speech Whatsoever [was - Re: free speech 'marches on' as they say] On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 06:06:46PM -0800, Razer wrote: > Because they don't debate your position. > > They threaten your life instead. > > They have no interest in your position. You have no rights. > > Kill them when you find them. > > They are the human societal cancer they accuse others of being. > > It's always 'those other people'. Then one day you're 'those other > people'. > > Rr * Citation 0 Razer supports murder of those whose political ideology disagrees with his own (in this case, what he terms "fascists") - see last sentence in the quoted email: Subject: #RichardSpencerPunchingBag [Was: Re: The (Western) Empire: free speech, holocaust denial, jail in 14 countries] On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 04:52:11PM -0800, Razer wrote: > On 01/23/2017 12:15 PM, John Newman wrote: > > > The onus is not on Razer to disprove your ahistorical nonsense. I > > didn't mention the curious fact about the jewish finns and the > > nazis to bolster your bullshit. > > > > Have a horrible fucking day :) > > > > > > John > > > > Wouldn't have even seen this but you responded to 'it'. > > It isn't worth the response except to say the Hashtags > #RIchardSpencer and #RichardSpencerPunchingBag are being suppressed > by Twitter and FB because either A> They'd overtake #JustinBieber, > B> some safe space neonazis and their liberal friends complained it > would promote violence. > I can tell by the failure of 'dropdown recommendations'. to > materialize. Even on the name. > > I want to point out that all the liberals tsk tsked Richard Spencer > being used as Punching Bag but the crickets chirped in their good > german brains when a union organizer in Seattle got shot by one of > those scumbuckets while trying to deescalate a fight... I KNOW > which side liberals are on, and they're perhaps even an easier kill > than neonazis, but I digress... > > I also want to point out it's NOT just a fine old American > Tradition to kill fascists... * Citation 1 "Razer" celebrates the public beating and later murder of a man so convicted of his beliefs that he speaks publicly about those beliefs, and starts a political party in support of those beliefs: > ----- Forwarded message from Razer <g2s(a)riseup.net> ----- > Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 09:49:10 -0800 > From: Razer <g2s(a)riseup.net> > To: "cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org" <cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org> > Subject: [TriggerWarning: #NaziPunching] Great Nazi punchers in history... > yy > SDSU student Ed Cherry smacked the shit out of George Lincoln Rockwell > in the middle of a speech at San Diego State in 1962. > > > Self-styled American Nazi party leader George Lincoln Rockwell was > > slugged, hissed and booed when he spoke in the Greek Bowl March 8, as > > he hurled verbal blasts at minority groups to a crowd of about 3,000. > > > > Rockwell said that he had no intention of causing trouble. "If I had > > wanted trouble I could have worn my uniform with my armbands and the > > whole works. Believe me, I know how to stir people up if I want to," > > he said. > > > > > > Rockwell was slugged in the face by Ed Cherry, a SDS (San Diego State) > > senior physical education major, when Rockwell said that "the Jews are > > engaged in a great conspiracy." > > > > A press conference followed in the Aztec office. Rockwell predicted > > that he will be in political power in Virginia within five years > > ROTF He was a DEAD NAZI five years later! > > Archival info @ SDSU > > https://digital.sdsu.edu/index.php?a=ViewItem&i=90684&WINID=1485279750430

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Do you have predictions about 2017?
by Georgi Guninski 01 Jan '18

01 Jan '18

Niels Bohr allegedly said "Predictions are difficult, especially about the future". Do you have predictions about 2017? Being certified optimist, I predict fuckups, fuckups and more fuckups.

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dark web briefest intro - was Re: educate me Please
by Zenaan Harkness 09 Oct '17

09 Oct '17

----- Forwarded message from Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> ----- > Hi Zee, What is the reality of this dark web? If it doesn't show > on Google, then how can you find it? ... As to the dark web - it certainly exists. As we see on the news, every 2 or 4 years the authorities take down one or other of the largest dark web "market place" websites - so evidently these places attract a lot of people. And then there are the smaller sites they take down which usually don't hit the front page of the news. There are all sorts of dark web sites - market places, forums, simple websites, ssh gateways (apparently a lot of people access their normal web servers over ssh), and apparently a lot of ways to slip up for those doing something illegal - and Tor is designed so that the large state-level authorities can pretty much always uncover someone if that's what they want to do; Tor is not secure against GPAs (Global Passive Adversaries), and is absolutely not secure against an active adversary. One of the key features that the Tor company/group has never implemented is chaff-filled network - that is, you specify "I want to allocate 100 KB/s to my node, and I want that divided equally amongst my outward connections, and any peer node that "randomly drops" packets, becomes less trusted by me. I asked the devs directly (or someone else did, can't remember for sure), and the reason came back "our funding proposals for this feature have never been approved" - which makes sense, since the CIA, DIA, DOD and NSA fund the creation of the Tor network, they don't want to fund features which make it much harder for them to uncloak users they are targetting. A volunteer could also try to implement this feature, but it's a lot of work, and even the I2P folks have not yet even tried to implement it. So, even if you were researching data/info for a book you are writing, you really need to spend a lot of time reading about the security aspects, to find out what can give you even a small modicum of "reasonable plausible deniability" for your research activities. For example: - run an exit node (carries its own risks, but one of the better ways to achieve plausible deniabililty) at home - alternatively, or in addition, configure your node as a bridge/ Tor-network entry node, and invite a handful of friends to use it as their gateway to the Tor network (the alternative, if you don't run your own node, is that Tor browser picks a random node to use to enter the Tor network, and there's a damn good chance the CIA or FBI are running that node) - don't run Tor browser on Windows - don't run Windows of any version - learn Qubes OS or Tails OS and use that - experiement for a few months with something completely innocuous - running a website promoting information about Marijuana or something, and once you're comfortable, then move on to something more innocuous - if you choose to run a Tor node (can increase the security, can reduce it if you stuff up the config) there are plenty of folks on the Tor mailing lists who will answer questions, and plenty of links to read to Stay Safe (C)(R) - if you intend to run a dark web website that some authorities really would not like - say e.g. promoting homosexuality to the Saudi's - then you should really be running your own ISP with multiple internet links (e.g. Telstra and Optus), so that any virtual servers you link into the dark web are relatively robust; then, never allow your website to get too popular - keep it to a very manageable number of invitees - never make your invites over the clear net (normal internet) only invite truly trusted friends in person, face to face, with mobile phones turned off and out of reach of all recording devices (including of course, all phones); to invite random people, do so on a dark web forum only. - if you're going to run a dark web website, you really, really, really need to know how to configure firewalling, web server, https certificates, ssh for admin access etc etc, in such a way as to be truly, actually, secure, if there's any chance your website is going to be targetted by the local authorities from your own jurisdiction, you need to not make even 1 single mistake - that mistake will bring you undone! Good luck :) Zen ----- End forwarded message -----

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[POLITICS] [RUS] God Praise America ! Russian Paralympians banned
by Zenaan Harkness 03 Oct '17

03 Oct '17

Hoo yah! We LOVE America. God bless America!!! Belarus Athletes Carry Russia Flag in Support of Unjustly Banned Paralympians http://russia-insider.com/en/belarus-athletes-carry-russia-flag-support-unj… (Alt: https://www.rt.com/sport/358613-belarus-russian-flag-paralympics/ ) Nope, no dirty American laundry here folks - move along now! On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 02:08:38PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 5:11 AM Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> wrote: > > > If anyone wanted an example of propaganda and political bullying: > > > > > > "The IAAF and now the sports bodies of the US and Canada are not only > > > demanding that Russian athletes prove their innocence before they can > > > take part in the Games. They also demand that even if athletes prove > > > their innocence, they should only be allowed to take part in the Games > > > as “neutrals” and not as Russians. Thus even if proved innocent Russian > > > athletes would have to deny their nation and their country – foregoing > > > the right to wear its colours or hear its anthem if they win." > > > > > > http://theduran.com/stalinist-witch-hunt-russian-athletes/ > > > > > > > > > (I'm not sure anyone takes seriously the assertion that USA basically > > > does not use propaganda, only speaks truth and righteousness - I find it > > > quite amazing that such an assertion was even put in this mailing list > > > but I guess it's possible -some- people do believe that...) > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 06:07:05PM +0000, Sean Lynch wrote: > > Participate as a country, dope as a country, get banned as a country. Maybe > > Russia should clean its house if it wants representation at the games. Or > > if the institution itself is illegitimate, why do Russians want to > > represent their country so badly at the games? > > > > Oh well, the IOC refused to ban "the entire Russian Olympic team, > regardless", but ultimately "justice" is served - with the banning of, > wait for it, > > the entire Russian --Paralympic-- team. > > > YEAH! > > > Now -that-'s "justice", right Sean? Punish those paraplegic bastards! > Every last one of them, whether guilty or not!!! > > YEAH! U! S! A! Delivering JUSTICE to THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > > God -damn- we need to be greatful to America! > > And what a wonderful world we live in... so much empathy, harmony and > justice. > > > > God Praise America!!! > > > (Yes, AND you, CIA, you snivelling grovelling sluts! Thank you SO much > for this effective, decisive and ultimately just and righteous, psyops > campaign. Fucken A!) > > > > > > ** Vladimir Putin slams Paralympic ban; Congratulates Russian athletes > (http://theduran.com/putin-slams-paralympic-ban-congratulates-russian-athlet…) > ------------------------------------------------------------ > By Alexander Mercouris on Aug 26, 2016 02:00 pm > russia paralympics > > Russian President Putin has just given a scathing assessment > (http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/52765) of the collective ban > on Russia’s Paralympic Team. > > In doing so he has made it quite clear that he – like most Russians – > sees the ban as purely political and completely rejects the reasoning > behind it… > > “The decision to disqualify our Paralympic athletes goes beyond law, > morality and humanity. It is quite simply cynical to take out one’s > revenge and frustration on people for whom sport has become their life > purpose and whose example gives hope and self-confidence to millions of > people with disabilities. I even feel pity for those who take decisions > of this kind because they do not understand just how degrading this is > for them.” > > (Bold italics added) > > The words “revenge and frustration” quite clearly show that Putin sees > the campaign to ban the Russian Paralympic team as an act of spite and > revenge for the failure to achieve a collective ban of the Russian > Olympic team. > > The Russians have made it clear that they do not agree with the legal > reasoning of the CAS decision upholding the ban, > (http://theduran.com/court-arbitration-sport-upholds-ban-russian-paralympic-…) > and that they will continue to contest it in the civil courts and in the > European Court of Human Rights. > > As I have said previously, there is no doubt the Russians will pursue > legal action to its conclusion in this affair > (http://theduran.com/trying-ban-team-russia-olympics-big-mistake/) . > With the International Paralympic Committee looking at a disastrous > failure of the Paralympic Games in Rio and apparently short of money, it > may not be in good shape to contest whatever court cases the Russians > bring, or to pay any court awards the Russians might win. > > In addition to his comments about the Paralympic ban, Putin also made > some very interesting comments about the Russian athletes who competed > in the Rio Olympic Games > > “We know what a difficult time our athletes had in Rio. The team was cut > by nearly a third just before competition was about to start and lost > the chance to show its ability in the sports in which Russia has > traditionally been one of the recognised favourites. But you measured up > to all of these challenges, showed great unity and proved that victory > can be won not just by numbers, though numbers were important too, but > perhaps more importantly, victory is also won through skill. You > displayed a true fighting spirit, did not melt down or bend under the > pressure, but fought and won.” > > (Bold italics added) > > The words “showed great unity” surely refer to the point I have made > previously (http://theduran.com/russian-olympians-defy-odds-rio/) : that > not a single Russian athlete has succumbed to the pressure to turn > informer in return for the reward of a guaranteed place in the Rio > Olympic Games and a lucrative sports career in the West. > > What that means is that the entirety of the evidence that there is or > was a state-sponsored system of doping in Russia is that contained in > the McLaren report, which CAS has already said is “incomplete” and > cannot be used as evidence in deciding the fate of individual athletes. > That puts the IAAF, WADA, the IPC and potentially McLaren himself, in a > very fragile position in light of the pending court cases. > > The post Vladimir Putin slams Paralympic ban; Congratulates Russian > athletes > (http://theduran.com/putin-slams-paralympic-ban-congratulates-russian-athlet…) > appeared first on The Duran (http://theduran.com) .

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The CIA's curious connection to curious religions
by Ryan Carboni 01 Aug '17

01 Aug '17

Scientology is well known in the United States. Related organizations of Scientology include mental health advocacy groups which make involuntary commitment less possible. Scientology's relationship with the CIA is mainly for some overseas activities. Makes sense right, highly obedient members of a religion as a reserve intelligence corps? There is one document here: http://www.xenu.net/archive/greece/ciacos.gif Miles Copeland's memoir mentioned Scientology's relationship with the CIA. Scientology did a lot of horrible things in the United States. Who is really in charge of the United States? The above are not particularly original conclusions and can be found elsewhere. There is Falun Gong. It is like Scientology translated into Chinese. There is no clear cut connection in that case, but the interesting thing is various interviews done so weakly.... Maybe John Young is a cult leader too? Must be why Muckrock's interview of him seemed like he provided the questions and he had fun with it. https://archive.is/84A8t http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2053761,00.html https://archive.is/wiB2v https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/nyregion/falun-gong-queens-federal-lawsu… Well anyway, there is no big deal with so many religions dealing with aliens. Nope. P.S. It would be rather interesting if an actually competent journalist found out what SSRIs are used for in law enforcement investigations. It would make the APA liable for billions for their cover-up. SSRIs certainly aren't used for mental health purposes in some cases.... Everything is so horrible in this country... and everyone seems to be covering for each other.

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Cryptome Archive 2016-1996 Full Index
by John Young 01 Aug '17

01 Aug '17

Cryptome Archive 2016-1996 Full Index https://cryptome.org/cryptome-2016-1996.htm

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HBO hacked
by Razer 01 Aug '17

01 Aug '17

> On Sunday, an anonymous email was sent to many reporters announcing > the hack: “Hi to all mankind. The greatest leak of cyber space era is > happening. What’s its name? Oh I forget to tell. Its HBO and Game of > Thrones……!!!!!! You are lucky to be the first pioneers to witness and > download the leak. Enjoy it & spread the words. Whoever spreads well, > we will have an interview with him. HBO is falling.” http://ew.com/tv/2017/07/31/hbo-hacked-game-of-thrones/ HBO has joined the ranks of Hollywood entertainment companies to suffer a major cyber attack. EW has learned that upcoming episodes of a couple series and at least one alleged script or treatment have been put online by hackers who breached the company’s systems — with more threatened to be coming soon. “HBO recently experienced a cyber incident, which resulted in the compromise of proprietary information,” the network confirmed in a statement. “We immediately began investigating the incident and are working with law enforcement and outside cybersecurity firms. Data protection is a top priority at HBO, and we take seriously our responsibility to protect the data we hold.” Hackers claimed to have obtained 1.5 terabytes of data from the company. So far, an upcoming episode of Ballers and Room 104 have apparently been put online. There is also written material that’s allegedly from next week’s fourth episode of Game of Thrones. More is promised to be “coming soon.” HBO is not commenting on what content might have been stolen, confirming specific titles or the amount of data accessed. This morning, HBO chairman and CEO Richard Plepler sent an email to HBO employees alerting them of the breach. “As most of you have probably heard by now, there has been a cyber incident directed at the company which has resulted in some stolen proprietary information, including some of our programming,” he wrote. “Any intrusion of this nature is obviously disruptive, unsettling, and disturbing for all of us. I can assure you that senior leadership and our extraordinary technology team, along with outside experts, are working round the clock to protect our collective interests. The efforts across multiple departments have been nothing short of herculean. It is a textbook example of quintessential HBO teamwork. The problem before us is unfortunately all too familiar in the world we now find ourselves a part of. As has been the case with any challenge we have ever faced, I have absolutely no doubt that we will navigate our way through this successfully.” On Sunday, an anonymous email was sent to many reporters announcing the hack: “Hi to all mankind. The greatest leak of cyber space era is happening. What’s its name? Oh I forget to tell. Its HBO and Game of Thrones……!!!!!! You are lucky to be the first pioneers to witness and download the leak. Enjoy it & spread the words. Whoever spreads well, we will have an interview with him. HBO is falling.” It’s not clear if the hackers actually have what would be the crown jewel target for an HBO cyber breach — upcoming episodes of the company’s biggest hit, Game of Thrones. So far, no GoT episodes have leaked. In April, a hacker penetrated Netflix to release episodes from season 5 of Orange Is the New Black ahead of its summer return. And in May, a hacker claimed to have stolen Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, but Disney chief Bob Iger later said the threat was a hoax. The biggest Hollywood hack victim was Sony in 2014, where approximately 100 terabytes of data was uploaded online (versus the 1.5 TB claimed in the HBO attack). For years, HBO has fought a cyber-battle to keep Game of Thrones storylines secret and the show’s content from being illegally distributed — particularly before episodes air. In season 5, the first four episodes leaked online before the show’s season premiere after review DVDs that were sent to the press and industry insiders. HBO has since halted the practice of sending any episodes in advance. That same year, some clips leaked ahead of time from overseas HBO distributors, and even images of Jon Snow’s death found their way online before the finale aired. Just a couple weeks ago, a Thrones trailer to be screened at Comic-Con leaked onto YouTube in advance of its release.

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shells suck! - is a sane syntax possible?
by Zenaan Harkness 01 Aug '17

01 Aug '17

The BASH shell is an inordinate duplicity of features wrapped in a cacophany of syntax, where it's almost impossible to ascertain the sane lowest common denominator and almost-identical appearing syntax can have disastrous results if a single character is missed or added (thus resulting in a completely alternate syntax reality). And when one tries to do something truly elegant, to "master bash", one discovers after weeks of ones irrelevant-to-bash time, that absolutely nothing is elegant, and the variations ultimately make nothing of any even mild complexity/robustness, simple. So then of course one discovers dash, when you want higher performance, a much smaller footprint, or simply to attain that hallowed "lowest common denominator" syntax (don't be fooled friends, don't be fooled!). To test out new code/syntax efficiently one would presume the command line is a reasonable place to go, but for starters dash (at least when launched from a bash shell) has no readline support, and xorg -> xterm -> bash -> tmux -> bash -> dash is evidently too much for little dash, since not even the arrow keys work (nor Home, End, Del and probably others), no readline, no command history, just backspace and paste with the mouse (same on Linux console for the curious...). There goes -that- experiment! Of course there's a certain irony where for increased performance in bash there is the useful-sounding "arithmetic context" feature ("((" and "))"), which by the way is not impelemented in dash - for performance reasons. Oh well, so I throwze in me towell, "eff it! effing eff it already!!" and decides the LCD of "/bin/test" will bring the sanity of consistency if not the salvation of sane syntaxity. But, you guessed it, NO! 'Twas not to be! Dash. Simple. LCD. Yes, that must be it the one true way - I see it in all system scripts - albeit they look a little verbose here and there, there's an undeniable consistency about them, and everyone says "dash runs faster", so it must be true:: performance? check! apparent relative consistency? check! What's not to like? Well, learning the differences for starters. Despite a MUCH more approachable man page than that ungodly bash man page (which is admittedly still better than no man page). And don't get me started on the frustration arising from trying to test dash from the command line due to the frustration of trying to use dash instead of bash in my scripts, due to the frustration arising from the ungodly unconsistencys of bash syntax, and bash syntax as compared with dash syntax, and bash vs dash inbuilt test syntax and vs /bin/test and /bin/[ command line "command" syntax (just try lexico strings comparison with < or > in each environment). AAARRRGHHGHGHGGE !@#@!!.. ... . . . .. ....... . Thy consistency must not be obtained yet ye suffer the inability to compare numbers except for some strange options which evidence the necessity to prefix every test, for numbers or strings, with a bloody x. That's right! The crucifixion of syntax itself with the imposition of the cross, the wholey cross, and nothing but the cross, every where, every time, every place, everywhere, every script, and also every where. And I mean --everywhere-- you look! (Did I mention EVERYwhere?!!). And why? Why thank you for asking - because /bin/test won't work in various system-destroying scenarios otherwise, that's why!!! See above, heathen, see above! <soothing voiceover> Imagine a soft blue light as you experience that quiescence calmly rising, on your deep in-breath, bathed in pure essential shell mastery of that single letter, "x", solving all your syntaxtical perturbxtions, gently smaxhes itxelf on your eye ballx, thux enxuring your enduring peaxe and happinexx with life and Unix itxelf. </soothing voiceover> Seriously, it's time for a change, time for sane shell syntax, time for ... the one true language. (No no! Not the oblig xkcd cartxxn, ANYthing but the oblig!! We need standards, lots of them, and more standards!) And since all the existing shell and scripting standards are completely insufficient, it's time for the obligatory implementation of a new, all-encompassing shell with universal syntax applicable to all languages, all tools and all environments, incestuously binding with all other languages and admitting no deficiency! That's right - you guessed it :) , it's time for Lisp! Shell has had its day, and "eval" is waay too clumsy in comparison with the visual elegance of Lisp where every second letter is an utterly uniform opening or closing bracket, where the original theoretical language struts itself in simple glory and where ultimately every "fancy new design feature" in every "fancy new language" somehow always existed in elegance from the origin. Bow, punk! Bow before Lisp, the alpha and the omega of programming languages! Every concept ever "discovered" in "fancy new programming language"s of the day, from functions to modules, objects to tail calls, run-time self modification, objects, and universal appeal. That's Lisp. Well perhaps that teeny little "universal appeal" bit ... And on that note, a question: Any suggestions as to which functional language variant might be most suitable for "shell" glue script repalement language? Thanks, Z (PS: there's a little rather bland and dull, but nonetheless just mildly humorous, humour, on the fish shell web page: https://fishshell.com/ I might check that out as a bash replacement...)

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http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2004/09/disreputable-men.html
by Ryan Carboni 31 Jul '17

31 Jul '17

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2004/09/disreputable-men.html Gary Sick's is an interesting story. Sick is the author of October Surprise, one of the best accounts of the covert deal struck in the Fall of 1980 between senior Republicans, arms merchants and Iranian mullahs to delay the return of the American hostages until Ronald Reagan's inauguration. But as interesting as it is, that's not the story I mean. I'm talking about Sick's own story: his passage from career White House insider to "conspiracy theorist." ... My experience was not unlike that of a medieval scholar discovering traces of a hidden text beneath the script of an old parchment.... I felt as if I were wandering into a spy novel. The backgrounds and activies of some of these individuals who were emerging from the shadows of this operation seemed to come out of fiction, and yet they were real.... most of my professional life had been spent as an analyst of political and military intelligence. I knew that there were operatives for hire, ready to skirt the law for money, perhaps out of habit or duty, or simply for the thrill and sense of power illegal acts conveyed. But it was nonetheless a shock to meet them.... ... Such characters are a researcher's nemesis; they are meant to be. When the CIA or other intelligence agencies need to hire a "contractor," who may be required to carry out taks that are potentially dangerous and of questionable legality, they look for three things: a specific and useful skill (a knowledge of money-laundering, perhaps); a romantic streak that glorifies both the secrecy and the risk; and a propensity for exageration and trouble. One former CIA officer, David MacMichael, has said that the agency looks for these freelancers at small community airports and gun ranges - places where men go to excape the boredom of everyday life. Looking for adventure, these men are fascinated by the imagined glamour and excitement of the world of espionage. MacMichael said that often, after one or two assignments, the agency will put a contractor on a case in which he runs afoul of the law. The contractor finds himself in a compromising position - nothing so major as to put him permanently out of commission, but significant enough that if he ever starts telling tales out of school about covert operations, his record will discredit his testimony. ... Take, for instance, the case of Delmart Vreeland. A scoundrel by every account, but also one with exceptional information for those with ears to hear. He did pass on the "Let one happen, stop the rest" warning from a Toronto jail cell before 9/11; his claim that Canadian diplomat Marc Bastien had been poisoned in Moscow has been proven correct; the Pentagon unwittingly acknowledged his lengthy service record when it was called in open court, by relying on archived records undamaged by the 9/11 attack from which he had not been purged (the prosecution argued, incredibly, that Vreeland must have hacked into the Pentgon files from his jail cell); Leo Wanta, longtime intelligence asset who destabilized the Soviet ruble in the '80s at the White House request, confirmed Vreeland was an operative of the Office of Naval Intelligence; his lawyers did receive death threats and found their files vandalized; and Vreeland has vanished. But none of that matters to the coincidentalists, who stubbornly refuse to see deeper than the "legends" created for men like Vreeland, which is precisely the point. So Lee Harvey Oswald is a "communist," and Barry Seal just a drug runner. That Oswald was seen with the CIA's David Atlee Phillips in September 1963, and Barry Seal was gunned down with Vice President George Bush's personal phone number in his trunk, need to be ignored. The coincidentalists can't make sense of such evidence, that respectable men would have anything to do with such characters. But without them, some respectable men would be able to do very little. --- Well, Vreeland had since the essay been written, convicted of soliciting child prostitution in Franklin County, which is a bit messed up if you heard the backstory of Franklin County. The moment we live in a free society is probably when Kiriakou is working at an Apple Store and is visited by the Attorney General and when Thomas Drake has a fellowship with a major think tank, and it is when Delmart Vreeland is a free man not on trumped up charges. I think Marine One with Obama in it flew by my house once.

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Russia, Others: VPN Haters
by grarpamp 31 Jul '17

31 Jul '17

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/6qjz5g/putin_bans_vpns_to_stop_russi… https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/6qiwo5/putin_bans_vpns_to_stop_…

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