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US Government Propaganda Outlet Funds Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Polity News 25 Jul '17

25 Jul '17

Title: US Government Propaganda Outlet Funds Electronic Frontier Foundation Author: Rachael Tackett Date of Publication: July 24, 2017 Website Link: https://diycivics.wordpress.com/2017/07/24/government-propaganda-outlet-fun… Text of Article: Much heralded in the media, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is depicted as championing digital civil liberties and fighting the US government’s mass surveillance. EFF also receives money from the same government that it claims to fight. The Saga of Radio Free Asia In the early 1950s, Radio Free Asia was originally a covert CIA project to help overthrow Communist regimes in Asia. In order to conceal the true source of its funding, Radio Free Asia set up a fundraising campaign in the US, called the Crusade for Freedom. The goal of the fundraising campaign was to supply funds to “…expand the facilities of Radio Free Asia to carry the battle to China’s Red masters behind the bamboo curtain…”. In a blatant lie, the director of Radio Free Asia, John W. Elwood, even told the press, “Because we have no government ties, we can say anything we damn please.” The CIA quickly realized that many people in China did not personally own radios. Instead, listening privately to Western broadcasts inside mainland China was difficult, since most radios were in communal areas. The CIA attached radios to balloons in hopes that they would reach mainland China, but the winds shifted and the radios blew back towards Taiwan. After several years of running into difficulties, the CIA shut down the Radio Free Asia project. According to a news report, the Korean Cultural and Freedom Foundation (KCFF) created a new Radio Free Asia in 1966 to continue broadcasting anti-Communist propaganda to Asia. This new Radio Free Asia was operated by members of the Unification Church. The Unification Church has been described as a cult run by Sun Myung Moon. The Unification Church’s Radio Free Asia had strong ties to the US government. At some point in their political careers, US Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, and Ford were all involved with Radio Free Asia. In fact, during the 1950s, Truman and Eisenhower were also involved in the CIA’s original Radio Free Asia project. According to court testimony, a Radio Free Asia fundraiser bribed a Congressman in 1967 to obtain meeting with CIA officials, but the fundraiser was blocked from further testimony due to objections by the Congressman’s defense lawyers. In 1970, a member of the US Congress received a very strange letter from President Park of Korea thanking the US government for its support of Radio Free Asia. The Congressman’s office asked the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) if it was involved in financing Radio Free Asia. The CIA denied providing any funding. In the 1970s, the US Congress investigated the Unification Church. There were allegations that Radio Free Asia was involved in assisting the Korean government to influence members of the US Congress. The Unification Church and Radio Free Asia were also accused of having strong ties to the Korean intelligence service (KCIA). In Congressional testimony, Radio Free Asia was accused of soliciting donations in the US. Allegedly, some of these donations would later be diverted to funding Korean intelligence activities, namely to bribe members of the US Congress. The Unification Church also tried to keep Nixon in power during the Watergate scandal [1]. Sometime around 1975, it is reported that the Unification Church’s Radio Free Asia stopped broadcasting. In the early 1980s, the Unification Church’s founder was convicted in the US of filing false income tax returns and conspiracy to obstruct justice. During a four year period in the late 1970s, the Khmer Rouge is estimated to be responsible for the deaths of over one million people in Cambodia. Some of the leaders of the Khmer Rouge would later be convicted of crimes against humanity in a war crimes tribunal backed by the United Nations. In 1978, Vietnam invaded Cambodia and removed the Khmer Rouge government from power. The Khmer Rouge fled to refugee camps in Thailand. In the 1980s, this created an on-going conflict between Vietnam and Thailand. The US government supplied Thailand with weapons, including aircraft and tanks [2]. The US government has also been accused of supporting the Khmer Rouge against Vietnam. In 1980, a news article described Radio Free Asia as being a joint operation between Thailand and the United States during the Vietnam War. The Thailand government used Radio Free Asia again to broadcast propaganda to Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam [2]. Another news article, appearing in 1990, described a Khmer Rouge brigade commander listening to Radio Free Asia and Voice of America in hopes of hearing news about a peace deal [3]. It is important to note that Voice of America is the US government’s official news outlet abroad. After the Tienanmen Square protests in China in 1989, there was growing interest in the US Congress to resurrect Radio Free Asia. Much like its namesake, the new Radio Free Asia would be dedicated to regime change, but now with a mission of the more politically palatable euphemism to “promote democratic change”. While still publicly claiming to be a private organization, this new Radio Free Asia would be created and funded by the US Congress. It was a case of déjà vu. US Government’s “Internet Freedom” The US Congress normally designates approximately $50 million dollars every year to internet freedom appropriations. This internet freedom funding is normally shared between three US government agencies: the State Department, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), and USAID. A portion of the BBG’s internet freedom funding goes towards Radio Free Asia. Some of the US government’s internet freedom funding is rather controversial. The funding goes towards supporting internet freedom projects in countries where the US government would like regime change. Think of countries such as China, Iran, Cuba, Belarus, Burma, Vietnam, North Korea, Russia, etc. The US Congress has even passed legislation tying internet freedom funding to sanctions against Iran to dissuade it from pursuing nuclear weapons. USAID also caused controversy when it financed a project to create a “Cuban Twitter” in hopes of stirring unrest and an uprising against the Cuban government. Recently, the BBG released a document in response to a public records request. Specifically, the public records request was for Radio Free Asia’s internet freedom budget proposal to the BBG. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is listed as a potential vendor on Radio Free Asia’s budget proposal. EFF confirmed by email that it is receiving money from Radio Free Asia for STARTTLs Everywhere and updates to Certbot. The STARTTLs Everywhere project aims to ensure that secure encryption is used between email servers. The Certbot project is designed as a client for EFF’s Let’s Encrypt project. The funding from Radio Free Asia is approximately $200,000. It is difficult to track the type of government funding that EFF receives. The US Congress has passed legislation mandating greater transparency in federal government spending. Earlier this year, a public records request was sent to the General Services Administration (GSA), the federal government agency in charge of accepting these funding transparency reports. In a letter, the GSA stated that it could not find any record of Radio Free Asia ever submitting a single transparency report. Since Radio Free Asia has failed to file the transparency reports, the money that Radio Free Asia gave to EFF does not appear on USASpending.gov, the US government’s funding transparency website. Even though Radio Free Asia was created by the US Congress and is essentially controlled by the US government, Radio Free Asia insists on the fiction that it is a nonprofit organization and is exempt from the federal public records law. Due to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2017 (NDAA 2017)(§ 310(d)), the CEO of a federal agency, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, now has the authority to directly hire and fire some Radio Free Asia employees. Despite several requests, Radio Free Asia refuses to release any records. In effect, this means that the internal records of Radio Free Asia’s bidding and contracting process for its internet freedom program are completely secret. In June of 2015, the Inspector General for the State Department published an audit of Radio Free Asia. In order to help distribute funding for the Open Technology Fund (OTF) program, Radio Free Asia set up the OTF Advisory Council. The OTF Advisory Council was composed of people from industry, nonprofits, and universities. Two of EFF’s employees served on this OTF Advisory Council which evaluated proposed OTF projects. The Inspector General’s audit found that Radio Free Asia failed to follow federal procurement requirements and conflict-of-interest policies. The audit also states that Radio Free Asia required OTF Advisory Council members to sign nondisclosure agreements. The type of funding which EFF received may actually be illegal. The funding which EFF receives from Radio Free Asia falls under the Smith-Mundt Act. The law prohibits the State Department and the Broadcasting Board of Governors (including Radio Free Asia) from using their funding to influence American public opinion. While incidental exposure to an American audience is technically legal, EFF is an influential American organization, and on that basis, its projects may be heavily publicized in the United States. It is difficult to understand why Radio Free Asia continues to fund domestic American organizations even though its funding is only intended to influence foreign audiences (ie. propaganda). In response to questions about EFF receiving government funding, EFF Executive Director, Cindy Cohn stated: “While EFF does not accept U.S. government funding directly, we do accept funds that originated with the U.S. government if they are earmarked for specific technology projects like these. EFF’s technology projects are all open source – the code can be reviewed, added to, or forked by anyone – and have a clear set of technical goals that serve the public interest. They are also publicly hosted, currently on Github. EFF guards its independence fiercely and does not accept funding that has strings attached to advance anyone else’s agenda. We are proud of the role that EFF’s technology projects play in building better, safer, and more free experience for Internet users worldwide.” It is difficult to independently verify EFF’s statement that it does not accept funding with strings attached, because Radio Free Asia refuses to release records on its contracts. EFF’s facebook page states that the organization “fights for freedom primarily in the courts, bringing and defending lawsuits even when that means taking on the US government or large corporations.” The US Congress was very specific in its appropriations that the funding for internet freedom is to serve the US government’s national security and foreign policy interests abroad. Somehow, this funding continues to be directed towards domestic American organizations, such as Tor Project and Open Whisper Systems. While EFF’s government funding remains a small portion of its overall budget, it is not difficult to imagine how a conflict of interest could arise. Will EFF be able to continue fighting the same government which it also accepts money from? Will EFF bite the hand that feeds it? Citations in Print 1. Patt, D. (1978, April 5). Unification Church Tried to Keep Mr Nixon in Power During the Watergate Crisis. The Times, p. 7. 2. Kelly, N. (1980, September 30). Thailand Receives US Arms Amid Reports of Vietnamese Activity. The Times, p. 7. 3. Thayer, N. (1990, July 20). Killing Fields’ Regime’s Fighters Buoyed by Battlefield Successes. The Charlotte Observer, p. 5A. The text of this article is released into the public domain. Anyone is free to translate and republish this article. The featured picture is from Duke University Library.

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Whom you may not criticize? - USA avidly chasing Germany's Zio-laws
by Zenaan Harkness 24 Jul '17

24 Jul '17

Well, well, well ... an amazing yet serious GTFOOH moment: So. As we know, in just over a dozen countries 'tis a criminal offense to verbally challenge the ziocaust narrative, Germany being target #1. Of course in the land of the free, home of the brave North America, the First Amendment guarantees the freedom of speech. Except when (((they))) introduce (arguably, possibly, debatably) illegal statute laws such as H.R. 1697. Goyem, the brazenness on display by (((your rulers))) is something to behold - kiss your first amendment goodbye: US CONGRESS: Israel first First Amendment second http://theduran.com/us-congress-israel-first-first-amendment-second/ Senators and Representatives in the US Congress are attempting to pass legislation which would criminalise the boycotting of Israel and also criminalise the advocacy of such boycotts. The legislation is clearly unconstitutional, yet this hasn't stopped many in Congress from advocating for new restrictive laws. In March of 2017, bills were introduced in the US Senate ( https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/720/text?format=xml ) and House of Representatives ( https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/720/text?format=xml ) which would criminalise support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement as well as other organisations which advocate for a boycott of Israel and Israeli products. Journalist Rob Wolfe summarised ( http://www.vnews.com/Israel-Boycott-Bill-In-Congress-11374160 ) the effects of the proposed legislation as follows, “The bill, which goes by H.R. 1697 and S. 720, would prohibit · American businesses or individuals engaged in interstate or · foreign commerce from ‘supporting any boycott fostered or imposed · by an international organization, or requesting imposition of any · such boycott, against Israel,’according to a congressional · summary”. ... In case the obvious thin edge of the wedge got missed, the trial run for "criminalization of a boycott by a business" was that well publicized case against the Christian bakery couple who chose to boycott serving a Homosexual couple asking for a "gay wedding cake". Litmus test folks, litmus test it was. So now America gets to have its Zio cake and eat it too. Only real question - are there any USAians not so cowardly they would readily suffer jail for such "crimethink"? Doubtful... She'll be comin' down the gas pipe when she comes; yee haw! She'll be firing the gas oven when she comes; yee haw! She'll be burning first amendments, jailing all free thinkers, She'll be FEMA martial law camps where you're done! It'll be sad from one perspective, cleansing from another - Razer, you wanted something to --really-- go to war over? It's gettin close bro, getting closer by the month!

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protocol for high-profile dissenters to leak without being deaded/murdered/killed/eliminated/shot/heart-attacked etc
by Zenaan Harkness 23 Jul '17

23 Jul '17

"Dum, ways to die, so many dum ways to die." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw and the latest version 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXZhVyYS87A So, former Haitian government official, ready to expose Clinton corruption, found dead: http://theduran.com/former-haitian-government-official-ready-to-expose-clin… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EqdA5FFpqM Yes, Hitlery Clinton's Haitian pedo network was going to be exposed, and the key leaker, of course, "mysteriously" dies. Who could possibly have predicted this? I mean, it's not like the DNC murdered Seth Rich and a dozen Clinton security guards over the years, right? There are some bloody dum people out there folks, and they need our help - at the very least, evidently, some firetrucking basic firetrucking training on HOW THE HELL TO LEAK! This is pissing me off - I mean at least Seth got his leak out before he was post-leakishly murdered, but Klaus Eberwein? Seriously spoke about his intention to leak, before actually leaking? WHAT THE FIRETRUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?!?!?!?!@##!@$!@#$!@#??!!!! That is just absolutely IN-FIRETRUCKING-INSANE !!! So, fellow cypherpunkers - this is our stock in trade! AND it's our DUTY OF CARE to our fellow humans, to spread the word on BASIC LEAKING PROTOCOL. A very rough draft of possible steps to take: - NEVER talk about your leak/whistleblowing, BEFORE doing it! - Leak your leak to MULTIPLE people simultaneously if possible - either publicly, and or by anonymous post (of documents, CDs, DVDs etc). - Plant a brief tell-all in an unlikely to be read book at the back corner of a public library, and TELL A TRUSTED PERSON that "if I die, go read this book, but not before". - Quietly get up to speed with some op-sec - ask a grandchild to teach you, go to a local computer user group meeting, etc - the basics are not so hard, so LEARN THEM YOURSELF! - Do a trial run of leaking with something newsworthy but RELATIVELY INNOCUOUS. Please add, suggest "hell no!"s etc. Seriously, we are in the middle of a war, and many folks need our help and actual assistance.

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Today in 'Merican History: Early Sunday morning July 23 1967 Detroit police trigger the biggest riot in American history
by Razer 23 Jul '17

23 Jul '17

>From the extensive Timeline page at "The Great Rebellion: A Socio-economic Analysis of the 1967 Detroit Riot" Sunday - July 23 1967 3:45 a.m. Detroit police "clean-up squad" raid a blind pig (speakeasy) housed at Economy Printing, 12th Street/Clairmount. Angry crowd of locals begins to form outside, eventually numbering some 250 people. 4:05 First paddy wagon loaded and departs for 10th Precinct. 5:00 D.P.D. departs with last prisoners under hail of projectiles. 5:05 Mob flows down street breaking windows. When police do not reappear, looting begins. 5:06 Tenth Precinct's Lt. Raymond Good investigates complaint of "burglar alarms going off on 12th Street." 5:11 Lt. Good arrives at Economy Printing and witnesses swarms of crazed people. When he exists the cruiser to get a better look he is hit with a brick. Good radios all cruisers to stay out of area in hopes that rioters will cool down faster without a inflaming police presense. 5:20 Police Commissioner Girardin notified there is a flare up on 12th Street. Girardin notifies Mayor Cavanagh. 6:00 Detroit police begin calling in off duty officers. Strength bolstered to 369 men but only 43 committed to riot area. 7:50 Detroit police Commandos conduct sweep of 12th Street but proves ineffectual. At least 3,000 rioters present. Belle Isle closed. 8:24 First fire is started. Detroit Fire Department arrives and extinguishes fire without incident. All police leaves canceled. Twelve hour shifts ordered. 9:00 Crowd on 12th Street now between 8,000 - 10,000. 9:33 Black community leaders attempt to calm thousands of rioters on 12th Street and are stoned in return. 10:00 Police strength now 1,122 men, approx 1/4 of department. Of these, 540 sent to riot area, 108 attempting to cordon off streets entering riot area. 10:30 Police now find themselves under a barrage of bottles/stones. Character of riot is changing from carnival atmosphere to violence. . . . . Main page: http://www.detroits-great-rebellion.com/Index.html

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DCs wished "good luck" by Vladimir Putin
by Zenaan Harkness 22 Jul '17

22 Jul '17

Russian president Vladimir Putin wished children "good luck" in their future endeavours into digital currencies and possible "one world currency": Idea of single world currency is good, but can hardly become true today — Putin Business & Economy July 21, 18:08 http://tass.com/economy/957295 Putin said his attitude to bitcoins and other currencies is very cautious Share SOCHI, July, 21. /TASS/. The creation of a single world currency in the future is possible, this is a good idea, but today there is little chance of its implementation, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said during his televised "Serious Talk" Q&A with children held at the Sirius Educational Center for Gifted Children in Sochi. "The idea is good, but chance to implement it, at least now, is small. We have bitcoins and other currencies, our attitude to this is very cautious, because almost nothing has been regulated in this area today," Putin said. According to the Russian leader, recently large fluctuations have been marked on the market of crypto-currencies. "This may lead to very serious losses for those people and legal entities that invest in such currencies. Today these are hard to implement projects but in future, of course, it is possible. And if we plan to do this in future we should start thinking about it now, it will pay off. I wish you good luck," Putin said.

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true story - parents fail to issue permit to their 5 year old daughter, for lemonade stand - 4 UK Officers Storm 5 Year-old Girl's Lemonade Stand, Issue Charge
by Zenaan Harkness 22 Jul '17

22 Jul '17

UK gunning for "most American state" crown, sends 4 officers to storm 5 year-old girl's lemonade stand. What the parents failed to do was to say to the said officers "we can say categorically that we have issued a permit to our 5 year old daughter to run her lemonade stand - your insinuation to the contrary is laughable and fundamentally despotic, so firetruck off with your zio nonsense before we haul your arse into the High Court for personal liability arising from damage to our 5 year old daughters budding fast food business!" Are the parents cowardly, or just ignorant? Here's hoping they're ignorant, become aware of their failure, and promptly issue a written correction notice to their local storm troupers enforcing the decorum of 5 year-old run fast food outlets. In the present case, the father is apparently "a professor at City University, and occasional contributor of The Guardian", so he ought have no problem drafting a legally sound notice to the Idiot Authorities. Parents of 5 year old children unite! Embrace your authority to issue permits to your toddlers to engage in commercial enterprise on your front lawn! Do NOT cower before the stupidity of the state, and demand sanity from your highest courts. This is on principle! 4 UK Officers Storm 5 Year-old Girl's Lemonade Stand http://www.fort-russ.com/2017/07/4-uk-officers-storm-5-years-old-girls.html July 21st, 2017 - Fort Russ News - - Agencies - - by Samer Hussein Four local council enforcement officers raided a lemonade stand of a 5 year-old girl that she had set up with the help of her father in Mile End, east London. The officers told the little girl that she was lacking a trading license as required by UK law and was therefore issued a £150 fine. Shocked by the entire ordeal, the girl and her father then packed their stuff up and left while being fined. “She sobbed all the way home and was telling me: 'Dad, I’ve done a bad thing’. She was very upset because she was proud of selling it, and this really soured the experience”, said the girl’s father Andre Spicer, himself a professor at City University, and occasional contributor of The Guardian. Although the UK law requires all market stall operators to be over 17 years of age and have either a temporary or permanent trading license to operate legally, this is the first time that a child’s lemonade stand gets shut down by law enforcement. A council’s spokesman has since apologized for the incident and dismissed the charge.

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Fwd: Aegis Paper Series-Encryption Substitutes
by Razer 22 Jul '17

22 Jul '17

Aegis Paper Series Encryption Substitutes By Andrew Keane Woods Friday, July 21, 2017, 11:00 AM Aegis: Security Policy in Depth PDF version In a recently published piece for the Hoover Institution's Aegis Paper Series, I argue that the “going dark” debate ought to be considered in the context of the larger debate over government access to data. Encryption is not the only game in town: just as law enforcement can pursue a number of different alternatives to mandating encryption backdoors, so too can privacy advocates take steps beyond encrypting their data to ensure their privacy. Acknowledging these substitutes—both for law enforcement and for privacy seekers—generates a number of insights. For example, comprehensive reform may make more sense than serial reforms, since it would allow for issue linkage and deal-making. Encryption Substitutes by Hoover Institution on Scribd https://lawfareblog.com/encryption-substitutes-0

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The Grand American Collapse Approacheth - James Howard Kunstler
by Zenaan Harkness 22 Jul '17

22 Jul '17

The Grand American Collapse Approacheth James Howard Kunstler - http://kunstler.com/ The author is a prominent American social critic, blogger, and podcaster. He is known for, among other things, a series of science fiction novels describing life after the collapse of modern society, an event which he believes is quite possible, as you can tell from this article. He has a new novel out about the counter-culture movement in the late '60s. If you like this author's work, please consider supporting him on Patreon. https://www.amazon.com/James-Howard-Kunstler/e/B000APLGD0/ref=dp_byline_con… https://www.amazon.com/Safe-Happy-Place-Novel/dp/0984625291/ref=tmm_pap_swa… https://www.patreon.com/JamesHowardKunstler http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/grand-american-collapse-approacheth/r… 18% of the US economy is complete BS, consisting basically of 'health care racketeering.' For all his blunders and stumbles in his first half-year as President (cough cough), Donald Trump seems to have more lives than Schrödinger’s Cat. Or maybe it just seems that way. Or maybe he isn’t really there at all (like the news these days). Maybe Trump only represents one comic probability in an infinite number of universes of probability, both comic and tragic. I begin to understand why the folks in Hollywood are having a whack attack over the chief executive: you can’t storyboard this bitch; it’s like leaving The Three Stooges on their own in a sound stage to re-make Gone With the Wind. But then, you begin to wonder: is Russia really there, or is it, too, just another figment of possibility? Don’t try to figure that out by reading the oracular observations of The Washington Post. These days Russia seems to be at once everywhere and nowhere, like the Devil north of Boston in 1693. For example, this fellow Jeff Sessions. Have you noticed that his name rhymes with Russians? Hmmmm. And wasn’t he caught chatting with the Russian Ambassador at the very same convocation of Republicans that picked notorious colluder Donald Trump to stand for President? That’s enough of your damn evidence right there! advertisement Yes, things are passing strange in the world’s greatest democracy these days. To me, seeing the thing through an historical lens, it’s looking more and more like the Salem Witch Frenzy meets the French Revolution with a spin of quantum confusion on top. Right now we’re in the first phase, sheer political lunacy. Beliefs have become ungrounded from the facts of life. The guy whom fate or a prankish deity put in the White House doesn’t even fit the template of the world’s most infamous heads-of-state. I’m sorry to dredge up old Adolf, but really, Hitler himself seemed to have a much firmer idea about what he was doing than Trump does. The ObamaCare reform fiasco looks like a tipping point toward a strain of toxic political paralysis that might literally kill the government as we’ve known it. Over the many months of debate, congress never even got around to raising the salient issue: that the 18-or-so-percent of the economy “health care” represents consists largely of outright racketeering. Well, they sure blew that one. The major parties are disintegrating before our eyes, despite the seeming sense of decorum that senators present on TV. The public may seem to be mentally on vacation, snoozing on the beach in the midsummer doldrums, but something vicious is in the wind offshore. I’d actually go further now than the “soft coup d’état” scenario that has Trump run over by the 25thamendment. It will happen, of course, but it will not satisfy anybody. Mike Pence will prove to be as ineffectual and unpopular as Trump, and he will be drowning in financial and fiscal problems, and he will get no help from the legislature in resolving any of it, and before too long there may be a general in the White House — or attempting to run things from someplace else, if he can. The whole nauseating spectacle will be attended by violent popular revolt of region against region and tribe against tribe in a great civil explosion of long-suppressed angst. Too many nasty forces are vectoring in on the scene to overthrow the dream state America has been languishing in. Most of them involve money (or “money”) and the questions of how can we possibly keep paying for the way we live in this country, and who exactly has been fobbing off with the former wealth of every rusted and busted community in the land? It’s going to start in the stock and bond markets and it will be soon. And then the US Treasury will destroy the dollar trying (again) to save the banks. And the bank accounts will be frozen. And the loans will stop being paid. And the SNAP cards are going to stop working, and pretty soon the just-in-time deliveries to the supermarkets, and the resupply to the gas stations, and there won’t be much that Mike Pence can do about it. He’ll be shoved aside and the military will have to try to restore order in the land. When they do, it will not be the same land we sang about back in the fifth grade. Up in a cloud somewhere over Ohio, maybe, Schrödinger’s Cat will be gazing down on us, grinning.

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more than 10% of the web is powered by Debian
by Zenaan Harkness 20 Jul '17

20 Jul '17

Surprising (to me) and nice to know - The Universal OS is slowly steamrolling along... world domination now only days away :) >From this week's LWN: At the time of writing, more than 10% of the web is powered by Debian. How many web sites would you have missed today without Debian? Debian is the operating system of choice on the international space station and countless universities, companies and public administrations rely on Debian to deliver services to millions of users around the world and beyond. Debian is a highly successful and is far more pervasive in our lives than people are aware of, even within the GNU/Linux community. — Chris Lamb https://lwn.net/Articles/727985/ http://debianbrasil.org.br/blog/an-interview-with-chris-lamb-the-current-de…

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Sweden Bans Mandatory Vaccinations Over 'Serious Heath Concerns'
by Zenaan Harkness 20 Jul '17

20 Jul '17

It's that little "compulsory" bit that, evidently, gets even non-anarchists riled up. Suprising that this is from Sweden, but hey, perhaps there's an iota of hope for the original blonde bombshells yet? ----- Forwarded message from Jim <jim.sovereign(a)optusnet.com.au> ----- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 19:12:22 +1000 Sweden Bans Mandatory Vaccinations Over 'Serious Heath Concerns' Red Ice Radio <https://redice.tv/red-ice-radio> 21 <https://redice.tv/news/sweden-bans-mandatory-vaccinations-over-serious-heat…> May 18, 2017 Source: yournewswire.com <http://yournewswire.com/sweden-mandatory-vaccinations/> Sweden has banned mandatory vaccinations, citing “serious health concerns” and the fact they violate a citizen’s constitutional rights to choose their own healthcare. The Swedish Riksdag (parliament) rejected seven motions on May 10 that would have enshrined forced vaccinations into law, stating “It would violate our [Swedish Constitution] if we introduced compulsory vaccinations, or mandatory vaccinations.” Noting also the “massive resistance (by Swedes) to all forms of coercion with regard to vaccinations“, the Riksdag also made reference to “frequent serious adverse reactions” in children who receive vaccinations. An English translation of the Swedish report <http://www.thenhf.se/riksdagen-rostade-nej-till-alla-vaccinmotioner/> : “NHF Sweden sent a letter to the Committee and explained that it would violate our Constitution if we introduced compulsory vaccinations, or mandatory vaccinations as was submitted in Arkelsten’s motion. Many others have also submitted correspondence and many citizens have called up Parliament and politicians. Parliamentary politicians has surely noticed that there’s a massive resistance to all forms of coercion with regard to vaccinations. “NHF Sweden also shows how frequent serious adverse reactions according to the rate at which FASS specifies in the package leaflet of the MMR vaccine, when you vaccinate an entire year group. In addition, one must take into account that each age group will receive the MMR vaccine twice, so the side effects are doubled. We must not forget that, in addition, similar adverse reaction lists apply for other vaccines. “In the letter, we have even included an extensive list of the additives found in vaccines – substances which are not health foods and certainly do not belong in babies or children. We also included for lawmakers a daunting list of studies that demonstrate vaccination is a bad idea.” The full report can be accessed here <http://www.thenhf.se/riksdagen-rostade-nej-till-alla-vaccinmotioner/> . The Swedish Riksdag’s sensible decision flies in the face of what is happening in the United States and other western countries right now. Big Pharma has lawmakers in a choke hold, dictating policy and using the corrupt media to silence dissenters. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently appeared <http://yournewswire.com/robert-kennedy-truth-bomb-vaccine/> on the Tucker Carlson Show and bravely exposed the “lawless mafia state” that is Big Pharma and their “extremely lucrative” vaccines scam. “The pharmaceutical industry is so powerful,” RFK Jr explained. “They give $5.4 billion a year to the media. They’ve gotten rid of the lawyers, so there is no legal interest in those cases. They have really been able to control the debate and silence people like me.” Asked how things could get this bad, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. explained that Congress granted Big Pharma “blanket legal immunity” when it comes to vaccines. Big Pharma became a law unto themselves after President Regan signed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Childhood_Vaccine_Injury_Act> . They can put toxic ingredients in your vaccines, they can seriously injure your child – but you cannot sue them. “What you have to understand is that the vaccine regimen changed dramatically around 1989. The reason it changed, Tucker, is that Congress, drowning in pharmaceutical industry money, did something they have never done for any other industry – they gave blanket legal immunity to all the vaccine companies. “So that no matter how sloppy the line protocols, no matter how absent the quality control, no matter how toxic the ingredients, or egregious the injury to your child, you cannot sue them. “So there’s no depositions, there’s no discovery, there’s no class action suits. All of a sudden vaccines became enormously profitable.” The enormous profits in the unregulated industry meant Big Pharma companies raced each other to produce new and unnecessary vaccines to pump into newborn children – often dozens at a time. “It became a gold rush for the pharmaceutical industry to add new vaccines to the spectrum.” But at what cost? The vaccine industry, operating under their own rules – or rather, complete absence of rules – is making it impossible for us to find out the facts. President Trump has long called for an independent inquiry into vaccine safety. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is calling for the same. “I got three vaccines and I was fully compliant. I’m 63 years old. My children got 69 doses of 16 vaccines to be compliant. And a lot of these vaccines aren’t even for communicable diseases. Like Hepatitis B, which comes from unprotected sex, or using or sharing needles – why do we give that to a child on the first day of their life? And it was loaded with mercury.” Tucker asked, “We do give that to children?“ “We continue to give it to them. The mercury has been taken out of three vaccines, but it remains in the flu vaccine, and it is still in vaccines all over the world. And it is the most potent neurotoxin known to man that is not radioactive.” “How can we inject that into a child?” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tried to put the outrageous situation into context. “If you take that vaccine vial and break it, you have to dispose of that as hazardous waste. You have to evacuate the building. Why would you take that and inject it into a child?” Source: https://redice.tv/news/sweden-bans-mandatory-vaccinations-over-serious-heat…

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