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Syrian geography lesson with a bit of history
by Zenaan Harkness 10 Mar '20

10 Mar '20

For those interested in ME politics, geography and/or history, the below is a packed little piece you might enjoy. Once the Syrian oil thieves are finally kicked out of their country by the USA - or something - perhaps Erdogan/ Turkey might get a taste of its own lessons. From: Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 21:10:29 +1100 Subject: Syrian geography lesson :) This was my Syrian geography lesson on the weekend: The Gateway To Idlib Goes Via Cilica http://thesaker.is/the-gateway-to-idlib-goes-via-cilica/

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New York Post: Mistrial declared at federal trial of accused CIA leaker Joshua Schulte
by jim bell 10 Mar '20

10 Mar '20

I thought you'd be interested in this story Mistrial declared at federal trial of accused CIA leaker Joshua Schulte https://nypost.com/2020/03/09/mistrial-declared-at-federal-trial-of-accused…

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intel hopefully fucked
by Punk-Stasi 2.0 10 Mar '20

10 Mar '20

http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2020/03/intelx86-root-of-trust-loss-of-trust.html

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Cointelegraph: US Congressman Introduces Crypto-Currency Act of 2020
by jim bell 09 Mar '20

09 Mar '20

Cointelegraph: US Congressman Introduces Crypto-Currency Act of 2020. https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-congressman-introduces-crypto-currency-ac…

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Using Amazon Rekognition to Identify Persons of Interest for Law Enforcement
by John Young 09 Mar '20

09 Mar '20

A sends: Using Amazon Rekognition to Identify Persons of Interest for Law Enforcement https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/using-amazon-rekognition-to-i… Also: https://aws.amazon.com/it/blogs/machine-learning/understand-movie-star-soci…

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Joshua Schulte found guilty on Counts 8 and 10, mistrial granted on all other counts.
by John Young 09 Mar '20

09 Mar '20

Joshua Schulte (WikiLeaks Vault 7) found guilty on Counts 8 and 10, mistrial granted on all other counts. Count 8: transmission of harmful computer program, information or command. Count 10: obstruction of justice. via http://www.innercitypress.com/sdnylive28schulte030920.html

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Doug Collins: We Don't Have The Votes To Reauthorize Some FISA Surveillance Tools Now And "That's A Good Thing" | Video | RealClearPolitics
by jim bell 09 Mar '20

09 Mar '20

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/03/08/doug_collins_we_dont_hav…

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Collapse
by grarpamp 09 Mar '20

09 Mar '20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFmy7_l14U8 infohash:172763F29910F7BC555DF517F34B854DC2B18E27 collapse http://www.collapsenet.com/ https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ruppert "On April 13, 2014, Ruppert was found dead in Napa County at home just outside of the Calistoga, CA city limits. Ruppert died of a single self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head" " Collapse - the film Americans generally like to hear good news. They like to believe that a new president will right old wrongs, that clean energy will replace dirty oil and that fresh thinking will set the economy straight. American pundits tend to restrain their pessimism and hope for the best. But is anyone prepared for the worst? Meet Michael Ruppert, a different kind of American. A former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter, he predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter, From the Wilderness, at a time when most Wall Street and Washington analysts were still in denial. Director Chris Smith has shown an affinity for outsiders in films like American Movie and The Yes Men. In Collapse, he departs stylistically from his past documentaries by interviewing Ruppert in a format that recalls the work of Errol Morris and Spalding Gray. Sitting in a room that looks like a bunker, Ruppert recounts his career as a radical thinker and spells out the crises he sees ahead. He draws upon the same news reports and data available to any Internet user, but he applies a unique interpretation. He is especially passionate about the issue of peak oil, the concern raised by scientists since the seventies that the world will eventually run out of fossil fuel. While other experts debate this issue in measured tones, Ruppert doesn't hold back at sounding an alarm, portraying an apocalyptic future. Listening to his rapid flow of opinions, the viewer is likely to question some of the rhetoric as paranoid or deluded, and to sway back and forth on what to make of the extremism. Smith lets viewers form their own judgments. Collapse also serves as a portrait of a loner. Over the years, Ruppert has stood up for what he believes in despite fierce opposition. He candidly describes the sacrifices and motivators in his life. While other observers analyze details of the economic crisis, Ruppert views it as symptomatic of nothing less than the collapse of industrial civilization itself. "

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Cryptocurrency: EARN-IT Threatens Entire Internet, Kill This Bill Dead Now!!!
by grarpamp 09 Mar '20

09 Mar '20

https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/ffoqwk/the_earn_it_act_wil… https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/ffmvj9/stock_markets_are_d… " Wake the hell up. It is the EARN IT Act. Everyone in crypto should be opposing it. If you can be sued for running a crypto node, are you going to? That is what will happen... Unless people start connecting the dots and implications of this evil bill, crypto will continue to go down. " " The EARN IT Act is far worse than the Patriot Act, because it threatens to undo the last 30 years of progress the internet has made in red pilling people about power and corruption. " " Trump and Bill Bar are basically striping the 230 protections so that you have to apply for them. They will set rules and decide who can get the protections. The 230 protections basically assign responsibility for user generated content on the poster of the content, not the hosting, website, or other entities. It provides a clear way for the internet to host free and open discussions without supposing that the any entity transmitting or housing the data is liable for the content being transmitted, hosted, or displayed by any individual or company that didn't create the content. Without this clarity of law, civil and criminal suits would basically kill the internet as we know it because every single entity on the internet would end up being very afraid of lawsuits for user generated content. In order for crypto to work it has to not care what the source of the data is or what it is for. If Trump and Barr get their way, the internet will become just as sanitized and "safe" as broadcast TV before the internet. This means that every crypto node will have to get permission from Barr (the DOJ) in order to operate on the internet. You can be sure that the rules will be such that particular transactions will have to be blocked if they demand it. So if you value what crypto represents, please pay attention to this bill and oppose it like it means the end of the internet as we know it. "

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Parent jailed for "leaving" 9yo child in park with her friends and their parents
by Zenaan Harkness 09 Mar '20

09 Mar '20

The state of the USA: Forbidden Parenting https://www.zerohedge.com/political/forbidden-parenting https://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2020/03/04/forbidden-parenting-… South Carolina mom Debra Harrell worked at McDonald's. She couldn't afford day care for Regina, her 9-year-old daughter, so she took her to work. But Regina was bored at McDonald's. One day, she asked if she could just play in the neighborhood park instead. "I felt safe there," tells me in my new video, "because I was with my friends and their parents." "She had her cellphone, a pocketbook with money in it," says Debra. "She had everything she needed." Regina was happy. Debra was happy. But one parent asked Regina where her mom was, and then called the police. Officers went to McDonald's and arrested Debra. In jail, they berated her. "You can't leave a child who is 9 years old in the park by herself!" said one officer. "What if some sex offender came by?" People interviewed by the media were also outraged. "What if a man came and just snatched her?" asked one. "This day and time, you never know who's around!" said another. But what are they talking about? Crime in America is way down, half what it was in the '90s. Reports of missing children are also down. If kids are kidnapped or molested, it's almost always by a relative or an acquaintance, not by a stranger in a park. Nevertheless, prosecutors charged Debra Harrell with "willful abandonment of a child," a crime that carries up to a 10-year sentence. They also took Regina away from her mom -- for two weeks. "I would cry as night because I was really scared," Regina told me. "I didn't know where I was, or what was going on." Fortunately, attorney Robert Phillips took Debra's case for free. He didn't like the way police and media portrayed her. "Here was this black female that society gives a hard time. 'Welfare queens, living at home, not getting a job!' Well, that's what she was doing," he said. "She was out working, trying the best she could to take care of her child. And now we're beating her up because we didn't like the way she took care of her child." The cops said that Harrell should have sent her daughter to day care. But even if she could have afforded it, it's not clear that day care is safer. "We found 42 incidents of sexual molestations, rapes in day cares," said Phillips. "We couldn't find (in South Carolina in the last 20 years) a single abduction in a park." Philips blames people in my business for scaring people about the wrong things. "The media has brought up this 'stranger danger' to where, if you're not under the protective wings of mom and dad 24/7, then you're exposing your child to some unknown danger." That has frightened police and child welfare workers into taking absurd steps when parents leave children alone. In Maryland, police accused parents of child neglect for letting their kids roam around their neighborhood. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/13/parents-investigated-… In Kentucky, after police reported a mom who left her kids in the car while she dashed into a store, child welfare workers strip-searched the kids to make sure they weren't being abused. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/05/22/how-dare-she-dash-muffins/ This doesn't protect kids. It mostly scares parents into depriving their kids of chances to learn. "When you don't let them spread their wings, that's when they get in trouble!" says Debra. She was fortunate that her case got enough attention that even Nikki Haley, then South Carolina's governor, asked that Regina be given back to her mom. Prosecutors finally dropped the child abandonment charge. It's just not right that when stranger kidnappings are increasingly rare, police and child welfare workers are more eager to punish parents who let kids play on their own. "A Utah law guarantees that giving kids some reasonable independence isn't 'neglect,'" says Lenore Skenazy, of the nonprofit Let Grow, "More states need this!" https://letgrow.org/ Of course, some parents are so neglectful that government should intervene. But as lawyer Phillips put it, they should intervene "only if you are subjecting your child to a real harm. We should not have unreasonable intrusions by the government telling us every little detail how to raise our children."

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