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surprisingly, Soros now pins US color revolution on Trump
by Zig the N.g 17 Sep '20

17 Sep '20

This might be obvious in hindsight, or I might just be unfortunately slow to grasp things, but to this morning's delight, a "blame Trump" exercise actually surprises me. Go figure. Presimably feeling the heat, Soros is for some strange reason wanting his grand hurrah, the White color revolution being dished out on North America for the world to see, to NOT be blamed on Soros! It's hard to get over the level's of chutzpah in this one, and really, chops to Soros for at least __trying__ to pin the blame on someone as Project Veritas and other leaks ongoingly damn him in the public mind ... ... I guess "Putin dunnit" was beginning to wear a little thin.. and since for 30+ years the oligarchs have been stashing the cash over in their favourite Pooh Bear dictatorship, and now they're struggling to get it out, they might as well try to turn up the heat on MAGA Man. "All's fair in war and color revolutions." Quite sophístamicated: Hedge Fund CIO: Trump Is Now Left With Two Darker Options - A Domestic Civil Conflict And/Or A Chinese Conflict https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/hedge-fund-cio-trump-now-left-two-darker-…

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It's an Ill Wind
by Peter Fairbrother 03 Sep '20

03 Sep '20

2- It's an Ill Wind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XRc389TvG8 So now we know: first, that the UK government is actually deliberately trying to infect over 40 million UK citizens, and in doing so expecting, on their figures, 400,000 deaths. The reason given for this is to develop "herd immunity", where there are so many people who have had the virus that there is nobody for someone who later contracts it to give it to, as everybody has already had it and is immune. But the Chinese didn't do that. They implemented strong containment and stopped the virus dead. They didn't "lessen the peak", they obliterated the peak. There is no reason why we can't do that too. But the Government insists on buying herd immunity at the cost of at least 400,000 (more likely a million [1]) deaths. Why? The question arises, what good would herd immunity, bought at such a terrible cost in deaths, do? The reason given is that the Government believes that COVID-19 will turn into a seasonal disease, and herd immunity might protect us from it's return next year. There are three big problems with that - First, we don't know that it will return at all. Second, if it does return next year, it will have mutated - and like flu, it is likely that the herd immunity, so dearly bought, will not be effective against next year's version, if it happens. There is also concern about people in China who seem to have gotten the disease twice. We don't know why that is, whether it is two different strains of the virus (there are several hundred known varieties of the COVID-19 virus, it mutates fairly rapidly) or people getting the disease twice - however in either case that would lower the usefulness of any herd immunity. So, I don't see why the UK Government are killing 400,000 people. Apparently it isn't because the UK has a large proportion of older people. Older people who need extensive healthcare, expensive pensions, who tie up a lot of wealth and property - of the predicted 400,000 (million) deaths the vast majority would be of older people. This clearing away of unproductive and expensive (and wealthy) older population would more than balance the budget, releasing £10 billion per year in state pensions, £20 billion per year in heathcare costs, and so on. It would stop the disease in the UK fairly quickly, and it would be the cheapest option (ignoring the actuarial but not-real-pounds cost of the deaths). It would release several hundred thousand badly-needed homes (and cause a property price crash; the UK needs about 1 million homes, which is why UK property is so expensive) and would provide a more balanced population pyramid. So for the UK as a nation it would not be a bad thing (ignoring the deaths), and I fear some politicians may think "Hey, it's just the useless oldies, who cares?". But no. There is probably a sensible reason we don't implement strong confinement and stop the virus in its tracks, rather than letting it have its way. Unfortunately I don't know what that reason is. Peter Fairbrother [1] I calculate around a million deaths, but that is a bit of a back-of-the envelope calculation based on known death rates elsewhere and comparative population age spreads. Exact figures also depend on some assumptions about things we do not know about the disease. I have made what I think are reasonable assumptions. I don't know how reasonable the Goverment's assumptions are, or how they came up with the 400,000 figure.

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China reparations to world, ought include returning Tibet to the Tibetans - Wuhan China virus - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 29 Aug '20

29 Aug '20

China ought be held to return Tibet to the Tibetans, under the authority of the Dalai Llama, as part of the reparations for the China virus/ Wuhan flu. Coronavirus response in Tibet: arrests, crackdown, religious repression https://savetibet.org/coronavirus-response-in-tibet-arrests-crackdown-relig… https://tibet.net/coronavirus-response-in-tibet-arrests-crackdown-religious… .. - China has responded to the spread of coronavirus to Tibet by cracking down on people who post information online about the deadly illness, including one man who was detained by police simply for encouraging his contacts to recite prayers to ward off infection. - Chinese authorities also announced the cancellation of public religious festivals and prayer ceremonies for “Losar,” the Tibetan New Year, which begins Feb. 24. - In the wake of the outbreak, the Chinese government has activated its network of military and Chinese Community Party cadres to spread propaganda about protecting “stability”—a euphemism for the suppression of free speech and the enforcement of compliance with CCP policies. - Despite the spread of the virus, China’s leadership has chosen to move ahead with a new campaign in Tibet described as sending a “million police to 10 million homes.” The intention is to ensure “grassroots” integration of security forces in local communities. The campaign began in January and will continue throughout the year. - In contrast to the Chinese government’s heavy-handed response, the Tibetan people have reacted to the outbreak of coronavirus with compassion. Monasteries have donated funds for the purchase of facemasks and goggles, and Tibetans lit butter lamps in honour of the Chinese whistleblower who warned about the virus and subsequently died from it. https://www.yandex.com/search/?text=coronavirus%20in%20tibet&lr=10145

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[OT, but curious] bye bye, 5G...
by Cecilia Tanaka 18 Aug '20

18 Aug '20

Curious and strangely uncomfortable... :-/ < https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/verizon-teases-forthcoming-dss-lau… > COVID killing people, 5G, and other dreams since... this f* year, ouch! (>_<)*

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Re: [Privacy] Snowden Warns Governments Are Using Coronavirus to Build 'the Architecture of Oppression'
by John Young 15 Aug '20

15 Aug '20

At 09:04 PM 4/9/2020, you wrote: >Snowden Warns Governments Are Using Coronavirus to Build 'the >Architecture of Oppression' > ><<https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bvge5q/snowden-warns-governments-are-usi…>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bvge5q/snowden-warns-governments-are-usi…> Bear in mind that leaker's information ages into less significance, other than historical, as sources respond to the leaks with replacements and innovations. Leaks are left unchallenged, even promoted and initiated, by sources to serve as alluring camouflage for current operations. Some wizards claim leaks and leakers were invented and sustained for this purpose. Prosecutons and demonization and publicity and legislation are tools of the deceptive ops. FOIA a particularly manipulative technique, redactions and classification markings applied for verisimilitude. So too the tiny yellow dots and other traces. Others: Encryption and anonymizers, drop boxes, whispers to journos, aggrieved insiders and loose-lipped contractors, inspector generals, congressional briefings, sex entrapments, privacy protection NGOs, hired and coerced bots, trolls and hackers, iimplants in hardware and software, compromised communcations and internet workers and admins, lawyers, priests, psychiatrists and other supposedly confidential advisers. Roll your own narcotic of outsmarting the mofos, peddle the product of secrecy and oppression.

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POWER-SUPPLaY: Leaking Data from Air-Gapped Systems by Turning the Power-Supplies Into Speakers
by grarpamp 05 Aug '20

05 Aug '20

POWER-SUPPLaY: Leaking Data from Air-Gapped Systems by Turning the Power-Supplies Into Speakers https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.00395 LED-it-Go - exfiltrate data from air-gapped systems via an HDD's activity LED USBee - force a USB connector's data bus give out electromagnetic emissions that can be used to exfiltrate data AirHopper - use the local GPU card to emit electromagnetic signals to a nearby mobile phone, also used to steal data Fansmitter - steal data from air-gapped PCs using sounds emanated by a computer's GPU fan DiskFiltration - use controlled read/write HDD operations to steal data via sound waves BitWhisper - exfiltrate data from non-networked computers using heat emanations Unnamed attack - uses flatbed scanners to relay commands to malware infested PCs or to exfiltrate data from compromised systems GSMem - steal data from air-gapped systems using GSM cellular frequencies xLED - use router or switch LEDs to exfiltrate data aIR-Jumper - use a security camera's infrared capabilities to steal data from air-gapped networks HVACKer - use HVAC systems to control malware on air-gapped systems MAGNETO & ODINI - steal data from Faraday cage-protected systems MOSQUITO - steal data from PCs using attached speakers and headphones PowerHammer - steal data from air-gapped systems using power lines CTRL-ALT-LED - steal data from air-gapped systems using keyboard LEDs BRIGHTNESS - steal data from air-gapped systems using screen brightness variations AiR-ViBeR - steal data using a computer's fan vibrations

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Ron Unz: Mossad's assassinations of leading Americans - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 05 Aug '20

05 Aug '20

We know the CIA's public record of coup's and assassinations is a real threat to social sanity, and there's a somewhat public record of CIA + Mossad cooperation. Ron Unz lays out just some of the Mossad side of the equation (now we know why Unz was being denigrated/ un-personed a few weeks back - someone had inside knowledge of what was coming down the pipeline): Mossad's Bloody Trail of Assassinations of Leading Americans and Others Should Infuriate You - Another Ron Unz Bombshell Article https://russia-insider.com/en/history/mossads-bloody-trail-assassinations-l… It looks like the Soleimani murder is just part of a decades long pattern, as American statecraft blends indistinguishably with Israel's penchant for the underhanded and bloody. ... "The sheer quantity of such foreign assassinations was really quite remarkable, with the knowledgeable reviewer in the New York Times suggesting that the Israeli total over the last half-century or so seemed far greater than that of any other nation." "I might even go farther: if we excluded domestic killings, I wouldn’t be surprised if the body-count exceeded the combined total for that of all other major countries in the world. I think all the lurid revelations of lethal CIA or KGB Cold War assassination plots that I have seen discussed in newspaper articles might fit comfortably into just a chapter or two of Bergman’s extremely long book." "The extent to which the agents of the Jewish state and its Zionist predecessor organizations have engaged in the most rampant international crime and violations of the accepted rules of warfare is really quite extraordinary, perhaps having few parallels in modern world history." ...

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Gifts that keep on giving: Oklahoma Uni: Police try to id person posting "IT'S OKAY TO BE WHITE" flyers - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Aug '20

02 Aug '20

Some 2016 memes, like "wierd flashing GIFs that appear, then disappear, and they're on the Dark Web and NOBODY can find them" keep on giving in 2019: Clinton: “Flashing Videos That Appear and Then Disappear and They’re on the Dark Web and Nobody Can Find Them” http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/clinton-finally-hits-on-reason-she-lost-flash… [Flashing Gif elided] A flashing image I found on the dark web. If this appears or disappears, try refreshing your browser or deleting system32. If you can’t find it after that, you might be out of luck. It is truly incredible that “Madam President Scorned” is still a meme – but it do. She is still out there, every week, dropping new and increasingly fascinating reasons for why she lost the 2016 election. Hillary Clinton: ... “I think it’s going to be the same as 2016,” Clinton said. “I’m going to show you in these flashing videos that appear and then disappear and they’re on the dark web and nobody can find them, but you’re going to see them and you’re going to see that person doing these horrible things.” [Michelle Obama swimsuit shots not attached] Some 2017 memes are gifts that surprisingly, just keep on giving in 2019 - astounding but true: “It’s Okay to be White” Flyers Still Sending Universities Into Chaos http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/its-okay-to-be-white-flyers-still-sending-uni… You’d think liberals would have gotten over it by now… The annual “It’s Okay to be White” freakout is happening again. The Oklahoman: https://oklahoman.com/article/5645882/police-searching-for-suspect-who-left… Police are trying to identify a person who posted flyers saying “IT’S OKAY TO BE WHITE” at the Oklahoma City University School of Law. OCU Police Director Bill Citty said officers don’t believe the person is a threat to students or the school campus. The person left several papers Thursday night with the text “IT’S OKAY TO BE WHITE” outside and on the doors of the law school, 800 N Harvey. Campus police obtained images of the man and have a “good idea” of his identity, Citty said. The Oklahoma City Police Department is trying to locate the man for questioning. “The important thing now is to 100% identify this person and find out what his intentions were,” Citty said. ... Against all odds, it seems like this classic trick is still soliciting the same response from both the schools and the media, showing us once again that liberals won’t learn their lesson if they have an opportunity to freak out and publicly signal how virtuous they are. Once the man is found, officers will try to determine whether he planned any more incidents at OCU. The man will be told not to return to the school campus. The flyers alone don’t appear to be a crime, Citty said. Property would have to be destroyed for vandalism to apply. Officers will investigate whether the person’s actions amounted to a hate crime. ... the law school has been “intentional and relentless” in celebrating its diverse community. The school celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month, LGBTQ+ History Month and Day of the Dead and will honor Native American Heritage Month. Naturally, the school is “intentionally” and “relentlessly” celebrating brown people and perverts, but if anyone publicly claims to be comfortable being a White guy, God help him. Just the fact that the school is reacting this way to this simple flyer sends the message loud and clear that it’s not, in fact, okay to be White. ... Stunning stuff...

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what is "Herd Immunity"?
by Zenaan Harkness 01 Aug '20

01 Aug '20

Had a friend annoyed at masks the other day, complaining heavily "muh human right to shop at the supermarket without wearing a mask!" Interlocutor: So you'd prefer herd immunity? Complainer: Of course! Weren't you even listening?! I: Well, do you know what herd immunity means? What is it? C: Ah, may be not? What is herd immunity? I: If you survive, you survive; those who die, are left to die, the rest of the herd is immune… C: <silence> I: So you've heard a little about the Spanish flu and the Black Death, right? C: Yeah.. I: Well, we're the survivors - we are that part of the herd that did not die.

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Mozilla's Firefox can go to hell!
by Zig the N.g 31 Jul '20

31 Jul '20

FireFox's new multi-process "Web Content" process (per tab) is now being forced on Debian Sid users, hitting 70% CPU consistently at all times, even with all plugins disabled and a browser restart. Effing, morons! In time, FireFox will now be replaced. Such stupidity, in this case from Mozilla, must receive a suitable response in the market of browsers. And it shall. A price will be paid, if it takes 10 years or more! And whilst we're ranting, Gnome's "force Apple OSX style UI/ window decorations in all desktops", violating the floss world's multitude of options for "desktop environment", means we now have multiple window styles, one for each "desktop's" apps, e.g. XFCE standard apps, and Gnome's sucky OSX enforced windows for Evince, Epiphany, etc. Opinionated morons everywhere saying "oh, but it's got to have all these features running simultaneously" or "oh but all windows must be consistent so let's force _our_ window style on our apps". Seriously? Morons!

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