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Should Snowden And Assange Pardon The US Government?
by Zenaan Harkness 21 Aug '20

21 Aug '20

Should Snowden And Assange Pardon The US Government? Jacob Hornberger via The Future of Freedom Foundation https://www.fff.org/2020/08/19/should-snowden-and-assange-pardon-the-u-s-go… https://www.zerohedge.com/political/should-snowden-and-assange-pardon-us-go… President Trump is saying that he might issue a pardon to Edward Snowden. For some reason, he hasn’t said the same thing about Julian Assange. But a pardon suggests that the person being pardoned has done something wrong. Neither Snowden and Assange has done anything wrong - at least not in a moral sense. It is the U.S. government - and specifically the national-security state branch of the federal government - that has engaged in terrible wrongdoing - wrongdoing that Snowden and Assange revealed to the American people and the people of the world. Therefore, the real question is: Should Snowden and Assange pardon the U.S. for having destroyed a large part of their lives and liberty? Oh, sure, the two of them technically violated the federal government’s national-security laws, rules, and regulations against revealing the dark-side, sordid policies and practices of the national-security establishment. Big deal. Those laws, rules, and regulations are illegitimate, at least in a moral sense. Why should the dark-side, sordid policies and practices of a government be immune from disclosure? ...

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Japan is our ally - war and peace - [andrew@andrewhastie.com.au: Lest We Forget] - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 21 Aug '20

21 Aug '20

To the bigots among us, Japan is our ally, having carried themselves now for 75+ years in the utmost dignity and peace, and see more below. To the hippies among us, sometimes war comes knocking on your door, and those who value their hides, survive. For better or for worse, our past has had an influence on our present day. We do not glorify war, neither do we ignore the past or ignore words just because they have been (or still are) associated with an obnoxious ideology, but we take stock of ourselves and our present circumstances and make a better future as best we can. Peace muh fellow Souls, ----- Forwarded message from Andrew Hastie <andrew(a)andrewhastie.com.au> ----- From: Andrew Hastie <andrew(a)andrewhastie.com.au> To: Zenaan Harkness <zenandrwhst(a)freedbms.net> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 09:21:17 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Lest We Forget Dear Zenaan, “Fellow citizens, the war is over. The Japanese Government has accepted the terms of surrender imposed by the Allied Nations and hostilities will now cease. The reply by the Japanese Government to the Note sent by Britain, the United States, the USSR and China, has been received and accepted by the Allied Nations. At this moment let us offer thanks to God. Let us remember those whose lives were given that we may enjoy this glorious moment and may look forward to a peace which they have won for us. Let us remember those whose thoughts, with proud sorrow, turn towards gallant, loved ones who will not come back." These words were broadcast to the nation by Prime Minister Ben Chifley on 15 August 1945. Seventy-five years later, we honour and remember the 1 million Australians who served in the defence of liberty. As a boy, I often visited my grandfather in eastern Sydney, himself a decorated veteran of the Pacific War. We’d drive past the Rose Bay RSL and I’d reflect on the words mounted on the brick wall: ‘The Price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance’. As history shows us, peace is fragile and easily lost. Only twenty years after the end of the Pacific War, Australian troops were fighting in the humid jungles of Vietnam. This week we also remembered the courage and sacrifice of Australia's Vietnam veterans, on the 54th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan. South Vietnamese veterans joined us in Mandurah for the ceremony. They are grateful to those Australians who fought and died alongside them in their homeland. Australia will always have an interest in defending freedom in the Indo-Pacific. History teaches us that we must be prepared, if necessary, to defend it with arms. For as the writer Ernest Hemingway once wrote, ‘I have seen much war in my lifetime and I hate it profoundly. But there are worse things than war, and all of them come with defeat.’ Best, Andrew Hastie MP >From top, then left to right: 1. Pte Inglis and Pte Pie of C Company, 2/8 Infantry Battalion in the Wewak area of New Guinea, 27 March 1945. 2. Flt Lt Edward Manton Christensen, leading a flight of Beaufort Bomber aircraft of No. 100 Squadron RAAF in for a bombing run over the Wewak area, 20 January 1945. Flt Lt Christensen—originally a grocery store manager of Northam, WA—was lost on operations three days later. 3. Two Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force Auxflight mechanics checking aircraft engine components at No. 7 Aircraft Depot, RAAF Station Tocumwal, NSW. C. 1944. 4. Sailors aboard HMAS Perth. HMAS Perth served in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific theatres during WW2. She was sunk fighting superior forces in the Battle of Sunda Strait on 1 March 1942. Former Prime Minister Ben Chifley. Chifley announced the end of the war on Radio on 15 August 1945. Read or listen to Prime Minister Chifley's speech here <https://www.andrewhastie.com.au/r?u=lHfTqlaDqpL0-NBcgSv3lJTQ0xi5qZF3K2NXxn6…>. >From top, then left to right clockwise: 1. A reconstruction of the Battle of Long Tan, 18-19 August 1966, between 'D' Company and Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army forces. Several events that happened at intervals during the battle are shown here happening simultaneously. 2. Silent homage by three men of the Special Air Service Regiment at a memorial service for the eighteen Australians who died in the battle of Long Tan. The service was held on the former battlefield, in the middle of a rubber plantation, where a simple concrete cross marks the site. 18 August 1970. 3. Three soldiers from D company, 6th battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), take a break as they gather Australian weapons left on the battlefield of Long Tan after the action of the previous night. Left to right: Pte Hodder of Ayr, QLD, Pte Burstall of Ballarat, VIC, and Pte Dettman of Tingha, NSW. 19 August 1966. Vietnam Veteran's Day, 18 August 2020, at the Mandurah War Memorial. -=-=- Andrew Hastie MP - Australia This email was sent to zenandrwhst(a)freedbms.net. To stop receiving emails: https://www.andrewhastie.com.au/unsubscribe Authorised by Andrew Hastie MP, Liberal Party of Australia, Mandurah WA -=-=- ----- End forwarded message -----

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fsfellowship.eu subscription/censorship problems
by Debian Community News Team 21 Aug '20

21 Aug '20

After the earlier post, some people tried to subscribe at lists.fsfellowship.eu gmail is bouncing many subscription confirmation emails back to the list admin address (see below) There is also anecdotal evidence that these gangsters have been working away behind the scenes to lobby Hacker News, Slashdot, Twitter and Reddit to automatically flag or censor any links to any article at these sites: * https://debian.community * https://fsfellowship.eu These links are also being censored from all forums and Discourse sites using Akismet anti-spam, site admins sometimes have to manually approve any post or comment containing these links. If all this isn't a fascist conspiracy, what is? These are the people who bent over backwards to fill the web with false rape allegations about Jacob Appelbaum but they do everything to hide discussions about their own acts of harassment and fraud against volunteers. Some ways around these fascists: * stop using gmail * follow the RSS feed https://uncensored.debian.community directly * make stickers: https://fsfellowship.eu/fsfellowship-sticker-set-one-download/ <m.......(a)gmail.com>: host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[2a00:1450:400c:c03::1a] said: 550-5.2.1 The user you are trying to contact is receiving mail at a rate that 550-5.2.1 prevents additional messages from being delivered. For more 550-5.2.1 information, please visit 550 5.2.1 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=ReceivingRatePerm n66si1149543wmn.168 - gsmtp (in reply to RCPT TO command) -- ,''`. : :' : Debian Community News Team `. `'` team(a)debian.community `- https://debian.community

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FSFE into Berlin bunker
by Debian Community News Team 20 Aug '20

20 Aug '20

Fragile? https://lists.fsfe.org/pipermail/discussion/2020-August/thread.html https://lists.fsfe.org/pipermail/discussion/2020-August/013113.html https://lists.fsfe.org/pipermail/discussion/2020-August/013114.html -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: Black Ribbon Day & FSFEGoogle Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 13:00:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Garfield Europe <garfield(a)tutanota.de> Reply-To: discussion(a)lists.fsfellowship.eu To: Discussion <discussion(a)lists.fsfellowship.eu>, Discussion <discussion(a)lists.fsfe.org> Somebody did all this while I was sleeping? Great work! -- /The cat formerly known as Garfield/ Securely sent with Tutanota. Get your own encrypted, ad-free mailbox: https://tutanota.com Aug 18, 2020, 08:27 by team(a)debian.community: On 18/08/2020 09:57, Johann Gross wrote: How can you write such stupid text in the name of the fellowship? I am also member of the fellowship but I do not agree with what you write. Thank you for your feedback. This mailing list welcomes multiple opinions. Can a blog be stupid and true at the same time? We are happy to be stupid if it helps people use the opportunity to understand what TOTALITARIANISM really means. Fact: Fellows were never allowed to nominate for president or attend the annual meeting of FSFE. Is that more like democracy or dictatorship? Even if it is stupid, which point from the blog is /not/ based on fact? - Gemlich letter (1919) and FSFE minutes (2019) both spread defamation - Nazis stole artworks, FSFE are stealing RMS's trademark (see below, "the framework agreement, as it stands, is not being honored from any side") - Nazis and FSFE claim and pretends to speak for all Europe - Nazis and FSFE both cancelled elections - Nazis and FSFE both censored political opponents - Nazis and FSFE both made experiments on people (look at how they brainwashed somebody after 34C3, more details to come) - when Nazis and FSFE can't control somebody, they try to make them completely disappear Nobody says that FSFE == Nazi Party. This is just a feature comparison that is disturbingly accurate. You really have severe mental problems What about volunteers who work for Google(=FSFE) without getting paid? Most people find that behavior odd. https://fsfellowship.eu/matthias-kirschner-fsfe-nazi-comparisons/ -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: FSF asking us to change our name II Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 15:31:39 +0200 From: Jonas Oberg <jonas(a)fsfe.org> To: Bernhard Reiter <bernhard(a)intevation.de> CC: ga(a)fsfeurope.org Hi Bernhard, I largely agree with you, but I would like to ask for a clarification on this part: I don't see why. We should ask them to establish the agreed cooperation. If I take an honest look at the framework agreement, I believe it's phrased rather favourable towards the FSF, and a lot of what we would like to see -- such as joint decision making on important issues related to Free Software -- isn't actually in the agreement aside from an intent to develop such a way in some hypothetical future. And I can truly see why the FSF believes we are in violation of the agreement, at least on parts. Our work on the Radio Directive and other policy work I believe is an example of work that according to the agreement should be carried out by the FSF, and not the FSFE. Our work on standards for cloud services is close to what's reserved for the FSF. On the other part, there are a number of activities envisioned from the FSFE which we don't do, or never did: operate the GNU Business Network, develop new free software, translate FSF position papers, recruit more volunteers for the GNU project, resell FSF merchandise, and so on. So the framework agreement, as it stands, is not being honored from any side. What I understand from you is that you think we can push more on this: We intend, in the future, after we have gained experience working together, to develop a system wherein these decisions are approved jointly by a specific list of several major FSFs. Essentially, our message could be that now, after 15 years, we have the experience of working together. It's not been a pleasurable experience, but we now know what the current tensions and activities are, which makes this a good time to now negotiate what such a system for join decision making would look like. Is that close to what you intend? Sincerely, -- Jonas Öberg, Executive Director Free Software Foundation Europe | jonas(a)fsfe.org Your support enables our work (fsfe.org/join) _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion(a)lists.fsfellowship.eu https://lists.fsfellowship.eu/mailman/listinfo/discussion

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Excellence Shaming - The Left's Try-Hard Meme - [PHILOSOPHY] [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 20 Aug '20

20 Aug '20

"Excellence shaming" is the beautifully succinct way to name the "liberal" Lefty loony's fundamental, Marxist, lie. The actually Marxist "Liberal Lefty lunatics", as Brandon Smith so poignantly highlights, despise achievement. They hold/ believe the fundamental falsity that "we are all born equal" - equal in capacity, equal in will and persistence, equal in intention, thinking ability, empathy, physical ability etc. The other tl;dr Smith points out is their incensed and eternally futile demand for equality of outcome (rather than the actually possible to some degree, equality of opportunity). Enjoy this memetic unpacking: The "Try-Hard" Club: Limp-Wristed Marxists Need Not Apply Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, http://www.alt-market.com/index.php/articles/4310-the-try-hard-club-limp-wr… https://www.zerohedge.com/political/try-hard-club-limp-wristed-marxists-nee… Memes are a dominant force in popular culture today, and there is good reason for this; they allow people to inject an argument into discussion without having to actually compose that argument. In other words, by sharing a meme, everyone already knows what you are saying without an explanation. We all do this from time to time. [Mark Twain quote: Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.] ...

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ZDNet: WannaRen ransomware author contacts security firm to share decryption key
by jim bell 20 Aug '20

20 Aug '20

ZDNet: WannaRen ransomware author contacts security firm to share decryption key. https://www.zdnet.com/article/wannaren-ransomware-author-contacts-security-…

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Censorship: PunkNet History, today Facebook Supports Antifa and Bans QAnon
by grarpamp 20 Aug '20

20 Aug '20

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/facebook-bans-hundreds-qanon-groups-pages… https://www.zerohedge.com/political/twitter-nukes-7000-qanon-accounts-restr… https://about.fb.com/news/2020/08/addressing-movements-and-organizations-ti… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywCAIdnxLEk Trump on QAnon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/12/politics/qanon-congressional-candidates/ https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-police-officer-wore-qanon-patch-to-me… https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2020/07/18/qanons-fox-news-cameo-… https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/politics/michael-flynn-qanon-video/ https://mobile.twitter.com/GenFlynn/status/1279590652200849409 "Today we are expanding our Dangerous Individuals and Organizations [and Banned Thoughts] policy" -- Facebook [illum ed.] "#WWG1WGA , #TakeTheOath" -- QAnon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_magazine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone "I was not permitted to have my senators discuss any current or pressing problem. To talk of tariff was to align oneself with the Republicans; to talk of labor was to suggest control by the Democrats. To say a single thing germane to the current political scene was absolutely prohibited." -- Rod Serling, re The Arena Recall, the early internet was distributed NNTP, piles of bookmarks and webrings. The Censorship and Steering Regimes made possible via massively centralized social media, search, and advertising propaganda didn't come into force until nearly 20 years later. "You unlock this door with the key of imagination." Think Freely. Cypherpunks.

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Cryptocurrency: IBM Shows 7nm Power10 CPU for BigData AI, Homomorphic ZKP MPC PQC, Runs BSD
by grarpamp 20 Aug '20

20 Aug '20

https://venturebeat.com/2020/08/16/ibm-unveils-power10-processor-for-big-da… https://newsroom.ibm.com/2020-08-17-IBM-Reveals-Next-Generation-IBM-POWER10… https://venturebeat.com/2020/01/16/meet-the-new-twist-on-data-encryption-th… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zoT89DiLA0 Homomorphic Encryption Overview https://homomorphicencryption.org/ https://projects.csail.mit.edu/HEWorkshop/ https://homomorphicencryption.org/white_papers/applications_homomorphic_enc… The official applications whitepaper (courtesy GovCorpEdu), fails to suggest regarding power10's implied Homomorphic Crypto speedups [1]... that this latest marketing exposure around Homomorphic / Zero Knowledge ZKP / Multi-party Computation MPC will likely accelerate research in distributed cryptocurrency space leading to more implementations of coinprivacy and chainless state databases. https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/ https://wiki.freebsd.org/powerpc https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/powerpc/powerpc64/ISO-IMAGES/13.… Power10 might be orderable from RaptorCS with Bitcoin before long. [1] Current reviews do not yet seem to mention any specific new instructions or hardware in relation to PQC or Homomorphic beyond having 4x more AES cores.

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Objective Reality Doesn't Exist, Quantum Experiment Shows | Live Science
by jim bell 20 Aug '20

20 Aug '20

https://www.livescience.com/objective-reality-not-exist-quantum-physicists.… 'Blondie" anticipated this 40+ years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjHOk77d4po [I'm not] Living in the Real World. Objective Reality Doesn't Exist, Quantum Experiment Shows By Alessandro Fedrizzi - Professor of Quantum Physics, Heriot-Watt University, Massimiliano Proietti - PhD Candidate of Quantum Physics, Heriot-Watt University November 16, 2019 Now, it seems they have even infected science — at least the quantum realm. This may seem counter intuitive. The scientific method is after all founded on the reliable notions of observation, measurement and repeatability. A fact, as established by a measurement, should be objective, such that all observers can agree with it. But in a paper recently published in Science Advances, we show that, in the micro-world of atoms and particles that is governed by the strange rules of quantum mechanics, two different observers are entitled to their own facts. In other words, according to our best theory of the building blocks of nature itself, facts can actually be subjective. Observers are powerful players in the quantum world. According to the theory, particles can be in several places or states at once — this is called a superposition. But oddly, this is only the case when they aren't observed. The second you observe a quantum system, it picks a specific location or state — breaking the superposition. The fact that nature behaves this way has been proven multiple times in the lab — for example, in the famous double slit experiment. Related: The 18 Biggest Unsolved Mysteries in Physics In 1961, physicist Eugene Wigner proposed a provocative thought experiment. He questioned what would happen when applying quantum mechanics to an observer that is themselves being observed. Imagine that a friend of Wigner tosses a quantum coin — which is in a superposition of both heads and tails — inside a closed laboratory. Every time the friend tosses the coin, they observe a definite outcome. We can say that Wigner's friend establishes a fact: the result of the coin toss is definitely head or tail.[end of partial quote] | | Virus-free. www.avast.com |

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Exploits: SpiKey Acoustic Lockpick Method 3D Prints Cloned Keys
by grarpamp 20 Aug '20

20 Aug '20

Exploits: SpiKey Acoustic Lockpick Method Can 3D Print Cloned Keys https://kottke.org/20/08/researchers-can-duplicate-keys-from-the-sounds-the… https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPCvxzJ2hT2WiBh_ftwyOfcbdoAFictB6723mR… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxyAa_txM34 SpiKey at HotMobile2020 triplet-bitting sum https://cacm.acm.org/news/246744-picking-locks-with-audio-technology/fullte… With new exploits in general... papers and talks should be mirrored. Consider a discreet sound / vibration skimming microphone / accelerometer / seismograph recorder attached to door, frame, ceiling, trashcan, surrounding area, laser bounce, etc... have phun. https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/20/08/18/227253/transparent-solar-panel… https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/wxqkqb/this-map-lets-you-report-landlord… https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/artificial-intelligence/nyu-langone-f… https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/18/aws_toyota_alliance/ https://gizmodo.com/secret-service-bought-access-to-americans-location-data…

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