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Bashar al Assad proposes to send Syrian troops to France - boots on the ground - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 28 Nov '19

28 Nov '19

Due to severe ongoing unrest in France, Syria's austere president Bashar al Assad has proposed sending a peace keeping contingent to the "haughty nation of cheese eaters" which is "unable to maintain peace on its streets, has murdered civilian protesters, and witnesses an ongoing 'democratic civilian' insurgency". Macron ribbitted out his opposition to the proposed Arab plan, calling for "his" citizens to display peace not protests on French streets, and ordered continual loudspeaker playings of "Rainbow Connection", which Marine le Pen immediately denounced as globalist homosexual propaganda and invited Bashar al Assad to "fk the fkn fkrs cause the fkn fkr's fkd". In all seriousness, Bashar al Assad has asked the media (presumably rhetorically) "Can you imagine our troops coming to France without invitation?" Amazing times... ‘Can you imagine our troops coming to France without invitation?’ Bashar Assad blasts French ‘occupation’ of Syria https://www.rt.com/news/474559-assad-france-occupation-syria/ ... France has joined the US-led anti-Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) coalition, providing air support and deploying special forces to Syria. But for Assad, the French intervention amounted to an “occupation,” as Paris – like its major NATO ally Washington – failed to secure Damascus’ authorization of the mission. ...

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Nation's Progressives Give Thanks That They Have So Much To
by Zenaan Harkness 28 Nov '19

28 Nov '19

Be Angry About This Year Reply-To: Nation's Progressives Give Thanks That They Have So Much To Be Angry About This Year https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nations-progressives-give-thanks-they-h… https://babylonbee.com/news/progressives-give-thanks-that-they-have-so-much… In honor of Thanksgiving week, the nation's progressives have begun to give thanks that they have so much to be angry and offended about this year. "Thank you, unspecified deity who may or may not exist, for giving us so much stuff to be outraged about," said Staci Walder, 42, of Portland, as she prepared her vegan, kale-wrapped turkey. "I'm truly humbled that you've blessed me with the Trump presidency, the patriarchy, the laws of economics, and biological facts to rage against." "Every year, it's important to pause and recognize how much we have to be angry about." "A lot of people struggle with gratitude, but I'm deeply thankful that the universe has given us a veritable cornucopia of things to be mad about," agreed Mary Wallace, 27, of New York. "I know that I come from a place of privilege, and when I think about those poor people who have absolutely nothing to be mad about, I utter a prayer of thanks to goddess." Many progressives partake in an annual tradition of writing down all the things they're thankful to be mad about: - White people - Pronouns - Personal responsibility - Satire that does not affirm their viewpoint - Billionaires - Old tweets - 32-ounce sodas - Plastic straws - People who hold a steady job - Appropriating other cultures - Excluding other cultures - Bush - Obama - Trump - Babies - Kanye West - America "If we'd all just remember to count our outrages, we'd have a much worse attitude all the time," Wallace said as she looked over her own list of offensive things that dare to exist. "We should live our lives as though it's Outrage Thanksgiving every day."

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Re: Entry: Nazi/Illuminati Theory, Source: "Everything Is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-Ups"
by Ryan Carboni 28 Nov '19

28 Nov '19

>The simple response, and antidote, is "basic human rights" >From Kafka's The Trial: "You fool yourself in the court," said the priest, "it talks about this self-deceit in the opening paragraphs to the law. In front of the law there is a doorkeeper. A man from the countryside comes up to the door and asks for entry. But the doorkeeper says he can't let him in to the law right now. The man thinks about this, and then he asks if he'll be able to go in later on. 'That's possible,' says the doorkeeper, 'but not now'. The gateway to the law is open as it always is, and the doorkeeper has stepped to one side, so the man bends over to try and see in. When the doorkeeper notices this he laughs and says, 'If you're tempted give it a try, try and go in even though I say you can't. Careful though: I'm powerful. And I'm only the lowliest of all the doormen. But there's a doorkeeper for each of the rooms and each of them is more powerful than the last. It's more than I can stand just to look at the third one.' The man from the country had not expected difficulties like this, the law was supposed to be accessible for anyone at any time, he thinks, but now he looks more closely at the doorkeeper in his fur coat, sees his big hooked nose, his long thin tartar-beard, and he decides it's better to wait until he has permission to enter. The doorkeeper gives him a stool and lets him sit down to one side of the gate. He sits there for days and years. He tries to be allowed in time and again and tires the doorkeeper with his requests. The doorkeeper often questions him, asking about where he's from and many other things, but these are disinterested questions such as great men ask, and he always ends up by telling him he still can't let him in. The man had come well equipped for his journey, and uses everything, however valuable, to bribe the doorkeeper. He accepts everything, but as he does so he says, 'I'll only accept this so that you don't think there's anything you've failed to do'. Over many years, the man watches the doorkeeper almost without a break. He forgets about the other doormen, and begins to think this one is the only thing stopping him from gaining access to the law. Over the first few years he curses his unhappy condition out loud, but later, as he becomes old, he just grumbles to himself. He becomes senile, and as he has come to know even the fleas in the doorkeeper's fur collar over the years that he has been studying him he even asks them to help him and change the doorkeeper's mind. Finally his eyes grow dim, and he no longer knows whether it's really getting darker or just his eyes that are deceiving him. But he seems now to see an inextinguishable light begin to shine from the darkness behind the door. He doesn't have long to live now. Just before he dies, he brings together all his experience from all this time into one question which he has still never put to the doorkeeper. He beckons to him, as he's no longer able to raise his stiff body. The doorkeeper has to bend over deeply as the difference in their sizes has changed very much to the disadvantage of the man. 'What is it you want to know now?' asks the doorkeeper, 'You're insatiable.' 'Everyone wants access to the law,' says the man, 'how come, over all these years, no- one but me has asked to be let in?' The doorkeeper can see the man's come to his end, his hearing has faded, and so, so that he can be heard, he shouts to him: 'Nobody else could have got in this way, as this entrance was meant only for you. Now I'll go and close it'." >From another part of The Trial: They're only allowed to deal with that part of the trial which the law allocates them, and they usually know less about the results of their work after it's left them than the defence does, even though the defence will usually stay in contact with the accused until the trial is nearly at its end, so that the court officials can learn many useful things from the defence.

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CyberBunker: Joe Baptista (ref Sealand Seasteading)
by grarpamp 28 Nov '19

28 Nov '19

https://slashdot.org/~baptista https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEYf1LxM0Sw https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSMcZqbN4POMqpKPH5JJ-4w/videos Pirate Bay abandons Cyberbunker ISP Submitted by baptista on Monday May 17, 2010 @10:34AM baptista writes: Today it was reported on torrentfreak that the Pirate Bay team has dropped CB3ROB and the Cyberbunker as their ISP and transit provider http://bit.ly/bzEPqp after I exposed criminal activities at the bunker http://bit.ly/csiZhQ (link includes cyberbunker bunny video and details on the Republic of Cyberbunker royal family). After receiving criticism from fans that TPB not be associated with crooks or royal kooks a business decision was made and the Cyberbunker plug pulled. The Pirate Bay is currently offline but is expected to rise again out of the Cyberbunker asses. German Court rules against Pirate Bay ISP. Submitted by baptista on Saturday May 15, 2010 @08:41PM baptista writes: The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) won a victory in a German Court against the Pirate Bay. The court issued an order against the dutch owner of CB3ROB to stop service to the Pirate Bay, The article in the register assumed wrongly that CB3ROB is a German ISP. It's not. It's dutch. Sven Olaf Kamphuis, aka Count Olaf of Cyberbunker, is the outspoken owner of CB3ROB. http://bit.ly/92JG2E (The Register) I used to work at the Cyberbunker with Sven so here's some history on it. The Cyberbunker hosting facility referred to in the story is a former cold war military installation in the Netherlands. It is now owned by a Herman Johan Xennt (formerly Herman Johan Verwoert-Derksen aka Xennt). Xennt is a convicted felon in the Netherlands. He was arrested years ago on drug traffic charges for manufacturing ecstasy in the bunker and tax evasion. Sven Olaf Kamphuis was also arrested on the same drug charges. Kamphuis is known to the Dutch police for hacking several government computer systems. Shortly after Xennt purchased the bunker he declared the property independent of the Netherlands, named it the Republic of Cyberbunker and installed himself as a constitutional monarchy. Kamphuis aka Count Olaf is a minister in King Xennt's Government. More information on the Republic of Cyberbunker is available at http://bit.ly/c4Xs6m Incidentally the Cyberbunker is full of bunnies. This is a video I made of the Cyberbunker and the bunnies in 2005 http://bit.ly/PffbK That was the one nice thing Xennt had to his character. He cared for stray animals like bunnies. Beyond that he is a reprehensible con artist who has destroyed families and stolen their life savings. I've met a few of these victims. There is a related story I wrote on how a school in German was scammed by the Cyberbunker crew http://bit.ly/87Yjir I support the Pirate Bay but I am concerned it's hosted by criminals these days. I know what they can do. I trained the ring leader. The history and Fraud behind UnifiedRoot (Score 1) 370 by baptista on Sunday November 27, 2005 @11:39AM (#14124076) Attached to: Dotless Top Level Domains? The UnifiedRoot is an attempt to revive the Public-Root i.e. see www.public-root.com and www.inaic.com. I am the founder of the Public-Root and by default the business principles subscribed too by the UnifedRoot. I declare the people behind the UnifiedRoot as fraudulent and associated with criminals. A good history of the UnifiedRoot and it's association with the Public-Root is unfortunately only available in Turkish. urkey was a country which subscribed to the Public-Root system, until my investigation closed the show down. The UnifiedRoot is an attempt by the commercial end to go it alone - good details on this unfortunately are only available in Turkish. There has not been an english language publication which has exposed this. But for those of you who read Turkish the story can be found at: http://www.cihansalim.net/blog/index.htm Search for UNIDT, Public-Root, P-R, and UnifiedRoot for more details. Documents supporting my claims the companies and people behind this have committed fraud can be found at: http://www.cynikal.net/~baptista/P-R/ The Public-Root/UnifiedRoot was a great idea until a few people destryed it due to the usual human frailties - greed being the primary one. Also the UnifiedRoot claims to be open, transparent, representative and bottom up. Those are just marketing words without much substance. Joe Baptista Internet Governance THE ELECTRON RULES! The Law of Protocol - The failure of governments to take control of the Internet is based on a simple flaw in their logic. They have no idea what it is they are trying to take control of. They do not understand that the Internets operation depends on protocols that facilitate communication. These protocols have a basic set of rules built into their design. They give complete control of the communications process to the end users. So the answer to the question "who controls the Internet" is simple enough - YOU DO! Yes - YOU - the web surfer. Surprised? Of course it can also be argued successfully today that Paul Vixie is in charge of the Internet and no one has figured that out yet. Let hope he does not highjack it again! To take back control we must first recognize this basic fact - that control of the Internet is in the hands of 500 million end users. So don't piss them off is the first rule to governments who want to share control with their users.

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Gmail is pretty lousy
by Ryan Carboni 28 Nov '19

28 Nov '19

It mangled a few emails in transit. Definitely going to move to a paid service in the future.

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antidotes to evil: recognize injustice, take a stand, speak up - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 28 Nov '19

28 Nov '19

"What can I do?" asked the grasshopper: Don't Just Give Thanks. Pay Your Blessings Forward https://www.zerohedge.com/health/dont-just-give-thanks-pay-your-blessings-f… https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentar… ... Do your part to push back against the meanness of our culture with conscious compassion and humanity. Moods are contagious, the good and the bad. They can be passed from person to person. So can the actions associated with those moods, the good and the bad. ...

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There's no end to the evidence
by Ryan Carboni 28 Nov '19

28 Nov '19

There's no end to the evidence of various crooked and corrupt networks within the United States, there's just no end! If people just acted on the evidence, there's no telling what would happen!

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Fwd: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Morris Worm!
by John Newman 28 Nov '19

28 Nov '19

-------- Original Message -------- From: Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> Sent: November 1, 2019 8:36:39 PM UTC To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> Cc: Computer Old Farts Followers <coff(a)tuhs.org> Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Morris Worm! The infamous Morris Worm was released in 1988; making use of known vulnerabilities in Sendmail/finger/RSH (and weak passwords), it took out a metric shitload of SUN-3s and 4BSD Vaxen (the author claimed that it was accidental, but the idiot hadn't tested it on an isolated network first). A temporary "condom" was discovered by Rich Kulawiec with "mkdir /tmp/sh". Another fix was to move the C compiler elsewhere. -- Dave

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Surveillance Valley
by Punk-Stasi 2.0 28 Nov '19

28 Nov '19

grarpamp wrote > Surveillance Valley - Yasha Levine > infohash:6440FAC0D1D9D8EBE3FF24B084B58551CF5BC3B5 and better than torrent ed2k://|file|Levine,%202018,%20Surveillance%20Valley.epub|2242524|F5A293AE6F437418BDE2215481114462|/ quote : "Students saw Cambridge Project, and the bigger ARPANET that plugged into it, as a weapon. A pamphlet handed out at the MIT protest explained: “The whole computer set-up and the ARPA computer network will enable the government, for the first time, to consult relevant survey data rapidly enough to be used in policy decisions. The net result of this will be to make Washington’s international policeman more effective in suppressing popular movements around the world. The so-called basic research to be supported by Project CAM will deal with questions like why do peasant movements or student groups become revolutionary. The results of this research will similarly be used to suppress progressive movements.” Another booklet featured a mock advertisement that gave a visual representation to these fears. It featured “The Octoputer,” a computer shaped like an octopus that had tentacles reaching into every sector of society. “The Octoputer’s arms are long and strong,” read the mock ad copy. “It sits in the middle of your university, country and reaches helping hands out in all directions. Suddenly your empire works harder. More of your agents use the computer—solving more problems, finding more facts.”71 To activists, ARPA’s Cambridge Project was part of a networked system of surveillance, political control, and military conquest being quietly assembled by diligent researchers and engineers at college campuses around the country." ------ compare that to the idiotic views of people like hammill and other 'optimistic' technocratic 'libertarians'...

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Re: [liberationtech] Social media for social good in Taiwan
by grarpamp 27 Nov '19

27 Nov '19

> https://www.wired.co.uk/article/taiwan-democracy-social-media > > Their answer to the government’s request was to create a new kind of > political process. They wanted to allow citizens to not only vote on > questions posed by the government, but also control what questions were > asked in the first place. And they wanted these questions to be > based on attitudes held in common across Taiwanese society > rather than on its divisions. > They called the process vTaiwan "Votes on vTaiwan are aggregated to show clusters of consensus" "The outcomes of the vTaiwan have been put in front of Parliament, by government, to form the core of 11 pieces of laws and regulation" So if there is "consensus" "majority" "vote" etc to murder you, or for you to do something or some act, to perform in some manner that the "consensus" wishes, to "conform", to live think believe or be "social" in some way, whatever that thing or performance or else may be, and where your choice to not do such does not impart harm upon another person... then you will ultimately face their increasing immoral sanction, their own "process" their "laws" which they have "enacted" over you without your signed consent, up to and including death for resisting such sanction... all for doing no harm to anyone. > rather than on its divisions. And what is a form of "division" but perhaps an independant means and position from which people may then begin to identify things in the "common" that should change, or may then perhaps even secede from, lest the common stamp out division thus artfully leaving any of its problems in place. Liberation and its tech, should "consensus" around achieving actual liberty in common with a non aggression principle, modelling such efforts into itself, instead of providing yet another newspeak and mechanism for such "parliamentary" towers of unequal centralized power as below to continue in perpetuity the exertion of immoral force upon harmless peoples who have done no harm. > "Those digital democracy platforms don’t have any kind > of real authority,” says Taiwanese parliamentarian Karen Yu. > "“Legislators still have more power" > Social media has opened up vast social divisions and brought democracy to its knees. > Taiwan is making democracy work again. Such falls, and hacking away at the same thing, time and permutation again, over thousands of years trying to get it to work, should tell you that it is fundamentally broken, and that you need to throw it out and try something completely different that has never been seriously, let alone casually, or even at all, tried before. > the people are fighting back The vast are fighting for something... maybe something they know inside (say... no force, no harm) but have difficulty articulating, or finding completely different models to form around, maybe because those models are excluded and book banned from schools "voted' curriculum, demonetized downranked and censored off YouTube and Facebook and Google, and generally suppressed by such towers above. It's no wonder they're stuck with the same problems "again".

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