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Re: [WAR] US government set on complete destruction of Ukraine
by Sean Lynch 05 Oct '18

05 Oct '18

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 4:41 PM, <xorcist(a)sigaint.org> wrote: > > No, this is Putin's baby. He's set it up so that if he can't have > Ukraine, > > nobody will. > > No, it is quite likely that the coup in Ukraine was instigated and > organized by U.S. interests. > > There are a lot of interests that would have good reason to do so. > > Economic: Soros, Geithner, and pals have been looking to depress the > Russian currency for years. At least back to 2008, that I am aware of. One > can speculate why, the simplest reason is to make money themselves. > > NATO: Yanukovych's government was Russian-leaning, while there were > "Orange Revolution" leaning politicians, activists, and so on in Western > Ukraine. Having Ukraine be Russian-leaning, and theoretically independent > puts NATO in a difficult position. Poland and Romania are NATO members, > with Ukraine right between them. For supply-line and airspace reasons, it > is strongly desirable to NATO interests to bring Ukraine under the > umbrella. This also provides another, angle of attack on Moscow. > > Understand the situation: NATO is encircling Moscow. Estonia and Lativa to > it's NW, Lithuania due-West, with Belarus as a buffer. Both countries are > positioned to place rockets within 800km of Moscow. If Ukraine were to go > NATO, it also would be able to position rockets or troops within 800km of > Moscow from the SW, with no buffer. Assuming Russia is unconcerned about > Lithuania, trusting Belarus to be able to intercept any aerial attacks, > that still leaves the possibility for simultaneous attacks from two > directions. > > It is entirely unacceptable, from a purely strategic of view. These > nations going to NATO represents an existential threat to Russia. > > Putin's response, of "taking" Crimea, was quite measured, in my opinion. > The Black Sea is of vital national interest. Were NATO able to get a > carrier group into the to Black Sea, along with the other listed > positions, it would be impossible to stop the capital from getting > captured in an invasion. > > Finally, your suggestion that Putin is somehow not letting the "poor > Ukrainians" from exercising their rights is blinded. The fact is, there > are BOTH strong pro-Western, and pro-Russian sides to Ukraine. This is not > a recent development. The tensions have been there for several > generations. > > Whether you like it or not, it is Putin's job to protect his country and > to prevent the very ABILITY for foreign nations to have that potential, > regardless of whether or not you believe NATO has the will to do so. > Regardless of the will, it should not be POSSIBLE from Russia's > perspective. > > That said, it is also arguably NATO's job to expand, and to position > itself so that Russia joining NATO, becomes the only strategy left to the > Russians. > > This, of course, is called Empire I staked out a stronger position than I actually hold, a hopefully forgivable mistake in response to Zenaan's black-and-white "Russia good, US evil" propagandizing. Thanks for the thoughtful response.

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Earth: Cosmic rays shooting OUT of Antarctica - particles detection: Askaryan effect
by Zenaan Harkness 05 Oct '18

05 Oct '18

This is pretty cool factoid, and undoubtedly to spur "inner Earth sun" "theorists". Some would say "cook theorists", but this test result makes the cook theory look a bit less cooky, and a little more fact-y. Bizarre Cosmic Rays Are Shooting Out Of Antarctica And Physicists Can't Explain It https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-04/bizarre-cosmic-rays-are-shooting-… …Thanks to the Standard Model, physicists have known that cosmic rays are capable of reaching and penetrating Earth. However, according to the model, those rays shouldn’t be able to pass all the way through our planet. So are the anomalous high energy particles measured by ANITA originating from Earth, or are they actually passing through it? Some existing physics models that exist beyond the Standard Model involve theories that the interactions between cosmic rays and ice actually produce micro black holes that open into small dimensions. ANITA’s first mission didn’t detect the black holes, but it did detect the Askaryan effect. Last week, a group of researchers posted a new theory about the rays measured by ANITA. The group, led by Pennsylvania State University physicist Derek Fox, suggests ANITA may have found evidence of a particle that lies completely outside of the Standard Model of physics. …

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China Spies In SuperMicro Mobos - Exemplar #OpenFabs Required
by grarpamp 05 Oct '18

05 Oct '18

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-u… https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-amazon-appl… https://old.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/9lapzs/big_supermicro_hack_how_ma… And NSA + countries et al in Intel, AMD, Microsoft, Phones... Fake news or not, you still cannot trust any closed thing. And the real news keeps coming year after year after year. And the closed secrets, so many not ever published to you... You fools! So when will you learn, create, sell, and deploy your own proactive defense like... #OpenFabs , #OpenHW , #OpenSW , #OpenDev , #OpenBiz These things are possible! And immensely profitable as a feature. Do them. Now. [bcc due to metzdowd's unfree censors]

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Re: re "Universal Human Values" and the 10 commandments -- [gilmay97@gmail.com: We need to think about Australia!!!!!! NOW] - [MINISTRY] [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 04 Oct '18

04 Oct '18

On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 04:41:31AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Might be useful to dispel the odd "escaped six ovens and a > masturbation machine", you know, like, "true" story, wink wink, nudge > nudge: > https://judicial-inc-archive.blogspot.com/2010/08/nazi-masturbation-machine… A little background to the book printing - and no, Nazi masturbation machines and the subsequent sterilization of the Jewish children "so masturbated" is NO laughing matter: http://www.nnnforum.com/forums/showthread.php?p=623379 … In Stolen Soul Holstein talks about how Nazi doctors attempted to prove Aryan superiority by collecting Jewish semen with masturbating machines that often killed their subjects. Quote…(page 117) But we never gave in, not really; there was that one time just before liberation but other than that we were strong. We would see the boys they put on those masturbating machines just drop, just die, right there in front of us. The absolute cruelty was beyond our belief. That they could do these things to us, that human beings were doing it to other human beings… and we would hobble back to camp with painfully swollen scrotums whimpering: “Don’t bump me! Please, just don’t touch me!”

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The beauty of owning the assembly line
by Kurt Buff 04 Oct '18

04 Oct '18

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-u…

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From Fox News - iPhone can be turned into a bodycam to record police
by jim bell 04 Oct '18

04 Oct '18

"Great minds run on the same path" Department. iPhone can be turned into a bodycam to record police https://www.foxnews.com/tech/iphone-can-be-turned-into-a-bodycam-to-record-…

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re "Universal Human Values" and the 10 commandments -- [gilmay97@gmail.com: We need to think about Australia!!!!!! NOW] - [MINISTRY] [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 04 Oct '18

04 Oct '18

So I got an email a few days ago claiming that the "10 commandments" are "universal human values". The issue with objecting to such a statement (which I did) is that one needs to carefully word such an objection if one wishes to not be seen to oppose those "of the 10 commandments" that one does not oppose. If I was talking to one of those amazing "computer programmers" (I think that's what they're called), then they would likely immediately comprehend logic, but on the other hand I was talking (emailing) with fellow deplorables... As synchronicity would have it, within minutes and out of the blue, I received the below email, which presented itself as a self evident response to highlight to illusion of so-called "universal human values" and the myth of "those poor Africans needing our help to survive". And for double bonus lampshade points with soap bubbles on top, the email was an extensive --first hand experience-- of said "universal human values" in at least one part of Africa. Might be useful to dispel the odd "escaped six ovens and a masturbation machine", you know, like, "true" story, wink wink, nudge nudge: https://judicial-inc-archive.blogspot.com/2010/08/nazi-masturbation-machine… (At least in that case, the Western Australia published book's author got, exposed, for his "colourful" and "vibrant" story... and yes, the book got un-published (is that a word?).) Zenaan ----- Forwarded message from Gil May <gilmay97(a)gmail.com> ----- From: Gil May <gilmay97(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 18:54:48 +1000 Subject: We need to think about Australia!!!!!! NOW *January 17, 2018* What I Learned in the Peace Corps in Africa : Trump Is Right By Karin McQuillan <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.americ…> Three weeks after college, I flew to Senegal, West Africa, to run a community center in a rural town. Life was placid, with no danger, except to your health. That danger was considerable, because it was, in the words of the Peace Corps doctor, "a fecalized environment." In plain English: s--- is everywhere. People defecate on the open ground, and the feces is blown with the dust – onto you, your clothes, your food, the water. He warned us the first day of training: do not even touch water. Human feces carries parasites <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipe…> that bore through your skin and cause organ failure. Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined that a few decades later, liberals would be pushing the lie that Western civilization is no better than a third-world country. Or would teach two generations of our kids that loving your own culture and wanting to preserve it are racism. Last time I was in Paris, I saw a beautiful African woman in a grand boubou have her child defecate on the sidewalk next to Notre Dame Cathedral. The French police officer, ten steps from her, turned his head not to see. I have seen. I am not turning my head and pretending unpleasant things are not true. Senegal was not a hellhole. Very poor people can lead happy, meaningful lives in their own cultures' terms. But they are not our terms. The excrement is the least of it. Our basic ideas of human relations, right and wrong, are incompatible. As a twenty-one-year-old starting out in the Peace Corps, I loved Senegal. In fact, I was euphoric. I quickly made friends and had an adopted family. I relished the feeling of the brotherhood of man. People were open, willing to share their lives and, after they knew you, their innermost thoughts. The longer I lived there, the more I understood: it became blindingly obvious that the Senegalese are not the same as us. The truths we hold to be self-evident are not evident to the Senegalese. How could they be? Their reality is totally different. You can't understand anything in Senegal using American terms. Take something as basic as family. Family was a few hundred people, extending out to second and third cousins. All the men in one generation were called "father." Senegalese are Muslim, with up to four wives. Girls had their clitorises cut off at puberty. (I witnessed this, at what I thought was going to be a nice coming-of-age ceremony, like a bat mitzvah or confirmation.) Sex, I was told, did not include kissing. Love and friendship in marriage were Western ideas. Fidelity was not a thing. Married women would have sex for a few cents to have cash for the market. What I did witness every day was that women were worked half to death. Wives raised the food and fed their own children, did the heavy labor of walking miles to gather wood for the fire, drew water from the well or public faucet, pounded grain with heavy hand-held pestles, lived in their own huts, and had conjugal visits from their husbands on a rotating basis with their co-wives. Their husbands lazed in the shade of the trees. Yet family was crucial to people there in a way Americans cannot comprehend. The Ten Commandments were not disobeyed – they were unknown. The value system was the exact opposite. You were supposed to steal everything you can to give to your own relatives. There are some Westernized Africans who try to rebel against the system. They fail. We hear a lot about the kleptocratic elites of Africa. The kleptocracy extends through the whole society. My town had a medical clinic donated by international agencies. The medicine was stolen by the medical workers and sold to the local store. If you were sick and didn't have money, drop dead. That was normal. <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.americ…> So here in the States, when we discovered that my 98-year-old father's Muslim health aide from Nigeria had stolen his clothes and wasn't bathing him, I wasn't surprised. It was familiar. In Senegal, corruption ruled, from top to bottom. Go to the post office, and the clerk would name an outrageous price for a stamp. After paying the bribe, you still didn't know it if it would be mailed or thrown out. That was normal. One of my most vivid memories was from the clinic. One day, as the wait grew hotter in the 110-degree heat, an old woman two feet from the medical aides – who were chatting in the shade of a mango tree instead of working – collapsed to the ground They turned their heads so as not to see her and kept talking. She lay there in the dirt. Callousness to the sick was normal. Americans think it is a universal human instinct to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. It's not. It seems natural to us because we live in a Bible-based Judeo-Christian culture. We think the Protestant work ethic is universal. It's not. My town was full of young men doing nothing. They were waiting for a government job. There was no private enterprise. Private business was not illegal, just impossible, given the nightmare of a third-world bureaucratic kleptocracy. It is also incompatible with Senegalese insistence on taking care of relatives. All the little stores in Senegal were owned by Mauritanians. If a Senegalese wanted to run a little store, he'd go to another country. The reason? Your friends and relatives would ask you for stuff for free, and you would have to say yes. End of your business. You are not allowed to be a selfish individual and say no to relatives. The result: Everyone has nothing. The more I worked there and visited government officials doing absolutely nothing, the more I realized that no one in Senegal had the idea that a job means work. A job is something given to you by a relative. It provides the place where you steal everything to give back to your family. I couldn't wait to get home. So why would I want to bring Africa here? Non-Westerners do not magically become American by arriving on our shores with a visa. For the rest of my life, I enjoyed the greatest gift of the Peace Corps: I love and treasure America more than ever. I take seriously my responsibility to defend our culture and our country and pass on the American heritage to the next generation. African problems <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.doiser…> are made worse by our aid efforts. Senegal is full of smart, capable people. They will eventually solve their own country's problems. They will do it on their terms, not ours. The solution is not to bring Africans here. We are lectured by Democrats that we must privilege third-world immigration by the hundred million with chain migration. They tell us we must end America as a white <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnewrepubl…>, Western, Judeo-Christian, capitalist nation – to prove we are not racist. I don't need to prove a thing. Leftists want open borders because they resent whites, resent Western achievements, and hate America. They want to destroy America as we know it. As President Trump asked, why would we do that? We have the right to choose what kind of country to live in. I was happy to donate a year of my life as a young woman to help the poor Senegalese. I am not willing to donate my country. * We need to think about Australia!!!!!! NOW* ----- End forwarded message -----

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Razer does blackface IRL :D - TDS got this one wrong - [PEACE] [MINISTRY] [FREE SPEECH]
by Zenaan Harkness 04 Oct '18

04 Oct '18

OK, calling it now - TDS for the first time in its long, arduous and exalted history, finally got one wrong - made the wrong call if you will. Witness the self congratulatory assumption: https://dailystormer.name/whoops-neo-nazi-skinhead-niggers-assassinate-jewi… when in acshually fact, our very own Razer did his blackface schtick! 3-1 odds!

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Play.Life.Love (Loud) - Festivals Worldwide
by grarpamp 04 Oct '18

04 Oct '18

Tomorrowland... 400k tickets sold each of the last two years... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkyVTxH2fIM 2018 Insane stages and intros... https://www.youtube.com/user/TomorrowlandChannel/videos https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tomorrowland+documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWb5Qc-fBvk 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG0rJ4Xt1RM Zimmer If not life, what are you waiting for? This... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPe6TlryKUE Pony Hej ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrowland_(festival)

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Alpha Release: Katzenpost Mixnet (Reliable Loopix)
by grarpamp 03 Oct '18

03 Oct '18

Broader participation invited on this one now... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 Subject: Alpha Release: Katzenpost Mixnet Hi! We have recently released an alpha version of a mix network (high latency anonymity) based on the Loopix design [1], as part of a four-year research project funded by the European Commission. Loopix uses the Sphinx cryptographic packet format, the Poisson mix strategy, three kinds of decoy traffic and a stratified mix topology. It’s Provider architecture forces long term statistical disclosure attacks to take place on the receiver’s Provider, thus forcing such adversaries to actively compromise Providers instead of passively observing the mix network which is in contrast to historical mix network designs. X25519, Noise XX plus NewHope Simple, SURBs, keyservers, reliable out of order delivery, it's all there! We are looking for testers of our software (Linux/Mac/Android, potentially Windows?), and reviewers of our specification documents and general documentation. https://katzenpost.mixnetworks.org/ Presentation slides: https://katzenpost.mixnetworks.org/_static/slides/2018-09-katzenpost-presen… We're interested also in extending our research partnerships: There are still some open questions that we feel like have not been answered yet by anonymity research, and we hope our framework becomes a valuable contribution to that space. Get in touch! -- Moritz Bartl [1] The Loopix Anonymity System”, USENIX 2017, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.00536.pdf _______________________________________________

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