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Angry Good Germans demand reinstatement of Gestapo chief
by Razer 11 May '17

11 May '17

Angry "Good Germans" demand reinstatement of Gestapo chief James Comey at a "James Comey Is Fired Party" outside The White House. https://twitter.com/AuntieImperial/status/862651365801074688 The FBI is a Clear and Present Danger to 'American Democracy' (if such a thing exists at all) no matter which murderous creep runs it. They completely fabricate Terror Plots, including the planning, and logistics of supplying weapons and explosives, to frame innocent Muslims who would have never done such a thing without intense pressure from their operatives, and spy on US citizens for the NSA via their Data Intercept Technology Unit. They are the sole organization that investigates their own agent's murder of civilians. The FBI IS the American Gestapo, and 'Mericans are ANGRY their operations have been disturbed. Rr

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[OT, really OT] [Just For Fun] 16 Batshit Space Conspiracy Theories That Will Freak You The Fuck Out
by Cecilia Tanaka 11 May '17

11 May '17

16 Batshit Space Conspiracy Theories That Will Freak You The Fuck Out https://www.buzzfeed.com/hilarywardle/in-space-only-italian-radio-operators… The truth is out there, and so are dead astronauts and 13,000-year-old satellites. PS: - I thought 'batshit' was a version of 'bullshit', but smaller... Google taught me it means "completely mad or crazy". Uh, unexpected! :P ------- "Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." - Mae Jemison

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the intercept - now FBI shills
by juan 10 May '17

10 May '17

https://theintercept.com/2017/05/10/why-was-james-comey-fired-donald-trump-… "Donald Trump fired James Comey...perhaps the greatest threat to his presidency" https://theintercept.com/2017/05/10/after-james-comeys-firing-who-will-stop… "After James Comey’s Firing, Who Will Stop Trump’s Tinpot Dictatorship? https://theintercept.com/2017/05/10/john-mccain-may-have-killed-an-anti-env… quoting criminal mccain “When you fire probably, arguably, the most respected person in America" - so the intercept now this is cute too : https://theintercept.com/2017/05/06/no-macron-leaks-politically-motivated-h… "There Are No “Macron Leaks” in France. Politically Motivated Hacking Is Not Whistleblowing"

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Puerto Rico Bankruptcy
by grarpamp 10 May '17

10 May '17

https://theintercept.com/2017/05/09/puerto-ricos-123-billion-bankruptcy-is-… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt-to-GDP_ratio "Federal lawmakers will either have to provide massive assistance to Puerto Rico, or they will have to move rapidly to change the island’s political and economic status. After a century of colonial rule by Washington and decades of predatory debt from Wall Street, the bill has come due." Cryptocurrencies rising.

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“The butcher of Libya” now claims to be an activist
by Zenaan Harkness 10 May '17

10 May '17

What a woman, hey? For that "wholesome" image I guess .. or something. ** “The butcher of Libya” is now part of the resistance (Video) http://theduran.com/the-butcher-of-libya-is-now-part-of-the-resistance-vide… ------------------------------------------------------------ Hillary Clinton ridiculously claims she is an activist citizen.

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The Constitutional Rubicon of an Assange Prosecution
by Razer 10 May '17

10 May '17

> > The Constitutional Rubicon of an Assange Prosecution > > By Elizabeth Goitein > Tuesday, May 9, 2017 > > "If you were tuning in and out of FBI Director James Comey’s hearing > before the House Intelligence Committee last Wednesday, you probably > got an earful about Comey’s public statements on Clinton’s use of a > private e-mail server, and you may have heard his staunch defense of > Section 702 of FISA. But you might have missed the moment in which > Comey and Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) threatened to topple one of the > longstanding pillars of journalistic freedom. > > That moment came when Sasse asked Comey why Julian Assange has not > been charged with a crime in connection with WikiLeaks’ publication of > classified information. (Sasse was at it again during yesterday’s > hearing on the Russia investigation, quizzing former DNI Clapper about > Assange’s actions.) After refusing to answer whether charges were > pending, Comey effectively confirmed that they were: “He hasn’t been > apprehended because he’s inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London.” He > also said that “WikiLeaks is an important focus of our attention.” > > No one has ever been prosecuted for publishing classified information > obtained through a leak. Although some parts of the Espionage Act > would appear, on their face, to allow prosecution in such cases, Comey > acknowledged that “the Department of Justice’s view has been [that] > newsgathering and legitimate news reporting is not covered, is not > going to be investigated or prosecuted as a criminal act.” The > Department to date has drawn a clear line between government officials > who leak classified information, and media outlets that publish it. > “Our focus is and should be on the leakers, not those [who] are > obtaining it as part of legitimate newsgathering.” > > One might posit a distinction between those who passively receive > classified information and those who actively solicit leaks, as > WikiLeaks is reported to do. (Obama’s Department of Justice flirted > with that approach: in an affidavit seeking to obtain e-mails between > Fox reporter James Rosen and a State Department source who was under > investigation for leaking classified information, the Department > accused Rosen of conspiring to violate the Espionage Act.) But Comey > was not making that distinction. Senator Sasse asked him whether > “American journalists [who] court and solicit [classified] > information” have violated the law, and Comey responded that the > Department of Justice would not prosecute such activity. > > So why, in Comey’s mind, is it permissible to bring charges against > Assange? He explained his reasoning as follows..." > With links: https://www.justsecurity.org/40672/constitutional-rubicon-assange-prosecuti… > > Elizabeth Goitein co-directs the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty > and National Security Program. Before joining the Brennan Center, Ms. > Goitein served as counsel to Sen. Russ Feingold and as a trial > attorney in the Federal Programs Branch of the Civil Division of the > Department of Justice.

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Bitcoin Runup
by grarpamp 09 May '17

09 May '17

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Toke Till Ya Choke
by grarpamp 09 May '17

09 May '17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc7JsWcGEhU http://ypqmhx5z3q5o6beg.onion/ Gotcha, fellow onion fiends ;)

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thepiratebay.org behind cloudflare
by juan 09 May '17

09 May '17

...looks as if the whole 'internet' is already owned by cloudflare? It's mildly interesting because it shows that it's rather easy to route most of the world's traffic through a single system - contrary to all the bullshit about 'decentralization' 'complexity' and whatnot.

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Poitras Harassed For Years based on Fake News and Dislike
by grarpamp 09 May '17

09 May '17

https://www.apnews.com/d69a8e6db867477795f4152d0511bbf9 Filmmaker learns why she endured airport stops for years WASHINGTON (AP) — Laura Poitras’ travel nightmare began more than a decade ago when the award-winning filmmaker started getting detained at airports every time she tried to set foot back in the United States. Poitras, 53, knows U.S. government officials are not exactly fans of her politically sensitive work. She was stopped without explanation more than 50 times on foreign travel, and dozens more times on domestic trips, before the extra searches suddenly stopped in 2012. Only now is Poitras beginning to unravel the mystery, which goes back to a bloody day in Baghdad in 2004. Members of a U.S. Army National Guard unit from Oregon reported seeing a “white female” holding a camera on a rooftop just before they were attacked. David Roustum, 22, an Army National Guardsman from West Seneca, New York, was killed. Several troops were wounded. Some guardsmen who saw Poitras suspected she had a heads-up about the attack and didn’t share that information with American forces because she wanted to film it. If true, Poitras would have broken U.S. criminal law. Poitras called the allegation false and said she didn’t film the attack. “There is no ambush footage,” Poitras told the AP. “That’s the narrative that they created, but it doesn’t correspond with any facts.” After the attack, a lieutenant colonel, whose name was redacted from documents, reported the woman with a camera to his superiors. No action was taken. But after returning home, the lieutenant colonel was contacted by author John Bruning of Dallas, Oregon, who was interviewing guardsmen for a book about their experiences in Iraq. According to the government’s documents, the author learned about the woman filming on the rooftop before the ambush. In an email exchange on Jan. 15, 2006, Poitras confirmed to Bruning that she was filming in the area the day of the attack, but didn’t think she could help the author with his research. Bruning declined to speak to the AP about Poitras. But in his sworn statement to military investigators, he said he believed Poitras had prior knowledge of the attack. Poitras worries her ordeal will resume. She is seeking more information from the government. A federal judge in Washington ruled late last month the FBI hadn’t provided adequate justification for withholding some information. “I don’t know if the investigation is ongoing,” she said. “I don’t know if it was ended or why it was ended.”

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