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Georgia: Prison sentences for Confederate flag wavers who terrorized child's party
by Razer 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

So-called "Patriots". Drunk, and "and pointed a shotgun..." at children. Convicted of "Criminal Gang Terrorism". In July 2015, a group of 15 people calling themselves “Respect the Flag” boarded several pickup trucks, each outfitted with Confederate and American flags, and embarked on a drive around Douglasville, Ga., a small city west of Atlanta. Tensions concerning the Confederate flag were already high. Barely a month had passed since Dylann Roof, the avowed white supremacist who had posed with the Confederate battle flag, killed nine black Americans at a church in Charleston. And the small Respect the Flag group went far beyond a display of Confederate pride. Hatred, a Georgia judge said during a sentencing Monday, propelled the group as they descended upon a child’s birthday party, unleashed a storm of death threats and anti-black slurs, and pointed a shotgun. “Their actions were motivated by racial hatred,” said Judge William McClain, of the Douglas County Superior Court, according to the Associated Press. Georgia legislature does not include a law regarding hate crimes. The 10 men and five women who made up Respect the Flag harassed black drivers as well as customers at a Walmart and a convenience store. Then they happened upon a birthday party for an 8-year-old black child. Witnesses told the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit group that tracks hate crimes, that after driving the trucks across the property belonging to the child’s grandmother, the men got out of the vehicles and began to yell racial epithets and shout death threats. “They even threatened to kill children at the party,” according to a statement issued by Douglas County District Attorney Brian Fortner in early February. One of the men, 26-year-old Jose Ismael Torres, pointed a pump shotgun at the partygoers, prosecutors said. Several panicked people called the police. “Everywhere you went, 911 call centers were flooded with calls,” the judge said, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. “I was scared,” Melissa Alford, the host of the party, told the Southern Poverty Law Center in October, a few days after the group’s members were indicted. “My first thought was if these people start shooting at us, we wouldn’t be able to get all the kids inside the house in time.” The defendants in the case argued that a party attendee triggered the incident by hurling an object at one of the trucks. Cellphone video taken at the scene showed otherwise, the judge said. “If you drive around town with a Confederate flag, yelling the n-word, you know how it’s going to be interpreted,” the judge said, per Atlanta’s Fox 5. “It’s inexplicable to me that you weren’t arrested by the police that day.” The members of the group, two of whom pleaded guilty, were convicted in early February. Following the convictions, the Douglas County district attorney issued a statement clarifying that this case was not an issue of the First Amendment but of harassment. “Many people tried to make the case about simply flying the Confederate battle flag. However, it wasn’t about that at all,” Fortner said in the statement. “Instead, this case was about a group of people riding around our community, drinking alcohol, harassing and intimidating our citizens because of the color of their skin.” The judge handed down the final two sentences on Monday. Torres was sentenced to 20 years, serving 13 in prison. The mother of his children, Kayla Rae Norton, 25, was sentenced to 15 years and will serve six. After their prison terms, they will be banished from Douglas County. They were found in violation of Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act; Norton was found guilty of violating the act as well as a count of making terroristic threats. The jury convicted Torres of three counts of aggravated assault, one count of making terroristic threats and one count of violating the act. The scene in the courtroom was an emotional one. Both Torres and Norton cried as their sentences were announced, the Associated Press reported. Norton apologized to the victims. One of the victims, Hyesha Bryant, expressed her forgiveness. “I forgive you,” Bryant said. “And to your family, I’m sorry it had to come this far.” http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/28/they-waved-the-confederate-flag-and-a…

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Illinois #TrumpTrain Town Shocked! Shocked I Say!
by Razer 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

"...and America was Shocked SHOCKED! America leads the world in shocks. Unfortunately it doesn't lead the word in deciphering the cause of the shocks" ~Gil Scott-Heron 70% of the people in West Frankfort Illinois voted for Trump. Now they're upset one of their longstanding immigrant neighbors, a restaurant manager, is being detained. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/illinois-town-backed-trump-rallies…

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Security error leaves 760 gigs on NY airport servers unprotected for a year
by Razer 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

Security error leaves NY airport servers unprotected for a year The backup storage drive hadn't been password-protected since April. The 760 GB of exposed data included TSA letters of investigation, social security numbers, internal airport schematics and emails, according to Chris Vickery, lead researcher from MacKeeper Security Center. He'd discovered the lapse, noting that the backup drive "was, in essence, acting as a public web server." If someone had found their way in, they could access a particular file with usernames and passwords for various devices and systems, which security experts confirmed to ZDNet would open up every component of the airport's internal network to a malicious user. Apparently, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey contracts out management of Stewart Airport to a private company called AvPORTS, which uses a single IT professional to set up and maintain its networks. Obviously, having one person show up twice a month per location to make sure each IT setup is watertight presents opportunities for lapses that go unnoticed. A Port Authority spokesperson noted that an investigation was ongoing, but that no information was believed to have been compromised during the near year-long exposure. https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/24/security-error-leaves-ny-airport-server… https://mackeeper.com/blog/post/334-extensive-breach-at-intl-airport

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Time to put aside the excuses...
by oshwm 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

Openfab cometh? https://hackaday.com/2017/02/25/the-fab-lab-next-door-diy-semiconductors/

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CloudPets teddy bears hacked, ransomed, exposing 2 MILLION kids' messages
by Razer 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 H/t @InternetOfShit, Twitter https://twitter.com/internetofshit/status/836333195532582913 800k hashed credentials too! https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/internet-of-things-teddy-bear-le… https://www.troyhunt.com/data-from-connected-cloudpets-teddy-bears-leaked-a… -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJYtNpYAAoJEHTinb+hvNfXnfUP/1sRd0R4PI+wRzwgyyEzoc0m NjDPezwlf10kl7wxsZeYC5/kGGpDN6n9xUPMUlLBcG20M6zOjQgXKq2fHJj3Fe4M 8P3ZAhO54fPnbm9mCFHXYNwWl9O3vhgiqkKzQRyshfge1f3pFKED5eSxunY6iIvq eBooCwMQ756nGkDXBFWzYgnb/1w6SRbxZitSFBmPAMH+qnJSb9xCVFoztmlRHZ6b n6v/6YVOTI1iLmjWK5VI1KxI8H49p2BUMPbqVJO1Qd7DNlCWVOtHMwaaombVYsAD 5uhpezGB11Za29tBcDfeYBkraIfmuwmFKLx5FUhTaUh9NIfnuxmLbBpORzdLXoKj DnUf+Y/Li+tO9uB9xO5kUI74cIC/QfReFSmG01MLKiO0Wx7mxJ2R1How5M8yiPYj tkHfzhtR8gNxZXvzfS2ZugIGfMSXG3d6L/oa8osiXLxcVqB37niPPrBstbY/bOEc 1JOQMBjQhmDABUSZ9xM2rp12hICJ6A3bKf9DhtJKZ4aVhUBt7HmT80TRLuwQOvKa sTFVNph1hIs1KMdWSj5DFEry1T84Ufj1bpAdG2kUqubGhsEKGYTf1BCBu9hYiE2u Kd/5qnepOh6D8qFROkbiStlCT8bfaJyS/Yu40ZJH5J/0uUFThxXhamk2o+GsCMfD eQbYaRm4HPsEfAj2FBpK =xb9x -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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"Nils Bildt, " ... a candidate for deportation, but he's White so he's AltRight!
by Razer 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

Nils Bildt, the "Swedish Terrorism Expert" FauxNews used in their reporting on Violent Muslim Immigrants in Sweden, whom no one in Sweden has ever heard of, is really an "immigrant convicted of violent assault in the US..." http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/sweden-fox-news-immigrant-… Also in the "Bad propaganda, Bad!" department: BBC News reports that the White Helmets Oscars entry is 'a British film' like so much other Syria propaganda. Meanwhile the videographer isn't being allowed to enter to US or leave Syria, according to whose reports you believe, but the videographer himself stated he was being prevented from ENTERING the US. Reason un-stated, but note that the "White Helmets are al-Qaeda's SAR team funded by USAID (a backchannel for the CIA) who film Gore/War Porn as they go, to discredit the Assad government of Syria. Verified. US denying entry on paperwork grounds. Tsk tsk ... his USAID/CIA/GCHQ connections couldn't help him out. http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/39089364/america-denies-entry-to-syri…

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Humour murder - where #GasTheJokes hashtag is "odious" - [PFFR] Prominent YouTubers Find Great Anti-Semitic Hill to Die on
by Zenaan Harkness 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

This is our last stand folks as the MSM continues to #GasTheJokes ! At least Gizmodo gets it [ahem]... ----- Forwarded message from "PFFR (People For Firetrucking Responsibility) Announcement List" <pffr(a)pffr.org> ----- Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 13:40:02 -0800 Subject: [ PFFR ] Prominent YouTubers Find Great Anti-Semitic Hill to Die on Prominent YouTubers Find Great Anti-Semitic Hill to Die on http://gizmodo.com/prominent-youtubers-find-great-anti-semitic-hill-to-die-… The gambit is simple: If "the mainstream media" crows at a hashtag that mockingly references genocide, it's evidence it's run by oversensitive snowflakes who just can't take a [deeply anti-semitic] joke. What a perfect way to distance YouTubers from allegations of anti-semitism. - - - --Laurfn--

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[OT] [song] The Empty Chair - Sting
by Cecilia Tanaka 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

"If I don't have the moral courage to challenge authority... we don't have journalism." - James Foley, 1973 - 2014. The real journalism, the constant search for truth, the journalism that empowers the poor and the weak, that has no fear of politicians and other corrupt criminals, not the "journalism" that spreads fake alt-right news and lies, supporting those who have the power to censor journalism and fight against the freedom of the press. "Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air." - Henry Anatole Grunwald (Yes, he was a Republican, but would never support censorship and "fake news".) https://www.romper.com/p/this-james-foley-quote-at-the-2017-oscars-is-impor… The Oscar version is shorter than these lyrics, has fewer verses, but it's very sweet and heartbreaking the same. ====== The Empty Chair - Sting https://youtu.be/Vp9NfalTHqg If I should close my eyes, that my soul can see And there's a place at the table that you saved for me So many thousand miles over land and sea I hope to dare, that you hear my prayer And somehow I'll be there It's but a concrete floor where my head will lay And though the walls of this prison are as cold as clay But there's a shaft of light where I count my days So don't despair of the empty chair And somehow I'll be there Some days I'm strong, some days I'm weak And days I'm so broken I can barely speak There’s a place in my head where my thoughts still roam Where somehow I've come home And when the Winter comes and the trees lie bare And you just stare out the window in the darkness there Well I was always late for every meal you'll swear But keep my place and the empty chair And somehow I'll be there And somehow I'll be there

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[WAR] Black heart of the petrodollar beast
by Zenaan Harkness 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

A longish and link packed dialectic. ** The nature of the beast: a dialectical forecast of the Trump administration http://theduran.com/the-nature-of-the-beast-a-dialectical-forecast-of-the-t… ------------------------------------------------------------ US President Donald Trump will not deviate from previous administrations. Here's why.

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Repost - Open Technology Fund's Classified Audit
by Rachael Tackett 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

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