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[OT] [songs] Some of this week's anti-Trump songs + Trump's inauguration speech
by Cecilia Tanaka 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

It was *Trump’s Inauguration Speech*: *"Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans, and people of the world: thank you.We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and to restore its promise for all of our people.Together, we will determine the course of America and the world for years to come.We will face challenges. We will confront hardships. But we will get the job done.Every four years, we gather on these steps to carry out the orderly and peaceful transfer of power, and we are grateful to President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama for their gracious aid throughout this transition. They have been magnificent.Today’s ceremony, however, has very special meaning. Because today we are not merely transferring power from one Administration to another, or from one party to another – but we are transferring power from Washington, D.C. and giving it back to you, the American People.For too long, a small group in our nation’s Capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost.Washington flourished – but the people did not share in its wealth.Politicians prospered – but the jobs left, and the factories closed.The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country.Their victories have not been your victories; their triumphs have not been your triumphs; and while they celebrated in our nation’s Capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land.That all changes – starting right here, and right now, because this moment is your moment: it belongs to you.It belongs to everyone gathered here today and everyone watching all across America.This is your day. This is your celebration.And this, the United States of America, is your country.What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people.January 20th 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again.The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.Everyone is listening to you now.You came by the tens of millions to become part of a historic movement the likes of which the world has never seen before.At the center of this movement is a crucial conviction: that a nation exists to serve its citizens.Americans want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for their families, and good jobs for themselves.These are the just and reasonable demands of a righteous public.But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists: Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system, flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of knowledge; and the crime and gangs and drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.We are one nation – and their pain is our pain. Their dreams are our dreams; and their success will be our success. We share one heart, one home, and one glorious destiny.The oath of office I take today is an oath of allegiance to all Americans.For many decades, we’ve enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry;Subsidized the armies of other countries while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military;We’ve defended other nation’s borders while refusing to defend our own;And spent trillions of dollars overseas while America’s infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and decay.We’ve made other countries rich while the wealth, strength, and confidence of our country has disappeared over the horizon.One by one, the factories shuttered and left our shores, with not even a thought about the millions upon millions of American workers left behind.The wealth of our middle class has been ripped from their homes and then redistributed across the entire world.But that is the past. And now we are looking only to the future.We assembled here today are issuing a new decree to be heard in every city, in every foreign capital, and in every hall of power.From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land.From this moment on, it’s going to be America First.Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs, will be made to benefit American workers and American families.We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies, and destroying our jobs. Protection will lead to great prosperity and strength.I will fight for you with every breath in my body – and I will never, ever let you down.America will start winning again, winning like never before.We will bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our wealth. And we will bring back our dreams.We will build new roads, and highways, and bridges, and airports, and tunnels, and railways all across our wonderful nation.We will get our people off of welfare and back to work – rebuilding our country with American hands and American labor.We will follow two simple rules: Buy American and Hire American.We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world – but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first.We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example for everyone to follow.We will reinforce old alliances and form new ones – and unite the civilized world against Radical Islamic Terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the Earth.At the bedrock of our politics will be a total allegiance to the United States of America, and through our loyalty to our country, we will rediscover our loyalty to each other.When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.The Bible tells us, “how good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity.”We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity.When America is united, America is totally unstoppable.There should be no fear – we are protected, and we will always be protected.We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement and, most importantly, we are protected by God.Finally, we must think big and dream even bigger.In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving.We will no longer accept politicians who are all talk and no action – constantly complaining but never doing anything about it.The time for empty talk is over.Now arrives the hour of action.Do not let anyone tell you it cannot be done. No challenge can match the heart and fight and spirit of America.We will not fail. Our country will thrive and prosper again.We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the Earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the energies, industries and technologies of tomorrow.A new national pride will stir our souls, lift our sights, and heal our divisions.It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag.And whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty Creator.So to all Americans, in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, and from ocean to ocean, hear these words:You will never be ignored again.Your voice, your hopes, and your dreams, will define our American destiny. And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way.Together, We Will Make America Strong Again.We Will Make America Wealthy Again.We Will Make America Proud Again.We Will Make America Safe Again.And, Yes, Together, We Will Make America Great Again. Thank you, God Bless You, And God Bless America."* ====== It was the end of the globalization era and the world will change a lot. These are some of this week's anti-Trump songs... https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2017/jan/20/arcade-fire-gorilla… I watched the whole ceremony. God was mentioned so many times, for so many people, and it sounds so contraditory for me. My God is certainly not Trump's God. The God of my early childhood was crying today and the rain was sadder than ever in Washington... :'( Tender hugs and my best wishes! Good luck, USA! :(( Ceci PS for Razer: - You're not so paranoid as me since yesterday. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/19/brazil-supreme-court-corrupti… I knowed him in person. Very, very intelligent and sweet. I am still crying for his death. He would make a great difference in my country's future, in the fight against corruption... and now is dead. Losing part of my hopes in a better world hurts a lot! :'( ------ "The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented."

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Discord Comms App Stores Billions Of User Messages Forever
by grarpamp 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13439725 https://discordapp.com/company Just like Facebook and Craigslist and Everyone else in the social, messaging, dating, corporatesphere ... you belong... to them.

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Manning Commuted By Obama, Free In May
by grarpamp 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/us/politics/obama-commutes-bulk-of-chels… https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/5okto9/obama_commutes_bulk_of_chelse… https://theintercept.com/2017/01/17/chelsea-manning-will-be-free-in-may/ President Obama has commuted the majority of the remaining prison sentence of Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning, who was sentenced to 35 years in military prison in 2013 for leaking hundreds of thousands of documents to Wikileaks. Manning will be released on May 17 from Fort Leavenworth Military Prison, where she would otherwise have been detained until 2045. Pardon Snowden, Drop Assange, etc et al.

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Protonmail via Onions
by grarpamp 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13436937 In the news, but not unique, many other darknet services exist. Browser uses crypto provided by server, oops.

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Grassroots technology to (unfortunately) meet the needs of victims of the technocrats
by Razer 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

This metal sea urchin tumbleweed-looking thingie is actually a piece of kinetic art ... and a wind-powered minesweeper. It costs $40 to make. It was created by an Afghani guy, not a thinktank or an NGO or a government. https://vimeo.com/51887079 Grassroots technology to (unfortunately) meet the needs of victims of the technocrats who claim to be technologists. They have a flashy website. Develop and market robotic and drone de-miners... AND they have a DIY page > http://minekafon.org/diy-mine-kafon/ Too cool. Too bad technocracy make all this necessary. Rr

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"Operation Virtual Shield": Full-Spectrum Surveillance in Chicago
by Razer 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

> "Come for the food Stay because we know what you did" > > We have tons of files about the video surveillance network in Chicago, > double digit gigabytes. Most of the documents are easy to read, but as > a whole body of records involve a technical deployment that takes > place over years, and could only be easily or quickly parsed by the > files' source and mostly creator, an IBM researcher. > > Long-story short this researcher uploaded a hard drive wholesale > without password protection or even a robots.txt, and Googlebot > indexed it. > > In a previous post I mentioned using a mind map to organize a > structured directory of documents, you don't have to download the > software to use the documents I'll be posting, but please keep this in > mind, a key reason I am not just dumping a big zip file: > > You will benefit from a much fuller understanding of what you read if > you participate in the process of parsing its source corpus -- even if > you want to make a docx outline with bullet points, one for each > document perhaps, and then a child indention for components, analytic > technology, application, and then sub-levels as appropriate. > > You should also read whole documents as you go to inform your > organization but the important point is ending up with the whole body > of data in a consistent structure. This is most of the hard work on > your way to higher-level data-mining and modeling with graphing software. > > Right now I'm going to use a pretty basic approach, automating > creation of a flow-chart template from the Chicago directory as I > found it, with the exception of the last node on the second tier with > children nodes, which are the document files in the top directory, I > don't want them on the same level as the other directories for the > structure purposes just mentioned. There are a lot of folders, the > technical expertise involved in this process was the same as opening a > document from the File tab in MS Word. > > This folder (image/link) > > became this mind map. See my tweets below and my previous blog post, > I'll be updating regularly, in between doing stuff I have to do to eat... > http://blog.networkedinference.com/2017/01/also-about-video-surveillance-in…

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Malicious, targeted, OS updates. How likely do you think it is?
by Anthony Papillion 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

A few days ago, I was thinking about ways to compromise even the most secure systems and I came across a fairly obvious way: through operating system updates. I admit that I am not up to date on the latest security research so please excuse me if this has been discussed before or is 'common knowledge'. What's stopping the FBI or other US law enforcement agency from compelling a US based operating system vendor, let's say Red Hat, from delivering a specialized update to a user that would allow the agency privileged and maybe even undetectable access to a target system? Since Red Hat has root on our systems, they could install whatever they want and most users wouldn't notice. For a company like Red Hat, it would be trivial since they know who you are as you are tied to your Red Hat subscription But this is by no means limited to them. Microsoft could do this too with a little more work. What are your thoughts? Am I crazy? Is this a 'well, we KNOW THAT already' moment that I am just catching up on? Thanks! Anthony -- Skype: cajuntechie XMPP/Jabber: papillion(a)dukgo.com PGP Key: 0xCC9D1E072AC97369 Validate My Key: https://keybase.io/cajuntechie Other Info: http://www.cajuntechie.org/p/my-pgp-key.html

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Free "Anarcho-Syndicalist" State of Fiume
by John Newman 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

I had never heard of Fiume, formerly an Italian city, now a Croatian city called Rijeka, which apparently ran for several years after WWI with a more-or-less legit "Anarchist" (Anarcho-Syndacilist) constitution (if such a thing isn't a self-contradiction). Bruce Stering's latest novella "Pirate Utopia" turned me on to the existence of the historical "Free State of Fiume". I've just barely cracked the book open, although I am much looking forward to devouring it, but it seems to be an alternate history "diesel-punk" story focused on Fiume and the possibilites of anarchy and technology (albeit WWI-era tech). Background info on Fiume after WWI (but before Mussolini became the big swinging dick): https://theculturetrip.com/europe/italy/articles/gabriele-d-annunzio-and-th… Great interview with Bruce Sterling on the Geeks Guide podcast about "Pirate Utopia", he talks quite a bit about Fiume: https://geeksguideshow.com/2017/01/08/ggg238-bruce-sterling/ John

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Schneier on Russian Hacking - deconstructed
by Steve Kinney 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

On 01/17/2017 04:49 PM, Bruce Schneier wrote: > > CRYPTO-GRAM > > January 15, 2017 > > The Obama administration has been more public about its evidence in the > DNC case, but it has not been entirely public. To date I have seen many assertions, but nothing resembling evidence, in support of the allegation that Russia "hacked" the DNC and released damaging (but never disclaimed) DNC documents in an effort to influence the Presidential election. > The constellation of evidence attributing the attacks against the DNC, > and subsequent release of information, is comprehensive. I believe the Bruce must have meant to say something to the effect that "The constellation of evidence attributing the attacks against the DNC, if any, has not been disclosed to the public." Or was he asserting that he has been read into the programs that developed this evidence, and shown relevant documentation? > Obama decided not to make the accusation public before the election so > as not to be seen as influencing the election. Excuse me? Obama decided to make the accusation public in a press release, a.k.a. propaganda placement dated October 7, 2016. Its content was attributed to the "USIC" by the Department of Homeland Security. This press release was distributed with clear intent to influence the election. Read it here: https://www.dhs.gov/news/2016/10/07/joint-statement-department-homeland-sec… The key allegation: "The recent disclosures of alleged hacked e-mails on sites like DCLeaks .com and WikiLeaks and by the Guccifer 2.0 online persona are consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts. These thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere with the US election process." In keeping with propaganda best practices, this statement does not actually accuse Russia of anything - not if you read it closely and interpret it according to strict rules of grammar. The source of the statement is not identified: There is no such agency as the United States Intelligence Community (USIC per the press release), so it can not be attributed to any responsible authority or formal reporting process. This is the safest way to tell a Big Lie. The preceding sentence is not a statement by me that it WAS a Big Lie - so if I get dragged into Court for saying so, my hands are clean. The inflammatory pre-election press release from the Obama Administration's Department of Homeland Security was followed up by numerous placements in the U.S. press, a constellation of assertions consistent this template: A reporter says an anonymous source claimed an unnamed senior intelligence official told them that unspecified secret information confirms Russian involvement in releasing incriminating DNC e-mails to Wikileaks. The timing, context and follow-on promotion of the DHS press release blaming the leak on Russia indicate it was a component of a larger campaign by the DNC on behalf of the Clinton campaign, intended to demonize Trump by depicting his stated willingness to negotiate with Russia as proof of collaboration with a foreign enemy. Post-election, the DHS press release became the rarely-cited but always referenced cornerstone of a separate campaign asserting that the election was stolen by Russia and Trump. This was the keynote of an apparent attempt to persuade the Electors to install Hillary Clinton as President. > Now, afterward, there are > political implications in accepting that Russia hacked the DNC in an > attempt to influence the US presidential election. But no amount of > evidence can convince the unconvinceable. To the best of my knowledge - and I have been following this story closely - no evidence of "Russian Hacking" has been presented to date. We have been treated to a few code names of "hacking groups" allegedly involved, and a couple of textbook diagrams of how hostile parties penetrate network servers. That is all. If no evidence can be released due to legitimate concerns for protecting sources and methods, and no substantial national security mission is advanced by partisan accusations, it would be nice if the "USIC" would stop exposing their super-secret capabilities to the world by asserting what they knew and when they knew it. > The most important thing we can do right now is deter any country from > trying this sort of thing in the future, and the political nature of the > issue makes that harder. Right now, we've told the world that others can > get away with manipulating our election process as long as they can keep > their efforts secret until after one side wins. Obama has promised both > secret retaliations and public ones. We need to hope they're enough. Would these retaliations include, perhaps, the murder of the Russian ambassador to Turkey, the downing of a Russian plane carrying an irreplaceable cultural and diplomatic delegation to Syria, the rapid deployment of a battalion strength U.S. armor force to the Russian Federation border, and a missile attack on a Syrian airport by friendly Israelis? And if so, should we presume that all-around security expert Bruce Schneier approve of these actions? I could interpret the Obama Administration's 11th hour provocations against Russia as an effort to create a massive foreign relations crisis for the incoming Trump Administration, intended to overwhelm its underqualified foreign policy contingent and deliver early control of Trump Administration foreign policy to the U.S. intelligence establishment and other Deep State actors. Whether this might have been a "wise" course to take, is a matter of opinion. As would be the legality of such a maneuver. It may also be possible that the Obama Admninistration's pre-election propaganda placement blaming the DNC leak on the Russian Federation simply started a domino effect that ran out of control and nearly caused World War III. > This essay previously appeared on CNN.com. > http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/05/opinions/proving-source-of-dnc-hacks-difficul… CNN? I will not here repeat the propaganda slogan presently saturating U.S. media, two words that malign the veracity of certain press outlets. But the shoe fits and Mr. Schneier will have a hard time taking it back off. That makes me sad. :o/

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[TriggerWarning: Neonazi baiting] Creator of a neo-Nazi website resigns b/c married to Jew
by Razer 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

> Mike Peinovich, the creator of a neo-Nazi website on which he jokes about the Holocaust and talks about killing Jewish people, resigned after rival neo-Nazis revealed that he was married to a Jewish woman. >From this week's Harpers Weekly Review. http://harpers.org/blog/2017/01/weeklyreview20170117/ A personal recollection A decade or so ago I was arrested after some skinhead kid at the local bus station took a swing at me for absolutely no reason (probably meth psychosis). The cops arrested both of us even though there were reliable witnesses telling them I had done, literally, nothing to start the fight (never seen the putz before in my life). While we were sitting in the back of the pigmobile waiting for the trip to jail the kid actually had the nerve to say "Please don't file charges on me! I'm on parole!" I told him he should have fucking thought about that before he decided I looked like a victim... He replied: "Awww c'mon White Blood doesn't do that to white blood!" I said: "Would it shut you the fuck up if I told you I was Jewish?" He replied, with a BIG cornball smile: "Jews are OK with me! Sholom Aleichem!" Moral of story Neonazis are ethic-less cohone-less shapeshifting weasels. Exterminate on sight. Rr Ps. I was released the next morning without apology after my story was 'officially' corroborated. And the booking papers? The charge they held me on was "Drunk in public". I rarely drink. Never in public, and I don't drink to the point of being even tipsy, no less drunk. When I mentioned that to the booking officer at the desk he just shrugged his shoulders. Another bogus crime statistic they probably ended up using to stump for the funding to build a new state-of-the-police-state-art "Alcoholic Recovery Unit", aka "Drunk Tank".

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