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totalitarianism - "1984" - Ukraine today
by Zenaan Harkness 30 Oct '16

30 Oct '16

We think of the USA and other Western nations as "erroneously considering that George Orwell's '1984' was a blueprint of what to create rather than a warning of what to avoid" and how bad things are (and yes, things really are pretty bad by important standards and principles of human rights, freedom of travel, freedom to communicate) yet we also consider "that relatively speaking, we have it pretty good compared to the days of the inquisition, to pick a random historical example". Well, pity the folks failing to withstand the onslaught of fascist think, open and invited encouragement to inform on your neighbours - and many people doing so, and many journalists and other folk suffering extended prison sentences as a result. Today. In the CIA's latest little "regime change exercise" in Ukraine. With a Ministry of Truth (Ministry of Information) functioning right out of Orwell's pages, with various phrases which cannot be spoken, certain political parties banned and various films and TV shows banned in the country, Ukraine excels at fascism like few other countries today can compete with. This is quite astounding from one perspective, but certainly a timely reminder of one of the realities that humans can live and be towards one another, today, as in here and now in an Eastern "European" country. This particular insight stands out: "According to Arendt totalitarian movements and states have in common the conception of an objective enemy. Totalitarianism can hardly exist without such a conception. After all, it must explain to the popular masses the reasons why it needs to restrict their civic rights and why they must endure total control" We have before us, a real life, real time example of a nation (the Western part at least) of Ukraine that is evidently descending in specific and public ways, into a fascist totalitarian state - lest anyone think for a moment that such realities were somehow 'behind' us forever more... Post-Maidan Ukraine Has Become a Full Fledged Totalitarian State https://opendemocracy.net/od-russia/volodymyr-chemerys/totalitarian-tendenc…

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IPFS via Tor
by Mirimir 30 Oct '16

30 Oct '16

So hey, IPFS works with a Tor/OnionCat-linked proxy even better than Freenet does :) Or LizardFS. Because IPFS is a bloody swarm, and it seems fine with latency. Also, as with Freenet, it seems possible to extend the IPFS swarm into OnionCat IPv6 address space. So one could add stuff to IPFS from several onions, access it via IPFS gateways (clearnet and onion) and tolerate considerable loss of source onions. And speed is impressive! My Freenet/OnionCat guide at erehwon.dev.null <http://dbshmc5frbchaum2.onion/Freenet-OnionCat.html> loads rather slowly, given high latency with multiple proxy layers. But after adding from my node to IPFS, it loads quickly via the official IPFS gateway: <https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmP9FXUN3t8yUJnJerkj57cfzFYbgPmKV2QsCY8M2NHFqf /Freenet-OnionCat.html>. It also loads quickly via a volunteer public onion gateway: <http://ipfs4uvgthshqonk.onion/ipfs/ QmP9FXUN3t8yUJnJerkj57cfzFYbgPmKV2QsCY8M2NHFqf/Freenet-OnionCat.html>. The downside is that, by default, nodes route for the entire IPFS swarm. That currently means ~2 GB per day. But that can be decreased substantially by running in dhtclient mode. OnionCat-only nodes would be probably be OK with that, and only clearnet/OnionCat gateways would need full routing. Alternatively, one could have an isolated IPFS swarm in OnionCat IPv6 address space, with much less throughput.

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"You have to legalize drugs to win that war [on drugs]." - Trump
by donkdick＠sigaint.org 29 Oct '16

29 Oct '16

> Razer: > "No vote" IS a vote 'dumbfuck'. Yes, but it is not a vote for those not voted for.

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Immunity for Hillary's staff?
by jim bell 29 Oct '16

29 Oct '16

http://www.wsj.com/articles/jim-comeys-blind-eye-1475191703 [partial quote follows] By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Sept. 29, 2016 7:28 p.m. ET 1067 COMMENTS Two revealing, if largely unnoticed, moments came in the middle of FBI Director Jim Comey’s Wednesday testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. When combined, these moments prove that Mr. Comey gave Hillary Clinton a pass. Congress hauled Mr. Comey in to account for the explosive revelation that the government granted immunity to Clinton staffers Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson as part of its investigation into whether Mrs. Clinton had mishandled classified information. Rep. Tom Marino (R., Pa.), who was once a Justice Department prosecutor and knows how these investigations roll, provided the first moment. He asked Mr. Comey why Ms. Mills was so courteously offered immunity in return for her laptop—a laptop that Mr. Comey admitted investigators were very keen to obtain. Why not simply impanel a grand jury, get a subpoena, and seize the evidence? Mr. Comey’s answer was enlightening: “It’s a reasonable question. . . . Any time you are talking about the prospect of subpoenaing a computer from a lawyer—that involves the lawyer’s practice of law—you know you are getting into a big megillah.” Pressed further, he added: “In general, you can often do things faster with informal agreements, especially when you are interacting with lawyers.” The key words: “The lawyer’s practice of law.” What Mr. Comey was referencing here is attorney-client privilege. Ms. Mills was able to extract an immunity deal, avoid answering questions, and sit in on Mrs. Clinton’s FBI interview because she has positioned herself as Hillary’s personal lawyer. Ms. Mills could therefore claim that any conversations or interactions she had with Mrs. Clinton about the private server were protected by attorney-client privilege. Only here’s the rub: When Ms. Mills worked at the State Department she was not acting as Mrs. Clinton’s personal lawyer. She was the secretary's chief of staff. Any interaction with Mrs. Clinton about her server, or any evidence from that time, should have been fair game for the FBI and the Justice Department. Ms. Mills was allowed to get away with this “attorney-client privilege” nonsense only because she claimed that she did not know about Mrs. Clinton’s server until after they had both left the State Department. Ergo, no questions about the server. [end of partial quote] Jim Bell

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[WAR] Global South grows an extra pair of nads: Duterte: "America has lost"
by Zenaan Harkness 29 Oct '16

29 Oct '16

>From the ever globally south aligned Pepe Escobar, a reminder that we can no longer say it's only Putin who gives nads to the global south :) ** 'America Has Lost' in the Philippines as Duterte Calls for Alliance with Russia and China http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/10/25/america-has-lost-in-philip… ------------------------------------------------------------ by Pepe Escobar on Sat, Oct 29, 2016 «Your honors, in this venue I announce my separation from the United States… both in military and economics also».Thus Philippines President Rodrigo «The Punisher» Duterte unleashed a geopolitical earthquake encompassing Eurasia and reverberating all across the Pacific Ocean.And talk about choosing his venue with aplomb; right in the heart of the Rising Dragon, no less.Capping his state visit to Beijing, Duterte then coined the mantra – pregnant with overtones - that will keep ringing all across the global South; «America has lost».And if that was not enough, he announced a new alliance – Philippines, China and Russia – is about to emerge; «there are three of us against the world». A brief history of the big false flag attacks in the last 100 years: ** False Flag Attack Coming in Syria as Americans Sleepwalk Into World War III http://www.wakingtimes.com/2016/10/12/false-flag-attack-imminent-syria-glob… ------------------------------------------------------------ by Isaac Davis on Sat, Oct 29, 2016 Americans are sleepwalking into World War III, and as events in Syria are shaping up it could come any moment as the biggest October surprise ever. At this stage in the conflict, we are one minor event away from all out war between the world’s major super powers, an event which would most certainly result in nuclear war. All that is needed is for the right type of false flag event to serve as provocation.

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"You have to legalize drugs to win that war [on drugs]." - Trump
by Hugh G. Johnson 29 Oct '16

29 Oct '16

> Shawn K. Quinn: > a vote for Jill Stein or Gary Johnson > (or for that matter, a vote for Charlie Brown or Santa Claus) > could potentially help Rump win. A vote for one is not a vote for another, dumbfuck; amazing ray says votes don't matter.

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[SAKER] Feudalism, Then & Now
by Zenaan Harkness 29 Oct '16

29 Oct '16

A simple graphic from The Saker, comparing medieval feudalism to modern corporate feudalism. http://thesaker.is/feudalism-medieval-and-modern/ Direct link to the image (there's no associated text): http://thesaker.is/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Feudalism-now-and-then-1024x8… ~240KiB

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Happy 4 July!!!
by grarpamp 29 Oct '16

29 Oct '16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Civil Forfeiture (HBO)

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Fwd: offlist from the bot...
by Razer 29 Oct '16

29 Oct '16

The bot forgot Zen in the Cc:s, and besides, I do believe I never wrote that. Fix your bot stupid. Rr -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: offlist Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 13:06:09 +1100 From: rooty <arpspoof(a)protonmail.com> To: Александр <>, Juan <>, Razer <> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 09:13:46PM -0400, rooty wrote: > -------- Original Message -------- On Oct 28, 2016, 1:23 PM, juan > wrote: On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 10:33:52 -0400 Kevin Gallagher wrote: > > > > On 10/28/2016 10:06 AM, Razer wrote: > > Ps. Obviously, I think she > has penis > > > since it dead could ANYONE confirm or deny sea sea have penis - thx > rooty Yes rooty/cici/cicilian mafia idiot, has ovaries so big they look like TWO dicks!

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Scientific Progress
by coresamples＠sigaint.org 29 Oct '16

29 Oct '16

> Razer: > You didn't pull that quote out of your ass cunt. You knew who wrote it. That's the way legitimate posters 'roll'.

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