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This REALLY stinks! Agreement to destroy laptops of Hillary staff given immunity.
by jim bell 03 Oct '16

03 Oct '16

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/03/fbi-agreed-to-destroy-laptops-cl… l [partial quote follows] Immunity deals for two top Hillary Clinton aides included a side arrangement obliging the FBI to destroy their laptops after reviewing the devices, House Judiciary Committee sources told Fox News on Monday. Sources said the arrangement with former Clinton chief of staff Cheryl Mills and ex-campaign staffer Heather Samuelson also limited the search to no later than Jan. 31, 2015. This meant investigators could not review documents for the period after the email server became public -- in turn preventing the bureau from discovering if there was any evidence of obstruction of justice, sources said. The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee fired off a letter Monday to Attorney General Loretta Lynch asking why the DOJ and FBI agreed to the restrictive terms, including that the FBI would destroy the laptops after finishing the search. “Like many things about this case, these new materials raise more questions than answers,” Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., wrote in the letter obtained by Fox News. “Doesn’t the willingness of Ms. Mills and Ms. Samuelson to have their laptops destroyed by the FBI contradict their claim that the laptops could have been withheld because they contained non-relevant, privileged information? If so, doesn’t that undermine the claim that the side agreements were necessary?” Goodlatte asks. The immunity deals for Mills and Samuelson, made as part of the FBI’s probe into Clinton’s use of a private email server when she served as secretary of state, apparently included a series of “side agreements” that were negotiated by Samuelson and Mills’ attorney Beth Wilkinson. The side deals were agreed to on June 10, less than a month before FBI Director James Comey announced that the agency would recommend no charges be brought against Clinton or her staff. Judiciary Committee aides told FoxNews.com that the destruction of the laptops is particularly troubling as it means that the computers could not be used as evidence in future legal proceedings, should new information or circumstances arise. [end of partial quote] ==================== Jim Bell's comments follow ============= WHAAAAAAT?!?!?!? Just after somebody claimed, more or less, 'Well, Hillary may be bad, but Trump is worse!', I get greeted by the news item above. This is ASTONISHINGLY CORRUPT! First, they give immunity to people, for no obvious reason (they could get the laptops by subpoena anyway), and they fail to go after the most obvious target, Hillary Clinton. NOW, we hear of a secret side-deal to ensure that the laptops of these co-conspirators are destroyed, and are not even searched after a given, specific date. Imagine how much we owe to people, private citizens and organizations, that have chosen to go after (by lawsuit, etc) these government crooks. They use FOIA requests, lawsuits, and subpoenas. Anything the Hillary-cronies had in their laptops needs to be exposed, and used to sue them. Effectively, however, they are trying to use the FBI to carry out ("officially") the kind of large-scale evidence-destruction that previously, Hillary only attempted to do with the assistance of her lawyers, deletion of those 33.000 million emails. Now that she has been raked over the coals for that, her minions try to further insulate themselves by getting the FBI to agree to take a hammer to them. Look, guys, how much more obvious does it have to get? Hillary's staff is thoroughly, completely corrupt. And now, seemingly shamelessly so. And government organizations are being brought into play solely to assist them. Prosecute ALL of them. Convict ALL of them. Jail ALL of them for the rest of their worthless lives. Jim Bell

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Re: You could (will be) replaced by a robot coder
by xorcist＠sigaint.org 02 Oct '16

02 Oct '16

> > My opinion of people like Musk and the rest of the technocrats is they > ARE Darwin's finest example ... of "Marauders and Pillagers". > > Any service to society is coincidental and unintentional and solely > related to 'wealth accumulation'. Philanthropics too... It's for the > writedown. Not because they really care. > > Rr I certainly won't argue with that. I would point out, however, that these sorts of ulterior motives are essentially always present in any group purportedly trying to "help humanity." Your observations about mega-rich philanthropists is well-noted. But for example, among the religious there are those that say "our way is the only real truth." These groups then go on to try to convert others, ostensibly for their own good, but really because "winning souls" becomes a competitive game. Then you have the religious that say "Oh, we believe there are many paths to God" .. they are playing a game too, this game simply being "I'm more tolerant than you are" and this allows them to believe that they are more loving than their intolerant opposites. Likewise, amongst the political activist community, one sees the same holier-than-thou mentality. So-and-so is *REALLY* committed, because they will live in a squat, or will intentionally get arrested, or whatever. All of this is an expression of the effects of simple human ego. Certainly, we can agree that some of these are less problematic than others, but I think that they all share the same difficulty at scale, and so we see all types of oppression by oligarchs, theocrats, and political purges whenever one of these groups gets any real control, or power. I would say that any system or ideology which contains some type of metric for measuring one person better than another will always suffer from these types of problems in some way or another. Which is a very thorny problem, it seems, because it is very natural to look at a rapist and say "Yes, well OBVIOUSLY, I - who would never rape - am BETTER than this bastard." My personal solution, which I will admit I often fail at, is to try to see such people not as lessers that I am superior too, but rather as sick people whom I am healthier than. This helps in the way of compassion, but may not - in the end, really even solve the problem. As one can see the egoist perspective at work in the "healthy living" fad popular these days already.

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You could (will be) replaced by a robot coder
by Razer 02 Oct '16

02 Oct '16

Don't forget to hate on automation engineers as the unemployment rate reaches 45% and the gubmint still hasn't figured out what to do with all those idled people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU Source: http://www.ninaillingworth.com/2016/09/30/tales-from-the-american-dmz-its-a…

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[WAR] What the CIA Does When The Other Side Won't Fight - YouTube
by Zen H. 02 Oct '16

02 Oct '16

----- Forwarded message from Jim ----- What the CIA Does When The Other Side Won't Fight Former CIA Deputy Director, Michael Morell, in an amazingly frank TV interview, explains how the CIA assassinates people close to the world leaders that they want to topple. Rather than killing the leaders, themselves, they kill their closest associates to let the leaders know they can be knocked off any time the CIA wants. The goal is to create enough fear and anger to cause the leaders to retaliate in some way that then can be used as proof of their evil nature and as an excuse to wage all-out war against them. The killing of Putin’s favorite chauffeur is a dramatic example that Morell’s plan is a reality. Truthstream Media. 21 September 2016 (Story) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IiS6Fehd44

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Attempt to re-create and test Hillary's email server for security?
by jim bell 01 Oct '16

01 Oct '16

I wonder if somebody has attempted to re-create the software suite used to make Hillary Clinton's email server, fill it with dummy (test) data, and place it online, and challenge the world to try to crack it. Too often I've heard the comment out of Hillary's camp, 'There is no evidence anybody hacked the server', more or less. Such a claim seems obviously questionable to me. They are already admitted that various somebodies TRIED to hack the server, and that those running that server were aware of these attempts, and then shut the server down for a few minutes as a consequence. But whether anybody succeeded, I don't know. It would be useful to actually show that such a server could be successfully hacked. Jim Bell Here's an example of discussion of study of her server, mostly in order to retrieve or re-create the seemingly lost emails. What they are not describing is what I advocate: Implement a recreation suitable to expose it to the world, challenging the world to crack it. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/08/hillary-clinton-emails-server-f… ×

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[WAR] - US tell Russia ‘no more talking’; USA Syrian "no fly zone" military analysis
by Zenaan Harkness 30 Sep '16

30 Sep '16

US prepares to tell Russia ‘no more talking’, as Obama prepares war strategy in Syria http://theduran.com/us-prepares-tell-russia-no-more-talking-as-obama-prepar… And now this analysis of the high level military considerations the USA must ponder if it seriously considers a no fly zone over Syria (The Saker) : http://www.unz.com/tsaker/the-war-against-syria-both-sides-go-to-plan-b/

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Memory Hole
by juan 30 Sep '16

30 Sep '16

So what happened to Ian Murdock? According to wiki-cesspool "The last tweets from Murdock's Twitter account first announced that he would commit suicide, then said he would not. He reported having been assaulted by police, and having assaulted a police officer, then declared an intent to devote his life to opposing police abuse. His Twitter account was taken down shortly afterwards " That's super believable and super transparent, just what one would expect from the Free, Open, Democratic, Just and Benevolent Western Civilizatin, right?

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Diary of a Person of Interest (Suzie Dawson @Suzi3d)
by Александр 29 Sep '16

29 Sep '16

*https://suzi3d.com/ <https://suzi3d.com/>https://www.endarken.co.nz/ <https://www.endarken.co.nz/>* What is it like to be a ‘Person of Interest‘ to major Western intelligence agencies? Why did they target me? How did they target me? What do they want? How should targets respond to the intrusions into their lives? My first ever full-length film, featuring yours truly, has been released and answers these questions. It roughly covers the period from when I was initally targeted in October 2011 to when I went into exile in January 2015. See Diary of a Person of Interest: *https://vimeo.com/181517859 <https://vimeo.com/181517859>Orhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KaxGN9WgRU <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KaxGN9WgRU>*

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Yahoo is sued for gross negligence over huge hacking
by Georgi Guninski 29 Sep '16

29 Sep '16

Yahoo is sued for gross negligence over huge hacking http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-cyber-lawsuit-idUSKCN11T2LF ==== Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) was sued on Friday by a user who accused it of gross negligence over a massive 2014 hacking in which information was stolen from at least 500 million accounts. ... Ronald Schwartz, a New York resident, sued on behalf of all Yahoo users in the United States whose personal information was compromised. The lawsuit seeks class-action status and unspecified damages. ==== Pretty sure Yahoo have disclaimer they are "gross negligent", so the suing is doomed, unless the morons failed to make such disclaimer.

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DDoS Of Things -
by Steve Kinney 29 Sep '16

29 Sep '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Maybe I'm going all Chicken Little here, maybe not. But I think this development may be the closest thing to an Internet Armageddon we are likely to see in our lifetimes. http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/09/why-the-silencing-of-krebsonsecu rity-opens-a-troubling-chapter-for-the-net/ =or= https://tinyurl.com/znzno7q How does thee patch that which is Unpatchable? DDOS now includes the death of a million ankle biters: Not just unpatchable, but massively distributed, with a continuing profit motive and no liability for the manufacturers, paid for and plugged in by hundreds of millions of "regular folks" throughout the so-called Developed Nations. So far every mitigation strategy relevant to "normal" users and use cases that occurs to me would be worse than the original problem. :o/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJX53iPAAoJEECU6c5XzmuqvwsH/1DdHCMcYTGQu4zosEdCZ3uf m8KSgIWNlBRDjkNr6BjmZ2geMBq7T8eZiN0lBKPosC/K+gyiuVLDYRTA1hoczuCP pNt6+m23KDELMxOwWKlpFjE/EUPKWkPJmnGyVdcsSvUpCYEceM8IEbKONs/BeVKj MqzQE2d8VsS1k7QntiuwQKpzAorZucly66MyLabmjHX+v8KMrr1Y2mfrsLY//kl2 RaFyVblmIlkJCL8tLZbx4ziBTB7mJRXc+ZB1kpggnyqPwxBJRXBUWvsnlFwgDVC3 MY3hgqTomLBcG1C1UgRTPl1Arg9AMo0sw5w/cjbTgfuZKbGuU2y7PwFzL1lnAKM= =wmH5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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