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America’s Permanent Wars on the World
by Zenaan Harkness 07 Jul '16

07 Jul '16

America’s Permanent Wars on the World "Since 1945, America’s Manifest Destiny, posing as the Free World’s Crusade against the Red Menace, has claimed 20 to 30 million lives worldwide and bombed one-third of the earth’s people." http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/13/the-great-leap-backward-americas-ill… (Alt: http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/great-leap-backward-americas-illegal-… ) Luciana Bohne Can we face it in this election season? America is a weapons factory, the White House a war room, and the president the manager of the neoliberal conspiracy to recolonize the planet. It exports war and mass poverty. On the economic front, usurious neoliberalism; on the military front, illegal wars. These are the trenches of America’s battle for world domination in the 21st century. If not stopped, it will be a short century. Since 1945, America’s Manifest Destiny, posing as the Free World’s Crusade against the Red Menace, has claimed 20 to 30 million lives worldwide and bombed one-third of the earth’s people. In the 19thcentury, America exterminated another kind of “red menace,” writing and shredding treaties, stealing lands, massacring, and herding Native populations into concentration camps (“Indian reservations”), in the name of civilizing the “savages.” By 1890, with the massacre of Lakota at Wounded Knee, the frontier land grab—internal imperialism– was over. There was a world to conquer, and America trained its exceptionally covetous eye on Cuba and the Philippines. American external imperialism was born. Then, something utterly dreadful happened in 1917—a successful social revolution in Russia, the second major after the French in 1789, to try to redistribute the wealth of the few to the advantage of the many. The rulers of the world—US, Britain, France and sundry acolytes—put aside their differences and united to stem the awful threat of popular democracy rising and spreading. They invaded Russia, fomented a civil war, funding and arming the counter-revolutionary forces, failed, and tried again in 1939. But Hitler’s war of extermination on the USSR ended in a spectacular victory for Moscow. For a while, after 1945, the US had to behave as a civilized country, formally. It claimed that the USSR had a barbarian, all-conquering ideology, rooted in terror, disappearances, murder, and torture. By contrast, the US was the shining city on the hill, the beacon of hope for a “the free world.” Its shrine was the United Nations; its holy writ was international law; its first principle was the inviolability of the sovereignty of nations. All this was rubbish, of course. It was an apartheid society. It nuked Japan not once but twice, deliberately selecting civilian targets. It shielded from justice top Nazi criminals to absorb them as partners in intelligence structures. It conducted virtual “show trials” against dissidents during the hysteria of the McCarthy congressional hearings, seeding the country with a harvest of fear. It waged a genocidal war on Vietnam to prevent independence and unification. It assassinated African independence leaders and bestowed fascist dictators on Latin America. It softly occupied Western Europe, tied it to itself through military “cooperation” in NATO, and it waged psy-op war on its opposition parties. Behind the civilized façade was a ruthless effort to take out the Soviet Union and crush self-determination in the colonial world. By hook and by crook, the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, and America went berserk with triumphalism. Now, at last, the conquest of the world, interrupted in 1917, could resume. The global frontier reopened and America’s identity would be regenerated through violence, which had delivered the American West to the European invaders in the 19th century. The benign mask dropped. Behind it came a rider on a pale horse. According to the ideologically exulted, history had ended, ideologies had died, and the messianic mission of the US to become the steward of God’s property on earth could be fulfilled. The “civilizing mission” was afoot.A cabal of neo-conservative policy wonks first sketched what I call the Great Leap Backward into lawlessness as a revival of the myth of the frontier in the 1990s. “The Plan for a New American Century” (PNAC) envisaged the 21st century as a unilateralist drive to entrench American values globally—what the PNAC ideologues call “freedom and democracy”—through preemptive wars and regime change. This frenzied delirium of US military domination turned into official foreign policy with the Bush Doctrine after 9/11, but it was the Clinton administration’s Doctrine of Humanitarian Warfare before 9/11, that shut the door on the prohibition of aggressive wars by the UN Charter, remaking the map of the world into a borderless American hunting reserve by removing the principle of sovereignty and replacing it with “right to protect” (R2P)—or humanitarian pretext for use of force. Clinton’s doctrine was an act of supreme, even witty, exploitation of liberal principles and commitment to policies of human rights. It was how the liberal left was induced to embrace war and imperialism as the means of defending human rights. The Carnegie Endowment cooked up the doctrine in 1992. Its report, “Changing Our Ways: America’s Role in the New World,” urged “a new principle of international relations: the destruction or displacement of groups of people within states can justify international intervention.” The report recommended that the US use NATO as the enforcer. It must be noted, too, that the principle of “humanitarian war” has no authority in international law. The Charter of the United Nations sought to outlaw war by making it impossible for unilateral interventions in the business of sovereign states by self-appointed guardians of human rights. The reason behind the proscription was not heartlessness but the consciousness that WW II had been the result of serial violations of sovereignty by Germany, Italy, and Japan—by militarist imperialism, in other words. The bell tolled for the UN and the old order in the 1999 Kosovo War. The bi-partisan effort to dismantle the architecture of the post war’s legal order played out there. With the Kosovo War, the Clinton administration launched the first humanitarian war and set the precedent for waging war without Security Council clearance of many to follow by both Republican and Democrat administrations. The Clintonites who used NATO to bomb Serbia to protect ethnic Albanians in Kosovo from non-existing Serbian genocide may or may not have appreciated the fact that Hitler had used the pretext of R2P—humanitarian intervention—to launch WW II by claiming to protect German minorities in Poland, but they certainly knew that the monopoly on use of force rested with the UN’s Security Council. This monopoly was secured after WW II precisely to prevent unilateral attacks on sovereign states through bogus claims of altruistic interventions, such as Hitler had championed and pursued. Ironically for critics of the Soviet leader, it was Stalin who insisted at the Yalta Conference that if the USSR were to join the United Nations a veto in the Security Council was a must to insure that any war would be a multilateral consensus and a multilateral action. As the Clintonites understood, the postwar legal authority for peacekeeping and the prevention of war entrusted to the UN Security Council posed a colossal obstacle to the pursuit of American world domination. For the vision of PNAC and the Carnegie Endowment to become reality, the United Nations, the guarantor of sovereignty, had to go. In the run-up to the Kosovo War, the Clintonites fatally and deliberately destabilized the United Nations, substituting the uncooperative UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali with the subservient NATO shill, Kofi Annan. Annan obligingly opined that in the matter of war and peace, UN Security Council resolutions were not the only way to skin a country– especially one chosen by the US for remaking, partitioning, or regime changing, a cynic might add. So now we live in a dangerous world. Once again, since the 1930s, the world is being stalked by an expansionist power answering to no law but its own unilateral, humanitarian vigilantism. The Kosovo precedent has spun out of control. Libya smolders in the ashes of NATO bombs, dropped to prevent “genocide”; Syria fights for survival under attack by genocidal terrorist groups, armed, trained and funded by genocide preventers grouped in the NATO alliance and the Gulf partners; Afghanistan languishes in a permanent state of war, present ten thousand American troops which bomb hospitals to promote human rights; in Iraq, the humanitarians are back, after twenty-five years of humanitarian failure. And in Ukraine, Nazi patriots are promoting American democratic and humanitarian values by shelling Donbass daily. I hesitate to mention Africa, where humanitarian Special Forces are watering the fields where terrorists sprout like mushrooms after rain—in Mali, Nigeria, Somalia, Kenya. Then there is Yemen, perhaps the most callous, vicious, and careless humanitarian crime of a litany of crimes against humanity in the Middle East. The US government has recently admitted deploying troops to Yemen. The Pentagon claims that the deployment will assist Saudi Arabia (“the Arab coalition”) to fight al-Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula. Can a sentient being meet such a grotesque claim with anything but infernal laughter? Help Saudi Arabia to fight its own creature? Are we stupid yet? $4 trillion dollars later, spent on the War-on-Terror/Humanitarian-R2P, the pattern of military destabilization of sovereign states proceeds apace, one recalcitrant, independent country at a time in the Middle East and North Africa. For the rest of the world, the surrender of sovereignty is sought by means of economic globalization through trade pacts—TTP, TTIP, etc.—that virtually abolish the constitution of states, including our own. Spearheading the economic effort to control the periphery and the entire world is the so-called “Washington Consensus.” It hugs the market-fundamentalist idea that global neoliberalism and core finance capital’s economic control of the planet by means of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) is the option to poverty and social chaos. Neither military nor economic war on the sovereignty of nations has yielded anything close to a stable, prosperous, and peaceful world. It had delivered death, destruction, debt, market crises, tidal waves of refugees and displaced persons, and concentrated masses of wealth in a few but powerful hands. What the poet W.H. Auden called “the international wrong,” which he named “imperialism” in his poem “September 1939,” is the crisis that stares out of the mirror of the past into our faces, and it bodes war, war, and more war, for that is where imperialism drives. In this scenario, no potential presidential candidate—even establishment-party dissenter—who does not call for both the end of the bi-partisan “Washington Consensus” and the end of bipartisan militarist aggression can reverse the totality of the “international wrong” or stem the domestic descent into social brutalization. If none calls this foreign policy debacle “imperialism,” elections will be a sleepwalker’s exercise. Nothing will change. Except, almost certainly, for the worse.

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Re: [tor-talk] These Maps Show What the Dark Web Looks Like
by Sean Lynch 07 Jul '16

07 Jul '16

On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 2:19 PM Yuri <yuri(a)rawbw.com> wrote: > On 07/06/2016 12:32, grarpamp wrote: > > > https://motherboard.vice.com/read/these-maps-show-what-the-dark-web-looks-l… > > > > What does the dark web actually look like? Well, new research maps out > > the relationships between a load of Tor hidden services, and shows > > that many dark web sites, rather than being isolated entities, are > > perhaps more intimately intertwined than commonly thought. > > > The article says "this lack of diversity in hosting infrastructure is > concerning—it places the future of a large proportion of Onion Services > in the hands of a limited number of groups". The future web might even > have no hosting, because the new technologies like ZeroNet don't require > hosting at all. I personally believe that distributed architecture is > superior to centralized architecture, and is a way to go. > > Agree with the need for decentralized architectures, though ZeroNet is only part of the way there. It's fine for small, static sites, blogs, and small chat rooms, but the mail and ID services are each controlled by one individual, and all their data are flooded to all users. We really need a platform on which to build decentralized apps, more like Freenet or Gnunet. As for centralization in Tor, it wasn't clear to me from the article that the related sites were actually legit as opposed to, say, clones. Since they found sites that only linked among themselves, they must have just been mass scanning onion addresses. But what we really care about are the sites a lot of people actually use. For such a purpose, finding and ranking the sites by spidering from a few well-known seed sites would be more useful than enumerating all the hidden sites. They talked about a bunch of sites being hosted by the same hosting provider, but given that they had identical SSH host keys I'd guess they were all actually the same machine, since it would be criminally negligent for a hosting provider to use the same key across all its machines.

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comprehending the heart's nationalism
by Zenaan Harkness 07 Jul '16

07 Jul '16

The following is a viewpoint worth comprehending, if not embracing. This could be described I guess as the higher intention of a "Russian". I consider it may be useful to contemplate ones own version of "principles" of honour, heart, heroism, worthy sacrifice and all those other concepts fit for legend and foundations. How else can we speak into existence a better future, no matter the label used? http://orientalreview.org/2016/06/19/the-russian-world-and-european-civiliz… (Alt: http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/how-russian-world-differs-ideals-west… ) How the Russian World Differs From the Ideals of Western Civilization The Russian ideal is more benevolent, contrasting noticeably with the historical Western hankering to dominate, subdue and exploit Anna Zhdanova (Oriental Review) Image: A noble warrior Originally appeared at Oriental Review In recent years, both the Western as well as the liberal Russian press have had a lot to say about Russian “barbarianism,” as if to contrast it with European “civilization.” But a closer inspection – through the prism of the heroic pages of Russian history – of the two groups’ moral ideals and actual lives presents us with quite a different picture. For example, in pagan times, ancient Russians never worshipped a god of war, although their contemporaries in Europe were transfixed by their own martial deity, constructing an entire epic narrative around the concepts of war and conquest. After defeating the “infidels” (the Golden Horde), Russians never sought to forcibly convert them to Christianity. In the epic poem “Ilya Muromets and the Pagan Idol,” the Russian hero liberates Constantinople from that mythological monstrosity, but refuses to become the voevoda (or ruler) of the city and returns home. Ancient Russian literature does not include tales of personal enrichment through conquest or plunder, although this is a common theme in the Western canon. The hero of the “Nibelungenlied” is obsessed with his search for a hidden treasure – the Rheingold. The main character of the ancient English poem “Beowulf” dies, having beheld “the gorgeous heirlooms, golden store … Now I’ve bartered here for booty of treasure the last of my life.” It would never occur to any hero from a Russian epic to sacrifice his life in exchange for riches. Ilya Muromets is not even able to accept the inducement offered by the brigands he meets – the “golden treasure, richly colored robe, and as many fine horses as he needed” (citation from the Russian fairytale ( http://tchaykovsky.ru/skazka/murom_solov.htm ) “Ilya Muromets and Nightingale the Robber”). He did not hesitate to reject the path by which he would “be rich,” instead voluntarily taking the road on which he would “be killed.” And it is not only in this epic, but also in the legends, tales, songs, proverbs, and folk wisdom of the Russian people where it is evident that one’s duty to uphold one’s personal or tribal honor is something quite distinct from any duty to exact personal or tribal revenge. The notion of retaliation, as such, is absent from Russian folklore, as if it were never part of the original “genetic code” of its people – the Russian champion has always gone to war as a liberator. And in this we can see the difference between Russians and Western Europeans. The Russian historian and philosopher Ivan Ilyin ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Ilyin ) wrote: “Europe cannot grasp us … because the Slavic and Russian way of contemplating the world, nature, and man is something alien to it. Humanity in Western Europe is motivated by will and intellect. The Russian people are above all guided by their hearts and imaginations, relegating the mind and will to a supporting role. Therefore, the average European is ashamed of sincerity, scruples, and kindness, viewing them as “foolishness.” A European, nursed on the ideals of Rome, is secretly contemptuous of other nations and desires to rule over them. Russians, however, on the whole expect kindness, scruples, and sincerity from others. The Russian people have always enjoyed the natural freedom of the vast space they inhabit … gazing “in wonder” at other nations, getting along with them amiably, with hatred only for oppressive invaders … “ Russians’ congenial relationships with their geographic neighbors are testament to their sense of justice and mercy. The Russian people never committed the same atrocities for which the enlightened Europeans were responsible in their own conquered lands. The psychology of the nation includes a certain principle of moral restraint. These naturally strong, resilient, dynamic people have been endowed with an amazing ability to survive. This spiritual strength is also the basis for Russians’ renowned forbearance and tolerance toward others. Continually invaded from all sides and forced to live in an incredibly harsh climate, the Russian people managed to colonize vast swathes of land, but without slaughtering, enslaving, robbing, or forcibly baptizing any nation. Western Europeans’ policies of colonialism annihilated the aboriginal populations on three continents and forced natives from across Africa into slavery, while its cities grew rich on the backs of those colonies. The Russian nation, which also waged wars that were not purely defensive, acquired, like all great nations, large tracts of land, but never treated their conquered subjects as the Europeans did. The European people reaped the benefits of Europe’s conquests and its cities were enriched by the colonial plunder. Russians robbed neither Siberia nor Central Asia nor the Caucasus nor the Baltics. Russia has preserved every nation within its borders, acting as their protector, granting them the right to own land and property and to practice their own faith, traditions, and culture. Russia has never been a nationalist state – it has belonged to all who inhabit her. The Russian people were granted only one “advantage” – to bear the burden of nation-building. The resulting state was like no other in the history of the world, and the Russian people defended it with their own blood, willingly sacrificing their very lives. Precisely because they have borne so much suffering and heavy sacrifice, my people deeply empathized with the pain and suffering of other peoples languishing under the Nazi yoke. And after liberating their own homeland, Russians channeled that same spirit of self-sacrifice and energy into liberating half of Europe. This was an example of epic heroism! These are the stouthearted people born of the Russian earth! And I believe that such a feat can be accomplished even by a great nation only once a century. The patriotism displayed by Russian soldiers in the fields of the Great Patriotic War met the highest ideal of patriotism – something unprecedented in the history of any nation anywhere in the world. And I will never agree with the media’s pronouncements about Russian “barbarianism” vs. European “virtue.” I stand proud that our ancestors – our heroic ancestors – were so lovely, steadfast, courageous, and resilient, and that we are their descendants!

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Senate Funding Bill For State Dept. Asks It To Figure Out Ways To Stop Bad People From Using Tor
by grarpamp 06 Jul '16

06 Jul '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jeremy Rand <biolizard89(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 12:17:24 -0500 Subject: [tor-talk] Senate Funding Bill For State Dept. Asks It To Figure Out Ways To Stop Bad People From Using Tor Well, this looks unfortunate. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160701/18073734878/senate-funding-bill-… I assume the Tor Project staff are aware of this language? ------------------------------------------------------ (Mis)Uses of Technology by Mike Masnick Wed, Jul 6th 2016 9:34am (Feedbacks linked above) https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2938815/FY2017-State-Foreign-Ope… https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2938816/BILLS-114s3117pcs.pdf Senate Funding Bill For State Dept. Asks It To Figure Out Ways To Stop Bad People From Using Tor from the good-luck-with-that dept It would appear that Congress is not so happy that the State Department is a major funding source for the Tor project. Tor, of course, is the internet anonymyzing system that was originally developed with support from the US government as a way to promote free and safe access to the internet for people around the globe (mostly focusing on those under threat in authoritarian countries). Of course, other parts of our government aren't huge fans of Tor, because it doesn't just help activists and dissidents in other countries avoid detection, but also, well, just about anyone (except on days when the FBI decides to hack their way in). There has, of course, always been some tension there. There are always the conspiracy theorists who believe that because Tor receives US government funding it is by default compromised. Those tend to be tinfoil hat wearing types, though. The folks who work on Tor are not exactly recognized for being particularly friendly to intrusive government surveillance. They tend to be the exact opposite of that. And, of course, part of the Snowden revelations revealed that Tor was one tool that still stymied the NSA in most cases. But it appears that Congress may be quietly trying to undermine this. On Friday, Politico had a tiny blurb in passing about how the latest State Department appropriations bill making its way through Congress includes some references to stopping "circumvention technologies" from being used by bad people. The Politico report suggests this is designed to apply more broadly to encryption, but reading the specifics it appears to be targeted straight at Tor. Here's the Senate report on the appropriations, where it discusses funding related to "internet freedom." That, of course, was the reasoning behind Tor in the first place, but here Congress is now trying to put some limitations on what the State Dept. can do with its funds, including demanding that it seek out ways to stop bad guys from using technology like Tor. In the report, it's described this way: ...the Committee requires that spend plans submitted by the Department of State and BBG pursuant to section 7078(c) of the act include a description of safeguards to ensure that circumvention technologies are not used for illicit purposes, such as coordinating terrorist activities or online sexual exploitation of children. In the full bill, the key section notes that the funding shall only be available for internet freedom after efforts are made to stop bad people from using the tools. ... made available for the research and development of new tools or techniques authorized in paragraph (A) only after the BBG CEO, in consultation with the Secretary of State and other relevant United States Government departments and agencies, evaluates the risks and benefits of such new tools or techniques, and establishes safeguards to minimize the use of such new tools or techniques for illicit purposes. In case you're wondering, the "BBG CEO" is the CEO of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the US government agency that manages media efforts around the globe, such as the Voice of America. Make no mistake, this appears to be an attempt to sneak in an attack on Tor via Congress into the State Dept. Tor has been developed to provide the best absolute anonymity/privacy tools for people using the internet -- with the acknowledgement that it can be misused, because the people developing it recognize that the best way to protect the vast majority of its users is to build a system that is truly secure -- not one that artificially tries to limit its uses. Hopefully, this provision is changed, or else it may be eventually leveraged as a way to attack Tor, to attack Tor's funding and try to get the State Department to stop supporting such useful projects. ----------------------------------

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frustrated with the MSM lately?
by Zenaan Harkness 06 Jul '16

06 Jul '16

Someone is: http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/putin-loses-it-journalists-i-dont-kno… youtube-dl --all-subs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PgSX-WD96Q

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[OT] [Hiroshima] [Nagasaki] Fwd: Paz
by Cecilia Tanaka 06 Jul '16

06 Jul '16

"Paz" means "Peace" in Portuguese. The message was written in Portuguese and English. I know it is absolutely OT and I sincerely beg pardon for sending it to this list, but considering some of our last discussions, everybody can understand why I cried a lot reading it and why I am asking for help. Thank you all in advance! Peace. Ceci ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Rogerio Nagai, via Change.org" <mail(a)change.org> Date: Jul 6, 2016 3:23 PM Subject: Paz To: <cecilia.tanaka(a)gmail.com> [image: Change.org] Cecilia, <http://email.change.org/mpss/c/9gA/3CE/t.1yn/7Rnup_i-Rh2gJMTjvt6RYQ/h0/KLcq…> <http://email.change.org/mpss/c/9gA/3CE/t.1yn/7Rnup_i-Rh2gJMTjvt6RYQ/h1/KLcq…>este abaixo-assinado <http://email.change.org/mpss/c/9gA/3CE/t.1yn/7Rnup_i-Rh2gJMTjvt6RYQ/h2/KLcq…> foi feito por uma pessoa como você. * <http://email.change.org/mpss/c/9gA/3CE/t.1yn/7Rnup_i-Rh2gJMTjvt6RYQ/h3/KLcq…> <http://email.change.org/mpss/c/9gA/3CE/t.1yn/7Rnup_i-Rh2gJMTjvt6RYQ/h4/KLcq…>Clique e assine para apoiar. <http://email.change.org/mpss/c/9gA/3CE/t.1yn/7Rnup_i-Rh2gJMTjvt6RYQ/h5/KLcq…> * <http://email.change.org/mpss/c/9gA/3CE/t.1yn/7Rnup_i-Rh2gJMTjvt6RYQ/h6/KLcq…> 1 min. de silêncio para PAZ em homenagem as vítimas de Hiroshima e Nagasaki na abertura das Olimpíadas 2016 <http://email.change.org/mpss/c/9gA/3CE/t.1yn/7Rnup_i-Rh2gJMTjvt6RYQ/h7/KLcq…> Rogerio Nagai São Paulo-SP Clique para assinar <http://email.change.org/mpss/c/9gA/3CE/t.1yn/7Rnup_i-Rh2gJMTjvt6RYQ/h8/KLcq…> ***** (Versão em Português) ***** A abertura dos Jogos Olímpicos de 2016 no Rio de Janeiro será às 20 horas do dia 5 de agosto. No Japão serão 8 horas da manhã do dia 6. Às 8:15 do dia 6 o povo de Hiroshima fará um Minuto de Silêncio pelas vítimas da bomba atômica que explodiu sobre sua cidade nesse dia e nessa hora, há 71 anos atrás, matando imediatamente milhares de homens, mulheres e crianças. O Prefeito de Hiroshima sugeriu ao Presidente do Comitê Olímpico Internacional um Minuto de Silêncio na abertura dos Jogos - momento em que todos os olhos do mundo estarão voltados para essa solenidade - juntamente com o Minuto de Silêncio em Hiroshima, lembrando todas as vítimas das bombas, dos testes atômicos, dos acidentes nas usinas nucleares, da mineração do urânio e de todos os tipos de violência no mundo de hoje. Ele o fez a pedido dos Hibakusha - sobreviventes de Hiroshima e Nagasaki - e em nome dos 7.000 Prefeitos da Associação Prefeitos pela Paz, que ele preside. Os Jogos Olímpicos foram criados para ajudar na construção da Paz entre os povos. Pessoas e organizações de todo o mundo querem se associar a esta homenagem, vamos juntos pedir um mundo de PAZ!!! ***** (English version) ***** The opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro will be at 8:00 pm on the 5 th August. In Japan, it will be 8:00 am on the 6th. At 8:15 am on the 6th the people of Hiroshima will observe one minute’s silence in memory of the victims of the atomic bomb that exploded over their city that day and at that time, 71 years ago, killing immediately thousands of men, women and children. The Mayor of Hiroshima has suggested to the President of the International Olympic Committee one minute’s silence at the opening of the Games – a moment when all the world will be focused on this ceremony - along with the Minute’s silence in Hiroshima, remembering all the victims of the bombs, atomic tests, accidents in nuclear power plants, uranium mining and all kinds of violence in the world today. 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These Maps Show What the Dark Web Looks Like
by grarpamp 06 Jul '16

06 Jul '16

https://motherboard.vice.com/read/these-maps-show-what-the-dark-web-looks-l… What does the dark web actually look like? Well, new research maps out the relationships between a load of Tor hidden services, and shows that many dark web sites, rather than being isolated entities, are perhaps more intimately intertwined than commonly thought.

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Darknet Shenanigans [was: suspicious "Relay127001" relays]
by grarpamp 06 Jul '16

06 Jul '16

On 7/6/16, Roger Dingledine <arma(a)mit.edu> wrote: > In this > case we actually found these relays misbehaving (accessing onion https://boingboing.net/2016/07/01/researchers-find-over-100-spyi.html http://motherboard.vice.com/read/over-100-snooping-tor-nodes-have-been-spyi… https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-24/dc-24-speakers.html#Noubir https://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-booming-and-opaque-business-of-dark-w… https://motherboard.vice.com/read/dark-web-drug-dealers-are-making-sloppy-m… All quite expected and well known ever since the dawn of overlay networks. Same with the Internet.

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Julian Assange: "Of course, when she is in power…[Hillary Clinton] is a problem for freedom of speech."
by Zenaan Harkness 06 Jul '16

06 Jul '16

So Julian Assange says of Hillary Clinton "Of course, when she is in power…she is a problem for freedom of speech." My question is, why does he say this in particular? I don't doubt that it's true, but I don't live in America and I don't have a TV, so I'm hoping someone knows why he would say this.. Quote is from: WikiLeaks Releases 1,258 Hillary Clinton Iraq War Emails http://theduran.com/wikileaks-releases-1258-hillary-iraq-war-emails/

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Fwd: <nettime> Ethereum: DAO - "The Attacker"
by bbrewer 05 Jul '16

05 Jul '16

> Begin forwarded message: > > From: nettime's substance investor <nettime(a)kein.org> > Subject: <nettime> Ethereum: DAO - "The Attacker" > Date: July 4, 2016 at 4:28:06 PM EDT > To: nettime-l(a)mx.kein.org > Resent-From: nettime(a)kein.org > Resent-To: Nettime <nettime-l(a)kein.org> > > > http://pastebin.com/CcGUBgDG > > ===== BEGIN SIGNED MESSAGE ===== > To the DAO and the Ethereum community, > > I have carefully examined the code of The DAO and decided to > participate after finding the feature where splitting is rewarded with > additional ether. I have made use of this feature and have rightfully > claimed 3,641,694 ether, and would like to thank the DAO for this > reward. It is my understanding that the DAO code contains this feature > to promote decentralization and encourage the creation of "child > DAOs". > > I am disappointed by those who are characterizing the use of this > intentional feature as "theft". I am making use of this explicitly > coded feature as per the smart contract terms and my law firm has > advised me that my action is fully compliant with United States > criminal and tort law. For reference please review the terms of the > DAO: > > "The terms of The DAO Creation are set forth in the smart > contract code existing on the Ethereum blockchain at > 0xbb9bc244d798123fde783fcc1c72d3bb8c189413. Nothing in this > explanation of terms or in any other document or communication > may modify or add any additional obligations or guarantees beyond > those set forth in The DAO’s code. Any and all explanatory > terms or descriptions are merely offered for educational purposes > and do not supercede or modify the express terms of The DAO’s > code set forth on the blockchain; to the extent you believe > there to be any conflict or discrepancy between the descriptions > offered here and the functionality of The DAO’s code at > 0xbb9bc244d798123fde783fcc1c72d3bb8c189413, The DAO’s code controls > and sets forth all terms of The DAO Creation." > > A soft or hard fork would amount to seizure of my legitimate and > rightful ether, claimed legally through the terms of a smart contract. > Such fork would permanently and irrevocably ruin all confidence in > not only Ethereum but also the in the field of smart contracts and > blockchain technology. Many large Ethereum holders will dump their > ether, and developers, researchers, and companies will leave Ethereum. > Make no mistake: any fork, soft or hard, will further damage Ethereum > and destroy its reputation and appeal. > > I reserve all rights to take any and all legal action against any > accomplices of illegitimate theft, freezing, or seizure of my > legitimate ether, and am actively working with my law firm. Those > accomplices will be receiving Cease and Desist notices in the mail > shortly. > > I hope this event becomes an valuable learning experience for the > Ethereum community and wish you all the best of luck. > > Yours truly, > "The Attacker" > ===== END SIGNED MESSAGE ===== > > Message Hash (Keccak): > 0xaf9e302a664122389d17ee0fa4394d0c24c33236143c1f26faed97ebbd017d0e > > Signature: > 0x5f91152a2382b4acfdbfe8ad3c6c8cde45f73f6147d39b072c81637fe81006061603908f692dc15a1b6ead217785cf5e07fb496708d129645f3370a28922136a32 > > > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime(a)kein.org > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:

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