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"Jewish Spine Discriminates Against Muslim Knife."
by Zenaan Harkness 31 Oct '15

31 Oct '15

http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/260627/heroic-muslim-terrorist-attacked-f… I wonder - is it a good thing that Daniel presents such stories in a way which has me chuckling a couple rounds after reading of such an event? It's black humour, but real life.

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Re: Cypherpunks is broken - Welcome to Secret Admirers
by John Young 31 Oct '15

31 Oct '15

Cypherpunks has produced a slew of offsprings who are confident the parents have been surpassed, are feeble, ghosts of their once own offsprings of offsprings of offsprings. Some have become mules unable to offspring so bray at one another neuteredly, some tote-packing jackasses for secretkeepers, some little horses in a geek carnival DEFCON, one a jester performing for food, bed and hookup in a banana republic's UK squat, another raising wild pussies on a hilltop armed to the gizzard against PETA warriors, several offshore heroined and drunk in hot tubs of rotgut financial shenanigans, others on a mechanical island harassed by EU revenuers and algorithmic mermaids, quite a few incarcerating themselves in courtrooms pursuing phantasms of conquering an NSA long out of date by new improved GQNSAFSB, half a dozen are dead, dying, diseased or headphoned heads mounted on mathematics college entablatures. One is a high official in DoD cybercommand-panic to the max, a twin doing the same for PRC. A small number of geezers continue to write code, that is hire kids to do that, but mostly consult to crypto cretinous corporations, suckle on NGO-tit extortions, deliver commodious farts on the speaker circuit, the best and brightest take long naps, buy weekly, monthly, yearly lap dances, search Google for their names, spit and shit blood, shed hair and flesh, burst into episodes of cackling obscure hashes in elliptic circles. Eyes and minds dim and flicker, maws whimper, broken teeth and code pukes down shirt fronts, dapper David Kahn dances into darkening visions of splendid failure, crooning No Such Agency to the solo female cpunk whose name is legend. At 01:21 PM 10/29/2015, you wrote: >Good luck!

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On a more serious note - how it's going on the ground in Syria
by Zenaan Harkness 31 Oct '15

31 Oct '15

Ahem. I assure you, the Russian bombing is no satire... 12MB and 6MB respectively. http://fortruss.blogspot.ru/2015/10/isis-reacts-to-russian-bombing-satire.h…

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Syria - USAF finally figures out where the goddamn oil refineries are
by Zenaan Harkness 31 Oct '15

31 Oct '15

Those refineries must have blended in with all those deceptive desert pebbles and the odd desert goat masquerading as an oil refinery. :) http://russia-insider.com/en/putin-makes-obama-offer-he-cant-refuse/ri10834

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US billionaire John Pepper, retired CEO of Proctor & Gamble, re Russia
by Zenaan Harkness 31 Oct '15

31 Oct '15

We can assume John Pepper does not have his hand (at least significantly) in the military neocon money trough. http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/retired-top-us-ceo-make-peace-russia-… " Retired Top US CEO: Make Peace with Russia (John Pepper - Procter & Gamble) ” …we need to avoid a further breakdown in the relationships between Russia and the U.S. This means that we must work together to resolve what are the open wounds now in Ukraine and Syria” “We must avoid seeming to or actually working to impose our values on Russia.” “We must acknowledge Russia as a major global power, with a history and status that deserves and demands respect.” “We must dial down the rhetoric which vilifies the other party when what they are doing is essentially expressing their own national interest and pride as we do.” "

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@OpenTechFund is an unabashed CIA front
by Razer 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

See: https://twitter.com/reggie_airdale/status/642095811803742209 ...and while you're at it check out the new look for schoolgirls in "Moderate Rebel" controlled Idlib Syria: http://auntieimperial.tumblr.com/post/132230415144 Historic photo: US 'advisors' advising civilians Now: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CSlwDrbWcAA1kvK.jpg:large Then: http://auntieimperial.tumblr.com/post/132232109389

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Re: Shiny stuff and designer societies (addenda)
by Razer 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

On 10/30/2015 11:02 AM, Sean Lynch wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 10:33 AM Razer <Rayzer(a)riseup.net > <mailto:Rayzer@riseup.net>> wrote: > > > I think there's a place for individualism within collectivism but the > collective comes first. > > > This I can't really agree with. There is no collective without the > individual, and why should any individual be part of such a thing if > it doesn't benefit him or her? In a word "Survival". > > I recognize that we share the planet and that we all benefit from the > existence of society, but I think the only obligation that places upon > us is to give at least as much as we take. Sorry, as an anarchist I have to say it's an anarchist's responsibility to take responsibility for the well-being of all members of the collective, which for me includes ALL humankind. > But at the end of the day the only people qualified to make the > determination of whether an individual's contribution is adequate is > the individual and anyone considering entering into some kind of > exchange/relationship/whatever with that individual. That is the antithesis of collectivism. > It is the sum total of these decisions and interactions from which > society emerges. Feudal or industrial capitalist society perhaps. > > My longer term hope is that sharing the planet is just a temporary > constraint that we'll eventually overcome. There is a lot of room in > the galaxy and even the solar system. "If you don't like it, leave" More like "We fucked it up. Let's go somewhere else and fuck it up now" (visualizes moon-based fast-food chain trash fired from a rocket hitting alien on head starting an intergalactic war humans are unprepared for leading to their annihilation) You like "Role-Playing" games Sean? I've watched people create alternative personas just as fucked up as their pre-existing one. That IS the lesson from role-playing. If you can't get your 'first life' right, good luck with any other you might conceive. I've had thoughts about letting all the people who think escape from the planet is an option do it, and kill each other off elsewhere so the rest of us who remain can live in peace repairing the damage ... collectively. Almost every enthusiast of the relocation-to-space idea I've ever met is a closeted feudalist. Good luck.. Bon voyage! > is a lot more realistic of an option when the choices and resources > available are practically infinite. No known resource is infinite. > This is not to say I'm sympathetic to the Venus Project and its' ilk; > I don't think they're wrong about a future of abundance, I just think > their language and thinking is rooted in a fundamental > misunderstanding of the meaning of economic scarcity.

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The Blacklist (was: The Black List)
by Michael Best 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

I asked one of the writers about this awhile back after another episode seemed to mirror a "case" I was involved in. The off the record answer was that instance was a total coincidence but the research assistants for the writing team use a lot of real life stuff as inspiration, but rarely delve more than skin deep. They borrow headlines, but that's it. It's like Oliver Stone's JFK - a mirror of reality, but nothing is quite right. TL;DR: Probably a trick, but James Spader's voice will make me forget that.

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Re: list sans smtp spillage
by Ulex Europae 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

At 08:44 AM 10/27/2015, Cari Machet wrote: >I dont know-know but test it all out irl ask someone in love with >you if you can fuck them ...watch the facial expression That seems pointless, BTDT a few times and had the same said to me more times than that. What followed after was, a pleasure. >On Oct 27, 2015 12:06 PM, "Ulex Europae" ><<mailto:europus@gmail.com>europus(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >Word meanings change over time. To not acknowledge and take this >into consideration reveals an agenda. A religious agenda, most probably. Mainstream religions these days have odd ideas about women and the sex act. They should advance their theologies because it's the 21st century now, not the Dark Ages (which xtianity single-handedly caused (for western civilization), btw). -- "Studies have found that people who use profanity are more intelligent than the rest of you motherfuckers." -- some Facebook meme

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Re: Shiny stuff and designer societies (addenda)
by Sean Lynch 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

Dammit, meant to send to the list again. On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 11:02 AM Sean Lynch <seanl(a)literati.org> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 10:33 AM Razer <Rayzer(a)riseup.net> wrote: > >> >> I think there's a place for individualism within collectivism but the >> collective comes first. >> >> > This I can't really agree with. There is no collective without the > individual, and why should any individual be part of such a thing if it > doesn't benefit him or her? > > I recognize that we share the planet and that we all benefit from the > existence of society, but I think the only obligation that places upon us > is to give at least as much as we take. But at the end of the day the only > people qualified to make the determination of whether an individual's > contribution is adequate is the individual and anyone considering entering > into some kind of exchange/relationship/whatever with that individual. It > is the sum total of these decisions and interactions from which society > emerges. > > My longer term hope is that sharing the planet is just a temporary > constraint that we'll eventually overcome. There is a lot of room in the > galaxy and even the solar system. "If you don't like it, leave" is a lot > more realistic of an option when the choices and resources available are > practically infinite. This is not to say I'm sympathetic to the Venus > Project and its' ilk; I don't think they're wrong about a future of > abundance, I just think their language and thinking is rooted in a > fundamental misunderstanding of the meaning of economic scarcity. >

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