[Human Rights Watch] Trump Team Invents "Massacre" And Blames Refugees For It

[Anti Fag]

So the lady mis-spoke and conflated propoganda with administrative decisions.

Not as bad as lawyers who refuse to think critically about the world around 
them.




Pleae do not send your fake news to this pro-Trump list.



 Original Message 
Subject: [Human Rights Watch] Trump Team Invents "Massacre" And Blames Refugees 
For It
Local Time: February 3, 2017 7:49 PM
UTC Time: February 3, 2017 7:49 PM
From: cecilia.tanaka at gmail.com
To: CypherPunks 


*Trump Team Invents "Massacre" And Blames Refugees For It: Daily Brief*

Plus: The real numbers of people affected by US Muslim Ban; White
supremacists and neo-Nazis no longer "extremists" in Trump proposal; New
CIA deputy director formerly oversaw torture; Restricting condoms in the
Philippines; EU summit in Malta discusses refugees; and Ukraine fighting.

https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2017/02/03

===

Wish you all an awesome Friday and a lovely weekend! <3

- c.

Re: #pizzagate - South Carolina ancient history

[Zenaan Harkness]

474 Arrested In California Child-Trafficking Sting
Feb 1, 2017
http://themindunleashed.com/2017/02/breaking-474-arrested-california-child-trafficking-sting.html
(cloudfront click check required)



Where one state/faction falls, hopefully others will follow.
Seems that with the Clintons no longer in power and now with less cash
to fly on the Lolita Express, #pizzagate can continue to be blown
wide open without as many 'suspicious' deaths of investigators and
coroners immediately following ... a welcome change with the new USA
administration no matter what your trump grievances...

Hardware Hacker's Korner: Electromagnetic Pulse Generator in a backpack

[Razer]

(Snigger)

The backpack nuke, the B-54 Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM) -
entered into the US arsenal in 1964.

The weapon was only 18 inches tall and 12 inches in diameter, yet
was as powerful as a thousand tons of TNT. Special Forces units
called "Green Light teams" would prep in using SADMs for tactical
strikes behind enemy

The use of SADMs was green lighted by the US military for use both
within and outside NATO countries. In the case of an enemy advance,
SADMs would be set off to destroy key infrastructure preventing the
Soviets from acquiring it. Greenlight teams were also prepared to
use SADMs to destroy installations in Warsaw Pact countries,
including enemy bunkers, rail lines, and anti-aircraft grid locations. 

Some Green Light team instructors would insist their team had to
stay within visual range of the detonation to ensure success.

More... But don't tell those alt-right gunnut neonazi xtian identity
folks. They might get ideas.

http://www.businessinsider.com/9-facts-about-the-uss-backpack-nukes-2014-2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Light_Teams

Alt-right hipster Gavin McInnes and his Nazi fanboys the "Proud Boys" Shut Down @ NYU

[Razer]

The "Alt-Right". AKA Fascist AKA NeoNazis...

Attempting to convince young people that racism, antisemitism, and
bigotry, are 'hip'.

> Most of the students who were there came to protest.
>
> Gavin McInnes arrived on stage to a chorus of boos. He semi-ironically
> began his speech by saying he came to discuss the Jew, the black and
> the Mexican. Beneath his ironic exterior, we knew that his rhetoric
> about political correctness is only a cover for white supremacy. NYC
> Antifa reported on Twitter that outside, Proud Boys “sieg heiled the
> crowd while protected by police.” Protesters continually heckled
> McInnes as he rambled incoherently about Margaret Thatcher and Argentina.
>
> He then told the crowd that he was pepper sprayed with a water gun.
> “When I was sprayed I thought, ‘maybe it was acid,’ but then I
> remembered this isn’t Islam.” That was the breaking point. Many of our
> classmates and friends who are Muslim have been directly affected by
> Trump’s Islamophobic travel ban. Chants of “Fuck you” and “Whose
> campus? Our campus!” drowned out McInnes’s speech.
>
> The dean repeatedly took the mic from McInnes, telling protesters to
> quiet down because we need to “respect free speech.” We yelled at the
> dean too, telling him there is no free speech for Nazis. The last time
> this happened, McInnes said to the dean, “You are ridiculous sir. You
> are a dumb liberal asshole. You’re a beta male cuck.” That was it. The
> dean tolerated and even supported McInnes’s racist hate speech, but
> would not stand for his personal insult and humiliation.
>
> Security escorted McInnes out of the room.
>

More:https://itsgoingdown.org/report-back-nyu-protesters-shut-down-gavin-mcinnes-proud-boys-seig-hail/

Fw: [Access Now] Beware: countering “violent extremism” online risks human rights

[rooty]

Hi Hi Hi (*_*) - bad sea sea -









 Original Message 
Subject: [Access Now] Beware: countering “violent extremism” online risks human 
rights
Local Time: February 3, 2017 5:09 PM
UTC Time: February 3, 2017 5:09 PM
From: cecilia.tan...@gmail.com
To: CypherPunks 


Beware: countering “violent extremism” online risks human rights.

https://www.accessnow.org/beware-countering-violent-extremism-online-risks-human-rights/

I will read their guide below a bit later. At first sign, I liked the material 
very much. It seems pretty reasonable and rational.

ACCESS NOW Position Paper: A Digital Rights Approach To Proposals For 
Preventing Or Countering Violent Extremism Online.

https://www.accessnow.org/cms/assets/uploads/2016/10/CVE-online-10.27.pdf


---
"Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your 
curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you 
can with it, and make it the life you want to live." - Mae Jemison

Re: How to act in self defense - concealed carry saves the day

[Razer]

On 2017-02-03 12:40, jim bell wrote:

No, you made comments on my posting, but you ignored certain parts



No I answered it unequivocally

Rr



including my question about how you distinguish between "fascists" and
"conservatives".   Says a lot.  You are aware that you still haven't
explained how you distinguish that.
                Jim Bell

  From: Razer 
 To: "cypherpunks@lists.cpunks.org" 
 Sent: Friday, February 3, 2017 9:26 AM
 Subject: Re: How to act in self defense - concealed carry saves the 
day


 I answered the question, and won't reiterate.

 On 02/02/2017 11:37 PM, jim bell wrote:




From: James A. Donald 

 On 2/3/2017 2:14 AM, Razer wrote:
 >> Right. Nazis have no right to be espousing the extermination of 
people

 >> because of ethnic or other fate-of-birth traits alone.

 >But none of the people you are calling nazis and beating up have
 espoused the extermination of ethnic groups.

 >Rather you equate disagreeing with the left on any of enormous number 
of

 points with nazism.  There is hardly anyone on the Republican side of
 politics, and not many on the Democrat side, that are progressive 
enough

 to be not be nazis.

  Excellent point:   On 2/01/2017, at 11:20, I asked, and then
answered my own question, since Razer didn't provide any answer: I
asked:

 >>So, is there any reliable way to distinguish a mere
"conservative" from a "fascist"?
  [no response by Razer, so I said,]
  I wish you'd have been able to answer this question. [end]



 To Razer and his ilk, a  "Nazi", or "fascist",  is simply a
person more-rightward than [fill  in the blank], where that "fill in
the blank" is probably a leftist.
             Jim Bell

Re: How to act in self defense - concealed carry saves the day

[jim bell]

No, you made comments on my posting, but you ignored certain parts, including 
my question about how you distinguish between "fascists" and "conservatives".   
Says a lot.  You are aware that you still haven't explained how you distinguish 
that.
                Jim Bell

  From: Razer 
 To: "cypherpunks@lists.cpunks.org"  
 Sent: Friday, February 3, 2017 9:26 AM
 Subject: Re: How to act in self defense - concealed carry saves the day
   
 I answered the question, and won't reiterate. 
  
 On 02/02/2017 11:37 PM, jim bell wrote:
  
 

 
From: James A. Donald 
   
 On 2/3/2017 2:14 AM, Razer wrote: 
 >> Right. Nazis have no right to be espousing the extermination of people
 >> because of ethnic or other fate-of-birth traits alone. 
 
 >But none of the people you are calling nazis and beating up have 
 espoused the extermination of ethnic groups.
 
 >Rather you equate disagreeing with the left on any of enormous number of 
 points with nazism.  There is hardly anyone on the Republican side of 
 politics, and not many on the Democrat side, that are progressive enough 
 to be not be nazis.  
  
  Excellent point:   On 2/01/2017, at 11:20, I asked, and then answered my own 
question, since Razer didn't provide any answer: I asked:  

 >>So, is there any reliable way to distinguish a mere  "conservative" from 
a "fascist"? 
  [no response by Razer, so I said,] 
  I wish you'd have been able to answer this question. [end] 
  

  
 To Razer and his ilk, a  "Nazi", or "fascist",  is simply a person 
more-rightward than [fill  in the blank], where that "fill in the blank" is 
probably a leftist. 
             Jim Bell 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 

   

Re: Hackers Disable Door Locks at Four-Star Hotel, Demand/Get Bitcoin Ransom

[jim bell]

 From: grarpamp 

>Politicians using crypto (messaging) to fuck people.
>People using crypto (coins) to fuck politicians.
>Crypto in the news every day.
>For good, bad, and all in between.
I would snarkily (is that a word?) say, "Good!", but I think that's obvious.    
    Jim Bell



   

Re: Dead links to blog.torproject.org and the Streisand effect

[Razer]

>> https://blog.torproject.org/blog/how-to-handle-millions-new-tor-clients
>>
>  .

I've seen this in new blog setups (WP I think) You have a choice of
either having the (truncated) page titles as links or generic numbered
system. You can change it... but unless you do redirects it's one way or
the other and the old link won't work

Rr

Re: How to act in self defense - concealed carry saves the day

[Razer]

I answered the question, and won't reiterate.


On 02/02/2017 11:37 PM, jim bell wrote:
>
>
>
> *From:* James A. Donald 
>
> On 2/3/2017 2:14 AM, Razer wrote:
>
> >> Right. Nazis have no right to be espousing the extermination of people
> >> because of ethnic or other fate-of-birth traits alone.
>
>
> >But none of the people you are calling nazis and beating up have
> espoused the extermination of ethnic groups.
>
> >Rather you equate disagreeing with the left on any of enormous number of
> points with nazism.  There is hardly anyone on the Republican side of
> politics, and not many on the Democrat side, that are progressive enough
> to be not be nazis.
>
>
> Excellent point:  
> On 2/01/2017, at 11:20, I asked, and then answered my own question,
> since Razer didn't provide any answer:
> I asked:
>>> >>So, is there any reliable way to distinguish a mere "conservative"
>>> from a "fascist"?
>>>
>>> [no response by Razer, so I said,]
>>>
>>> I wish you'd have been able to answer this question.
>>> [end]
>>>
>> To Razer and his ilk, a  "Nazi", or "fascist",  is simply a person
>> more-rightward than [fill in the blank], where that "fill in the
>> blank" is probably a leftist.
>>
>>Jim Bell
>
>
>
>

Re: Dead links to blog.torproject.org and the Streisand effect

[Steve Kinney]

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On 02/03/2017 06:47 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote:
> Why are Tor deleting their own pages on blog.torproject.org?
> 
> They have something to hide, lol?
> 
> From @Kinney's domain, near end: 
> http://pilobilus.net/comsec-101.html |See How to handle millions
> of new Tor clients on the TOR Blog. 
> https://blog.torproject.org/blog/how-to-handle-millions-new-tor-client
s
>
>
> 
This returns Page Not Found for me.

Well isn't that nice?  Dropping content relevant to the TOR Project's
hostile and abusive workplace environment is one thing.  It indicates
grossly incompetent management, defending itself by bold malfeasance.
 The project's commitments to supporting "human rights" and
"transparency" stand exposed as empty posturing.  If the TOR Project
was going to correct deficiencies in its corporate culture, they would
have at least made a start by now, but nope, that's off the table.

> Still alive on archive.org: 
> http://web.archive.org/web/20131010204046/https://blog.torproject.org/
blog/how-to-handle-millions-new-tor-clients

I
>
> 
heard tell that the Archive is getting a mirror site in Canada.
That's a Good Thing.

So I just updated the article in question.  The bits relevant to the
security and otherwise of the TOR network now say:

TOR SECURITY ISSUE - Posted September 6, 2013: The TOR Network is
apparently under attack from a large scale actor who presently owns
3/4 of the client nodes in the TOR network. Until proven otherwise -
or the attack stops - it must be assumed that a major State actor
(most likely the U.S., Israel, China or Russia) may be able to
identify nearly all TOR users and match their IP addresses to their
exit node traffic. The TOR Project believes that this attack is the
work of an ordinary Windows botnet, and they may be right. See
[hyperlink] How to handle millions of new Tor clients [/link] on the
TOR Blog.

[ begin new content ]

TOR SECURITY ISSUE II: On 2/3/2017 I learned that the article
describing the above security issue has been removed from the TOR
Project's website. A copy of the missing page is avaialble at
archive.org, follow [ hyperlink ]this link [/link ]. The TOR Project
maintains that "transparency" is one of its greatest strengths, so the
disappearance of important technical information with a direct bearing
on the security or otherwise of the TOR network is cause for grave
concern.

Is the missing page a result of a random error by a person working in
a toxic, abusive corporate environment? Very possibly. Public
statements from the TOR Project, and dissenting statements from
individuls inside the TOR Project, paint a picture of gross
malfeasance in personnel management and vicious personal vendettas run
rampant: See The Crucifixion of IOError for an introduction to the can
of worms that ate the TOR Project. But disappearance of vital
historical information relevant to the security and otherwise of the
Onion Routing network could also be something worse: An attempt to
remove data necessary to accurately estimate the Onion Routing
network's baseline security. Any way I look at it, I come to the same
conclusion: It's time to downgrade estimates of the security provided
by TOR - again.

[ end new content ]

Even if one makes the most pessimistic assumptions, TOR remains
useful. It will continue to punch through school, corporate and even
national network firewalls. TOR negates surveillance by network
service providers and makes users effectively invisible to
surveillance and profiling by corporate actors. TOR will continue to
reliably protect wireless connections at public venues from
eavesdropping or manipulation by J. Random Hacker. But TOR users who
have reason to believe that the NSA or another State actor would ever
actually do anything with information collected about their
TOR-cloaked activities, such as share it with a law enforcement agency
or hostile government, or deny/revoke a security clearance, should
adjust their security model accordingly.

https://www.torproject.org


by
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Re: Dead links to blog.torproject.org and the Streisand effect

[Georgi Guninski]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 05:13:42AM -0700, Mirimir wrote:
> > |See How to handle millions of new Tor clients on the TOR Blog.
> > https://blog.torproject.org/blog/how-to-handle-millions-new-tor-clients
> > 
> > This returns Page Not Found for me. 
> 
> Try here: .
>

I still don't get it. The diff between the two URLs is "-to-".
archive.org took snapshot of the missing link and the recent blog
entries on archive.org (at right) are still alive. Is this some new 
webmaster/SEO
trick?
 

Australian govt idiocy - refuses Aussie and Russian scientists to stop at "Australian" sub-antarctic island

[Zenaan Harkness]

If anyone needed another reason to oppose "democratic" government ..

Too often it's embarrassing being an Australian. Bloody idiots in our
"government".

Welp, least we protectin' the bird poop and rocks from them Russkies,
oh and our own Aussie scientists on board.

As if Turnbull wasn't bad enough with his endless "subtlety" on the
world stage. Obviously we must have invented foot in mouth syndrome.
I'm unfortunately not unfamiliar with that one myself ... terminally
Aussie condition it seems.



Scientists not allowed to land on sub-Antarctic island
http://tass.com/science/928791
"It was planned to make a landing the sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island,
but, unfortunately, the Australian side did not issue the required
permits, although scientists from this state actively participate in
this expedition," said Alexander Makarov, the deputy head of
Roshydromet’s Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute.
"

antifa promoting Hitler's "Truth Will Triumph" speech

[Zenaan Harkness]

Not surprising really ... front page material today:

http://antifascism.org/

(Direct link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ymEKiY1UR8
)

Re: antifa promoting Hitler's "Truth Will Triumph" speech

[Zenaan Harkness]

I don't know if most of these poor antifa can handle it, they might just
go catatonic, followed by a #triggered stroke.


On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 11:04:03PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> Not surprising really ... front page material today:
> 
> http://antifascism.org/
> 
> (Direct link:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ymEKiY1UR8
> )

Re: Dead links to blog.torproject.org and the Streisand effect

[Mirimir]

On 02/03/2017 04:47 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote:
> Why are Tor deleting their own pages on blog.torproject.org?
> 
> They have something to hide, lol?
> 
>>From @Kinney's domain, near end:
> http://pilobilus.net/comsec-101.html
> |See How to handle millions of new Tor clients on the TOR Blog.
> https://blog.torproject.org/blog/how-to-handle-millions-new-tor-clients
> 
> This returns Page Not Found for me. 

Try here: .

> Still alive on archive.org:
> http://web.archive.org/web/20131010204046/https://blog.torproject.org/blog/how-to-handle-millions-new-tor-clients
> 
> Other pages from 2013 are alive on Tor's blog.
> 
> IIRC there was similar issue with a page about Appelbaum, not sure.

Well, that's simple. They nuked it. There's nothing at
. And the last capture at

was on 2016-06-10.

Dead links to blog.torproject.org and the Streisand effect

[Georgi Guninski]

Why are Tor deleting their own pages on blog.torproject.org?

They have something to hide, lol?

>From @Kinney's domain, near end:
http://pilobilus.net/comsec-101.html
|See How to handle millions of new Tor clients on the TOR Blog.
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/how-to-handle-millions-new-tor-clients

This returns Page Not Found for me. 

Still alive on archive.org:
http://web.archive.org/web/20131010204046/https://blog.torproject.org/blog/how-to-handle-millions-new-tor-clients

Other pages from 2013 are alive on Tor's blog.

IIRC there was similar issue with a page about Appelbaum, not sure.

Re: Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 04:10:25AM -0500, grarpamp wrote:
...
> If you believe that the answer to bad speech is more speech -- not
> censorship -- then you have a dog in the fight.

Apropos. Thank you.

This is the reminder we need in February 2017 where public assertion
of "presumed thought crimes and their 'valid' pre-emptive punishment"
is made with vehement pride.

On this list no less.

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

[grarpamp]

http://craphound.com/littlebrother/Cory_Doctorow_-_Little_Brother.txt
http://craphound.com/

INTRODUCTION

I wrote Little Brother in a white-hot fury between May 7, 2007 and
July 2, 2007: exactly eight weeks from the day I thought it up to the
day I finished it (Alice, to whom this book is dedicated, had to put
up with me clacking out the final chapter at 5AM in our hotel in Rome,
where we were celebrating our anniversary). I'd always dreamed of
having a book just materialize, fully formed, and come pouring out of
my fingertips, no sweat and fuss -- but it wasn't nearly as much fun
as I'd thought it would be. There were days when I wrote 10,000 words,
hunching over my keyboard in airports, on subways, in taxis --
anywhere I could type. The book was trying to get out of my head, no
matter what, and I missed so much sleep and so many meals that friends
started to ask if I was unwell.

When my dad was a young university student in the 1960s, he was one of
the few "counterculture" people who thought computers were a good
thing. For most young people, computers represented the
de-humanization of society. University students were reduced to
numbers on a punchcard, each bearing the legend "DO NOT BEND, SPINDLE,
FOLD OR MUTILATE," prompting some of the students to wear pins that
said, "I AM A STUDENT: DO NOT BEND, SPINDLE, FOLD OR MUTILATE ME."
Computers were seen as a means to increase the ability of the
authorities to regiment people and bend them to their will.

When I was 17, the world seemed like it was just going to get more
free. The Berlin Wall was about to come down. Computers -- which had
been geeky and weird a few years before -- were everywhere, and the
modem I'd used to connect to local bulletin board systems was now
connecting me to the entire world through the Internet and commercial
online services like GEnie. My lifelong fascination with activist
causes went into overdrive as I saw how the main difficulty in
activism -- organizing -- was getting easier by leaps and bounds (I
still remember the first time I switched from mailing out a newsletter
with hand-written addresses to using a database with mail-merge). In
the Soviet Union, communications tools were being used to bring
information -- and revolution -- to the farthest-flung corners of the
largest authoritarian state the Earth had ever seen.

But 17 years later, things are very different. The computers I love
are being co-opted, used to spy on us, control us, snitch on us. The
National Security Agency has illegally wiretapped the entire USA and
gotten away with it. Car rental companies and mass transit and traffic
authorities are watching where we go, sending us automated tickets,
finking us out to busybodies, cops and bad guys who gain illicit
access to their databases. The Transport Security Administration
maintains a "no-fly" list of people who'd never been convicted of any
crime, but who are nevertheless considered too dangerous to fly. The
list's contents are secret. The rule that makes it enforceable is
secret. The criteria for being added to the list are secret. It has
four-year-olds on it. And US senators. And decorated veterans --
actual war heroes.

The 17 year olds I know understand to a nicety just how dangerous a
computer can be. The authoritarian nightmare of the 1960s has come
home for them. The seductive little boxes on their desks and in their
pockets watch their every move, corral them in, systematically
depriving them of those new freedoms I had enjoyed and made such good
use of in my young adulthood.

What's more, kids were clearly being used as guinea-pigs for a new
kind of technological state that all of us were on our way to, a world
where taking a picture was either piracy (in a movie theater or museum
or even a Starbucks), or terrorism (in a public place), but where we
could be photographed, tracked and logged hundreds of times a day by
every tin-pot dictator, cop, bureaucrat and shop-keeper. A world where
any measure, including torture, could be justified just by waving your
hands and shouting "Terrorism! 9/11! Terrorism!" until all dissent
fell silent.

We don't have to go down that road.

If you love freedom, if you think the human condition is dignified by
privacy, by the right to be left alone, by the right to explore your
weird ideas provided you don't hurt others, then you have common cause
with the kids whose web-browsers and cell phones are being used to
lock them up and follow them around.

If you believe that the answer to bad speech is more speech -- not
censorship -- then you have a dog in the fight.

If you believe in a society of laws, a land where our rulers have to
tell us the rules, and have to follow them too, then you're part of
the same struggle that kids fight when they argue for the right to
live under the same Bill of Rights that adults have.

This book is meant to be part of the conversation about what an
information society means: does it mean total control, or unheard-of
liberty? It's not 

Re: Hackers Disable Door Locks at Four-Star Hotel, Demand/Get Bitcoin Ransom

[grarpamp]

Politicians using crypto (messaging) to fuck people.
People using crypto (coins) to fuck politicians.
Crypto in the news every day.
For good, bad, and all in between.