The American of today, in fact, probably enjoys less personal liberty than any other man of Christendom, and even his political liberty is fast succumbing to the new dogma that certain theories of government are virtuous and lawful, and others abhorrent and felonious........“In God we trust” were one day expunged from the coins of the republic by the Junkers at Washington, and the far more appropriate word, “verboten,” substituted. Nor would it astound any save the most romantic if, at the same time, the goddess of liberty were taken off the silver dollars to make room for a bas-relief of a policeman in a spiked helmet.--H.L Menken
Freemasons, n. An order with secret rites, grotesque ceremonies and fantastic costumes, which, originating in the reign of Charles II, among working artisans of London, has been joined successively by the dead of past centuries in unbroken retrogression until now it embraces all the generations of man on the hither side of Adam and is drumming up distinguished recruits among the pre-Creational inhabitants of Chaos and Formless Void. The order was founded at different times by Charlemagne, Julius Caesar, Cyrus, Solomon, Zoroaster, Confucius, Thothmes, and Buddha. Its emblems and symbols have been found in the Catacombs of Paris and Rome, on the stones of the Parthenon and the Chinese Great Wall, among the temples of Karnak and Palmyra and in the Egyptian Pyramids — always by a Freemason.---Ambrose Briece
NSA
"The only part of the government that actually listens."
Call your Representative NOW and demand they say NO to bombing Syria!
1-888-981-7872
the guardian today - US edition Tuesday 10 Sep 2013
Syria conflict: France to seek tough UN resolution on chemical weapons Resolution will require Syria to place its chemical weapons under international control or face 'extremely serious consequences'
Kerry: Russia's Syria chemical weapons proposal the 'ideal way' to end impasse
10 Sep 2013, 17:44 BST
10 Sep 2013, 17:44 BST
Compare
what Washington did to the people of Vietnam with its relentless
chemical weapons attacks that the Vietnamese had to endure for years
with the alleged and unproven use of chemical weapons by the Syrian
government.
Use a Dead Man’s Switch to Announce NSA Sabotage
Security systems deliberately weakened by the NSA put their users at risk. Cory Doctorow, author and co-editor of the group blog Boing Boing, suggests building a service that puts a “dead man’s switch” on every website subject to government interference that would alert users their security has been compromised.
The method is a way around legally binding orders that forbid email, cloud computing and other Internet service providers from notifying their clients when they receive government directives to release user information. “Even the most trustworthy operators may face secret orders to silently betray you, with terrible penalties if they speak out,” Doctorow writes.
“It doesn’t really matter if you trust the ‘good’ spies of America and the UK not to abuse their powers,” he continues, explaining the urgent need for such a service. “It is laughable to suppose that the back doors that the NSA has secretly inserted into common technologies will only be exploited by the NSA. There are plenty of crooks, foreign powers, and creeps who devote themselves to picking away patiently at the systems that make up the world and guard its wealth and security (that is, your wealth and security) and whatever sneaky tools the NSA has stashed for itself in your operating system, hardware, applications and services, they will surely find and exploit.
“Ultimately these are only as trustworthy as the people who run them,” Doctorow writes. “If the law is perverted so that we cannot tell people when their security has been undermined, it follows that we must find some other legal way to warn them about services that are not fit for purpose.” Read on below to see how the service would work.
—Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.
The Guardian:
Once you’re registered, you tell the dead man’s switch how often you plan on notifying it that you have not received a secret order, expressed in hours. Thereafter, the service sits there, quietly sending a random number to you at your specified interval, which you sign and send back as a “No secret orders yet” message. If you miss an update, it publishes that fact to an RSS feed.
Such a service would lend itself to lots of interesting applications. Muck-raking journalists could subscribe to the raw feed, looking for the names of prominent services that had missed their nothing-to-see-here deadlines. Security-minded toolsmiths could provide programmes that looked through your browser history and compared it with the URLs registered with the service and alert you if any of the sites you visit ever show up in the list of possibly-compromised sites.
No one’s ever tested this approach in court, and I can’t say whether a judge would be able to distinguish between “not revealing a secret order” and “failing to note the absence of a secret order”, but in US jurisprudence, compelling someone to speak a lie is generally more fraught with constitutional issues than compelled silence about the truth. The UK is on less stable ground – the “unwritten constitution” lacks clarity on this subject, and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act allows courts to order companies to surrender their cryptographic keys (for the purposes of decrypting evidence, though perhaps a judge could be convinced to equate providing evidence with signing a message).
Read more
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Antitrust commish speaking softly for now - while fingering his big regulatory stick
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Gogglebox enthusiasts rejoice - unless you're near Wembley
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Consumer group reckons it should be cheaper to call banks and public bodies
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'Lawful Intercept and Monitoring' systems don't sound very lawful
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Shi Tao gets out of jail 15 months early
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Plans to add crypto to data centre traffic
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Spammy botnet got sneaky
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Uproots root privilege route, covers it over
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'Coast' washes away the back button
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Visual Studio 2013 release candidate also available
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Video SPACE LASER broadband system safe for testing
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Brits' payloads travel suggestively all over Europe
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Sexy open source kit to control LOHAN spaceplane
September 9, 2013
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When important decisions are made in Washington, too often, working families are ignored. From tax policy to retirement security, the voices of hard-working people get drowned out by powerful industries and well-financed front groups. Those with power fight to take care of themselves and to feed at the trough for themselves, even when it comes at the expense of working families getting a fair shot at a better future.
This isn’t new. Throughout our history, powerful interests have tried to capture Washington and rig the system in their favor. But we didn’t roll over. At every turn, in every time of challenge, organized labor has been there, fighting on behalf of the American people. read more
Gov. Gary Johnson will host an online Google Hangout tonight, Tuesday, September 10, 2013, at 7 p.m. PDT/ 10 p.m. EDT.
The 60-minute online event will give participants a chance to ask the former New Mexico Governor and Honorary Chairman of the Our America Initiative questions via a video chat on Google Plus.
The 60-minute online event will give participants a chance to ask the former New Mexico Governor and Honorary Chairman of the Our America Initiative questions via a video chat on Google Plus.
Gary Johnson looks forward to hearing from you!
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