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happen maybe just maybe it will but if and only if pigshit trump can use it to put money in his pocket categorized in politics and trump tags politics reid trump here s your bumper sticker for the next week november 1 2016 comments off on here s your bumper sticker for the next week tromp trump categorized in uncategorized about trump let s be polite october 31 2016 comments off on about trump let s be polite the politest thing that can be said of donald trump is that he is a flaming evil a not too bright evil a vile ugly little man who if he were a dog would be the object of the local constabulary s order to shoot on sight that such a person is the subject of adoration of millions of americans says a great deal about the united states none of it positive none of it good there are those in the commentariat who say that we should understand that those people are angry and ashamed angry that they feel shame about their lives because basically they aren t rich and have to work hard at making a living we are supposed to think kindly of such people because all they want is for the government to make life easy for them by taking them back to the 18th and 19th centuries living standards no the united states is not a perfect place full of light and grace and plenty and money it was devastated by rich people in the crash of 2008 rich people like donald trump who openly sought to profit from that economic devastation those events cost jobs and homes and lives brought pain into people s lives and combined with the horror of a black man in the white house those events brought the right wing republican haters and bigots and ignoramuses and psychopaths out from under their logs and out of their caves and the american people who we are supposed to think kindly of listened and believed the vile spew of lies and hate and deceit that poured forth rather than pick themselves up and act as civil people seeking to put their nation which they profess to love more than anyone else back on its feet they whined and complained and bitched and moaned and blamed latinos and blacks and muslims and anyone who wasn t white and willfully ignorant for their troubles they allowed themselves to be led by the nose by celebrity commentators and pundits like o reilly and limbaugh and hannity and the rest of that crew of braying hatred and stupidity and greed because they were celebrities and everyone knows that in america celebrities of any sort are smarter and wiser and more knowledgeable than anyone else these people we are to think kindly of know virtually nothing of governance of the history of the country they profess to love as they defecate on it every waking minute of the functions of government or the absolute need of governance in human affairs but they will tell us constantly that of course they know better how to run things than do people who have devoted their lives to the study and practice of governance of government of running massive programs involving thousands of people and billions of dollars of making life and death decisions affecting the entire world yes these are trump s people they were indeed hitler s people and they were indeed p t barnum s customers and they intend to bring down on the united states and the world the darkest of carnivals the blackest of houses of horrors the worst that humanity has to offer itself think kindly of them no no indeed trump is an unalloyed evil who encourages and enables the worst thoughts and acts that humans are capable of and such people in their millions are willing instruments of his vile twisted black greed and ambition categorized in uncategorized lily r i p 11 12 2015 november 12 2015 comments off on lily r i p 11 12 2015 categorized in cats tags lily beep 07 14 2015 r i p july 14 2015 comments off on beep 07 14 2015 r i p he was a good cat for seventeen years a noisy cat but a good cat categorized in cats tags beep from rep alan grayson re edward snowden the nsa and your nude selfies november 26 2014 leave a response there was a filibuster in the u s senate last week yes i know that s hardly news and a cloture vote to end that filibuster that s hardly news either and the cloture vote failed not news the vote was among other things to end the national security agency s collection of records of every phone call that you make which sadly also is no longer news what would be news is if someone did something about it fifty eight senators voted in favor of ending the filibuster and the bulk collection only forty two voted against but we no longer live in a country where the majority rules so every single time you make a phone call the nsa will know to whom you spoke and for how long regarding the failed vote against the filibuster the d c newspaper roll call opined that it s probably going to take another series of revelations about nsa programs for strict legislation to get momentum again but i m wondering how much of the last series of revelations has been absorbed by the body politic so i m offering to you excerpts from a little noticed interview that edward snowden did with the guardian a few months ago complete with british spelling file it under the category of read it and weep yes the nsa shares your sexy photos and other observations from edward snowden on nsa culture sharing sexually compromising material snowden when you re an nsa analyst and you re looking for raw signals intelligence what you realise is that the majority of the communications in our databases are not the communications of targets they re the communications of ordinary people of your neighbours of your neighbours friends of your relations of the person who runs the register at the store they re the most deep and intense and intimate and damaging private moments of their lives and we re seizing them without any authorisation without any reason records of all of their activities their cell phone locations their purchase records their private text messages their phone calls the content of those calls in certain circumstances transaction histories and from this we can create a perfect or nearly perfect record of each individual s activity and those activities are increasingly becoming permanent records many of the people searching through the haystacks were young enlisted guys and 18 to 22 years old they ve suddenly been thrust into a position of extraordinary responsibility where they now have access to all your private records in the course of their daily work they stumble across something that is completely unrelated to their work for example an intimate nude photo of someone in a sexually compromising situation but they re extremely attractive so what do they do they turn around in their chair and they show a co worker and their co worker says oh hey that s great send that to bill down the way and then bill sends it to george george sends it to tom and sooner or later this person s whole life has been seen by all of these other people anything goes more or less you re in a vaulted space everybody has sort of similar clearances everybody knows everybody it s a small world it s never reported nobody ever knows about it the auditing of these systems is incredibly weak now while people may say that it s an innocent harm this person doesn t even know that their image was viewed it represents a fundamental principle which is that we don t have to see individual instances of abuse the mere seizure of that communication by itself was an abuse the fact that your private images records of your private lives records of your intimate moments have been taken from your private communication stream from the intended recipient and given to the government without any specific authorisation without any specific need is itself a violation of your rights why is that in the government database i d say probably every two months you see something like that happen it s routine enough depending on the company you keep it could be more or less frequent but these are seen as the fringe benefits of surveillance positions why he gave the documents to multiple journalists snowden as an engineer and particularly as somebody who worked in telecoms and things like that on these systems the thing that you re always terrified of when you re thinking about reliability is spofs single point of failure right this was the thing i told the journalists if the government thinks you re the single point of failure they ll kill you whether spying on everyone stops terrorism snowden the white house investigated those programs which allowed mass surveillance on two separate occasions and on both occasions found that they had no value at all and yet while those panels recommended that they be terminated when it actually came to the white house suggesting action to legislators the legislators said well let s not end these programs even though they ve operated for 10 years and never stopped any imminent terrorist attacks let s keep them going life at the nsa snowden i began to move from merely overseeing these systems to actively directing their use many people don t understand that i was actually an analyst and i designated individuals and groups for targeting i was exposed to information about the previous programs like stellar wind used during the presidency of george w bush for example the warrantless wire tapping of everyone in the united states including their internet data which is a violation of the constitution and law in the united states did cause a scandal and was ended because of that when i saw that that was really the earthquake moment because it showed that the officials who authorized these programs knew it was a problem they knew they didn t have any statutory authorization for these programs but instead the government assumed upon itself in secret new executive powers without any public awareness or any public consent and used them against the citizenry of its own country to increase its own power to increase its own awareness we constantly hear the phrase national security but when the state begins broadly intercepting the communications seizing the communications by themselves without any warrant without any suspicion without any judicial involvement without any demonstration of probable cause are they really protecting national security or are they protecting state security what i came to feel and what i think more and more people have seen at least the potential for is that a regime that is described as a national security agency has stopped representing the public interest and has instead begun to protect and promote state security interests and the idea of western democracy as having state security bureaus just that term that phrase itself state security bureau is kind of chilling the relationship between the nsa and telecom and internet companies snowden unusually hidden even from people who worked for these agencies are the details of the financial arrangements between the government and the telecommunication service providers and we have to ask ourselves why is that why are their details of how they re being paid to collaborate with the government protected at a much greater level than for example the names of human agents operating undercover embedded with terrorist groups what happens if you report wrongdoing through the proper channels snowden thomas drake an american who exposed widespread lawlessness he was a senior nsa employee who raised concerns about agency programs and their impact on privacy rather than having those claims investigated rather than having the wrongdoing remediated they launched an investigation against him and all of his co workers they pulled them out of the shower at gunpoint naked in front of their families they seized all of their communications and electronic devices they interrogated them all they threatened to put them in jail for life for years and years and years decades and they destroyed their careers the public should not know about these programmes the public should not have a say in these programmes and for god s sake the press had better not learn about these programmes or we will destroy you compromising the security of the web itself snowden a back door in a communications system in an internet system in an encryption standard is basically a secret method of getting around the security of those communications it s a way of subverting all of the privacy claims all of the security claims that a company or a standard makes to the people who use a product or service the danger of building back doors like that for example the bullrun program where the nsa and gchq were shown to be collaborating and weakening the encryption standards that the entire internet relies on means that when you re accessing your bank account online there could be a secret weakness there that allows our western governments security services to monitor your bank details what people often overlook is the fact that when you build a back door into a communication system that back door can be discovered by anyone around the world that can be a private individual that can be a security researcher at a university but it can also be a criminal group it can also be a foreign intelligence agency but say the nsa s equivalent in a deeply irresponsible government in some foreign country and now that foreign country can scrutinise not just your bank records not just your private transactions but your private communications all around the internet and in every institution that relies upon these standards whether it s facebook whether it s gmail where it s skype whether it s angry birds you ve been made electronically naked as you go about your activities on the internet that decision wasn t debated by any public body it wasn t authorised by any legislator in fact at least in the united states in the 1990s law enforcement agencies asked specifically for this sort of back door access to internet communications and our elected representatives in congress rejected it they said it was a violation of our civil rights and it was an unnecessary risk to the security of our communications and so they shut it down but what we see is that 10 years later instead of going back to congress and asking again they simply went ahead and the intelligence community said we re going to do this it doesn t matter what congress says it doesn t matter what the public thinks we re going to do this because it provides us an advantage and the consequences of that today are unknown because we could have foreign adversaries exploiting those back doors that intelligence agencies in countries like the united kingdom intelligence agencies like gchq put into our communications and we have no idea that it s occurring what last year s revelations showed us was irrefutable evidence that unencrypted communications on the internet are no longer safe and cannot be trusted their integrity has been compromised and we need new security pro grams to protect them any communicatio...