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US Torture goes to Supreme Court
by grarpamp 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/guantanamo/arti… In a first, former CIA captive appeals Guantánamo trial to Supreme Court GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba Lawyers for the man accused of orchestrating the USS Cole bombing are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in the military tribunal here using accounts of the captive’s CIA torture drawn from declassified documents and an interrogator’s recent memoirs. The 38-page petition with hundreds of pages of supporting documents describes Abd al Rahim al Nashiri’s being sodomized, kept naked and kenneled like a dog, crammed into a box the size of an office safe and being threatened with a revved power drill while hanging shackled and nude from a cell ceiling. And that’s from the portion that isn’t blacked out. New documents include an Army sanity board report and a prosecution chronology of the captive’s time in the Black Sites. Both are heavily redacted. In the petition, the Pentagon-paid lawyers ask the justices to let them challenge Nashiri’s U.S. military detention in federal court — now, before his Guantánamo death-penalty tribunal — because the CIA subjected him to years of “physical, psychological and sexual torture.” They also asked the justices to resolve the open legal question of when the “War on Terror” began. A lower court ruled that civilian courts should stay out of the Nashiri case until the Saudi’s capital war crimes trial is over. His is the first case of a former CIA captive appealing to the Supreme Court. At the war court last Wednesday, defense attorney Rick Kammen notified the tribunal judge, Air Force Col. Vance Spath, of the once-classified filing. Lawyers for the Saudi submitted the document to the Supreme Court on Jan. 17. It took the court’s “Classified Information Security Officer” two months to decide which parts the public could see. ‘CIA agents subjected petitioner to the most extreme forms of torture and abuse in which our country has ever engaged.’ Large portions of the supporting documents are completely blacked out, and perhaps 20 percent of the petition. More...

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Sweden: Tapping Your Comms for the US Since 1954
by grarpamp 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

http://www.svt.se/ug/read-the-snowden-documents-from-the-nsa Here Uppdrag granskning [Mission: Investigation] the documents leaked by Edwards Snowden and retrieved from Glenn Greenwald that are the basis for the report about Sweden's collaboration with the NSA and the GCHQ. In an internal, top-secret document dated 18 April this year, the NSA summarises its relations with Sweden. The document states that since 1954 Sweden has been a part of an intelligence collaboration with what is often called “The Five Eyes”, UKUSA, which refers to the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. This is despite the fact that Sweden was officially neutral, an image that has been maintained outwardly for decades by multiple governments of different political persuasions. The document also states that the UKUSA contract was discontinued in 2004 and replaced with bilateral agreements for signals intelligence and wiretapping. As of 2011, the Swedish FRA provides its American partner with extensive access to data from its cable collection.

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Adam Kokesh: Running for [not]President in 2020
by grarpamp 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

Anarcho Bitcoin Veteran on Libertarian Ticket Currently gearing up for second nationwide speaking tour. http://kokeshfornotpresident.com/ http://thefreedomline.com/ http://adamkokesh.com/ http://adamvstheman.com/ https://www.youtube.com/user/AdamKokesh/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/AdamVsTheManRT/videos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Kokesh https://www.patreon.com/adamkokesh http://kokesh.blogspot.com/ https://instagram.com/adamkokesh/ http://facebook.com/kokeshfornotpresident https://twitter.com/adamkokesh https://www.facebook.com/adamcharleskokesh https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3174254/ http://thefreedom.fund/ https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=anarchapulco+kokesh http://thefreedomline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/FREEDOM-ebook.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtspq5T7B44 hill panel winter soldier engagement rules https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEJnCf4WQaA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9bPPjlSMwo

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McDonalds Twitter Account Hacked (image: 244kb)
by Razer 18 Mar '17

18 Mar '17

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-mcdonalds-trump-hands-tweet-0317-… And what a hack it waz!

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Governance vs Decentralised Systems, Gold, Cash, Bitcoin
by grarpamp 18 Mar '17

18 Mar '17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtwaW79Fj7c Governance problems which have allowed skeptics in the media to latch on to the failures of decentralised systems. Decentralisation isn't a Boolean, it's a range. Is it much more decentralised than anything we've built before, including its governance? Yes. You will not notice that developers and miners really don't have control to effect change until something goes wrong, until there's a highly contentious issue. They may want to offer a straightforward, direct, and simple solution, but the system won't let them do that. Lead developers can make limited decisions about what they include in the code, but with blockchains you can either have opinions or continue to make money; if your opinions get too strong, you stop making money. Governance in these systems is tricky because by making those explicit trade-offs, we get liberty. If you want to have quick / simple / easy solutions, you will elect a dictator. The trains may run on time, but the destination might be a death camp, an efficient operation for killing people. Democracy is incredibly inefficient, but we practice it anyway because we appreciate the trade-offs that it gives us: self-expression; self-determination; freedom of association, of religion, of consciousness. Governance in network-centric systems are open to permissionless access and innovation, systems which exhibit a very high degree of autonomy and censorship resistance. The price we pay is that our debates are loud, messy, and sometimes don't end, because there's no centralised authority to filter everyone's opinions; that's how corporations and governments run. We've tried that, and if we want that kind of money, we have that kind of money. The bottom line is that this not an accident, it's an explicit trade-off: efficiency is the price we pay to buy liberty. I will pay that price because I can apply engineering optimisation to efficiency; Bitcoin and Ethereum were the first times I could apply engineering optimisation to liberty. Currency Wars, Bitcoin Neutrality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0o_Mg5hY4g Shorter Version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diw-5vWVW5o India https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J_RVI0ZdRE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLNZ_ydSqnM No Gold, No Wedding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUr2E4dfs0Y https://financial-risk-solutions.thomsonreuters.info/GFMS https://trmcs-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/377d4e994bb540b286d7ccf30b81bece_2… https://trmcs-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/377d4e994bb540b286d7ccf30b81bece_2… https://trmcs-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/377d4e994bb540b286d7ccf30b81bece_2… https://trmcs-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/377d4e994bb540b286d7ccf30b81bece_2… https://trmcs-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/ec6fa1ac9669b3b012c8275107819088_2… Bitcoin https://data.bitcoinity.org/markets/volume/30d https://coinmarketcap.com/

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US Trump Budget: Kills Science, Plumps Military/DHS, Sinks US Prospects Further
by MAGA 18 Mar '17

18 Mar '17

> John Newman jnn at synfin.org > Fri Mar 17 04:41:17 PDT 2017 > > cohort of nazis. Das rite, the democrats dindunuffin ! > fantasies / fantasists Expand your vocabulary, fam. > "King Trump" It's 'God Emperor Trump', fucker. Pics related. > playing 4d chess He's on to 88D now; Just say no ! > Fuck the USA. Yes, it is well known that most living in Washington D.C. hate America and everyone in it. What is your point ?

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Facebook sends team to Pakistan to assist govt. with capital punishment for blasphemy
by Zenaan Harkness 18 Mar '17

18 Mar '17

The almighty corporation Facebook, "doing no evil" just like Google, the NSA and the CIA. What a won-der-ful world! Oh that's right, Pakistan "will seek the extradition of any suspects living overseas." I'm sure Facebook can help with that, too... ‘What is the Right Punishment For Blasphemy?’ asks Muslim-focused BBC Radio Network http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/03/17/right-punishment-blasphemy-asks-mu…

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actual "Snowflake Test" for all potential employees: Kyle S. Reyes, CEO of The Silent Partner Marketing
by Zenaan Harkness 18 Mar '17

18 Mar '17

I can't speak for this CEO nor his company, but it sounds like a fine place to work. Self-selecting candidates self-excluding themselves on a tear for such a "shameful" test - now --that's-- an effective filter :) Reyes has previously published “An open letter to college crybabies from a CEO,” +1 CEO Makes Potential Employees Take a ‘Snowflake Test’ Before Hiring http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/03/17/ceo-makes-potential-employees-take…

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US Trump Budget: Kills Science, Plumps Military/DHS, Sinks US Prospects Further
by grarpamp 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-presidential-budget-… The U.S. Office of Management and Budget has released a budget "blueprint" which outlines substantial cuts in both basic research and applied technology funding. The proposal includes a whopping 18% reduction in National Institutes of Health medical research. NIH does get a new $500 million fund to track emerging infectious agents like Zika in the U.S., but loses its funding to monitor those agents overseas. The Department of Energy's research programs also get an 18% cut in research, potentially affecting basic physics research, high energy physics, fusion research, and supercomputing. Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) gets the ax, as does the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program, which enabled Tesla to manufacture its Model S sedan. EPA loses all climate research funding, and about half the research funding targeted at human health impacts of pollution. The Energy Star program is eliminated; Superfund funding is drastically reduced. The Chesapeake Bay and Great Lakes cleanup programs are also eliminated, as is all screening of pesticides for endocrine disruption. In the Department of Commerce, Sea Grant is eliminated, along with all coastal zone research funding. Existing weather satellites GOES and JPSS continue funding, but JPSS-3 and -4 appear to be getting the ax. Support for transfer of federally funded research and technology to small and mid-sized manufacturers is eliminated. NASA gets a slight trim, and a new focus on deep space exploration paid for by an elimination of Earth Science programs. You can read more about this "blueprint" in Nature, Science, and the Washington Post, which broke the story. The Environmental Protection Agency, the State Department and Agriculture Department took the hardest hits, while the Defense Department, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of Veterans Affairs have seen their budgets grow.

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Rojava - Kurdistan - Assyrians - Neo-colonial use of "alien forefathers" conspiracies
by MAGA 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

> Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net > Sat Mar 11 02:22:01 PST 2017 > > Relying on senders to break their links for you The archives are for the children. List MVP like you shuud know this. The Referer request header contains the address of the previous web page from which a link to the currently requested page was followed."" -Modzilla

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