Tuesday, 30 April 2019
European Parliament Inquiry on NSA Mass Surveillance
Tiananmen Square
Queen Wilhelmina 'considered Nazi swap for Belgian royals'
She asked her foreign minister in exile in London, Eelco van Kleffens, to "sound out", via the Vatican, whether high-ranking Nazis could be offered an escape route in return for the Belgian royal family's release, says Michael Riemens who has just published the minister's diaries.
The revelations shed further light on how top Nazis were trying to negotiate their escape from Europe in the dying days of the war. Many high-ranking Nazis were successfully spirited away to Latin America, including Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele and Klaus Barbie. See Archaeologists find possible nazi refuge in Argentina
Ostia
My daughter and I were roaming around this place in 2009, for a couple of days completely oblivious to these sorts of "issues" 😂
Journalists in any country, who are working on these kinds of issues, need police and military protection 24/7, and access to witness protection programmes for their informants, even if they are investigating heads of state and senior members of the police and armed forces.
Journalists in any country, who are working on these kinds of issues, need police and military protection 24/7, and access to witness protection programmes for their informants, even if they are investigating heads of state and senior members of the police and armed forces.
Che Guevara On Sovereignty and Imperialism
Speech in the UN General Assembly, given on 11 December 1964.
Zambia and Malawi were two regions that were part of The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland which was the "Self-governing British colony of Southern Rhodesia, and the British protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland—between 1953 and 1963."
Within one year, Ian Smith's Rhodesian government made the Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
The other country Guevara mentions by bame is Malta. "The British Parliament passed the Malta Independence Act in 1964, giving Malta independence from the United Kingdom as the State of Malta, with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state and queen." What the fuck was going on?!
See this post on other interviews with Guevara in 1964. And this post on Guevara and Castro.
Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith talking about independence in 1967.
If that was the "Paddling our own canoe" speech, then the following must be the "You have missed the bus" speech! 😂
Zambia and Malawi were two regions that were part of The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland which was the "Self-governing British colony of Southern Rhodesia, and the British protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland—between 1953 and 1963."
See here.
The other country Guevara mentions by bame is Malta. "The British Parliament passed the Malta Independence Act in 1964, giving Malta independence from the United Kingdom as the State of Malta, with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state and queen." What the fuck was going on?!
See this post on other interviews with Guevara in 1964. And this post on Guevara and Castro.
Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith talking about independence in 1967.
If that was the "Paddling our own canoe" speech, then the following must be the "You have missed the bus" speech! 😂
China's Garbage Belt and Gate Initiative
Recycling waste is dumb. If we were smart, we wouldn't produce it in the first place. Unfortunately we're not smart.
See also
And making collecting waste an industry funded by donations is not smart either.
The problem is that free market economcs does not place any value on natural resources, unless they are exploited by someone to make money. So we need to change the global economy. It's a bit of a problem when the United States and China, along with the UK and Europe, are actively working overtime to stop this from happening.
See also
And making collecting waste an industry funded by donations is not smart either.
The problem is that free market economcs does not place any value on natural resources, unless they are exploited by someone to make money. So we need to change the global economy. It's a bit of a problem when the United States and China, along with the UK and Europe, are actively working overtime to stop this from happening.
Sayings of Lao Tzu
The Tao Te Ching is an interesting text. When you read it through as a whole, it presents problems that are much more subtle than any in this collection of sayings. Perhaps because The Tao is about more than the life of an individual person.
Here is one such "meditation" on the Tao Te Ching you can try: contemplate how section 7 and section 13 resolve
This is Che Guevara's answer: "Patria o Muerte".
Here is one such "meditation" on the Tao Te Ching you can try: contemplate how section 7 and section 13 resolve
William Binney on Surveillance
Bill says that most of the terrorist attacks were preventable without surveilling everybody everywhere, but focussing on suspects. The fact that the NSA surveill everyone shows, I think, that terrorists are not the real threat that the NSA face. The real threat is the people in every country getting together and restoring their national sovereignty. That's why the NSA and the "five eyes" want to map social networks, and that's why they set up Zuckerberg in FaceBook. And that is why nobody speaks to me.
Getting Lost in Complexities of Your Own Making
Here's a great example, ARMv8 TrustZone security. A hotch-potch of hacks, patches and workarounds, stuffed into a box, and labelled a "solution". Shit like this just makes me want to lie face-down on the floor, and kick and scream till I die!
A New Hobby
Making cool tech for shooting down Amazon Prime drones to get free stuff! 😂
As to the freight delivery service, that business is almost entirely software. All we need is a way to generate software for very large information systems to connect micro-businesses together in the mostefficient manner we know.
As to the freight delivery service, that business is almost entirely software. All we need is a way to generate software for very large information systems to connect micro-businesses together in the mostefficient manner we know.
Russian Agricultural Technology
Lee Camp is thinking old-style biology. None if this shit is a problem for Russian agricultural biomedicine. Relax, dude, and baaa! (🐑!)
It's with shit like this where 5G is going to own! Own who? Own you!
This is the plan that Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and I came up with over the weekend, to get people to pay more attention to us.
It's with shit like this where 5G is going to own! Own who? Own you!
This is the plan that Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and I came up with over the weekend, to get people to pay more attention to us.
Microsoft's Problem
It's pretty simple, really. A bunch of overpaid jerks like this who have never lived a real life, will never have any product ideas worth having.
Here's a good example.
Here's a good example.
Monday, 29 April 2019
Fentanyl Being Made in Sinaloa, Mexico
The pre-cursor chemicals are imported from China and the final product cooked-up in pots in crude outdoor "labs".
Microsoft and NSA
The Hated One on the story of the NSA Cryptography API key in Microsoft Windows NT4 SP5.
Mentions this Guardian story from July 2013, just a few weeks after the US State Department revoked the passport of Edward Snowden.
Mentions this Guardian story from July 2013, just a few weeks after the US State Department revoked the passport of Edward Snowden.
Martin Lee on Democracy in China
This is a very interesting personal view from a really delightful man. Martin Lee was one of those who helped to draft Hong Kong's "Basic Law", which was part of the handover of the territory back to China.
OK Ladies, ...
We're going into business running American corporations, such as Intel, General Electric and Boeing. that have gone into receivership. That's what we'll use our new software for.
Boeing Out To Lunch
It just gets dumber and dumber by the day! Boeing Removed the Warning System for Faulty Airspeed Indicators and didn't see fit to tell anyone about it. See also the original Wall Street Journal report, referenced by this piece which says:
The Wall Street Journal on Sunday reported that Boeing didn't tell Southwest Airlines, the biggest U.S. operator of 737 models, and other carriers about a safety feature found on earlier versions of the aircraft that warns pilots about malfunctioning sensors had been deactivated.
On Trusting Hardware
You only have to watch the first 3 mins 13 seconds of this talk to see why the answer is "Just Don't Do It!"
In this post, dated 15th October 2014, I explained the problem, and described a solution to it. This is still something I would like to do, if I could get the werewithal to work again, one day.
After posting that, and prodding around for feedback, I got only one intelligent response, which was Vaughan Pratt asking me what I thought "full disclosure" of hardware and firmware back-doors would mean in practice. Here is my reply.
In this post, dated 15th October 2014, I explained the problem, and described a solution to it. This is still something I would like to do, if I could get the werewithal to work again, one day.
- Note at 17 mins 51 secs, the assumption that the GCR is unique is not justified, as I explain in detail in the aforementioned post. In general, redundancy in the instruction encoding can be used as a covert channel to unlock further levels of hidden functionality. This is relevant to mitigations, at 48 mins 24 secs. You need to know all the possible ways to set the GMB, to know how to lock it down.
- At 21 mins 58 secs, it might be possible to use a fairly straightforward genetic search algorithm to choose stable sets of bits that can be toggled without crashing the system, then run sandsifter after toggling all of the bits in the set. Then you could use some kind of binary chop to hone down the sets to those which yield new instructions. Doing this, you may discover more hidden functionality such as "sub options" enabling more instructions in certain modes.
- At 32 mins 30 secs, a similar genetic search ought to speed up the guessing of instruction opcodes here too.
- At 33 mins 5 secs, this expanded test rig could implement the genetic search in parallel.
- At 49 mins "Backdoors do exist in hardware, but we can find them, using the right techniques." This statement is unjustified by anything the speaker has said in this talk so far. It is also false! This was established by Karger and Schell in http://seclab.cs.ucdavis.edu/projects/history/papers/karg74.pdf See "Teletype string trigger trapdoors". In particular, the following email of mine went to John Harrison at Intel, so at least one person at Intel ought to have known about this!
- 48 mins 43 secs. This guy sounds here just like someone paid by Intel to put out smoke in a desperate attempt to divert a slew of lawsuits that are going to result in Intel filing for bankruptcy!
After posting that, and prodding around for feedback, I got only one intelligent response, which was Vaughan Pratt asking me what I thought "full disclosure" of hardware and firmware back-doors would mean in practice. Here is my reply.
So that reply, and the notes above, show one possible reason why I cannot earn enough, as a security consultant, to pay for my food.
Communications Insecurity
The Hated One has produced a really excellent summary of the hacker crackdown in the United States in early 1990, which is probably the principal reason why the Internet is the hopeless mess it is today. I feel ashamed that it took me so long to get around to watching this. This documentary is mandatory viewing for anybody reporting on computer and communications security issues today.
A Great Business Opportunity
The new business is what is colloquially referred to as cutting the crap! And judging by this sequence of events, it's biiig business!
This sort of administrative tweak should not have taken more than an hour of one employee of the Bundespost's time to affect. But the problem is ultimately because of incompatible concrete representations of business data, and we know how to fix this problem.
This sort of administrative tweak should not have taken more than an hour of one employee of the Bundespost's time to affect. But the problem is ultimately because of incompatible concrete representations of business data, and we know how to fix this problem.
Sunday, 28 April 2019
Aussie Man Tax
It turns out that the Australian café's "man tax" was optional, and was 18% because that matched the gender pay gap at the time. If someone in Bolivia did this then I seriously doubt I would be able to pay for my coffee!
Sri Lankan Muslims Fear Reprisals
And so the terror goes on, until we can find out who was really behind the New Zealand attack. We need secure communications, people. And, no, I'm not talking to the idiots at the DNC!
Shekhar Gupta of The Print says here that the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka were not retaliation for the New Zealand attack. He says it was ISIS' demonstration of its global operational capability, in spite of its apparent defeat in Syria.
Shekhar Gupta of The Print says here that the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka were not retaliation for the New Zealand attack. He says it was ISIS' demonstration of its global operational capability, in spite of its apparent defeat in Syria.
Gideon Rachman on Japan
Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator of the London Financial Times on the problems facing the world's third largest economy. He doesn't even once mention the United States, or sovereignty, or General Electric.
Al Jazeera on Emperor Akihito's abdication, and talk in Japan of possible changes to the succession, which can only come from the government.
Al Jazeera on Emperor Akihito's abdication, and talk in Japan of possible changes to the succession, which can only come from the government.
Amazing Shit You Can Do With Cheap FPGAs!
Well, when I say you, I do not mean that I could do this! I mean Sylvain Munaut can do it!
At 14 mins 18 secs, he implements a digital-analogue converter.
At 17 mins 25 secs he implements an accurate GPSDO which tracks the phase of the PPS signal, as well as the frequency. GPSDOs can be used for phase-synchronous distributed applications at high frequencies, so not just for synchronising audio input to city-wide audio amplifiers for son et lumiere events, like this, but also: "GPSDOs can be used to provide synchronization of multiple RF receivers, allowing for RF phase coherent operation among the receivers and applications, such as passive radar and ionosondes." See also this fibre optical interface board.
At 22 mins 25 secs, he apparently implements most of a USB stack in hardware. ...
This is at the least a kit for upgrading your commute to work and back, not just in Okinawa, but anywhere, ...
So, having learned programming, the next step is to learn how to program designs for electronic systems, like Music Synthesizers, for example.
Women should not feel discouraged by the apparently high geek quotient here. Watch Jeri Ellsworth explaining how to use dynamic flip-flops, ...
... and how they're used in Direct Digital Synthesis, ...
.... and then, how magnetic core logic works, ...
... then go back and listen to Sylvain talking about how he tested the timing calculations against actual results using a closed-loop oscillator, and how he implemented the DA converter and the PPS phase detection, and you will get a glimpse of the potential of this tech. Next, learn about why designing hardware and software at the same time is more fun, and produces better results, ...
... Then help us set up a workspace here in Cochabamba where we can do classes and presentations like this, and rent lab and work space, and get pizza and coffee 24/7, ...
At 14 mins 18 secs, he implements a digital-analogue converter.
At 17 mins 25 secs he implements an accurate GPSDO which tracks the phase of the PPS signal, as well as the frequency. GPSDOs can be used for phase-synchronous distributed applications at high frequencies, so not just for synchronising audio input to city-wide audio amplifiers for son et lumiere events, like this, but also: "GPSDOs can be used to provide synchronization of multiple RF receivers, allowing for RF phase coherent operation among the receivers and applications, such as passive radar and ionosondes." See also this fibre optical interface board.
At 22 mins 25 secs, he apparently implements most of a USB stack in hardware. ...
This is at the least a kit for upgrading your commute to work and back, not just in Okinawa, but anywhere, ...
So, having learned programming, the next step is to learn how to program designs for electronic systems, like Music Synthesizers, for example.
Women should not feel discouraged by the apparently high geek quotient here. Watch Jeri Ellsworth explaining how to use dynamic flip-flops, ...
... and how they're used in Direct Digital Synthesis, ...
.... and then, how magnetic core logic works, ...
... then go back and listen to Sylvain talking about how he tested the timing calculations against actual results using a closed-loop oscillator, and how he implemented the DA converter and the PPS phase detection, and you will get a glimpse of the potential of this tech. Next, learn about why designing hardware and software at the same time is more fun, and produces better results, ...
... Then help us set up a workspace here in Cochabamba where we can do classes and presentations like this, and rent lab and work space, and get pizza and coffee 24/7, ...
Gross American Injustice
So PepsiCo can sue small Indian farmers in an Indian court, for growing a particular type of potato, but Syrians who lost their entire families, as well their homes and livelihoods in US shelling of Raqqa can't even get their case mentioned on CNN?
Al Jazeera documentary on dark money going into organised efforts to foment islamophobia in America.
ISIS bombers in Sri Lanka identified
See this post. Think of this as an advanced course in Why Sovereignty of All States is Vitally Important for Global Security And if you think this isn't complicated enough, then factor in Libya
So, you see again, that we need secure communications, people.
Al Jazeera documentary on dark money going into organised efforts to foment islamophobia in America.
ISIS bombers in Sri Lanka identified
See this post. Think of this as an advanced course in Why Sovereignty of All States is Vitally Important for Global Security And if you think this isn't complicated enough, then factor in Libya
So, you see again, that we need secure communications, people.
Vladimir Putin on China's Belt and Road
Putin's is a very different view from mine, of the way Chinese foreign investment is done. I think this is because Russia's bilateral trade relations with China are more symmetric than those of countries like Bolivia and Montenegro. But if he is correct when he says, around 3 mins 37 secs, that the Chinese interests are truly stability, and that the focus now is not so much on Chinese companies developing the transport infrastructure in participating countries, but rather on developing the economic and political conditions necessary for healthy trade relations, then that would be reassuring, but I would like to see some independent evidence of this.
The problem is not just the debt. In Bolivia Chinese investment came with a payload of corruption of senior government officials including people with very close ties to the President.
The problem is not just the debt. In Bolivia Chinese investment came with a payload of corruption of senior government officials including people with very close ties to the President.
Tulsi Gabbard
This is a pretty impressive off-the-cuff speech.
See this post on Jill Stein's comments about the biggest obstacle to a Democrat candidate being the Democratic party. And listen to what Hillary Clinton was advocating two years ago! This was around the time I came back "on line", albeit in a FaceBook jail, so I didn't notice the about-face.
And had I only known that Chelsea Clinton was a die-hard feminist too! 😂
See this post on Jill Stein's comments about the biggest obstacle to a Democrat candidate being the Democratic party. And listen to what Hillary Clinton was advocating two years ago! This was around the time I came back "on line", albeit in a FaceBook jail, so I didn't notice the about-face.
And had I only known that Chelsea Clinton was a die-hard feminist too! 😂
Saturday, 27 April 2019
More Nonsense Fuelling US GDP!
We fucking love nonsense! 😂 Why? Because nonsense makes money!
And the Trump Train?
Donald. Listen!
And the Trump Train?
Donald. Listen!
Women Programming Computers
This is excellent.
The advice of Nadia Edwards-Dashti at 3 mins 4 secs is good, if you want a job as an organ-grinder's monkey, because to understand what they want you to do, you will need to have learned much of the stupid nonsense they learned. But before you take such a desperate measure, try self-teaching, and then try just solving a common problem on your own, before learning the "received wisdom" on how such problems are typically solved. If you want to see whether you might enjoy programming, you could do worse than try Grasshopper, which is a self-contained app that you can install on your phone, and which teaches you some of the fundamental ideas, but without you needing to learn how to use any text editors or other things.
General Assembly sounds like a good organisation.
And when you have got one of these things going here in Cochabamba, please, please, please tell me so that I can apply for a job! ❤️💓💕
Here's to ditching Plan B! 😂
I have a better idea about how to resolve this predicted shortfall in ICT professionals. If one private company can afford to fund this institute, why can't I get enough to even feed myself?
Could it be that people like Larry Ellison and Jeff Bezos don't want that problem solved, because that problem is worth hundreds of billions of dollars to them? The following "explanation" of an "enterprise level" application development framework shows why large information systems development costs typically run into billions, and why, having invested in such a system, nobody will take lightly the decision to switch to a different framework provided a competitor.
Licences for such frameworks are typically sold for tens of thousands of dollars "per seat", and training costs are of the order of at least US$500 per person per day. Then consider the cost of hardware sufficient to run these systems, and have them able to cope with very high peak loads, and you start to see how much money is being made by companies like Oracle and Amazon, and therefore how much money they stand to lose if a couple of dozen women set up a company that can wipe them out of the picture within a year.
The same company could develop secure communications infrastructure.
The advice of Nadia Edwards-Dashti at 3 mins 4 secs is good, if you want a job as an organ-grinder's monkey, because to understand what they want you to do, you will need to have learned much of the stupid nonsense they learned. But before you take such a desperate measure, try self-teaching, and then try just solving a common problem on your own, before learning the "received wisdom" on how such problems are typically solved. If you want to see whether you might enjoy programming, you could do worse than try Grasshopper, which is a self-contained app that you can install on your phone, and which teaches you some of the fundamental ideas, but without you needing to learn how to use any text editors or other things.
General Assembly sounds like a good organisation.
And when you have got one of these things going here in Cochabamba, please, please, please tell me so that I can apply for a job! ❤️💓💕
Here's to ditching Plan B! 😂
I have a better idea about how to resolve this predicted shortfall in ICT professionals. If one private company can afford to fund this institute, why can't I get enough to even feed myself?
Could it be that people like Larry Ellison and Jeff Bezos don't want that problem solved, because that problem is worth hundreds of billions of dollars to them? The following "explanation" of an "enterprise level" application development framework shows why large information systems development costs typically run into billions, and why, having invested in such a system, nobody will take lightly the decision to switch to a different framework provided a competitor.
Licences for such frameworks are typically sold for tens of thousands of dollars "per seat", and training costs are of the order of at least US$500 per person per day. Then consider the cost of hardware sufficient to run these systems, and have them able to cope with very high peak loads, and you start to see how much money is being made by companies like Oracle and Amazon, and therefore how much money they stand to lose if a couple of dozen women set up a company that can wipe them out of the picture within a year.
The same company could develop secure communications infrastructure.
Tear Gas in the Streets of Toulouse
I used to enjoy a few hours waiting while changing trains around here.
George Galloway's prognosis for Macron's continued reign? Not good. 😂
George Galloway's prognosis for Macron's continued reign? Not good. 😂
Fox People on Confronting One's Male Privilege
How do you confront your male privilege? You work for women, and they treat you like some dog shit that they just accidentally stepped in, and you winge like a little pre-schooler, and they ignore you! Then you understand what male privilege is. Male privilege is being permitted to enter the café in the first place.
See Lori's piece on this in this post.
See Lori's piece on this in this post.
China's Belt and Road Initiative
This could be done much, much more efficiently if only we had the necessary economic and communications infrastructure in place first, to enable very large scale multinational cooperation. The initiative should have concentrated on education and developing sound governance in member states before signing contracts for financing and construction of massive civil engineering projects.
It's not too late to do this. I would very much appreciate some positive help from the Chinese government. Maybe some of the representatives of these 37 countries currently in Beijing could support my case for being allowed the right to communicate my ideas on this matter?
As it stands, China's Belt and Road initiative is actually undermining the sovereignty of the participating nations, which is unacceptable.
I was hoping to make contact with this company, but Yu, the person with whom I spoke here in Cochabamba before christmas last year, disappeared after a thunderstorm, and I haven't heard from him since.
Steve Bannon thinks the Chinese economy is being run by Wall St. and "corporate America". It certainly looks that way. But Bannon also refers to Japan and South Korea as "the industrial democracy" and (at 33 secs) talks about China forcing the United States out of the Western Pacific, and then out of the Pacific overall, and eventually off the Eurasian landmass. Well, the United States is the United States of America, not the United States of America and the Asian Pacific! South Korea and Japan have been suffering "defecits of Sovereignty" for three quarters of a century now. Calling them "the industrial democracy", does not change that, it is just downright hipocritical!
The only reason to build roads and rail links is to move vast quantities of goods from one country to another. Why does China need to be the owner of a rail link from, say, Italy to France?
To see why this is a problem, think about how Italy can deal with this problem.
It's not too late to do this. I would very much appreciate some positive help from the Chinese government. Maybe some of the representatives of these 37 countries currently in Beijing could support my case for being allowed the right to communicate my ideas on this matter?
As it stands, China's Belt and Road initiative is actually undermining the sovereignty of the participating nations, which is unacceptable.
I was hoping to make contact with this company, but Yu, the person with whom I spoke here in Cochabamba before christmas last year, disappeared after a thunderstorm, and I haven't heard from him since.
Steve Bannon thinks the Chinese economy is being run by Wall St. and "corporate America". It certainly looks that way. But Bannon also refers to Japan and South Korea as "the industrial democracy" and (at 33 secs) talks about China forcing the United States out of the Western Pacific, and then out of the Pacific overall, and eventually off the Eurasian landmass. Well, the United States is the United States of America, not the United States of America and the Asian Pacific! South Korea and Japan have been suffering "defecits of Sovereignty" for three quarters of a century now. Calling them "the industrial democracy", does not change that, it is just downright hipocritical!
The only reason to build roads and rail links is to move vast quantities of goods from one country to another. Why does China need to be the owner of a rail link from, say, Italy to France?
To see why this is a problem, think about how Italy can deal with this problem.
FT's Kiran Stacey on US Telecomms
He says that some people in Washington, including even Republicans, have suggested that the Government should take charge of developing national telecomms infrastructure. That's a good idea. I know it's good, because it's an idea I had! 😂
Noam Chomsky
America's greatest intellectual, aged about 107 years, I would say, still earning a comfortable living from his hard-won reputation of talking authoritatively, saying nothing about things of which he knows absolutely fuck all!
Trump Campaign Nonsense
America is beyond help, because there is no thing there to help. It is just an incoherent mess of unauthentiicated, completely meaningless messages. There is no point in my "supporting" Donald Trump, because I don't know who's behind his scenery. You people urgently need to get your acts together. Ask Jill Stein to help. If she was in the loop, I could help her. But talking coded messages through a sewer is not going to get you anywhere except gaol.
Reply from the Trump Train: "This is HUGE!"
Yeah, tell me about it!
Reply from the Trump Train: "This is HUGE!"
Yeah, tell me about it!
Jill Stein on Bernie Sanders
On Sanders' falling in line with the mainstream Democratic Party: She says it's probably a case of "It's hard to teach a man something when his income depends upon him not knowing that thing." Jill Stein could save Americe, but ...
... it seems pretty unlikely that her income will strech that far! ❤️💓💕
... it seems pretty unlikely that her income will strech that far! ❤️💓💕
Maria Butina
This case involved several US politicians, and we aren't going to be told much about in what ways they were involved.
This may be because there are people in the United States that are scared of this idea. And that might explain why no foreign tourists seem able to speak to me here.
This may be because there are people in the United States that are scared of this idea. And that might explain why no foreign tourists seem able to speak to me here.
What We Learned From The Kim-Putin Summit
... is that there are at least two sovereign nations in the world: The Russian Federation and The Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Olga makes an intriguing comment about Tomahawk missiles in the last second of this video. Something to do with this?
Friday, 26 April 2019
Will Smith on New Media
Will Smith getting excited about what people can do when they're free to collaborate on new media. Talking about doing a feature-length version of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Let's see what the lawyers have to say about this, ... this might be a movie that is mainly about lawyers. 😂❤️💓💕
Gabe Hoffman on Tesla
"I believe that Tesla needs to file for bankruptcy if they're going to have a chance at continuing their business."
CNBC on Musk's bullshit tweets
Peter Schiff: "There are a lot of reasons not to buy a Tesla"
CNBC on Musk's bullshit tweets
Peter Schiff: "There are a lot of reasons not to buy a Tesla"
Thinking Shit Through With Lori and Ian
OK, we're going to solve this dilemma that Lori ends this piece with.
Maria Butina
Sentenced to 18 months in prison, for cooperating with the US government, apparently. The nine months she has already served will be taken into account.
Open Source Hardware Designs
Well-produced video introducing some open source hardware, including an SFP optical transceiver interface.
These things can apparently drive optical fibre links up to 10 Km!
These things can apparently drive optical fibre links up to 10 Km!
Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un Entourage Greeting
I wonder what language Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un are speaking to each other here? They don't seem to be using interpreters.
See this post for Putin's account of his initial meeting with Kim.
See this post for Putin's account of his initial meeting with Kim.
Ann Widdecombe on Brexit
... and why she abandoned the Tories after half a century.
Sky News pece on Nigel Farage's Brexit party
Greta Thunberg in Strasbourg
This is probably the best speech ever delivered in the European Parliament.
Lee Camp on White Supremacists
That this strategy for destabilisation is so well-known, and that the people with the most experience of applying it are so well connected with the CIA, makes you wonder, doeesn't it?
Now listen to Max Blumenthal on the role of the CIA, Soros' Open Society Foundation and Browder's Hermitage Fund in the deliberate destabilization of Eastern Europe. That gives you the connection with Britain/NATO.
And hence with Australia, New Zealand and now Sri Lanka. This talk by Vladimir Putin at the 2007 Munich Security Conference shows why he was able to lead Russia into the position she now enjoys as a truly great nation.
And this 2007 speech by then US Presidential Candidate John McCain, shows why America is where she is right now:
This is probably what confused Presidential Candidate McCain. National Identity is such a complex notion, it's only to be expected that people get confused from time to time. 😂
I have to confess that I have a lttle trouble believing that this video dates from 1979!
"Although he was wanted in Poland for war crimes, Augsburg managed to ingratiate himself with the U.S. CIA, which employed him in the late 1940s as an expert on Soviet affairs. Recently released CIA records indicate that Augsburg was among a rogue’s gallery of Nazi war criminals recruited by U.S. intelligence agencies shortly after Germany surrendered to the Allies."
Now listen to Max Blumenthal on the role of the CIA, Soros' Open Society Foundation and Browder's Hermitage Fund in the deliberate destabilization of Eastern Europe. That gives you the connection with Britain/NATO.
And hence with Australia, New Zealand and now Sri Lanka. This talk by Vladimir Putin at the 2007 Munich Security Conference shows why he was able to lead Russia into the position she now enjoys as a truly great nation.
And this 2007 speech by then US Presidential Candidate John McCain, shows why America is where she is right now:
This is probably what confused Presidential Candidate McCain. National Identity is such a complex notion, it's only to be expected that people get confused from time to time. 😂
I have to confess that I have a lttle trouble believing that this video dates from 1979!
Analysis of a Strategy for Destabilisation
This is a pretty edgy South Front analysis of a general strategy which they call Polish Style, because a similar strategy was used to fuel Polish nationalism.
The piece above focuses on this article which appeared in The Hill in January, and which seems to me to be just a slightly modernised version of George F. Kennan's 'containment' strategy which he described in The Sources of Soviet Conduct. This two-part documentary has a lot to say about US actions in the Cold War. See from 10 mins 2 secs for how Kennan's strategy was put into effect in the early fifties, by what was later to become the CIA. See also this post on the CIA's Nazi connections.
Part 2:
Needless to say, one can see how a strategy like this could have been employed here in Bolivia, though in a rather complex way!
The piece above focuses on this article which appeared in The Hill in January, and which seems to me to be just a slightly modernised version of George F. Kennan's 'containment' strategy which he described in The Sources of Soviet Conduct. This two-part documentary has a lot to say about US actions in the Cold War. See from 10 mins 2 secs for how Kennan's strategy was put into effect in the early fifties, by what was later to become the CIA. See also this post on the CIA's Nazi connections.
Part 2:
Needless to say, one can see how a strategy like this could have been employed here in Bolivia, though in a rather complex way!
Russia China Trade up 25%
The development of bilateral cooperation has exceeded all expectations in 2018.
Taylor Swift
This video came out 14 hours ago and has barely 28 million views. These poor kids need a helping hand! ❤️💓💕
It's not as good as this song though. Wow!
It's not as good as this song though. Wow!
Lee Camp and Naomi Karavani
Talking about tax or something, I wasn't really listening that carefully. ❤️💓💕
Thursday, 25 April 2019
Lori on Real Feminism
Seven years ago I wrote this manifesto for a feminist revolution. The idea was that it would be a a revolution in education of both men and men and women, just like Che Guevara ordered.
Nina Simone on same:
So you can see why this guy pisses me off
so much:
Shoigu and Lavrov on International Security
The main problem seems to be incompetent American interference.
International security is an inherently cooperative field of endeavor. American attempts to secure unspecified "American interests" abroad is just throwing a spanner in the works.
The problem is the nature of these so-called "US national interests" that are being "protected". This makes it look like these national interests are in fact evidence of war crimes committed by the US/British/French coalition.
The US fired more artillery shells into Raqqa than at any time since the Vietnam War.
Russian tradition is not to give or accept offensive weapons as gifts, according to this Pravda report. There is a similar tradition in England of giving a coin in return for a gift of a knife, but I was told that this was simply to absolve the giver of guilt in the event that the recipient of the gift accidently cut themself with it. But maybe these two reasons are ultimately equivalent? I am thinking about how many Czech-made AK47s were shipped to Africa in the late sixties and early seventies, .... 😂
This Amnest International Strike Trackers project is interesting. A year or so ago I tried to get people on Twitter to talk about what sort of social media infrastructure was necessary to support collaborative projects like this, but nobody showed any interest in it. I still have a problem getting enough food to eat.
International security is an inherently cooperative field of endeavor. American attempts to secure unspecified "American interests" abroad is just throwing a spanner in the works.
The problem is the nature of these so-called "US national interests" that are being "protected". This makes it look like these national interests are in fact evidence of war crimes committed by the US/British/French coalition.
The US fired more artillery shells into Raqqa than at any time since the Vietnam War.
Russian tradition is not to give or accept offensive weapons as gifts, according to this Pravda report. There is a similar tradition in England of giving a coin in return for a gift of a knife, but I was told that this was simply to absolve the giver of guilt in the event that the recipient of the gift accidently cut themself with it. But maybe these two reasons are ultimately equivalent? I am thinking about how many Czech-made AK47s were shipped to Africa in the late sixties and early seventies, .... 😂
This Amnest International Strike Trackers project is interesting. A year or so ago I tried to get people on Twitter to talk about what sort of social media infrastructure was necessary to support collaborative projects like this, but nobody showed any interest in it. I still have a problem getting enough food to eat.
Putin on Creating an Attractive Business Environment
What we need to understand, urgently, is how to reliably invent new ways in which we can structure economies in such a manner as to completely eliminate any and all of the economic incentives that private companies may see to behave in ways that are damaging to their host nations. But I think that this will only be possible if we can first control, and then completely eliminate official corruption.
The comment about there being no orphans in Chechnya goes over my head.
The comment about there being no orphans in Chechnya goes over my head.
I'm Wondering, ...
... if maybe I should've been christened "Peaches", then not so many people would try to fuck me around! 😂
Siemens' Microgrid
Cute commercial for Siemens' micro-grid electricity distribution system. Blue Lake Rancheria is a tiny little tribal reservation in Humboldt County, California, with a population of around 60 people.
I had a lot of ideas about how a company like this could develop modular systems for electricity distribution in remote areas, as well as for emergency power sharing networks in cities. If anyone at Siemens wants to talk about his, contact me via Isabel Suppe. And public safety is a part of this, so maybe my friend Andrew Sinclair, who works for Motorola Solutions would like to join in.
I had a lot of ideas about how a company like this could develop modular systems for electricity distribution in remote areas, as well as for emergency power sharing networks in cities. If anyone at Siemens wants to talk about his, contact me via Isabel Suppe. And public safety is a part of this, so maybe my friend Andrew Sinclair, who works for Motorola Solutions would like to join in.
Russia North Korea Summit
Within just one day of talks between Russia and North Korea, the picture becomes pin-sharp compared to the blurred smudge that resulted from the almost-three-years process of the US North Korea "talks". The problem, as President Putin euphemistically puts it, is "a deficit of sovereignty in South Korea". Isn't it funny how these deficits of sovereignty in Asia, and elsewhere, don't make it into any news reports? But I am sure the Wikileaks data dumps are just chock-full of evidence, but where am I going to get the help I need to analyse them? I still can't get enough to eat.
The FT's Henry Foy doesn't even mention the sovereignty issue. I presume he thinks it irrelevant, or, like his colleague Martin Woolf, he doesn't know what sovereignty actually means.
The FT's Henry Foy doesn't even mention the sovereignty issue. I presume he thinks it irrelevant, or, like his colleague Martin Woolf, he doesn't know what sovereignty actually means.
Weird Shit Going Down in DC
Just the fact that this demonstration has gotten this far is utterly fucking bizarre. In a sane world the Venezuelan government's own lawyers in Washington DC would be settling this in a court. What the fuck is wrong with you people in the Supreme Court and the Department of Justice? Your country is visibly falling apart at the seams and all you seem to care about is keeping control. Control of what for fuck's sake? You can't control a train wreck that happened a decade ago!
The Step from One to Two, ....
That first step defeated an awful lot of us, until now. ❤️💓💕
Everything must change, ...
The first time I realised the earth was in danger was when I was about six years old. In our back garden we were digging the ground over to lay some brick paving and I was given the task of extracting a lump of concrete that someone had put into a hole in order to support a piece of metal tubing that was a support for a clothes line. And I had a small lump-hammer and a cold-chisel, and I had to break this huge lump of concrete up, and I couldn't do it. The concrete was too big to lift into a wheelbarrow, and probably too big to be put into the boot of a car. And I thought about the concrete foundations of buildings like the 20 storey building in Port Elizabeth that my father, an architect/town planner, worked in, and I thought "Why do they make so many such ugly things that are ultimately useless and almost impossible to destroy? That is insane!" And I still think that, as I starve whilst "property developers" here in Cochabamba rush to throw up stupid, ugly buildings that nobody in their ight mind would want, in order to "invest their capital" in "real estate" before "the economy" eventually "collapses". And why do they behave like this? Just because they aren't properly educated.
Everything must change, ...
The first time I realised the earth was in danger was when I was about six years old. In our back garden we were digging the ground over to lay some brick paving and I was given the task of extracting a lump of concrete that someone had put into a hole in order to support a piece of metal tubing that was a support for a clothes line. And I had a small lump-hammer and a cold-chisel, and I had to break this huge lump of concrete up, and I couldn't do it. The concrete was too big to lift into a wheelbarrow, and probably too big to be put into the boot of a car. And I thought about the concrete foundations of buildings like the 20 storey building in Port Elizabeth that my father, an architect/town planner, worked in, and I thought "Why do they make so many such ugly things that are ultimately useless and almost impossible to destroy? That is insane!" And I still think that, as I starve whilst "property developers" here in Cochabamba rush to throw up stupid, ugly buildings that nobody in their ight mind would want, in order to "invest their capital" in "real estate" before "the economy" eventually "collapses". And why do they behave like this? Just because they aren't properly educated.
Russian Nuclear Submarine Launch
This is presumably to make the British Royal Navy think a bit harder about what their role is in the new world order.
Pravda report