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The IRS was probably targeting conservative groups because they were laundering money through non-profit groups!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2016/sep/14/john-doe-files-scott-walker-corporate-cash-american-politics
Not that the Dems are any less naughty...

* * * BERNIE 2016 * * *

:-) Yes, I always post hoping nobody will notice.

why can't the DoJ act... to prosecute...?

Already spelled that out previously, the Brits asked them not to. In other words, extortion. Thank you for providing another perfect example why it is a waste to take you seriously.. But don't let that stop you from carrying on.

Yes ac, exactly like that, because this:

https://www.theguardian.com/te...

Totally never happened, and any post that might have been deleted was certainly not really from the prime minister of Norway.

Obviously.

(Idiot.)

Think again Potsy: "News organizations are uncomfortably reliant on Facebook to reach an online audience. According to a 2016 study by Pew Research Center, 44% of US adults get their news on Facebook. " https://www.theguardian.com/te...

Edward Snowden has called for a complete overhaul of US whistleblower protections after a new source from deep inside the Pentagon came forward with a startling account of how the system became a "trap" for those seeking to expose wrongdoing.

The account of John Crane, a former senior Pentagon investigator, appears to undermine Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other major establishment figures who argue that there were established routes for Snowden other than leaking to the media.

Crane, a longtime assistant inspector general at the Pentagon, has accused his old office of retaliating against a major surveillance whistleblower, Thomas Drake, in an episode that helps explain Snowden's 2013 National Security Agency disclosures. Not only did Pentagon officials provide Drake's name to criminal investigators, Crane told the Guardian, they destroyed documents relevant to his defence.

Besides as a man of principles, I am sure he is anxious for his day in court where he can stare down the corrupt powers-that-be under the unblinking gaze of public scrutiny, [...]

It's flowery language you're using here, but according to Snowden and his lawyer, this is more or less correct. The Espionage Act does not allow Snowden to make a "I did it in the public interest"-type defence.

Whether or not he would actually return, were he charged with something that did give him the possibility of saying in open court why he was motivated to do what he did, is an open question. Still, right now he doesn't have the option of having his day in court. A show trial is never your day in court.

Re: alternatives to capitalism, funny that nobody ever mentions worker cooperatives in these conversations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Hundreds of millions of people are members of worker cooperatives globally and they have better standards of living than their capitalist counterparts. The largest worker owned corporation in the world is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... based in northern Spain (Basque country) with around 800,000 employees worldwide. Worker cooperatives are democratic and socialist, unlike capitalism corporations, and are not despotic, aristocratic, monarchic dictatorships; I think those adjectives are more reflective of capitalist corporations. Which would you rather work for?

Economist Richard Wolff has studies Mondragon and written about them, e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/co...

It was a Twitter fight between a Daily Mail reporter and the Clinton's press secretary and the National Field Director for the Democratic Party.

As a Venezuelan that has lost nearly 20 pounds in less than 9 months due to food being scarce and expensive, i laugh every time someone in the US see similarities between Obama and Chavez, or call Obama "socialist".

IMHO there are more similarities between Chavez and Trump.

A link to a publication written by trained journalists, or even trained monkeys, might be more coherent.

Before you blame Slashdot for half facts, remember trained and paid journalists are able to come up with headlines such as these:
"AirAsia pilot ends up in Melbourne instead of Malaysia after navigation error"

As bad as it is, Slashdot has produced better journalism than The Guardian's headline.

https://www.theguardian.com/te...

"The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) ordered Google in May to apply RTBF removals not only to the company’s European domains such as google.co.uk or google.fr, but to the search engine’s global domain google.com."

It's a regulatory body, not a court, but it carries the same weight.

Or allow any of your internet content to be accessible in the EU

https://www.theguardian.com/te...

"The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) ordered Google in May to apply RTBF removals not only to the company’s European domains such as google.co.uk or google.fr, but to the search engine’s global domain google.com."

From the Guardian last year:

"The downside to hydropower is that it requires consistent rainfall. Though the dams in Costa Rica are now full, just months ago the country was suffering one of the worst droughts in its history. This forced Costa Rican utility companies to burn fuel to generate power, releasing greenhouse gases and causing rate rises."

https://www.theguardian.com/co...

Unless you're clearly up to no good, you don't have to worry about spyware like this.

You mean up to no good like Angela Merkel, Chirac, Sarkozy and Hollande the last three French presidents, and 35 world leaders?

But of course you don't need to be a celebrity or a politician to be up to no good. You could be trying to help people through a humanitarian organization like the Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, , or you could just have said something bad about the government of a minor island, etc.

And even if you're not one of the above 'bad people', you could simply be one of the 90% of people who are collateral surveillance victims. So no, you don't need to be up to no good to be under surveillance and that's something to be concerned about.

Unless you're clearly up to no good, you don't have to worry about spyware like this.

You mean up to no good like Angela Merkel, Chirac, Sarkozy and Hollande the last three French presidents, and 35 world leaders?

But of course you don't need to be a celebrity or a politician to be up to no good. You could be trying to help people through a humanitarian organization like the Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, , or you could just have said something bad about the government of a minor island, etc.

And even if you're not one of the above 'bad people', you could simply be one of the 90% of people who are collateral surveillance victims. So no, you don't need to be up to no good to be under surveillance and that's something to be concerned about.

The UK is actually more obese than America, thank you very much. Also, the proportion of people living in poverty is only slightly higher in the US than in the UK. Prisons, sure, that's something America really needs to work on. And yes, the gun homicide rate is much higher in the US than it is in the UK. But the total *murder* rate is only 4x higher in the US, and more than half of that is gangs killing other gangs, which isn't representative of what the average citizen faces.

Correct; you could google it yourself, instead of asking me to.

And I would find one misleading news story. How is that evidence of a large-scale, government-controlled desinformation campaign?.

About 258,000 results (0.49 seconds), according to Google over here. Doesn't Google work over there?

Here's the first page, with sources ranging from The New York Times to The Guardian to Der Spiegel::
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
http://khpg.org/en/index.php?i...
http://www.dw.com/en/german-me...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08...
http://uaposition.com/kharkiv-...

You made a claim, you have flimsy evidence to back it up.

Since you're unwilling to look at any of the 258,000 results, I doubt that anything I can post is likely to affect your position.

EVEN our NATO allies are not trusted... they are spied upon in minute detail.

You act like this is some shocking discovery.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

And please don't pretend that we didn't set the bar...or that it's not an important issue.

http://www.newsweek.com/2014/0...

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

https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

The bar was set before the United States was even a country. Only the techniques have changed.

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

Did you ever read the comments section at tagesschau.de, the principal public news website, whenever there's an article about Putin, Russia, Ukraine or the war in Syria? The same applies to other prominent news websites and forums.

The Russian "Troll Factories" are well documented by now. The BND (German intelligence) has already warned the German government about the intense disinformation campaign by Russian agents.
If you don't see it it's either because you don't want to see, you sympathize with the Russian government yourself, or you simply don't read the comments sections of online news. The amount of pro-Russian anti-west sentiment is so huge and blatantly obvious you can't really miss it.

The Guardian had an article about the roles of the civil service vs the government today:

http://www.theguardian.com/pol...

Makes for quite interesting reading.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/22/brexit-talks-uk-limbo-sequence-negotiations-eu

Technically, the terms of a future relationship agreement between the EU and the UK as a third country can only be negotiated once the UK has become that third country, and left the EU,” said Michel Petite, a former director general of legal services at the European commission.

According to A50, the UK/EU has up to 2 years to finalize negotiating the UK's exit from the EU, and only after the exit has been completed can the EU and UK begin to negotiate new trade deals.

It's not unworkable, it's one of the down sides of leaving. Just another thing the brexit side denied/avoided talking about/misled the public about.

Well I guess that means now everyone in the world is vulnerable to attacks with those same weapons
If the NSA can't even keep their own weapons from being stolen it looks like we are all in for a world of hurt.

I don't follow European news, but I doubt that very much. The UK is ~14% of the total GDP of the EU (second largest in the EU): it dropping out without replacing the existing trade deals would be a massive economic blow to the EU. The EU may want to punish the UK for leaving, but I doubt they'd do it at the risk of collapsing the EU economy.

Ah, yes, but anywhere from 40% to 50% of all UK exports (I believe the exact figure is around 43%) are sent to the EU.

A 14% drop in GDP is painful.

A 40+% drop? Ouch. Kiss bye bye to your economy, baby, it's going down the drain.

Oh, and most of the EU is getting pissed, and itching for a fight. Even The Guardian pointed that out. The negociations are not going to be pretty, that's for sure.

Trump is enabled by the government though

We all are. This is not about Trump. Anybody — poor, well off, and super rich alike — can and do sue for defamation. These are all civil suits and have nothing to do with the First Amendment. Your misconception is common — fustakrakich above has posted the same stupidity, for example — but a misconception it is:

This freedom, however, does not immunize them from liability for what they publish. A newspaper that publishes false information about a person, for example, can be sued for libel. A television station similarly can be sued if it broadcasts a story that unlawfully invades a person’s privacy.

allows someone rich to bankrupt people they don't like

The assholes and bitches seeking to ban "hate speech" would not merely bankrupt people they don't like — they'd put them in prison by making such expressions a felony. And the assholes and bitches would not spend their own money on it either — crimes are prosecuted by the government.

even if they don't win

I keep saying, we ought to have the losers of lawsuits being automatically ordered to compensate the winners legal expenses...

I know it's a wasted effort on you, but what the hell... something for the viewing audience

Too big to punish

Not only do they engage in fraud, but also money laundering. To this day, they and HSBC and BoA, etc. etc. etc. remain immune and untouchable. And we continue to stand by and reelect the politicians that also benefit, totally distracted by *he who shall not be named*, not that anybody cared beforehand.

It is probably a wise move for Amazon to keep its distance, lest they get caught up in this tornado and lose everything.

Why they would get involved in the first place is a mystery to me...... Unless they thought that selling student loans and tying it to reduced prices for said students to purchase nearly everything through them. Or, perhaps, just showing student loans somehow increased students' confidence in Amazon so they just plain purchased things through them (quick bait tactic). Once the loans started to actually go through, they realized that the cost exceeds benefit. I don't know.

Finding out what they got themselves into indicates that there was almost no planning beyond marketing, or the effing asshats at the loan companies BSed them as well as they BS students (no pun).

Not only do they engage in fraud, but also money laundering. To this day, they and HSBC and BoA, etc. etc. etc. remain immune and untouchable. And we continue to stand by and reelect the politicians that also benefit, totally distracted by *he who shall not be named*, not that anybody cared beforehand.

It is probably a wise move for Amazon to keep its distance, lest they get caught up in this tornado and lose everything.

Well no shit. Gays can't marry and we need the wall ASAP to solve all our problems!

Not only do they engage in fraud, but also money laundering. To this day, they and HSBC and BoA, etc. etc. etc. remain immune and untouchable. And we continue to stand by and reelect the politicians that also benefit, totally distracted by *he who shall not be named*, not that anybody cared beforehand.

It is probably a wise move for Amazon to keep its distance, lest they get caught up in this tornado and lose everything.

Delisting or deep listing from search sites seems the new tool for govs and their NGO political activists.
The use of gov mil assets directly seems to be a new idea too.
The removal of US gov limits on spreading domestic propaganda [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith–Mundt_Act]
Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media (18 March 2011)
https://www.theguardian.com/te...
""online persona management service" that will allow one US serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities based all over the world."
and the new ""Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act" with a "Center for Information Analysis and Response" (March 17, 2016)
"award grants and contracts to non-government and civil society organisations, research centers, private sector companies, media organisations and other experts outside the U.S. government that have experience in identifying and analysing disinformation methods used by foreign governments."
http://www.voanews.com/a/us-se...
So expect two areas of new US and UK funding, one to flood the net with fake good news and another to ensure all the comments left are just as happy and supportive of US/UK big gov/mil/bureaucracies.
British army creates team of Facebook warriors (Saturday 31 January 2015)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk...

Delisting or deep listing from search sites seems the new tool for govs and their NGO political activists.
The use of gov mil assets directly seems to be a new idea too.
The removal of US gov limits on spreading domestic propaganda [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith–Mundt_Act]
Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media (18 March 2011)
https://www.theguardian.com/te...
""online persona management service" that will allow one US serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities based all over the world."
and the new ""Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act" with a "Center for Information Analysis and Response" (March 17, 2016)
"award grants and contracts to non-government and civil society organisations, research centers, private sector companies, media organisations and other experts outside the U.S. government that have experience in identifying and analysing disinformation methods used by foreign governments."
http://www.voanews.com/a/us-se...
So expect two areas of new US and UK funding, one to flood the net with fake good news and another to ensure all the comments left are just as happy and supportive of US/UK big gov/mil/bureaucracies.
British army creates team of Facebook warriors (Saturday 31 January 2015)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk...

To be fair, microwave ovens have caused interference for other observations before:

https://www.theguardian.com/sc...

Have you even read what I wrote? You completely missed my points.

I guess you are so angry because you believe this is a EU vs US thing. It is not. Several European companies have been fined as well for exactly this same scam. Fiat, BP, InBev, among others.

And frankly, you shouldn't be angry at the EU to make Apple pay its taxes. You should be angry at the US for letting Apple get away with tax dodging. Last time I heard it had about 200 billion dollars hidden in tax havens.

Not quite. Apple have "large numbers of foreign workers".

https://www.theguardian.com/te...

This is government corruption of the highest order and for all of you high-fiving what a wonderful day this is against corporate overreach realize the EU will NOT spend this money on the people or social services but use it to further ingratiate their power base.

It absolutely is, but it is one clinicly retarded evil globalist entity taking resources from a competent evil globalist entity. It's an overall win because the EU will piss it away on social causes, in fact if other EU states follow the same routine it could bankrupt Apple and then a whole host of issues like Apple's slave labor of highschool students in China will go away. Hopefully every multinational corporation gets hit by this stuff, giving the EU funds to piss away for a half decade or decade is a very minor evil to tolerate for the destruction of sustainable evil entities.

Quoting from Apollo 40 years on:

The young minds (the average age of Apollo 11's mission control team was 28) who were put to work on Apollo were all recent graduates who had benefited from former president Eisenhower's National Defence Education Act, a massive capital investment in the US education system, started in the late 50s in response to Sputnik.

Engineering is a marvelous field of study, but history should be included as well. -PCP

So they'll reduce pay for women in their 20s? Cuz https://www.theguardian.com/mo... is a thing. Or is this all bullshit designed to make them look good without really doing anything?

He got 1 YEAR for 6 photos/selfies that had only secret info in trying to show off to his girlfriend and another girl(aka trying to get laid). Clinton had 6 Above Top Secret emails special access programs information on a public email server that was unencrypted for months. https://www.theguardian.com/us...
Yes 6 photos.

I have owned a couple of Dyson vacuum cleaners, and I found them to be heavy, expensive, unwieldy, garish and clean no better than those from other companies. Part of their weight comes from their ridiculous attempts at looking "high tech", with numerous unnecessary nooks and crannies that make them harder to wipe down.

Contrary to what he likes to imply, Dyson didn't invent the cyclonic vacuum; they've been around since 1928. The first bladeless fan came from Toshiba in 1981. The success of Dyson's company seems to be mostly due to taking existing ideas, putting a futuristic-looking design around them, and then marketing the hell out of them.

So, I wouldn't really go to Dyson for advice on what makes a good engineer; Dyson was never an engineer himself, and the products he designs are neither particularly novel nor (arguably) particularly well engineered. They are "well designed", in the commercial sense that their gimmicks and unusual appearance attract many buyers, not necessarily in the sense that they function well. But a well engineered bagless vacuum would be lightweight, easy to wipe down, and cheap, in addition to functioning reasonably well and not being an eye sore.

These days, Dyson seems to spend a lot of time throwing his political and legal weight around.

I have owned a couple of Dyson vacuum cleaners, and I found them to be heavy, expensive, unwieldy, garish and clean no better than those from other companies. Part of their weight comes from their ridiculous attempts at looking "high tech", with numerous unnecessary nooks and crannies that make them harder to wipe down.

Contrary to what he likes to imply, Dyson didn't invent the cyclonic vacuum; they've been around since 1928. The first bladeless fan came from Toshiba in 1981. The success of Dyson's company seems to be mostly due to taking existing ideas, putting a futuristic-looking design around them, and then marketing the hell out of them.

So, I wouldn't really go to Dyson for advice on what makes a good engineer; Dyson was never an engineer himself, and the products he designs are neither particularly novel nor (arguably) particularly well engineered. They are "well designed", in the commercial sense that their gimmicks and unusual appearance attract many buyers, not necessarily in the sense that they function well. But a well engineered bagless vacuum would be lightweight, easy to wipe down, and cheap, in addition to functioning reasonably well and not being an eye sore.

These days, Dyson seems to spend a lot of time throwing his political and legal weight around.

Milo faked a racist tweet from her, made a few of his own and encouraged his followers to do likewise. It's well documented, in multiple places.

https://www.theguardian.com/te...

Stop trying to mythologise him and turn him into a martyr. He's not the messiah, he's a racist twat.

Unfortunately 'laicism' seems somewhat partial in it's application. It seems that nuns, in full habit, are not being banned from the beach or forced to undress.

People share photos of nuns on the beach in response to burkini ban in France

But then, this isn't really about secularism or laicism, or even about the banning of uniforms (and a nun's habit is much more of a uniform than a burkini). Incidentally, the burkini was created by a Lebanese-born Australian, in Australia. In her own words...

I created the burkini to give women freedom, not to take it away

Intent comes to play in guilt or acquittal in accordance with the charge. Intent to kill marks the difference between murder and manslaughter, for example. Holding some coke and possessing with intent to sell are wholly different charges, applied well before the penalty phase, turning on the question of intent, which is a question for the fact-finder (don't confuse this with plea-bargaining).

Intent is important in some charges. I don't know whether or not it is relevant to the Clinton case or not, and frankly I don't care to bother trying to sort it all out. However, it is clear the "negligence" or "gross negligence" can result in conviction for mishandling classified information, regardless of intent.

And as long as it's literally a Web Search away (shill?), howabout a link to this story about that Navy person who facing 20 years to life for disposing of a phone.

I'm not sure whether this is the case or not (I don't follow such cases), but literally the first hit that came up in a web search is this one, where a navy sailor has now been sentenced to a year in prison (had been facing 5-6 years under federal sentencing guidelines) for taking photos on a submarine. According to the link, he actually made a legal appeal for probation based on the recent precedent set by the FBI ruling on the Clinton investigation!

Anyhow, you can easily find dozens of cases like this one where people end up with prison terms for mishandling classified information in relatively "innocent" ways.

"Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice used private accounts for classified emails"

https://www.theguardian.com/us...

And yes, so if you lock Hillary up for the email shenanigans, you lock up Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice.. you can't have it both ways!
The email scandal is much ado about nothing, So can we please get back to the issues? What are we going to do about Isis? what are we going to do with the economy? I am a Republican and I am sick of hearing about the email crap.. such a waste of our time!

" if Clinton is guilty of anything or not with running her own private mail server?"

https://www.theguardian.com/us... -
Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice used private accounts for classified emails

"Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice used private accounts for classified emails"

https://www.theguardian.com/us...

Consider that Whatsapp has no information about the content of any messages sent between users, so any content within the messages that are sent cannot be harvested to generate any kind of targeted advertising, the *only* thing that they have are names and phone numbers, and who is sending messages to whom, with no basis for understanding why beyond anything that might have been communicated out of band directly to Whatsapp. So since Whatsapp has no information about its users that can be used to actually generate any kind of "improved advertising experience" for its users, the assumption that this is what they actually are trying to do cannot possibly be correct.

Do you not remember the fight against the NSA's bulk metadata collection program?

Metadata is very powerful for mass surveillance with the facade of improving advertising experiences.

I don't care whether it's a sovereign government or a corporation. Mass surveillance is wrong.

I posted this in another post below, but I just wanted to reiterate it here, for those who might not fully understand the situation.

It might help your understanding of the situation to understand that the CIA and NSA now use fake rape and sexual assault/harassment claims as their preferred method of character assassination (much easier, less messy, and just as effective as actual assassination). It happened to the poor bastard IMF head who made the VERY stupid mistake of challenging the supremacy of the U.S. Dollar.

What would you call someone who repeatedly changes their story, offering details, then recanting them over and over? The "poor bastard IMF head", maybe? He originally said nothing happened and he had never even seen his accuser; then that he may have been in the room while she was cleaning but he doesn't pay attention to housekeeping staff; then that he was naked in the room while she was cleaning; then that they had consensual sex; then that they had "rough" consensual sex during which he tore her rotator cuff. That doesn't sound like someone who is the victim of character assassination - you'd expect that such a victim would be able to maintain a constant story.

It also happened to Julian Assange and others.

Assange who has admitted he had sex with an unconscious woman? If all it takes to be a honeypot is to fall asleep around Assange, then they're not really entrapping him into doing anything he wouldn't do otherwise, are they?

This is just pandering to women comment.

She Is Released many days back.

She peddled drugs which is a serious offense in many part of the world, not only in India. She was together with a person who runs shops in infamous drug peddling area. Her partner tried to "run away" from Airport !

https://www.theguardian.com/uk...

will give a clue, if you don't have one. Jewish are well known to be drug tourists in northern India. There is a limit to scamming and pandering everyone can do even in an extreme free place like India.

I posted this in another post below, but I just wanted to reiterate it here, for those who might not fully understand the situation.

It might help your understanding of the situation to understand that the CIA and NSA now use fake rape and sexual assault/harassment claims as their preferred method of character assassination (much easier, less messy, and just as effective as actual assassination). It happened to the poor bastard IMF head who made the VERY stupid mistake of challenging the supremacy of the U.S. Dollar. It also happened to Julian Assange and others.

No tin-foil hats here. It's just their modern way of doing business. So any time you hear of sex crimes charges against any member of the hacker/security community (or anyone else the NSA or CIA might have a vested interest in silencing or ostracizing), you should be VERY, VERY skeptical of the charges (and take a long hard look at the accusers).

It might help your understanding of the situation to understand that the CIA and NSA now use fake rape and sexual assault/harassment claims as their preferred method of character assassination (much easier, less messy, and just as effective as actual assassination). It happened to the poor bastard IMF head who made the VERY stupid mistake of challenging the supremacy of the U.S. Dollar. It also happened to Julian Assange and others.

No tin-foil hats here. It's just their modern way of doing business. So any time you hear of sex crimes charges against any member of the hacker/security community (or anyone else the NSA or CIA might have a vested interest in silencing or ostracizing), you should be VERY, VERY skeptical of the charges (and take a long hard look at the accusers).