Life, or Death? by Robert Gore

Posted: February 19, 2016 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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Robert Gore's avatarSTRAIGHT LINE LOGIC

On July 16, 1945, a plutonium implosion atomic bomb was detonated in the desert north of Alamogordo, New Mexico. Within a month, a uranium-based and a plutonium-based atomic bomb were detonated above Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. Atomic fission, and later fusion, became the basis for the most deadly arsenal ever assembled, giving the US government the power to eradicate the human population, making it history’s most powerful institution. The Soviet Union’s development of its own nuclear arsenal in the 1950s challenged US power. Per Lord Acton’s famous dictum, absolute power produced absolute corruption on both sides of the Cold War.

Their leaders saw the world in terms of an amoral chess match. Other nations’ governments were pawns in their strategies for global domination and individual lives were of no consequence. Intelligence agencies rose to preeminence, employing sabotage, deception, propaganda, political manipulation, revolution, regime change, and assassination in foreign countries, supposedly…

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John McAfee Offers to Decrypt San Bernardino iPhone for Free — for the Sake of All Our Privacy

Posted: February 19, 2016 by gamegetterII in .gov bullshit, Uncategorized
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Cyber security expert and Libertarian presidential candidate John McAfee is alarmed at the potential implications from Apple being forced to create a virtual backdoor to their encrypted system. In an enlightening op-ed, McAfee blasts the FBI for its ineptitude, while exposing the archaic hiring practices of the Feds that create a technology gap between FBI and private sector capabilities. McAfee makes clear that if the government gains access, privacy, as we know it, will fail to exist.+

“No matter how you slice this pie, if the government succeeds in getting this back door, it will eventually get a back door into all encryption, and our world, as we know it, is over,” McAfee writes.

The tech guru offers his teams hacking services to the FBI free of charge, as a means of allowing the phone in question to be accessed – without allowing the government to have a backdoor into all iPhones. McAfee would provide the FBI with the information they claim to seek, while at the same time allowing for secure encryption to continue to exist – of course there is a distinct possibility that the actual intention of forcing Apple to create a backdoor isn’t to access this particular phone, but as a means of breaking encryption on a global basis.

Read McAfee’s op-ed to the FBI below:

Using an obscure law, written in 1789 — the All Writs Act — the US government has ordered Apple to place a back door into its iOS software so the FBI can decrypt information on an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters.

It has finally come to this. After years of arguments by virtually every industry specialist that back doors will be a bigger boon to hackers and to our nation’s enemies than publishing our nuclear codes and giving the keys to all of our military weapons to the Russians and the Chinese, our government has chosen, once again, not to listen to the minds that have created the glue that holds this world together.

This is a black day and the beginning of the end of the US as a world power. The government has ordered a disarmament of our already ancient cybersecurity and cyberdefense systems, and it is asking us to take a walk into that near horizon where cyberwar is unquestionably waiting, with nothing more than harsh words as a weapon and the hope that our enemies will take pity at our unarmed condition and treat us fairly.

Any student of world history will tell you that this is a dream. Would Hitler have stopped invading Poland if the Polish people had sweetly asked him not to do so? Those who think yes should stand strongly by Hillary Clinton’s side, whose cybersecurity platform includes negotiating with the Chinese so they will no longer launch cyberattacks against us.

The FBI, in a laughable and bizarre twist of logic, said the back door would be used only once and only in the San Bernardino case.

Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, replied:

The government suggests this tool could only be used once, on one phone. But that’s simply not true. Once created, the technique could be used over and over again, on any number of devices. In the physical world, it would be the equivalent of a master key, capable of opening hundreds of millions of locks — from restaurants and banks to stores and homes. No reasonable person would find that acceptable.

The government is asking Apple to hack our own users and undermine decades of security advancements that protect our customers — including tens of millions of American citizens — from sophisticated hackers and cybercriminals. The same engineers who built strong encryption into the iPhone to protect our users would, ironically, be ordered to weaken those protections and make our users less safe.

No matter how you slice this pie, if the government succeeds in getting this back door, it will eventually get a back door into all encryption, and our world, as we know it, is over. In spite of the FBI’s claim that it would protect the back door, we all know that’s impossible. There are bad apples everywhere, and there only needs to be in the US government. Then a few million dollars, some beautiful women (or men), and a yacht trip to the Caribbean might be all it takes for our enemies to have full access to our secrets.

Cook said:

The FBI may use different words to describe this tool, but make no mistake: Building a version of iOS that bypasses security in this way would undeniably create a backdoor. And while the government may argue that its use would be limited to this case, there is no way to guarantee such control.

The fundamental question is this: Why can’t the FBI crack the encryption on its own? It has the full resources of the best the US government can provide.

With all due respect to Tim Cook and Apple, I work with a team of the best hackers on the planet. These hackers attend Defcon in Las Vegas, and they are legends in their local hacking groups, such as HackMiami. They are all prodigies, with talents that defy normal human comprehension. About 75% are social engineers. The remainder are hardcore coders. I would eat my shoe on the Neil Cavuto show if we could not break the encryption on the San Bernardino phone. This is a pure and simple fact.

And why do the best hackers on the planet not work for the FBI? Because the FBI will not hire anyone with a 24-inch purple mohawk, 10-gauge ear piercings, and a tattooed face who demands to smoke weed while working and won’t work for less than a half-million dollars a year. But you bet your ass that the Chinese and Russians are hiring similar people with similar demands and have been for many years. It’s why we are decades behind in the cyber race.

Cyberscience is not just something you can learn. It is an innate talent. The Juilliard school of music cannot create a Mozart. A Mozart or a Bach, much like our modern hacking community, is genetically created. A room full of Stanford computer science graduates cannot compete with a true hacker without even a high-school education.

So here is my offer to the FBI. I will, free of charge, decrypt the information on the San Bernardino phone, with my team. We will primarily use social engineering, and it will take us three weeks. If you accept my offer, then you will not need to ask Apple to place a back door in its product, which will be the beginning of the end of America.

If you doubt my credentials, Google “cybersecurity legend” and see whose name is the only name that appears in the first 10 results out of more than a quarter of a million.

Make no mistake that this is one of the most epic battles in the history of privacy, as the decisions that are reached in this case will reverberate throughout the world and have far reaching consequences. There is a fundamental battle taking place as to whether an individual has a right to privacy or, if as the U.S. government is asserting; privacy is a privilege bestowed upon individuals at the behest of the government.+

Ironically, privacy is considered a fundamental human right as recognized in the UN Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and in many other international and regional treaties. Privacy is the lynchpin of human dignity and many other key values such as freedom of association and freedom of speech have their roots in privacy.

When the U.S. government works to undermine what is considered a fundamental human right by most of the world, perhaps it’s time to seriously question why those elected to represent the people are actively working to undermine the rights of those that put them in office.

Source:

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/tech-guru-john-mcafee-alarmed-govts-demand-create-backdoor-iphone-offers-crack-encryption-fbi/#Px6fTzsPbZXj3vtx.99

The Rutherford Institute, Wikipedia, ACLU Et Al. Ask Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to Reinstate Lawsuit Over the NSA’s Mass Surveillance Program

Posted: February 18, 2016 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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“On any given day, the average American going about his daily business will be monitored, surveilled, spied on and tracked in more than 20 different ways, by both government and corporate eyes and ears,”

John W. Whitehead's avatarJohn W. Whitehead, Constitutional Attorney

RICHMOND, Va. — The Rutherford Institute and a coalition of educational, legal, human rights and media organizations, including the ACLU, Wikipedia, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, have asked the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to reinstate a lawsuit challenging the government’s mass surveillance programs.

Despite extensive evidence that the government is systematically copying and substantially reviewing all international text-based communications, a Maryland federal court dismissed the lawsuit, ruling that the coalition of national and international groups does not have standing to bring the First and Fourth Amendment lawsuit against the National Security Agency (NSA), the U.S. Department of Justice and their directors. The Obama administration has argued that the organizations do not have concrete evidence their communications have been monitored under the secret program.

In their appeal brief, The Rutherford Institute and its coalition cite a vast array of sources rebutting the…

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The Cache – Prologue – Here There Be Dragons

Posted: February 18, 2016 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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h/t The Vulgar Curmudgeon @ http://bustednuckles.blogspot.com/

Selous Scout over at Something Wicked Comes has been working on a book for a few years-
The prologue to “the Cache”  “Here There Be Dragons” is linked below,the rest of the story,in individual chapters, can be found on the left sidebar of the site.
Read it here…
There Be Dragons

Orange Is the New Red, White & Blue

Posted: February 18, 2016 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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Via NC Renegade

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You cannot have a legal conflict unless a minimum of two parties are involved. The two parties involved for the purposes of this discussion are patriots who support the country and the federal government which has usurped power.

For clarification, we have to define some terminology and principles:

Patriot

A person who loves and strongly supports or fights for his or her country.

Sedition

The crime of saying, writing, or doing something that encourages people to disobey their government.

18 U.S. Code § 2384 – Seditious conspiracy

If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.

Declaration of Independence

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

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And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

Note that the name of the country in the Declaration of Independence is “united” instead of “United”.

Natural Law

A set of rules inherent in human behavior and human reasoning that governs human conduct. Natural law is preexisting and is not created in courts by judges. Philosophers and theologians throughout history have differed in their interpretations of natural law, but in theory, natural law should be the same throughout time and across the world because it is based on human nature, not on culture or customs.

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The conflict that has arisen is clear: patriots versus government. Patriots who used their first amendment right to petition the government for a redress of government abuse have been arrested and denied bail for protests at the Bundy Ranch, Sugar Pine Mine and Malheur Wildlife Refuge. What is the responsibility of a patriot whose country has been usurped by a federal government? The government of the United States of America is not representing the people, the country or following the Constitution. They have replaced the rule of law with a two-tiered judicial system based on race, money and political class. The founding principle that all men are created equal is no longer true. What are our rights guaranteed under natural law:

Natural law and natural rights follow from the nature of man and the world. We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state.

The reasons our forefathers declared their independence from tyranny are now in place at a larger scale. Our duty is the same as their duty: the freedom of our children is more important than a government. But I would like to ask a different question: how would you expect a tyrannical government to act? The federal government has:

  1. Enacted taxation and regulations without representation that account for over 50% of the fruits of our labor. This mainly applies to the second class tier of people who work to support the welfare/workfare state and the political elite.
  2. The government’s political elite is exempt from the law. Hillary Clinton’s email treason, Fast and Furious, Eric Holder’s selective enforcement of law based on race and the illegal ratification of the Affordable Health Care Act are only a few examples.
  3. Ignored the Bill of Rights: the illegal spying on the people by the NSA continues without any discussion in any of the three branches of the federal government is only one example.
  4. People are selectively targeted by the government. The IRS scandal and the murder of LaVoy Finicum are only two examples which have had no consequences.
  5. Usurped power from the States as guaranteed under the Constitution. Immigration and the importation of “refugees” without background checks are bankrupting our schools and local governments regardless of State laws.

A government that recognizes it has broken the compact of the Constitution with the people will act exactly as it has: it classifies patriots as domestic terrorists.

But a list of grievances will not cause a patriot to act. Only Sacred Honor and moral conviction will force an individual to recognize the consequences of tyranny. The choice is simple: we can either stand up and fight to regain our Liberty or bear the heavy chains of tyranny.

And yes, this qualities as sedition.

David DeGerolamo

Valerie Jarrett In Her Own Words

Posted: February 17, 2016 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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Little big O’s closest adviser.  A self-admitted traitor.

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Bombshell: Co-creator of Civil Asset Forfeiture Wants to Abolish It, No More Policing for Profit

Posted: February 17, 2016 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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The sole function of the state is self-preservation — carried out and sustained through acts of extortion

One of the most insidious abuses of state power lies in the practice of civil asset forfeiture (CAF), where government agents can seize cash and property from citizens who are not charged with a crime. Law enforcement needs only the suspicion (often concocted) of a crime to immediately steal a person’s belongings, and the person must then prove his or her innocence with costly attorney’s fees to get their property back.

The case of Joseph Rivers, 22, provides a shocking example of how bad it can get. While on his way to Hollywood to start a music career, the DEA stole Rivers’ life savings of $16,000 on the made-up suspicion that he must be involved in drugs, even though there was no evidence whatsoever. He has yet to get this money back.

Since CAF was created by the federal government in the 1980s to fight organized crime, law enforcement has seized upon it to develop, like a drug addiction, something known as “policing for profit.” Billions of dollars are stolen every year to feed a lust for more equipment, training, and personnel to further entrench the police state.

However, the tide is turning. New Mexico has become the first state to make serious reform, as it has abolished civil asset forfeiture by requiring a criminal conviction to seize assets. The law puts the funds derived from criminal convictions into the state treasury, rather than state and local law enforcement.

The city of Albuquerque, which used to rake in $1 million a year from CAF, is incensed over the loss of its cash cow and is refusing to follow the law. It continues to seize vehicles without a conviction and has even built a new parking lot for all the cars it intends to steal.

More states, such as Virginia, Oklahoma, and New Hampshire, are considering reform as the abuses of CAF come to light. Noble law enforcement officers are speaking out as well. Last September, we interviewed Stephen Mills, chief of police of the Apache, OK police department, who is a vocal critic of CAF.

And now, a bombshell has been dropped which will surely accelerate moves across the country to end this injustice.

One of the creators of civil asset forfeiture has just called for it to be abolished. Brad Cates, former director of the U.S. Justice Department’s Asset Forfeiture Office (1985-89), wrote an opinion in the Wall Street Journal acknowledging that CAF has turned into policing for profit.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/bombshell-co-creator-civil-asset-forfeiture-calls-abolition-policing-profit/#FfTqzumesBERQYkB.99

‘The People vs. the Police State: The Struggle for Justice in the Supreme Court’ by John W. Whitehead

Posted: February 16, 2016 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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John W. Whitehead's avatarJohn W. Whitehead, Constitutional Attorney

“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”—Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The untimely death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has predictably created a political firestorm.

Republicans and Democrats, eager to take advantage of an opening on the Supreme Court, have been quick to advance their ideas about Scalia’s replacement. This is just the beginning of the furor over who gets to appoint the next U.S. Supreme Court justice (President Obama or his successor), when (as soon as Obama chooses or as long as Congress can delay), how (whether by way of a recess appointment or while Congress is in session), and where any judicial nominee will stand on the hot-button political issues of our day (same-sex marriage, Obamacare, immigration, the environment, and abortion).

This is yet another spectacle, not unlike the carnival-like antics of…

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Apologies for lack of posting

Posted: February 15, 2016 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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Wintertime finally hit NE Ohio-I do snow removal in the winter.

Done nothing except work,sleep very,very little,and eat once in a while,mostly living on coffee and mountain dew.

More snow in forecast next few days,but no major accumulation-so I can do my route in 3 hours when I just have to spread salt.

Posting will be back to normal once I can sleep for about 24 hours straight.

Welcome to the Front/Feel the Boot

Posted: February 15, 2016 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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h/t WRSA

 

Welcome to the front

feel the boot

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