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Going Dark

As you might be aware, for a couple of years now Spies of all sorts, but particularly Cops, have been able to use a $15,000 tool called a “GrayKey” from a company called “GrayShift” to access the data on your iPhone by using a brute force technique that exploits flaws in Apple’s USB/Lightning Port. Apple …

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Know Your Terrorists

Well, the predictable “False Flag” excuse has been raised by the predictable apologists for the entirely predictable violence of Trump’s and the Republicans Far Right Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale (MVSN or Voluntary Militia for National Security, commonly called Blackshirts) and Sturmabteilung (SA or Storm Detachment, commonly called Brownshirts Fascists. They hang their hat …

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The Soros Bomber

Well, I can’t quite keep up with “breaking” so I don’t even try. In broad outline mail/pipe bombs have been found at the homes of-       Barack and Michelle Obama       Bill and Hillary Clinton       George Soros       and the Offices of CNN (addressed to John Brennan) Notably absent?       Nancy Pelosi       MSNBC Which is kind of surprising since …

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Violent Mobs

I suppose it’s because Right Wing violence is ubiquitous that it’s mostly ignored by the Corporatist Media (more than a few Racists, Misogynists, and Bigots in their ranks too, especially at the higher Executive levels). It’s a ‘Dog Bites Man’ story. Should a handful of “Antifa Protesters” break a window or burn an unoccupied car …

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Candygram

Knock, Knock, Knock. Who’s there? Candygram. Look, I’m 120+ years old. Of course I remember the first season of SNL. Unfortunately a lot of the sketches aren’t on YouTube, including “Land Shark”. Other ones I miss are “Super Bass-O-Matic” and “Julia Child”. Joe: No, no evidence at all. I mean, people have been writing up …

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Inside The Bunker

I’ve played video games like this. They never end especially well. Survival of the Richest by Douglas Rushkoff, Medium Jul 5, 2018 Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers. It was by far the largest …

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Short Term Memory Loss

Remember that attack in Kandahar? The one I highlighted ONLY TWO DAYS AGO? Remember how General Austin Miller, commander of all U.S. forces in Afganistan emerged miraculously unscathed despite the death of Afghan Police General Abdul Raziq, and the Provincial Intelligence Chief, General Abdul Momin? It seems Brigadier General Jeffrey Smiley was not quite as …

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Fist Fighting

Unlike some people I associate with I am not combat trained, I don’t know 16 ways to kill you with my little finger though I’m pretty sure I could bash you enough times with a rock to do the job (I am after all elderly and non-threatening). I’d ambush you, you’d never see me coming …

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Seven Minutes Of Screaming

Even a minute is a very long time. Try holding your breath. See? I used to be able to swim a 50 meter pool in one breath, but not so much anymore and my Breast Stroke splits for the distance ran in the high 40s. Not that it excused me from IM because I had …

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The Great White North

Cooo oo cooo ook coo coo. Cooo oo cooo ook coo coo. How about a beer and some Back Bacon eh? Or at least some totally legal bud. Now look a little left. Strange Days. Alaska governor Walker suspends campaign, endorses Democrat Begich By DANIEL STRAUSS, Politico 10/19/2018 Alaska Gov. Bill Walker, an independent, suspended …

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