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I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
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Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
The Onion is one of the most beloved publications on the internet. For years, their hilariously gut-wrenching satirical headlines have perfectly encapsulated America’s hypocrisies with unflinching, often brutal honesty. Earlier this year, Univision bought a 40% controlling interest in the company, which includes the right to buy the site, as well as ownership over the sister satire site, Clickhole.
The Intercept points out an interesting fact: one of Hillary Clinton’s biggest supporters and financial backers is Univision co-owner and chairman Haim Saban. Conflict of interest? Let’s do a bit of comparison.
Consider this pre-acquisition headline: “Hillary Clinton To Nation: ‘Do Not Fuck This Up For Me.” And now, this post-acquisition headline: “Female Presidential Candidate Who Was United States Senator, Secretary Of State Told To Be More Inspiring.”
And incidentally, Saban has been brazen about his political meddling in the Democratic Party. According to The Intercept, he has openly stated the three ways to manipulate American politics are political donations, think tanks, and controlling media outlets. Check, check, and check.
The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?
Clearly they don't have any real computer experts inside their bubble. I am starting to feel sorry for them. I may volunteer to manage their technology...naahhh!
to be aware that emailing or mailing a code is stupid. How many if asked would email the pin for their debit/credit card to a group of people?
For people who are so proud of their education for which they "deserve" special treatment, they are not very bright.
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If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
"The war on Gaza, backed by the West, is a demonstration that the West is willing to cross all lines. That it will discard any nuance of humanity. That it is willing to commit genocide" -- Moon of Alabama
Oregon's page is about worthless too. The first thing posted is a meeting from 2015. Come on lets get together and support this alternative to the duopoly. I mean with what's going down in election farce the time is ripe. Can the geeks contact the Greens? How could we go about funneling techie help and money on a local grassroots level? Sure I'll donate I'm a desperate liberal political junkie but it sure seems to me they need to be open to accommodate the influx of people who are looking for an alternative party that is willing to use the discontent and resistance to what is turning out to an blatant mockery of the democratic process.
Why haven't we seen hacks of the GOP servers? Where are all the Trump email hacks? Must be some juicy stuff in there somewhere...
Or maybe they do all their communication by carrier pigeon, and keep their accounts on clay tablets.
"Lookee here, Martha! I bagged me one o' them Republican pigeons! Lessee what's on this little ole paper... Aw, it's in code, dang it! Call Billy in an' tell 'im to bring his Cap'n Midnight decoder ring."
from the Lensman series (E.E. "Doc" Smith, bless your heart, you are missed):
Conway Costigan: "I could eat a handful of sand and *puke* a better pump...".
Not a reflection on the site management, who are doing a wonderful job, and in whose whose community I'm very happy to participate.
On edit- and they fixed it before any of you had a chance to note it. Thanks, admins, for making this place a damned fine home: that was above and beyond the call.
There has been some talk that the DNC hack was really an insider providing Wikileaks with the email and other files. It could be the case that nobody inside the RNC has leaked anything along with fact nobody has even tried to hack them, or if they did, they are not looking to give anybody an advantage but to gain insider information which would only be useful to the hacker.
Of course, I may be over-estimating how much people really know about computers on a network as the world has moved so heavily into mobile computing. Powell in one of his Hillary bashing emails wondered if Hillary knew what a server does.
But that being said, we have this email with the password, and yet this same group is able to find out that one of Bernie's staffers was looking at Hillary's database of supporters. They have the smarts to work the scam of rich donors contributing to state Dems which then gets laundered back to the DNC and Hillary.
We have those crafty Russians able to hack into your alarm clock, but leave Cyrillic files on the DNC server.
Is there a conspiracy theory out there just for the fun of it??
to vote for her, although she is a friend I respect. A 70-year person with a long track record, unbridled ambition, greedy, not transformational, with a husband still dicking bimbos at home (according to the NYP).”
H/T to TheJerry
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underaged girls? Actually it wasn't sex, it was statutory rape which can carry a sentence up to 20 years.
He only was sentenced to 13 months in prison if he promised not to name the other people who were had either participated in the rape or knew about it.
Bill Clinton would ditch his SS detail so that he could fly on Epstein's plane to his private island and there would be underaged girls there and other women for those people to have sex with.
The plane had a bedroom in it and Epstein and others had sex with those girls and women.
So I assume that Bill knew that Epstein was raping those girls yet he never said anything about it but r turned him into the authorities.
If my spouse had done that, I would be divorced so soon that heads would spin.
13 months?!!! At least he has to register as a sex offender.
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The Bernie staffer thing could just be an alarm built into a turnkey system. You get a notification every time a new user accesses a set of data. The staffer wasn't recognized by the person getting the alert and they responded appropriately.
Email passwords are usually not set by IT but by users themselves, and it's hard to set up automated policies that prevent people from emailing them around. I noticed that the password itself was tolerably strong, so something was enforcing that, but enforcing email content is up to users, who may well be clueless.
The money laundering scam was not very smart - it was discovered in pretty short order. On the basis of that, the drug cartels wouldn't let the Dems pick up stray bills lying around on the floor.
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The money laundering scam was not very smart - it was discovered in pretty short order. On the basis of that, the drug cartels wouldn't let the Dems pick up stray bills lying around on the floor.
absolutely terrifying. She's unfit to govern because she is a mad person. Oh yeah she's a woman and old so let's not talk about how she's unfit to hold office otherwise blab, blab, blab what ever PC notion comes up when you express how Mad this Bomber is. That photo captures exactly how mad she is and yet it's somehow sexist or something to attack her personally. Well shit are we all not responsible for what we advocate and accept? Why is she exempt cause she is woman. how insane to get all tweaked and bogged down with all this bs. about how we are not allowed to attack her personally as she is woman. Hey the fact she is a woman only pisses me off more. She's just another global psycho killer who has power and is so sick it matters not whether it's pathological or a disease of the spirit. Ask me it's both and the sickness she suffers from is not just pathological.
According to my father, who called me right after he saw it during the Democratic convention, it is something he's seen before. And it's not good.
My dad and mom, both now in their late 80's but sharp as razors, cared for my grandmother when she became unable to do so. They lived in the same house. Grandmother developed Parkinson's Disease. My father has been trying to tell me for several months that he feels sure that Hillary has it, and it is getting worse rapidly. He has sent me a few things to watch, but I mostly blew them off as most were coming from known right-wing sites, etc. I did think something was a bit odd, though.
Then this past Sunday, Hillary collapsed at the Ground Zero affair with at least three cameras rolling to film it. At least one is very high definition video and quite clear. We've all seen it. I called my father about it. He said, "This is exactly what I've been trying to tell you about." He described Hillary's manor and the type of "freeze" as almost identical to what afflicted my grandmother before she passed.
Dad is not a doctor, but here a video made by a doctor who is pretty much saying what my parents are saying (This video has been referenced here on c99 at least once in the last couple of days):
This doctor is obviously no friend of the Clintons, but manages to largely keep politics out of his video -- not totally, though. It runs a little under ten minutes. I found the information the doctor related matched much of what my father has been saying regarding my grandmother when she suffered from Parkinson's.
Gun Lobby BOUGHT & PAID FOR Hillary A FACT#HedgeFunds HAVE A PIECE TOO#wikileaks#DNCleak How much does it cost for an ambassadorship from the Dem Party?
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Clever people, them Dems
From the top down.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
And to imagine...
They think they should be running the country...
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
These
people should be writing for the Onion...
Or The Onion guys should run the DNC....
Make it a joke we can all enjoy.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
The DNC Just Bought the Onion, Right?
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/hillarys-top-donor-buys-onion-starts-pu...
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
6 Independent News Sources That Sold Out to the Highest Bidder
The Onion
The Onion is one of the most beloved publications on the internet. For years, their hilariously gut-wrenching satirical headlines have perfectly encapsulated America’s hypocrisies with unflinching, often brutal honesty. Earlier this year, Univision bought a 40% controlling interest in the company, which includes the right to buy the site, as well as ownership over the sister satire site, Clickhole.
The Intercept points out an interesting fact: one of Hillary Clinton’s biggest supporters and financial backers is Univision co-owner and chairman Haim Saban. Conflict of interest? Let’s do a bit of comparison.
Consider this pre-acquisition headline: “Hillary Clinton To Nation: ‘Do Not Fuck This Up For Me.” And now, this post-acquisition headline: “Female Presidential Candidate Who Was United States Senator, Secretary Of State Told To Be More Inspiring.”
And incidentally, Saban has been brazen about his political meddling in the Democratic Party. According to The Intercept, he has openly stated the three ways to manipulate American politics are political donations, think tanks, and controlling media outlets. Check, check, and check.
http://www.mintpressnews.com/6-independent-news-sources-sold-highest-bid...
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Too bad about The Onion
I remember when it started up in Madison, way back when........ picking it up on the walk home across campus.
That second headline is so anodyne it could be from the 'in the basket for HRC' Guardian.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
No everyone has sold out:
The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?
Man...
I haven't had TV in so long, I wondered why National Geographic "TV shows" turn into such trash, reality TV crap. I knew about the others... (dduh!)
C99, my refuge from an insane world. #ForceTheVote
Univision--or part of it, anyway--also made a deal with Cenk:
https://twitter.com/cenkuygur/status/729762774285312000
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Haim Saban owns Univision, which now owns The Onion.
Markos Moulitsas “owns,” or at least employs, Tom Tomorrow / This Modern World.
Jeff Bezos (Lord Amazon) owns the Washington Post.
Rupert Murdoch / News Corp. / Fox owns National Geographic magazine and NatGeo TV.
Influence and “pre-suasion” can be subtle.
(Influence and Pre-suasion are both titles of books by a psychologist named Robert Cialdini, who some are hailing as if he were a new Edward Bernays.)
Absolute trust them with the big red button...
They'll just tape the password to it to make sure they don't lose it.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Shocking ignorance
Clearly they don't have any real computer experts inside their bubble. I am starting to feel sorry for them. I may volunteer to manage their technology...naahhh!
The political revolution continues
One does not need to be a computer expert
to be aware that emailing or mailing a code is stupid. How many if asked would email the pin for their debit/credit card to a group of people?
For people who are so proud of their education for which they "deserve" special treatment, they are not very bright.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
LOL!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Would you be willing to volunteer --
to do some work on the Green Party of California's webpage? You can't find the locals on that page, which makes it about worthless.
http://www.cagreens.org/
"The war on Gaza, backed by the West, is a demonstration that the West is willing to cross all lines. That it will discard any nuance of humanity. That it is willing to commit genocide" -- Moon of Alabama
Not a techie but
man o man do they need some good geeks locally and nationally. The Greens today perked me right up with this..
http://caucus99percent.com/content/greens-think-they-can-raise-1m-saturday
Oregon's page is about worthless too. The first thing posted is a meeting from 2015. Come on lets get together and support this alternative to the duopoly. I mean with what's going down in election farce the time is ripe. Can the geeks contact the Greens? How could we go about funneling techie help and money on a local grassroots level? Sure I'll donate I'm a desperate liberal political junkie but it sure seems to me they need to be open to accommodate the influx of people who are looking for an alternative party that is willing to use the discontent and resistance to what is turning out to an blatant mockery of the democratic process.
Ow
As a long time tech worker, can I just say that I now have a large dent in my forehead? These people are dumber than a bag of hammers.
We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.
- Greta Thunberg
No! They Are Very Smart. Too Smart for Internet Haters Like You.
This kind of incompetence and moronitude is friggin' everywhere.
I just can't stand to see idiocy paraded around as competence.
As you may have guessed, it's been a relatively bad day.
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
SMRT!
n/t
This shit is bananas.
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Why haven't we seen hacks of the GOP servers? Where are all the Trump email hacks? Must be some juicy stuff in there somewhere...
Or maybe they do all their communication by carrier pigeon, and keep their accounts on clay tablets.
"Lookee here, Martha! I bagged me one o' them Republican pigeons! Lessee what's on this little ole paper... Aw, it's in code, dang it! Call Billy in an' tell 'im to bring his Cap'n Midnight decoder ring."
Perhaps because everyone already knows that the GOP
are assholes.
This just confirms that the Dems (the so-called 'Party of the People') are too.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Roughly half of all those who vote, vote for the GOP
So no, obviously not everyone knows they're assholes.
I have no guesses, I have no theories. But some things, simply by their absence, are passing strange.
And why split so evenly?
Are we a statistical experiment?
The GOP doesn't use computers
They are still on cuneiform tablets.
We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.
- Greta Thunberg
Stone knives and bearskins,
baby! It's the GOP way.
Come to think of it, it is also the DLC way. Hmm.
Nothing to see here- carry on...
On edit: a few multiple reposts happened, apparently because of a timing glitch, and have been corrected. Thanks to site management!
(edit)Actually one click at the wrong moment can do this.
At most I have generated two extra but your mileage may vary.
[edit] Then the super techs fix the resulting mess and no one knows what we are talking about. Sigh!
To quote one of my favorite characters
from the Lensman series (E.E. "Doc" Smith, bless your heart, you are missed):
Conway Costigan: "I could eat a handful of sand and *puke* a better pump...".
Not a reflection on the site management, who are doing a wonderful job, and in whose whose community I'm very happy to participate.
On edit- and they fixed it before any of you had a chance to note it. Thanks, admins, for making this place a damned fine home: that was above and beyond the call.
They're supposedly out there
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/776085088559824896?lang=en
Is this US election the leak election? Guardian claims to have 1500 pages (they won't publish them, sadly) on GOP. #letitallcomeout
Why no gop hacks? One theory I have.
There has been some talk that the DNC hack was really an insider providing Wikileaks with the email and other files. It could be the case that nobody inside the RNC has leaked anything along with fact nobody has even tried to hack them, or if they did, they are not looking to give anybody an advantage but to gain insider information which would only be useful to the hacker.
When stuff does not add up, have fun.
Of course, I may be over-estimating how much people really know about computers on a network as the world has moved so heavily into mobile computing. Powell in one of his Hillary bashing emails wondered if Hillary knew what a server does.
But that being said, we have this email with the password, and yet this same group is able to find out that one of Bernie's staffers was looking at Hillary's database of supporters. They have the smarts to work the scam of rich donors contributing to state Dems which then gets laundered back to the DNC and Hillary.
We have those crafty Russians able to hack into your alarm clock, but leave Cyrillic files on the DNC server.
Is there a conspiracy theory out there just for the fun of it??
In another Powell bashing Hillary emails
He said this
H/T to TheJerry
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Clinton home life must be a joy
With Jeffrey Epstein in tow?
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Did you hear about the deal that Epstei got for having sex with
underaged girls? Actually it wasn't sex, it was statutory rape which can carry a sentence up to 20 years.
He only was sentenced to 13 months in prison if he promised not to name the other people who were had either participated in the rape or knew about it.
Bill Clinton would ditch his SS detail so that he could fly on Epstein's plane to his private island and there would be underaged girls there and other women for those people to have sex with.
The plane had a bedroom in it and Epstein and others had sex with those girls and women.
So I assume that Bill knew that Epstein was raping those girls yet he never said anything about it but r turned him into the authorities.
If my spouse had done that, I would be divorced so soon that heads would spin.
13 months?!!! At least he has to register as a sex offender.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
I think there could be several things here
The Bernie staffer thing could just be an alarm built into a turnkey system. You get a notification every time a new user accesses a set of data. The staffer wasn't recognized by the person getting the alert and they responded appropriately.
Email passwords are usually not set by IT but by users themselves, and it's hard to set up automated policies that prevent people from emailing them around. I noticed that the password itself was tolerably strong, so something was enforcing that, but enforcing email content is up to users, who may well be clueless.
The money laundering scam was not very smart - it was discovered in pretty short order. On the basis of that, the drug cartels wouldn't let the Dems pick up stray bills lying around on the floor.
We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.
- Greta Thunberg
Good one
The money laundering scam was not very smart - it was discovered in pretty short order. On the basis of that, the drug cartels wouldn't let the Dems pick up stray bills lying around on the floor.
Obama protecting Hillary
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Powell on Hill's health
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
That's a scary picture.
Is it real?
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Yes. It was during the balloon drop the night she was
Accepted the nomination at the convention. There is something definitely wrong with her. It is real.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
That look on her face
makes me shudder.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
That night was
absolutely terrifying. She's unfit to govern because she is a mad person. Oh yeah she's a woman and old so let's not talk about how she's unfit to hold office otherwise blab, blab, blab what ever PC notion comes up when you express how Mad this Bomber is. That photo captures exactly how mad she is and yet it's somehow sexist or something to attack her personally. Well shit are we all not responsible for what we advocate and accept? Why is she exempt cause she is woman. how insane to get all tweaked and bogged down with all this bs. about how we are not allowed to attack her personally as she is woman. Hey the fact she is a woman only pisses me off more. She's just another global psycho killer who has power and is so sick it matters not whether it's pathological or a disease of the spirit. Ask me it's both and the sickness she suffers from is not just pathological.
Yes, it is scary
According to my father, who called me right after he saw it during the Democratic convention, it is something he's seen before. And it's not good.
My dad and mom, both now in their late 80's but sharp as razors, cared for my grandmother when she became unable to do so. They lived in the same house. Grandmother developed Parkinson's Disease. My father has been trying to tell me for several months that he feels sure that Hillary has it, and it is getting worse rapidly. He has sent me a few things to watch, but I mostly blew them off as most were coming from known right-wing sites, etc. I did think something was a bit odd, though.
Then this past Sunday, Hillary collapsed at the Ground Zero affair with at least three cameras rolling to film it. At least one is very high definition video and quite clear. We've all seen it. I called my father about it. He said, "This is exactly what I've been trying to tell you about." He described Hillary's manor and the type of "freeze" as almost identical to what afflicted my grandmother before she passed.
Dad is not a doctor, but here a video made by a doctor who is pretty much saying what my parents are saying (This video has been referenced here on c99 at least once in the last couple of days):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5mYx5oCxEg
This doctor is obviously no friend of the Clintons, but manages to largely keep politics out of his video -- not totally, though. It runs a little under ten minutes. I found the information the doctor related matched much of what my father has been saying regarding my grandmother when she suffered from Parkinson's.
So, yes, I agree with you. It's very scary.
Very interesting and informative video.
Thank you for posting it. I am unfamiliar with Parkinson's disease, so this was helpful. Now I'm more frightened than before!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
My compliments to your father.
Life is strong. I'm weak, but Life is strong.
I can't wait for the whole thing to crash and burn.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
...
GIANT ALL-CAPS SIG
Oh. Oh. Not really--no, they didn't. Surely not.
Holy shit.
They're not even intelligent assholes.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver