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  On 15. 6. 2013. at 22:44, Indy said:
Au, brate. Posle svega mi dodje da poverujem teoreticarima zavere, na celu sa 9/11 hoaxersima.
  On 15. 6. 2013. at 23:09, DarkAttraktor said:
odlicno si to primetio. gurnuti smo u predpoliticko stanje. posle ovoga svi postajemo teoreticari zavere, njuejdz ludaje, anarhopankeri, hipici treehugeri i hobo-proroci na Time Squareu.riiiiiight ;)0427_ayn-rand1-500x391.jpg
  On 15. 6. 2013. at 23:53, Indy said:
U svetlu ovog što se svaki dan obelodanjuje, blesavosti teoretičara zavere nisu ni najblesavija stvar na svetu.Šta reći, recimo, na taj trik rukom da se uvek ima neka baba roga (bio ranije Ruja sa petokrakom, a sad bradonja umotan u čaršave) kojim se maše ispred faca demokratskog™ publikuma te ih se uvek uspešno ućutka i shodno tome provuče sa bilo kakvom nepodobnošću? Nije li to kao poručeno.
Jodi Dean(3) drew attention to a curious phenomenon clearly observable in the "dialogue of the mutes" between the official ("serious," academically institutionalized) science and the vast domain of so-called pseudo-sciences, from ufology to those who want to decipher the secrets of the pyramids: one cannot but be struck by how it is the oficial scientists who proceed in a dogmatic dismissive way, while the pseudo-scientists refer to facts and argumentation deprived of the common prejudices. Of course, the answer will be here that established scientists speak with the authority of the big Other of the scientific Institution; but the problem is that, precisely, this scientific big Other is again and again revealed as a consensual symbolic fiction. So when we are confronted with conspiracy theories, we should proceed in a strict homology to the proper reading of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw: we should neither accept the existence of ghosts as part of the (narrative) reality nor reduce them, in a pseudo-Freudian way, to the "projection" of the heroine's hysterical sexual frustrations. Conspiracy theories, of course, are not to be accepted as "fact" - however, one should also not reduce them to the phenomenon of modern mass hysteria. Such a notion still relies on the "big Other," on the model of "normal" perception of shared social reality, and thus does not take into account how it is precisely this notion of reality that is undermined today. The problem is not that ufologists and conspiracy theorists regress to a paranoiac attitude unable to accept (social) reality; the problem is that this reality itself is becoming paranoiac. Contemporary experience again and again confronts us with situations in which we are compelled to take note of how our sense of reality and normal attitude towards it is grounded in a symbolic fiction, i.e. how the "big Other" that determines what counts as normal and accepted truth, what is the horizon of meaning in a given society, is in no way directly grounded in "facts" as rendered by the scientific "knowledge in the real."
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Kina: Izručenje Snoudena izdaja, Peking bi izgubio obrazFoNet | 17. 06. 2013. - 19:25h Izručenje Edvarda Snoudena Americi bila bi izdaja poverenja koje je bivši agent CIA ukazao demokratiji u Hongkongu, a Peking bi izgubio obraz, navodi se u komentaru kineskog dnevnika na engleskom jeziku Global Tajms, koji pripada listu Žemin Žibao, zvaničnom glasilu Kineske komunističke partije.To je prvi put da je u Kini iznet direktan stav o aferi Snouden.Bivši obaveštajac Centralne informativne agencije otkrio je medijima da američke bezbednosne agencije prikupljaju podatake sa interneta i snimaju telefonske komunikacije iz celog sveta, zbog čega mu u Americi preti sudski progon.Hongkong ima ugovor o izručenju sa SAD iz vremena kada je to bio britanski protektorat, ali Peking sada ima pravo veta i mogao bi da poništi eventualnu odluku o ekstradiciji.Povom optužbi iz Amerike, oglasila se i predstavnica za štampu kineskog Ministarstva spoljnih poslova, koja je demantovala da je Snouden špijunirao za Kinu.Snouden se krije u Hongkongu od 20. maja, a FBI za sada nije zvanično tražio njegovo izručenje.
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Justin Blinder released a plugin for the Web browser Firefox this week, and he’s already seeing a positive response in the press if not just based off of the idea alone."Dark Side of the Prism" uses Pink Floyd's aural prism (Dark Side of the Moon) as a playlist to the NSA's tracking efforts, serving as an auditory reminder of how our online activities are surveilled.When visiting any URLs that have been (publicly) targeted by Prism, a small notification will appear alerting that this site is being surveilled. You will then be presented with an ethereal Pink Floyd track from the "Dark Side of the Moon" album.

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Obama juce na CBS-u ladno izjavio the government is obtaining, not acquiring information.ja vise ne znam ni kako da prokomentarisam ovo.

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  On 20. 6. 2013. at 9:38, Indy said:
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Telegraph.co.uk insinuira da WL izmislja (tj. unosi pometnju/teoriju zavere). Zasad nema nista novo od Wikileaksa na temu.PS. Ovde je 1 osvrt na Michael Hastingsov intervju Julian Assangea.R.I.P. Michael Hastings
  On 19. 6. 2013. at 14:03, DarkAttraktor said:
Obama juce na CBS-u ladno izjavio the government is obtaining, not acquiring information.ja vise ne znam ni kako da prokomentarisam ovo.
Obama je najveća prevara još od Kenedija.

Vojno-industrijski kompleks u ruhu 21. (22, 23...) veka. Vrli novi svet, silikonska dolina + NSA to su srca dva.

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...perhaps no one embodies the tightening relationship between the N.S.A. and the [silicon] valley more than Kenneth A. Minihan.A career Air Force intelligence officer, Mr. Minihan was the director of the N.S.A. during the Clinton administration until his retirement in the late 1990s, and then he ran the agency’s outside professional networking organization. Today he is managing director of Paladin Capital Group, a venture capital firm based in Washington that in part specializes in financing start-ups that offer high-tech solutions for the N.S.A. and other intelligence agencies. In effect, Mr. Minihan is an advanced scout for the N.S.A. as it tries to capitalize on the latest technology to analyze and exploit the vast amounts of data flowing around the world and inside the United States.The members of Paladin’s strategic advisory board include Richard C. Schaeffer Jr., a former N.S.A. executive. While Paladin is a private firm, the American intelligence community has its own in-house venture capital company, In-Q-Tel, financed by the Central Intelligence Agency to invest in high-tech start-ups.Many software technology firms involved in data analytics are open about their connections to intelligence agencies.
EDIT. Zapazite workflow: CIA/NSA kadrovi kreiraju front privatne firme koje investiraju u hi-tech startups koji onda dodju i nama boraniji ponude usluge "socijalnih medija" da im eto lepo i dobrovoljno damo svoje privatne podatke. I posle teoreticari zavera ludi. "If you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to fear." And you've got nowhere to hide, anyway.

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I na poslednju notu iz mog prethodnog posta, prenosim u celosti odlicni clanak sa falkvinge.netEvery so often, you hear the argument “If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear”, in order to justify increased and invasive surveillance. This argument is not only dangerous, but dishonest and cowardly, too.In the comments to yesterday’s post about Sweden’s DNA register, some expressed the “nothing to hide” argument – that efficiency of law enforcement should always be an overriding factor in any society-building, usually expressed as “if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear”. This is a very dangerous mindset. The argument is frequently raised in debates by pro-big brother hawks, and doing so is dangerous, cowardly, and dishonest.There are at least four good reasons to reject this argument solidly and uncompromisingly: The rules may change, it’s not you who determine if you’re guilty, laws must be broken for society to progress, and privacy is a basic human need.Let’s look at these in detail. They go from the less important and more obvious, to the less obvious and more important.One – The rules may change: Once the invasive surveillance is in place to enforce rules that you agree with, the ruleset that is being enforced could change in ways that you don’t agree with at all – but then, it is too late to protest the surveillance. For example, you may agree to cameras in every home to prevent domestic violence (“and domestic violence only”) – but the next day, a new political force in power could decide that homosexuality will again be illegal, and they will use the existing home cameras to enforce their new rules. Any surveillance must be regarded in terms of how it can be abused by a worse power than today’s.Two – It’s not you who determine if you have something to fear: You may consider yourself law-abidingly white as snow, and it won’t matter a bit. What does matter is whether you set off the red flags in the mostly-automated surveillance, where bureaucrats look at your life in microscopic detail through a long paper tube to search for patterns. When you stop your car at the main prostitution street for two hours every Friday night, the Social Services Authority will draw certain conclusions from that data point, and won’t care about the fact that you help your elderly grandmother – who lives there – with her weekly groceries. When you frequently stop at a certain bar on your way driving home from work, the Department of Driving Licenses will draw certain conclusions as to your eligibility for future driving licenses – regardless of the fact that you think they serve the world’s best reindeer meatballs in that bar, and never had had a single beer there. People will stop thinking in terms of what is legal, and start acting in self-censorship to avoid being red-flagged, out of pure self-preservation. (It doesn’t matter that somebody in the right might possibly and eventually be cleared – after having been investigated for six months, you will have lost both custody of your children, your job, and possibly your home.)Two and a half – Point two assumes that the surveillance even has correct data, which it has been proven time and again to frequently not have.Three – Laws must be broken for society to progress: A society which can enforce all of its laws will stop dead in its tracks. The mindset of “rounding up criminals is good for society” is a very dangerous one, for in hindsight, it may turn out that the criminals were the ones in the moral right. Less than a human lifetime ago, if you were born a homosexual, you were criminal from birth. If today’s surveillance level had existed in the 1950s and 60s, the lobby groups for sexual equality could never have formed; it would have been just a matter of rounding up the organized criminals (“and who could possibly object to fighting organized crime?”). If today’s surveillance level had existed in the 1950s and 60s, homosexuality would still be illegal and homosexual people would be criminals by birth. It is an absolute necessity to be able to break unjust laws for society to progress and question its own values, in order to learn from mistakes and move on as a society.Four – Privacy is a basic human need: Implying that only the dishonest people have need of any privacy ignores a basic property of the human psyche, and sends a creepy message of strong discomfort. We have a fundamental need for privacy. I lock the door when I go to the men’s room, despite the fact that nothing secret happens in there: I just want to keep that activity to myself, I have a fundamental need to do so, and any society must respect that fundamental need for privacy. In every society that doesn’t, citizens have responded with subterfuge and created their own private areas out of reach of the governmental surveillance, not because they are criminal, but because doing so is a fundamental human need.Finally, it could be noted that this argument is also commonly used by the authorities themselves to promote surveillance and censorship, while rejecting transparency and free speech. Those who want to have a little fun can play the reverse card as illustrated by Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.The next time you hear anybody say “if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear”, tell them that’s an absolutely false and dangerous argument, and point them at this article.

  On 20. 6. 2013. at 12:41, Indy said:
Vojno-industrijski kompleks u ruhu 21. (22, 23...) veka. Vrli novi svet, silikonska dolina + NSA to su srca dva.EDIT. Zapazite workflow: CIA/NSA kadrovi kreiraju front privatne firme koje investiraju u hi-tech startups koji onda dodju i nama boraniji ponude usluge "socijalnih medija" da im eto lepo i dobrovoljno damo svoje privatne podatke. I posle teoreticari zavera ludi. "If you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to fear." And you've got nowhere to hide, anyway.
In-q-Tel (+ par drugih) -> Keyhole, Inc (KML - Keyhole Markup Language) -> Google (za Google Earth).

^Da da, to je to._____Ovo je duza verzija onog sto sam ranije kaciohttp://youtu.be/UFFkcCh-pCc

Wikileaks, desno krilo australijskih laburista (ALP) i neki bivsi i sadasnji Ozi politicari u svojstvu americkih spijuna... fascinantno citanje.In 1973, the then Attorney General of Australia Lionel Murphy led a raid on the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO), the equivalent to the U.S. CIA, over concern with the organisation’s involvement with the training of fascist Croatian groups, and the launching of terrorist operations from Australian soil. According to the Hope Commission back in 1977, ASIO was handing over to the CIA information on Australian opposition politicians and kept files on all ALP members....Bob Carr [sadasnji ministar inostranih poslova Australije*, prim. Indy] has been forthright in exposing past politicians as members of the Communist Party of Australia, so should take the accusations against him seriously, either stepping aside for the duration of an inquiry or resigning outright.____* Takodje godinama konzistentno nezainteresovan za ikakvu pomoc Julian Assangeu, kao i za davanje javnosti svoje zemlje bilo kakve informacije o tome da li su komunikacije izmedju australijskih politicara bile "osmatrane" od strane Amerikanaca u PRISM programu...

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