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MisdemeanorRebel
2014 Nov 17, 3:50am
Great piece by Assange.
Anybody who still thinks Hillary is even slightly progressive, outside of supporting the "Social Justice Warrior" distraction, needs to read this.
Also interesting about Jared Cohen, and his "Alliance of Youth Movements" among other things. And about Human Rights Watch and it's founder Bernstein's splinter group, "Movements.org" because the founder felt the former shouldn't report on US/Israeli atrocities and violations. And the range of support it receives from GE/NBC, Google, PR firm Edelman (which if memory serves conjured up the babies in incubators fib back during the first Iraq War), etc.
MisdemeanorRebel
2014 Nov 17, 4:06am
Oh... this is fascinating:
Around the same time, Google was becoming involved in a program known as the “Enduring Security Frameworkâ€58 (ESF), which entailed the sharing of information between Silicon Valley tech companies and Pentagon-affiliated agencies “at network speed.â€59 Emails obtained in 2014 under Freedom of Information requests show Schmidt and his fellow Googler Sergey Brin corresponding on first-name terms with NSA chief General Keith Alexander about ESF.60 Reportage on the emails focused on the familiarity in the correspondence: “General Keith . . . so great to see you . . . !†Schmidt wrote. But most reports overlooked a crucial detail. “Your insights as a key member of the Defense Industrial Base,†Alexander wrote to Brin, “are valuable to ensure ESF’s efforts have measurable impact.â€
Schmidt then posted an instagram video of a "Cujo" military drone. (Typical MIC bullshit, that thing sounds like a revving Harley and would give away a units' location to anybody awake within the area).
Also this Tom Friedman gem:
The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technologies to flourish is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.66
(all from the article)
Damn, OG, what a great piece. This is meatier than a Texas BBQ. Thanks man.
Tenpoundbass
2014 Nov 17, 4:09am
So what is the take away from all this?
If some silicon scumbag Nerd tells you don't be evil, you shank him, you shank him and jiggle it a little bit, then walk away.
Tenpoundbass
2014 Nov 17, 4:11am
Nah! Who am I kidding you dump everything on your Enterprise network into his Cloud, that's the American thing to do.
MisdemeanorRebel
2014 Nov 17, 4:12am
So what is the take away from all this?
If some silicon scumbag Nerd tells you don't be evil, you shank him, you shank him and jiggle it a little bit, then walk away.
Pretty much. Google is in deep with the US Government. Not just Schmidt, but Brin too.
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Tenpoundbass
2014 Nov 17, 4:25am
As much as I USED to love Firefox, what they have done to it in the past several years is beyond understanding. No 64bit browser, a huge resource suck. The last straw when it started sucking up 700 megs just four tabs open.
The only thing that they have going for them that has no equal, is their developer tools and firebug. It's the only browser to use if you need to debug complex jquery and ajax.
I'm using Whitehat Aviator it says it's private and safe but are we ever really. I always thought I was safe with Firefox. But it turned out I was just checking a do nothing check box for the "Do Not Track" feature.
As much as I USED to love Firefox, what they have done to it in the past several years is beyond understanding. No 64bit browser, a huge resource suck. The last straw when it started sucking up 700 megs just four tabs open.
The only thing that they have going for them that has no equal, is their developer tools and firebug. It's the only browser to use if you need to debug complex jquery and ajax.
I'm using Whitehat Aviator it says it's private and safe but are we ever really. I always thought I was safe with Firefox. But it turned out I was just checking a do nothing check box for the "Do Not Track" feature.
Use Iron from Germany. Chrome without the backdoors.
Cool story bro. This article is WAY too long...can someone give me the executive summary please?
The Original Bankster
2014 Nov 17, 10:19am
So what is the take away from all this?
If some silicon scumbag Nerd tells you don't be evil, you shank him, you shank him and jiggle it a little bit, then walk away.
for fuck sake, can you californians go back to being lazy hippies or something?
you dont see anything wrong with the fact that Silicon Valley is facilitating the most monsterous surviellance machine in history?
nope, because the fascsists have HORN RIMMED GLASSES.
caption: Hi guys, our interests include craft beer, video games, retarded half baked ideas we call Buddhism and government surveillance. CHEERS MOTHERFUCKERS!
The Original Bankster
2014 Nov 17, 10:30am
So what is the take away from all this?
If some silicon scumbag Nerd tells you don't be evil, you shank him, you shank him and jiggle it a little bit, then walk away.
Pretty much. Google is in deep with the US Government. Not just Schmidt, but Brin too.
duckduckgo.com
linux.com
mozilla.org
stallman.org
fsf.org
even the EFF is collaborating with Google. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/14/assange_bollocks_google_eff/
the founder John Perry Barlow is some sort of CIA agent or something who poses as a counter-culture activist. He got his job all the way back in the 60s.
Eric Schmidt is an influential figure, even among the parade of powerful characters with whom I have had to cross paths since I founded WikiLeaks. In mid-May 2011 I was under house arrest in rural Norfolk, about three hours’ drive northeast of London. The crackdown against our work was in full swing and every wasted moment seemed like an eternity. It was hard to get my attention. But when my colleague Joseph Farrell told me the executive chairman of Google wanted to make an appointment with me, I was listening.
In some ways the higher echelons of Google seemed more distant and obscure to me than the halls of Washington. We had been locking horns with senior US officials for years by that point. The mystique had worn off. But the power centers growing up in Silicon Valley were still opaque and I was suddenly conscious of an opportunity to understand and influence what was becoming the most influential company on earth. Schmidt had taken over as CEO of Google in 2001 and built it into an empire.1
I was intrigued that the mountain would come to Muhammad. But it was not until well after Schmidt and his companions had been and gone that I came to understand who had really visited me.
https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/