Obummer Nation

unDear President Obama, I mean Obummer,

     I hate what you are doing.  I hate big government looking over our shoulders snooping our e-mails with their bots and programs and lists of phobic words.  I hate drones and the N.S.A. and the mockery that you have made of your promise for "more transparency in government."  Yeah right.  Ain't gonna happen.

     I hate you calling the sanctuary that Russia offered to Ed Snowden a product of a throwback to the Cold War thinking.  You, Obummer, are the one engaging in shameful antics.  Russia is doing the right thing.  Sanctuary, or political asylum, used to be something that the United States insisted upon offering those who were being persecuted for their political statements.  If someone was in danger of persecution or electrocution, the United States was considered to be a defender of liberty.  It's in the pledge.  Those words "liberty and justice for all."  Do you still believe those words?

     I get it.  You are pissed off at whistle-blowers in general and at Ed Snowden-- the one who got away-- in particular.  Ed Snowden saw something and said something; as a current popular meme states.  He has guts.  He is an hero.  Nothing you say will change my view of that.  

     I suspect that Ed Snowden had been following what was happening to Bradley Manning in custody.  He followed closely enough to understand that your utterances about transparencies were convenient lies.  He gave up his cushy life so that way the American people [and many other peoples] would become informed about the shit over at the N.S.A.  Meanwhile, Manning is going down.  He will more than likely never walk as a free man again.

     Thankfully, Ed Snowden was able to get himself a top Russian lawyer who advised him that the process which the Wikileaks folks had him engaged in-- requesting asylum from numerous countries-- was FAIL.  Thankfully, as far as we know right now, Ed Snowden is safe from a fate similar to the one that befell Bradley Manning.  You have only your stupid mouth and the mouths of some other politicians to thank for that.  So you didn't exactly go gunning for a "hacker".  You convicted him with your own words before he even saw a court of law.  Some other politicians joined you on that one.  You have no one to blame but yourself and your comrades.

     I am angry, Obummer.  I am really angry.  I don't like what you are doing.  I don't like the direction that I view the country as heading.  I love my country.  Lately, the government has gone all cray cray.  You, Obummer are part of that wank.

          No Love,

          radical sapphoq who will not be part of Obummer Nation     

 

The Stratfor Insecurity Fence

I made this picture of an odd "fence" myself using a digital art program.  It is copyleft, although I don't know why anyone would want to use it.  ~radical sapphoq











Corporate giant and private elite spy company Stratfor faces some embarassment due to the leak of a whole lot of e-mails.  This stuff is being published on wikileaks and the first installment can be found here at http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/releases.html for those who are interested. 

Some other stuff was allegedly taken also:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/dec/25/anonymous-security-thinktank-stratfor  .  Credit card numbers and bank transfers appear to have been used to gift charities with donations, monies which the charities will have to return. 

http://moneylife.in/article/anonymously-yours-wikileaks-latest-expose-is-the-next-step-in-cyber-war/23930.html 
Although it was initially reported that George Friedman stepped down from his post as CEO of Stratfor, he denied having done so.

Stratfor claims via this vid that at least one e-mail is not by George Friedman as it purports to be:






A tiny bit of damage control there perhaps on January 6, 2012 (the date the vid was uploaded to U-tube) by Fred Burton.  Sorry buddy, I just don't believe you.


radical sapphoq says: In the outrage by suits against Anonymous, there is something missing in the outrage.  Stratfor is a private intelligence company that apparently did not encrypt its' e-mails.  And that is FAIL.
The insecure and careless storage of personal information held on to by companies and organizations including but not limited to the private sector and the U.S. government is precisely one of the many reasons why I am for taking security measures when skating around on the internet. 
Stratfor by reports is a smallish company employing approximately forty people in a downtown Austin office.  Could they not have been more careless about this?

    To Stratfor: not encrypting your e-mails: FAIL.  Casual reference to the idea that Julian Assage needs to be waterboarded: FAIL.  Cursing in company e-mails: FAIL.  Crying about the "bad hackers": FAIL.  

We need Anonymous and Wikileaks today more than ever in the fight for justice and freedom.
I recommend following the anonops blogspot and bsnorrell. 


http://anonops.blogspot.com/2012/02/wikileaks-publishes-global-intelligence.html

http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/02/now-wikileaks-releasing-stratfor-global.html

http://www.enewspf.com/latest-news/latest-national/31196-massive-leak-reveals-criminality-paranoia-among-corporate-titans.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46555168/ns/us_news-security/

http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/232601656

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/brenda-norrell/2012/02/stratfor-files-flawed-global-intelligence-rotten-root-war

Leak on Wikileaks, Leak On

Any of you who have been following the drama over at Wikileaks will be glad to know that following this here linkage: http://88.80.13.160/wiki/Wikileaks will get you there (a mirror site from Sweden) for the time being anyways. Alternate linkage outside of the United States was part of the original plan-- to have sites set up in various countries should the courts of one country succeed in getting a shutdown order. Here's another one, this one is based in England: http://www.wikileaks.org.uk/wiki/Wikileaks .

Wikileaks protects whistle-blowers from corporations (or governments) who would much rather not have folks tattling on any suspicious practices. Recently, a Swiss bank challenged Wikileaks and now the site is facing a court battle with the United States versus responsible exercise of the First Amendment. Bloggers across the internet have protested the February 15 court decision and this blogger too joins in the fray. Buzz-flash has quite a few things to say about this whole mess over at: http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/1545 .

Quite amazing to me is that the court case took place in the United States. While the order to erase the D.N.S. from U.S. servers will certainly not hold up on appeal,
http://commons.globalintegrity.org/
2008/02/us-court-order-shuts-down-activist-site.html<--- here
it is disconcerting that this case involving documents regarding a Swiss bank doing business in the Cayman Islands made it court on United States soil. Still, we are far better off living here than in places like Egypt where one can be severely physically beaten for dissident web-surfing and document leaking or in Red China or even Vietnam where folks have been imprisoned for similar activities.

radical sapphoq
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