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

Yes, Virginia, There are Politicians Who Want You to Be Shamed into Keeping Your Baby

Virginia may be the next state to require a shamogram sonogram replete with a graphic description of the fetus before allowing an abortion.  Today, Virginia.  Tomorrow Pennsylvania.  Sometime after that, Rick Santorum who is against testing for fetal abnormalities-- specificially amniocentesis, although there are other tests that a couple at risk for birthing a child with deformities may also undergo-- being included in the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" [frequently abbreviated to "Affordable Care Act" or "ObamaCare"] touted by Obama.

Although some sort of sonogram is included in the gold standard of what happens before an abortion, the required "script-reading" by a physician that Texas has passed and that Virginia probably will pass next is not.  In some places, the script-reading laws will exclude women who are pregnant by rape as well as women carrying non-viable fetuses or deformed fetuses.  Ah, a touch of compassion there.  Meanwhile, presidential candidate Rick Santorum has added fuel to the fire by coming out against amniocentesis because he believes that finding out that a baby is not healthy leads to more abortions.

radical sapphoq says: Politicians, get the hell out of our doctors' offices.  Pregnant females should have a right to healthy and respectful prenatal care, including termination of the pregnancy if that is the decision made.  Take your scripts and shove them up the vacuum of Bad Laws. 
Abortion is a terrible tragedy.  I do not believe that an embryo or a fetus is akin to a tumor.  Yes, a life is taken when there is an abortion. 
At the same time, I am not willing to ascribe personhood rights to the embryo or fetus over the rights that a woman has to self-determination.  I still believe in a woman's right to choose, and even in a couple's right to choose if the woman wishes her partner's involvement. 
I remember the days of wire hanger abortions.  [No, I've never had one, nor have I ever been pregnant].  I also think that if we don't want women to use abortions as the default birth control option [note: I don't know what percentage of teens and young women do that], there should be easier access to services like those that Planned Parenthood has to offer.
In the heyday of the AIDS crisis, I was in a small group of activists who used to hand out condoms in a local park where men went to pick up other men.  We also used to hand them out to college kids near bars.
I am beginning to think that we should have a single-payer healthcare option or possibly a system in place instead of the mess that we have now.  The money currently being wasted  utilized by health insurance companies to ensure that we don't get care to administer their plans can be channeled to actually giving healthcare to people.  This may be the cheaper and more viable option which I don't hear anyone up on Capitol Hill talking about. 

radical sapphoq signing off with a final p.s.: Yes I took the photo and modded it myself.  So go away copyright police.


http://www.womenshealth.gov/pregnancy/you-are-pregnant/prenatal-care-tests.cfm

http://www.americanpregnancy.org/unplannedpregnancy/abortionprocedures.html

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june12/abortion_02-23.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jess-coleman/post_2989_b_1275962.html

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/02/23/single-payer-health-care-is-coming-to-america-are-we-ready/

http://www.healthcare-now.org/whats-single-payer/

http://www.healthcare.gov/law/timeline/full.html

http://www.healthcare.gov/law/index.html

http://www.whitehouse.gov/healthreform/healthcare-overview

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/22/obama-pulls-back-part-affordable-care-act/

http://www.northern-iowan.org/mobile/obama-adds-stipulation-to-affordable-care-act-to-deal-with-religious-opposition-1.2703337

http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/01/rob_cornilles_says_affordable.html

http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/31/10279932-the-efficacy-of-the-affordable-care-act

http://www.dailytargum.com/news/obama-includes-coverage-for-contraceptives-as-part-of-affordable-care/article_398243f0-55ff-11e1-aa44-0019bb30f31a.html

http://www.thenation.com/article/165864/spoonful-sugar-affordable-care-act

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57380887-503544/santorum-attacks-obama-on-prenatal-screening/

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-57381041/santorum-stands-by-prenatal-screening-opposition/

http://blogs.babble.com/strollerderby/2011/02/09/dan-patrick-says-sonogram-bill-is-misunderstood/

http://lubbockonline.com/texas/2011-02-24/texas-house-committee-passes-bill-requiring-abortion-sonograms

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57382162/is-a-required-ultrasound-a-barrier-to-abortion/

http://www.care2.com/causes/breaking-in-texas-no-abortion-without-a-sonogram-first.html

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/19/santorum-prenatal-testing-is-to-encourage-abortions/

http://www.livescience.com/12886-abortion-sonogram-research.html

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bob-schieffer-and-santorum-clash-over-his-belief-that-prenatal-care-leads-to-abortions/

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/02/15/425944/chief-sponsor-of-virginia-personhood-bill-calls-the-affordable-care-act-rape/?mobile=nc