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[Obama] won the election, right?
Yep! He sure did!
So why is he nominating these Republican types, Dogboy?
Well, Dogboy, it’s . . . a smart move politically, I guess.
Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense?
He’s a maverick!
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The message: Iran is behind the attacks on US banking websites. Causing them to load slowly. Sometimes.
Regular readers know it as shoeshine, the term I use to describe national security publicity efforts on pumped up problems which have no relation to what actually threatens or endangers the majority in the US. Which are things like monthly massacres perpetrated by crazy people from American WhiteManistan, rising inequality and an economy that doesn’t work for hundreds of millions.
Shoeshine news is for the benefit of political agendas (in this case add some flimsy piece to arguments that Iran needs to be attacked) and expanded employment in the cybersecurity arms of America’s weapons manufacturers. And McAfee Associates.
Today, TechNewsDaily has collected quote from a bunch of people, including yours truly, on the matter under the title Iran May Not Be Behind Bank Cyberattacks:
There’s really not much evidence that the government of Iran is behind the ongoing wave of cyberattacks on U.S. bank websites, say many security experts.
“I don’t consider any attack I can do in my spare time as ‘nation-state sponsored,'” said Robert David Graham, chief executive officer of Atlanta-based Errata Security.
“[It] could just as well be a loose group of those sympathetic to Iran and the Middle East and angry as hell at U.S. involvement there,” said George Smith, a senior fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based think tank GlobalSecurity.org.
“ItsOKNoProblemBro [the hacker instrument used to launch the denial-of-service website attacks in question] is far from sophisticated malware. It’s really rather simple,” said Roel Schouwenberg, a Kaspersky anti-virus researcher to TechNews. “Going strictly by the publicly known technical details, I don’t see enough evidence to categorize this operation as something only a nation-state sponsored actor could pull off.”
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Fresh off WhiteManistan home TV, lovingly made for those who get erections thinking about shooting someone else, preferably smaller and of different color, in the furtherance of liberty and ‘patriotism.’
This is an edited, version, with 11 seconds chopped off the end. The full version is here and one sees why WhiteManistan dude chopped it.
Here’s what he said in the part the man’s tried to hide:
I am not letting my country be ruled by a dictator. I am not letting anyone take my guns. If it goes one inch further, I’m gonna start killing people.
As with Ted Nugent last year, that’s a visit from the US Secret Service waiting to happen.
See it here.
January 19, National Gun Appreciation Day, even more Constitution-defending patriotism, just before the inauguration and 48 hours before Martin Luther King Day. How considerate.
Feel free to steal.
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Belief in theory of evolution, by country.
A study of several such surveys taken since 1985 has found that the United States ranks next to last in acceptance of evolution theory among nations polled. Researchers point out that the number of Americans who are uncertain about the theory’s validity has increased over the past 20 years.
WhiteManistan — our national problem — the photo collection.
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Soligenix stock was on the rise again Tuesday, a day after it gained more than 14 per cent when it said it will submit a proposal for a potential multi-million dollar contract to develop its radiation therapy, OrbeShield.
Its stock closed at 80 cents on Monday, and was lately up by more than 11 per cent, changing hands at around 89 cents as of 1:25pm ET.
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has called on the company to submit a full proposal for a potential multi-year, multi-million dollar contract to develop OrbeShield.
Ever since the beginning of the war on terror, Soligenix — once known as DOR Biopharma, has been kept alive solely by bioterror defense funding, most notably for a ricin vaccine. It has also been peddling its anti-radiation sickness nostrums, always called Orbesomethings, for the same period of time.
The company has never brought anything to market. In 2012 its stock fell into virtual worthlessness. Since then it has been kept alive by a value pumping maneuver (a reverse stock split that took 20 shares, then valued at a nickel a piece, and condensed them into one worth about eighty cents) and parasitic attachment to another biodefense funding stream.
Soligenix — from the archives. Keynsian job program digging holes and filling them back in. Or high button welfare workfare for a handful of lousy scientists? You decide.
One way of telling cyberwar is a function of shoeshine and job programs for the top rung of US society and the national security drivers is that it regularly goes on holiday.
Computer malware and insecurity never takes a holiday. But cyberwar does and that’s because it’s driven by press campaigns. And the people who push it, the indispensable tellers of its stories, were off from the end of December until now.
The [Iranian] attackers said last week that they had no intention of halting their campaign [of attacking US bank websites]. “Officials of American banks must expect our massive attacks,??? they wrote. “From now on, none of the U.S. banks will be safe.???
And we have so noticed the attacks. Iranian cyberstrikes so affected the US financial transaction system that the Christmas holidays were marked by a surge in dispensations of cash for assault rifle sales and runs on ammunition. And in newspaper interviews the only thing gun owners said they hated more than Barack Obama and his gun grabbing moves were the cybersoldiers and hackers messing with their bank websites.
Ahem.
The US government now attributes the cyberwar to retaliation over Stuxnut and other computer viruses that US has turned on the Iranian nuclear program.
The primary flack for cyberwar, James Lewis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies:
But American intelligence officials say the group is actually a cover for Iran. They claim Iran is waging the attacks in retaliation for Western economic sanctions and for a series of cyberattacks on its own systems. In the last three years, three sophisticated computer viruses — called Flame, Duqu and Stuxnet — have hit computers in Iran. The New York Times reported last year that the United States, together with Israel, was responsible for Stuxnet, the virus used to destroy centrifuges in an Iranian nuclear facility in 2010.
“It’s a bit of a grudge match,??? said Mr. Lewis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
“The attackers hit one American bank after the next,” reads the Times lede. “As in so many previous attacks, dozens of online banking sites slowed, hiccupped or ground to a halt before recovering several minutes later.”
Great copy! What could be next, we wonder? Perhaps we will have to close a couple browser windows, clear the cache, and try again.
Get the bombers and cruise missiles ready. Everyone needs to know that our retaliations won’t necessarily be symmetrical or in kind.
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DD Band in Pasadena in November 2010. We often used the famous outro from Won’t Get Fooled Again by the Who as a sequed wrap up of a version of Young Man Blues.
The Pete Townshend sequencer line, which is the hook for Fooled, was done through the guitar in a Roger Linn Adrenalinn III. It always worked well.
Play loud for maximum effect. The audio is from a digital camera capture done by a member of the audience. The video part was so poorly shot it was useless except for a couple low res stills, so it was tossed and the raw audio given a faux stereo image in the digital studio. Caveats aside, the fragment still captures the essence of it.
We put on a good live show.
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You’ll never go broke pandering to the worst in America. Or, it never ceases to surprise how far one can get with so little up top. Half a million views, “recommended” by YouTube after play of the anthem I specifically wrote for them, “Suck on My Machine Gun.”
Reminding everyone that the “it” gift this past Xmas was an AR-15 and boxes of ammo.
The big news in the mainstream was Alex Jones on CNN during the Orange Bowl, the only mitigating factor being that the TV audience was primarily on football.
Jones, like Ted Nugent, is an IQ test that works on many levels. If you deal with him, you flunk. If you go on his show, the same.
The CNN disaster is easily Google’d. But Media Matter has the best summary here:
CNN’s Piers Morgan hosted noted radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to discuss his petition to deport Morgan because of his views on gun control. Jones is a 9/11 truther who has a history of inflammatory and baseless remarks … Jones’ lengthy history of pushing absurd conspiracy theories should disqualify him from being mainstreamed on media outlets such as CNN.
In a coincidentally related matter, John McAfee — who has apparently abandoned efforts to bring his hooker lovers to America — appeared on Alex Jones to push his conspiracy theory that Hezbollah is using the country of Belize (and Nicaragua) to launder terrorists and ricin powder as a weapon of mass destruction into the US.
“They are mass-producing ricin powder for trans-shipment into the United States,” says McAfee. “This is not a joke.”
“They are manufacturing it by the ton,” McAfee insists. A kilogram of it, dispensed over New York, will kill everyone, he tells Jones. “[They’re making] enough to kill every man, woman and child on the planet.”
“If there is a rye-a-sin attack, the government will take my guns and squeeze my wife’s breast,” Jones tell McAfee. “If this happens, you sir will be a key person.”
John McAfee, however, did not count on the greater news impact of Jones going off on CNN in primetime. The big time lunatic trumped the millionaire ex-antivirus king and pathological liar.
At McAfee Associates, this morning, more hair is being pulled out, more molars ground.
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From Classic Rock magazine, 2005:
The Highway Kings? Sounds like a biker gang. Looks like one, too. Sort of, yeah. In an era when ‘biker metal’ was more career choice than lifestyle (see Little Caesar, Two-Bit Thief, Junkyard, Tattoo Rodeo etc), Destiny and his filthy few actually lived like demented speedfreak outlaws in the junk belt of eastern Pennsylvania, playing their chariotchoogling motorcycle boogie mostly for third-stage alcoholics and lot lizards. More at home opening for downwardspiralling bloozesters – Robin Trower, Pat Travers et al – they often found themselves on freak-show double bills with strange bedfellows such as all-girl motor-metalmamas Cycle Sluts From Hell or spazzpoppers Ween, and the end result was frequently brawls, blood and spilled booze. Sometimes even on purpose.
Wait – did they just punch people, or were they an actual band? They were a band that punched people. Destiny was a smart-alecky writer and fledgling badass on a wild search for kicks in mid-80s Reagan America. He recruited a short-order cook with marital problems and an auto-body painter from the local trailer park to round out his vision of hard rock greaseball skullfuckery, and together they bashed out epics of manly fuzz rock, such as Arrogance (1986) and Brutality (1988), that sounded like the Nuge and the Godz kicking the guts out of Tyranny And Mutation -era Blue Öyster Cult.
Did anybody care (besides you)? Crazily, they got lots of hot press from unlikely publications such as Creem and Spin , and plenty of college radio airplay. Which did them no good, because they sounded like Blue fucking Öyster Cult.
Let me guess – they ran out of gas. The band finally dissolved in a haze of cigarette smoke and salty tears at a pancake house somewhere off Interstate 78, in late 1991. We don’t know if Jesus wept, but certainly a few ageing, floppytitted BÖC groupies did. Five years later, the chicken-wire rock dive that made them local legends, The 4G’s in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, ‘mysteriously’ burned to the ground, effectively dooming any chance of a reunion. Destiny rolls on, however, most recently as a caustic rock journalist for The Village Voice and as a founding member of Uncle Sam and the JDAMs, whose album Iraq ’N’ Roll should be available soon.
Actually, the idea was to look like the James Gang ca. Rides Again, which we did.
And if you listen to “China Toilet Blooz,” I still do the early Seventies heavy guitar rock trip.
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Dreadfully familiar, from the local newspaper, coverage of a gun show in Ontario, about twenty minutes west of me. It’s the standard collection of pugnacious white men, stockpiling weapons and ammo, for the group delusion they’re the bastion that protects the Bill of Rights, taking practical measures to defend the Constitution, ready to fight off the US military and shoot all the government agents when tyranny comes.
If gun-control advocates fear a nation awash in weapons, others fear a government powerful enough to tell citizens whether they can arm themselves.
The Second Amendment “is actually to overthrow a government,” said Hill, who said he is an Air Force veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“It was the right to support the more perfect union,” he said. “It was to keep the government in check” …
A few people stood in line with a rifle or two slung over their shoulders with signs showing offers to sell or trade the weapons. Others exited the venue with hand trucks bearing stacks of ammunition.
Thick clusters assembled around any vendor dealing in ammunition. Templeton said many consumers are buying as much ammunition as they can, as soon as they can.
The right to support the more perfect union. Yes, their the very picture of a perfect defense of unity in the populace of the USA.
This is the other California I frequently talk about. It was the majority when I arrived in the San Gabriel Valley twenty years ago. Now it’s in the minority, pitted against the whole. It votes far right southern and has contributed to the radicalization and destruction of the GOP in California.
Paradoxically, WhiteManistan never views itself as extreme. Rolling handcarts full of boxes of ammo doesn’t strike them as abnormal behavior. It’s everyone else, now giving them fishy looks, who has gone to hell. They’ll defend freedom and liberty to the death, don’t you know?
This song was absolutely made for them: ‘Buy your assault gun, don’t be late.’
An opinion piece, written by a National Rife Association lifetime member, now alienated by what he sees in the organization and its recommendation to put more arms into schools (From a Corvallis newspaper, last week):
I am surprised you have failed to see the looming disaster facing American gun owners. Even if the Newtown massacre turns out not to be the final straw on the camel’s back, it is certainly coming.
And when it does, we can expect a cascading, unstoppable movement to restrict, prohibit and even confiscate guns and ammunition, much like the one that swept through Australia following the slaughter of 35 innocent people in Port Arthur in 1996.
On that day we will have no goodwill banked, no history of thoughtful discussion or cooperation. Our record will be one of threats and intimidation combined with disgusting alliances with low lifes like disgraced former Idaho senator Larry Craig, and serial blowhard Ted Nugent. It is a shameful legacy.
I am hopeful your news conference will soon be recognized as the beginning of the end of your reign as CEO and executive vice president of the NRA, [Wayne LaPierre]. You have been a vengeful, mean-spirited demagogue and under your leadership, the NRA has morphed into the worst kind of bully, one that rules with fear.
The WhiteManistan photo collection.
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