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Resist Fascists

Justice has been hijacked by a handful of elite republican big money corrupt a-holes.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Miles Taylor ~ “In a monumental irony, both Julian Assange… and Edward Snowden… stand charged with the very same crimes that are likely to be brought against Mr. Trump. On both Mr. Assange and Mr. Snowden, Mr. Trump argued that they should be executed.”

FANG

Big Tech’s $95 Million Spending Spree Leaves Antitrust Bill on Brink of Defeat

Top Recipients of Contributions from Lobbyists, 2022 Cycle

FCC has obtained detailed broadband maps from ISPs for the first time ever

4,000 Google cafeteria workers quietly unionized

zuckerberg  JAG Ferguson: Judge rules Facebook parent Meta intentionally violated campaign finance laws

GOOGLE YOUTUBE More Likely to Direct Election-Fraud Videos to Users Already Skeptical about 2020 Election’s Legitimacy

GOOGLE YouTube pushed Trump supporters toward voter fraud videos, study finds

ZUCKERBERG OWNED Ireland fines Instagram a record $400 mln over children’s data

How deranged anti-Obama conspiracy theories led America to Donald Trump Folklorist Patricia Turner on how unhinged right-wing paranoia about the first Black president tore America apart

 What’s Life Like for the Content Moderator? How untenable is our current social media system  “If the torture of its workers is an intrinsic part of the system, then it’s Facebook that has to die (or TikTok or YouTube—kill ’em all).

The T-Mobile / Sprint merger hasn’t created jobs — it’s cut thousands

T-Mobile Misleads Home Internet Customers, Employees Say (Update)

Ahead of iPhone 14 event, Brazil suspends iPhone sales without power brick and fines Apple

TV PRIME TIME NETWORKS

How Roy Cohn Helped Rupert Murdoch

Trump says Fox News pushing ‘Democrat agenda,’ offers to help CNN go ‘Conservative’

Broadcast Networks Pass On Carrying Joe Biden’s Primetime Speech — Update: ABC ran Press Your Luck, CBS went with a Young Sheldon rerun and NBC with a Law & Order replay. CNN and MSNBC carried the address, as did news division streaming channels, but Fox News stuck with Tucker Carlson and his critique of the speech as it was happening.

“And this is why the media is such a failed state. The president is supposed to be political. It’s the job.”

“Democracy cannot survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election — either they win, or they were cheated,” Biden said.
“Either they win, or they were cheated, and that’s where the MAGA Republicans are today.”

“Why Ken Burns Is Exposing America’s Evils During the Holocaust”

PRIVACY

2nd largest U.S. school district hit by ransomware attack

Cops wanted to keep mass surveillance app secret; privacy advocates refused “Tracked,” that investigates the power and consequences of decisions driven by algorithms on people’s everyday lives. Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’ “U.S. police departments have used the “Fog Reveal” database to follow people’s movements based on hundreds of billions of records from 250 million devices. The data originates from common apps such as Starbucks and Waze, @AP’s reporting shows. Federal, state and local police agencies around the U.S. continue to use Fog with very little public accountability EFF RELEASE FOG MANUAL
“U.S. police departments have used the “Fog Reveal” database to follow people’s movements based on hundreds of billions of records from 250 million devices. The data originates from common apps such as Starbucks and Waze, @AP’s reporting shows.

Encrypted app Signal just hired one of Big Tech’s sharpest critics. Meredith Whittaker, the former Google manager, is Signal’s first president. She is out to convince users to pay for the free app.
Signal hypothetical use case becomes practical since cellular providers have started censoring private text messages.
Re Signal:
If only Signal wasn’t actually recording all our contacts permanently in their servers (under their mandatory PIN requirement), then Signal might be a useful tool for encrypted messaging. But somebody apparently got to them to undermine their users’ privacy.
Normally this would not be a problem with free software — users could just rip out the offending code. But Signal’s interpretation is that the license doesn’t allow you to rip out the spyware part of the code, while still using their back-end servers to let your improved version talk to any other Signal users.

The Pentagon’s Push to Program Soldiers’ Brains
The military wants future super-soldiers to control robots with their thoughts.

HEALTH

Pandemic Roundup

Blood abnormalities found in people with Long Covid

How long the coronavirus survives in air depends on relative humidity, infectivity can drop by 90% in 20 minutes depending on environmental conditions.

Interacting brains sync without physical presence

Blue Zones Lessons From the World’s Longest Lived

Bill would eliminate federal taxes on Social Security benefits: ‘You Earned It, You Keep It’

New Mexico governor commits $10 million to building new abortion clinic near Texas border

Study raises red flags about corporatization of health care, OHSU investigator says

Study raises red flags about corporatization of health care, OHSU investigator says

Researchers discover new way fat cells talk directly with the brain

Dundee researchers hail Parkinson’s breakthrough

Court Says Tipped Wage Initiative Can Be On November Ballot

MUSIC

Kids Yell “Poop” At Alexa, And These Musicians Profit “Alexa, play ‘Poopy Stupid Butt’ again.”

CRYPTO

IMF Says Crypto Has Greater Potential as a Payment Method Over Weak Currencies

Crypto Dev Enters Wrong Command, Destroys Entire Company

Metaverse Scammers Have a Bridge to Sell You. The Alabama Securities Commission Is Fighting Back

CFTC and SEC open comments for proposal to amend crypto reporting rules for large hedge funds

Who is BitBoy Crypto and why does everybody hate him?

CORRUPT AS HELL

“Unacceptable”: Trump-appointed inspector general stonewalls Jan. 6 probe and blocks witnesses
DHS watchdog Joseph Cuffari has a “fundamental misunderstanding” of his duties as IG, lawmakers say

Atlanta federal pen nearly vacant amid corruption investigation

Leonard Leo: the secretive rightwinger using billions to reshape America

Oath Keepers lawyer Kellye SoRelle charged in Jan. 6 conspiracy case

Georgia election server wiped after suit filed
A computer server crucial to a lawsuit against Georgia election officials was quietly wiped clean by its custodians just after the suit was filed, T

“Masked White Supremacists Crash New Jersey Labor Day Parade”

New FBI documents link Saudi spy in California to 9/11 attacks

More Than 1 In 2 Americans Will Have An Election Denier On The Ballot This Fall

Opinion Leaked audio of a billionaire GOP donor hands Democrats a weapon

“Dark Money Group in Alleged Bannon Scam Dinged by IRS”

Opinion It’s time for Democrats to act on a dark money ban in primaries

Trump Went Judge Shopping and It Paid Off in Mar-a-Lago Case

Why Trump’s FBI investigation could now be delayed for months or even years

Senate Filibuster Stopped Most Pro-Democracy Bills From Becoming Law

Dr. Oz Campaign Hires Actors To Play Convicted Felons Supporting Fetterman

Trump judge’s ruling in Mar-a-Lago case proves Biden was right: MAGA is fascism

Bill Barr: Judge’s Ruling Was ‘Wrong’ in Mar-a-Lago Investigation

Police investigating how Michigan voting machine wound up for sale online
Authorities in Michigan are investigating how a missing voting machine from the state wound up for sale on eBay last month for $1,200.

‘Corrupt as Hell’: Demands for Clarence Thomas to Resign Follow New Details of Wife’s Election Scheming

Jan. 6 panel alleges Gingrich involvement with Trump efforts, seeks interview

Oxford Physicist Unloads on Quantum Computing Industry, Says It’s Basically a Scam

In NCLA Win Against IRS, First Circuit Rules Taxpayers Can Indeed Take the Agency to Court – New Civil Liberties Alliance

McCarthy’s “Commitment to America” rollout

RELIGION

Politico’s New Owner Invited Colleagues to ‘Pray’ for Trump’s Re-Election

Pope dissolves Knights of Malta leadership, issues new constitution
Pope Francis dissolved the leadership of the Knights of Malta, the global Catholic religious order, and installed a provisional government ahead of the election of a new Grand Master.

Kansas constitutional amendment on abortion is a bailout for the Catholic Church

Neo-Nazi head of Goyim Defense League arrested in Poland
Jon Minadeo was arrested while he was protesting against Jews outside of Auschwitz concentration camp.

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“Ford’s pardon enabled Nixon to make this disgusting and false statement to David Frost in 1977:

“Well, when the President does it, that means it is not illegal.”

Nixon has never been castigated sufficiently for saying this.”

Nazi’s in the US Government

Texas schools pulled The Diary of Anne Frank. Here I thought I was being an alarmist about the nazis rising.

GOP Pa. governor nominee under fire for ties to white-nationalist site

Neo-Nazi Arthur Jones wins Republican nomination for Illinois congressional seat

An entire North Carolina police department resigned after a Black woman town manager was hired.

Feds put $10m bounty on Putin pal accused of bankrolling US election troll farm Just in time for the midterms

USPS Plans to Slash 50,000 Positions in Coming Years to Reach ‘Break Even’ Point

Feds put $10m bounty on Putin pal accused of bankrolling US election troll farm

Google Search Is Quietly Damaging Democracy
!!!!! STOP USING GOOGLE !!!!!

Bank of America Memo: “We Hope” Worker Power Worsens
A BANK OF AMERICA executive stated that “we hope” working Americans will lose leverage in the labor market in a recent private memo obtained by The Intercept. Making predictions for clients about the U.S. economy over the next several years, the memo also noted that changes in the percentage of Americans seeking jobs “should help push up the unemployment rate.”

Supreme Court Justices

Democrats Introduce Bill to Place 18-Year Term Limits on Supreme Court Justices

The inside story of how John Roberts failed to save abortion rights

Justice Alito Mocks World Leaders Who Criticized Court’s Abortion Ruling

House Republicans Skip Abortion Hearing With Military Doctors, Troops – Defense One

Study finds Wikipedia influences judicial behavior
Using a randomized field experiment, researchers discover that Wikipedia articles affect judges’ legal reasoning. July 27, 2022

VIDEO Honest Government Ad | The US Supreme Court

Trump Wants Concentration Camps and Presidential Control of Domestic Troops – Defense One

K12

Baltimore Bombshell: Federal Court Rules Private School’s Nonprofit Status Leads to Title IX Coverage
The school asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit. It argued that it was not a direct recipient of federal financial assistance, which is a requirement for any school to be subject to Title IX.
Judge Richard Bennett from the District of Maryland denied the school’s request and cleared the lawsuit to proceed. He concluded that the school’s tax-exempt status, in and of itself, constitutes “federal financial assistance” for the purpose of Title IX and other similar statutes. “The tax-exempt status of a private school subjects it to the same requirements of Title IX imposed on any educational institution,” Judge Bennett said. “The school cannot avail itself of federal tax exemption but not adhere to the mandates of Title IX.”

Gun makers made over $1 billion in assault weapon sales in the past decade, congressional report finds

CHINA

Covid origin studies say evidence points to Wuhan market

TikTok Owner ByteDance Distributed Pro-China Messages To Americans, Former Employees Say

Chinese Government Asked TikTok for Stealth Propaganda Account
China asked for social account targeting Western audiences TikTok’s senior policy team pushed back on ‘sensitive’ request

PRIVACY

Send Messages Not Metadata

In Tails 5.0, we added Kleopatra to replace our previous PGP tools, the OpenPGP Applet and the Password and Keys utility, also known as Seahorse.
The OpenPGP Applet was not actively developed anymore and was complicated for us to keep in Tails. The Password and Keys utility was also poorly maintained and our users suffered from too many of its issues. We learned that 49% of our users used these tools from a survey on our website and couldn’t let them down. Daniel Moßbrucker gave us the idea of including Kleopatra.

Fibre-optic cables may be used to eavesdrop up to 1km away, study says

Meta, US hospitals sued for using healthcare data to target ads
Peer-to-Peer Chat Video & Text. Private & Encrypted.

Cryptocurrency Titan Coinbase Providing “Geo Tracking Data” to ICE

Google, like Amazon, may let police see your video without a warrant

US Tech Bill Creates White House Blockchain Adviser Role
The bill, known as the Chips and Science Act, won a number of Republican supporters on an otherwise Democrat-heavy effort that will be counted as a significant political win for the party and President Biden.

Quantum cryptography: Hacking is futile
An international team has successfully implemented an advanced form of quantum cryptography for the first time. Moreover, encryption is independent of the quantum device used and therefore even more secure against hacking attempts.

“Oldest #Bitcoin prediction. [1999] #cryptocurrecy

US power companies secretly spending millions to protect profits and fight clean energy | Florida

The Crypto Geniuses Who Vaporized a Trillion Dollars

FOOD SECURITY

Sick Codes has jailbroken a John Deere, and this is just the beginning. Turns out our entire food system is built on outdated, unpatched Linux and Windows CE hardware with LTE modems. John Deere has repeatedly told regulators that farmers can’t be trusted to repair their own equipment. This foundational work will pave the path for farmers to retake control of the equipment that they own. #RightToRepair
For anyone who wants the technicals:
– This took months
– CPU is NXP imx6
– OS is Wind River Linux 8
– Model John Deere 4240
– The weird graphical artifacts are just Yocto/QT quirks n 3D transparency stuff
– John Deere’s X window display server is g6wm
– Everything runs as root

Music

The Funk Brothers & Chaka Khan What’s Going On

Music In The Award-Winning “Shrek” Film Franchise | Royalty Exchange

7/27/22 Being in the top 1% of streaming artists – 1 million streams per month! – gets you… the equivalent of three days a week working on minimum wage. Competition & Markets Authority on Twitter: “Our initial analysis found that for artists, 1 million streams per month could earn them around £12,000 a year. It’s as tough as it’s always been for people looking to make a living from their music though, with less than 1% of artists reaching this number of streams.

Music as an asset class | Royal

LEGAL

BITCOIN Michael Saylor says “The basis of Security Laws is Biblical”  just Leave your comments below.

Bitcoin’s Privacy Problem—And What Cypherpunks Are Doing to Solve It
Wasabi Wallet is one project that makes use of the Tor network to encrypt communications. Tor is software that allows users to anonymize their internet traffic by sending it through a network of servers operated by volunteers. Wasabi, a desktop wallet, connects users to random Bitcoin peer-to-peer nodes, obscuring transactions so that it’s very difficult to know where money is going. In June, it released its latest wallet, Wasabi 2.0.

Hacker Finds Kill Switch for Submachine Gun–Wielding Robot Dog
The submachine gun–firing robot dog can be remotely shut down with an AI dolphin branded hacker’s tool.

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#SCIENCE

#CLIMATE #WATER

Netflix’s ‘Seaspiracy’ Is A Powerful Appetite Suppressant

Tampa Bay stares down environmental disaster from Piney Point phosphate plant

Taiwan water shortage: President says to brace for a shortage

How Vincent Bolloré won control of Ghana’s biggest port

What Can We Learn from a Big Boat Stuck in a Canal? – BIG by Matt Stoller

Suez Canal: Egypt’s First Female Captain Falsely Blamed for Ever Given Jam

Barrier Reef doomed as up to 99% of coral at risk, report finds

US fossil fuel companies took billions in tax breaks – and then laid off thousands

India Demands Rich Nations Like The U.S. Clean Up Their Climate Mess, Signaling A Shift

Big Meat and Dairy Companies Have Spent Millions Lobbying Against Climate Action, a New Study Finds

#HEALTH #COVID #CANNABIS

MORE “You are not fully immunized until you are at least 2-2.5 weeks out from complete vaccination- that means 2 to 2.5 weeks after your second Moderna or Pfizer shot, or 2 to 2.5 weeks after your only J&J shot,” she explains. “This is important because you are not fully protected from COVID disease until you are fully immunized.”
“You may go out to dinner with friends who are either vaccinated or are low risk of complicated COVID. However, if anyone in your friend’s household is unvaccinated and has a high risk condition—advanced age or comorbid condition putting them at risk of severe COVID— you cannot eat out with them. In addition, you cannot eat inside of a restaurant. You should be eating outdoors. Indoors, you would be mixing with multiple households of people who may not be vaccinated and may have at-risk individuals in their households.”

Epidemiologist Who Helped Wipe Out Smallpox Issues Stark Warning About COVID-19 Variants

#LongCovid is the pandemic after the pandemic. All the loud voices who’ve been shouting “but the economy..” in the last year should reflect on the effect of LC on it. Highest prevalence (1 in 6 at 12 wks) in working-age adults.

Study suggests that the modern anti-vaccine movement is shaped by Christian nationalist ideology

Panic Rooms, Birth Certificates and the Birth of GOP Paranoia

The world abandoned COVID-19’s best antidote: Whistleblowers

Two-thirds of epidemiologists warn mutations could render current COVID vaccines ineffective in a year or less

Senate will act on marijuana legalization with or without Biden

1st Americans had Indigenous Australian genes

Arabian coins found in US may unlock 17th-century pirate mystery

#ISP #TELCOMS #BROADBAND #HUMAN RIGHTS #INTERNET #TECHNOLOGY #FCC

“The main business of humanity is to do a good job of being human beings, not to serve as appendages to machines, institutions and systems.” – Kurt Vonnegut

Tim Berners-Lee says internet access should be a basic right.

Fortunately #CCPA regulations state: “The consumer exercises their choice by affirmatively choosing the privacy control, including when utilizing privacy-by-design products or services” Meaning that browsers *can* offer privacy by default.

Joe Biden commits to cutting internet access prices. That’s either unbundling for telecoms, basically a soft break-up to force competition, or just straight up price regulation by the FCC. [picture]

The FCC Wants Your Broadband Horror Stories: You Know What to Do

AT&T lobbies against nationwide fiber, says 10Mbps uploads are good enough

Android sends 20x more data to Google than iOS sends to Apple, study says

CUTTING THE CORD Five Star 200 mile Indoor/Outdoor Yagi HD TV Antenna Review

Hedy Lamarr – invented and patented the frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology for missile guidance in WW2 that became the foundation of all of our Antenna with bars wifi Antenna with barstechnology today.

#MUSIC

Music makes you smarter

Susan Rogers on the origin of common hearing disorders

Susan Rogers – Music psychology for record makers

Susan Rogers on Prince, production and perception

‘Sound Portraits From Bulgaria: A Journey To A Vanished World’

Martin Koenig: “Sound Portraits from Bulgaria and the Balkans: Photographs and Recordings”

Princeton Library
Wednesday, October 23, 6:30 pm
8:30 pm
65 Witherspoon Street
Princeton, NJ 08542 United States
Phone:609-924-9529
https://princetonlibrary.org/event/martin-koenig-sound-portraits-from-bulgaria-and-the-balkans-photographs-and-recordings/

Smithsonian Folkways Presents  ‘Sound Portraits From Bulgaria: A Journey To A Vanished World’ (Out Nov. 1)

Martin Koenig arrived in Bulgaria in 1966 at age 27 with letters of recommendation from fellow recordist Alan Lomax and anthropologist Margaret Mead, an educator and cultural documentarian determined to study the folk dances of rural communities throughout the country. As he travelled, absorbing the culture and speaking with the people he encountered, Koenig became captivated by the earthy and ancient, yet very much alive, music he heard all around him. He recorded the music he was exposed to, and took photographs of not only dancers, but the village singers and musicians as well as those going about their daily lives around these hotbeds of creative expression. Enraptured with the people of Bulgaria, their way of life and the art they made, he returned several times between 1966 and ‘79, documenting everything he could.
Press Release

Sound Portraits from Bulgaria: A Journey to a Vanished World
Thursday, October 17, 2019, 6 p.m.

Program Locations:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter Auditorium
https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2019/10/17/sound-portraits-bulgaria-journey-vanished-world

Fully accessible to wheelchairs
Free – Online Reservation required

For over two decades, starting in the mid-1960s, ethnographer and Balkan dance specialist, Martin Koenig researched and documented traditional Bulgarian music and dance forms in their original settings. To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, Koenig comes to the Library to reveal a forgotten and vanishing culture with archival photographs and audio.

Reserve your general admission seat HERE starting  September 17th, 2019.

Free General Admission Ticket
FM assistive listening devices available upon request with one week minimum advance notice.
Call 212-340-0918 or 212-340-0951 to request these devices.
ASL interpretation and real-time (CART) captioning available upon request. Please submit your request at least two weeks in advance by emailing ac***********@**pl.org.

more on Traditional Dance

Roots of Folkdance
Hoedowns are the roots of southern square dancing. Jamison
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Arts/Dance.html

Roots of Folkdance
other world cultures. ROOTS OF MODERN DANCE Performing Arts Dance
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Arts/Traditional_Arts.html

Educational CyberPlayGround: TRAUDE SCHRATTENECKER and Karen Ellis Biographical…
Toronto starting in 1970. Dance creates and develops rhythmical
https://edu-cyberpg.com/AboutUs/bioTraude.html

Educational CyberPlayGround: Motivating children towards music by Greta Pedersen
in the marching band and dance band music of the day, which was
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Music/History_Of_Jazz.html