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  • On the post: The FBI Is Apparently Paying Geek Squad Members To Dig Around In Computers For Evidence Of Criminal Activity

    Gary Mont ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2017 @ 07:55pm

    Spies All!

    Phew! Close!

    Hmmmmm.... I wonder what the total yearly Tax-Payer's bill is for FBI, CIA, NSA, ETC. paid secret, private-employee informants and their infrastructure, and if there is a maximum number of such secret employees allowed per Agency...

    That a Federal US Agency lied, cheated and blatantly misused the powers vested in it by the Law is naturally no surprise, and is in fact rather expected today.

    However, that one might enter a department store where all but the manager moonshine on the tax-payer's ticket for different federal agencies, is, well, about as creepy a thought as one can think, so I'll make it my Unthinkable Think for the Day. :)

    Thanx again Amerika!

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  • On the post: The FBI Is Apparently Paying Geek Squad Members To Dig Around In Computers For Evidence Of Criminal Activity

    Gary Mont ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2017 @ 06:01pm

    Tinker, Tailor, Soldier; Spies, All.

    Say what?

    Sorry. I got as far as the revelation that the FBI is America's largest employer, and then shit myself....

    Gotta go now.

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  • On the post: What The US Intelligence 'Russia Hacked Our Election' Report Could Have Said… But Didn't

    Gary Mont ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2017 @ 05:49pm

    oops

    my bad

    talking about T.Rump gets me all excited ye knows eh:)
    plum fergot to sign me note.

    G.

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  • On the post: Trump Still Falsely Taking Credit For Sprint Jobs He Had Nothing To Do With

    Gary Mont ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2017 @ 10:56am

    Parasitic Political Perfection!

    Since I was completely fooled by the election of T. Rump to the Awful Orifice, I've been thinking... why would Korporate Amerika want such an ass-hat as the T. Rump, occupying the position, rather than the cash-tamed poodle, Hillarious?

    And then it hit me...

    Maybe the Korporate Rulers of Amerika wanted to insert their real choice through the obvious process of impeachment of the T. Rump, AFTER the T. Rump had fulfilled his part of the deal, in exchange for money, power and a clean legal slate.

    After all, 50% of Fascism is a false front, or Facade.
    (The other 50% is simply monumental greed.)

    The real plan would look something like this then.

    First, fix the election. That just takes money and time and most of the work was accomplished by the Bush administration.

    Then, while in office, the T. Rump drops all of the pre-written executive orders into place, that give Korporate Amerika all they want. Everyone knows that he will change a wack of shit for his billionaire friends, so that will seem normal to all the peons.

    Then, once he has removed all the impediments to fully legalised profiteering and public rapine by billionaires, the T.Rump will be impeached for whatever - the list of his known crimes is already long and the list of things everyone would easily believe him guilty of, seems eternal - and he will be loudly removed from office.

    Because he was Prez4ADay, and as part of the original deal, the T.Rump serves no time, and retires back to his mansion with a brand spanking new off-shore bank account full of cash, all his known crimes magically washed away, a fabulous retirement package with 24 hour a day secret service protection for life for his entire fam damily, and all his pending law suits fully laundered, pressed and folded away - one very, very happy crook.

    Then Hillarious (or the hidden real Korporate Klown), steps in to take charge without having to do any of the dirty work at all.

    Corporate Amerika gets all the legal changes they want.

    The T.Rump gets money, power, and all his legal problems fixed and insures his family's dynasty at the Tax payer's expense.

    The American Public gets it up the ass and blames it all on the T. Rump, who could not give a shit what Americans think of him so long as he stays richer than God.

    Clinton, or the VP or an as-of-yet un-announced Ringer gets to play Prez for the Korporates without having to take any blame for all the legal shit that the T. Rump put into place.

    Of course while promising to do so, the new POTUS will do nothing to remove any of those corporate-written executive orders.

    Situation Normal, purposely AFU.

    The Train to Freedom is renamed the Train to Fascism, and none of the peon passengers notice the switch.

    Parasitic Political Perfection!

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  • On the post: Now Italy Wants To Make 'Fake News' Illegal

    Gary Mont ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2017 @ 09:57am

    You can fool most of the people all of the time.

    "You can worry about truly made-up stories all you want, but if you think the solution to it is to increase the powers to censor and stifle and chill expression, you're not going to be happy with how it boomerangs back on legitimate expression."

    ... you're not going to be happy ...

    Unless of course, increasing the powers to censor and stifle and chill expression, just happens to be you're heart's desire, in which case;

    "... you're going to sing tidings of comfort and joy ..."

    might be a better choice of words.

    Sigh. Someday, folks will realise that manufacturing crisis in order to create public demand for "protective" legislation, is nothing more than a business model... one that really works, and is thus used repeatedly to generate wealth by reverse interpretation, through precise wording that allows easy re-purposing.

    One of the most common topics seen in these forums is the recognition of "loose" wording in new laws pertaining to copyright, innovation, and censorship, that can be used to do the opposite of what the law purports to be for.

    It amazes me how this process by governments slides right past everyone, no matter how often its used.

    Instead, the Grand Public Response is - a sigh, followed by the old adage of;

    "Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to incompetence."

    This is not a statement of what is.
    Its an instruction taught by the 1% and learned by the rest.

    Ah well, Hope Springs Eternal.

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  • On the post: YouTuber Jailed In Singapore For Criticizing The Government Seeks Asylum In The US

    Gary Mont ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2016 @ 01:49pm

    Re: Above

    My bad.
    That was me.
    New keyboard from Santa. :)

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  • On the post: YouTuber Jailed In Singapore For Criticizing The Government Seeks Asylum In The US

    Gary Mont ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2016 @ 01:27pm

    Re: Re: Wha....?

    "All of Singapore's leaders were elected by the people."

    Just like the Grand Dragon; T. Rump, was "elected by the people"...

    Elections (as everyone, everywhere knows), cannot be fixed by any number of conspiring billionaires, or their (remotely controlled) voting machines and the results of an election are always an exact display of the preferences of the majority of the public. /s

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    "Every Singapore citizen I have talked to is very proud of their country."

    And its a damn good thing they told you that, or they too might be seeking asylum in other countries today as well, if they were not still in prison.

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  • On the post: Obama Has Saved One Copy Of The Torture Report From Destruction, But What's Going To Happen To The Rest Of Them?

    Gary Mont ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2016 @ 09:41pm

    Re:

    Un-necessary.

    The one copy is not hard, and is encrypted militarily, tied directly to a military kill switch for easy deletion by a non-civilian who wears the copy-bearing chip behind his dog-tag.

    (NOTE: there is no such thing as a non-civilian.. honest.

    Life is so smooth and easy when your wildest dreams become legally do-able through the magic of the public tax trough.

    However an actual "real-live-copy" might be stored, it is absolutely guaranteed to be in a form that no human can read.

    Personally, I think the Report has been eliminated from existence already, although it really does not matter.

    Once out of Office, all promises are smoke.

    Just like the Report.

    And the Dino-tician; T. Rump, will make all of this silly, soon-to-be-unimportant discussion about being mean to terrorists, simply melt away from the public mind, as it sluggishly tries its damnedest not to deal with the real live fascist at the helm of the world's biggest bully nation.

    We are the Children in the Chinese Curse. :)

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  • On the post: Facebook Announces Its Pilot Plans To 'Deal' With Fake News — Not With Censorship, But With More Info

    Gary Mont ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2016 @ 11:47am

    Easy as Pie 2

    You know, I'll bet if you really put your minds to it, many of you could come up with a list of other Scam Laws.

    You know what I mean: laws that have been created by politicians and corporations through the use of phoney crisis - drugs, terrorists, cyberwar, etc. - that are broadcast repeatedly by the Truth Free Press, over the last few years, which turned out later to be used for the exact opposite reasons that were given for their necessity.

    A single example should explain what I mean:

    Asset Forfeiture Laws

    Supposed to be used to reduce criminal income from drug proceeds, but used instead to steal property and enrich cops. Apparently the cops stole more american property last year than the criminals did.

    With a little effort, I'm sure a huge number of these Scam Laws can be listed, once you realise the pattern of the scam and the purpose of the process.

    Unless, of course, you want to just keep on pretending that its all just a coincidence... in which case, never mind.

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  • On the post: Facebook Announces Its Pilot Plans To 'Deal' With Fake News — Not With Censorship, But With More Info

    Gary Mont ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2016 @ 04:37pm

    Easy as pie.

    Criminal Political Scams are so pathetically unimaginative, that only a nation with its head up its ass could possibly not notice that the same old routine is being used again, and again, and again, and they just keep on falling for it.

    Want marijuana laws that will keep pot from being studied and allow big pharma to keep on selling shit as shinola?

    Easy as pie. Just start telling everyone that pot kills babies, or some such stupid BS and then follow it up with tons of dead baby stories. Have all your cops add a pot charge to every perp they process, in return for extra holidays. Print huge BS stories in every fascist paper about how pot is destroying the youth and future of America. In other words, CREATE the problem you want to legislate against.

    As in - want to legislate (purportedly) against independent journalists who have been ruining your other scams by investigating your Official Bullshit and reporting on their findings?

    Easy as pie. Start a campaign claiming that Fake News is responsible for "whatever" and then run with it till people believe its real. Have the Press a Dent go on TV and tell everyone that "Yes Russia screwed our election, and we have proof. However, we cannot show you that proof as it would - wait for it - "Compromise the Investigative Techniques used to gather that evidence and allow the enemies of America to avoid those techniques in future."

    Sound familiar yet.

    Or how about elections themselves?

    Want to make it difficult for the portion of the population that would vote against your party, to actually vote at all?

    Easy as pie. Start printing stories about Voter Fraud. In no time at all, you'll have legislative tools in place that will let you disenfranchise more than half the population, insuring that almost all the votes cast are by your voters only.

    Once the crooks have taken over the "law", it then behooves them to make it work for themselves - profitably. This they have been doing regularly since the 9/11 coup, using the same tired but 100% effective method.

    This method of creating a problem so that you can force legislation into existence that appears to be designed to solve the "problem" - but which is actually legislation that can be used to eliminate enemies, competition, or those who can see thru the BS - has worked flawlessly every time.

    Some day, it is hoped, Americans will "look up", forcing them to pull their heads out of their ass-holes, long enough to read the writing on the wall.

    It is however, not recommended that you hold your breathe in anticipation of such an unlikely event.

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  • On the post: President Obama Orders Intel Agencies To Produce Report On Russian Election Influence

    Gary Mont ( profile ), 14 Dec, 2016 @ 11:57am

    Re: Re: You can fool all of the people most of the time.

    It has always amazed me how politicians in the States can actually alter the meaning of words and gain wide acceptance of the new meanings, over and over again, and the population just goes along with the new meaning as if the original meaning never existed.

    The only connection between fascism and socialism, is the fact that Hitler used the term to hide his fascist control plans for Germany. He called his party "NAZI" - short form for "National Socialist", because the public would never allow a fascist organisation to enter German politics openly.

    Today, "socialism" means fascist/nazi to people who do not think for themselves - a majority of the population apparently. Its that "Fool them all most of the time" thing.

    With any luck, Trump's agenda should change the meaning of the term "Republican Party", to the "American Fascist Party", once he gets the ball rolling - downhill.

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    Hmmmmm - suggestion for testing.

    Every time I type the word Trump, my cursor becomes sticky and the editor slows down. I'd be interested in seeing if anyone else here notices this "oddity".

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  • On the post: President Obama Orders Intel Agencies To Produce Report On Russian Election Influence

    Gary Mont ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2016 @ 06:42pm

    You can fool all of the people most of the time.

    Methinks ye may have misunderstood Obama's demand.

    He is not asking for a factual report to prove the allegations of Russian tampering, as there is no such animal and he is fully aware of this fact.

    He is simply telling his "damage control" people in the Surveillance Industry, to come up with something that will appease the public curiosity and insure the original misinformation has some back up misinformation to help sell it widely through the pet media.

    It'll be a Fox News-worthy report, devoid of anything resembling facts, except for the manufactured BS "factoids" that will become History.

    In plain words, he is asking the Spy Guys to manufacture something plausible that will convince the gullible public that there was some kind of Russian interference and that American Fascists had nothing to do with the fixing of the (S)Election that placed a mentally ill, chronic opportunist upon the White House throne.

    The pattern is obvious. Were the report to be factual, it would have to be classified as national security and buried like the Torture Report. In order for it to be disclosed to the public, it must instead be composed of essentially plausible bullshit. This is Federal policy.

    But look at the bright side folks.

    You're all finally gonna find out just what Bush meant when he coined the term, "Ownership Society".

    The world's richest criminals are already migrating to the best safe haven for billionaire crooks on earth - the USA. And now that Mister Trump is King of America, the migration is guaranteed to increase exponentially.

    The street slogan "Get Rich or Die Trying" is now the only real directive in the USA, as anyone without a certain level of income (from any source), will be considered as a peasant with peasant's rights. That is, the right to be exploited, abused and killed according to the needs of the super-wealthy - the Owners of America.

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  • On the post: Companies Keep Asking Us To Track You; We'd Rather You Be Protected From Tracking

    Gary Mont ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2016 @ 12:24am

    ...

    Thank you.
    All of you.
    :)

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  • On the post: If The FBI Can't Stop All These Leaks About An Investigation, Why Would it Be Able To Keep Encryption Backdoor Secret?

    Gary Mont ( profile ), 08 Nov, 2016 @ 02:27pm

    Lack of consequences lead to escalation of criminal action.

    I see a far more dire reality exposed by the actions of the federal spy agencies in leaking this information.

    To me, they are stating openly and blatantly, that should they some day find it expeditious, profitable, or simply want to cover their own or friends' crooked asses, they WILL expose or use the information they have collected about anyone and anything, in a self serving manner, regardless of the consequences to those involved.

    They are, without a doubt, willing and eager to use the private information of Americans, for personal gain, insurance against criminal prosecution and to generally prevent the public from making informed decisions by selectively releasing specific data to sway public opinion in the direction the federal administration deems acceptable.

    The placement of back-doors in telephones and other electronic communications equipment, will only increase this propensity by offering an additional, invisible means to gather secret information on Americans.

    If true American Justice was to be served, the entire USG would be looking for a new job tomorrow, (in a different country) and the members and administrators of its tri-letter spy agencies would be replacing marijuana smokers in US prisons.

    But, because of the way the fascists have reworked US laws, not only will none of the above be prosecuted for their crimes, but most will be promoted and praised for their efforts against "the Adversary" and the process itself, will escalate without pause.

    Heil Amerika!

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  • On the post: Chelsea Manning Facing Indefinite Solitary Confinement For Attempting Suicide, Possessing A Book On Hackers

    Gary Mont ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2016 @ 01:15pm

    punishment fits the crime

    "Yup, great way to "punish" a suicide attempt: to take away people's hope even more."

    Perhaps she is being additionally punished for failing to commit suicide. Perhaps the punishment is designed to add a little incentive, such that, the next time she is allowed to commit suicide, she will succeed, and erase another messenger from the ranks of the Adversary Army.

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  • On the post: AP, USA Today, Vice Sue FBI Over Refusal To Release Information About Contractor Who Cracked iPhone For It

    Gary Mont ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2016 @ 01:10pm

    ...Nothing up my sleeve...

    Most probable reality.

    We need to make the American Public and a lot of companies that are not on the payroll, think we don't know how to unlock all their phones at will.

    Lets raise a public stink about how Apple won't help us open their phone. That will prove we do not know how to do it ourselves, even though we've already opened the thing and found it empty.

    To end the phony "stink" we made, we'll publicly acknowledge the opening of the phone by a third party - that should completely remove any thoughts that we already have the tech to open Apples' phones, (and any other encrypted electronic communications devise made anywhere on earth in the last three months, or older.)

    Its just damage control. Or more precisely, the best possible method of insuring that the "enemy", or "adversary" (the US Public) is kept in the dark about the USG's capabilities of global surveillance as long as possible.

    Because, its always easier to defeat an enemy that believes what you want them to believe, compared to those who know the truth.

    Once again folks, you've been played.

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  • On the post: Congressman In Charge Of OPM Hacking Report Announces Plan To Investigate Stingray Use Next

    Gary Mont ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2016 @ 10:58am

    How to get a secret raise in pay in Congress.

    "Congressman In Charge Of OPM Hacking Report Announces Plan To Investigate Stingray Use Next", if his graft checks from various agencies are not increased 25%, immediately.

    Next month's headline:

    Congressman In Charge Of OPM Hacking Report Announces Stingray Investigation Turns Up No Evidence Of Misuse By Any American Agency.

    That's how we do it in America. :)

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  • On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 90: Is Capitalism Over?

    Gary Mont ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2016 @ 07:59pm

    Oh joy. Another sticky editor day.

    "Is Capitalism Over?"

    Umm, no way Hose.

    There aint a chance in hell that any of them white english christians are gonna give up their usury.

    Not without a fight to the death.

    Hell, most of the other nationalities and cults/sects will also hang on tenaciously to the concept that dead money (not in circulation), begets more money, free of labor and cost.

    Its a rich man's wet dream.

    Any rich man, regardless of the means by which that wealth was accumulated, gains the same power and the right to openly associate with other rich men - who then pool their resources to alter the laws of the land so the new laws can allow the rich to accumulate greater wealth easier and faster, while insuring the poor remain poor, or worse.

    And its an eventual economy killer.

    The more mega-rich people you have in a nation, the more of that nation's actual currency will be kept out of circulation for usury purposes by the rich.

    The Panama Papers scandal shows the sort of "don't give a shit about the little guy" attitude that wealth instills in people and the lengths to which they will go to maintain their habit of perpetual accumulation.

    Capitalism has created a world where only the most ruthless and predatory opportunists among us reach the top of the food chain.

    Capitalism, is an addiction, not unlike addictions to sex, food or drugs, and like any addictive substance or activity, capitalism will always attract adherents. It can never truly die, as its a proven method for otherwise useless bottom feeding assholes, to become rich, powerful leaders of nations.

    Those who willingly tread its path, must place the accumulation and hording of wealth, above family, friends and nation, to be fully successful - the billionaires.

    Capitalism is the immature form of Fascism and cannot possibly end in any other fashion. I suspect it is the cause of most - if not nearly all - of humanity's string of ruined civilizations.

    What you're seeing today is not the death of Capitalism.

    It is merely the birth of Capitalism's adult form - Fascism.

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  • On the post: Albuquerque Police Seize Vehicle From Owner Whose Son Drove It While Drunk; Want $4,000 To Give It Back

    Gary Mont ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2016 @ 11:14am

    Re: somehow I got unsubscribed from this comment forum.

    "somehow I got unsubscribed from this comment forum."

    That's a bi-monthly event for me, although a simple inquiry always gets me back in after a couple days.

    What's more frustrating is those days I simply get no TD mailing at all, only to have it start up again the next day all by its self.

    Then there's the days the editor won't work at all - takes 30-60 seconds for a character to show up on screen after hitting the key.

    But my favourite of all, is the redirect to a dead page that reads something like "the page you referred to cannot be found", that also has no return link, when I press SUBMIT. Naturally, everything I just wrote has been sent to the large cyber waste-bin in the sky.

    Have not seen one of those in months though.

    There is never any sort of explanation as to why shit happens so often to my account, of course, so I've stopped asking.

    Its just a ghost in the machine "glitch".

    But since they aint banned my ass outright yet, I got no real complaints.

    :)_~

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  • On the post: Trump's 'Cyber' Policy Against ISIS Is… 'Hey Look At This New Poll!'

    Gary Mont ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2016 @ 01:45pm

    ...nothing up my sleeve....

    Donald Trump is not really running for POTUS.

    He was hired by Corporate America to make their real candidate, Hillary Clinton, appear to be the only choice possible.

    I would think that a decade of Obama - the last fake democrat the corporatists selected as POTUS, who literally fulfilled every plan that George Bush started and then turned the USA into the Fascist dream come true police state we have today - would have shown most Americans that there is no Democratic Party in the US now.

    There is only the one party - fascists/corporatists - who use both labels; Democrat and Republican.

    Trump is simply a hired professional who excells at bullshit and bafflegab and who will do absolutely anything for enough money - their kind of people.

    Fascists always hide behind the labels of the real political parties they infiltrate and absorb.

    Nazi means National Socialist - about as far from corporatist/fascist as is possible.

    It just happened to be the name of the party the German corporatists invaded and absorbed before they started WW-2.

    Clinton will start WW3 - the ultimate fascist wet-dream - 1000 years of War.

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