In June 2016, CIA Director John Brennan should have known better than to believe the DNC/CrowdStrike story of the DNC hacking having been ordered by the Russian government. Brennan was pwned by a 15-years old British boy in October 2015: “A 15-year-old gained access to plans for intelligence operations in Afghanistan and Iran by pretending to be the head of the CIA to gain access to his computers, a court has heard.” Continue reading Pwned Brennan & the DNC Leaks
Quotes from Taplin, “Move Fast and Break Things”
From the left corner (those precious moments when a broken clock is right): Taplin, Jonathan. Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy, 2017. The quotes are from the Kindle edition. Emphasis is mine.
The anonymity that Twitter provides is a shield that brings out the worst in humans. (p. 217)
Even Google’s chairman, Eric Schmidt (and his coauthor Jared Cohen), acknowledged this when they wrote [in 2013], “We believe that modern technology platforms, such as Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple, are even more powerful than most people realize, and our future world will be profoundly altered by their adoption and successfulness in societies everywhere.” (p. 11)
As former secretary of labor Robert Reich wrote in 2015, “Big Tech has been almost immune to serious antitrust scrutiny, even though the largest tech companies have more market power than ever. Maybe that’s because they’ve accumulated so much political power.” (pp. 22-23) Continue reading Quotes from Taplin, “Move Fast and Break Things”
Undercover Comrade James Comey?
Remember the Lawfare/Brookings article “What Does the US Government Know About Russia and the DNC Hack?”, imploring Comey to intervene in the 2016 election again? He read and “apparently” forwarded it to his accomplice Rybicki via his private email (possibly both utilizing private emails). From the NY Post James Comey discussed sensitive FBI business on his private email (Nov 2018):
On July 25, 2016, Comey apparently emailed Rybicki a link to a Lawfare article that asked what does the US government know about Russia and the DNC hack.“I suspect there will be more of these kinds of stories,” Comey wrote. Continue reading Undercover Comrade James Comey?
Seth Rich!
2023-03-14 update: There is a rumor that the story was started by Seymour Hersh. If so, it is likely to be false.
2019-08-13 update: an NBC article from July 11, 2016:
“Worst nightmare,” Rich’s mother, Mary Rich, said by phone. … “There had been a struggle. His hands were bruised, his knees are bruised, his face is bruised, and yet he had two shots to his back, and yet they never took anything,” she said. “They took his life for literally no reason. They didn’t finish robbing him, they just took his life,” Mary Rich continued.
Continue reading Seth Rich!
Sabotaging Energy Industry
How is it related to Robert Mueller? This is another case in which FBI Director Robert Mueller oversaw a political witch hunt against enemies of the Obama administration. Then the enemy was off-shore drilling industry, a prominent segment of the oil and gas industry. But the tactics that Mueller’s subordinates used to attack the industry was surprisingly similar to what the Mueller & Angry Democrats have been using against Trump lately.
Engineer Kurt Mix helped to stop the oil flow from the Deep Horizon disaster, which Obama administration later used to choke off oil and gas drilling of the US shores. Kurt Mix had the same role that Roger Stone played in the Trump election, in the Mueller’s mind. Mueller’s subordinates zeroed on Kurt Mix. Kurt Mix, a veteran oil engineer, was suspected of what can be called a derivative of a speech crime. British Petroleum was accused of telling the government wrong oil flow rate (a speech crime, especially when the flow rate could be only estimated), and Kurt was accused of deleting his text messages regarding that speech crime. Nevertheless,
Origin of “Crossfire Hurricane,” updated
Do Obama Tech Holdovers Sabotage Congressional Websites?
Speaking of alternative realities. The HPSCI website intelligence.house.gov is apparently operated in a malicious way: hiding and disrupting access to Committee reports and other documents from when it had a Republican majority and content that reflected the views of Republican members. The website readily shows only documents expressing views of the Democrats. This was happening even before the House majority changed from Republicans to Democrats. Continue reading Do Obama Tech Holdovers Sabotage Congressional Websites?
Silicon Valley, Free Speech, and Holocaust Denial
Reddit was mistreating r/The_Donald for some time. Google blacklisted r/The_Donald in its search results. Few days ago, Reddit censored, or “quarantined” r/The_Donald. This is the same Reddit which allowed Holocaust deniers to run the r/Holocaust, and had other Holocaust denying subs with names that are too repulsive to repeat. None of them was quarantined at that time. The Reddit sub r/Holocaust was described as “A subreddit to discuss “the Holocaust” [sic!] and its effect on the world today.” See its content in the screenshots below (warning – repulsive). Continue reading Silicon Valley, Free Speech, and Holocaust Denial