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    Uncommon Sense

    They have to work very hard to get people to go to war. They have to work very hard to get people to participate in the greed of a capitalist society.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 15, 2018
    • Burn it to the ground, Howard Zinn

    I Welcome Complete Falsehood

    The “influencers” that are all over Facebook and Instagram and Twitter are pretty much Hollywood special effects. Why not go a step further, and make “influencers” that are totally fake?

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 12, 2018
    • Burn it to the ground, Propaganda

    Accuracy Is Not The Objective

    This is a sad one; I’m afraid we’re looking at more police malfeasance.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 10, 2018
    • Burn it to the ground, Cops

    Let’s Get Political

    Information Security practitioners aren’t used to getting political; so there was apparently a small but vocal stream of nationalists complaining to the conference organizers by the time I was done.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 5, 2018
    • Burn it to the ground, CIA, Cyberwar, War is a Racket

    Propaganda

    The CIA is not supposed to do domestic propaganda, because we’re the good guys. That’s how we can tell ourselves from the Russians: they use propaganda.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • April 28, 2018
    • Burn it to the ground, CIA, Propaganda

    It Sounds Like They Had to Get Some, Too

    Nobody should, for a fraction of a second, think that this is “new” news and has not been widely known in ‘certain circles’ for some time. Apparently the FBI got into the “torturing muslims” racket, too. I choose my words carefully, since some of the techniques of humiliation and intimidation included shaving their victims’ beards.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • April 27, 2018
    • Burn it to the ground, CIA, Cops

    I Suppose “At Least We Weren’t Shooting People” Is An Excuse

    The Baltimore Police have a huge problem. Not only has it turned out that the street cops are thugs that murder citizens, lie when giving testimony, and retaliate against whistleblowers – they’ve got a large contingent that appear to pad their books very heavily.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • April 25, 2018
    • Burn it to the ground, Cops

    Of Course They Will

    Trump’s big “trade war” is going to result in unexpected windfalls for some people, as prices go up and new trade hot-points emerge. To say that the trade war is stupid is an understatement.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • April 24, 2018
    • Burn it to the ground, Capitalism is a disease

    Shoulda Gotten Apple Care for the Maintenance

    The Register reports, in shock, that British F-35s are going to have their engines serviced in Turkey.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • April 19, 2018
    • Burn it to the ground, Turkey, War is a Racket

    Capital: Valuations and Market Caps 101

    In 1999, I became a millionaire on paper by selling shares in a company that I had created for the express purpose of selling the shares. That ought to sound bizzare to you, and it is – it’s one of the weirdest parts of corporate capitalism. The entire thing feels like a scam, except that the money is very real, or it’s not, depending on what happens.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • April 19, 2018
    • Burn it to the ground, Capitalism is a disease
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