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marym625's JournalJackie Radical's "The 12 Suggested Steps of DUmmies Unanimous "
Jim sent me this just in the last few days. Said he was going to rework to be current. He didn't send me the link to original post
It will stand as is now.
From a really great, funny, kind man to all of DU
"Things were a lot lighter in that era, despite all the heat.
Here's something of mine from back then:
The 12 Suggested Steps of DUmmies Unanimous
1. We admitted we were powerless over GD--that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could tombstone us at will.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of Skinner as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of those holding or advocating opposing opinions.
5. Admitted to the Magistrate the exact nature of their wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have The Admin remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Them to remove our tombstones and reinstate us.
8. Made a list of all persons whom we had put on Ignore or whose threads we had hijacked, and became willing to fake amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would entail inconveniences on our part.
10. Continued to take inventory of opposing doctrines and their proponents and when they were wrong promptly tried to make them admit it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with Admin, as we understood Them, praying only that they would overlook our flamewars and personal attacks.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to the trolls, Morans and FReepers. "
RIP Jim.
More call outs on the lies about Snowden and the Sunday Times
Anonymous sources are an unavoidable part of reporting, but neither Downing Street nor the Home Office should be allowed to hide behind anonymity in this case.
1. Is it true that Russia and China have gained access to Snowden’s top-secret documents? If so, where is the evidence?
Which cache of documents is the UK government talking about? Snowden has said he handed tens of thousands of leaked documents over to journalists he met in Hong Kong, and that he has not had them in his possession since. Have Russia and China managed to access documents held by one of the journalists or their companies?
In addition, if agents had to be moved, why? Which Snowden documents allegedly compromised them to the extent they had to be forcibly removed from post?
2. Why have the White House and the US intelligence agencies not raised this?
Snowden is wanted by the US on charges under the Espionage Act. The White House, the US intelligence agencies and especially some members of Congress have been desperate to blacken Snowden’s reputation. They have gone through his personal life and failed to come up with a single damaging detail.
If the UK were to have evidence that Russia and China had managed to penetrate his document cache or that agents had been forced to move, London would have shared this with Washington. The White House would have happily briefed this openly, as would any number of Republican – and even Democratic – members of Congress close to the security services. They would not have stinted. It would have been a full-blown press conference.
UK under pressure to respond to latest Edward Snowden claims
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The debate in the US has become more grownup in recent months, with fewer scare stories and more interest in introducing reforms that will redress the balance between security and privacy, but there are still many in Congress and the intelligence agencies seeking vengeance.
3. Why have these claims emerged now?
Most the allegations have been made before in some form, only to fall apart when scrutinised. These include that Snowden was a Chinese spy and, when he ended up in Moscow, that he was a Russian spy or was at least cooperating with them. The US claimed 56 plots had been disrupted as a result of surveillance, but under pressure acknowledged this was untrue.
The claim about agents being moved was first made in the UK 18 months ago, along with allegations that Snowden had helped terrorists evade surveillance and, as a result, had blood on his hands. Both the US and UK have since acknowledged no one has been harmed.
So why now? One explanation is that it is partly in response to Thursday’s publication of David Anderson’s 373-page report on surveillance. David Cameron asked the QC to conduct an independent review and there is much in it for the government and intelligence services to like, primarily about retaining bulk data.
Anderson is scathing, however, about the existing legal framework for surveillance, describing it as intolerable and undemocratic, and he has proposed that the authority to approve surveillance warrants be transferred from the foreign and home secretaries to the judiciary.
His proposal, along with another surveillance report out next month from the Royal United Services Institute, mean that there will be continued debate in the UK. There are also European court rulings pending. Web users’ increasing use of encryption is another live issue. Above all else though, there is the backlash by internet giants such as Google, which appear to be less prepared to cooperate with the intelligence agencies, at least not those in the UK.
The issue is not going away and the Sunday Times story may reflect a cack-handed attempt by some within the British security apparatus to try to take control of the narrative.
More at link
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/14/snowden-files-read-by-russia-and-china-five-questions-for-uk-government
1) "RUSSIA and China have cracked the top-secret cache of files stolen by the fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden...according to senior officials in Downing Street, the Home Office and the security services."
Is the claim here that a full archive of encrypted files was "cracked" by some sort of brute-force decryption attack? If so, how did these "senior officials" establish that? How did the Russians and Chinese allegedly obtain the encrypted material in the first place?
2) "forcing MI6 to pull agents out of live operations in hostile countries."
This was a surprise to me because I've reviewed the Snowden documents and I've never seen anything in there naming active MI6 agents. Were the agents pulled out as a precautionary measure? Keeping in mind that the UK government does not actually know exactly what Snowden leaked, how do these officials know there were documents in there that implicated MI6 operatives and live operations in the first place?
3) "Moscow gained access to more than 1m classified files held by the former American security contractor"
Snowden has said repeatedly that he did not carry any files with him when he left Hong Kong for Moscow. Is this article alleging that he is lying? If so, where's the evidence to support that? Moreover, I've seen nothing in the region of 1m documents in the Snowden archive, so I don't know where that number has come from. Oh, wait:
4) "Snowden, a former contractor at the CIA and National Security Agency (NSA), downloaded 1.7m secret documents"
More at link
http://notes.rjgallagher.co.uk/2015/06/sunday-times-snowden-china-russia-questions.html?m=1
The Sunday Times deletes part of its Snowden falsehood w/o any reason noted
Yeah, believing a Murdoch publication is always the way to go. 
Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) tweeted at 11:06 AM on Sun, Jun 14, 2015:
So @thesundaytimes has just quietly deleted one of the key lies in its story - just deleted it - with no note http://t.co/hqfBrW0XKE
(https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/610116225436360706?s=03)
Happy 50th Anniversary to our favorite DUer, California Peggy
The sweetest woman around is celebrating her 50th anniversary today. There has to be a correlation between her being a genuine caring, intelligent, sweet person and her marriage lasting 50 years
Congratulations, Peggy! May you have 50 more loving years with your husband
Edit: Peggy has seen all the lovely replies and is very touched. Maybe even a little overwhelmed.
Beautiful replies, all. Thanks celebrating her anniversary
HOUSE VOTES TO SLOW DOWN FAST TRACK FOR OBAMA’S TRADE AGENDA
Source: intercept
Democrats voted against TAA, a measure long-supported by liberals to provide job training and other assistance to workers negatively impacted by foreign trade, as a legislative maneuver to derail the effort to pass TPA. Both bills must be passed together so that they may be merged with the Senate version and sent to the president’s desk.
“Today the allegedly unstoppable momentum of the White House, GOP leadership and corporate coalition pushing Fast Track to grease the path for adoption of the almost-completed, controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal just hit the immovable object called transpartisan grassroots democracy,” Lori Wallach, the director of Public Citizens’ Global Trade Watch, said in a statement.
After TAA failed, Republicans quickly brought up a stand-alone trade promotion authority bill. The measure passed by a two-vote margin. But observers note the vote was a test to see where members stand. For a stand-alone trade promotion bill to advance on its own, the Senate would have to take up the entire package again.
House Republican leaders have scheduledanother vote for TAA on Tuesday. Speaker of the House John Boehner and Obama therefore have four days to persuade members of their parties to swallow their objections to TAA and TPA, respectively.
Read more: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/12/house-votes-slow-fast-track-obamas-trade-agenda/
TAA failed 126 to 302. Looks like we have work to do before Tuesday
TAA FAILS!
Two little girls forced to shut down lemonade stand by Texas cops
But they figured out a way around it
Go girl power!
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/06/11/lemonade-stand-shut-down-texas/71064934/
Rep. Barbara Lee: You can support the President and still disagree on the TPA
I can't quote exactly but just now on CSPAN she stated he's a friend, he has done good things. You can think he's done a good job and disagree on a few things. That the TPA is not good and they need to go back to the drawing board.
I wish everyone would understand that you can disagree with some things and that doesn't mean we're haters or anything but we disagree on some things
Please call your representatives ASAP to fight against the TPA http://cms.fightforthefuture.org/stopfasttrack/
It's now or never - call now, before the vote on the TPA.
There's been more than enough posted here over the last week to know that fast track authority for the TPP and TiSA is bad for America. These agreements are bad minorities, for women, for the LGBT community, for the average American worker, for the economy, for the environment.
Please call your representatives now. If you so choose, to make it as easy as possible, you can use the tool by Fight for the Future. This will connect you to everyone you need to speak to with just one phone call, including Nancy Pelosi's office. You enter your phone number, it calls you within seconds, and connects you to each office.
Stop Fast Track
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