Not often mentioned but a significant contribution to financing the conflict in Syria was money flowing to the jihadists from the reactionary regimes of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. All of this was given the blessing of the Obama regime because they expected the Syrian regime to quickly fall.
Month: June 2018
I can’t understand American labelling in political cartoons.
I can’t understand American labelling in political cartoons. All the terminology and concepts are completely strange. It’s kind of like reading Fahrenheit temperatures and shit like that.
Anyway I have no idea what’s going on in this cartoon but I think it’s about the need for gun control or something.
Scuttlebutt is a peer-to-peer social network that is completely decentralized and independent of the standard…
Scuttlebutt is a peer-to-peer social network that is completely decentralized and independent of the standard internet. It is resilient at every level unlike federated services like Diapora and Mastodon.
It reminds me of the old FidoNet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet systems I used to use many years ago, long before I had access to the internet. The difference is that this technology is designed to be secure.
I also remember chatting with a political activist years later who said he regretted the disappearance of those old BBS networks because they were much harder for repressive governments to censor and control. He used to hand out floppy disks to activists across the world to facilitate communication that was outside of the listening range of government eavesdroppers.
Scuttlebutt looks to me like a return to this older, more resilient and ultimately more liberating approach to social networking. This technology is part of the solution Andre Staltz was talking about in history TEDx talk that I posted yesterday.
https://plus.google.com/+JohnAHardy/posts/Qao9ED1REbX
The end of the 20th century liberal consensus
The end of the 20th century liberal consensus
Washington liberals, having played a central role in this emerging configuration, understandably think they can regain control of it. It seems more plausible, however, that they have birthed and are beholden to a format of state power that is ultimately going to serve the Right.
Originally shared by Jeff Zahari
“Washington liberalism, that is to say the liberalism of the Washington Post, or just bourgeois liberalism tout court, is profoundly conservative in its fetishes and mores.”
Andre Staltz on building a resilient alternative to the centralised corporation controlled internet.
Andre Staltz on building a resilient alternative to the centralised corporation controlled internet.
A fox, in inner city Melbourne. Snapped about 5 minutes ago.
A fox, in inner city Melbourne. Snapped about 5 minutes ago.
The fox, bane of chicken owners everywhere.
How foxes even got to Australia is a remarkable thing. They were brought by the British ruling class as something to chase after on their horses and to shoot.
Did I ever mention how Australia was founded by some of the stupidest people on the planet?
Narrator: actually they don’t.
Narrator: actually they don’t.
Macau
Macau
(credit Paul Tsui)
Overheard on a train platform:
Overheard on a train platform:
“It’s products now, not teams anymore. You know, products not projects?”
Sounds like somebody is undergoing a digital transformation.
Circus people, they just do things that are way too hard.
Circus people, they just do things that are way too hard. If there’s an easy way to do it, do they choose to do it that way? No, they don’t. They always end up doing it the hardest way imaginable.
/smh
Four daredevil motorcyclists locked in the “Globe of Death”. Last night in Moonee Ponds.
Silver’s Circus
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