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May 3, 2015

China is way ahead of us....WAY ahead!

3 goats went airborne in China as part of an elaborate stunt with a giant kite
http://uk.businessinsider.com/airborne-goats-attached-worlds-largest-kite-china-2015-4

What has happened to the United States? We used to be the world's pioneer in outrageous stunts
May 3, 2015

Texas Governor Deploys State Guard To Stave Off Obama Takeover

Since General Sam Houston executed his famous retreat to glory to defeat the superior forces of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Texas has been ground zero for military training. We have so many military bases in the Lone Star State we could practically attack Russia.

So when rookie Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced he was ordering the Texas National Guard to monitor a Navy SEAL/Green Beret joint training exercise, which was taking place in Texas and several other states, everybody here looked up from their iPhones. What?

It seems there is concern among some folks that this so-called training maneuver is just a cover story. What's really going on? President Obama is about to use Special Forces to put Texas under martial law.

Let's walk over by the fence where nobody can hear us, and I'll tell you the story.

You see, there are these Wal-Marts in West Texas that supposedly closed for six months for "renovation." That's what they want you to believe. The truth is these Wal-Marts are going to be military guerrilla-warfare staging areas and FEMA processing camps for political prisoners. The prisoners are going to be transported by train cars that have already been equipped with shackles.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2015/05/02/403865824/texas-governor-deploys-national-guard-to-stave-off-obama-takeover?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social


Tejas DUers: Straighten out your boy...

May 3, 2015

Don’t use the apps Muhannad used, and a Question on “reporter privilege”

Last Wednesday The Intercept, an adversarial news site, published an article on the life and death of their — and several other media outlets — AQAP source. The source “Muhannad Ghallab” was a spokesman for AQAP, the terrorist organization responsible for Charlie Hebdo.

On April 22, Muhannad was killed by a missile fired by a drone. It’s unknown how his location was identified, but a “possible scenario is that a data trail from his communications with Western journalists gave away his geolocation”.

Some of the communication apps that Muhannad asked to use journalist were shared by The Intercept with Matthew Green an expert in cryptography. However noteworthy to state that it isn’t mentioned or implied that The Intercept used any of these apps in communication with the source, although other contacts may have. Green found that the apps provided no protection against tracking and could have been used by NSA/CIA.

Intel on the apps AQAP uses could be useful for the intelligence agencies. Information that Green now has. Journalists are protected by “Reporter privilege”, but fall external consultants like Green also under the same protection? A question I tweeted to Orin Kerr (Law Professor) and Jay Rosen (Journalism Professor), Kerr didn’t reply, and Rosen replied “Don’t know the answer to that well enough to answer”.

https://medium.com/@janwinter15/don-t-use-the-apps-muhannad-used-and-50e0a22484


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