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In a mad rush we leave Bozeman Montana and drive straight home. We capture the rush, and the exhaustion we felt after making the long trek, our motivations for the last few days, and some early reflections on the trip.

Without a doubt, we hit that famous Seattle traffic once we got back into town, can’t say we missed that.

And Chris and Hadea share what life’s been like since getting back.

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Shooting Close to Home | Unfilter 120

chris — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:29:36 +0000

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We share our personal experiences from the school shooting that happened just a few doors down from our homes.

Then the FBI gets busted for impersonating the Seattle Times, and IT repair personnel to trap suspects, we have a new theory on how ISIS gets it’s ongoing funding, and the big lone wolf mess. Plus the tough talk from Putin that western media is totally ignoring.

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FBI created fake Seattle Times Web page to nab bomb-threat suspect

The FBI in Seattle created a fake news story on a bogus Seattle Times web page to plant software in the computer of a suspect in a series of bomb threats to Lacey’s Timberline High School in 2007, according to documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in San Francisco.

The deception was publicized Monday when Christopher Soghoian, the principal technologist for the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington, D.C., revealed it on Twitter.

The EFF documents reveal that the FBI dummied up a story with an Associated Press byline about the Thurston County bomb threats with an email link “in the style of The Seattle Times,” including details about subscriber and advertiser information.

The link was sent to the suspect’s MySpace account. When the suspect clicked on the link, the hidden FBI software sent his location and Internet Protocol information to the agents. A juvenile suspect was identified and arrested June 14.

The FBI Was So Hapless Hunting a Teen Kid, It Had To Pretend To Be from a Newspaper – The Intercept

Court filing: FBI impersonated repairmen in ruse

Submitted by: veritanuda

Federal agents turned off Internet access to three luxury villas at a Las Vegas hotel then impersonated repair technicians to surreptitiously get inside and collect evidence in an investigation of online sports betting, according to defense lawyers challenging the practice.

Feds identify suspected ‘second leaker’ for Snowden reporters

Headlined “Barack Obama’s Secret Terrorist-Tracking System, by the Numbers,” the story cited a classified government document showing that nearly half the people on the U.S. government’s master terrorist screening database had “no recognized terrorist affiliation.”

The story, co-authored by Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Devereaux, was accompanied by a document “obtained from a source in the intelligence community” providing details about the watch-listing system that were dated as late as August 2013, months after Snowden fled to Hong Kong and revealed himself as the leaker of thousands of top secret documents from the NSA.

This prompted immediate speculation that there was a “second leaker” inside the U.S. intelligence community providing material to Greenwald and his associates.

Marysville school shooter remembered along with victims

Among the balloons and flowers tied to the chain-link fence outside Marysville-Pilchuck High School are these: a white wrestling shoe; a youth football team photo, with one player encased in a red-marker heart; and a candle covered with a plastic cup bearing the name “Jaylen.”

They are all tributes to Jaylen Fryberg, the popular 15-year-old freshman who texted five friends to invite them to lunch Friday and then gunned them down at a table in the school’s cafeteria.

Two girls died in the attack, and three other students – including two of Fryberg’s cousins – were gravely wounded. Fryberg died after shooting himself.

US ends ban on ‘domestic propaganda’ — RT USA

The Smith-Mundt Act has ensured for decades that government-made media intended for foreign audiences doesn’t end up on radio networks broadcast within the US. An amendment tagged onto the National Defense Authorization Act removed that prohibition this year

The longstanding federal law made it illegal for the US Department of State to share domestically the internally-authored news stories sent to American-operated
outlets broadcasting around the globe. All of that changed effective July 2, when the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) was given permission to let US households tune-in to hear the
type of programming that has previously only been allowed in outside nations.

ISIS / ISIL

John Cantlie appears in another ISIS propaganda video | Daily Mail Online

A fifth video depicting British photojournalist John Cantlie has emerged

The 43-year-old was taken hostage in Syria while working last year

He claims prisoner life ‘was not bad’ and that captives ‘played games’

Captives were water-boarded ‘if they did something they shouldn’t have’

Series of videos titled ‘Messages from the British detainee’ released by ISIS

How Afghan poppies become heroin

But most opium appears to be purchased directly from the farmers by buyers and dealers. In a range of complex credit agreements based on advance-sale of opium harvests, many farmers are already committed to particular dealers and merchants by the time they accumulate their yield.

Then the opium enters the black market. A merchant or broker buys the packages for transport to a morphine ‘refinery’. According to author Alfred W. McCoy in ‘The Politics of Heroin’, most traffickers do their morphine refining close to the poppy fields, since compact morphine bricks are much easier to smuggle than bundles of pungent, jelly-like opium. At the refinery, which may be little more than a small house or shack equipped with oil drums, the opium is mixed with lime in boiling water. A white band of morphine forms on the surface, while a precipitate of organic waste sinks to the bottom. The morphine is drawn off, reheated with ammonia, filtered and boiled again until it is reduced to a brown paste. Poured into moulds and dried in the sun, it is now morphine base. Morphine base can be smoked in a pipe or is ready for further processing into heroin.

Allegations of CIA drug trafficking – CIA and Kuomintang opium smuggling operations

CIA and Kuomintang opium smuggling operations[edit]

In order to provide covert funds for the Kuomintang (KMT) forces loyal to General Chiang Kai-shek, who were fighting the Chinese communists under Mao Zedong, the CIA helped the KMT smuggle opium from China and Burma to Bangkok, Thailand, by providing airplanes owned by one of their front businesses, Air America.

KMT general Sun Li Ren took charge of these forces, which controlled a region in between Burma and Thailand, but were eventually forced out of the area. The CIA later pressured Sun Li Ren to undertake a coup d’état in Taiwan against Chiang Kai-shek, but was discovered and placed under house arrest by Chiang’s son, Chiang Ching-kuo

Central Intelligence Agency Drug Trafficking

Research by Dr. Alfred W. McCoy, Gary Webb, and others has pointed to CIA involvement in narcotics trafficking across the globe, although the CIA officially denies such allegations.[172][173] During the Cold War, when numerous soldiers participated in transport of Southeast Asian heroin to the United States by the airline Air America[_citation needed_], the CIA’s role in such traffic was reportedly rationalized as “recapture” of related profits to prevent possible enemy control of such assets.

CIA Jet Crashed With 4 Tons Of Cocaine On Board

A Gulfstream II jet, aircraft # N987SA, allegedly used to transport Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) rendition prisoners from Europe and America to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba crash-landed Sept. 24, 2007 in Mexico carrying a cargo of over four tons of cocaine. It is suspected the Gulfstream jet ran out of fuel as it traveled from Colombia to the United States.

The Consequences Of America’s Invasion Of Afghanistan: NYC Heroin Deaths Highest In A Decade | Zero Hedge

While back in May Obama promised America’s mission in Afghanistan was over, and all US troops would leave the country by the end of 2016, the “unintended” consequences of the US presence in this favored by al-Qaeda country will haunt America for a long time. And especially New York, where according to a new report by the Department of Mental Hygiene, the number of people who died from unintentional heroin overdoses in New York City last year was the highest in over a decade.

COLD WAR

Putin accuses U.S. of damaging world order | Video | Reuters.com

Russian President Vladimir Putin accuses the U.S. of making the world a more dangerous place by imposing a ”unilateral diktat” in international diplomacy.

High Note

2014 “Marijuana Midterms” to Establish 2016 as Most Crucial Year for Cannabis in America

Voters in Oregon, Alaska, and the District of Columbia will weigh in on whether their states should become second wave legalizers, with each confronting slightly different choices.

So, what can we expect at the ballot boxes next week? Polling suggests a real chance that all three proposals may pass, with Oregon and D.C. quite likely. Such moves come in the midst of political elites and the public at large slowly changing their orientation on the issue.

In both states and the District, legalizers are better funded than opponents. That monetary advantage and a sense of momentum created by Colorado and Washington’s experiences favors legalization. But the nature of midterm electorates, which tend to be older, more Republican, and more traditionally conservative, makes legalization a heavier political lift than in a Presidential election year. Looking at it a different way, as Hudak did in August, causation might also run in the opposite direction: marijuana legalization may help Democratic candidates in an otherwise poor year, with potentially enormous results through the Alaska Senate race.

In the end, regardless of what voters in Oregon, Alaska, and the District of Columbia decide on November 4th, we can expect the legalization movement to expand and for 2016 to be the most crucial year for cannabis in the United States.

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The Cost of Unlimited | Tech Talk Today 82

chris — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:26:45 +0000

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The FBI creates a fake Seattle Times website to trap a bad guy, but does this cross the line? We debate. The FTC goes after AT&T’s claims of “unlimited” data.

Plus more details surface in the NFC payments “war”, Windows 10 “borrows” more features, our kickstarter of the week & more!

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FBI created fake Seattle Times Web page to nab bomb-threat suspect

The FBI in Seattle created a fake news story on a bogus Seattle Times web page to plant software in the computer of a suspect in a series of bomb threats to Lacey’s Timberline High School in 2007, according to documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in San Francisco.

The deception was publicized Monday when Christopher Soghoian, the principal technologist for the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington, D.C., revealed it on Twitter.

The EFF documents reveal that the FBI dummied up a story with an Associated Press byline about the Thurston County bomb threats with an email link “in the style of The Seattle Times,” including details about subscriber and advertiser information.

The link was sent to the suspect’s MySpace account. When the suspect clicked on the link, the hidden FBI software sent his location and Internet Protocol information to the agents. A juvenile suspect was identified and arrested June 14.

The revelation brought a sharp response from the newspaper.

“We are outraged that the FBI, with the apparent assistance of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, misappropriated the name of The Seattle Times to secretly install spyware on the computer of a crime suspect,” said Seattle Times Editor Kathy Best.

“Not only does that cross a line, it erases it,” she said.

“Our reputation and our ability to do our job as a government watchdog are based on trust. Nothing is more fundamental to that trust than our independence — from law enforcement, from government, from corporations and from all other special interests,” Best said. “The FBI’s actions, taken without our knowledge, traded on our reputation and put it at peril.”

MCX Confirms Retailer Exclusivity for CurrentC Mobile Payments, but No Fines for Leaving Consortium

Much of the Apple news in recent days has centered around Apple Pay and what Tim Cook referred to on Monday as a “skirmish” in which several retailers backing a competing mobile payments initiative known as CurrentC have shut down NFC payment functionality in their stores to prevent customer use of Apple Pay, Google Wallet, and other similar services.

Numerous sources have indicated that retailers backing CurrentC are contractually prohibited from accepting alternative forms of mobile payments, and sources told The New York Times that retailers breaking those contracts would “face steep fines.”

Importantly, if a merchant decides to stop working with MCX, there are no fines.

FTC sues AT&T over ‘deceptive’ throttling of unlimited data customers | The Verge

The Federal Trade Commission is suing AT&T because the second-largest US carrier throttles speeds of its unlimited data customers, a policy that the FTC describes as “deceptive” and “unfair.” In a press release, the FTC said AT&T has “misled millions of its smartphone customers” by slowing down their data speeds after they’ve used up a certain amount of data in a single month. AT&T has failed to make its throttling policies clear enough, according to the complaint. “The issue here is simple: ‘unlimited’ means unlimited,” said FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez.

Update 11:15 AM PT: AT&T has given a statement to MacRumors in response to the FTC’s “baffling” complaint, stating that the allegations are “baseless” and that it has been “completely transparent” with customers.

“The FTC’s allegations are baseless and have nothing to do with the substance of our network management program. It’s baffling as to why the FTC would choose to take this action against a company that, like all major wireless providers, manages its network resources to provide the best possible service to all customers, and does it in a way that is fully transparent and consistent with the law and our contracts.

“We have been completely transparent with customers since the very beginning. We informed all unlimited data-plan customers via bill notices and a national press release that resulted in nearly 2,000 news stories, well before the program was implemented. In addition, this program has affected only about 3% of our customers, and before any customer is affected, they are also notified by text message.”

Microsoft borrows Mac trackpad gestures for Windows 10 | The Verge

n a keynote speech at TechEd Europe today, Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore demonstrated new trackpad features that will soon be available to Windows 10 testers. “In the past touch pads on Windows have really been done very differently because OEMs do them,” explained Belfiore. Microsoft introduced precision trackpads with the help of Intel in Windows 8 to improve the hardware situation, and now the focus is on gestures in software. “With Windows 10 we’re adding support for power users in a touch pad, where multiple finger gestures — which all of you power users learn — can make you really efficient.”

The new gestures include a three finger swipe down action to minimize all active Windows and three finger swipe up to bring them back. An interesting addition is the ability to use a three finger swipe up gesture to activate the new Task View feature of Windows 10. Not only does Task View look like OS X’s Mission Control (Exposé) feature, the three finger swipe up is the same gesture. Microsoft is also borrowing the three finger swipe left and right to activate switching between apps, something Apple uses to move between fullscreen Mac applications.

Kickstarter of the week: The Undress

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Cannabis Open for Business | Unfilter 105

chris — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 21:15:44 +0000

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Recreational cannabis business opened their doors this week in Washington state, we’ll give you our local report and discuss some of the issues that aren’t getting much attention, and of course the ones that are.

Plus a big new batch of NSA revelations hit over the weekend, including Greenwald’s long awaited revelation. The two stories are important, but was Greenwald’s big story a bit of a bust? We round up the latest overreaches, violations, and lies that have been exposed in just the last week.

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The Slow Death of Privacy

German paper reports second German spy working for US | News | DW.DE | 09.07.2014

Citing its own information as well as sources from German public broadcasters WDR and NDR on Wednesday, the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) reports that officials from Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Agency (BKA) and the public prosecutor’s office are conducting a search in the apartment of a Berlin man. There is initial suspicion that the man is working as a spy.

The federal prosecutor’s office has confirmed that a search is under way.

The SZ reports that Wednesday’s investigation is being seen by observers as “more serious” than a different investigation that began last week. In that case, officials are
investigating a man who admitted to delivering documents to the CIA two years ago in exchange for 25,000 euros.

According to the paper, the two cases are independent of each other.

US ‘kidnaps’ Russian MP’s son to ‘exchange him for Snowden’

Foreign Ministry outraged by #Russian citizen's detention by #US secret service in #Maldives – https://t.co/PnStTwIjWD

— MFA Russia (@mfa_russia) July 8, 2014

A Russian MP claims the US kidnapped his son from the Maldives on bogus cyber-fraud charges and may be preparing to offer him as bait in a swap deal for Edward Snowden.

Roman Seleznyov, 30, was arrested at Male international airport
as he was about to board a flight to Moscow. He was forced by US
secret service agents to board a private plane to Guam and was
later arrested. The Russian ministry slammed his detention as
“a de-facto kidnapping.”

Moscow considers the kidnapping “a new hostile move by
Washington,” and accused the US of ignoring proper procedure
in dealing with foreign nationals suspected of crimes.

“The same happened to Viktor Bout and Konstantin Yaroshenko, who were forced to go
to the US from third countries and convicted on dubious
charges.”

Snowden Asks Russia to Extend Asylum – NYTimes.com

Anatoly G. Kucherna, the attorney, said that he had requested from the Moscow branch of the Federal Migration Service that Mr. Snowden be permitted to remain in Russia after his initial one-year asylum expires on July 31.

“We have submitted documents for extending his stay in Russia,” Mr. Kucherna was quoted as saying by Interfax.

Schneier on Security: NSA Targets the Privacy-Conscious for Surveillance

And, since Cory said it, I do not believe that this came from the Snowden documents. I also don’t believe the TAO catalog came from the Snowden documents. I think there’s a second leaker out there.

Wall Street Joins U.S. Intelligence Cronies To Form Fascist “Cyber War Council”

The man behind the push appears to be ex-NSA chief Keith Alexander, who as I reported on last month, is now Pimping Advice to Wall Street Banks for $1 Million a Month. As I mentioned in that post, one of Mr. Alexander’s most high profile clients is Wall Street’s largest lobbying group the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA). Unsurprisingly, SIFMA is behind the latest push to formally merge Wall Street with the government intelligence apparatus. Mr. Alexander isn’t wasting any time.

Bloomberg reports that:

Wall Street’s biggest trade group has proposed a government-industry cyber war council to stave off terrorist attacks that could trigger financial panic by temporarily wiping out account balances, according to an internal document.

The proposal by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, known as Sifma, calls for a committee of executives and deputy-level representatives from at least eight U.S. agencies including the Treasury Department, the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security, all led by a senior White House official.

More centralization. This is the exact opposite of what we want or need. The establishment is very worried about the trend toward decentralization, and making its move on many fronts.

The trade association also reveals in the document that Sifma has retained former NSA director Keith Alexander to “facilitate” the joint effort with the government. Alexander, in turn, has brought in Michael Chertoff, the former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, and his firm, Chertoff Group.

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Weed Wackers:

Marijuana shortages could have Washington stores, customers wondering: Where’s the weed?

Oliver is the chief scientist at Analytical 360 in Yakima, the only lab that has been certified to test the heavily taxed marijuana that will wind up on store shelves next month. So far, just two licensed growers have turned in samples for testing, with another due to turn in a small batch next week, he told The Associated Press on Saturday.

“There’s such a small stream of samples coming through,” he said. “There’s going to be some long lines and some high prices.”

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Profiting from Prisoners | Unfilter 4

chris — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:57:39 +0000

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We discuss the trend towards privatized prisons, how they make money, and dirty details they don\’t want you to know.

Then we unfilter the headlines, with an update on Stuxnet, some hard questions for the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, and using drones for police enforcement.

Plus an update on some stories from last week, and feedback!

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ACT ONE: Headlines

Confirmed: US and Israel created Stuxnet, lost control of it
Germany Readying Offensive Cyberwarfare Unit, Parliament Told
HP, Cisco, Sun Gear Surfaces Inside Iranian Mobile Operator
- There is no evidence indicating that any of these companies sold their products directly to Iranian companies. However, should these companies be allowed to sell their products directly to Iranian companies and anyone else they want to do business with?
- Or do you agree with “the UN Human rights council believes that American firms should be building clauses into their contracts with international customers that levy heavy fines if a customer redistributes or uses the products in a way that violates human rights.”
Sanders Questions Bernanke on Conflicts at the Fed
Canada No Pirate Nation: Global Leader In Music Download Sales
- Canada makes the U.S. piracy list, again in

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ACT TWO: Prison Industrial Complex

ACT THREE: Feedback

A follow up on last week\’s stories, stop the leaks!
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Spandex and Crime | J@N | 1.11.11

chris — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:54:26 +0000

It’s been a very Superheroey couple of days lately, so put on your spandex and mardi gras maskes and join us as we leap across the rooftops of the information superhighway to bring you the latest on a few interesting stories – ripped from the comic books!

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NBC’s “The Cape” Premiered this Sunday

ComicAlliance review
– Embraces the tropes of superheroes, and portrays them as logical in this universe.
– Enjoyable to watch, and not in a “so bad it’s good” way.
Summer Glau drops hints about future relationship between her character and “The Cape”

Real Life Superheroes in Seattle

Police Alerted to “Superheroes” Patrolling Seattle
– Rain City Superhero Movement, part of a national organization: RLSH

A night on patrol with Phoenix Jones

Real Life Superheroes Fight Crime
– Includes an good video interview with three of them.

Phoenix Jones Gets His Nose Broken
– Two men starting a fight, he broke it up and took one to the ground and the other pulled a gun. The other got up and broke his nose.

DC Universe Online publicly available today!

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“Battle of Legends” End of Beta Event – Recap
A Guide to Travel Powers
A Tour of Gotham City

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PAX 2010 Wrangle-Up | LOTSO 16

chris — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:31:47 +0000

Nearly the entire Jupiter Broadcasting crew attacked PAX equipped with cameras and we got the footage our camera’s weren’t suppose to see!

Watch to see exclusive game play of some of the biggest titles!

PLUS:
The LOTSO crew gives you a full run down of the biggest surprises, craziest booths, bests games, and even the real stinkers of PAX 2010 Prime. It’s Penny Arcade Expo and it’s one of the biggest gaming events of the year.

All that and more on this episode of LOTSO!

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