Margot Ferrick
This scan of Michiko’s various outfits, designed by Yamagami Mariko and Yamazaki Shôgo, appeared in a Girls’ Anime special in Animation Note no. 11, published in September 2008.
happy birthday minecraft!!!!
pure:
More evidence to add to the pile that gamers, politicians and weebs need to be oppressed…
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Wow good thing ion give a shit about marvel people are really selling avengers tickets on ebay for like thousands of dollars? Imagine dropping a stack to see mediocrity on the screen couldn’t be me I didn’t graduate from Clown University.
TL;DR on the latest round of Wikileaks:
Literally nothing you do is safe from the CIA. There are numerous full-on spyware suites developed by them, mostly for iOS and Windows, but also targeting Android, Linux, OS X, and Solaris. Apps thought to be secure (Telegram with encryption enabled, WhatsApp, Signal) were compromised as well, as were a host of other devices (ie smart TVs).
THIS DOES NOT PERTAIN ONLY TO AMERICANS.
If you live in a Shengen area country, your country likely hosts several CIA backed cyberwar experts. They came in via the US consulate in Frankfurt. If you don’t, you likely do as well, but I can’t find anything without sifting through the files myself.
“I have nothing to hide, why does this matter?”: Because there are now multiple thousand “zero hour”- ie “developers get zero hours to fix”- vulnerabilities floating around that no one had any idea existed. The vulnerabilities themselves weren’t leaked, but it’s the fact that someone knew about these and didn’t say.
I hate to make this kinda clickbait-y thing, but this is honest to God one of the most important leaks in history. Our response to this is pretty much going to be life or death for privacy in the developed world. Be loud about this, be annoying about this, and do not shut up about this. Please reblog this and other posts relating to it.
Not just any someone, this is one of the U.S. federal government’s foremost intelligence agencies, the CIA, which even mainstream media has reported operates on a black (off the record) budget, infamous for handing over “full” reports that are almost entirely redacted.
It’s a wonder that anyone out there could believe they are not the subject of surveillance—everyone has something to hide.
- The USA can access personal email, chat, and web browsing history. (Source)
- The USA tracks the numbers of both parties on phone calls, their locations, as well as time and duration of the call. (Source)
- The USA can monitor text messages. (Source)
- The USA can monitor the data in smartphone applications. (Source)
- The USA can crack cellphone encryption codes. (Source)
- The USA can identify individuals’ friends, companions, and social networks. (Source)
- The USA monitors financial transactions. (Source)
- The USA monitors credit card purchases. (Source)
- The USA intercepts troves of personal webcam video from innocent people. (Source)
- The USA is working to crack all types of sophisticated computer encryption. (Source)
- The USA monitors communications between online gamers. (Source)
- The USA can set up fake Internet cafes to spy on unsuspecting users. (Source)
- The USA can remotely access computers by setting up a fake wireless connection. (Source)
- The USA can use radio waves to hack computers that aren’t connected to the internet. (Source)
- The USA can set up fake social networking profiles on LinkedIn for spying purposes. (Source)
- The USA undermines secure networks [Tor] by diverting users to non-secure channels. (Source)
- The USA can intercept phone calls by setting up fake mobile telephony base stations. (Source)
- The USA can install a fake SIM card in a cell phone to secretly control it. (Source)
- The USA can physically intercept packages, open them, and alter electronic devices. (Source)
- The USA makes a USB thumb drive that provides a wireless backdoor into the host computer. (Source)
- The USA can set up stations on rooftops to monitor local cell phone communications. (Source)
- The USA spies on text messages in China and can hack Chinese cell phones. (Source)
- The USA spies on foreign leaders’ cell phones. (Source)
- The USA intercepts meeting notes from foreign dignitaries. (Source)
- The USA has hacked into the United Nations’ video conferencing system. (Source)
- The USA can spy on ambassadors within embassies. (Source)
- The USA can track hotel reservations to monitor lodging arrangements. (Source)
- The USA can track communications within media organizations. (Source)
- The USA can tap transoceanic fiber-optic cables. (Source)
- The USA can intercept communications between aircraft and airports. (Source)
And this leak shows that the CIA has all of these technologies and proliferates them to other entities who want this information all the time. You need your privacy to protect yourself and your information. If you have nothing to hide, you have plenty to hide:
The line “if you’ve got nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about” is used all too often in defending surveillance overreach. It’s been debunked countless times in the past, but with the line being trotted out frequently in response to the NSA revelations, it’s time for yet another debunking, and there are two good ones that were recently published. First up, we’ve got Moxie Marlinspike at Wired, who points out that, you’re wrong if you think you’ve got nothing to hide, because our criminal laws are so crazy, that anyone sifting through your data would likely be able to pin quite a few crimes on you if they just wanted to.
Julian Sanchez points out:
Some of the potentially sensitive facts those records expose becomes obvious after giving it some thought: Who has called a substance abuse counselor, a suicide hotline, a divorce lawyer or an abortion provider? What websites do you read daily? What porn turns you on? What religious and political groups are you a member of?
Some are less obvious. Because your cellphone’s “routing information” typically includes information about the nearest cell tower, those records are also a kind of virtual map showing where you spend your time — and, when aggregated with others, who you like to spend it with.We simply cannot possibly know when something is going to incriminate us and the State is not above scapegoating individuals or coercing them into submission. James Duane, a professor at Regent Law School and former defense attorney, notes:
Estimates of the current size of the body of federal criminal law vary. It has been reported that the Congressional Research Service cannot even count the current number of federal crimes. These laws are scattered in over 50 titles of the United States Code, encompassing roughly 27,000 pages. Worse yet, the statutory code sections often incorporate, by reference, the provisions and sanctions of administrative regulations promulgated by various regulatory agencies under congressional authorization. Estimates of how many such regulations exist are even less well settled, but the ABA thinks there are ”nearly 10,000.”
Supreme Court Justice Breyer elaborates:
The complexity of modern federal criminal law, codified in several thousand sections of the United States Code and the virtually infinite variety of factual circumstances that might trigger an investigation into a possible violation of the law, make it difficult for anyone to know, in advance, just when a particular set of statements might later appear (to a prosecutor) to be relevant to some such investigation.
Not just the State, but anyone could draw suspicion against you if they had the right information with the right circumstances. We are entitled to our privacy, and these institutions must be held to account.
This is fucking sick
hi any chance u could fill me in w/ what’s goin over there in the philippines atm
hey, thanks for your message. there’s no way i’d be able to answer this question well enough in one ask so i will just give a very basic run-down off the top of my head on the situation in the philippines. it’s hard to answer this question bc the present conditions in the phil. are the culmination of the root causes of exploitation and oppression that we have faced since being colonized by the spanish.
where do i even start lol… i guess i’ll start by saying that our call as kababayans and mass organizers in the philippines is now for the overthrow of president duterte. as of september 2018, there are more than 500 political prisoners. one of them is maojo maga, a trade unionist organizer for Kilusang Maya Uno (may first labour movement–a militant labour centre in the phil.). he was illegally arrested on false charges (firearms possession) and kidnapped by the philippine national police. his father-in-law, rafael baylosis, was also illegally arrested on false charges. rafael is a labour rights advocate and peace consultant for the National Democratic Front.
in the past 2 years of duterte’s presidency, more than 20,000 people have been murdered in drug war-related extrajudicial killings. as you might know, duterte has waged a “drug war” in the philippines, and many drug users and pushers (most unconfirmed–there are no trials held for those murdered obviously) have died in the drug war. but it doesn’t matter whether or not these people are drug users because this drug war is really just a war on the poor. the pigs of the philippine national police (pnp–who, by the way, send representatives overseas to spread propaganda about the police’s good work in the philippines, check out how BAYAN members interrupted one such pr event in new york) go into urban poor areas and brutalize and murder poor people under the guise of culling these criminal drug users from society. they abuse and rape women who they take into custody or who go to the police to find the whereabouts of their missing or detained family members.
it MUST be clear that the US has historically been and continues to be instrumental in planning and executing these wars on the people–the drug war, the counterinsurgency operations (such as the current one, Oplan Kapayapaan), the displacement of Indigenous peoples from their land (such as the Lumad people in southern Mindano), etc. the bureaucrat capitalists of the country and the politicians are lackeys of the US government and serve the interests of the national bourgeoisie only.
through schemes like the Pork Barrel (an institutionalized money laundering scheme where politicians pool tax money into “pork barrels”–funds for public infrastructure programs–only to cancel projects and then take the money for themselves) the bureaucrat capitalists hoard wealth while the urban poor are brutalized and murdered by the police and live in squatters. aside from pork barrel schemes, the gov. also accumulates huge amounts of debt from china in order to fund infrastructure projects. china knows that we will be unable to pay off this debt and so instead our land or resources are used as collateral.
the entire country is being militarized because duterte knows thats the people’s resistance is only becoming stronger and more organized. mindanao is STILL under martial law (in fact, martial law was extended by another year) but the entire country experiences martial law conditions (including but not limited to extrajudicial killings, the suppression of dissidence, the targeting and threatening of people connected to the national democratic movement, red-tagging, etc.)
on january 30 of 2019, our kasama randy malayao was murdered. he was a peace consultant of the national democratic front of the philippines, and therefore was protected under the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG, which the NDFP and phil. gov. established precisely to guarantee some form of protection for those involved in the peace talks.) the strategic purpose of the peace talks is another post but the murder of randy by government forces is a clear message from the US-duterte regime that the national democratic movement poses a serious threat to fascism and imperialism. if the US-duterte regime refuses to hear the people’s demand for justice through peace, then what other avenue do they have?
this is getting pretty long now so i’ll force myself to wrap this up because i can go on forever lol. i want to stress that despite our call to oust duterte, we know that he is merely one president in a long line of presidents who have served the interests of US imperialism and the national bureaucrat class. if you take away anything form this post, it should be that the root causes of exploitation and oppression in the philippines are bureaucrat capitalism, feudalism, and imperialism. these are the material conditions that we must militantly work against for there to be revolutionary change for the people. when we organize, mobilize, and agitate the masses, these root causes must be at the centre of our analysis.
let me know if you want me to expand on anything. i recommend following bulatlat and IBON online for developments and statistics, as well as the social media of grassroots alliances such as karapatan, bayan (gabriela, migrante, anakbayan), and the international league of people’s struggles. all kababayans have a role in supporting the national democratic movement, wherever they are in the world (and, for the record, i do not organize in the philippines at the moment.) if you want to know more about how you can support national democracy in the philippines, please message me. BAYAN (a grassroots alliance of organizations, started during marcos era and still exists today as a people’s alliance) and ILPS (int. league of ppl’s struggles, an international anti-imperialist alliance) have chapters in many parts of the world, particularly in north america and asia. a fundamental part of our work towards national democracy is international solidarity actions with other national liberation movements, such as in palestine and venezuela. i can help you get in contact with bayan and/or ilps orgs in your area if you need it.
i’m gonna reiterate the calls for some campaigns we have going on right now:
FREE MAOJO MAGA! FREE RAFAEL BAYLOSIS! FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!
JUSTICE FOR KA RANDY MALAYAO!
LONG LIVE INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY! LONG LIVE NATIONAL DEMOCRACY AND THE FILIPINO PEOPLE!
Free PDF Books on race, gender, sexuality, class, and culture
Found from various places online:
The Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
Angela Y. Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Y. Davis - Race, Women, and Class
The Communist Manifesto - Marx and Engels
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
Critical Race Theory: An Introduction by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America- Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki
Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism - bell hooks
Feminism is for Everybody - bell hooks
outlaw culture - bell hooks
Faces at the Bottom of the Well - Derrick Bell
Sex, Power, and Consent - Anastasia Powell
I am Your Sister - Audre Lorde
Patricia Hill Collins - Black Feminist Thought
Gender Trouble - Judith Butler
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Medical Apartheid - Harriet Washington
Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory - edited by Michael Warner
Colonialism/Postcolonialism - Ania Loomba
Discipline and Punish - Michel Foucault
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher
This Bridge Called by Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa
What is Cultural Studies? - John Storey
Cultural Theory and Popular Culture - John Storey
Michel Foucault - Interviews and Other Writings
Michel Foucault - The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3
Michel Foucault - The Archeology of Knowledge
This blog also has a lot more.
(Sorry they aren’t organized very well.)
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