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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

The only way the current President of America could preserve his credibility was to come up with an old myth, the one of Osama Bin Laden, allegedly being killed by U.S. Soldiers last night. – O RLY?

The world is ruled by disinformation, while the U.S. remains a country that does not respect international human rights and is off-board of the Kioto protocol. Guantanamo has never been closed and whether the ex- nor the current president have been called to account for mass murder in several muslim countries. While economically the united states belong to their shareholders, China and the GCC and therefore are inofficially bankrupt.

Now the death of one sock puppet should restore the credibility of the biggest Neo-Imperialist, that does not cease rearing the brood of hatred. – WTF!

[Update 2rd of May 2011]
… no photos of dead Bin Laden. – LOL! Disinformative news reporting that his body has been buried at sea. – Give me a break!

[Update 2rd of May 2011]
Helmut Schmidt: “The killing of Osama bin Laden by the U.S. infringes public international law.” (Reference: ARD)

[Update 3rd of May 2011]
Comment by a friend: “Nachdem ja gestern der Theaterdirektor von Amerika seinen besten Schauspieler getötet hat sind wir nun auf die neuen Akteure gespannt.”
“Whereafter the theater director of america has killed one of its best comedians, we’re curious who the new actors will be.”

[Update 3rd of May 2011]
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was unarmed … [no comment]

[Update 4th of May 2011]
WSJ: Bank Of Mexico Buys 100 Tons Of Gold In February, March

[Update 5th of May 2011]
Total LULZ Situation Room – Can I haz wargamez?

[Update 5th of May 2011]

“The Paranoid Style in American Politics” 1964 by Richard Hofstadter

PDF download

[Update 8th of May 2011]
BBC report: “This is not Osama Bin Laden”

There are multiple ways to bypass the Chinese Firewall, using VPN, anonymous browsers or Tor. But I prefer to use the most simple way, which for me is using an ssh tunnel.

host:~user$ ssh -D 8888 login@myserver.org

(There is also a nice GUI for those who are not familiar with the command line.)

Then I configure my system preferences to use the socks proxy on 127.0.0.1:8888, which can also be done in Firefox Network settings. (see screenshots)

As the Chinese Government also tries to block external sites, such as Youtube and Openleaks, by filtering DNS requests, it’s necessary to filter this too. One could e.g. point them to 127.0.0.1 (in system preferences) and then send through another ssh tunnel:

host:~user$ sudo ssh login@myserver.org -L 53:127.0.0.1:53

(sudo because 53 is a privileged port.)

But actually it’s easier by just hacking the firefox configuration:

Luckily, with SOCKS5 Firefox can control which side of the proxy handles DNS lookups. By default, it does the lookups locally resulting in the scenario above. To change this, set network.proxy.socks_remote_dns = true in about:config. This makes the SOCKS proxy more like a regular proxy, where DNS is handled by the remote end of the tunnel.

… or one can install iodine and tunnel all DNS requests accordingly.

Have phun!

Losar Tashi Delek! Happy new year 2138!

Rop Gonggrijp offers a dialin service (xs4all): “Use your modem to dial +31205350535, username xs4all password xs4all.”

انترنت مجاني وغير مراقب في ليبيا اتصال بالرقم

username xs4all
password xs4all
+ 31205350535

Telecomix is also providing a similar service. (See below)

P.S. Such services should actually globally and freely be offered by the UNHRC (United Nations Human Rights Council)!!

André Gorz mit seiner Frau Dorine

Tomorrow the 27C3 hacker congress is starting at the bcc in Berlin.
Watch out for “The Concert”, which is taking place at 18:30h on the second congress day (28th of december 2010).

Another paradigm shift:

Julian thinks different – Apple doesn’t. It’s main stream!

1997: Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.

The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.

About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward.

Maybe they have to be crazy.

How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?

While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Copy of my letter to MasterCard & Postfinance

Viseca Master Card Services SA
Europa-Strasse 18
Postfach 1234
CH – 8152 Glattbrugg

Good day

I am writing you in relation to the latest happenings in connection to the whistleblower “Wikileaks”.

Due to unattended and illegal closing of the accounts of Julian Assange and Wikileaks by your company, I have completely lost my trust in your services and therefore abrogate our contract without notice. (Card-account No. XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX).

Further I will not fail to tell and ask my friends and collegues to do the same.

Do not continue to send me any advertisments and similar mail in the future and cancel my complete data from your database.

Merry christmas and best regards

Copy of this letter goes to:
– Lawyer
– Postfinance
– Privacy Commissioner

Viseca Master Card Services SA
Europa-Strasse 18
Postfach 1234
CH – 8152 Glattbrugg

Fristlose Kündigung meiner Master Card

Guten Tag

Ich schreibe Ihnen in Bezugnahme auf die Vorkommnisse der vergangenen Tage im Zusammenhang mit dem Whistleblower Portal „Wikileaks“.

Wegen unerwarteter und rechtswidriger Schliessung der Konten von Herrn Julian Assange und dem Whistleblower Portal „Wikileaks“ von Seiten Ihrer Firma, habe ich gänzlich mein Vertrauen in Ihre Kreditfirma verloren und kündige deshalb meinen Vertrag hiermit fristlos. (Kartenkontonummer XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX).

Ich werde es über dies nicht unterlassen, meine Freunde und Bekannte dazu aufzufordern, es mir gleich zu tun.

Schicken Sie mir in Zukunft auch keine Werbeschreiben und dergleichen und löschen Sie meine persönlichen Daten aus Ihrer Kartei.

Eine schöne Weihnachten und beste Grüsse

Kopie geht an:
– Persönlicher Rechtsberater
– Postfinance
– Datenschutzbeauftragter

Steve Jobs (22. December 2010):

“We removed WikiLeaks because it violated developer guidelines. An app must comply with all local laws. It may not put an individual or target group in harms way.”

– What local laws does Wikileaks violate?

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

25 years ago Apple promised to its customers that “1984 won’t be like 1984”. – This is beyond sarcasm!