Henry Edward Hardy @hhardy01@mastodon.social
NIC Handle: HEH
hhardy@pm.me
Orange warbler tweet
Sly buffoon prevaricates
While Putin prevails
"Anyone who thinks pop and politics shouldn’t mix should steer clear of Roger Waters’ Us + Them tour...There is a flying pig bearing the words “Stay human or die”. There are slogans reading “Pigs rule the world” and “Trump is a pig”. There are surveillance satellites and rendition aeroplanes. During a thrillingly tumultuous Another Brick in the Wall, a multiracial group of local schoolchildren dressed as Guantánamo Bay prisoners sing: “We don’t need no thought control.”"
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jul/04/roger-waters-review-us-them-tour-resistance
Running for re-election while black.
"Janelle Bynum, a state representative from Oregon who is black, said she was going door-to-door to talk with constituents when one of those constituents called the police on her, thinking her actions were "suspicious."
Bynum is running for reelection in November, and posted about the experience to Facebook on Tuesday."
"Parliament instead left to MPs the job of choosing what to do with the referendum, which government ministers made clear was “advisory”.... it is beyond sensible doubt that there is no proper mandate to leave the EU. The notes to the Venice Commission on referendums, to which the UK is a signatory, says “if the cap on spending is exceeded by a significant margin, the vote must be annulled”.
"We are appalled by what we witness unfolding each day – essentially, the destruction of the American way of life by its own administration – but we’re also inescapably gripped by it."
"What decline of civilization might the Dersh be referring to when he warns of a new “McCarthyism” in our midst?
People on Martha’s Vineyard aren’t inviting him to dinner parties anymore. Or even cocktail parties...and people are saying mean things about him. He’s been “shunned,” he says, for having defended the ”civil liberties” of the Commander-in-Chief."
https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2018/07/03/alan-dershowitz-violin/
Venceremos
Venceremos, venceremos,
Mil cadenas habra que romper,
Venceremos, venceremos,
La miseria (al fascismo) sabremos vencer.
Campesinos, soldados, mineros,
La mujer de la patria tambien,
Estudiantes, empleados why obreros,
Cumpliremos con nuestro deber.
Sembraremos las tierras de gloria,
Socialista sera el porvenir,
Todos juntos haremos la historia,
A cumplir, a cumplir, a cumplir.
Venceremos
"A judge in Chile has found eight retired soldiers guilty of the 1973 murder of popular folk singer Victor Jara...
Victor Jara was arrested the day after the military coup led by Gen Augusto Pinochet and taken to a sports stadium in Santiago, where he was tortured in front of other prisoners.
His body was found days later, riddled with bullets.
Soldiers had crushed his fingers, telling him he would never be able to play his guitar again."
"Woman climbs Statue of Liberty in Fourth of July protest
Woman staging apparent protest against Trump administration immigration policies is apprehended by police after two-hour standoff"
"“You thereby gave Trump an opportunity to use you and your positions in his own defense, to wave you like his pom-pom. How unfortunate for all of us,” wrote Teller, a partner in a Beverly Hills law firm. “You defended and gave cover to this president who relentlessly disrupts and destroys all that we value and causes massive and lasting damage to our political system, our courts, our standing in the world, the environment and more. In all of that you are complicit.”"
The behind-the-scenes story from the woman who coined the term open source software, which has been in our vernacular for 20 years. Hat tip to @normnz@twitter.com. https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-source-software?sc_cid=70160000001273HAAQ
"Hausdurchsuchungen bei Netzaktivisten
Chaos Computer Club kritisiert Vorgehen der Polizei
Polizisten haben Vereinsräume und Wohnungen von Netzaktivisten durchsucht. Die Betroffenen gelten nur als Zeugen, trotzdem wurden Dokumente und Technik beschlagnahmt. Das wirft Fragen der Verhältnismäßigkeit auf."
"Bartl said the police justified the raids over a tenuous link between Zwiebelfreunde, Riseup, and the blog. He says that the only other "connection" is that he lives in the city where the convention took place.
"We have nothing to do with the blog they were after," said Bartl. "We don't have anything to do with Riseup's email infrastructure.""
https://www.zdnet.com/article/german-police-raid-homes-of-tor-linked-groups-board-members/
As a partner organisation of @torservers, we are appalled by the raids at Zwiebelfreunde e.V. and CCC Augsburg.
Raiding houses of witnesses on a flimsy pretext is incompatible with the rule of law – even more so in this case where there is no credible connection between the so-called witnesses and the case.
We suspect that the real motives of the Munich public prosecutor are intimidation and illegal information gathering about freedom activists.
https://blog.torservers.net/20180704/coordinated-raids-of-zwiebelfreunde-at-various-locations-in-germany.html
Instead they're going for the AI moderation approach. That will fail and the end result will be a very over-moderated system in which it's ok to share your latest cat photos but if you start talking about politics those posts won't be seen on other timelines.
Seems like god/dess has possibly sent a cat to me.
I've been hearing this one doing the kitten mewl ever so often at night and today she ran right into my house and flopped down in my kitchen. She made slightly more of a I need something meow so I put some water out on the stoop cause it was 93 F/34C today. Now shes flopped down in 'pet me' mode right in front of my door.
lol.
Resistance to authority isn't just something where you go to a protest, carry a sign, shout some slogans, and go home and virtue signal to your friends on social media. That's a start but right now liberal democracy is on the edge of a precipice. I know crony capitalism with a human face sucks, but Fascism with a black helmet and riot gear is ever so much worse.
Get Up, Stand Up
Stand Up for your Rights
Never Give Up, Never Give In
We, the People.
"At least six protesters have been arrested after hanging a banner from the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty emblazoned with a message about abolishing the US immigration enforcement agency, and another person has scaled the statue’s base.
Visitors were being evacuated from Liberty Island on Wednesday afternoon.
National Park Service spokesman Jerry Willis said park police were at the top of the base, advising the climber to go down."
"Occupy Ice protests have spread across the US, with new occupations and encampments growing outside federal immigration facilities in San Francisco and Philadelphia this week.
The demonstrations against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) are escalating as progressive activists and some Democrats are calling for the abolition of the federal agency carrying out the Trump administration’s xenophobic agenda and widely condemned deportation machine."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/03/occupy-ice-protests-immigration-families
