gh0stpinballa posted:

i got another book for "y'all", part of my research, it is called the dirty war by martin dillon. it concerns the troubles and how MI5 dealt w the IRA. as i said before, gladio was an invention of the british and somehow the CIA took sole credit/blame for it. anyway have a read about this guy and the kincara boys home and tell me you don't get crack ping epstein dutroux vibes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Wallace

gh0stpinballa posted:

wow that andrew WK article is incredible. what are some good philosophers who talk about identity, reality, simulation etc, i am a novice but that article makes me feel like i need to expand my philosophical understanding to really grapple w the syndikkkate.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

DARPA has always been evil, but the covid detector they developed is more of a mood ring than a microchip.

gradenko_2000 posted:

Charles Lieber was arrested in January 2020 in connection with work he was doing in Wuhan for George Church and Martin Nowak, geneticists who received 6.5 million USD from Jeffrey Epstein as a grant to the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, whose research topics included virus dynamics

nut posted:

lol at the blind faith in private interests 2 save us, but lmao @ the pivot at the end of this quote

DOMELORD420 posted:

I see what you're saying, but it's more likely someone just sent him information rather than him being a hyper genius info hacker. the guy was a nutjob crypto millionaire, not Neo.

Marzzle posted:

at a time you could hack whatever with just a web browser and a knowledge of SQL

BattleMaster posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9ywgxbGEZ8

rip you crazy bastard

Pablo Nergigante posted:

John McULTRA

Perry Mason Jar posted:

That is not the exclusive use of synchronicity in Jungian theory. Also Jung was definitely wrong about it being a cause of symptoms - it's a feature (pattern recognition and meaning-significance-attachment) of psychosis writ large.

nut posted:

can’t u guys just keep talking about it here?

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

use image tags. Like, your embedded link automatically gets [url] tags added to them. Just use [img] tags instead.

Just use the edit button on your post to see what I mean and how it works. You can click on the BBcode link at the side of your posting window to see all the codes you can use too.

Harry Potter on Ice posted:

Right click the picture on imgur, open in new tab, copy the pictures url, paste to SA post window, click preview reply instead of submit reply, it will automatically add [url] tags to the front and the back of the link, delete both the front [url]https:// and the back [/url] to say [timg] and [/timg] instead

Lol very straightforward

Mola Yam posted:

domestic laddie-o

multistability posted:

I don't really understand computer security, antivirus software, PROMIS, or anything at all really, so please take this with a massive pinch of salt:

https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1137777348919681024?s=19

I'm thinking about this tweet, specifically in reference to the 31 terabytes of "files on corruption in governments" he claims to have collected. Wasn't McAfee one of the first antivirus guys? Like this is just me completely speculating, but is it possible that he was using his antivirus software to harvest a fuckload of data from (influential / powerful / rich) people's computers before most laymen had any real idea about how computer security really worked?

Basically, could this have been some kind of PROMIS/Inslaw type thing? And was that tweet a threat, and could the release of these files be a deadman's switch? I can't stop thinking about Epstein, Maxwell, PROMIS etc. in relation to all of this, I don't know why...

Stevie Lee posted:

Azathoth posted:

The problem with the McAfee software doing that kind of thing over that kind of a timescale is that it's hard to keep that kind of thing from being noticed, either by someone internally looking over code or by someone externally looking at how said software functions.

It's the kind of thing that, if it were happening, would be periodically discovered by programmers, software testers, and independent security researchers (who absolutely look at popular antivirus software for vulnerability and other shenanigans), along with needing to be known by internal teams so they didn't break the functionality, and by a sufficiently high level of management that no one questions the resources necessary to maintain that functionality.

The only way such a level of secrecy would be possible is if the entire company is in on it, and had government backing to keep outside researchers quiet. Basically, the reverse, saying that a popular antivirus is actually developed and run by an intelligence agency front company, for this sole purpose.

That I could buy as theoretically possible, though even then, we have real world examples of very targeted and well hidden software written by intelligence agencies being discovered, though granted it did take years.

It seems far more likely to me that McAfee, if he has anything at all, obtained it from leakers who became connected to him because of his well-known anti-government views.

I just don't see how McAfee could have exerted the kind of influence necessary to keep an implementation like that secret for nearly more than two decades, nor how he could keep independent researchers quiet.

Pipski posted:

dunno where the Express got that from, Sajid Javid is the new Health Sec.

gh0stpinballa posted:

Yeah, I keep going back to it ever now and again. I had never considered the troubles/years of lead point before but now that you mention it...Jesus.

What is the book you're screenshotting there?

Riot Bimbo posted:

I mean that read certainly fits inside

“The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles”

So yeah i guess so. Terrible. Neat.

Mark Fisher, 'Exiting the Vampire Castle’ posted:

"The actual ruling class propagates ideologies of individualism, while tending to act as a class. (Many of what we call ‘conspiracies’ are the ruling class showing class solidarity.)" 

Lobster, issue 1, p. 20 posted:

“[C]onspiracy is merely the traditional behaviour of the … ruling class - only systematised slightly. Instinctively secretive, screened from public scrutiny by its control of the mass media, and from academic investigation by its control of the universities, in a sense the … ruling class is the most successful 'conspiracy' ever seen.”

multistability posted:

It isn't a book, I'm basically just posting quotes from a huge Google docs file I've compiled, mostly pulled from the Lobster magazine, among various other sources

I'm working on an effort post about 'the Troubles-as-UK-Gladio' btw, I should hopefully have it done in the next few days

Delta-Wye posted:

i def didn't read book.jpg, its like 4 words per line, 8 lines per scroll on my desktop pc monitor. text is a p. good way to store & transmit text imho

nomad2020 posted:

Unreviewed machine converted text.

E: oops, that's only one chapter of book.jpg

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

I can thumbnail all those for you real quick if you want me to

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

Done!

Atrocious Joe posted:

"the Provisional IRA was a UK intelligence op" is a conspiracy too far out for me

Lobster, issue 8, p. 39 posted:

[Bernie] Silver, it is said, organised the recruitment of prostitutes who worked in Northern Ireland on behalf of British intelligence.

https://villagemagazine.ie/the-anglo-irish-vice-ring-chapters-4-7/ posted:

Her Majesty’s spies decided they needed eyes and ears in Belfast and Derry to learn what was happening in Loyalist and Nationalist communities. Hence in the early 1970s they organised the establishment of ‘massage’ parlours and a number of brothels in Belfast which were fitted with hidden microphones and 35mm Olympus cameras. The Gemini Health Studio located on the Antrim Road, catered for heterosexual clients while the Gardenia on the Stranmillis Road attracted gay men. The Gemini opened its doors in the summer of 1970 promising “very attractive masseuses’ in advertisements in Belfast newspapers. A more upmarket brothel was located on the Malone Road. The operation was directed from offices in Churchill House, Government Building in Belfast. The objective was to gather information and recruit informers through blackmail.  Bernie Silver, the vice king of Soho, helped set them up. He was flown into Belfast in 1970 and taken in an MoD vehicle to Lisburn where the general objective of the operation was discussed. Over the next ten days he scouted Belfast with bodyguards looking for suitable premises to convert into brothels and massage parlours and advised his intelligence partners how they should be run. On his return to London, Silver set about recruiting prostitutes for the establishment. The girls he selected were warned that they would be taking part in a risky but rewarding enterprise. The impression most of them got was that they would be entertaining British officers. They paid well above the going rates with their money going directly into UK bank accounts. The prostitutes were required to sign the Official Secrets Act and Silver was allowed to keep a large part of the money paid to them. The sparsely decorated Gemini was run by two Catholics who had been recruited by the MRF (a branch of military intelligence), a man and wife. For the sake of appearance, it had a rudimentary gym, sauna, and a solarium, which were rarely if ever used. Most clients headed for the dimly lit corridor flanked by a string of curtained cubicles. Inside there were iron-framed beds, wooden chairs and wardrobes. More significantly, large two-way mirrors were hung on the wall to hide cameras which took pictures of the customers in flagrante delicto. The other establishments were more plush with soft lighting and thick pile carpets. Here, targets waited for the prostitutes in a lounge and were served cocktails or coffee free of charge. All the rooms were fitted with concealed microphones. Conversations were recorded by operators in the attic. The spies also took pictures of various bedrooms, using remote controlled 35mm Olympus cameras. These were fitted with what were then quite sophisticated technology: the cameras had battery-powered motors so that  after the shutter had been fired electrically, it wound the film to the next frame. To cover any sound from the mechanisms, the bedrooms had music piped to them. In March 1971, a masseuse working at the Gemini managed to get a Belfast SDLP councillor to reveal the names of the IRA men who had murdered three young Royal Highland Fusiliers. The identities of those apparently responsible were known inside the Catholic community but it had not yet been penetrated by British informers, at least not to any appreciable extent.