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Re: British Prime Minister Suggests Banning Some Online Messaging Apps

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I'm surprised to find that this story has hit me pretty hard emotionally. The stuff Cameron and Theresa May are saying these days is really quite extreme. I feel totally abandoned by politics and genuinely, deeply frightened about the direction our legislature is headed. Is this a part of growing up? The mainstream is so far away from my own views that I don't have any voice. I'm really starting to see why a lot of l…

No, you just feel abandoned in general, and attribute it to politics because human brains are prone to seeing patterns and causation even where none exist. Get a dog. Volunteer at a soup kitchen. Don't stay cooped up reading online news forums all day.

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I wonder if I were to locally encrypt a message using AES and then send it via email to a friend, using a pre-shared key, whether I would be breaking the law or not, in Cameron's Brave New World? If the answer is yes, then how about the Vigenere cipher? The Caesar Cipher? 1337 speak? Writing my message backwards? Making spelling mistakes?

You just need to give GCHQ a copy of the key.

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Honestly, why do people think that a terrorist attack like this requires any dramatic changes to society? The fact is that some guys got guns and shot up a building, in the name of a currently popular, violent ideology. When will we ever be able to completely eradicate this? The number of people killed per year in the Western world due to terrorist attacks is incredibly low. Perhaps we don't need a routing of our sec…

Because people are absolutely terrible at rationally evaluating risk. Consider people who are terrified of flying, but think nothing of texting while driving. That's (if slightly exaggerated) a pretty representative example of the general human calculus of risk. The big, scary, but terrifically unlikely event factors more significantly into our fears than the prosaic, equally deadly, but vastly more likely one.

In general, people correctly evaluate risk. The only situations that are completely modeled with a naive expected value are ones that are too simple to occur in real life. That's why things like the St Petersburg lottery are considered "paradoxes" but are easy to humans to understand using intuition.

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Is this a part of growing up? A bit off topic: Ive asked myself this question in general for the past couple of months. People dying from wars and incidents that happened a couple of days ago makes me anxious, miserable, lost and helpless.Maybe its media amplifying everything, I don't know but its truly unpleasant.

I completely relate to what you're saying, and I'm sure a lot of us here are burdened by the painful feelings you've expressed. Thank you for sharing. I think the primary cause is the 24/7 news cycle bombarding us incessantly with negative and depressing information. It's extremely unpleasant to bear, particularly when you're sensitive or vulnerable to the sufferings of humanity. I've found it's best to take vacation…

Thanks for the reply, I do agree its the negativity everywhere being thrown at us, it really takes a toll on people who really care about these things.

I already do avoid news sites and news papers when possible, thanks for the advice and the extension recommendation

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Quoting Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: > Among these purposes is bringing France back into Washington’s orbit. The French president had recently said that the sanctions against Russia should be terminated. > Hollande was allying himself with French economic interests instead of with Washington’s hegemonic foreign policy. > Another purpose is to stifle the growing European sympathy for the Palestinians and to realign Europe…

Wait, your saying this is a false flag attack by the US to fool the French government. And the US 'pretend' to kill a French policeman and don't expect the French to ever realise a real policeman never died....all this illusion after gunning down a bunch of journalists.... you need some lessons in logical reasoning.

Nowhere did I state the US did this. Nowhere did I state real people didn't die. I unequivocally stated and continue to insist this police officer did not die since was he wasn't so much as grazed by a single bullet.

Show me _any_ video of a loaded AK-47 being fired, even from a _prone position_, wherein zero recoil is exhibited by the weapon. It is simply not credible to claim AK-47s can be fired with zero recoil. That is a patent impossibility unless blanks are fired. At a minimum, if the muzzle of the weapon doesn't rise, then the energy should be transferred into the shoulder of the shooter. The energy from the gunpowder being ignited has to transfer somewhere, unless there was no gunpowder to begin with. It's even more unbelievable to see a Kalashnikov exhibit no recoil while being fired by a running person _mid-stride_.

Think for yourself. Who benefits most from animosity towards radical Muslims.

Watch the raw, uncut video of the supposed police shooting for yourself, right now: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bc6_1420632668

You will see:

- No blood, anywhere on the scene. Zero blood from the policeman "shot" with a 7.62mm round at point blank range.

- No flinching of the policeman "shot" at point blank range.

- Zero recoil exhibited by the Kalashnikov

Cross check this video with any other AK-47 video on Youtube.

View it in slow motion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_c4IUO6h7w

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Quoting Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: > Among these purposes is bringing France back into Washington’s orbit. The French president had recently said that the sanctions against Russia should be terminated. > Hollande was allying himself with French economic interests instead of with Washington’s hegemonic foreign policy. > Another purpose is to stifle the growing European sympathy for the Palestinians and to realign Europe…

Let's be honest with ourselves - there is not one shred of evidence in there. Yes, for the reasons you state, America could have staged a false flag attack. But that's just a list assembled after the fact to suit the narrative the author has already created. "And there can be other purposes not apparent to me." Oh, well, why didn't you say? Wrap this one up as a one and done case, then! It goes without saying that he…

Paul was presenting the information in a politically correct format. The US would never carry out such a cowardly act of state sponsored terror.

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Because shocking attacks get the public's attention. With all eyes on the TV screen, it's the perfect time to introduce public policy changes that strip people of their rights. All the better if I can defend my statements by inciting a sense of nationalism or publicly shared responsibility for preventing future heinous crimes. This is the raw video of the shooting of the French policeman: http://www.liveleak.com/view…

Your theory doesn't make any sense. If this was indeed a false flag, then why would they go through the extra effort to fake the killing of a person?

Minimize casualties, maximize theatrical effect, is the norm for deep events.

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Because shocking attacks get the public's attention. With all eyes on the TV screen, it's the perfect time to introduce public policy changes that strip people of their rights. All the better if I can defend my statements by inciting a sense of nationalism or publicly shared responsibility for preventing future heinous crimes. This is the raw video of the shooting of the French policeman: http://www.liveleak.com/view…

... You don't seem to be a troll based on your profile, so I'm not sure what would cause you to focus on details like the fact that it was a 7.62mm rifle and that you would know what the recoil looks like for various types of rifles. I'm assuming you got fed this idea somewhere else, and went with it. Either way I'd urge you to really try and re-evaluate from a neutral standpoint and see if it genuinely seems probabl…

Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War. He is a disabled veteran and has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades [1].

> In a video published on Liveleak, a close range “execution style” shows no blast effect or blood, from a weapon capable of devastating effect. (See YouTube demonstration of AK47 effect [2])

> Ballistics experts consulted today describe videos of the French attack as “staged theatrical events.” Other than the suspicious HD video, experts have already noted that, without coming close to “conspiracy theory” dot-connecting, the weapons eject no shell casings, bullets supposedly hit concrete with no effect whatsoever, even from “point blank” range.

> You see, the AK47 round, 7.62×39 is not only very powerful but typically has a steel core for penetrating body armour. When hitting concrete, an AK round throws up large chunks of debris, unseen in this event.

> Preliminary analysis of the audio as well demonstrates a frequency indicating the subsonic report of a blank round. In an “urban canyon,” a supersonic round from an assault rifle creates a noticeable high frequency “crack” with a secondary “report” or echo, generally described as “crack-pop.”

> It has taken only a few hours for press outlets to question perfectly timed HD video from a seemingly fearless bystander who is witnessing actors firing blanks incapable of operating the ejection system of a weapon, imaginary bullets that leave concrete pristine and blood free.

1. http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/01/15/neo-paris-terror-the...

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLB36UxWD0M

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