Socialist "Paradise" Venezuela Runs Out of Toilet Paper

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-17/venezuela-runs-out-toilet-paper
They're blaming it on the Venezuela equivalent of the Republicans, even though the socialists are still in charge. 

(Seems typical, doesn't it?  We're getting a lot of that here too in the US.  People in charge pretending they aren't responsible.  They still need to leave office if they're that unaware of things being done in their name.  In other words, s**t or get off the pot.)

So, back to your own s**t, one of the things you can buy extra if you are prepping is toilet paper.  It keeps pretty much indefinitely, you can insulate with it by stacking it up against the wall, you can turn it into cushions or whatever, if you're going to stack it that high and deep.

If you run out of toilet paper, what can you do?  Get a pile of rags and a bucket of soapy bleach water with a lid, when done wiping, put the used rag in the bucket, and then you'll have to do laundry at least once a day.  Like having cloth diapers for your baby.  (One hopes one doesn't run out of water, bleach, and toilet paper simultaneously.)

Names of Cops Who Beat David Dal Silva To Death While He Begged For His Life for 8 Minutes

Deputies Ryan Greer

 Tanner Miller

 Jeffrey Kelly

 Luis Almanza

 Brian Brock

David Stephens 

and

Sgt. Douglas Sword

Six Kern County sheriff's deputies and a sergeant, who last week were involved in a violent confrontation with a man who was struck numerous times with batons before he died, have returned to their regular jobs, officials said Tuesday.

David Sal Silva, 33, a father of four, was pronounced dead  Wednesday less than an hour after eyewitnesses reported seeing several deputies repeatedly strike the man in the head with batons as he lay on the pavement.

This is an excerpt from http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2013/05/names-of-police-who-beat-father-to-death.html

So Much For Sweet Lil' Dzokhar

http://www.cryptogon.com/?p=35180
According to this "leak", Dzokhar Tsarnaev scrawled a "manifesto suicide note" with a marker on the inside of the boat he was hiding in.  Not sure why it wasn't visible in the pictures of the police escorting him out of the boat, maybe it was on the other side the camera couldn't see.

Anyway, if he actually did write it, the article says it said his excuse for the bombing was to reciprocate "collateral damage" from the wars in the Middle East.

Maybe that'll stop all the teenage girls from crushing on this little punk.  But maybe not.  They crush on fictitious vampires, this is the real thing.

Documentary Filmmaker Also Gets IRS Harassment

http://www.trevorloudon.com/2013/05/a-filmmaker-on-obamas-enemies-list/

The maker of the film "Dreams From My Real Father" that questions Obama's paternity, claiming he's really the son of an American Communist poet, had his financial records hacked into, and a Soros-backed journalist has been hounding his donors, posing as someone's old friend to get their elderly mother to give a private phone number, posing as a Romney fundraiser, etc.

Then the IRS opened his tax return from 3 years ago and denied all his business expenses even though they were well documented.

There is so much of this that it could only be a conspiracy to use the IRS to harass political enemies of Obama and infringe on the First Amendment.  I think even more people could come out of the woodwork as the week wears on and say they've been targeted by the IRS.

In the same vein, blogger Ann Barnhardt is starting to wonder if she wasn't audited by the IRS because she publicly burned a Koran 6 weeks prior to that.  There's no way to know on a case by case basis, unless someone finds a smoking gun piece of evidence, but the admission of the IRS to harassment of Tea Party and pro-Constitution groups and the emergence of other harassment cases point to a disturbing trend.

The officials at the IRS who went along with this should be prosecuted.  The people who told the IRS to do this should also be prosecuted.

We seriously need to clean house in Washington.  It can't wait till the next election.  People need to be put behind bars, and now.

Unconstitutional Federal Campus Anti Harassment Speech Policy Will Oppress Everyone

http://thefire.org/article/15767.html

This is the same crap they are doing in the UK already.  This is a policy that makes it so any oversensitive or vindictive person can accuse someone else of "verbal sexual harassment" and ruin their life.

Ask some girl for a date, she gets offended, you get thrown out of college or in jail.  Have some neurotic person with an entitlement chip on their shoulder think you looked at them funny, same thing.  Say anything that someone decides to find "offensive", no matter how innocuous a normal person would think it was, same thing.

Be political, get labeled as a "sex offender".  That's what this really is about.  It's about the suppression of free speech and dissent of any kind.  It's about making young people so scared of their own shadows that they STFU and grovel to make sure they won't get their lives ruined in college.  It's about slapping a label on the politically "incorrect" that takes away their rights.

This is the new "Terrorist" label, because calling Libertarians "Terrorists" to shut them up is a dog that won't hunt.  Most Libertarians are older and figure they've lived their lives and have nothing to lose if they spend the rest of it fighting tyranny.  This is a way to scoop up the young ones, who have a future to lose, and don't have a lot of money for lawyers; and train them to be good sheep.

This policy is not going to solve harassment.  Anyone who wants to harass people for personal reasons is now going to use the state as a club to beat people with, Stasi-style.

Microsoft Spying on https Connections

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Skype-with-care-Microsoft-is-reading-everything-you-write-1862870.html

According to this, it looks like Microsoft is spying on people who use Skype or other https URL's.  It says they're not bothering with ordinary http URL's. 

Https is supposed to be more secure.  Have we been duped into pointing out our more sensitive communications for the spies to focus on, or is this article itself disinfo designed to scare us into using a less secure connection?

The only remedy I can see is, don't communicate or store any data by electronic means, especially internet and phones, that you don't want to be exposed some day or used against you.  This could include even typing something into a computer that is not on the Internet, although that is a good bit safer.  You can also encrypt that data before transferring it to a device that is hooked up to the world, but don't assume you're safe if you do that.

Cryptography is sort of like a refrigerator - A fridge might keep the lunchmeat fresher for a while, but eventually bacteria catches up with it anyway.  A refrigerator is useful, but it won't protect your lunch forever.  Crypto is useful, but it won't protect your data forever.  Eventually someone will invent machines that are fast enough to crack your code, or they'll drug and beat you till you reveal the password if it's important enough to them. 

Data that has an expiration date of its usefulness is the best kind of data to encrypt.  By the time they decrypt it it'll be useless anyway, at least you hope.  Data that could hurt you years later, or hurt other people, don't even put it on a device.

We're lunched.

Lends Another Meaning to Juicing

http://www.thesurvivaldoctor.com/2013/05/15/soreness-after-exercise
Rather than "juicing" i.e. the use of steroids, this doctor found a study suggesting that drinking cherry juice reduces inflammation including exercise soreness.

I wonder if there are other berries that do the same?