Mike 03
Mike 03's JournalI received a personal reply from someone in Prime Minister Ardern's office (New Zealand)
I'm posting this because I've written hundreds and hundreds of emails to U.S. politicians over the last four years and only received automated replies every single time, often not even relevant to what I wrote about. I just melted when I received this, short as it is, because it was a response to a heartfelt thank you I wrote to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern after reading on DU that she had reached out to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to help us with COVID-19. I was incredibly grateful to be part of the world again.
It just blows my mind that someone in her office would take the time to respond to some nobody in the United States, whereas my own representatives can't be troubled to respond to my emails. Why can't we do better? Maybe this will change under Joe and Kamala.
On behalf of the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, many thanks for your kind
email.
I will certainly bring your email to Jacinda's attention - I know she will
appreciate reading your comments.
Kind regards, and stay safe in ######, Arizona.
Alec McLean
Office of Prime Minister
New Zealand
Authorised by Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern MP, Parliament Buildings Wellington 6160
More on the Parler Hack. (Miscellaneous chaos)
Parler has been compromised. DM's as well as SSN's and other ID leaked (twitter.com/kevinabosch)
4 points by fooey 37 minutes ago | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments
fooey 36 minutes ago [–]
Here's an additional source with an ENV dump
https://twitter.com/CopingMAGA/status/1331362619396149251
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slondr 21 minutes ago [–]
Am I missing something? I don't see anything about SSNs here
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newacct583 10 minutes ago [–]
Someone posted a link to a Parler influencer agreement document which said they would ask for things like government IDs. It's entirely unclear if they ever took that data or if was available via this database. But... yeah, this is the whole Parler site it looks like.
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ev1 25 minutes ago. [–]
Why in the absolute fuck is Parler requesting any form of PII/PCI data?
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fooey 22 minutes ago. [–]
For "Verified" accounts
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25203846
https://twitter.com/CopingMAGA/status/1331362619396149251
Text: BREAKING: There was just a #parlerhack, this was publicly available and unencrypted on their public API endpoint. Not sure what they've changed yet, although expect a ton of data shortly, we will post updates. #ParlerLeaks
Link to something called an ENV Dump (DU computer and tech experts needed here!)
https://archive.ph/Mll5H
Sample from the ENV Dump:
# Database Configuration
define( 'DB_NAME', 'wp_parler' );
define( 'DB_USER', 'parler' );
define( 'DB_PASSWORD', 'hIP9PEV6u1GXfG4F8jEA' );
define( 'DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1' );
define( 'DB_HOST_SLAVE', '127.0.0.1' );
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
define('DB_COLLATE', '');
$table_prefix = 'wp_';
# Security Salts, Keys, Etc
define('AUTH_KEY', '@,*9_voP3sKC3z&&P}[(-h2#UOM_0]*[02%]MW:h7}L,G.IN1j@bKY0ohOqH');
define('NONCE_KEY', 'E@V!WK#Z0h%ZRs5dRg?7!orCFbGAUWLXxf3|:55g(++`$CQVc53n7]U}}]ck5{;l');
define('AUTH_SALT', '+!5MfxQ7]x >FNiuS|/c:nX yG=ksoW)+jZbgjogXQar)*,&HY>{|*v8pBA;$|-w');
define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', '+bq>0u,c^1#[7l1#|R+7-[;$iw>3sQ@N|^l>x7-eci(>}');
# Localized Language Stuff
define( 'WP_CACHE', TRUE );
define( 'WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE', false );
define( 'PWP_NAME', 'parler' );
define( 'FS_METHOD', 'direct' );
define( 'FS_CHMOD_DIR', 0775 );
define( 'FS_CHMOD_FILE', 0664 );
define( 'PWP_ROOT_DIR', '/nas/wp' );
define( 'WPE_APIKEY', 'a1495db2888c2a21d556a9d9d0617935fbb5be57' );
define( 'WPE_CLUSTER_ID', '151738' );
define( 'WPE_CLUSTER_TYPE', 'pod' );
define( 'WPE_ISP', true );
define( 'WPE_BPOD', false );
define( 'WPE_RO_FILESYSTEM', false );
define( 'WPE_LARGEFS_BUCKET', 'largefs.wpengine' );
"Globalism" -- I think you mean globalization
Globalism is a conspiracy theory. Globalization is a real thing.
This seems to me to be a false tautology, or a faulty premise. We need bilateralism to tackle some of the most serious problems of our time, like climate and the rise of anti-democratic parties and organizations, and national security and to fight back encroachments by Russia and China.
Will the people who voted for Trump find value in those objectives? I doubt it. Will they get richer? Will they be able to buy more beer? What does it mean that they "benefit" from our cooperation with our allies? If we avoid WW III, is that in their best interest? Will they notice that we avoided catastrophe, and thank Joe Biden for that? Nope.
But we have to pursue those goals because it's a moral imperative.
I could go on and on, splitting hairs and taking apart the premise of that article, but that's enough.
This really isn't unique to Trump. Any time an autocrat is pushed out of
power, or suffers a humiliation, and someone who respects Democracy assumes power, anything that person does will be seen as an offensive erasure of what the strongman accomplished.
This is really a global issue where anti-democracy parties and powers are gaining in numbers. Look at the shit Angela Merkel has had to put up with in Germany since 2015. It's even a problem in Australia.
The usual suspects, like the Alt Right, Christian Nationalists, racists, will be unhappy.
President Obama actually gave the Christian Right some of the things they demanded and they still despised him (Source: Unholy by Sarah Posner). Biden should not do anything to try to appease these assholes.
They are probably sympathetic because they are dealing with the same
monster of Democracy-threatening populism right there in the EU (i.e., Hungary, Poland, far right resurgences in Germany, Italy, France, Matteo Salvini, Berlusconi, Nigel Farage, etc...). We really need each other right now, to figure out some strategy to beat these dictators back. They also have Russia, Turkey, Georgia and Moldova breathing down their necks.
They are all-too-familiar with what we are facing.
If any one feels like writing to her to express whatever it is
you wish to express, here is her email. Gratitude just poured out of me.
j.ardern@ministers.govt.nz
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/minister/rt-hon-jacinda-ardern
I think most Americans have been yearning for this kind
of connection again, and a spirit of cooperation, with some of the most respected leaders and their nations.
My mom spoke with one of our beloved Canadian relatives yesterday for the first time in a long time and she had a little bit of her self-respect back.
Soon, we'll be the nation reaching out to others once again!
Brilliant post!
That word rang a bell from some recent reading I've been doing. This came up when I googled it:
Götterdämmerung ended with Hitler and what remained of his entourage planning the rescue of Berlin. Hitler dreamed up imaginary armies that would fight the Soviet forces to the end. It was clear to many that Hitler had lost all sense of reality but such was his power over those at the top of the Nazi Party that no one challenged him. In his book about the last days of Hitler, Hugh Trevor-Roper described the world Hitler lived in as “cloud cuckoo-land”. Some of his orders bordered on the bizarre. He told his senior army officers that any of them who held back from the fight against the USSR would pay with their life within five hours of receiving the order to attack. On April 22ndhe accused his senior army officers of cowardice and told them that they were traitors to Nazi Germany. However, Hitler adopted the poise of one of Richard Wagner’s heroes:
https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/nazi-germany/gotterdammerung/
What about some of these fish and animal related changes:
Lifting protections on wolves
Allowing hunters to shoot bear cubs and wolf pups in their dens
Changes in fishing regulations allowing long-banned long-line fishing techniques that endanger other species?
Opening that ocean and bird preserve in the north east to fishing?
Allowing the use of small explosive devices to kill some animals in certain states?
Didn't Trump open up some national reserves to hunting?
Did anything come of Pebble Mine?
Drilling in ANWR?
The huge pristine forest in Alaska: wasn't part of it open to logging?
Destruction of a national monument in Arizona to build the wall?
I read, and then never heard of this story again: NAVY asking for permission to use some kind of device in the pacific northwest that might result in killing Orcas, and obtaining a permit that allowed them to kill a certain number in the course of doing whatever experiments they were doing?
I hope NONE of these disgusting things happen(end), but those made big news at the time they were announced.
You can count the number of Republicans who are not ass-kissing whores on
the fingers of one hand, even if you'd lost three fingers in chainsaw accident.
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