diff --git a/favorite_apps_and_services.md b/favorite_apps_and_services.md index ce41aef..63e9d30 100644 --- a/favorite_apps_and_services.md +++ b/favorite_apps_and_services.md @@ -4,18 +4,17 @@ - Privacy conscious, [end-to-end encrypted (E2EE)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_encryption). - Decentralized, **no reliance** on cloud providers like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Spotify, Netflix Youtube, etc. -- Self-hosted and self-reliant. + - Self-hosted and self-reliant. - Simple files preferred over running services. -- Make sure no sites / services are [US based.](https://www.privacytools.io/#kdl) +- Make sure no sites / services are [US based.](https://www.privacytools.io/providers/#ukusa) ## Media -- Download all music / movies locally, using torrents behind a VPN. ([Don't use Tor for torrenting](https://blog.torproject.org/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-idea)) +- Download all music / movies locally, using torrents, behind a VPN. ([Don't use Tor for torrenting](https://blog.torproject.org/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-idea)) - Use [AirVPN](https://airvpn.org/), [Mullvad](https://mullvad.net/), [NordVPN](https://nordvpn.com/), [ProtonVPN](https://protonvpn.com/) - - Use [qbittorrent](https://www.qbittorrent.org/), [deluge](https://www.deluge-torrent.org/), or [transmission](https://transmissionbt.com/) for a torrent client. - - Use [LibreTorrent](https://github.com/proninyaroslav/libretorrent) on android. + - Use [qbittorrent](https://www.qbittorrent.org/), [deluge](https://www.deluge-torrent.org/), or [transmission](https://transmissionbt.com/) for PC, [LibreTorrent](https://github.com/proninyaroslav/libretorrent) for android. - Use [MPV](https://mpv.io/) or [VLC](https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html), open source media players to play media. -- Use [jellyfin](https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin) or SFTP for streaming to other devices, but torrenting is preferred. +- Use [Jellyfin](https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin) or SFTP for streaming to other devices. - Instead of centralized, hosted youtube alternatives with upload limits, use torrents, and find a platform to post and comment on the magnet links. ## Documents and Coding @@ -31,11 +30,11 @@ - Use a [todo.txt](http://todotxt.org/) file for a personal task list, synced with syncthing. - [QTodoTxt](http://qtodotxt.org/) as a desktop client, [todo.txt-vim](https://github.com/freitass/todo.txt-vim), [Simpletask Cloudless](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.mpcjanssen.simpletask&hl=en_US) for Android. -- For shared task lists, use [Etherpad](http://etherpad.org/), or [CodiMD](https://github.com/hackmdio/codimd). +- For shared task lists, use [CodiMD](https://github.com/hackmdio/codimd). ## Collaboration -- Use [Etherpad](http://etherpad.org/), or [CodiMD](https://github.com/hackmdio/codimd). +- Use [CodiMD](https://github.com/hackmdio/codimd). ## Browsing @@ -49,7 +48,7 @@ ## Passwords -- Use [KeePassXC](https://keepassxc.org/). +- Use [KeePassXC](https://keepassxc.org/) for PC, [KeePassDX](https://www.keepassdx.com/) for android. - Install the Firefox KeePassXC plugin. - Use a long master pass phrase, with at least 10 words. - Sync your password file everywhere you need using Syncthing. @@ -70,10 +69,13 @@ - Facebook : [Friendica](https://friendi.ca/) - Reddit : [Lemmy (made by me)](https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy), [PostMill](https://gitlab.com/edgyemma/Postmill), or [Lobste.rs](https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters) - Medium : [Plume](https://github.com/Plume-org/Plume), [WriteFreely](https://github.com/writeas/writefreely) -- YouTube : Torrents, or [peertube](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube). +- YouTube : Torrents, or [Peertube](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube). - Instagram : [Pixelfed ](https://pixelfed.org/) ## Operating system - Use Linux. I like Arch Linux. +## Links + +- [PrivacyTools.io](https://www.privacytools.io/) diff --git a/socialism_faq.md b/socialism_faq.md index 8f9ec36..812505e 100644 --- a/socialism_faq.md +++ b/socialism_faq.md @@ -677,6 +677,7 @@ - [George Padmore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Padmore), Trinidadian journalist and anti-imperialist campaigner. - His books Animal Farm and 1984 are used widely as anti-communist propaganda in schools in the US and UK. So much so that [his animated animal farm film was funded by the CIA](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/how-cia-brought-animal-farm-to-the-screen/). There's a reason they teach George Orwell in schools and not Franz Fanon, Che, Huey P Newton, Malcolm X, Lenin, CLR James, etc. - [Orwell, anti-communist: A criticism of Orwell and his Work - By Isaac Asimov.](http://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm) +- [Rainer Shea - Orwells 1984 - Anti-communist propaganda.](https://medium.com/@rainershea612/orwells-1984-is-a-deeply-paranoid-piece-of-anti-communist-propaganda-15a741c85d9a) - [Orwell worked as a British imperial cop in Burma for 5 years](http://factsanddetails.com/southeast-asia/Myanmar/sub5_5e/entry-3083.html). His short story, [Shooting an Elephant](http://www.denisedrespling.com/review-shooting-elephant-george-orwell/), uses ethnic slurs and denigrates burmese people. - [A reddit thread on George Orwell](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/797lnl/as_a_communist_how_do_you_feel_the_works_of/), [Thread #2](https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/7dhx99/for_those_on_the_right_who_think_orwell_wrote/dpy4zik/). @@ -745,6 +746,7 @@ - [Wants a "green" US military.](https://i.imgur.com/IRjlHxl.jpg) - [Copies Sanders program of full student debt cancelation, adds eligibility requirements.](https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/23/politics/elizabeth-warren-cancel-student-debt-bill/) - [Marked herself as "American Indian" for 6 years during her professorship at Harvard Law school, makes unverified claims of Cherokee ancestry, despite her family tree consisting of those who dispossessed Cherokees, and growing up in a wealthy white household. Uses her "Cherokee heritage" as political points in campaign speeches and political ads, greatly angering native american groups. Called for the arrest of Greg Grey Cloud, a Crow Creek Sioux activist protesting the Keystone XL pipeline from the Senate gallery.](https://twitter.com/AlytaDeLeon/status/1178019629102505986) [2](https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5d5ed7e6e4b0dfcbd48a1b01/amp), [3](https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/opinion/the-white-supremacy-of-elizabeth-warren-q6pZPvG4_0WIwiv__VU_bQ/) +- [Defends the US assasination of Iranian General Soleimani, calls him a terrorist.](https://twitter.com/KumarsSalehi/status/1214610934716665861?s=20) ### Kamala Harris diff --git a/us_atrocities.md b/us_atrocities.md index 416207c..fa37d61 100644 --- a/us_atrocities.md +++ b/us_atrocities.md @@ -269,6 +269,7 @@ Notes : - In 1979, Los Angeles police shot and killed [Eulia Love](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Eulia_Love) over a disputed gas bill. LA police had a notorious reputation for using violence in black, brown, and gay communities. The police chief in a press conference later corrected the amount of the bill, after a reporter quoted an incorrect amount for the bill. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Eulia_Love)> - In 1978, the police were involved in shootout with [MOVE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE), a black power commune in Philadelphia, after attempting to evict them. The 9 surviving members (called the MOVE 9, including Charles Sims Africa) were given 100 year long sentences, 7 of which are still currently in prison. - Between 1932 and 1972, the US public health service secretly infected ~200 black men with syphilis, under the guise of receiving free health care, in the [Tuskegee syphilis experiment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment). None of the men infected were ever told they had the disease (told instead they had "bad blood"), and none were treated with [penicillin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillin) even after the antibiotic became proven for the treatment of syphilis in 1947. By the end of the study in 1972, only 74 of the test subjects were alive. Of the original 399 men, 28 had died of syphilis, 100 were dead of related complications, 40 of their wives had been infected, and 19 of their children were born with [congenital syphilis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_syphilis). [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment) +- Between the 1950s and the 1970s, predatory contracts called "home sale contracts" were given to 75% of the 60k homes purchased by black Chicaogans. These "home sale contracts" allowed the seller to hold the property until the buyer paid off the entire mortgage. This meant that no equity was accrued by the buyer and the owners could kick the buyers out if a single monthly payment was missed. Black contract buyers in Chicago payed an average of $71k more than they would have through a conventional non-predatory mortgage. In total, between $3.2B and $4B were [expropriated from Chicago's black community](https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/5/30/18644165/chicago-redlining-racism-real-estate-contract-rent-mortgages-black-homeownership-racial-wealth-gap). - In 1969, the FBI in collaboration with chicago police, murdered an influential black panther organizer, [Fred Hampton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton#1969_raid_and_assassination), when he was 21 years old. An FBI informant drugged him in the evening, then agents broke into the apartment, killing another, and firing into the room where Hampton and his pregnant girlfriend slept. The FBI targeted him as being a potential "Black Messiah", as Hampton was organizing poor blacks, whites, Latinos, and Native Americans in Chicago with the [Rainbow Coalition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Coalition_(Fred_Hampton)), to fight the repressive police brutality under mayor Daley. After a break-in at an FBI office in Pennsylvania, the existence of [COINTELPRO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO), an illegal counter-intelligence program, was brought to light. One of the documents that was released after the break-in was a floor plan of Hampton's apartment. Another document outlined a deal the FBI brokered with the deputy attorney general to conceal the FBI's role in the assassination of Hampton and the existence of COINTELPRO. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton#1969_raid_and_assassination) - Starting in 1967, The [Black Panther Party](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party), a revolutionary black socialist group, became the [target of FBI's COINTELPRO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party#COINTELPRO). Hoover deemed the Panther's free breakfast program (which served food for 10,000 children daily at its height), and its free medical care programs, as a dangerous threat to the US. Local police forces, aided by the FBI, were involved with multiple break-ins of panther headquarters, shoot-outs, the arrests, imprisonment, or murder of nearly every high-ranking member, and achieved its systematic destruction by 1980. A faithful account of its history is in founder [Huey P. Newton's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_p_newton) autobiography [Revolutionary Suicide](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Suicide), and the history [Black against Empire](https://www.amazon.com/Black-against-Empire-Politics-Foundation/dp/0520293282/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485890722&sr=8-1&keywords=black+against+empire). [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party) - In 1967, a nationwide series of riots broke out in the black ghettos of the US, involving young blacks revolting against the white-supremacist power structure. In the [1967 Detroit Riot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Detroit_riot), Lyndon Johnson brought in the Michigan National guard to put down the revolt. The result was 43 dead, 1,189 injured, over 7,200 arrests, and more than 2,000 buildings destroyed. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Detroit_riot)