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Blatant Localism

If you hand 16 year old skate rats some electric guitars and a drum kit wonderful things happen - you get pure and awesome rock n' roll as only teenagers can play it. There has never been a better example than JFA which came screeching out of the SoCal skate parks in the early 1980's and for a few years tore it up and down the western coast of the USA. Their name - one of the greatest rock band names ever - derived from the crush John Hinckley had on Jodie Foster which compelled him to attempt the assassination of a president. Absolutely preposterous and insane as a theory it still has legs and is reported as truth in our Bigfoot media.


Keep that in mind when you read about the dastardly Russian hackers and their treachery in breaking into the DNC email servers. As someone who's spent years in IT and explored my share of high profile security breaches I can tell you that most (almost all) cyber crimes originate from someone inside the organization that gets compromised. My point is that someone inside the DNC enabled this hack and made the whole thing possible - not the Russians, not Guccifer 2.0 and not Donald Trump.

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