Re Chelsea Manning on the far right, state surveillance and their lessons for Australia | US news | The Guardian

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Joly MacFie <joly.nyc () gmail com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Chelsea Manning on the far right, state surveillance and their lessons for Australia | US news | 
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> Date: August 9, 2018 15:22:45 JST
> To: dave <dave () farber net>
> Cc: ip <ip () listbox com>
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> Hi Dave 
> I just streamed Chelsea from HOPE in NYC
> https://livestream.com/internetsociety/hope/videos/178076615 
> <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/hope/videos/178076615>
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> One remark she made particularly struck me, as I heard the same practically word-for-word from you at NYU last Nov.
>
> She warned that quantum computing can and will easily defeat most current forms of encryption, so we'd better put our 
> thinking caps on, and come up with something better!
>
> joly
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> On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 10:17 PM, Dave Farber <farber () gmail com <mailto:farber () gmail com>> wrote:
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> > https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/08/chelsea-manning-on-the-far-right-state-surveillance-and-their-lessons-for-australia
> >  
> > <https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/08/chelsea-manning-on-the-far-right-state-surveillance-and-their-lessons-for-australia>
> >
> > Chelsea Manning on the far right, state surveillance and their lessons for Australia
> >
> > Manning says Donald Trump is not an aberration but the inevitable conclusion of the US political system
> >
> > Wed 8 Aug 2018
> > aThough she is best known for her role in leaking state secrets, Chelsea Manning is more engaged in what she calls 
> > “regular activism” at the moment, which in today’s America means fighting neo-Nazis.
> >
> > Manning – who is about to make her first trip to Australia in September on a speaking tour – will come to our 
> > shores with warnings about the rise of white nationalism in the United States, the police state and what citizens 
> > should do to fight back.
> >
> > Speaking to Guardian Australia ahead of the trip, Manning said she is organising against the second Unite the Right 
> > rally in Washington DC “where neo-Nazis – they’re barely hiding their affiliation – folks are coming here for a 
> > white civil rights rally, which is the most ridiculous thing in the entire world in my opinion.
> >
> > “They stand as a legitimate threat and they have power.”
> >
> > It is a warning that has resonance in Australia, days after Sky News hosted an interview with the far-right 
> > extremist Blair Cottrell, which they later apologised for and took down.
> >
> > The former US military analyst, who served seven years of a 35-year sentence in military prison after leaking a 
> > vast trove of 700,000 secret documents to WikiLeaks, has already upended the world once and it sounds like, through 
> > activism, she is determined to do it again.
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