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Posts tagged 'Big Brother'
Police State, Part 4 – Keystone Kops and Big Brother
Contemporary police are increasingly an armed gang enforcing the many rules of the omniscient regulatory state, i.e., Big Brother. Easy to do in the time of Three Felonies a Day.
The so-called war on drugs was the casus belli for the militarization of the local police forces in the U.S., although it took time to effect the evolution far and wide. Near the end of the campaign in Iraq, the favorite think tank of the left, the RAND Corporation, published a report in 2009 entitled Does The United States Need A New Police Force For Stability Operations?
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Sordid Links
Prohibition: 16 Results
Militarization of Law Enforcement and Statism
We're from the government, and we're here to help.
The Right is deluding itself about law enforcement.
Tags: 6rDOPcCxHOI, Big Brother, cc3sGDHgxFA, Counterinsurgency Cops, jwV9rySCl6U, Keystone Kops, NUahTD5IBXU, Police Militarization, Rise Of The Warrior Cop, SWAT, Three Felonies a Day, tmCbRydblac, w6P2WATPmjU, war on drugs, warrior cops, Wb07-EWfGCg
Posted 2013/08/14, 6:27 am · Category: Beadledom, Caught Our Eye, Cowards, Forward!, Government, Liberty, Ozymandias, Police Misconduct, Prohibition, Public Policy, Tyranny · Comments Off on Police State, Part 4 – Keystone Kops and Big Brother
Teach Your Children Well (Teaching Instruction is an "Industry Of Mediocrity")
Who Is Teaching Your Children? And What Is Being Taught?
Sure, professional athletes have a certain celebrity appeal, but can they really convince Americans to embrace a product that a growing number have already written off as a shit sandwich? But to really win hearts and minds … Hey! How about using the public schools to recruit their captive audience of students to the cause, and then set the kids loose to proselytize their families on the glories of Obamacare? That should work wonders.
So public school teachers get paid taxpayer dollars to preach Obamacare to their co-workers and the students, so the kids will then go home and sing the glories of the health scheme to the same taxpayers who are funding the whole process. Everybody wins!
If this experiment in using the public schools as a medium for spreading the good news works out as school officials and health insurance exchange managers hope, expect more in the future.
Los Angeles Public Schools Train Students as Obamacare Missionaries
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"Is this still America?"
Rubes and Hypocrites
"Pro-Business" is NOT Pro-Market
Libertarian, Classical Liberal: Richard Epstein
President Asterisk Expands the Imperial Presidency
Tags: Benghazi, Big Brother, czZlb7LshN0, Fast and Furious, Forward!, Founding Fathers, free markets, free speech, freedom, gender studies, Karen Lewis, Milton Friedman, nanny, nanny state, Obamagate, oppression studies, parental malpractice, Police-Industrial Complex, President Big Brother, prohibition, public school, scandalanche, Scandalpalooza, star chamber, victims, ZUMEq24tqtU
Posted 2013/06/28, 6:47 am · Category: Aristocracy, Cults, Moral Preening, Philosopher Kings, Police Misconduct, Public Policy, Statolatry, Tyranny, U.S. Constitution, You Can't Fix Stupid · Comments Off on Teach Your Children Well (Teaching Instruction is an "Industry Of Mediocrity")
Assume The Government Is Run By The DMV or the Post Office
You need not suspect the motives of those responsible for NSA surveillance to detest what they are doing. In fact, we may have more to fear from spies acting out of patriotic zeal than those acting out of power lust or economic interest: Zealots are more likely to eschew restraints that might compromise their righteous cause.
For the sake of argument, we may assume that from President Obama on down, government officials sincerely believe that gathering Americans' telephone and Internet data is vital to the people's security. Does that make government spying okay?
Motives Aside, the NSA Should Not Spy on Us
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The Administrative State
Family in the High Tech and Affluent West
Censure the President
Public School is a BARGAIN!
Washington may desire to dominate our lives, but that desire can and should be resisted.
Tags: 4th Amendment, Big Brother, DMV, ffSD2zRX-kQ, Forward!, NJLrjIvjrG0, NSA, Ozymandias, petty bureaucrat, Post Office, President Big Brother, VmKy30ppLyw
Posted 2013/06/27, 7:07 am · Category: Cults, Forward!, Government, History, Moral Preening, Ozymandias, Philosopher Kings, Statolatry, Thugocracy, Tyranny, U.S. Constitution · Comments Off on Assume The Government Is Run By The DMV or the Post Office
Big Brother Really Is Watching Us
Here's a question I asked myself yesterday: Would I rather have my phone records collected and readied for possible inspection by the National Security Agency, or have my genitalia scrutinized by the Transportation Security Administration?
One answer, of course, is, why choose? In today's America you can have both. [Ed. Is this a great country or what?!?]
How TSA's Groping Softened Us Up for NSA's Snooping
The 4th Amendment is an ancient memory, clearly an affectation among us hicks.
How many records did the NSA seize from Verizon? Hundreds of millions. We are now learning about more potential mass data collections by the government from other communications and online companies. These are the "details," and few Americans consider this approach "balanced," though many rightly consider it Orwellian.
These activities violate the Fourth Amendment, which says warrants must be specific—"particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." And what is the government doing with these records? The president assures us that the government is simply monitoring the origin and length of phone calls, not eavesdropping on their contents. Is this administration seriously asking us to trust the same government that admittedly targets political dissidents through the Internal Revenue Service and journalists through the Justice Department?
The country is in the very best of hands. Ai yi yi yi yi!
No one objects to balancing security against liberty. No one objects to seeking warrants for targeted monitoring based on probable cause. We've always done this.
What is objectionable is a system in which government has unlimited and privileged access to the details of our private affairs, and citizens are simply supposed to trust that there won't be any abuse of power. This is an absurd expectation. Americans should trust the National Security Agency as much as they do the IRS and Justice Department.
Big Brother Really Is Watching Us: Monitoring hundreds of millions of phone records is an extraordinary invasion of privacy.
When British soldiers were roaming the American countryside in the 1760s with lawful search warrants with which they had authorized themselves to enter the private homes of colonists in order to search for government-issued stamps, Thomas Paine wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls." The soul-searching became a revolution in thinking about the relationship of government to individuals. That thinking led to casting off a king and writing a Constitution.
What offended the colonists when the soldiers came legally knocking was the violation of their natural right to privacy, their right to be left alone. We all have the need and right to be left alone. We all know that we function more fully as human beings when no authority figure monitors us or compels us to ask for a permission slip. This right comes from within us, not from the government.
And, of course, to prevent the recurrence of soldier-written search warrants and the government dragnets and fishing expeditions they wrought, the Constitution mandates that only judges may issue search warrants, and they may do so only on the basis of probable cause of crime, and the warrants must "particularly describ(e) the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Last week, we discovered that the government has persuaded judges to issue search warrants not on the constitutionally mandated basis, but because it would be easier for the feds to catch terrorists if they had a record of our phone calls and our emails and texts. How did that happen?
After 9/11, Congress enacted the Patriot Act. This permitted federal agents to write their own search warrants, as if to mimic the British soldiers in the 1760s. It was amended to permit the feds to go to the FISA court and get a search warrant for the electronic records of any American who might communicate with a foreign person.
In 30 years, from 1979 to 2009, the legal standard for searching and seizing private communications — the bar that the Constitution requires the government to meet — was lowered by Congress from probable cause of crime to probable cause of being an agent of a foreign power to probable cause of being a foreign person to probable cause of communicating with a foreign person. Congress made all these changes, notwithstanding the oath that each member of Congress took to uphold the Constitution. It is obvious that the present standard, probable cause of communicating with a foreign person, bears no rational or lawful resemblance to the constitutionally mandated standard: probable cause of crime.
The NSA Scandal Violates the Lessons of Our History and Our Constitution
Unfortunately, it seems that the future Aldous Huxley predicted in 1932, in Brave New World, is arriving early. Mockery, truculence, and minimalist living are best, then enjoy the decline. However, we do need a Revolving Door Tax (RDT), learn what Members of Congress pay in taxes, and prosecute politicians and staff and their "family and friends" who profit from insider trading.
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Things that can't go on forever, won't.
Mrs. Clinton
Tags: 4th Amendment, b9Nu2CI-16w, Big Brother, cGhcECnWRGM, Forward!, liberty, N5QTR6SXVxw, Ozymandias, probable cause, U.S. Constitution
Posted 2013/06/13, 6:47 am · Category: Cults, Forward!, Government, Liberty, Moral Preening, Ozymandias, Police Misconduct, Statolatry, Thugocracy, Tyranny, U.S. Constitution · Comments Off on Big Brother Really Is Watching Us
The country is in the very best of hands…..
"Everybody in the mission" in Benghazi, Libya, thought the attack on a U.S. consulate there last Sept. 11 was an act of terror "from the get-go," according to excerpts of an interview investigators conducted with the No. 2 official in Libya at the time, obtained by CBS News' "Face the Nation."
"I think everybody in the mission thought it was a terrorist attack from the beginning," Greg Hicks, a 22-year foreign service diplomat who was the highest-ranking U.S. official in Libya after the strike, told investigators under authority of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Hicks, the former U.S. Embassy Tripoli deputy chief of mission, was not in Benghazi at the time of the attack, which killed Chris Stevens – then the U.S. ambassador to Libya – and three other Americans.
When he appears this week before the committee, chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., Hicks is expected to offer testimony at odds with what some American officials were saying in public – and on "Face the Nation" – just five days after the attack. Benghazi whistleblowers have rallied attention to discrepancies among the administration's reaction to the attack, which The Weekly Standard suggests was frayed by ever-evolving talking points that sought to remove references to al Qaeda.
On Sept. 16, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice hit the media circuit, appearing on all five Sunday talk shows to dispel the notion that the strike was a premeditated terrorist act and to perpetuate the case that it began "spontaneously" out of protests in Egypt. Rice's spot on "Face the Nation" that day was preceded by the new President of Libya Mohammed al-Magariaf, who said his government had "no doubt that this was preplanned, predetermined."
Official: We knew Benghazi was a terrorist attack "from the get-go"
This week, CNN interviewed Tim Clemente, a former FBI counterterrorism agent, about whether the FBI would be able to discover the contents of past telephone calls between Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his wife. Clemente stated that the FBI had ways of accessing those calls, and that all calls are recorded.
CLEMENTE: "No, welcome to America. All of that stuff is being captured as we speak whether we know it or like it or not."
Welcome to America. All of that stuff is being captured as we speak.
Big Brother is here.
On the night of Sept. 11, as the Obama administration scrambled to respond to the Benghazi terror attacks, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a key aide effectively tried to cut the department's own counterterrorism bureau out of the chain of reporting and decision-making, according to a "whistle-blower" witness from that bureau who will soon testify to the charge before Congress, Fox News has learned.
That witness is Mark I. Thompson, a former Marine and now the deputy coordinator for operations in the agency's counterterrorism bureau. Sources tell Fox News Thompson will level the allegation against Clinton during testimony on Wednesday before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.
Fox News has also learned that another official from the counterterrorism bureau — independently of Thompson — voiced the same complaint about Clinton and Under Secretary for Management Patrick Kennedy to trusted national security colleagues back in October.
Clinton sought end-run around counterterrorism bureau on night of Benghazi attack, witness will say
No matter what happens with Darrell Issa's congressional committee meetings this week, we are witnessing the beginning of the end of the Obama administration, and the cause is Benghazi. It's impossible to overestimate the blowback that has been gathering steam for the past seven months, now about to erupt with full force. Few reputations will emerge unscathed, Obama's presidency will be crippled, Hillary Clinton's 2016 candidacy will be destroyed — and perhaps some new heroes will be born.
Benghazi Blues
The Air Force official in charge of its sexual-assault prevention program was arrested for groping, authorities said Monday.
Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski, 41, was removed from his position as head of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office pending an investigation, the Air Force said.
The incident happened just after midnight Sunday when a drunken Krusinski allegedly approached the woman in a parking lot in Arlington, Va., and grabbed her breasts and buttocks, according to a police report.
Police said the woman fought off her assailant and scratches can be seen on Krusinski's face in his mug shot. He was charged with sexual battery.
Air Force's sex-abuse prevention honcho charged with sexual battery
Air Force Officer Accused of Sexual Battery
"President Asterisk"
Egypt Spring and the War President
Hillary Clinton – A part of Bill Clinton's brain
Secret Courts and the Star Chamber
Obama Knows *He* is the Smartest Guy in the Room
Tags: _Nkxl-m-ju4, Benghazi, Big Brother, Chris Stevens, FISA, FTH8aJL033A, Greg Hicks, Hillary Clinton, jajbLhRZ8TU, Jeff Krusinski, Surveillance State, Susan Rice, W_8MsvUilT0, warrantless wiretapping
Posted 2013/05/07, 6:27 am · Category: Government, History, Notes to a Friend, Ozymandias, Police Misconduct, Public Policy, Statolatry, Thugocracy, Tyranny, U.S. Constitution · Comments Off on The country is in the very best of hands…..
Neo-Victorian Paternalism
Neo-Victorian Paternalism = modern puritanism = modern prohibitionists = nannies
Do it for the children.
This looks like startlingly neo-Victorian paternalism: mild suggestive remarks, not directed at an individual woman or at women in general, are presumed so offensive to women as to warrant swift retribution. Of course, no one who has worked in a mixed-sex environment seriously believes that women don't make sexual jokes or comments in work settings. But that's where the double standard comes in: unlike the Victorian lady, the modern feminist who demands such protections needn't shun bawdy humor herself. Richards has made male anatomy jokes on her Twitter feed, which she uses professionally. When men make them, though, it's apparently a female-excluding assertion of male privilege.
A hundred years ago, anarchist feminist Emma Goldman famously said that she did not want to be part of any revolution that would not allow dancing. Likewise, not only men but quite a few women women want no part of a feminist revolution if it bans innocent compliments and silly off-color jokes.
Obama's Sexist Double Standard: What the Kamala Harris controversy reveals about about sexism and the left.
sexism, racism, stupidism
"Offending, as the high priests of correctness have informed us, is the gravest and darkest of all sins."
Dennis Byrne
Mayor Nanny is a Neo-Victorian Paternalist
Unfortunately, it seems that the future Aldous Huxley predicted in 1932, in Brave New World, is arriving early. Mockery, truculence, and minimalist living are best, then enjoy the decline. However, we do need a Revolving Door Tax (RDT) and to prosecute politicians and staff and their "family and friends" who profit from insider trading.
Kermit Gosnell, mass murderer. The movie.
Thin-Skinned
Nothing to see here, move along
Gosnell who?
Fecundophobia – Abortion as a Sacrament
Tags: -IKNc6k_Cjo, Adria Richards, Big Brother, Emma Goldman, Kermit Gosnell, Mayor Nanny, nanny, nanny state, Neo-Victorian, neo-Victorian paternalism, Offensive, paternalism, racism, sexism, soda ban, stupidism, thin skin, thin-skinned
Posted 2013/04/23, 5:37 am · Category: "Irish Democracy", Aristocracy, Moral Preening, Ozymandias, Philosopher Kings, Tyranny, You Can't Fix Stupid · Comments Off on Neo-Victorian Paternalism
Surveillance State Run Amok
In one of his many overreactions to the events of 9/11, however, President George W. Bush changed all that with an ill-conceived executive order that unlawfully unleashed the CIA inside the U.S. and the FBI into foreign countries. Rather than facilitating a cooperative spirit in defense of individual freedom and national security, this reignited their rivalry. FBI agents, for example, publicly exposed CIA agents whom they caught torturing detainees at Gitmo, and Bush was forced to restrain the CIA.
Isn't it odd that FBI agents would be reading the emails of the CIA director to his mistress and that the director of the FBI, who briefs the president weekly, did not make the president aware of this? The FBI could only lawfully spy on Petraeus by the use of a search warrant, and it could only get a search warrant if its agents persuaded a federal judge that Petraeus himself—not his mistress—was involved in criminal behavior under federal law.
The agents also could have bypassed the federal courts and written their own search warrant under the Patriot Act, but only if they could satisfy themselves (a curious and unconstitutional standard) that the general was involved in terror-related activity. Both preconditions for a search warrant are irrelevant and would be absurd in this case.
All this—the FBI spying on the CIA—constitutes the government attacking itself. Anyone who did this when neither federal criminal law nor national security has been implicated and kept the president in the dark has violated about four federal statutes and should be fired and indicted. The general may be a cad and a bad husband, but he has the same constitutional rights as the rest of us.
No keen observer could believe the government's Pollyanna version of these events. When did the CIA become a paragon of honesty? When did the FBI become a paragon of transparency? When did the government become a paragon of telling the truth?
Silencing General Petraeus: No keen observer could believe the government's Pollyanna version of these events. (emphasis added)
The affair between Petraeus and Broadwell was discovered by the FBI and revealed late last week when Petraeus resigned as director of the CIA. But while the salacious details have kept Washington's press corps busy, the details about how the bureau ever got this information should concern us far more.
Every turn in the investigation that led to Petraeus's resignation perfectly illustrates the incredible and dangerous reach of the massive United States surveillance apparatus, which, through hundreds of billions of dollars in post-9/11 programs — coupled with weakened privacy laws and lack of oversight — has affected the civil liberties of every American for years. The only difference here is the victim of the surveillance state's reach was not a faceless American, but the head one of the agencies tasked to carry it out.
While these details may shock the average reader, these privacy-invasive tactics are used regularly by both federal and local law enforcement around the United States. In fact, as the New York Times reported, referring to Petraeus, "Law enforcement officials have said they used only ordinary methods in the case." The only difference here is the target was the director of the CIA and one of the most decorated soldiers in modern military history.
The Petraeus scandal — or perhaps we should call it the FBI snooping scandal — dovetailed with Google releasing its semi-annual transparency report, which again showed that government requests for ordinary user data continues to skyrocket. The last six months showed the U.S. government requesting data from Google alone on more than 12,000 users, a marked increase over the six months prior. And this number doesn't even include some Patriot Act demands, National Security Letters with gag orders, or secret FISA court orders for intelligence operations. As Google said in conjunction with the release of its report, "This is the sixth time we've released this data, and one trend has become clear: Government surveillance is on the rise."
Congress is now demanding to know why it wasn't informed by the Justice Department about the details of the Petraeus affair earlier. Lawmakers should instead be worried about why the public was informed of these details at all, given that no crime was committed. And instead of investigating one man's personal life, they should investigate how to strengthen our privacy laws so this does not happen to anyone else.
The U.S. government has so far been unable to keep its colossal surveillance state in check. Now that it is so bloated it is eating itself, one hopes more people will finally pay attention.
Investigate the FBI: The real Petraeus scandal is why the bureau was rummaging around in his private communications in the first place.
This is a surveillance state run amok. It also highlights how any remnants of internet anonymity have been all but obliterated by the union between the state and technology companies.
But, as unwarranted and invasive as this all is, there is some sweet justice in having the stars of America's national security state destroyed by the very surveillance system which they implemented and over which they preside. As Trevor Timm of the Electronic Frontier Foundation put it this morning: "Who knew the key to stopping the Surveillance State was to just wait until it got so big that it ate itself?"
It is usually the case that abuses of state power become a source for concern and opposition only when they begin to subsume the elites who are responsible for those abuses. Recall how former Democratic Rep. Jane Harman – one of the most outspoken defenders of the illegal Bush National Security Agency (NSA) warrantless eavesdropping program – suddenly began sounding like an irate, life-long ACLU privacy activist when it was revealed that the NSA had eavesdropped on her private communications with a suspected Israeli agent over alleged attempts to intervene on behalf of AIPAC officials accused of espionage. Overnight, one of the Surveillance State's chief assets, the former ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, transformed into a vocal privacy proponent because now it was her activities, rather than those of powerless citizens, which were invaded.
With the private, intimate activities of America's most revered military and intelligence officials being smeared all over newspapers and televisions for no good reason, perhaps similar conversions are possible. Put another way, having the career of the beloved CIA Director and the commanding general in Afghanistan instantly destroyed due to highly invasive and unwarranted electronic surveillance is almost enough to make one believe not only that there is a god, but that he is an ardent civil libertarian.
FBI's abuse of the surveillance state is the real scandal needing investigation
How interesting that last night I was speaking to a former field-grade Marine infantry officer about l'affaire Petraeus wherein we marveled at other senior Army or Marine officers we had known in our careers who could not keep their pants zipped and ruined their otherwise-stellar careers. For my buddy it was a regimental commander, years ago. The one that I recollected first was an armor brigade commander who decided to poke his Spec 4 driver, and I don't mean on the then-nonexistent Facebook.
I confess to having a more jaded view of the whole sordid mess than a lot of folks for two main reasons. One, my final assignment in the Army was as a principal staff officer of US Army Criminal Investigation Command – and you do that for awhile and you will never again be surprised at anything stupid or criminal that anyone does, no matter his/her reputation, accomplishments or station in life. Two, I've been in ecclesial ministry for 15 years, same lesson (including, sadly, fellow clergy).
Petraeus and Broadwell: The FBI circles the wagons
Google received more requests from the U.S. government to hand over user data during the first half of this year than from any other country, according to the search company's biannual "Transparency Report" released on Tuesday.
From January to June, Google received nearly 8,000 requests for user data from the U.S. government. The search company said it "fully or partially" compiled with roughly 90 percent of them. That's up from the 5,950 requests for user data that Google received from the U.S. government during the same period a year ago.
Google: Surveillance 'is on the rise'
Rubes, you did build that.
Ozymandias and the bite-me coalition
Free Speech and Independence Day
A Government of Lies and Mediocrity
Congress's Abdication on NSA Oversight
Tags: Big Brother, Electronic Frontier Foundation, House Intelligence Committee, nanny state, NSA
Posted 2012/11/17, 7:47 am · Category: Liberty, Notes to a Friend, Pundits, Tyranny, U.S. Constitution · Comments Off on Surveillance State Run Amok


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Q: Idenity Server 4 Injecting additional claims in IAuthorizeInteractionResponseGenerator I am trying to port code from IdentityServer3 which used PreAuthenticate to provide a temporary impersonation of a user into a client application for our admins.
Following with the thread in here, I am overriding ProcessInteractionAsync in a custom IAuthorizeInteractionResponseGenerator.  This works great and I have everything working, BUT, I can't add an extra claim to be sent back to the client application so that it knows this is an impersonated id_token.  In replacing the Subject on ValidatedAuthorizeRequest in my override, I add an additional claim that specifies the user who started the impersonation but this claim does not follow through in the id_token or the access token.  Here is my override:
public override async Task<InteractionResponse> ProcessInteractionAsync(ValidatedAuthorizeRequest request, ConsentResponse consent = null)
{
    string impersonatedUserName = request.GetPrefixedAcrValue("Impersonate:");
    if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(impersonatedUserName))
    {
        if (request.Client.AllowedScopes.Contains(Constants.ClaimTypes.Impersonation))
        {
            var currentUser;
            var impersonatedUser;

            //Omited code to verify eligibility to impersonate user

            if (impersonatedUser != null)
            {
                IEnumerable<string> requestedClaimTypes = request.Client.AllowedScopes;

                IdentityServerUser idSrvUser = new IdentityServerUser(impersonatedUser.Id.ToString())
                {
                    AuthenticationTime = Clock.UtcNow.UtcDateTime,
                    DisplayName = impersonatedUser.UserName,
                    IdentityProvider = !string.IsNullOrEmpty(impersonatedUser.PasswordHash) ? IdentityServerConstants.LocalIdentityProvider : "external"
                };

                ProfileDataRequestContext context = new ProfileDataRequestContext(
                    idSrvUser.CreatePrincipal(),
                    request.Client,
                    nameof(AuthorizeInteractionResponseGenerator),
                    requestedClaimTypes);

                await Profile.GetProfileDataAsync(context);

                //Need this claim to flow through to client
                context.IssuedClaims.Add(new Claim(Constants.ClaimTypes.Impersonation, currentUser.UserName));

                foreach (Claim claim in context.IssuedClaims)
                {
                    idSrvUser.AdditionalClaims.Add(claim);
                }

                ClaimsPrincipal newSubject = idSrvUser.CreatePrincipal();

                request.Subject = newSubject;

                Logger.LogInformation("Impersonation set, returning response");

                return new InteractionResponse();
            }
            else
            {
                Logger.LogWarning("Invalid attempt to impersonate user");
                return new InteractionResponse { Error = "Invalid attempt to impersonate user" };
            }
        }
        else
        {
            Logger.LogWarning("Client does not support impersonation!");
            return new InteractionResponse { Error = "Client does not support impersonation" };
        }
    }

    return await base.ProcessInteractionAsync(request, consent);
}

I added a scope for this special claim that the client requests, but it still is not being included.  I feel like there is something obvious I am missing here, how do I add an extra claim to one of the tokens?  Or is there a better way to signal the client who started the impersonation?

A: So I ended up taking a slightly different route than I did in Identity Server 3 to solve this requirement.  Instead of appending the username in Identity Server, I store the username of the user who started the impersonation at the client in a temporary cookie.  Then in the AuthorizationCodeReceived notification, I check for the cookie value and append the claim to the principal being created there.
Not quite as foolproof as appending the claim in Identity, but since all the major security checks still happen and the stuff I wanted to know who was doing it as an impersonated user will fail without the cookie, this will work.  If anyone else comes across this and does figure out how to append the claim in identity server, respond and I will give you the answer

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The outbreak of sea star wasting syndrome began in 2013 and is one of the most extensive marine epizootics on record.
At least 20 species have been affected, with many species experiencing extremely high mortality. The disease remains active and it is unknown if further outbreaks will occur. When animals are infected, lesions develop that can progress into arm detachment, grip loss, "melting" and death. This process is rapid; sea stars can go from visually asymptomatic to dead within days, and few recover once symptoms are observed. Above photo: Multiple mottled sea stars (Evasterias troscheli) losing arms and their grip as they succumb to sea star wasting syndrome in 2014 at Coupeville Wharf, Whidbey Island, Washington. Photo by Jan Kocian.
The cause is not well understood. We are just beginning to understand the infectious agent and the susceptibility of the affected sea stars. There is evidence that sea star associated densovirus (SSaDV) or wasting asteroid-associated densoviruses (WAaDs) cause the syndrome, but there may be multiple causes. Warmer temperatures exacerbate the disease symptoms and progression, but there is not definitive evidence that the outbreak was caused by climate change. Photo right: Lesions on an infected giant pink sea star (Pisaster brevispinus) in 2014, Langley, Whidbey Island, Washington. Photo by Jan Kocian.
The potential for natural recovery varies widely among species. Observations of the formerly common sunflower star Pycnopodia helianthoides have been sparse or non-existent throughout much of the US West Coast since the outbreak, which is of serious concern. Though observations are limited, the giant pink sea star Pisaster brevispinus recovery has not been observed in bays and estuaries of Oregon. Conversely, a large number of juvenile ochre stars Pisaster ochraceus have been observed at many sites in Washington, Oregon and northern and central California, though almost no recruitment has been observed in southern California. Photo right: A very young ochre sea star (Pisaster ochraceus) that was part of a large recruitment pulse in 2016, after the outbreak. Cape Perpetua Marine Reserve, Oregon. Photo by Jonathan Robinson.
One severely affected species was the ochre star Pisaster ochraceus, which serves as a keystone predator in the intertidal zone. By consuming the competitively dominant mussels Pisaster opens space for other species and increases biodiversity of primary space holders. Since the outbreak, mussels and other prey species have increased drastically in some places. Photo right: A mussel bed showing distinct zonation with coverage of diverse algae and invertebrates below near Santa Barbara, California. Photo by May Roberts.
The sunflower star Pycnopodia helianthoides was nearly extinguished and is now rare. Since sunflowers stars eat sea urchins that eat kelp, sunflower stars are an important part of healthy kelp forests. The absence of sunflower stars is hindering the recovery of kelps after kelps suffered after El Niño and the warm water "blob" in the North Pacific in recent years. This is important for the many species that depend on kelp forests.
We rely on reports by beachcombers to tell us how sea star populations are doing. Please submit your observations of healthy and wasting sea stars to seastarwasting.org. We are especially interested in your reports of the sunflower star Pycnopodia helianthoides and any young sea stars. Photo right: Sunflower stars with severe wasting syndrome in 2014 on Whidbey Island. Photo by Jan Kocian.


Welcome home! This upgraded one level house has 3 bedrooms and 1 bathroom. with a fenced backyard. The backyard features a private detached 200 sf in-law unit, which includes 1 bedroom and 1 full bathroom. After walking up the extended driveway and entering the front door, you will see the fully upgraded kitchen and dining room. The kitchen includes a gas stove, built-in microwave, refrigerator/freezer, sink, garbage disposal, as well as plenty of cabinet space, tile flooring, and granite countertops. There is carpet in every room including the living room. The spacious living room is perfect for you and your guests to enjoy each other's company. Each cozy bedroom has it's own closet for personal belongings as well as an extra coat closet in the hallway. Outside of the full bathroom, in the hallway, there is also a linen closet with plenty of space for your bath products. When it's time to do laundry, head to the attached garage through the kitchen door, where the laundry room.


We are a homebrew club of 90 or so members who meet monthly to discuss homebrew styles, techniques, recipes, activities, and equipment. More importantly, we meet to share our homemade brews. We find that by sampling many beers, and talking with other homebrewers, everyone learns a lot about making really good beer. We typically have 30+ people attending meetings and try to have a lot of socializing.
We are a nationally known homebrew club, having placed in the top three scoring clubs in the AHA National competition a number of times. Many members are active judges in the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP). In addition, Wort members have served on the American Homebrewers Association Board of Advisors and as officers of the BJCP.


My favourite breakfast treat is undoubtedly the scone. While some might go in for muffins, some for pancakes and some for waffles, to me there's nothing better to eat (or bake) first thing in the morning than a crumbly, tender, buttery scone. Actually, I love scones at any time of the day. Sitting down to an English Cream Tea , a decidedly scone-centric activity, is one of my favourite things to do ever. But breakfast scones and tea-time scones, at least in my opinion, are two different animals.
Discussing tea time scones always brings up the inevitable debate of plain vs. fruit. I stand firmly on the side of the former, and like my afternoon scones to be unsullied by raisins or other flavourings. A proper teatime scone is meant to be loaded with jam and clotted cream, and anything else just fights with those flavours. Sitting down to an afternoon tea, I'm always disappointed to find that an establishment favours fruit scones. And I have no qualms about leaving a small pile of picked-out raisins on the side of my plate!
Breakfast scones are another matter. Heartier, heavier and somewhat more exciting, they'll happily play host to any number of additions. In mine, I like dried fruit, fresh fruit, nuts, peanut butter, cheese- it's all good. Well, not all those things together (that wouldn't be good), but you see where I'm going. With a breakfast scone, more is more.
My other scone-differentiating issue is shaping. For tea time, I like traditional rounds made with a pastry cutter, which somehow seems more refined. For breakfast, though, I favour the humble wedge. Not only is it quicker and easier to make, but it just seems so pleasantly rustic. Perfect for breakfast.
I hadn't made any scones in a while when a friend tipped me off to this Deborah Madison recipe. It comes from one of my favourite cookbooks, Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, so I knew it stood a good chance of being tasty. I was right: the texture of these, fresh from the oven, is divine. The cream makes them wonderfully light and tender, and though I normally prefer a richer, crumblier scone, these made a nice change. The flavour is great, too; the faintest touch of sweetness in the dough is punctuated by the pieces of spicy, sugary candied ginger.
So, if you're tired of your muffins, pancakes and whathaveyou, why not be British for a morning and try your hand at some breakfast scones? Oh, and one last thing- it's pronounced "skon", not "skoan", no matter what time of day you're serving them.
Preheat the oven to 200°C/425°F. Toss the ginger pieces with a small spoonful of flour to coat and stop them from sticking to each other.
Mix the rest of the flour with the baking powder, ground ginger, sugar and salt in a large bowl. Using your fingers, cut the butter into the flour mixture until it resembles coarse meal, and set aside.
In a small jug or bowl, whisk together the egg, 1/4 cup of cream and vanilla. Add to the flour mixture and stir until just combined. Fold in the ginger gently.
Turn out onto a well-floured surface (it is a very sticky dough) and give it 8 to 10 kneads, just enough to bring it together. Pat into a circle about 1″ thick, and cut into 6 wedges. Place wedges on a parchment-lined baking sheet about 1″ away from each other, brush with the remaining cream and sprinkle with the rest of the sugar. Bake for 12-15 minutes, until golden. Cool slightly before serving.
This is my favourite scone recipe! Ever since I got back from traveling I've been meaning to make these – I'm just waiting for my peace strawberry crisp to be eaten up so that I don't overwhelm myself with too much baked goodness…. today might just be the day!
Fi, I really liked these, thanks for the heads up! I'm not sure they qualify as "favourites" for me due to the cake-like texture, but I definitely liked them.
I added some ground powdered ginger to the dry ingredients (pretty much the only adaption I made to these), which I think they really needed. I also chopped the ginger more finely than she recommends, because I'm not a fan of huge pieces of it.
It has been a while since I made these but I remember adding lots of powdered ginger and grated fresh ginger because I didn't have any candied ginger (and I don't like pieces of it in my baking!). Also, I made it with whole wheat flour (again, I didn't have any white flour)… I think that made it less cake-like.
I make similar scones (without the powdered ginger) but add zest from a lime: lime ginger scones.
Gerry- That sounds wonderful! I've never had scones with lime before- lemon many times, but not lime. I must try this soon!


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From:PoughT@dnc.org To: BanfillR@dnc.org Date: 2016-05-05 17:00 Subject: Re: Can we chat about this?
Patrice is getting blown up about this and so is Luis. She can say this anymore. - TP On May 5, 2016, at 1:14 PM, Tracie Pough <PoughT@dnc.org<mailto:PoughT@dnc.org>> wrote: I'm flagging for you because it could be an issue at exec for her. She needs to understand that she is still chair and be more careful with her comments until she's not. Also, it underscores the idea that she's been on the tank for Clinton all the while. She just needs to lay low on this until after she's done with her term as chair. - TP On May 5, 2016, at 1:06 PM, Banfill, Ryan <BanfillR@dnc.org<mailto:BanfillR@dnc.org>> wrote: DWS said the caucuses are over so she expressed her feelings. She doesn't like Iowa doing theirs on a Tuesday. Prefers Saturday's. Sent from my iPad On May 5, 2016, at 10:05 AM, Tracie Pough <PoughT@dnc.org<mailto:PoughT@dnc.org>> wrote: No but some of the DNC staff expressed concerns. - TP On May 5, 2016, at 1:02 PM, Banfill, Ryan <BanfillR@dnc.org<mailto:BanfillR@dnc.org>> wrote: OK. Are you hearing grumbles? Sent from my iPad On May 5, 2016, at 9:58 AM, Tracie Pough <PoughT@dnc.org<mailto:PoughT@dnc.org>> wrote: FYI. Some caucus state chair's may upset about this. Subject: Can we chat about this? Buzzfeed: The Democratic Party Chair Wants To Get Rid Of Caucuses<https://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan/the-democratic-party-chair-wants-to-get-rid-of-caucuses?utm_term=.suVmzzlgM#.xfp2DDYne> Debbie Wasserman Schultz sits down with No One Knows Anything, BuzzFeed's politics podcast. posted on May 5, 2016, at 11:54 a.m. Evan McMorris-Santoro<https://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan?language=en> BuzzFeed News Reporter Add Democratic Party chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz to the growing list of people frustrated by the convoluted and often poorly-run caucus process. "I prefer primaries just because they're simpler," Wasserman Schultz said. "And because they are more democratic." "I can say that because I'm not going to be chair the next time, so now I am free to say what my own preference is," she noted. Wasserman Schultz sat for an interview with No One Knows Anything, the BuzzFeed News political podcast, Tuesday afternoon<x-apple-data-detectors://2> — hours before results came in that would reverberate through presidential politics. Donald Trump sewed up the Republican nomination for all intents and purposes, leaving Wasserman Schultz to speculate that Democrats could dramatically expand their map<https://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan/dnc-chair-feels-the-trump> to compete in states like Georgia and Arizona in November. On the Democratic side in Indiana, Bernie Sanders eked out a win over Hillary Clinton. Despite math showing winning the nomination outright to be all but impossible, Sanders vowed<http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/sanders-vows-to-stay-in-race-until-convention/> to stay in the race until the Democratic convention, meaning Wasserman Schultz is still presiding over a contested primary that has seen her trashed by Sanders supporters who see her DNC as an arm of the Clinton campaign. That's a charge Wasserman Schultz has vehemently denied. She's run the party through a surprisingly contentious primary that has built a lot of bitterness among diehards on both sides. (But Sanders supporters have said for months<https://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan/donald-trump-is-making-clintons-case-to-young-sanders-suppor?utm_term=.kej9zJNBB#.kej9zJNBB> a Trump nomination on the Republican side will keep them as activist Democrats — and as that reality sets in, a lot of people think even the Bern-feeling-est of the Bernie contingent will find themselves<http://www.vox.com/2016/5/4/11593434/bernie-sanders-poll-trump-clinton> pulling the lever for Hillary in November.) Fueling some of the acrimony is the Democratic nominating process itself. The unexpectedly long primary showcased a system ill-equipped to handle the increased turnout brought by Sanders' challenge to Clinton. Lines, delays, and errors were common at caucuses<https://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan/why-is-anyone-still-doing-caucuses>. Differing primary rules state by state meant sometimes people who chose not to register as a member of the Democratic Party could vote in the Democratic primary. Sometimes they couldn't. Reflecting on a primary process near its end, Wasserman Schultz stressed that the Democratic National Committee has review processes in place that could result in changes to the way the nominating contest works in future elections. But she has her own opinion on how things should change — though they're not "crusades" that she's on, just opinions. First, do away with caucuses, which she said can lead to "intimidation" due to rules that make a caucus-goer's selection public. "You sort of obliterate the idea of a secret ballot in the caucus, because there are people gathering in a room, and they are pooling themselves around the room for who they are for," Wasserman Schultz said, "and you know, maybe some people don't want that to be public." Wasserman Schultz favors primaries. But she doesn't favor the kind of open primaries Sanders supporters want. "I think the Democratic Party and the Republican Party's nominees should be chosen by members of our party," she said. "It's our job, once we have a nominee, to sell [independents] on our party's candidate, but if you have chosen not to be a member of our party, then to me, you are not entitled and should not be entitled to help decide who our party's nominee is." "That means you haven't worked to build the party," Wasserman Schultz said. (She added that this was also her opinion, and not something she was making a "crusade.") Finally, the superdelegates — the party officials and electeds who are given an automatic nominating vote by virtue of their position — should stay, Wasserman Schultz said. She noted the system has been in place since 1984 and has never been used to actually decide the nomination. "You have party leaders and elected officials who have earned the right, because they helped build our party, because they represent our party, they're the leaders and the voice, they deserve a role in the convention, too." Wasserman Schultz said she was able to speak more freely about her critiques of the process because she'll be leaving the DNC chairwomanship soon. But the expectations that these things are going to change should be low. "I'm not going to try to change [open primaries] — you couldn't anyway," she said. "Those are also decided at the state lev

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