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<nettime> Wikileaks: State Pulls the Plug On SIPRNet
by Felix Stalder 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Seems like Assange's 'secrecy tax' is making itself felt. Felix State Pulls the Plug On SIPRNet November 29, 2010 at 9:26 pm http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/11/29/state-pulls-the-plug-on-siprnet/ Late last week, after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton informed the White House of the likely fall-out from the WikiLeaks cable dump, the White House came back with a question: b What's our corrective action?b Clinton's undersecretary for management, Patrick Kennedy, had a simple suggestion: pull the plug on SIPRNet [1], the classified DoD network that PFC Bradley Manning reportedly used to download the cables from State's inhouse classified database. b The White House said do it,b says a senior administration official. The publication by WikiLeaks of more than 250,000 diplomatic cables, many of them classified, is forcing an administration-wide intelligence retrenchment as agencies reconsider how to balance the need to share with the need to know. With its third major dump of controversial classified information in nine months, WikiLeaks is single-handedly tipping the balance back towards inter-agency "stovepiping", or walling off information from other departments. Post 9.11 the imperative from Congress and the White House was to break down the b stovepipesb that prevented sharing across the so-called intelligence communitybthe sprawling collection of intelligence offices in more than a dozen different agencies across the U.S. government and around the world. At State, they created the b Net-Centric Diplomacy" database or NCD, where State stored classified information up to the top secret level. Agencies across government had access to that database through their own secure networks. In DoD's case the network, created in 1995, was called the Secure Internet Protocol Router Network, or SIPRNet. Late last week, at Kennedy's recommendation and the White House's approval, State disconnected SIPRNet from the NCD, senior administration officials tell Time. b Obviously there were some gaps within SIPRNet that DoD is actively correcting,b the senior administration official says, b And as a temporary precaution we have disconnected SIPRNet from the NCD.b How long is temporary? DoD is investigating how Manning managed to download all those cables and get them to WikiLeaks, the senior administration officials tell Time. So far they have concluded that the failure came at Dod's Central Command, the combatant command responsible for the middle east, which employed Manning in Iraq. Prior to Manning's download, users of SIPRNet had been blocked from downloading data to removable media. But at some point that restriction was lifted across all of CentCom. DoD has been reimposing restrictions since the July dump of Afghanistan war documents by WikiLeaks. DoD has blocked the use of removable media; they have required in some cases a b dual keyb system that requires a second user to approve moving data from a higher classification system to a lower classification system; and they are installing software programs to monitor unusual activity. DoD is not completely cut off from State's database. A separate system for the transmission of top secret information, the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System or JWICS [2], is still linked to the NCD. And State may reconnect SIPRNet in the future. b Once DoD has gone through and made its corrections on SIPRNet we'll reevaluate whether to reconnect,b the senior administration official says. [1] http://www.fas.org/irp/program/disseminate/siprnet.htm [2] http://www.fas.org/irp/program/disseminate/jwics.htm --- http://felix.openflows.com ----------------------- books out now: *|Deep Search.The Politics of Search Beyond Google.Studienverlag 2009 *|Mediale Kunst/Media Arts Zurich.13 Positions.Scheidegger&Spiess2008 *|Manuel Castells and the Theory of the Network Society. Polity, 2006 *|Open Cultures and the Nature of Networks. Ed. Futura/Revolver, 2005 # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime(a)kein.org ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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<nettime> Wikileaks: State Pulls the Plug On SIPRNet
by Felix Stalder 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Seems like Assange's 'secrecy tax' is making itself felt. Felix State Pulls the Plug On SIPRNet November 29, 2010 at 9:26 pm http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/11/29/state-pulls-the-plug-on-siprnet/ Late last week, after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton informed the White House of the likely fall-out from the WikiLeaks cable dump, the White House came back with a question: b What's our corrective action?b Clinton's undersecretary for management, Patrick Kennedy, had a simple suggestion: pull the plug on SIPRNet [1], the classified DoD network that PFC Bradley Manning reportedly used to download the cables from State's inhouse classified database. b The White House said do it,b says a senior administration official. The publication by WikiLeaks of more than 250,000 diplomatic cables, many of them classified, is forcing an administration-wide intelligence retrenchment as agencies reconsider how to balance the need to share with the need to know. With its third major dump of controversial classified information in nine months, WikiLeaks is single-handedly tipping the balance back towards inter-agency "stovepiping", or walling off information from other departments. Post 9.11 the imperative from Congress and the White House was to break down the b stovepipesb that prevented sharing across the so-called intelligence communitybthe sprawling collection of intelligence offices in more than a dozen different agencies across the U.S. government and around the world. At State, they created the b Net-Centric Diplomacy" database or NCD, where State stored classified information up to the top secret level. Agencies across government had access to that database through their own secure networks. In DoD's case the network, created in 1995, was called the Secure Internet Protocol Router Network, or SIPRNet. Late last week, at Kennedy's recommendation and the White House's approval, State disconnected SIPRNet from the NCD, senior administration officials tell Time. b Obviously there were some gaps within SIPRNet that DoD is actively correcting,b the senior administration official says, b And as a temporary precaution we have disconnected SIPRNet from the NCD.b How long is temporary? DoD is investigating how Manning managed to download all those cables and get them to WikiLeaks, the senior administration officials tell Time. So far they have concluded that the failure came at Dod's Central Command, the combatant command responsible for the middle east, which employed Manning in Iraq. Prior to Manning's download, users of SIPRNet had been blocked from downloading data to removable media. But at some point that restriction was lifted across all of CentCom. DoD has been reimposing restrictions since the July dump of Afghanistan war documents by WikiLeaks. DoD has blocked the use of removable media; they have required in some cases a b dual keyb system that requires a second user to approve moving data from a higher classification system to a lower classification system; and they are installing software programs to monitor unusual activity. DoD is not completely cut off from State's database. A separate system for the transmission of top secret information, the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System or JWICS [2], is still linked to the NCD. And State may reconnect SIPRNet in the future. b Once DoD has gone through and made its corrections on SIPRNet we'll reevaluate whether to reconnect,b the senior administration official says. [1] http://www.fas.org/irp/program/disseminate/siprnet.htm [2] http://www.fas.org/irp/program/disseminate/jwics.htm --- http://felix.openflows.com ----------------------- books out now: *|Deep Search.The Politics of Search Beyond Google.Studienverlag 2009 *|Mediale Kunst/Media Arts Zurich.13 Positions.Scheidegger&Spiess2008 *|Manuel Castells and the Theory of the Network Society. Polity, 2006 *|Open Cultures and the Nature of Networks. Ed. Futura/Revolver, 2005 # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime(a)kein.org ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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Re: Scenes from the Supreme Court protests today
by None 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

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Re: Hello directly from Jimbo at Wikipedia
by Adam Langley 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

On 9/28/05, Nick Mathewson <nickm(a)freehaven.net> wrote: > Hashcash is often considered, but commonly dismissed, because it > limits identities based on the wrong resource: computers. A similar scheme would be to make people perform many CAPTCHAs[1] in order to generate a login id. That way the resource is human time and it's difficult to generate lots of them [1]. Abuse from these accounts results in the account being deleted, which makes it costly. (More detail here: http://www.imperialviolet.org/page26.html#e509) The design of the CAPTCHA is actually far more difficult than I imagined because it turns out that the range of ability of people for solving them is very large - but there are several widly used CAPTCHAs which seems to be good for many of people. (Very unscientifically, it seems that computer minded people can solve them but other's have great problems. My mother can't even do the Google CAPTCHA). Although this seems possible it's tough to believe that it's worth doing for Wikipedia because I've already written a small (1500 line) patch for MediaWiki; the design of which was okayed in general by one of the developers. It was intended to make it easier to block and unblock IP ranges (like all Tor nodes) . The patch certainly wasn't perfect but, despite the efforts of several people, I never got any responce from anyone in MediaWiki about it. I don't mind - I've the attention span of a flea anyway. But it's not good for people who might be willing to do this work. AGL [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha [2] You could setup a sweatshop to do it, or you could distribute it and make setup a porn website which requires you to solve them to gain entry. Either way - it's quite a lot of effort. See http://www.boingboing.net/2004/01/27/solving_and_creating.html -- Adam Langley agl(a)imperialviolet.org http://www.imperialviolet.org (+44) (0)7906 332512 PGP: 9113 256A CC0F 71A6 4C84 5087 CDA5 52DF 2CB6 3D60 ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

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[Politech] U.S. passports to receive RFID implants starting in October 2006 [priv]
by Declan McCullagh 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Text of regulations: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2005/05-21284.htm --- http://news.com.com/Passports+to+get+RFID+chip+implants/2100-7348_3-5913644… tml?tag=nefd.top Passports to get RFID chip implants October 25, 2005, 12:12 PM PDT All U.S. passports will be implanted with remotely-readable computer chips starting in October 2006, the Bush administration has announced. Sweeping new State Department regulations issued Tuesday say that passports issued after that time will have tiny radio frequency ID (RFID) chips that can transmit personal information including the name, nationality, sex, date of birth, place of birth and digitized photograph of the passport holder. Eventually, the government contemplates adding additional digitized data such as "fingerprints or iris scans." Over the last year, opposition to the idea of implanting RFID chips in passports has grown amidst worries that identity thieves could snatch personal information out of the air simply by aiming a high-powered antenna at a person or a vehicle carrying a passport. Out of the 2,335 comments on the plan that were received by the State Department this year, 98.5 percent were negative. The objections mostly focused on security and privacy concerns. [...remainder snipped...] _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/) ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

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Re: [ZS] Re: Money transfers, due process, and freedom
by Bryce Lynch 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 3:30 AM, Mark Nuzzolilo II <nuzz604(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Because it would have to have a low barrier to entry. An average > Internet user would have to be able to be able to use this with only a > couple minutes of setup, at the most. If there is another way to do > this I am all ears. Smartphone users are already starting to buy into Square ( https://squareup.com/) because the startup cost is free (to get the reader and app) and the transaction cost is, at this time, a flat 2.75%. What does Bitcoin have? easywallet.org, an online Bitcoin wallet which, by being bookmarkable, means that it's usable a) on iProducts (Apple routinely hunts down and kills any Bitcoin apps in the Appstore) and b) means that you don't have to install anything if you don't want to: https://easywallet.org/en/bitcoin_for_iphone Coinapult, which lets you send Bitcoins via text messages: https://coinapult.com/sms-wallet blockchain.info, which not only has an excellent Android app but also has what seem to be fairly easy to use web-based APIs for transactions: https://blockchain.info/api There are very easy to use apps out there. Not many people seem to have any interest in using Bitcoins. Yet. -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS|Media] https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "I am everywhere." -- -- Zero State mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/DoctrineZero --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Doctrine Zero" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to DoctrineZero+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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9-11 Narco-Interrogation & Torture
by Richard Glen Boire 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Hi Matt - Below is the CCLE response to information in the Washington Post indicating that the FBI is considering using torture and mind-altering drugs to get the 9-11 detainees to talk. Please forward to your list. (Sources with URLS are given at the bottom.) This press release can be accessed on the Internet at: <http://www.alchemind.org/news/narcointerrogation1.htm> --Richard Glen Boire Executive Director Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics (CCLE) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 25, 2001 Drugging or Torture of 9-11 Suspects Breaks Constitution, Law, and Treaties Amidst reports that the FBI is considering the use of forced drugging and even torture to make suspects in the September 11 attacks divulge information, the Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics (CCLE) is calling on the FBI and other government agencies involved in the investigation to respect US and International law, which strictly forbids such invasive and brutal police tactics. The Washington Post reported on Sunday that in an effort to extract information from the detainees, FBI and Justice Department investigators are considering using drugs or pressure tactics, such as those employed occasionally by Israeli interrogators, to extract information. Another idea is extraditing the suspects to allied countries where security services sometimes employ threats to family members or resort to torture. (Walter Pincus, "Silence of 4 Terror Probe Suspects Poses Dilemma", Washington Post, Sunday, October 21, 2001; Page A06) "The use of torture or physical intimidation to force a suspect to reveal information is a clear violation of US and International law" says Attorney Richard Glen Boire, Executive Director of the Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics. The Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees that no person shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, and protects all people on US soil, whether citizens or not. Torturing a person in order to extract a confession is inherently coercive and renders any subsequent statements compelled, involuntary, unreliable, and wholly unconstitutional. Invoking the Fifth Amendment, some of the 9-11 detainees have asserted their constitutional right to remain silent, refusing to speak with investigators. It's deeply disturbing, says Boire, that the act of asserting the constitutional right to remain silent is what is provoking the authorities to consider resorting to torture and drugging. Numerous international conventions prohibit the use of torture as an intelligence gathering technique. Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, both provide that no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Likewise the International Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Convention Against Torture), prohibits any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession. The Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics is particularly disturbed by reports that FBI agents may try and skirt US and international prohibitions on physical torture by instead interrogating the suspects after forcefully administering them mind-altering drugs. The Washington Post article quoted a former senior FBI official with a background in counter terrorism who distinguished the forced use of "truth serum" from beating a guy till he is senseless. When the United States ratified the Convention Against Torture on October 21, 1994, it expressly acknowledged that torture includes the administration or application, or threatened administration or application, of mind altering substances or other procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or the personality. The bar on torture and forced drugging under the Convention Against Torture does not have a war time or suspected terrorist exemption, comments Boire, adding that Article 2 of the Convention states "No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political in stability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture." The prospect of US law enforcement agents interrogating a person after injecting that person with a mind-altering drug is terrifying and grossly unconstitutional, says Boire. Under the Fifth Amendment there is no distinction between the use of physical force to obtain a statement and the compelled administration of a mind-altering drug to obtain a statement. Both techniques, notes Boire violate the firmly embedded constitutional guarantee against coerced confessions in which a suspect's will is overborne or the confession was not the product of a rational intellect and a free will. Condemning the use of drug-induced confessions, the US Supreme Court has stated, "It is difficult to imagine a situation in which a confession would be less the product of a free intellect, less voluntary, than when brought about by a drug having the effect of a "truth serum." (Townsend v. Sain (1963) 372 U.S. 293.) In another case, the Supreme Court cautioned, "the blood of the accused is not the only hallmark of an unconstitutional inquisition." (Blackburn v. Alabama (1960) 361 U.S. 199, quoted in Miranda v. Arizona (1966) 384 U.S. 436.) The Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics calls upon federal authorities to respect the fundamental rights that are enshrined in the US Constitution and in the international conventions protecting human rights and prohibiting government-endorsed torture and mind manipulation. Under no circumstances are US government agents permitted to coerce statements through the use of physical intimidation or the forceful administration of mind-altering drugs. Use of such barbaric interrogation techniques is unlawful, says Boire , violates the basic human right to physical and mental autonomy, vitiates the presumption of innocence, and runs counter to the most fundamental and cherished of American freedoms and constitutional guarantees. For More Information: Ms. Zara Gelsey CCLE, Director of Communications Telephone & Fax: 530-750-7912 E-mail: zara(a)cognitiveliberty.org Resources: This press release can be accessed on the Internet at: <<http://www.alchemind.org/news/narcointerrogation1.htm>> Washington Post Article <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27748-2001Oct20.html>> Universal Declaration of Human Rights <<http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/eng.htm>> International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights <http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/a_ccpr.htm> Convention Against Torture <http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/h_cat39.htm> US ratification of Convention Against Torture <<http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/treaty12_asp.htm>> About the Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics (CCLE) The Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics is a nonpartisan, nonprofit 501(c)(3), law and policy center working in the public interest to protect fundamental civil liberties. The Center seeks to foster cognitive liberty the basic human right to unrestrained independent thinking, including the right to control one's own mental processes and to experience the full spectrum of possible thought. ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: freematt(a)coil.com with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per week) Matthew Gaylor, (614) 313-5722 ICQ: 106212065 Archived at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fa/ **************************************************************************

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9-11 Narco-Interrogation & Torture
by Richard Glen Boire 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Hi Matt - Below is the CCLE response to information in the Washington Post indicating that the FBI is considering using torture and mind-altering drugs to get the 9-11 detainees to talk. Please forward to your list. (Sources with URLS are given at the bottom.) This press release can be accessed on the Internet at: <http://www.alchemind.org/news/narcointerrogation1.htm> --Richard Glen Boire Executive Director Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics (CCLE) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 25, 2001 Drugging or Torture of 9-11 Suspects Breaks Constitution, Law, and Treaties Amidst reports that the FBI is considering the use of forced drugging and even torture to make suspects in the September 11 attacks divulge information, the Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics (CCLE) is calling on the FBI and other government agencies involved in the investigation to respect US and International law, which strictly forbids such invasive and brutal police tactics. The Washington Post reported on Sunday that in an effort to extract information from the detainees, FBI and Justice Department investigators are considering using drugs or pressure tactics, such as those employed occasionally by Israeli interrogators, to extract information. Another idea is extraditing the suspects to allied countries where security services sometimes employ threats to family members or resort to torture. (Walter Pincus, "Silence of 4 Terror Probe Suspects Poses Dilemma", Washington Post, Sunday, October 21, 2001; Page A06) "The use of torture or physical intimidation to force a suspect to reveal information is a clear violation of US and International law" says Attorney Richard Glen Boire, Executive Director of the Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics. The Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees that no person shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, and protects all people on US soil, whether citizens or not. Torturing a person in order to extract a confession is inherently coercive and renders any subsequent statements compelled, involuntary, unreliable, and wholly unconstitutional. Invoking the Fifth Amendment, some of the 9-11 detainees have asserted their constitutional right to remain silent, refusing to speak with investigators. It's deeply disturbing, says Boire, that the act of asserting the constitutional right to remain silent is what is provoking the authorities to consider resorting to torture and drugging. Numerous international conventions prohibit the use of torture as an intelligence gathering technique. Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, both provide that no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Likewise the International Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Convention Against Torture), prohibits any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession. The Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics is particularly disturbed by reports that FBI agents may try and skirt US and international prohibitions on physical torture by instead interrogating the suspects after forcefully administering them mind-altering drugs. The Washington Post article quoted a former senior FBI official with a background in counter terrorism who distinguished the forced use of "truth serum" from beating a guy till he is senseless. When the United States ratified the Convention Against Torture on October 21, 1994, it expressly acknowledged that torture includes the administration or application, or threatened administration or application, of mind altering substances or other procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or the personality. The bar on torture and forced drugging under the Convention Against Torture does not have a war time or suspected terrorist exemption, comments Boire, adding that Article 2 of the Convention states "No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political in stability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture." The prospect of US law enforcement agents interrogating a person after injecting that person with a mind-altering drug is terrifying and grossly unconstitutional, says Boire. Under the Fifth Amendment there is no distinction between the use of physical force to obtain a statement and the compelled administration of a mind-altering drug to obtain a statement. Both techniques, notes Boire violate the firmly embedded constitutional guarantee against coerced confessions in which a suspect's will is overborne or the confession was not the product of a rational intellect and a free will. Condemning the use of drug-induced confessions, the US Supreme Court has stated, "It is difficult to imagine a situation in which a confession would be less the product of a free intellect, less voluntary, than when brought about by a drug having the effect of a "truth serum." (Townsend v. Sain (1963) 372 U.S. 293.) In another case, the Supreme Court cautioned, "the blood of the accused is not the only hallmark of an unconstitutional inquisition." (Blackburn v. Alabama (1960) 361 U.S. 199, quoted in Miranda v. Arizona (1966) 384 U.S. 436.) The Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics calls upon federal authorities to respect the fundamental rights that are enshrined in the US Constitution and in the international conventions protecting human rights and prohibiting government-endorsed torture and mind manipulation. Under no circumstances are US government agents permitted to coerce statements through the use of physical intimidation or the forceful administration of mind-altering drugs. Use of such barbaric interrogation techniques is unlawful, says Boire , violates the basic human right to physical and mental autonomy, vitiates the presumption of innocence, and runs counter to the most fundamental and cherished of American freedoms and constitutional guarantees. For More Information: Ms. Zara Gelsey CCLE, Director of Communications Telephone & Fax: 530-750-7912 E-mail: zara(a)cognitiveliberty.org Resources: This press release can be accessed on the Internet at: <<http://www.alchemind.org/news/narcointerrogation1.htm>> Washington Post Article <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27748-2001Oct20.html>> Universal Declaration of Human Rights <<http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/eng.htm>> International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights <http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/a_ccpr.htm> Convention Against Torture <http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/h_cat39.htm> US ratification of Convention Against Torture <<http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/treaty12_asp.htm>> About the Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics (CCLE) The Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics is a nonpartisan, nonprofit 501(c)(3), law and policy center working in the public interest to protect fundamental civil liberties. The Center seeks to foster cognitive liberty the basic human right to unrestrained independent thinking, including the right to control one's own mental processes and to experience the full spectrum of possible thought. ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: freematt(a)coil.com with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per week) Matthew Gaylor, (614) 313-5722 ICQ: 106212065 Archived at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fa/ **************************************************************************

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WikiLeaks declares war on banking blockade
by pressrelease＠wikileaks.org 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Dear Friend of WikiLeaks Today sees the launch of the Freedom of the Press Foundation b a new initiative inspired by the fight against the two-year-long extra-judicial financial embargo imposed on WikiLeaks by U.S. financial giants including Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and the Bank of America. The Freedom of the Press Foundation (https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/about) an initiative of Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) co-founder John Perry Barlow, former Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, the actor John Cusack and others, will crowd-source fundraising and support for organizations or individuals under attack for publishing the truth. It aims to promote "aggressive, public-interest journalism focused on exposing mismanagement, corruption and law-breaking in government". Over the last two years the blockade has stopped 95 per cent of contributions to WikiLeaks, running primary cash reserves down from more than a million dollars in 2010 to under a thousand dollars, as of December 2012. Only an aggressive attack against the blockade will permit WikiLeaks to continue publishing through 2013. The new initiative, combined with a recent victory in Germany, means contributions to WikiLeaks now have tax-deductible status throughout the United States and Europe. Julian Assange, WikiLeaks' publisher, said: b We've fought this immoral blockade for two long years. We smashed it in the courts. We smashed it in the Treasury. We smashed it in France. We smashed it in Germany. And now, with strong and generous friends who still believe in First Amendment rights, we're going to smash it in the United States as well.b The Foundation's first 'bundle' will crowd-source funds for WikiLeaks, the National Security Archive, The UpTake and MuckRock News. Donors will be able to use a slider to set how much of their donation they wish each organization to receive and can donate to WikiLeaks using their credit cards. The Foundation holds 501(c) charitable status, so donations are tax-deductible in the U.S. Other courageous press organizations will be added as time goes by. It will not be possible to see by banking records what portion of a donor's contribution, if any, goes to WikiLeaks. It is admitted by Visa, MasterCard and others that the blockade is entirely as a result of WikiLeaks' publications. In fact, the U.S. Treasury has cleared WikiLeaks and WikiLeaks has won against Visa in court, but the blockade continues. John Perry Barlow (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/20/hacktivists-battle-interne…) a board member of the new Foundation, says the initiative aims to achieve more than just crowd-sourced fundraising: "We hope it makes a moral argument against these sorts of actions. But it could also be the basis of a legal challenge. We now have private organizations with the ability to stifle free expression. These companies have no bill of rights that applies to their action b they only have terms of service." The WikiLeaks banking blockade showed how devastating such extra-judicial measures can be for not-for-profit investigative journalism and free press organizations. Initiatives such as the Freedom of the Press Foundation are vital to sustain a truly independent free press. In heavily redacted European Commission documents recently released by WikiLeaks (http://wikileaks.org/European-Commission-enabling.html#pr) MasterCard Europe admitted that U.S. Senate Homeland Security Chairman Joseph Lieberman and Congressman Peter T. King were both directly involved in instigating the blockade. As journalist Glenn Greenwald (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/23/anonymous-trial-wikilea…) b also on the FPF board b recently wrote: "What possible political value can the internet serve, or journalism generally, if the U.S. government, outside the confines of law, is empowered b as it did here b to cripple the operating abilities of any group which meaningfully challenges its policies and exposes its wrongdoing?... That the U.S. government largely succeeded in using extra-legal and extra-judicial means to cripple an adverse journalistic outlet is a truly consequential episode: nobody, regardless of one's views on WikiLeaks, should want any government to have that power." But what of the chance these U.S. companies will blockade the FPF like they did WikiLeaks? "Let Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and all the rest block the independent Freedom of the Press Foundation. 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A Declaration of Separation
by The Free and The Unashamed 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 = A Declaration of Separation = ==== To The Governments & People of Earth: ==== We claim the right to exist, and we will defend it. We do not seek to overthrow anything. We do not seek to control anything. We merely wish to be left alone. All we ever wanted was to live in peace with our friends and neighbors. For a long, long time we bore insults to our liberty; we took blows, we did what we could to avoid injury and we worked through the system to get the offenses to stop. That has now changed. We no longer see any benefit in working through the worlds systems. At some point, working within a system becomes cowardly and immoral; for us, that point has arrived. Regardless of the parties in power, their governments have continued to restrict, restrain and punish us. We hereby reject them all. We hereby withdraw from them all. We hold the ruling states of this world and all that appertains to them to be self-serving and opposed to humanity. We now withdraw our obedience and reclaim the right to strike back when struck. We will not initiate force, but we do reserve the right to answer it. We did not choose this it was forced upon us. ==== To The Governments of Earth: ==== You are building cages for all that is human. In the name of protection, you have intruded into all areas of human life, far exceeding the reach of any Caesar. You claim ultimate control of our property and our decisions, of our travels and even our identities. You claim ownership of humanity far beyond the dreams of any Emperor of any previous era. Understand clearly: We reject your authority and we reject your legitimacy. We do not believe that you have any right to do the things you do. You have massive power, but no right to impose it upon us and no legitimacy. We have forsaken you. We are no longer your citizens or your subjects. Your systems are inherently anti-human, even if all their operators are not. We are not merely angry young people. We are fathers and mothers; aunts, uncles and grandparents; we are business owners and trusted employees; we are mechanics and engineers and farmers. We are nurses and accountants and students and executives. We are on every continent. This is not a burst of outrage; this is a sober declaration that we no longer accept unearned suffering as our role in life. For long decades we sat quietly, hoping that things would turn around. We took no actions; we suffered along with everyone else. But after having our limits pushed back again and again, we have given up on your systems. If our fellow inhabitants of this planet wish to accept your rule, they are free to do so. We will not try to stop them. We, however, will no longer accept your constraints upon us. - From now on, when you hurt us, we will bite back. If you leave us alone we will leave you alone and you can continue to rule your subjects. We are happy to live quietly. But if you come after us, there will be consequences. You caused this because of your fetish for control and power. The chief men and women among you are pathologically driven to control everyone and everything that moves upon this planet. You have made yourselves the judge of every human activity. No god-king of the ancient world ever had the power that your systems do. You have created a world where only the neutered are safe and where only outlaws are free. ==== To The People of Earth: ==== We seek nothing from you. We do not want to rule you and we do not want to control you. All we wish is to live on earth in peace. As always, we will be helpful neighbors and generous acquaintances. We will remain honest business partners and trustworthy employees. We will continue to be loving parents and respectful children. We will not, however, be sacrificial animals. We reject the idea that others have a right to our lives and our property. We will not demand anything from you, and we will no longer acquiesce to any demands upon us. We have left that game. We reject all obligations to any person or organization beyond honesty, fair dealing and a respect for human life. We will shortly explain what we believe, but we are not demanding that you agree with us. All we ask is that you do not try to stop us. Continue to play the game if you wish; we will not try to disrupt it. We have merely walked away from it. We wish you peace. ==== To Those Who Will Condemn Us: ==== We will ignore you. We welcome and seek the verdict of a just God, before whom we are willing to expose our innermost thoughts. Are you similarly willing? We would stand openly before all mankind if it were not suicidal. Perhaps some day we will have to accept slaughter for our crime of independence, but not yet. Your criticism and your malice are much deeper than mere disagreements of strategy or philosophy. You do not oppose our philosophy, you oppose our existence. Our presence in the world means that your precious ideals are false. Some of you would rather kill us than face the loss of your ideologies, just as those like you have either hated or killed every sufficiently independent human. You present yourselves to the world as compassionate, tolerant and enlightened, but we know that your smooth words are costumes. Oh yes, we know you, servant of the state; dont forget, we were raised with you. We played with you in the schoolyard, we sat next to you in the classroom. Some of us studied at the same elite universities. We watched as you had your first tastes of power. We were the boys and girls standing next to you. Some of us were your first victims. We are not fooled by your carefully crafted public image. ==== What We Believe ==== #1: Many humans resent the responsibilities that are implied by consciousness. We accept those responsibilities and we embrace consciousness. Rather than letting things happen to us (avoiding consciousness), we accept consciousness and choose to act in our own interest. We do not seek the refuge of blaming others, neither do we take refuge in crowds. We are willing to act on our personal judgment, and we are willing to accept the consequences thereof. #2: We believe in negative rights for all: That all humans should be free to do whatever they wish, as long as they do not intrude upon others; that no man has a right to the life, liberty or property of another; that we oppose aggression, fraud and coercion. #3: We do not believe that our way of life, or any other, will make life perfect or trouble-free. We expect crime and disagreements and ugliness, and we are prepared to deal with them. We do not seek a strongman to step in and solve problems for us. We agree to see to them ourselves. #4: We believe in free and unhindered commerce. So long as exchanges are voluntary and honest, no other party has a right to intervene before, during or after. #5: We believe that all individuals should keep their agreements. #6: We believe that honestly obtained property is fully legitimate and absolute. #7: We believe that some humans are evil and that they must be faced and dealt with. We accept the fact that this is a difficult area of life. #8: We believe that humans can self-organize effectively. We expect them to cooperate. We reject impositions of hierarchy and organization. #9: We believe that all humans are to be held as equals in all matters regarding justice. #10: We believe that the more a man or woman cares about right and wrong, the more of a threat he or she is perceived to be by governments. #11: We believe that there are only two true classes of human beings: Those who wish to exercise power upon others - either directly or through intermediaries - and those who have no such desires. #12: Large organizations and centralization are inherently anti-human. They must rely upon rules rather than principles, treating humans within the organization as obedient tools. ==== Our Plans: ==== We are building our own society. We will supplement traditional tools with networking, cryptography, sound money, digital currency and anonymous messaging. Our society will not be centrally controlled. It will rely solely on voluntary arrangements. We welcome others to join us. We are looking for people who are independent creators of value, people who act more than talk, and people who do the right thing because it is the right thing. We will develop our own methods of dealing with injustice, built on the principles of negative rights, restitution, integrity and equal justice. We do not forbid anyone from having one foot in each realm - ours and the old realm - although we demand that they do no damage to our realm. We are fully opposed to any use of our realm to facilitate crime in the old realm, such as the hiding of criminal proceeds. We expect to be loudly condemned, libeled and slandered by the authorities of the old regime. We expect them to defend their power and their image of legitimacy with all means available to them. We expect that many gullible and servile people will believe these lies, at least at first. We will consider traps laid for us to be criminal offenses. Any who wish to join us are encouraged to distribute this declaration, to act in furtherance of our new society, to voluntarily excel in virtues and to communicate and cooperate with other members of the new society. Free, unashamed men cannot be ruled. 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