October 2016 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Global warming/climate change
by YoungerDryas 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

> Zenaan Harkness: > I see no one disputing climate change. Here is some clarification. Joe Rogan Experience #725 - Graham Hancock & Randall Carlson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDejwCGdUV8 Watch/listen to the whole thing but the first 15min should be enough context to drive further interest. A snip from Randall Carlson: "We're not really seeing the genesis of civilization, we're seeing the rebooting of civilization, in the aftermath of these [global warming and cooling] events." Joe Rogan Experience #606 - Randall Carlson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Cp7DrvNLQ This one goes in depth more on climate and adjacent science. Jumping to 18 or 19 minutes should be enough context to drive further interest. Snips: "We're in the infancy of understanding the climate of this planet." "My concern is that we're going to get so focused on carbon change that we're not looking at any of these other factors." Joe Rogan Experience #501 - Randall Carlson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R31SXuFeX0A For those who want to start at the beginning. Skip to 6min to avoid radio ads. All the Graham Hancock ones are wonderful as well, if anyone wants to dig in deepah. These guys are cpunks. #For those who avoid video: http://youtube-dl.org/ #Please God, water my plants with your teardrops.

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Astonishing Lie by Hillary regarding Trump "Choke"
by jim bell 12 Jan '17

12 Jan '17

I'm really floored about how disgustingly low Hillary (and her cronies) will go to criticize Trump. A few months ago, both were invited to see the Mexican president; only Trump went. When Trump returned, he was asked by the MSM (mainstream media) if he had discussed who would pay for the wall. Trump said that he hadn't. For a few days, there was criticism of Trump for FAILING to negotiate this matter. That criticism re-surfaced within the last day or so (October 20), with Hillary claiming Trump had "choked". Well, as radio commentator Paul Harvey would have said, here's the rest of the story. It turns out that there is an American Federal law called the Logan Act which prohibits private citizens from engaging in diplomatic activity with foreign nations. It's been around for 200+ years, and violation is a felony...although there have never been any convictions and only one indictment in that entire time. It does not prohibit a person from merely meeting with a foreign government official, just engaging in diplomacy with him. (What amounts to "diplomacy" has not been tested, due to the virtual lack of prosecutions.) Hillary Clinton is supposed to have at one point been a lawyer. Not a good lawyer, I have to conclude. In fact, she must have been a very bad lawyer. But she has now outdone herself for criticizing Trump...for Trump's FAILURE to commit a Federal felony! You see, she has actually claimed Trump "choked": That Trump DIDN'T negotiate this matter, apparently not to Hillary's satisfaction. So, indeed, Hillary is blasting Trump for FAILING to engage in diplomacy with the Mexican president: For FAILING to commit a felony! And don't try to suggest that maybe, Trump did indeed secretly try to negotiate with the Mexican president, but simply failed to get an agreement. While such a hypothetical scenario might be called a violation of the Logan Act, at the same time it couldn't ALSO be called "choking": To raise the issue during the meeting, but to merely fail to get positive results wouldn't be a "choke", of course. So, by calling Trump's supposed actions (or lack of actions?) "choking", Hillary has essentially admitted that she DIDN'T believe that Trump had attempted to negotiate, and thus had not violated the Logan Act. But others in the media were even more clueless. And it's not that I'm the first person to raise this issue: Do a Google search for 'hillary trump mexico wall Logan', and you can even find some articles within the first few days of Trump's Mexican visit, claiming that Trump DID violate the Logan Act. If Trump had actually said he negotiated, you can be sure that Hillary would have accused him of committing a crime. But no, he didn't, so now she's accusing him of, in effect, NOT COMMITTING a crime. Failure to negotiate as a private citizen with the President of Mexico. Failure to commit a Federal felony. How awful! How cynical can a person be to try to prepare not one, but in fact TWO separate, and opposite traps for her opponent: If Trump tried to negotiate, she would accuse him of a crime. If Trump failed to try to negotiate, she would, and in fact did, accuse him of "choking". Is it possible to engage in a more disgusting and devious fraud in front of the entire world, and not be called out on it? How dishonest can a person get? To be sure, I'm still going to vote for Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate, as I always do. But I feel I must challenge anyone who would otherwise vote for Hillary Clinton: Do you feel proud that your chosen candidate is such a massive liar, fraudster, influence-peddler, scam-artist, and deviously corrupt woman? "And those are her GOOD qualities", I hear her supporters fawning. Jim Bell

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Scientific Progress
by coresamples＠sigaint.org 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

> Juan: > Your climate 'scientists' are highly paid university parasites, > pandering to 'progressive' eco fascists. The church of "progress" is the religion of the emotionally defective, the spiritually dyslexic, and the philosophically depraved. To put it into other terms: If you want happiness in this crazy world, you do not talk sex to eunuchs. These "scientists" are emotional, spiritual, and philisophical eunuchs.

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Assange assasinated?
by Cannon 16 Dec '16

16 Dec '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/790074503472746496 We will release a statement tomorrow about Assange. Our editor is safe and still in full command despite reduced communications with staff. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJYDVxwAAoJEAYDai9lH2mwwUkP/jhyG7TBpWGHQ+9NULWMW0Ap jTy9A0bzG7mGfO3YfEwceyon6o8CPHuONHtr6Ec4AX8yoM7HDcQDOPzxWQyQP+2J xVvj/VE1g4KgsddoggK4gAfcc+XMegIO4BEBOVdreYWPiRkHrnGsFdTp0FoYkOTC 6j4WIdC2RzYZIslOBFcyLrFICS31C4RIUY3pBiGovfk3X586hDTL12kh8MIygpAs KijZo36fExKgAQf+pCQfU2GUAXtuXue3n4gOUvbhM7uDp0baV4Cmi4R64XkcNdU7 cTAqJExHuiInKzIOnYhAQz5FUqOY5axjwtR5DKwUTUbOWTVrEfsD8hkdllboGJ7a pKx3Blk6j0328c9Zs/tAknRWM578KUl8fULYcJ58eRnp3crTdicRKdv1uDf/G+yb 0gNBQG/MxLAxOsOJXmWspBuo3rBQIgWxI59RuATRltMWSXLi8K/bXbk8CniFV505 QTGyMh++2p3zI9iaxa/VZ/VlJsKIW4Q1q34PkvX9slETgaFJhD11OYGnnWBIdvL/ K/0b8Y+HZp58PWNDOrLFiRNBtrMRNTSXc2pR0yLsWA/He00ya3Xi4ct4iPn2rTLP NwwYHcl5BCe+No7vPK9cAG6pEJxKmcapCjHiO3vbwriRB/8Y8giwsFEtNYdEoaeZ hz3H/2nA3+uFepbnkKY3 =6Bzp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Cannon PGP Fingerprint: 2BB5 15CD 66E7 4E28 45DC 6494 A5A2 2879 3F06 E832 Email: cannon(a)cannon-ciota.info

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Rising carbon dioxide is greening the Earth - but it's not all good news
by Zenaan Harkness 10 Dec '16

10 Dec '16

Thought someone posted a link like this back in the April thread - could not find that, so posting here. Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels is a genuinely good thing. CO2 is making Earth greener—for now http://climate.nasa.gov/news/2436/co2-is-making-earth-greenerfor-now/ If you squint a bit and read a little too quickly, the caption on the image reads "This image shows the change in leaf across the globe from 1982-2015." which bodes really well for peace pipes around the world. And please, read carefully the last paragraph - even scientists know their "scientific models" are flawed and always "being improved" (aka, changing, since the previous iteration was wrong). At least some of them acknowledge this fact. CO2 fertilization greening the Earth http://phys.org/news/2016-04-co2-fertilization-greening-earth.html Global Warming Produced a Greener, More Fruitful Planet http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/global-warming-produced-greener… Rise in CO2 has 'greened Planet Earth' http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36130346 Rising carbon dioxide is greening the Earth - but it’s not all good news http://theconversation.com/rising-carbon-dioxide-is-greening-the-earth-but-…

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moving on
by Riad S. Wahby 05 Dec '16

05 Dec '16

Folks, After 15+ years running a cypherpunks node, it's quitting time for me. I plan to delete the mailman aliases on September 30th. If anyone is interested in migrating the list to his or her machine before then, that would be great; let's discuss on-list. -=rsw

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Hi, Boyce! (was Fwd: tor-talk subscription update)
by Cecilia Tanaka 05 Dec '16

05 Dec '16

Lovely sweet guy. Hope he is honest enough to expose exactly who were the people banned in tor-talk list. Boyce, please, just pro-Jake people were banned or it was just a lovely coincidence? How about a bit of transparency, please? Thanks in advance! Cecilia ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Griffin Boyce" <griffin(a)cryptolab.net> Date: Jun 22, 2016 4:46 PM Subject: tor-talk subscription update To: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 To whom it may concern, You have been removed from the tor-talk mailing list for persistent off-topic posts and I encourage you to spend your time elsewhere. Do not re-subscribe to the list. best of luck, Griffin - -- “We have to create; it is the only thing louder than destruction.” ~ Andrea Gibson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJXaup/AAoJEAPPSgqzx5pjRBAH/jtlRw70yVDL9d62mgHPA3uo fiab3QDDjw04tKMbEGqwGEEHpOKn3nP6bynxGiwUi2Xsp7f3HHi1UD7c79n9cFsp RHqRNpYvLP81eABIpcany0Z2mmI9uVZs0ccirVMcq3YK10ADtG7zYujl6KBgCDWl M6FGWnmLEFa8vw24ia+6lEukARJ2nXTIFMrDisfbQ7bkJFSHaGGsenuy66yde2zS uECH1C/98f5RtZDv7NJJtTebbAPZMSnBQVYU3//ossTG7OFI60EPYAPH3xPdpS3/ zuocWagHiL1KYvqkoxCm3qWv7k9c7CvUhEJXgy4dhGQEljDdu3UsVsV8PPheDcM= =lKWK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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There is no greater school than a revolution. "Ten Days That Shook the World" John Reed
by Zenaan Harkness 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

Enjoy :) http://isreview.org/issue/82/education-literacy-and-russian-revolution "THERE IS no greater school than a revolution. It is therefore not surprising that some of the most innovative, radical, and successful literacy campaigns are those that are born out of revolutions—when, on a mass scale, people fight for a better society. In revolutionary periods, ideas matter as never before, and literacy needs no motivation as it becomes a truly liberatory endeavor. Thus, from the trenches of the US Civil War and the Russian front to the battle lines of El Salvador, there are innumerable stories of soldiers teaching each other to read newspapers in the midst of war and famine. One of the most inspiring examples of the revolutionary transformation of literacy and education is the Russian Revolution of 1917."

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Iceland: Pirate Party Projected to Win Election
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Nov '16

02 Nov '16

Let's see what the day brings. "Any change is a good change" at this point, some might say :) Iceland’s Radical Pirate Party Projected to Win Election https://sputniknews.com/politics/201610291046863667-pirate-prty-iceland/

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Appelbaum, CDC, CCC
by Georgi Guninski 02 Nov '16

02 Nov '16

Appelbaum, CDC, CCC http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/73441-appelbaum-banned-f… Appelbaum banned from Debian events after sexual misconduct charges === Appelbaum has also been asked to leave other hacker groups like the Cult of the Dead Cow, Noisebridge, and will not be allowed to attend events organised by the hacker group Chaos Computer Club. === Are journos exaggerating at least for CCC?

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