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From old Phrack: The Feasibility of Anarchy in America
by Georgi Guninski 21 Oct '17

21 Oct '17

FYI: http://phrack.org/issues/62/16.html The Feasibility of Anarchy in America

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Fwd: Re: From old Phrack: The Feasibility of Anarchy in America
by Jim b 21 Oct '17

21 Oct '17

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How to shut down the US Federal criminal "Justice" System, for $10-15 million per year.
by jim bell 21 Oct '17

21 Oct '17

A few years back, probably 2011 (while I was still in prison) I thought of a marvelous way to virtually destroy the Federal criminal "justice" system. At least, the people who make up that system will certainly think it is being destroyed. I mentioned it a few years ago. It might cost little more than $10 million per year. There are many high-profile cases which would militate in favor of initiating such a system. One, Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to two life terms for, ostensibly, running the Silk Road website. Another Kim Dotcom, who is threatened with extradition in New Zealand. Julian Assange, whose story is too well known here to need to describe it. Edward Snowden, who is presumably still in Moscow for leaking a huge quantity of NSA information. There are also major drug cases, such as El Chapo, Joaquin Guzman. In some of these cases, the defendant should have had a lot of money, such as Ulbricht, although it was lost to the Feds. Kim Dotcom may still be rich. Julian Assange could probably raise a lot of money, Snowden might do so as well. Guzman, and probably many other Mexican drug cartels, could easily raise millions per year, if they actually wanted to do this. Maybe even Martha Stewart would hold some residual grudges. Anyone who thinks he is at risk of Federal criminal prosecution would want to see the system essentially shut down. How? Well, let's go to the statistics. Last year, there were 77,152 new criminal defendants in the Federal criminal system, see http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/28/federal-criminal-prosecutio… . According to https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-publications/rese… , "In fiscal year 2016 the vast majority of offenders (97.3%) pleaded guilty." If that figure can be believed, then there were presumably no more than 2.8% x 77,152 criminal trials, or only 2160 trials. Perhaps this statistic would surprise most people. I think the average sentence is about 3 years. The ability of the Federal criminal system to actually put on criminal trials is very limited. There are only a limited number of courts, and judges, and prosecutors, and this system must share space and time with civil trials. It is quite possible that it would be very difficult to put on much more than those 2160 trials. That court space has to be shared with civil cases, as well. All, or at least most of those people had a right to a jury trial. If all, or most of those defendants were somehow motivated to demand such a trial, rather than plead guilty, havoc would ensue. Even if the number of trials could increase, say to about 3000, then the remainder, 77,152-3000, or 74,152, would have to walk free, because the system could not possibly try them all. The limitation is not merely court space: Trials are "expensive" in preparation, research, and evidence. And that led me to yet another "awfully wonderful, wonderfully awful" idea, to paraphrase Dr. Seuss and the Grinch. What would motivate all of these people to demand a jury trial? Well, currently they are threatened with much more punishment if they plead not guilty and demand a trial, and lose. Like a variant on the "Prisoner's dilemma", each one is forced to conclude that it is better to 'take the deal' rather than resist, and demand a trial. What would change this system around? Well, the lot of a prisoner in Federal prison is poor, if he has no money. No money, no commissary. No drinks, cookies, crackers, soups, candies, etc. I know: I spent 13 years in prison, time I shouldn't have spent. Many enter prison broke. What if they were offered, say, $3000 if they agreed to demand a jury trial, and thus forced the government to actually put them on trial, form a jury, and put on a trial. If the government dropped the case, or reduced the charges to something that didn't require a trial, the defendant would get nothing. If we assume that the Federal court system could put on 3,000 trials, one defendant per trial typically, the cost for such a project would be 3,000 x $3,000, or 9 million dollars. It would be limited by the number of actual trials the Feds could put on each year, multiplied by the dollar amount that would have to be paid to motivate a defendant to demand a trial. Tell each new Federal defendant that if he pleads not guilty, and insists on a jury trial, and if he actually gets that trial, he will be paid the $3,000. Guilty or not guilty, it won't matter. Have a trial, get the money, simple as that. I am merely guessing what the 'proper' figure would be, in order to motivate such people adequately. But if most people were already demanding a jury trial, and tens of thousands of fellow defendants were being freed due to lack of ability to give them trials, it shouldn't take a lot of money to induce these people to 'stand in line', and demand a trial. After all, they would know that if they didn't get the money, that would mean that they would have been freed. And that's the goal, isn't it? At least for the defendant, that is. You can imagine what would happen. The Feds would have to ration trials. Only the most "worthy" defendants would get prosecuted. And yes, there are definitely some worthy defendants. I met a few!! But the total number of people who could enter the Federal prison system per year would drop from perhaps 75,000 per year to 3,000 per year. This year, there are about 185,300 Federal prisoners. Drop the input to 3,000 per year, and the total population could easily drop to 20,000, and perhaps to as low as 10,000, after a few years. Dozens of prisons across the nation would have to close, maybe well over 100. It costs approximately $40,000 to feed and house a Federal prisoner. Most of that money probably goes to prison staff salaries and supplies, and most of the rest goes to prison construction. Drop the total Federal prison population from 185,000 to 15,000, and they will save about 170,000 multiplied by $40,000, or about $6.8 billion dollars per year. Doesn't this sound like a worthy goal? We may speculate about who would be motivated to fund such a project. Give them the ability to donate anonymously, and they might act. There might arguably be 200,000 people per year who fear some sort of Federal prosecution. A donation of $50 per year, average, would raise $10 million. It would not take many tax evaders, resistors, or avoiders to foot the bill. People who resented a prior prosecution would add up, as well. Why not? Jim Bell

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Free Speech - welcome America, to your local Liberal Democrat Lefty Loonies
by Zenaan Harkness 20 Oct '17

20 Oct '17

America's Liberal Lefty's to be are just so tolerant of human rights, like freedom of speech and freedom to associate - it goes with the territory of free dope and Razer-backed Antifa street-Jihad I guess: ** College Republicans meeting hijacked by unhinged protestors screaming they reject “right of assembly” (Video) http://redpilltimes.com/college-republicans-meeting-hijacked-by-unhinged-pr… “In liberal left, crazy land, free speech is only acceptable when the speech is promoting liberal left causes. Anything else is deemed “evil” and must be silenced, with violence if necessary. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcTJ-YgjfYw …” Demoncrats, of course, are absolutely squeeky clean at all times: ** EXPOSED: Amazon executive wanted Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon to “show their t*ts” http://redpilltimes.com/exposed-amazon-executive-wanted-big-little-lies-sta… But at least the "elite" in the USA are putting their priorities in the right order: ** Ivy League University set to spend $100 million to increase diversity of faculty http://redpilltimes.com/ivy-league-university-set-to-spend-100-million-to-i…

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Re: "CO2 close to lowest levels ever for our planet"
by Zenaan Harkness 19 Oct '17

19 Oct '17

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 12:53:56PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > On 10/15/2017 10:50 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > This is one of the best put together summaries of the “Global > > Warming” (originally global cooling, now PC "climate change") debate > > I've ever seen: > > Damn! Even I understood that!! Thanks! Ric Here's an even easier one - see the picture on page 8 (another little doc put together by Gil May) - 4 pine trees grown in controlled conditions with varying CO2 levels. Plants really needed the CO2 from the industrial revolution - otherwise the levels were quite literally precariously low for life on this planet. I'd like to see how long we'll be "right" for going forward with the amount of plant food we've pumped into our atmosphere. At least we're nearly out of the red zone...

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[RUS] Russia-gate proof finally - Explosive story of Kremlin plot to undermine US Democracy using post-election puppy ads (+ other "news")
by Zenaan Harkness 19 Oct '17

19 Oct '17

Disclosure finally! As in, damn this has been a ridiculous and long time coming plot conclusion (please do ignore the actual $100 million dollar kickbacks to the Clinton Foundation for selling 20% of the USA's nuclear fuel to Russia - nothing to see there, folks!) - Putin and Medvedev themselves, directly colluded against Democracy itself, to ensure the election of Donald “Donat Trumpenovich” Trump to the US presidency, using, you guessed it, post-election puppy ads. Even the dollar amounts involved are disclosed. This is quite the leak. Here's all the gory, SHOCKING details, Putin-Medvedev meeting transcript included (actually, even Sergey Lavrov was involved): ** EXCLUSIVE: Explosive Recording of Nefarious Kremlin Plot to Undermine US Democracy Using Post-Election Puppy Ads https://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413… ------------------------------------------------------------ by Rob Slane on Wed, Oct 18, 2017 An explosive new tape has just been released of a discussion that is alleged to have taken place in the Kremlin in June 2016. The recording is said to feature the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, the Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov, with the three men discussing how they could interfere in the US election to ensure the election of Donald Trump. A transcript is below. Nothing to see, move along now ... ** The Real Russia-Gate Will Take Down Hillary Clinton https://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413… by Tom Luongo on Tue, Oct 17, 2017 Hillary Clinton is going to prison. Mark my words. And Julian Assange is the architect of her destruction. How do I know this? Simple. The dam is breaking. This morning’s article in The Hill lays out in no uncertain terms the collusion between Hillary’s State Department and high-level Russian officials in selling a large portion of the United States’ uranium production to Rosatom, the Russian state nuclear energy giant. The whole article is damning. I can’t quote any one part because it’s all explosive. You should read it in full and consider the gravity what it lays out. http://theduran.com/breaking-senate-judiciary-committee-launches-probe-into… BREAKING: Senate Judiciary Committee launches probe into Russian nuclear bribery case http://theduran.com/breaking-bombshell-russia-uranium-one-reports-has-fbi-c… Of course, Putin is always to blame for the USA's corruption and frail flailing failing hegemony: http://theduran.com/breaking-down-the-uranium-one-scandal-once-again-vladim… As shocking as it may seem I doubt that ‘Putin’ is in contact and personally directing the affairs of every person living in Russia. Who could ever predict this?: George Soros prepares for all out war. Pours $18 billion of his own cash into his Open Society Foundations http://theduran.com/george-soros-prepares-for-all-out-war-pours-18-billion-… It looks like Dr. Evil is pushing for a final neo-liberal destabilization offensive before the 90 year old billionaire finally turns to dust. The globalist billionaire who has overthrown governments with violent coups (Ukraine), and seeded division and hate among Americans (BLM and ANTIFA) is gearing up for battle with the nation state anti-globalist movement sweeping the globe. George Soros has transferred billions of his personal wealth into his NGO Open Society Foundation. The non-profit is one of the world’s top donors to “open-borders” causes, and constantly funds illegal (and often violent) regime change operations. … Here's a little tick tock for ya: ** America's Global Dishonesty Will End the $US as a Reserve Currency https://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413… ------------------------------------------------------------ by Paul Craig Roberts on Wed, Oct 18, 2017 Readers at home and around the world want to know what to make of the announcement that China henceforth will conduct oil purchases and sales in gold-backed Chinese currency. Is this an attack by Russia and China on the US dollar? Will the dollar weaken and collapse from being discarded as the currency in which oil is transacted? These and other questions are on readers’ minds. Below is my opinion: The US dollar’s value depends on whether central banks, corporations, and individuals are content to hold their assets or wealth in dollars. If they are, it does not matter what currency is used to transact oil. If they are not, it does not matter if all oil is transacted in dollars. Why? Absolutely NOTHINGK TO SEE HERE - MOVE THE FRUCK ALONG ALREADY‼!‼ - if you DARE to read, the Israeli Secret Intelligence Service (you WILL ignore the acronym) will have your arse with a stick of TNT or a brief electrical heart- stopper: ** US Air Force AIRLIFTS! ISIS Fighters From Raqqa to Fight Russians - Russian TV Report https://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413… ------------------------------------------------------------ by Justin Huebner on Tue, Oct 17, 2017 Russian TV keeps hammering away at the US, accusing them of all manner of double-dealing and treachery - deliberately helping ISIS hang in there in Syria, despite the fact that their situation is hopeless militarily. US aide to ISIS has become a very loud refrain on Russian TV, covered in detail on a daily basis. Comments from the Ministry of Defense and top commentators are literally dripping with angry sarcasm:

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Conjecturally unsafe RSA primes $p=27a^2+27a+7$
by Georgi Guninski 18 Oct '17

18 Oct '17

We got strong numerical evidence that primes of the form $p=27a^2+27a+7$ are unsafe for cryptographic reasons since they can be found in the factorization. Consider the following generic factoring algorithm for factoring $n$ which is divisible by $p$. Suppose you known an elliptic curve in Weierstrass form with known multiple $m$ of the order of $E$ modulo $p$. Let $\psi_n$ denote the $n$-th division polynomial of $E$. Choose random integer $X$. If $X$ is the $x$ coordinate on $E$ modulo $p$ then $\psi_m(X) \equiv 0 \pmod{p}$. If it is not, $\psi_m(X)$ need not vanish modulo $p$. By selecting few random $X$ we probabilistically find $p$ from $\gcd(n,\psi_m(X))$. [This question](https://mathoverflow.net/questions/283758/conjecture-the-number-o… conjectures that if $p=27a^2+27a+7$ and $kronecker(2k^3,p)= -1$ then the order of $y^2=x^3+2k^3$ is $p$. In this case $n$ is multiple of the order, so we can use the above algorithm by trying in addition random $k$. We found $200$ bit factor with pari/gp in just few seconds. > Are these conjecturally unsafe RSA primes known?

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"CO2 close to lowest levels ever for our planet"
by Zenaan Harkness 18 Oct '17

18 Oct '17

This is one of the best put together summaries of the “Global Warming” (originally global cooling, now PC "climate change") debate I've ever seen: ∙ the scare graphs used to create alarm ∙ the big picture graphs showing the ruse in all its glory -And- including the links to original sources, NOAA etc... Mr May has put some real care into this - as good as it gets. Enjoy :) Z ----- Forwarded message from Gil May <gilmay97(a)gmail.com> ----- From: Gil May <gilmay97(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 12:30:22 +1000 Subject: "CO2 close to lowest levels ever for our planet" *"CO2 close to lowest levels ever for our planet"* *So why are we spending billions on renewables that can never be cost effective?* *THESE CLIMATE CHANGE GRAPHS – SHOW HOW IT REALLY WORKS* *If you follow the graphs and understand their direction – the end will astonish you.* *See the attached* ----- End forwarded message -----

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Re: [Cryptography] [FORGED] Re: Severe flaw in WPA2 protocol leaves Wi-Fi traffic open to eavesdropping
by grarpamp 17 Oct '17

17 Oct '17

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 12:22 AM, Henry Baker <hbaker1(a)pipeline.com> wrote: > Biggest problem IMHO is Android. There doesn't appear to be any way -- short of a class-action lawsuit -- to force the Android phone vendors to supply a firmware upgrade. They're already 12-24 months behind on CVE's. And I doubt that Google is willing to upgrade every Android phone on its own. Google only upgrades its own phones. Other makers only upgrade their own. The problem is the phone and closed hardware manufacturers, not particularly Google Android, other than not forcing them, and themselves, to open up more. Mail, call, and write them, tell them you want #OpenHW or you're not buying their latest crap. > Cyanogen is out of the Android OS business; LineageOS Yes, regardless of manufacturer, provided you have an unlocked or rootable bootloader, you can backup and update Android to the latest available official Google Android version, and in the process wipe out all the bloatware other makers included. Advised to check binary blobs / closed hardware beforehand especially if upgrading major versions. Lineage is the simple way to do similar. https://developer.android.com/ https://lineageos.org/ https://www.xda-developers.com/ https://postmarketos.org/ https://osmocom.org/projects/baseband https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_custom_Android_distributions

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Re: jimbellproject.org is looking for volunteers
by Cecilia Tanaka 17 Oct '17

17 Oct '17

On Oct 16, 2017 10:24, "\0xDynamite" <dreamingforward(a)gmail.com> wrote: (That's how wiki works if you don't know -- you're encouraged to change it towards better info. My ability to edit may be limited though as they've banned me on a hacker site for providing activist, engineering, and political info -- apparently they don't know that being a true hacker is a POLITICAL ACT, but hey maybe they're just high-schoolers.) You were banned for only 3 (three) days, Mark. And it occurred after the biggest of your overreactions, full of offenses and curses to all the members of the list. :P Please, consider to begin and use your own repository, dear. I am also thinking about beginning a small repository of Sci-Fi books, movies and comics. I loved when Mirimir, John and others here had discussions about Sci-Fi. In this list, we can find great suggestions of political and anarchist books too. I would like to make a little repository for them too. Take care. Peace.

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