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IMPORTANT Imposters and community
by kamoshin 01 Dec '18

01 Dec '18

Hey Everyone, It has come to my attention that there are people trying to impersonate me. Trying to claim Bitcoins promised to me years ago which I left to a community member for safe keeping. I do not fully recall who'm I interacted with back in the 2000's as my memory is poor. Though lately for some reason being around exactly 10 years ago I am recalling some interactions. So if what I describe reminds you of a conversation please email me. As I do not wish to risk my property getting in bad hands. I have everything I need to prove my claim. I have recalled a lot of things regarding the early days of Bitcoin which are not public knowledge. Ask me anything? I can as well if need be agree to an in person meeting if it is required to prove my claim. Though I would rather keep my anonymity unless the community really wants me to become more public. I could see myself as a more open figure like the rest of the blockchain community & developers as the times have changed since the 2000's. In 10 years Bitcoin has gotten a lot more mainstream and we are ready to move forward to the next level of implementation. I have a few ideas ;) Best, Kamoshi Natosato

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William Thomas Walsh: “I commenced my researches with a prejudice in favour of the poor persecuted Jews” - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 30 Nov '18

30 Nov '18

>From le Wiki: William Thomas Walsh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thomas_Walsh William Thomas Walsh (September 11, 1891 – February 22, 1949),[1] born in Waterbury, Connecticut, was an historian, educator and author; he was also an accomplished violinist. His educational background included a B.A. from Yale University (1913). Walsh received an honorary Litt.D. from Fordham University. Life Born in Waterbury, Connecticut on September 11, 1891, William Thomas Walsh attended local schools and received a bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1913. the following year, he married Helen Gerard Sherwood; they had six children. He began his career as a reporter, working at papers in Waterbury and Hartford, Connecticut, New York City, and on the Philadelphia Public Ledger. During the last year of the Great War he held the position of Connecticut State Fuel Administrator.[1] In 1918, he took up teaching English in Hartford’s public high school. From 1919 to 1933, Walsh was head of the English Department at the Roxbury School in Cheshire, Connecticut. He then became an English professor at the Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart.[1] In 1941, he was awarded the Laetare Medal by the University of Notre Dame.[2] Walsh received international attention for his biographies Isabella of Spain and Philip II. In 1944, he was given Spain's highest cultural honor, the Cross of Comendador of the Civil Order of Alfonso the Wise, and also the 1944 Catholic Literary Award of the Gallery of Living Catholic Authors. Walsh's work was set apart by its well-researched, documented, footnoted, and faithful account of history. Heralded for his uncompromising devotion to truth and accuracy, Walsh's frank retelling of many sensitive but nevertheless historical events elicited both acclaim as well as personal attacks from detractors within the Jewish community. For instance, Jewish writer Cecil Roth claimed that Walsh's recounting of events in his acclaimed book The Last Crusader: Isabella of Spain, which had earned Walsh Spain's highest cultural honor, the Cross of Comendador of the Civil Order of Alfonso the Wise, had crossed the line. Roth accused Walsh of being an "anti-Semite." Roth's charge had followed Walsh's factual repudiation of the works of Lea and Loeb, whose account of the Jews in Spain during Isabella's reign held popular sway but had been challenged as historically dubious, if not anti-Catholic. Walsh's famous reply to Roth's ad-hominem attack was published in "The Dublin Review, A Quarterly and Critical Journal, October 1932, London: Burns Oates and Washbourne Ltd., pp. 232-25," wherein Walsh wrote: "Dr. Roth begins by accusing me of reading Spanish history 'with the eyes of the wildest anti-Semite'. There are two errors here. The term 'anti-Semite' is inaccurate. Surely Dr. Roth does not mean that I am against the Arabs, Babylonians, Assyrians, Phoenicians, and other Semitic peoples? He really means that I hate Jews. And that is false. If anything, I commenced my researches with a prejudice in favour of the poor persecuted Jews. It was a popular prejudice that shrank considerably in the strong light of historical truth. . . ." One of Walsh's most popular books was Our Lady of Fatima, which to this day is considered one of the best and most accurate accounts of the event. The account was based on his own personal interviews with visionary Sister Lucia and many of the visionaries family members and acquaintances. Bibliography WTWalsh.jpg The Mirage of the Many (1910) Isabella of Spain, the last crusader New York, R. M. McBride & company, 1930. Out of the Whirlwind (novel, 1935) Philip II (1937) Shekels (blank-verse play, 1937) Lyric Poems (1939) Characters of the Inquisition New York, P.J. Kennedy & Sons [c1940] "Gold" (short story) Babies, not Bullets! (booklet, 1940) Thirty Pieces of Silver (a play in verse) Saint Teresa of Ávila (1943) La actual situatión de España (booklet, 1944) El casa crucial de España (booklet, 1946) Our Lady of Fátima (Doubleday, 1947) ISBN 978-0-385-02869-1 The Carmelites of Compiègne (a play in verse) Saint Peter, the Apostle (1948)

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The Forgotten Story of the Julian Assange of the 1970s
by jim bell 30 Nov '18

30 Nov '18

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/28/assange-wikileaks-prosec… Philip Agee.

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Cyberpunk, Stasi Spies Youth SubCulture
by grarpamp 30 Nov '18

30 Nov '18

East German secret police guide for identifying youth subcultures (1985) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18532842 https://twitter.com/industrial_book/status/1066411965004812288 https://twitter.com/TurnerMarko/status/1066830331288973314 x220 3 hours ago [-] One subculture I got somewhat involved in was the internet cyberpunk-hacker culture, until about a year ago. Communicating through 4chan threads, alt-chans, and IRC channels, these users were always interesting to read from on various topics such as cyberpunk media, politics, current events, hacking, software, fashion, and travel. I'm dismayed that it petered out. I see the cyberpunk form of art and worldview as more useful with each passing year. reply peterwwillis 23 minutes ago [-] What was the cyberpunk worldview? Afaik it was something along the lines of "the world is run by vast networks of shadowy dystopian entities and we must use cryptography to resist this so we can have freedom" (basically, Information Technology libertarians) reply westmeal 18 minutes ago [-] That's the cypherpunks. Cyberpunks are 'high tech low lifes'. reply wavefunction 19 minutes ago [-] That's cypherpunks. reply malvosenior 2 hours ago [-] Do you have any theories as to why it petered out? Like you I feel it's more relevant today than ever before but also can't find a growing or healthy community with that mindset anymore. reply x220 2 hours ago [-] Aside from conspiracy-theorizing about current events (and I don't use that term pejoratively), people tended to discuss the same topics. New cyberpunk media doesn't come out very often, so people tended to talk about the same books, movies, manga, anime, videogames, and fashion. Some of the alt-chans with dedicated cyberpunk boards would run out of ideas to talk about pretty quickly, since there weren't enough posts that the website had to prune old threads like 4chan did. Another hypothesis I have is that cyberpunk media is not as captivating as it used to be since we arguably live in a cyberpunk world. In America there is unimaginable wealth inequality, with some cities having insane costs of rent for cramped apartments, with access to the best technology and medicine in the world but only if you can afford it. We also don't have to use media to imagine a world where digital corporations have a huge amount of power over daily life and the government spies on everyone all the time since both of those things are happening right now. I think we live in a cyberpunk world, it just doesn't have huge buildings, neon lights, and widespread punk fashion. I came in contact with a few guys who wanted to make another alt-chan with a different model (see what other users are typing in real-time, and all posts get deleted early in the morning) but it never materialized as far as I can tell. Edit: do any of you want to join an online cyberpunk community? reply ebullientocelot 1 hour ago [-] I don't think your two points are mutually exclusive, and suspect they are both correct to one degree or another. I live in a second-tier city working for a second-tier company and my daily life is already fairly cyberpunk! During the day I actively work on the advertising economy surveillance state, and at home I do things like install the Pi-Hole for my family and try to help anybody who will listen reduce their target profile for the eye in the sky. I mention this, particularly that my city and company are second-tier, because you don't have to work at FAANGM in SV to experience these things. There is definitely a sense in which I would be interested in at least checking out a cyberpunk community, but as other have mentioned, it's more or less culture now. reply ip26 1 hour ago [-] Another challenge is when your alt culture goes mainstream, now it's just culture. The alt community has to tack deeper to the extremes to stay alt. You don't need an alt board to talk about current events (aside from conspiracy theories) reply ebullientocelot 59 minutes ago [-] While this is true, I still experience a little of that early-exposure-to-the-Internet sense of wonder when I stumble across a community that's off the beaten path technologically. sdf.org's Gopher service was such an experience in the past couple years. reply starbeast 2 hours ago [-] Not an online one. If it was a BBS running on a cube sat, then maybe. reply n-exploit 2 hours ago [-] Maybe it's time to create anew. reply eindiran 2 hours ago [-] Are you considering making it materialize now? reply x220 1 hour ago [-] I'm considering making an alt-chan that cyclically purges content. reply miss_classified 55 minutes ago [-] By now, it should be obvious that your efforts to attenuate the duration of long-running content won't prove to cultivate an increase in the quality of participation. There are (at least) three aspects of online community participation, that seasoned users are pretty well-versed in: 1. Archiving, mirroring and back-ups. 2. Leaked screen captures and scrapes of private direct messaging. 3. Back-end aggregation of logs and messages, even for supposedly private SMS interactions. Forget it dude. We all know that whatever signals get placed onto the wire turn out to be spliced through passive beam splitters and land in an open S3 bucket. The ones that don't? Your girlfriend just screenshots it, and and tweets it out in the open for the world to see anyway. Whoops! There are no more online subcultures. Only distortions of perception enforced by impulsive, would-be moderators. reply beloch 33 minutes ago [-] You might consider asking why so many of the greatest cyberpunk authors abandoned the genre. Many science fiction authors idealistically try to produce stories they feel society needs to hear at a given point rather than just retreading genres that have been well-mined and which they feel aren't contributing to progress. Google Neal Stephenson and "getting big stuff done". Stephenson wrote some of the best books late in Cyperpunk's sci-fi reign, but later came to feel that portraying technological advance as leading to decay, inequality, and corruption was contributing to the stifling of technological ambition in the U.S.. When huge technological leaps are necessary to get past pressing problems like clean energy, space exploration, etc., does it make sense for pop culture to portray technological progress as a negative force that will lead to dystopias? William Gibson gradually moved away from Cyberpunk for a long period of time, writing novels that were set closer and closer to the present day. "The Peripheral", released in 2014, was the first book by Gibson set in what could be considered "Cyberpunk" for quite a while, but it's not really cyberpunk. (Note: Mild spoilers ahead) Technology does indeed create a calamity that negatively impacts world society in this book, but "cleptocrats" are just as much to blame for creating a dystopia. However, the book also shows some "big stuff" being done, even in the dystopia, and some pretty far-out tech ultimately prevents the calamity it created in the book's prime timeline. A fairly idealistic group of heroes actually change the world for the better using technology in this book, which is rather more optimistic view of both people and technology than is consistent with standard cyberpunk. While Ernest Cline was not an established author before writing "Ready Player One", it's interesting to note that this book doesn't really represent a return to cyberpunk for serious science fiction. The plot can certainly be considered cyberpunk. (Note: I have read the book, but not seen the movie yet). However, it's basically one long dose of 80's nostalgia, so the cyberpunk setting makes perfect sense for that book. Thus, it's not really science fiction in this respect. It's not trying to predict or shape the future. It's an exercise in wallowing in the past, and the form of this novel matches that function. I'm still a fan of cyberpunk, but I recognize that science fiction has moved on. It responds to the needs of society, and nightmarish technocratic dystopias are not what is needed today. reply

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What if Responsible Encryption Back-Doors Were Possible?
by grarpamp 30 Nov '18

30 Nov '18

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: hbaker1 <hbaker1(a)pipeline.com> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 01:31:51 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [Cryptography] What if Responsible Encryption Back-Doors Were Possible? To: John Levine <johnl(a)iecc.com>, cryptography(a)metzdowd.com -----Original Message----- >From: John Levine <johnl(a)iecc.com> >Sent: Nov 29, 2018 1:40 PM >To: cryptography(a)metzdowd.com >Subject: [Cryptography] What if Responsible Encryption Back-Doors Were Possible? > >On the Lawfare blog, an interesting piece by Josh Benaloah here. > >https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-if-responsible-encryption-back-doors-were-… > >If you are tempted to respond, please read the whole thing first. In >particular, do not waste everyone's time by replying "but they're not!" >We know that. > >R's, >John I attended this "conference" and all of its sessions. The whole thing was a setup, IMHO. I think that they were trying to gather possible arguments against backdoors so that they could be prepared for future discussions with politicians. They also wanted to tell these politicians that there were *some* in the crypto community that thought we all really should leave our keys under the front door mat. A group of US ex-intel hangers-on, plus some brits, some aussies, and perhaps a kiwi; more or less the 5i's. They may also have invited some press. Some of these folks flew on to Australia to wreak more havoc, as best I can gather. One result of this wannabe conference can apparently be found in the recent activity in Australia to mandate back doors. These folks apparently wanted to find one of the 5i govts to pass the first test law requiring these back doors, and Australia must have volunteered. Magical thinking by all. BTW, with perhaps a handful of exceptions, no actual crypto people attended this conference, which was merely held at the same *location*, so that some of the prestige of a Crypto Conference would rub off on this sham. The only reason I knew about this conference was that I ran into one of the participants while parking my car for Crypto, and talked with him while walking over to the main venue. Apparently, I was the only one there who questioned this whole thing, and I asked about the "C" word (Constitution). I simply said that some of us had pledged to uphold the Constitution, and the reason why *individuals* make such pledges is that they are expected to understand the Constitution well enough to make their own assessment about possible unconstitutional activities and refuse to engage in those activities. Recall that "simply following legal orders" didn't absolve anyone at Nurenburg, so trusting these 5i's to interpret Constitutionality isn't going to be much of a defense, either. BTW, the "Lawfare" blog is about as close as one can get to "the unclassified (apologist) voice of the Deep State" & I suspect that Ben Wittes would consider this tag line to be high praise! _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography(a)metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography

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Trump: "Maybe it’s better that the public not see what’s been going on with this country." - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 29 Nov '18

29 Nov '18

Apparently according to Trump "Some things maybe the public shouldn’t see because they are so bad," Trump said, making clear it wasn’t damaging to him, but to others. "Maybe it’s better that the public not see what’s been going on with this country." You can't handle the truth … apparently. Trump Threatens To Declassify "Devastating" Docs If Democrats Investigate Him https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-28/trump-threatens-declassify-devast…

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Documentary: The Panama Papers - Alex Winter
by grarpamp 29 Nov '18

29 Nov '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3pWbgp_-j0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFauHLTiw2A

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Cryptocurrency: The True Purpose of Cryptocurrency
by grarpamp 29 Nov '18

29 Nov '18

The True Purpose of Cryptocurrency, from one of the few philosopher evangelists in the space... with luck more will come forth to lead the public forefront ahead... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9CSx7Hjbg0

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Unz Review: on shallow moralisms - CJ Hopkins: Beware The 'Trumpenleft' - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 28 Nov '18

28 Nov '18

Mildy humorous for the humour impaired, humour challenged or smile addicts, Beware Snowflakes, the Unz Review is in town :) Oh, and a Barrett Brown take down (courtesy Brown's own words TYVM.) CJ Hopkins: Beware The 'Trumpenleft' https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-27/cj-hopkins-beware-trumpenleft http://www.unz.com/article/beware-the-trumpenleft/ Unless you move in certain leftist circles, you may not have heard about one of the Russians’ most insidiously evil active measures, an active measure so insidiously evil that it could only have been dreamed up in Moscow, the current wellspring of insidious evil. Its official Russo-Nazi-sounding code name is still being decided on by leftist cryptographers, but most people know it as the “Trumpenleft.” The Trumpenleft (or “Sputnik Left,” as it is also called by professional anti-Putin-Nazi intelligence analysts https://store.counterpunch.org/jeffrey-st-clair-joshua-frank-episode-100/ ) is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. It is a gang of nefarious Putin-Nazi infiltrators posing as respectable leftists in order to disseminate Trumpian ideology and Putin-Nazi propaganda among an assortment of online leftist magazines that hardly anyone ever actually reads. The aim of these insidious Trumpenleft infiltrators is to sow confusion, chaos, and discord among actual, real, authentic leftists who are going about the serious business of calling Donald Trump a fascist on the Internet twenty-five times a day, verbally abusing Julian Assange https://twitter.com/barrettbrown_/status/930189495563177991 , Barrett Brown @BarrettBrown_ Fuck you, Assange. theatlantic.com/politics/archi… 1:43 PM - 13 Nov 2017 occasionally pulling down oppressive statues, and sharing videos of racist idiots acting like racist idiots in public. … [Note Barrett Brown's continuing gutter trash talk against Assange.]

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Eyes open:: Trump warns Antifa re Tucker. Poland rising. Life imitating memes imitating ovens - no tears for Cali ovens of [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 28 Nov '18

28 Nov '18

Trump warns Antifa. See below for the world's largest "far right" nationalist marches in Poland - 200,000+ people. The ultimate wood-gassification oven has wiped out much of Hol-ly-Wood, wel-come to Black-mail-Wood. Da Jooish media includes le 'Ollywood as most already know, and God's been firin' up de ovens already. 'E is an impatient, angry God! Da hebes be smutifying dis realm, undermining family and all values and collecting all de sheckels in computer numbers ... very big numbers. Enslaving numbers. Not good! Must do something! Numbers that shouldn't even be possible - Oy Vey already‼ And no, dis one's not daily stormer... Life's oven imitating le meme imitating le thoughts of le many… Plagues I tell you, PLAGUES! Always tha plagues?!?!?! From the Stars to Ashes: (((HollyWood))) Celebrities Affected by Californian Wildfire Ovens https://sputniknews.com/photo/201811141069791761-california-wildfires-celeb… Trump knows de score - Antifa only allowed to protest at the calm watching of le nationalisté patriots who are, till now, self restraining due to "Justice" 'just us' dept of Jewish protectionism (American D.O.J.): Antifa better hope ‘other side’ doesn’t mobilize – Trump https://www.rt.com/usa/444012-antifa-other-side-mobilize-trump/ Trump Tells Antifa They’d Better Hope the Opposition Doesn’t Mobilize – They’re Going to be Much More Violent https://dailystormer.name/trump-tells-antifa-theyd-better-hope-the-oppositi… Trump: “These people, like the Antifa — they better hope that the opposition to Antifa decides not to mobilize. Because if they do, they’re much tougher. Much stronger. Potentially much more violent. And Antifa’s going to be in big trouble. But so far they haven’t done that and that’s a good thing,” … When asked specifically about the recent mob outside of Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s house, the president said, “I spoke to Tucker — I think Tucker’s a great guy — and I think it’s terrible. They were actually trying to break down [Tucker’s] door.” … “[Antifa] better hope that the other side doesn’t mobilize,” Trump concluded, “Because if you look, the other side, it’s the military. It’s the police. It’s a lot of very strong, a lot of very tough people. Tougher than them. And smarter than them.” “They’re sitting back and watching and they’re getting angrier and angrier,” Trump said of the Antifa opposition. …not even in California will they have the ability to bring charges against people who defended themselves against masked attackers without federal assistance. Remove Rosenstein’s power to act unilaterally to illegally imprison enemies of Jews, and you’ve solved the Antifa problem in a matter of hours. If it wasn’t for Rosenstein, an entire army of right-wingers would have been there to protect Tucker’s wife from these fed-kikes in a matter of minutes. It would have been like a five-minute version of the Spanish civil war in a rich DC suburb. … [Indeed!] UK Whites beginning to self organise - peacefully: Birmingham: 400 Strong Vigilante Mob Begins Street Patrols After Machete Attack https://dailystormer.name/birmingham-400-strong-vigilante-mob-begins-street… … Things do not begin because of socially isolated individuals with radical ideologies taking self-nullifying actions. They begin because of socially connected individuals who share physical space organizing around a non-ideological problem and forming legal organizations. It just so happens that these are white people, and their problem is black and Arab criminal gangs. They probably didn’t think about that the way we think about those things. Sometimes, you just accidentally create a white organization for racial conflict. (((Those whom we may not criticize))): keep pushing and find out what comes next: ‘Europe will be white’: Polish leaders sanction massive far-right march in Warsaw https://www.rt.com/news/443656-far-right-march-given-greenlight/ Government officials have agreed to conduct a joint march with far-right groups on Poland’s Independence Day … This year’s event, marking the centenary of Poland’s independence, attracted some 200,000 people – more than three times the numbers at last year’s march that was dubbed the largest far-right gathering in the world. The event included explicitly white supremacist symbols and banners with slogans such as “White Europe” and “Refugees get out!” The rally was cited in a European Parliament resolution that encouraged member states to crack down on far-right groups, but the leadership of Poland seem to have other plans. There was a last-minute attempt by the mayor of Warsaw to ban the march, but a court overturned his decision and allowed the event to go ahead – despite the fact that months of negotiations had failed to result in any agreement on key arguments between the state and representatives of the rally. The final negotiations took place late on Friday night. The demonstrators were represented by Robert Bakiewicz of the National Radical Camp, an anti-Semitic group that traces its roots to an organization from the 1930s founded on the principles of Italian fascism. The Polish leadership not only backtracked on its earlier position that the march could only take place if no banners were displayed, but now both the president and prime minister agreed to actually participate in the march. [HA‼ That would be called WINNING - abso-firetrucking-bigly!] READ MORE: Polish army to organize security for Independence Day march as police stage walkouts https://www.rt.com/newsline/443430-poland-march-army-police/ Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki was recently involved in a scandal after secret recordings from 2013 were released, featuring him making anti-Semitic remarks. If this was not enough to worry the citizens of Warsaw, the Polish police are currently on strike, and have stated that they will not be able to provide security for the event. … WATCH thousands of far-right marchers light a SEA OF FLARES in Poland as police look on https://www.rt.com/news/443697-far-right-independence-march-poland/ … marking a centenary of Poland's independence … Side by side with the ONR marched Italian neo-fascists from the radical Forza Nuova movement. … Some of them were wearing balaclavas while others were seen openly performing Nazi salutes. … The Polish government also made an unprecedented move by not only sanctioning the event but also taking part in it. President Andrzej Duda, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and the leader of the ruling conservative Law and Justice party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, all participated in a joint march. Kaczynski, who is considered to be one of the most powerful men in Poland and is known for his uncompromising views, called the march a "great success," according to Radio Poland. ( You'd think after 360+ "out ya go!"s, "God's chosen bastards" would learn to back off their "host nation undermining" agenda? Not to be, Cest la vie... )

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