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Re: [Cryptography] Predictions regarding Simon and Speck for 2019
by Zenaan Harkness 11 Aug '18

11 Aug '18

Reconsidering Speck (subscribers only for another few days): https://lwn.net/Articles/761992/ Above article discusses why Speck was added and relatively soon, removed, from Linux. The NSA has burned some serious bridges and enough ISO guys know enough crypto to be able to decisively tear the NSA a new one in the following example 'So, just to let you know what's been going on at our end ...' email to the LKML (also linked in the comments to the above article) : https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-crypto/msg33291.html which email concludes with some (thankfully) common sense: Which bring us to the million dollar question: > So, what do you propose replacing it with? Nothing. I am usually not one to argue for maintaining the status quo and I sure am in favor of encryption-for-all but this case is the text book example for employing the Precautionary Principle. You yourself are not fully convinced that Speck is secure and does not contain any backdoors. If it was really secure, it could have been used in all cases and not only on low-end devices where AES is too slow. AES is slower than Speck on most platforms. … I would also like to point out that including an algorithm because "it's better than nothing" result in something that is not better-than-nothing, but stands in the way of good solutions. Since there is no acute problem, why do we need to solve it? This is from the cryptographers' point of view. From the end-user point of view when they get something bundled into Android, they don't know that it was included there as something that is "better than nothing". They think of it as "good enough; endorsed by Android/Google/Linux". What you give them is a false sense of security because they don't know of all the question marks surrounding Speck (both technical and political). True dat. ----------- On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 06:20:30PM +0000, Salz, Rich via cryptography wrote: > It has recently come to my attention that "Notes on the design and analysis of Simon and Speck" was published. > > You might also find this useful, lots of links: > https://github.com/iadgov/simon-speck > > which BTW is part of https://nationalsecurityagency.github.io/ > > _______________________________________________ > The cryptography mailing list > cryptography(a)metzdowd.com > http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography From: Ryan Carboni <ryacko(a)gmail.com> To: cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org, Crypto <cryptography(a)metzdowd.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 10:49:26 -0700 Subject: Predictions regarding Simon and Speck for 2019 It has recently come to my attention that "Notes on the design and analysis of Simon and Speck" ( https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/560.pdf ) was published. Thus I have decided to encrypt a message using this page ( https://web.archive.org/web/20161211164439/http://www.movable-type.co.uk/sc… ) with a key generated by keypass pattern "H(15)" (15 lowercase hexadecimal). I plan on releasing the key in the early part of 2019 Block XXTEA is not trivially bruteforced with no "cribs" so here's my predictions for 2019:

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Re: AP deconstructed: Why it has not happened yet, and will not
by juan 10 Aug '18

10 Aug '18

On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 00:20:43 +0000 (UTC) jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> Hm. That may be a good point. I didn't assume a big 'democratic' majority was needed, but I was still thinking of some sizable percentage. But maybe 1% would be enough - or even less. > Remember the statistic I like to use: The Federal governemnt collects 3 trillion dollars in taxes per year. If those taxpayers pay an additional 1% of that value, or $30 billion, in money towards and AP fund, and if the average cost per death is $100,000, then that's 300,000 deaths per year. Yep, if a relatively big number of people make small contributions, lots of funds can be raised. Arguably an AP protocol would make that sort of cooperation easier/more effective. > > > Say, 1% of the adult population of the US is ~2 million people. If 2 million people decide to act in a coordinated fashion against the govt they may force the govt to leave them alone. > > Another statistic: https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-data-2015-updat… > "The top 1 percent (1.3 million filers) paid a greater share of income taxes (37.8 percent) than the bottom 90 percent (124.5 million filers) combined (30.2 percent)." > > Some fraction of those 1% get their money due to the existence and operation of the Federal government, but many do not. I think many of them resent the amount of money they are paying to maintain an inefficient government. I'm pretty sure that the richer people are, the more conservative and supportive of the totalitarian status quo they become. As a matter of fact there quite a few obscenely rich people, some of them even pretend to be 'libertarians' but in practice they work for the NSA. Regardless, AP may work if funded by poor libertarians (not rich corporatists) > > >> I'm not aware that there is a "critical mass" for people supporting AP. Do you have a different figure than my "1%"? > > > I don't. So I guess what I should say is : there's no critical mass of libertarians doing anything meaningful, but if there was, then AP may be a good & efficient tool. > > I've always thought so, but then again I'm not an unbiased observer! Heh =P > > > > > Notice that the few libertarians who do act against the govt end up in jail like Ulbricht....or you. > > It is unfortunate that Ulbricht could not incorporate an AP-type protection system into Silk Road. These dark markets tend to be purely defensive, employing rather good secrecy. Why not dedicate 1% of their gross market into a fund to kill anyone who attacks them? That would be fun. And it could either work, or backfire and make them a higher priority target... > > > > To be fair, european and asian governments (like say japan and korea) are accomplices of the US govt, play the same imperial games and are guilty as well, so you won't find many anarchists among their subjects either. > It wouldn't take many! Perhaps. We'll have to wait and see... > × > >

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InfoWars makes it's move!
by Razer 10 Aug '18

10 Aug '18

Breaking: InfoWars Moves To Ban Alex Jones AUSTIN, TX—Saying that it was a long-overdue step given the radio show host’s history of offensive and dangerous rhetoric, InfoWars reportedly moved Thursday to ban right wing provocateur Alex Jones from its platform. “Mr. Jones has repeatedly violated our policies against hate speech and misinformation, and so we have had no choice but to terminate our relationship with him,” read a statement from InfoWars editor Paul Joseph Watson, citing a litany of abuses committed by the radio host and conspiracy theorist, including harassment of minorities, trans individuals, and the parents of the Sandy Hook victims. “Of course, InfoWars remains committed to free speech, but that does not include repeatedly spreading vicious lies about private individuals. It would be unacceptable, and frankly cowardly, for us to hide behind the First Amendment as this man continues doing real harm. That is why, from today forward, all four of Mr. Jones’s shows will be deleted, and every mention of him will be completely scrubbed from the site.” Watson added that their platform would continue to publish the high-quality reporting on globalism, creeping Sharia, and Deep State false-flag operations that their users had come to expect. https://www.theonion.com/infowars-moves-to-ban-alex-jones-1828222135

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Project Zero has greatly improved
by Ryan Carboni 09 Aug '18

09 Aug '18

Project Zero has greatly improved, it shows an activist element now, there is no point to end to end encryption if the end is being eavesdropped. But there is one improvement... instead of donating bug bounties to Amnesty International, it could just go to Google.org to hire more security researchers. I doubt a complaint could be made that there is too many code monkeys...

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[WAR] The clear (+biblical) foundation of Israel - be aware.
by Zenaan Harkness 09 Aug '18

09 Aug '18

That which we have no awareness of, can certainly impact upon us, our lives and our loved ones and so it can be useful to learn a little. Perhaps this is one of the most important foundations for the fellow Souls of our age to comprehend. Courtesy the ever poignant “The Saker”. Be aware, https://russia-insider.com/en/israels-aggressive-behavior-embodied-and-prop… Israel's Aggressive Behavior is Embodied and Prophesied in the Hebrew Bible Source: The Saker How Biblical is Zionism? http://thesaker.is/how-is-biblical-zionism/ by Laurent Guyénot for the Saker Blog "Even the nuclear policy of Israel has a biblical name: the Samson Option" The biblical mind of Israel’s founding fathers ---------------------------------------------- The Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) is for the committed Jew as much a record of his ancient origins, the prism through which all Jewish history is interpreted (is not the “Holocaust” a biblical term?), and the unalterable pattern of Israel’s promising future. That is why the Bible, once the “portable fatherland” of the Diaspora Jews as Heinrich Heine put it, remains at the core of the national narrative of the Jewish State, whose founding fathers did not give it any other Constitution. It is true that the earliest prophets of political Zionism — Moses Hess (Rome and Jerusalem, 1862), Leon Pinsker (Auto-Emancipation, 1882) and Theodor Herzl (The Jewish State, 1896) — did not draw their inspiration from the Bible, but rather from the great nationalist spirit that swept through Europe at the end of the 19th century. Pinsker and Herzl actually cared little whether the Jews colonized Palestine or any other region of the globe; the first thought about some land in North America, while the second contemplated Argentina and later Uganda. More important still than nationalism, what drove these intellectual pioneers was the persistence of Judeophobia or anti-Semitism: Pinsker, who was from Odessa, converted during the pogroms that followed the assassination of Alexander II; Herzl, at the height of the Dreyfus affair. Nevertheless, by naming his movement “Zionism,” Herzl himself was plugging it into biblical mythology: Zion is a name used for Jerusalem by biblical prophets. And after Herzl, the founders of the Yishuv (Jewish communities settled in Palestine before 1947) and later of the Jewish State were steeped in the Bible. From their point of view, Zionism was the logical and necessary end of biblical Yahwism. “The Bible is our mandate,” Chaim Weizmann declared at the Peace Conference in Versailles in 1920, and David Ben-Gurion has made clear that he only accepted the 1947 UN Partition Plan as a temporary step toward the goal of biblical borders. In Ben-Gurion, Prophet of fire(1983), the biography of the man described as “the personification of the Zionist dream,” Dan Kurzman entitles each chapter with a Bible quote. The preface begins like this: “The life of David Ben-Gurion is more than the story of an extraordinary man. It is the story of a Biblical prophecy, an eternal dream. […] Ben-Gurion was, in a modern sense, Moses, Joshua, Isaiah, a messiah who felt he was destined to create an exemplary Jewish state, a ‘light unto the nations’ that would help to redeem all mankind.” For Ben-Gurion, Kurzman writes, the rebirth of Israel in 1948 “paralleled the Exodus from Egypt, the conquest of the land by Joshua, the Maccabean revolt.” Yet Ben-Gurion had never been to the synagogue, and ate pork for breakfast. According to the rabbi leading the Bible study group that he attended, Ben-Gurion “unconsciously believed he was blessed with a spark from Joshua’s soul.” “There can be no worthwhile political or military education about Israel without profound knowledge of the Bible,” he used to say.[1] He wrote in his diary in 1948, ten days after declaring independence, “We will break Transjordan [Jordan], bomb Amman and destroy its army, and then Syria falls, and if Egypt will still continue to fight — we will bombard Port Said, Alexandria and Cairo,” then he adds: “This will be in revenge for what they did to our forefathers during biblical times.”[2] Three days after the Israeli invasion of the Sinai in 1956, he declared before the Knesset that what was at stake was “the restoration of the kingdom of David and Solomon.”[3] Ben-Gurion’s attachment to the Bible was shared by almost every Zionist leader of his generation and the next. Moshe Dayan, the military hero of the 1967 Six Day War, wrote a book entitled Living with the Bible (1978) in which he justified the annexation of new territory by the Bible. More recently, Israeli Education minister Naftali Bennett, a proponent of full-scale annexation of the West Bank, did the same.[4] Zionism is biblical by ideology, but also in practice. As Avigail Abarbanel wrote, the Zionist conquerors of Palestine “have been following quite closely the biblical dictate to Joshua to just walk in and take everything. […] For a supposedly non-religious movement it’s extraordinary how closely Zionism […] has followed the Bible.”[5] The paradox is only apparent, because for Zionists, the Bible is not a religious text, but a textbook of history. And so it should be obvious to anybody paying attention that Israel’s behavior on the international scene cannot be understood without a deep inquiry into the Bible’s underlying ideology. Prophecies and geopolitics -------------------------- Only by taking account of the biblical roots of Zionism can one understand why Zionism has never been a nationalist movement like others. It could not be, as Gilad Atzmon remarked, from the moment it defined itself as a Jewish movement, aimed at creating a “Jewish state”.[6] Jewish exceptionalism is a biblical concept that has no equivalent in any other ethnic or religious culture. Neither can Zionism be correctly assessed as a form of colonialism, despite Jabotinsky’s effort to do so. For colonialism seeks not to expel the natives, but to exploit them. If Zionism is colonialism, it can only be in the sense of the colonization of the world by Israel, according to the program laid out by Isaiah: “The riches of the sea will flow to you, the wealth of the nations come to you” (60:5); “You will suck the milk of nations, you will suck the wealth of kings” (60:16); “You will feed on the wealth of nations, you will supplant them in their glory” (61:5-6); “For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you will perish, and the nations will be utterly destroyed” (60:12) Christians find hope in Isaiah that, some day, all peoples “will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into sickles. Nations will not lift sword against nation, no longer will they learn how to make war” (Isaiah 2:4). But more important to Zionists are the previous verses, which describe these messianic times as a Pax Judaica, when “all the nations” will pay tribute “to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the god of Jacob,” when “the Law will issue from Zion and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem,” so that Yahweh will “judge between the nations and arbitrate between many peoples.” No wonder Isaiah is the biblical prophet most often quoted by Zionists. In a statement published in the magazine Look on January 16, 1962, Ben-Gurion predicted for the next 25 years: “All armies will be abolished, and there will be no more wars. In Jerusalem, the United Nations (a truly United Nations) will build a Shrine of the Prophets to serve the federated union of all continents; this will be the seat of the Supreme Court of Mankind, to settle all controversies among the federated continents, as prophesied by Isaiah.”[7] The launching of the Iraq War was a decisive step toward that goal of a new world order headquartered in Jerusalem. It was the context for a “Jerusalem Summit” held in October 2003 in the highly symbolic King David Hotel, to seal an alliance between Jewish and Christian Zionists. The “Jerusalem Declaration” signed by its participants declared Jerusalem “the key to the harmony of civilizations,” replacing the United Nations that had become “a tribalized confederation hijacked by Third World dictatorships”: “Jerusalem’s spiritual and historical importance endows it with a special authority to become a center of world’s unity. [. . .] We believe that one of the objectives of Israel’s divinely-inspired rebirth is to make it the center of the new unity of the nations, which will lead to an era of peace and prosperity, foretold by the Prophets.” Three acting Israeli ministers spoke at the summit, including Benjamin Netanyahu. Richard Perle, the guest of honor, received on this occasion the Henry Scoop Jackson Award.[8] When Israeli leaders claim that their vision of the global future is based on the (Hebrew) Bible, we should take them seriously and study the Bible. It might help, for example, to know that according to Deuteronomy Yahweh plans to deliver to Israel “seven nations greater and mightier than [it],” adding: “you must utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, and show no mercy to them. You shall not make marriages with them…” (7:1-2). As for the kings of these seven nations, “you shall make their name perish from under heaven” (7:24). The destruction of the “Seven Nations,” also mentioned in Joshua 24:11, is considered a mitzvah in rabbinic Judaism, included by the great Maimonides in his Book of Commandments,[9] and it has remained a popular motif in Jewish culture, known to every Israeli school child. It is also part of the Neocon agenda for World War IV (as Norman Podhoretz names the current global conflict in World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism, 2007). General Wesley Clark, former commandant of NATO in Europe, wrote in his book Winning Modern Wars (2003), and repeated in numerous occasions, that one month after September 11, 2001, as he was paying a visit to Paul Wolfowitz, a Pentagon general showed him a memo “that describes how we’re gonna take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia and Sudan and finishing off with Iran.”[10] In his September 20, 2001 speech, President Bush also targeted seven “rogue states”, but included Cuba and North Korea instead of Lebanon and Somalia. The likely explanation to that discrepancy is that Bush or his entourage refused to include Lebanon and Somalia, but that the number seven was retained for its symbolic value, as an encrypted signature. Without question, the neocons who were writing Bush’s war agenda were Zionists of the most fanatical and Machiavellian kind. But the neocon viper’s nest is not the only place to look for crypto-Zionists infiltrated in the highest spheres of US foreign and military affairs. Consider, for example, that Wesley Clark is the son of Benjamin Jacob Kanne and the proud descendant of a lineage of rabbis. It is hard to believe that he never heard about the Bible’s “seven nations”? Is Clark himself, together with the Amy Goodmans who interviewed him, trying to write history in biblical terms, while blaming these wars on the Pentagon’s warmongers? What’s going on, here? A lesson from the books of Ezra and Nehemiah -------------------------------------------- To understand how the crypto-Zionists have hijacked the Empire’s military power into proxy wars, a lesson can be learned from Book of Ezra and its sequel, the Book of Nehemiah. At the time of Ezra, the imperial power was Persia. After the Persians had conquered Babylon in 539 BCE, some of the exiles and their descendants (42,360 people with their 7,337 servants and 200 male and female singers, according to Ezra 2:64-67) returned to Jerusalem under the protection of King Cyrus, with the project of rebuilding the Temple in Jerusalem. Thus begins the Book of Ezra: “Yahweh roused the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to issue a proclamation and to have it publicly displayed throughout his kingdom: ‘Cyrus king of Persia says this, Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and has appointed me to build him a temple in Jerusalem, in Judah.’” (Ezra 1:1-2). For acting on behalf of Yahweh, Cyrus is bestowed the title of God’s “Anointed” (Mashiah) in Isaiah 45:1. “Thus says Yahweh to his anointed one, to Cyrus whom, he says, I have grasped by his right hand, to make the nations bow before him and to disarm kings: […] It is for the sake of my servant Jacob and of Israel my chosen one, that I have called you by your name, have given you a title though you do not know me. […] Though you do not know me, I have armed you.” (Isaiah 45:1-5) A succeeding Persian emperor, Darius, confirmed Cyrus’ edict, authorizing the rebuilding of the Temple, and ordering gigantic burnt offerings financed by “the royal revenue.” Anyone resisting the new theocratic power backed by Persia, “a beam is to be torn from his house, he is to be impaled on it and his house is to be reduced to a rubbish-heap for his offense” (Ezra 6:11). Then another Persian king, Artaxerxes, is supposed to have granted Ezra authority to lead “all members of the people of Israel in my kingdom, including their priests and Levites, who freely choose to go to Jerusalem,” and to rule over “the whole people of Trans-Euphrates [district encompassing all territories West to the Euphrates]” (7:11-26). In 458 BCE, the priest Ezra went from Babylon to Jerusalem, accompanied by some 1,500 followers. Carrying with him the newly redacted Torah, Ezra called himself the “Secretary of the Law of the God of heaven” (7:21). He was soon joined by Nehemiah, a Persian court official of Judean origin. The edicts of Cyrus, Darius and Artaxerxes are fake. No historian believe them authentic. But the fact that Persian kings granted to a clan of wealthy Levites legal authority for establishing a theocratic semi-autonomous state in Palestine seems historical. What did these proto-Zionists give the Persian kings in return? The Bible does not say, but historians believe that the Judeans exiles in Babylon had won the favor of the Persians by conspiring to help them conquer the city.[11] What is of interest in this biblical narrative is the blueprint for the Zionist strategy of influencing the Empire’s foreign policy for its own advantage. In the late 19th century, the empire was British. Its foreign policy in the Middle East was largely shaped by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. Born in a family of Marranos converted back to Judaism in Venice, Disraeli can be considered a forerunner of Zionism, since, well before Theodor Herzl, he tried to include the “restoration of Israel” in the Berlin Congress’ agenda, and hoped to convince the Ottoman Sultan to concede to Palestine as an autonomous Jewish province. He failed, but succeeded in putting the Suez Canal under British control, through funding from his friend Lionel Rothschild (an operation which also consolidated the Rothschilds’ control over the Bank of England). That was the first step in binding British interest and fate to the Middle-East[12]. In short, Disraeli was a modern-day Ezra or Nehemiah, capable of steering the Empire’s policy according to the Jewish agenda of the conquest of Palestine, a dream he had cherished ever since his first trip to Palestine in 1830, at the age of 26, and which he had expressed through the hero of his first novel, The Wondrous Tale of Alroy: “My wish is a national existence which we have not. My wish is the Land of Promise and Jerusalem and the Temple, all we forfeited, all we have yearned after, all for which we have fought, our beauteous country, our holy creed, our simple manners, and our ancient customs.” A quarter of a century after Disraeli, Theodor Herzl also failed to convince the Sultan. It therefore became necessary that the Ottoman Empire disappear and the cards be redistributed. Zionists then played the British against the Ottomans and, by means now well-documented, obtained from the former the Balfour Declaration (in fact a mere letter addressed by Secretary of State Arthur Balfour to Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild). But when the British started to limit Jewish immigration in Palestine in the 1930s, the Zionists turned to the rising new Imperial power: the United States. Today, the stranglehold of Zionists on US imperial policy is such that a few Jewish neocons can pull the US into a series of wars against Israel’s enemies with a single false flag attack. The capacity of Israel to hijack the Empire’s foreign and military policy requires that a substantial Jewish elite remain in the US. Even Israel’s survival is entirely dependent on the influence of the Zionist power complex in the United States (euphemistically called the “pro-Israel lobby”). That is also a lesson learnt from Ezra and Nehemiah’s time: Nehemiah himself retained his principal residence in Babylone and, for centuries after, the kingdom of Israel was virtually ruled by the Babylonian exiles. After the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, Babylon remained the center of universal Judaism. The comparison was made by Jacob Neusner in A History of the Jews in Babylonia(1965), and by Max Dimont in Jews, God and History (1962). The American Jews who prefer to remain in the United States rather than emigrating to Israel are, Dimont argued, as essential to the community as the Babylonian Jews who declined the invitation to return to Palestine in the Persian era: “Today, as once before, we have both an independent State of Israel and the Diaspora. But, as in the past, the State of Israel today is a citadel of Judaism, a haven of refuge, the center of Jewish nationalism where dwell only two million of the world’s twelve million Jews. The Diaspora, although it has shifted its center through the ages with the rise and fall of civilizations, still remains the universal soul of Judaism.”[13] Conclusion ---------- In the words of the Zionists themselves, including Herzl himself, Zionism was supposed to be the “final solution” to the Jewish question[14]. In 1947, the whole world hoped that it would be, except for Arab leaders who warned against it. But Israel’s existence has only resulted in changing the “Jewish question” into the “Zionist question”: the question about the true ambitions of Israel. Part of the answer is to be found in the Hebrew Bible. The Zionist question is the Biblical question. Zionists themselves tell us so. Their mouths are full of the Bible. On March 3, 2015, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dramatized in front of the American Congress his deep phobia of Iran by referring to the biblical Book of Esther (the only Bible story that makes no mention of God, incidently). It is worth quoting the heart of his rhetorical appeal to a US strike against Iran: “We’re an ancient people. In our nearly 4,000 years of history, many have tried repeatedly to destroy the Jewish people. Tomorrow night, on the Jewish holiday of Purim, we’ll read the Book of Esther. We’ll read of a powerful Persian viceroy named Haman, who plotted to destroy the Jewish people some 2,500 years ago. But a courageous Jewish woman, Queen Esther, exposed the plot and gave for the Jewish people the right to defend themselves against their enemies. The plot was foiled. Our people were saved. Today the Jewish people face another attempt by yet another Persian potentate to destroy us.”[15] Netanyahu managed to schedule his address to the Congress on the eve of Purim, which celebrates the happy end of the Book of Esther — the slaughter of 75,000 Persians, women and children included. This typical speech by the head of the State of Israel is clear indication that the behavior of that nation on the international scene cannot be understood without a deep inquiry into the Bible’s underlying ideology. Such is the main objective of my new book, From Yahweh to Zion: Jealous God, Chosen People, Promised Land … Clash of Civilizations, translated by Kevin Barrett. May those who still want to believe that Zionism has nothing to do with the Bible think twice. Even the nuclear policy of Israel has a biblical name: the Samson Option.[16] And let them read the Prophets: “And this is the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the nations who have fought against Jerusalem; their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet; their eyes will rot in their sockets; their tongues will rot in their mouths.” (Zechariah 14:12) Notes: 1. Dan Kurzman, Ben-Gurion, Prophet of Fire, Touchstone, 1983, p. 17-18, 22, 26-28. 2. Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Oneworld Publications, 2007, p. 144. 3. Israel Shahak, Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years, Pluto Press, 1994, p. 10. 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Png17wB_omA 5. Avigail Abarbanel, “Why I left the Cult,” October 8, 2016, on mondoweiss.net 6. Gilad Atzmon, Being in Time: A Post-Political Manifesto, Skyscraper, 2017, pp. 66-67. 7. David Ben-Gurion and Amram Duchovny, David Ben-Gurion, In His Own Words, Fleet Press Corp., 1969, p. 116 8. Official website: www.jerusalemsummit.org/eng/declaration.php 9. http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/961561/jewish/Positive-Comman… 10. Wesley Clark, Winning Modern Wars, Public Affairs, 2003, p. 130. 11. For example, Heinrich Graetz, History of the Jews, Jewish Publication Society of America, 1891 (archive.org) vol. 1, p. 343. 12. On Disraeli’s proto-Zionist policy, read my article : https://www.veteransnewsnow.com/2015/02/13/515416tracking-the-roots-of-zion… 13. Quoted in Michael Collins Piper, The New Babylon: Those Who Reign Supreme, American Free Press, 2009, p. 27 14. The first Zionist association inspired by Herzl’s program, the National-jüdische Vereinigung Köln, declared as its goal in 1897: “The Final Solution of the Jewish Question lies therefore in the establishment of the Jewish State” (quoted in Isaiah Friedman, Germany, Turkey, and Zionism 1897–1918, Transaction Publishers, 1998, p. 17). Herzl wrote: “I believe I have found the solution of the Jewish Question. Not a solution, but the solution, the only one,” repeating further that Zionism was “the only possible, final, and successful solution of the Jewish Question” (The Complete Diaries of Theodor Herzl, edited by Raphael Patai, Herzl Press & Thomas Yoseloff, 1960, vol. 1, p. 118). 15. “The Complete Transcript of Netanyahu’s Address to Congress,” on www.washingtonpost.com 16. Seymour Hersh, The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy, Random House, 1991.

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USA
by grarpamp 09 Aug '18

09 Aug '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPhWR4d3FJQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFUFw1GH6ic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEH_ms8d1ws https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwNiXABt1JY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M11SvDtPBhA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3zdIHDTbg0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9GSF3ROa58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9BNoNFKCBI USA? Music?

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Ecuador Handing Over Assange To UK
by grarpamp 09 Aug '18

09 Aug '18

https://theintercept.com/2018/07/21/ecuador-will-imminently-withdraw-asylum… https://www.rt.com/news/433783-wikileaks-assange-ecuador-uk/ https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/989122/julian-assange-wikileaks-ecu… https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ecuador-in-talks-to-evict-assange-its-st… "A source close to the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry and the President's office, unauthorized to speak publicly, has confirmed to the Intercept that Moreno is close to finalizing, if he has not already finalized, an agreement to hand over Assange to the UK within the next several weeks. The withdrawal of asylum and physical ejection of Assange could come as early as this week." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17582652 https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/07/21/0347241/ecuador-will-be-handing-as… https://twitter.com/julianassange https://twitter.com/wikileaks https://www.justice4assange.com/ http://unity4j.com/ https://consortiumnews.com/2018/07/19/inside-wikileaks-working-with-the-pub… Alt info http://julianpaulassange.com/

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Benefits of Censorship - My Police State - on the books, nearly implemented here in Australia
by Zenaan Harkness 09 Aug '18

09 Aug '18

So true, you know you love it ... aahm, or something. It's funny, but so true it's, FIRETRUUUUUUUUUUCK!!! My Police State https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlUQMH19BkQ And in the same bag of delights, censorship - Alex Jones and InfoWars just got done triple time: https://dailystormer.name/alex-jones-banned-from-youtube-and-everything-els… even YouPorn has banned him (yes YouPorn, censorship is exactly what you need, right? - irony of firetrucking ironies here!): https://www.rt.com/usa/435355-porn-sites-alex-jones/ yet this has had a real benefit - Alex Jones/ InfoWars is naming the JewTube "War On White People" policy - and added bonus, he gets exactly 6 Million new subscribers in 48 hours (well, 5.6 million, but who's counting when your grampappy is a lampshade in the corner?): https://dailystormer.name/alex-jones-gains-exactly-6-million-new-subscriber… Nice to see folks realising that the people are the platform. Repeat after me folks: The people --are-- the platform. and not some billion-dollar funded shitty tech platform - and YouTube, Google, FaceBook and Twitter are indeed shitty by design as they each centralise the power to censor, so “ipso shitty censor facto”‼

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https://followmehere.com/
by jim bell 09 Aug '18

09 Aug '18

Assassination Markets for Trump and Others Are On the Blockchain 26 Jul 18 ‘Earlier this month, the non-profit Forecast Foundation launched its Augur protocol on the Ethereum network in a bid to create the first blockchain-based betting platform. Now, Augur is hosting several wagers where users bet on when a public figure will die, with a pot of digital money going to whoever makes the correct guess. This type of betting is referred to as an “assassination market” because it arguably incentivizes someone to guarantee a win by offing the person themselves. On the Augur marketplace, Motherboard found open bets on the deaths of a number of public figures, including Betty White, Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett. Other events were also bet on as well, such as whether SpaceX will complete a crewed flight beyond Earth orbit this year. Most of these betting pools had few or no bets on the books at the time of writing, but some betting pools, including one predicting Donald Trump’s death this year, had dozens of trades. These prediction pools are called assassination markets because they arguably incentivize bettors to make their predictions come true by taking matters into their own hands. Cryptoanarchist Jim Bell introduced the concept in a paper called “Assassination Politics” in the mid-1990s. Bell imagined that the anonymity afforded by modern encryption techniques and the advent of digital money would allow for political assassinations to be incentivized and carried out anonymously. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum have arguably created a perfect environment for Bell’s assassination politics to take shape….’

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Overlay Network Designs and the Odds of Voids, Link Crypto [was: AP, latency]
by grarpamp 08 Aug '18

08 Aug '18

>> > for other stuff...do you have to ask? What sort of system do you think should be used for coordinating 'criminal' activity, instead of streaming super full SHD video for retards? > And the answer is : some sort of 'high latency' mixing network. And interestingly enough such a network doesn't seem to exist, although it seems to me it would require less resources than something like tor. And nobody seems to be worried about having or not having that kind of network, which strikes me as odd... > What I was trying to say is that, if the use case is 'criminal activity', then using a 'low latency' network like tor which provides centralized 'hidden' services is a not a good idea. It's more like a recipe for disaster. https://www.aclu.org/files/natsec/nsa/Tor%20Stinks.pdf If the mix or other network design is doing it's job, programmed delay, being a part of observed latency, might not end up mattering much to security. ie: Think of latency as the clock speed of the network. The job of passing around cells from here to there is a compute task, a fixed todo list set into instructions. Doesn't matter whether your job completes in 10 seconds, or 10 days, or with each instruction artificially delayed by a billion nop's on the fast cpu. Your cpu can still be probed and watched for months regardless how long it takes, so it doesn't seem that waiting n time units before passing a cell from a to b, b to c, c to d, will help in itself, because the network, or your path over it is not guaranteed to be full. Enough of those odds of empty voids happening at the right points, the ones your data is moving over, and you're hosed. If you've got all this idle time, might as well fill the mix, an actual defensive move. Zen's remindful blurb something others suggested for longer, me included. It really needs cross checked against available research, and researched into development if it works.. Would also like to see work on opensource IETF standard for all physical ports on all network hardware, each port having independant full time random keyed link encryption with tamper alerts, and full time fill to the capacity of the link with random data, baked in the silicon and silently on by default out of the box. Limited to opposing crypto suites, say three with a q resistant one. The silicon, firmware, and software required is expected to be trivial cost, like $1/port when applied globally. That'll seriously fuck with the vampires on the wire who don't have legal authority to force you to turn it off, or to particularly regulate your hardware, which in the western world is many jurisdictions. To wit, apple secure enclave is still thought by many to be resistant and live years later in T2 and A11. No, operators don't need to turn it off to debug their net, they copy the port above the MAC PHY of the chaff at the logical layer to another port. Which also is a human action which can't currently be forced, in any sane regime, and fishing for win with an illegal general warrant.

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