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Maybe the point of everything is to replace the personnel of this investigation
by Ryan Carboni 15 Oct '19

15 Oct '19

It's possible out of a sense of job security, everyone is claiming the point is to "Change everything! Allow cats to marry dogs!" It was a strange moment when a person asked me to do an activity, so I agreed to talk a walk around the block. The person was surprised that it was up hill. Not particularly surprising when earlier we were eating at a restaurant surrounded by retaining walls, some of which reached twenty feet in height. So clearly that person wasn't hired for their situational awareness. Maybe the point of everything is to replace the investigation. Or maybe the point is to incur hundreds of billions of dollars in losses to... "Change everything! Allow cats to marry dogs!" No, the investigation is of the highest value.

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YouTube Bans Hacking Videos, Can Include Demoing Sudo Root Exploit
by grarpamp 15 Oct '19

15 Oct '19

https://youtube.com/watch?v=WkI1NZXs0os https://thehackernews.com/2019/10/linux-sudo-run-as-root-flaw.html testuser ALL=(ALL, !root) NOPASSWD: ALL $ sudo -u#-1 id -u 0 Ban me liek Perry Metzger u censor fuks.

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AltCensored Indexes YouTube
by grarpamp 15 Oct '19

15 Oct '19

https://www.altcensored.com/about/ YouTube limits access to videos that are neither illegal, nor violate their own Terms and Conditions or Community Guidelines. Limited videos are placed behind a warning message, cannot be shared, monetarized or easily found, and have likes, comments, view counts and suggested videos disabled. altCensored.com is an unbiased community catalog of 25818 YouTube Limited Videos across 4208 monitored channels, including deleted videos and removed channels. Please email admin(a)altCensored.com with new channels to monitor. https://www.altcensored.com/search?q=<search_term>

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Money: 2008 recap
by Zenaan Harkness 14 Oct '19

14 Oct '19

Exponential Freddie graph in original article. Underestimating 'Them' & Overestimating 'Us' https://www.zerohedge.com/political/underestimating-them-overestimating-us https://www.theburningplatform.com/2019/10/13/underestimating-them-overesti… “Do not underestimate the ‘power of underestimation’. They can’t stop you, if they don’t see you coming.” - Izey Victoria Odiase During the summer of 2008 I was writing articles a few times per week predicting an economic catastrophe and a banking crisis. When the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression swept across the world, resulting in double digit unemployment, a 50% stock market crash in a matter of months, millions of home foreclosures, and the virtual insolvency of the criminal Wall Street banks, my predictions were vindicated. I was pretty smug and sure the start of this Fourth Turning would follow the path of the last Crisis, with a Greater Depression, economic disaster and war. In the summer of 2008, the national debt stood at $9.4 trillion, which amounted to 65% of GDP. Total credit market debt peaked at $54 trillion. Consumer debt peaked at $2.7 trillion. Mortgage debt crested at $14.8 trillion. The Federal Reserve balance sheet had been static at or below $900 billion for years. During 2007, a risk averse senior citizen couple (my parents) who had accumulated $200,000 of retirement savings over their lifetime of hard work, could generate $10,000 of interest income in a Vanguard money market fund yielding 5%. This supplemented their modest Social Security income of $20,000 to $30,000 per year. The interest rate on savings during normal economic times was generally 2% above inflation, which hovered around 3% in 2007 according to the data manipulators at the BLS. As the summer of 2008 progressed, I felt more disconnected. I had been doing everything possible to support Ron Paul’s candidacy for president, but the masses weren’t ready for the truth or the reality of our situation. In my opinion the country was already off-course and headed towards a debt created disaster. But the average American was oblivious. The economy appeared strong. People’s 401ks were soaring. And homeowners in many markets had seen their homes double in value – on paper. I felt stupid as I had exited the stock market and bought some bear mutual funds and ETFs during 2007 and 2008. The stock market had more than doubled since the 2002 lows. The control fraud systematically implemented by the Wall Street cabal and their captured political hacks also drove home prices to astronomical heights, making the average home owner think they were richer than they were. Billions of home equity loans were used by delusional dolts across the land to buy luxury vehicles, take exotic vacations, and basically live far above their means. When that fake equity evaporated like a puddle in the Sahara Desert, the delusional masses found themselves living in those luxury vehicles, until the repo man showed up. The irrationality and insanity of the Wall Street created housing bubble was perfectly captured in Michael Lewis’ brilliant takedown of the Wall Street cabal in the Big Short. When Steve Eisman interviews a Florida stripper doing a pole dance and finds out she “owns” five houses and a condo, he realizes the housing boom is a complete fraud and goes all in shorting the exotic worthless derivatives created by the criminal bankers. September 2008 marked the beginning of this Fourth Turning, with the global implosion of financial markets, the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, double digit unemployment, six million home foreclosures, a 50% collapse in the stock market, the deepest recession since the 1930s, and shell-shocked consumers defaulting on credit card and auto loans to the tune of hundreds of billions. As consumer credit contracted, retail stores began going bankrupt in vast numbers. Mall operators were left with 50% or vacancy rates. They couldn’t make the loan payments on their debt. By March of 2009 the country was in a full-blown crisis. My storage area in my basement was filled with food, cases of water and other emergency supplies. I was sure we were at the beginning of an economic period, similar but worse than the Great Depression of the 1930s. I certainly overestimated my forecasting ability and underestimated the abilities of the ruling class to take outrageously reckless steps to retain their power and manipulate the masses into believing extreme abnormalcy was actually normal. The first outrage perpetrated by the oligarchs was passing the $700 billion TARP bailout of the feckless Hank Paulson lied and threatened to protect his billionaire buddies. The turning point occurred on March 16, 2009 when the pocket protector wearing spineless weenie accountants at the FASB were threatened by Bernanke and his henchmen into overturning their mark to market rule and allow the criminal Wall Street banks to value their worthless mortgages at whatever they chose. Citicorp, Bank of America, AIG, GE, Goldman Sachs, and most of the other “Too Big To Trust” goliath banks were bankrupt. They should have been liquidated using the bankruptcy process, with their good assets sold to banks who did not undertake fraudulent risks, and their executives and investors suffering the consequences. The fear mongering and fake accounting propagated by Bernanke, Paulson, Geithner, and their corporate media fake news propaganda machines had the sole purpose of shifting the fraudulently created Wall Street private losses to the taxpayers through deficit funded handouts, free money, accounting fraud, and throwing senior citizen savers under the bus. Wall Street became richer than ever while Main Street got fucked again. As a Ron Paul, Austrian school of economics believer, myself, along with many other logical minded rational thinking people, believed a short violent recession where bad debt was expunged from the system through liquidation and the economy was reset based on corporations and consumers acting conservatively and living within their means – using debt sparingly for long-term purposes, was the best road going forward. I overestimated the intelligence, critical thinking skills, self-restraint and math aptitude of the masses by believing they had learned their lesson after experiencing the second Fed induced market crash in an eight-year period. I thought the American people and their leaders would come to their senses and realize the parabolic increase in debt since the 1990s had to end. I underestimated the level of fear amongst the Fed, financiers, politicians, mega-corporations, and billionaire oligarchs when just a leveling off of credit market debt resulted in global financial implosion. And I clearly underestimated the illegal lengths Bernanke and his fellow puppets would go to in order to save their Wall Street owners and corporate, political and media parasites reliant upon the ongoing Ponzi debt scheme being sustained. If I had only believed in the power of massive debt issuance, nine years of zero interest rates for Wall Street banks, $3.6 trillion of Fed QE to relieve Wall Street of its bad debt, hundreds of billions of debt financed corporate stock buybacks, luring millions into 7 year auto loans, and allowing Wall Street hedge funds to buy up the millions of foreclosures and rent them back to those who they had booted onto the street. If you told anyone in 2007 the national debt would go from $9.4 trillion to $22.8 trillion in twelve years, they would have called you a loon and laughed you out of the room. Now the national debt is 105% of GDP and consumer debt exceeds $4 trillion. Millennials are enslaved with $1.6 trillion of student loan debt, up by $1 trillion since 2009. The ruling class and their propaganda machine have convinced the masses $1 trillion annual deficits are normal and sustainable. Nothing bad has happened – Yet. Our so-called leaders have implemented the exact opposite “solutions” to a debt crisis than what was required. Of course, this is true only if our leaders were interested in the long-term sustainability of the nation and its unborn future generations. If the ruling class is only concerned with their wealth, power and control over the masses, then their actions make complete sense. If I hadn’t underestimated the evilness, greed and egocentricity of the entrenched establishment oligarchs, I would have stayed invested in the market, reaping the 300% returns since the 2009 lows. It has certainly paid to bet on the continued treachery of the traitorous central bankers, politicians, mega-corporation executives, and the fake news media. Only truly devious, deceitful, demented wizards of financial fraud could drive total credit market debt from $54 trillion to $74 trillion as the solution to a debt crisis. After eight years of emergency level financial suppression, the latest Fed puppet, Jerome Powell, dared to raise rates above zero and suspend the continued buying of government debt. If we were really operating in a normal economic environment, market rates would be in the 4% range. But, miniscule .25% increases over a couple years pushing the Federal Funds rate to 2.25% was too much for Wall Street and the president to handle. They have both been throwing hissy fits for the last year, intimidating and threatening the weak-kneed Powell into cutting rates with unemployment at all-time lows, the stock market near all-time highs, and the economy in its tenth year of expansion. Powell’s cowardly surrender is proof the Fed is nothing but Wall Street’s bitch, subservient and pliable to pressure from its owners. “They’re keeping the rates down so that everything else doesn’t go down. We have a very false economy. At some point the rates are going to have to change. The only thing that is strong is the artificial stock market. The U.S. economy is in a big, fat, ugly bubble. I will get rid of the nation’s more than $19 trillion national debt over a period of eight years. I’m renegotiating all of our deals, the big trade deals that we’re doing so badly on.” – Donald Trump, September 2016. ...

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Legal circumvention to facial recognition?
by Steven Schear 14 Oct '19

14 Oct '19

"By wearing this mask formed like a lens it possible to become unrecognizable for facial recognition software and because of it’s transparence you will not lose your identity and facial expressions. So it’s still possible to interact with the people around you." http://jipvanleeuwenstein.nl/

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UK: "problematic" views on consent "rectalfied with mandatory consent classes"
by Zenaan Harkness 14 Oct '19

14 Oct '19

New UK university students forced to take mandatory consent classes: - "you could harass someone even if you had no such intention" - "looking at someone could be rapeing them" - "it was a joke between me and my friend" is no exculpation for victims who are harassed by your words - "harassment is in the eyes of the accuser" - deviations from rigid view are "‘problematic’ view of consent that has to be rectified" Thought police on campus: What’s behind ‘consent classes’ at British universities https://www.rt.com/op-ed/470562-consent-classes-uk-universities/ ... A handful of universities already demand that prospective students take an online consent course before enrolling. Should they fail to comply with this requirement, their application becomes void. ... For years activists have waged a scaremongering campaign to force universities to clamp down on an alleged epidemic of sexual harassment. Through the constant widening of the definition of harassment they have succeeded in creating the impression that universities are an unsafe place for women. Consent classes have been at the forefront of gaining acceptance of the myth of an epidemic of sexual harassment. Throughout the Anglo-American world, campaigners promote the message that “you could harass someone even if you had no such intention.” ... Take the UK’s National Union of Students Consent Workshop Facilitator Guide. It promises to provide a “safer space where people feel comfortable to explore topics, definitions and myths.” But the discussion it advocates, is anything but exploratory. ... it is something of a paradox that in many universities, advocates of consent workshops wish to make them compulsory for all students. Consent classes are about policing the thoughts and behavior of young people. They are also about gaining acceptance for the idea that universities are facing an epidemic of sexual harassment. That students have no choice but to submit to this myth turns the idea of consent on its head. By Professor Frank Furedi, sociologist and author. His book, ‘What Happened To The University’ is published by Routledge Press.

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Cryptocurrency: Displacing Pollution with Crypto
by grarpamp 14 Oct '19

14 Oct '19

https://www.projectcensored.org/2-us-department-of-defense-is-the-worst-pol… Not only do all FUD papers about cryptocurrency energy consumption completely fail to add up all the global energy consumed by the world's Fiat systems in their entirety, and discover that Fiat uses more than Crypto... Not only do all the worlds entire militaries use more energy... all the worlds polluters... all the worlds Governments... yet all of those nasties will trend towards zero as use of crypto rises, starved out by private transactions. "The US military is responsible for the most egregious and widespread pollution of the planet, yet this information and accompanying documentation goes almost entirely unreported. In spite of the evidence, the environmental impact of the US military goes largely unaddressed by environmental organizations and was not the focus of any discussions or proposed restrictions at the recent UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. This impact includes uninhibited use of fossil fuels, massive creation of greenhouse gases, and extensive release of radioactive and chemical contaminants into the air, water, and soil."

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Cryptocurrency: G7 and US Threats that Cryptocurrency and Gold are Better Than Fiat System, OpenLibra, Bankers
by grarpamp 14 Oct '19

14 Oct '19

https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/dhbv5z/ama_with_us_congres… "Everyone should have the right to privacy--and by extension--the right to use privacy coins. I would compare this to the use of cash. Today, we can go into a store, pay for something in cash, and not leave a trace about our identity. That should still be possible with digital money." https://www.openlibra.io/ https://mashable.com/article/openlibra/ https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/11/20910330/mastercard-stripe-ebay-faceboo… https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50037223 "Stablecoin" cryptocurrencies like Libra pose a risk to the global financial system, warns a new report by the G7 group of nations. The G7 taskforce that produced the report includes senior officials from central banks, the International Monetary Fund and the Financial Stability Board, which coordinates rules for the G20 economies. It says backers of digital currencies like Libra must be legally sound, protect consumers and ensure coins are not used to launder money or fund terrorism.... The draft report says: "The G7 believe that no stablecoin project should begin operation until the legal, regulatory and oversight challenges and risks are adequately addressed...." The draft report outlines nine major risks posed by such digital currencies. It warns that even if Libra's backers address concerns, the project may not get approval from regulators... "Addressing such risks is not necessarily a guarantee of regulatory approval for a stablecoin arrangement," the report says. US Senators Threaten More FHOTI FUD against Crypto https://www.schatz.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Signed%20Letters%20re%20Libra%2… https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-10-10/short-bankers-traditional-institu… https://www.economist.com/briefing/2019/10/05/the-stockmarket-is-now-run-by…

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MakeUnixGA, DOS Games, Dead Philes, China Spies Roots You and Your Data and HW
by grarpamp 14 Oct '19

14 Oct '19

https://www.bell-labs.com/var/articles/celebrating-50-years-unix/ http://www.peteradamsphoto.com/unix-folklore/ https://linuxreviews.org/HOWTO_make_Linux_run_blazing_fast_(again)_on_Intel… https://blog.archive.org/2019/10/13/2500-more-ms-dos-games-playable-at-the-… https://onezero.medium.com/the-death-of-the-computer-file-doc-43cb028c0506 https://www.wired.com/story/plant-spy-chips-hardware-supermicro-cheap-proof… https://it.slashdot.org/story/19/10/13/1833233/invisible-hardware-hacks-all… https://www.chinalawblog.com/2019/09/chinas-new-cybersecurity-program-no-pl… https://www.newamerica.org/cybersecurity-initiative/digichina/blog/chinas-c… https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3030563/big-data-expert-ta… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21241712 " the main goal of the new system is to provide “full coverage”. As explained by Guo, “It will cover every district, every ministry, every business and other institution, basically covering the whole society. It will also cover all targets that need [cybersecurity] protection, including all networks, information systems, cloud platforms, the internet of things, control systems, big data and mobile internet.” This system will apply to foreign owned companies in China on the same basis as to all Chinese persons, entities or individuals. No information contained on any server located within China will be exempted from this full coverage program. No communication from or to China will be exempted. There will be no secrets. No VPNs. No private or encrypted messages. No anonymous online accounts. No trade secrets. No confidential data. Any and all data will be available and open to the Chinese government. Since the Chinese government is the shareholder in all SOEs and is now exercising de facto control over China’s major private companies as well, all of this information will then be available" Coming to your very own shithole soon.

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OpenPGP Mozilla to kill Enigmail, Elliptic Crypto, XRay Decapping, Exhausting CD Ripping Structures, Nuclear Farts
by grarpamp 14 Oct '19

14 Oct '19

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:OpenPGP:2020 https://neomutt.org/ https://www.mailpile.is/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claws_Mail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnus Horde-IMP, SquirrellMail, RoundCube https://fangpenlin.com/posts/2019/10/07/elliptic-curve-cryptography-explain… https://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/design/xray-tech-lays-ch… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21181889 https://byuu.net/compact-discs/structure https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21185897 https://www.newsweek.com/methane-boiling-sea-discovered-siberia-1463766 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21199317

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