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[WAR] a turning point? Brzezinski, Mastermind of US Hegemony, Says Abandon Imperial Pipe Dreams
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Nov '19

02 Nov '19

This looks highly significant to me - public statement of defeat of US "world hegemony" regime, by Brzezinsky, very arguably "the US regime's architect". ** Even Brzezinski, Mastermind of US Hegemony, Says Abandon Imperial Pipe Dreams (http://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413c…) ------------------------------------------------------------ by Mike Whitney on Wed, Aug 31, 2016 The original title of this article was: The Broken Chessboard: Brezinski Gives up on EmpireThe main architect of Washington’s plan to rule the world has abandoned the scheme and called for the forging of ties with Russia and China. Read more » (http://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413c…)

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[zen@freedbms.net: Re: [WAR] ...]
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Nov '19

02 Nov '19

----- Forwarded message from Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> ----- From: Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> To: cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 22:35:47 +1000 Subject: Re: [WAR] ... List-Id: The Cypherpunks Mailing List <cypherpunks.lists.cpunks.org> On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 02:47:08AM -0600, Mirimir wrote: > How about we implement a working AP system? As I said in a previous thread, I now believe that to be fundamentally flawed - that it will not achieve anything resembling justice, even in the long term. Fundamentally, the oligarchs and humans generally need a much higher level of education and discourse. "When all you have is a hammer ..." In the current climate of a majority of extremely dummed down "citizens", who are and feel disempowered, who cling to any iota of power that presents such as any public lynching, where intelligent "discourse" is simply not possible, restraint never exercised and certainly not possible to exercise collectively, AP would be at best a hammer to completely destroy society. I support anarchism, not chaos. ----- End forwarded message -----

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I'm trying to understand site https://mailing-list-archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki/
by jim bell 02 Nov '19

02 Nov '19

In the last couple of days, I wanted to remind myself of the timing of the first appearance of my Assassination Politics essay on the Cypherpunks list. My recollection is that I published Part 1 on the Digitaliberty mailing list, maintained by Bill Frezza, on FIDOnet. At that time, I was unaware of the existence of the Cypherpunks email list. At some point, somebody saw my essay, and posted a reference (or a copy) to Cypherpunks, I believe. And at some point, I was invited to the Cypherpunks list. But over 24 years later, I don't recall the exact timing. I know, I believe, that Part 2 wasn't written until later in July, 1995. So to recall this, I just searched for 'cypherpunks archive'. I found the site listed in the title, figuring that it would contain the information I sought. https://mailing-list-archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki/ That looked promising. I looked at: mailing-list-archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki which, promisingly, showed the years 1992-1999. So far, so good, Since the information I sought should have appeared in 1995, I clicked on that year, Weirdly, the information for March and April and June was not present, Huh? This was, pretty much, the time frame I needed to search, Am I imagining things? Could somebody look for various strings, like "Jim Bell", or "Assassination Politics", or "AP", etc? Well, it's not like my existence was entirely deleted. https://mailing-list-archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki/authors/jim_bell_jimbell_at… But something very weird is going on, The information I sought, is not included, Is this a mere accident? What is the pattern, here? Jim Bell

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Re: I'm trying to understand site https://mailing-list-archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki/
by Ryan Carboni 01 Nov '19

01 Nov '19

Assassinations politics come off as one of those blunt metaphors that are easily misinterpreted. Jim Bell doesn't seem clever enough to come up with it so I think he stole the idea from someone else.

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Non-trivial to figure this out about the West
by Ryan Carboni 01 Nov '19

01 Nov '19

The West is run by horrendously incompetent morons, lead by bloodthirsty sociopaths who have no idea why they keep getting accused of horrendous crimes. After all, people who reach such positions tend to be very gullible and naive. Fortunately for them, everyone is well understanding and protective of them since they are such nice people. Anyway, if the West goes in any direction but the direction as by their guided hand, they suddenly develop a backbone and enforce their principles.

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May world be spared hunger, plague and western principles. - was U. S. A.! A-me-ri-cah, f--- yeah! - How to rule the world, U.S. style
by Zenaan Harkness 31 Oct '19

31 Oct '19

----- Forwarded message from Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> ----- From: Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> To: CypherPunks <cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 19:41:09 +1000 Subject: U. S. A.! A-me-ri-cah, f--- yeah! - How to rule the world, U.S. style http://russia-insider.com/en/hey-obama-what-about-serbias-territoral-integr… Summary at bottom, summarizing shifting position of "west" over some time: "So let us recount the western position: - It claimed to uphold the sovereignty and territorial integrity of other countries and the inviolability of borders in Europe - However, this did not extend to the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of Federal Yugoslavia which could be trampled at will - Nonetheless, albeit the territorial integrity of Federal Yugoslavia itself wasn’t worth anything, the territorial integrity of its constituent republics seeking independence was holy - Albeit the territorial integrity of the Yugoslav constituent republics of Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina was holy, the territorial integrity of Serbia was not - Albeit Slovenes, Croats and Bosnian Muslims could leave Yugoslavia, Serbs could not leave Croatia and Bosnia - Albeit Serbs could not leave Croatia and Bosnia, Kosovo Albanians could secede from Serbia - Albeit Kosovo Albanians could secede from Serbia, Kosovo Serbs could not secede from Albanian-run Kosovo - Albeit Kosovo could unilaterally secede from Serbia under NATO military control, Crimea could not unilaterally secede from Ukraine under Russian military control May world be spared hunger, plague and western principles. " ----- End forwarded message -----

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Old news: Why Mark Zuckerberg covers his laptop's camera and micophrone
by Georgi Guninski 31 Oct '19

31 Oct '19

=== Why Mark Zuckerberg covers his laptop's camera and micophrone Is taping your laptop a necessary security precaution? The chief executive officer of Facebook apparently thinks so. https://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2016/0623/Why-Mark-Zuckerberg-covers-h… === Old joke: When we reach billions of insane people you won't insult as insane. (In Bulgarian: Когато станем милиарди луди, ще видиш то на кой ще викаш луд).

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'Call it the Surge': Trump vows tougher militarized police; nationwide crackdown
by Razer 30 Oct '19

30 Oct '19

Shades of Richard Nixon! The "Silent Majority" 'told him' to do it. In this case the little hitler in Trump's head told him to. Maybe Trump doesn't remember how many cops got hurt and killed from the late 60s until the Vietnam War ended when Nixon tried it. After all he'd never heard of 'homelessness' until a few months ago. I'm SURE he never heard the chant: "We're bringing the war back home" used by armed protesters either... Tis a shame. > "President Donald Trump on Monday said the Justice Department is preparing to launch a sweeping crackdown on crime that he named "the surge," a term commonly associated with the George W. Bush administration's decision to send tens of thousands of additional troops into Iraq in 2007. "In coming weeks, Attorney General Barr will announce a new crackdown on violent crime—which I think is so important—targeting gangs and drug traffickers in high crime cities and dangerous rural areas," Trump said during the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Chicago. "Let's call it the surge." The president did not provide any details on the plan but said it is going to be "very dramatic." "And you're going to see tremendous results very quickly," Trump added. As if to emphasize his view of America's cities as war zones, Trump went on to tout his administration's success in putting military equipment into the hands of U.S. police officers and claimed "Afghanistan is a safe place" compared to Chicago. "To help keep you safe, I've made $600 million-worth of surplus military equipment available to local law enforcement," Trump told the audience of police chiefs. "If you remember, the previous administration didn't want to do that... They didn't want to make you look so tough. They didn't want to make you look like you're a threat." Watch Trump's remarks: [video] Trump's visit to Chicago, the first of his presidency, was met with massive protests led by Indivisible Chicago and other progressive advocacy groups. Striking Chicago public school teachers also cleared their Monday afternoon schedule to take part in demonstrations against the president. "We have heard that President Donald Trump might be in town," leaders of the Chicago Teachers Union wrote in an email to members late Sunday. "If any members were inclined to show up outside his fundraiser in red, that would qualify as productive, in our view.” Thousands of protesters gathered and marched outside the Trump International Hotel and Tower in downtown Chicago, where the president attended a big-money campaign fundraiser after the law enforcement conference: [Tweetshots] "We're angry," Marj Halperin of Indivisible Chicago told The Guardian. "He is taking pleasure in the misery of our city. He doesn't know us. He's coming to our city to raise money, largely from people who don't live in this city, without ever having addressed, supported, listened to the people who really need help." --30-- https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/28/call-it-surge-vowing-nationwid… Rr Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail

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hilarious 2007 tor security hole
by Punk - Stasi 2.0 30 Oct '19

30 Oct '19

Low-Resource Routing Attacks Against Tor https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/bauer:wpes2007.pdf you could add "high speed" compromised nodes, simply by lying about them being "high speed". also, notice this https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/hs-attack06.pdf blatant hole in hidden services design 'found' by scum-master syverson in 2006 - same scum-master who 'designed' tor haha. I'm guessing these scumbags get bonunses by 'paper' written, so they write papers about their shitty 'designs' and then write papers 'attacking' the same garbage they coded. Priceless.

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Piracy: Strike3 gets Struck Out of Copyright Subpoena Game
by grarpamp 30 Oct '19

30 Oct '19

https://torrentfreak.com/us-court-shields-internet-subscribers-from-futile-… https://torrentfreak.com/images/strikedeny.pdf A New Jersey district court has issued a devastating order against Strike 3 Holdings, the most active filer of piracy lawsuits in the US. In four separate cases, the court denied a request to obtain identities of alleged BitTorrent pirates. The court argues that the underlying complaints are futile. Even if they held up, other issues such as the privacy of the accused and Strike 3's failure to use other enforcement tools, would warrant a denial. Last week, New Jersey District Court Magistrate Judge Joel Schneider denied Strike 3 expedited discovery in four cases. This means that it's not allowed to subpoena ISPs for the personal details of account holders whose IP-addresses were used to share pirated videos via BitTorrent. In a very detailed 47-page opinion, the Judge takes apart various aspects of Strike 3's enforcement efforts. He makes it clear that these cases should not be allowed to go forward, as the complaints are futile. "The most fundamental basis of the Court's decision is its conclusion that, as pleaded, Strike 3's complaints are futile. The Court denies Strike 3 the right to bootstrap discovery based on a complaint that does not pass muster," Judge Schneider writes. The futility lies in the fact that the complaints themselves include very few facts. The only thing that the company really knows is that an IP address is associated with downloading copyrighted works. Strike 3 doesn't know whether the subscriber is involved in the actual infringements. Courts have previously ruled both in favor and against allowing discovery to expose the account holders in these situations, but the New Jersey Court clearly sides with the latter. "The Court sided with the cases that hold it is not sufficient to merely allege in a pleading that the defendant is a subscriber of an IP address traced to infringing activity. Consequently, the Court will not authorize Strike 3 to take discovery premised on a futile John Doe complaint." The decision is partly based on the aforementioned "Cobbler" ruling of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. However, the Court makes it clear that even if there was a properly pleaded infringement claim, the requests for expedited discovery would still be denied. In the opinion, Judge Schneider sums up the other issues as follows: (1) Strike 3 bases its complaints on unequivocal affirmative representations of alleged facts that it does not know to be true. (2) Strike 3's subpoenas are misleading and create too great of an opportunity for misidentification. (3) The linchpin of Strike 3's good cause argument, that expedited discovery is the only way to stop infringement of its works, is wrong. (4) Strike 3 has other available means to stop infringement besides suing individual subscribers in thousands of John Doe complaints. (5) The deterrent effect of Strike 3's lawsuits is questionable. (6) Substantial prejudice may inure to subscribers who are misidentified. (7) Strike 3 underestimates the substantial interest subscribers have in the constitutionally protected privacy of their subscription information.

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