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priceless! - supreme NSA scum CEO hacked
by Punk 08 Feb '19

08 Feb '19

"his private text messages and photos documenting his extramarital affair were leaked to the tabloid." https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/technology/jeff-bezos-national-enquirer-…

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Edgar Degas - ballet artist - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 07 Feb '19

07 Feb '19

Note, some of the links to the actual paintings have been taken off le Internet, although the links are still in the original article. ** Counter-[censored] Hero Fought for French Freedom: Edgar Degas https://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413… http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=473 ------------------------------------------------------------ by Brother Nathanael Real [censored] News Wed, Feb 6, 2019 Edgar Degas an 'Anti-[censored]' for Our Times Edgar degas was born of aristocratic bankers in Paris on July 19, 1834. Until his death in 1917, Degas cherished an attachment to his grandfather, Hilaire De Gas, a well-to-do banker of the French aristocracy. Developing his artistic talent when 18 years old as a copyist at the Louvre in Paris, Degas began getting recognition as a serious painter in 1868 with his enigmatic ‘psychological’ portrait, A Woman Seated Beside a Vase of Flowers. In 1873, Degas joined Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Paul Cezanne to form the Societe Anonyme des Artistes which opened the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris. Critics named Degas the leading figure among the new group, later known as the Impressionists, conferring high praise on his work, The Dancing Class, another enigmatic work using a small mirror, a strange hanging wall painting, and the figure of an ‘out-of-place’ [censored] violinist. View Enlarged Image Here. From this point on, Degas was acclaimed for his unique artistic technique that evoked a sharp discrepancy between figure and setting. A crystallizing event in the life of Degas occurred in the autumn of 1897 in which the artist broke off his relations with the [censored], Pissarro, who was at odds with Degas. This event, known as The Dreyfus Affair, in which [censored] artillery captain Alfred Dreyfus was accused of selling military secrets to Germans, prompted Degas to declare himself an ‘anti-Dreyfusard.’ Henceforth, Degas was scorned by prominent French [censored] as an ‘anti-[censored].’ DEGAS & THE RISE OF [censored] POWER The ‘anti-[censored]’ attitude of edgar degas towards French [censored] began to overtly show itself in his 1871 painting, General Mellinet and Chief [censored] Astruc. In his double portrait portraying a [censored] as not only being the equal of a Parisian general, but possessing an insolent predominance over the high ranking military officer, Degas displayed the growing sentiment that [censored] were emerging as a dangerous influence in French political life. Although the title of the painting confers preeminence to the general, the [censored] is clearly in charge. Degas’ dismay at the rise of [censored] power in France gave increased expression to his artistic voice as evinced in his 1879 painting of the [censored] opera librettist, Ludovic Halevy, “Portrait of Friends in the Wings.” In his depiction of Halevy conversing backstage at the opera with Albert Boulanger-Cave, a wealthy Gentile arts patron, Degas’ use of the discrepancy between figure and setting comes to the fore. Drawing upon French opinion that “[censored] did not belong in France and were sucking the life out of the country,” (Sound familiar?), Degas created a portrait in which Halevy is out of place in French public life, as here, the French opera. In contrast to the bright, colorful backdrop, Halevy appears isolated in his own gloomy set, his haggard expression incongruous with the rest of the painting, his mere presence darkening the cheerful scene. Degas used Halevy’s mood, complete with the ’stereotyped’ [censored] features of hooked nose and full beard, to demonstrate that Halevy, ‘the [censored],’ was an alien in the cultural life of France. Degas’ Attitude Toward French [censored] reached its artistic climax in his 1879 painting of [censored] banker Ernest May, “At the Stock Exchange.” Degas shows May as a hook-nosed [censored] with bulging eyes and lips - an artistic ‘mark’ of the [censored] alien status. The scene incorporates the reality of [censored] financial hegemony, well known to Degas with the emergence of the Rothschilds as an economic force in France and throughout Europe. Degas paints May’s head sharply titled toward a Gentile underling, who appears to be whispering something in his ear, which Degas deliberately emphasizes. This creates the impression that the observer is spying on the two men while they share a secret stock tip. With viewers left outside as a [censored] banker receives insider trading information, Degas shows that the French public is being betrayed by [censored] financial machinations. View Enlarged Image Here. BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME As an ‘anti-[censored]’ for our times, Edgar Degas foreshadowed the present [censored] banking hegemony and secret dealings now occurring at the [censored]-owned Federal Reserve Bank in America. (It is NOT Federal/ It has NO Reserves/ It is yet ANOTHER [censored] Lie.) The Federal Reserve, led by the [censored] Ben Shalom Bernanke and his [censored] adviser, Alan Greenspan, is currently appealing a judge’s order requiring the privately-owned [censored] banking consortium to identify the financial institutions ([censored] bankers, that is) that benefited from its emergency loans. Since the [censored]s own the courts as they do every American institution, the Fed’s appeal will doubtless be upheld. Bernanke refuses to disclose the $2 Trillion loan amounts given to the [censored] banks participating in the TARP Bank-Bailout deal, saying that doing so would “endanger private banking interests.” The most likely recipients of stores of US taxpayer dollars are the [censored] banks: Goldman Sachs/Lloyd Blankfein CEO; Morgan Stanley/James Gorman CEO; Citigroup/Robert Rubin 2008 Senior Adviser; and AIG/Harvey Golub, Chairman. Working closely with Bernanke is the Fed’s own man at Treasury, Timothy Geithner, former chief of the NY branch of the Federal Reserve. As past president of the NY Federal Reserve, which “maintains the nation’s payment systems,” Geithner knows where the bodies are buried and to whom the TARP dollars went. But Timmy ain’t telling. On December 9, 2009, Bernanke addressed many of his fellow Zionist [censored]s at the Economic Club of Washington. (Lots of [censored]s on the Membership List.) Telling his compatriots that the “economic recovery is in its early stages,” Bernanke seems to be ignoring the 20 million GENTILE Americans who are out of work and cannot be convinced that a “recovery” is underway. In fact, 85,000 jobs were lost in December 2009. Perhaps another ‘anti-[censored]’ like Edgar Degas will arise, exposing the [censored]s for their lies and for keeping the Gentiles outside of their secret dealings. Or, perhaps he has already come. But dumbed down Americans no longer have eyes to see and ears to hear…

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"White nationalists don't get to reinvent what Viking culture is"
by Razer 07 Feb '19

07 Feb '19

independent.co.uk Vikings were not Nazis, anti-racists tell Swedish white supremacists Will Worley @willrworley A Live Action Role Play (LARP) group in Sweden is campaigning to halt the neo-Nazi appropriation of Viking symbols. Runes and other ancient Viking iconography have long been associated with the Nazism, by groups who use them to propagate the myth of white ethnic purity and supremacy. Larpers in Sweden have formed Vikingar Mot Rasism (VMR, or Vikings Against Racism) in order to combat the far-right hold over Viking heritage. "Viking enthusiasts get mistaken for racists and Nazis all the time, and we're very uncomfortable with that. White nationalists don't get to reinvent what Viking culture is," Solvej von Malmborg, a VMR member, told the Local. The group protested the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR) along with thousands of other counter-demonstrators as the group attempted to march through Gothenburg. The VMR spent time explaining to other anti-racists activists the difference between Viking heritage and neo-Nazi symbols. Ms von Malmborg continued: "When a symbol becomes too closely connected with a racist movement, it becomes theirs – it belongs to the racists and eventually, using it can be seen as a form of inciting racial hatred. Then the symbol is removed from common cultural use." The NMR uses an arrow-shaped ‘Tyr-rune’ against a green background as its logo. The rune represented the Norse god of war, Tyr, and its shape is believed to be related to the North Star. It was also used by a Nazi SS division. Other Viking iconography has been used extensively by the far right since the Nazis used them to express their fetishisation of perceived strong ancient and ethnically pure cultures, like the Vikings and Romans. The Odal rune was part of the Runic alphabet and used by Vikings to denote inherited estate. But it used by the Nazis to symbolise their central concept of ‘blood and soil’. The Waffen SS used runes extensively, including the ‘Sig Rune’ – originally representing the sun – which formed their logo. The VMR formed after they noticed more racists attending Viking-themed events several years ago. Ms von Malmborg said their presence was contrary to the inclusive atmosphere of Larp. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/vikings-neo-nazis-anti-raci… ===30== More at the Local > "Another common misconception of Viking culture, and one which is perpetuated by nationalist movements, is that men were viewed as superior to women. "We don't know a lot about gender roles in the Viking era but we do know that both men and women were empowered, and that there were female warriors, for example," she says, pointing out that one Viking burial grave long believed to belong to a male warrior was recently discovered to belong to a woman." https://www.thelocal.se/20171006/we-cant-let-racists-re-define-viking-cultu… Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail

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IEEE Spectrum: Quantum Repeater Trial Ignites Hopes for Long-Distance Quantum Cryptography and Computation
by jim bell 06 Feb '19

06 Feb '19

IEEE Spectrum: Quantum Repeater Trial Ignites Hopes for Long-Distance Quantum Cryptography and Computation. https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/internet/quantum-repeater-trial…

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population stagnation - a genuwhine problem - facts that trigger - [MINISTRY] [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 06 Feb '19

06 Feb '19

Your mission, should you take it on in 2019, is to spread facts far, spread facts wide, push those facts as deep into virgin goy territory as they can possibly be pushed. Population stagnation was real problem around 1951, for one particularly troublesome tribe. Always remember, you're "not an anti-semite, just anti-termite". Peace, and create your factual world :)

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censorship v free speech, not money, is a foundation for a free society/ world
by Zenaan Harkness 05 Feb '19

05 Feb '19

Communities exist without money, and have done so since time immemorial. But without our free right to communicate with one another, no community can survive, let alone flourish. Our basic human rights (to survive, communicate, move about in our community (travel)) are the foundations to any society that can ever approach the concept "a free society". Websites, in particular those website the (((media elites and those who control us))) don't like, are regularly simply blocked or semi blocked. And no "just use an ip address" or "private companies, they can do what they want" is no answer to the domination of our community, the domination of our peoples, that we experience. Each of the following sites currently blocked in Australia, even with javascripting enabled, but without an error, so semi-blocked, thus quite sinisterly undermining the freedom of communication we supposedly hail in "democracies": https://daviddukeonline.com/product-category/david-duke-report/ https://daviddukeonline.com/ https://davidduke.com/ https://daviddukeonline-eu.com And we know our "favourite" nationalist websites have been sent to the dark web to appear at all, looks like The Duke is similarly being sent to ground. This is your world, people. Good luck,

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Forced Decrypt: US Indiana Supreme Court to Rule on Rubberhose Powers
by grarpamp 05 Feb '19

05 Feb '19

https://www.businessinsider.com/absher-saudi-website-men-control-women-stop… https://www.businessinsider.com/smart-tv-data-collection-advertising-2019-1 https://www.extremetech.com/internet/281991-australia-becomes-first-western… https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2019-01-24-20000-people-demand-feder… https://www.techspot.com/news/78554-popular-genealogy-website-now-sharing-d… https://www.propublica.org/article/google-has-quietly-dropped-ban-on-person… https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/03/health-risk-scores-opioid-abuse-1… https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/03/police-risk-racial-profilin… https://www.androidauthority.com/nest-secure-google-assistant-mic-950134/ https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/ak9phh/new_facescan_boarding_proc… https://twitter.com/EFF/status/1091449476613468160 # Lol at NSA https://papersplease.org/ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/highest-court-indiana-set-decide-if-y… Any Supreme Court Ruling is A Big Deal... File your own Amicus Brief to the Court Now. Highest Court in Indiana Set to Decide If You Can Be Forced to Unlock Your Phone By Andrew Crocker February 4, 2019 When EFF preaches about the benefits of using device encryption on smartphones, one of the most frequent questions we get is whether the police can force you to turn over your passcode or unlock the device. The answer should be no. The Fifth Amendment states that no one can be forced to be “a witness against himself,” and we argue that the constitutional protection applies to forced decryption. Last week, we filed a brief making that case to the Indiana Supreme Court. The case began when Katelin Eunjoo Seo reported to law enforcement outside of Indianapolis that she had been the victim of a rape and allowed a detective to examine her iPhone for evidence. But the state never filed charges against Seo’s alleged rapist, identified by the court as “D.S.” (Courts often refer to minors using their initials.) Instead, the detective suspected that Seo was harassing D.S. with spoofed calls and texts, and she was ultimately arrested and charged with felony stalking. The state not only sought a search warrant to go through Seo's phone, but a court order to force her to unlock it. Seo refused, invoking her Fifth Amendment rights. The trial court held her in contempt, but an intermediate appeals court reversed. When the Indiana Supreme Court agreed to get involved, it took the somewhat rare step of inviting amicus briefs. EFF got involved because, as we say in our brief filed along with the ACLU and the ACLU of Indiana, the issue in Seo is “no technicality; it is a fundamental protection of human dignity, agency, and integrity that the Framers enshrined in the Fifth Amendment.” In recent years, courts have struggled with how to apply the Fifth Amendment’s privilege against self-incrimination to compelled decryption of encrypted devices. It’s well settled that the privilege protects against “testimonial” communications, which a 1957 Supreme Court case describes as those that require a person to disclose “the contents of his own mind.” It’s also clear that nonverbal acts can be testimonial, such as being forced to respond truthfully to police questioning with a “nod or headshake,” or to produce a gun that police believe was used in a crime. Even responding to a subpoena for documents can be a testimonial “act of production” because it reveals information about the existence and authenticity of the documents, and the subject’s possession of them. So what about being forced to tell police your password, or to unlock an iPhone? Our argument to the Indiana Supreme Court is that compelling Seo to enter her memorized passcode would be inherently testimonial because it reveals the contents of her mind. Obviously, if she were forced to verbally tell a prosecutor her password, it would be a testimonial communication. By extension, the act of forced unlocking is also testimonial. First, it would require a modern form of written testimony, the entry of the passcode itself. Second, it would rely on Seo’s mental knowledge of the passcode and require her to implicitly acknowledge other information such as the fact that it was under her possession and control. The lower appellate court in Seo added an intriguing third reason: In a very real sense, the files do not exist on the phone in any meaningful way until the passcode is entered and the files sought are decrypted. . . . Because compelling Seo to unlock her phone compels her to literally recreate the information the State is seeking, we consider this recreation of digital information to be more testimonial in nature than the mere production of paper documents. Because entering a passcode is testimonial, that should be the end of it, and no one should be ordered to decrypt their device, at least absent a grant of immunity that satisfies the Fifth Amendment. But there is an additional wrinkle. In a case from 1976 called Fisher v. United States, the Supreme Court recognized an exception to the Fifth Amendment privilege for testimonial acts of production. The case involved responding to a subpoena for tax documents, and the government could show to a “foregone conclusion” that it already knew all of the information it would otherwise learn from the production—i.e. the existence, authenticity, and possession of the responsive documents. Although the Supreme Court has never again relied on this foregone conclusion exception, the government has built it into a full-blown “doctrine.” State and federal prosecutors have invoked it in nearly every forced decryption case to date. In Seo, the State argued that all that compelling the defendant to unlock her phone would reveal is that she knows her own passcode, which would be a foregone conclusion once it “has proven that the phone belongs to her.” As we argue in our amicus brief, this would be a dangerous rule for the Indiana Supreme Court to adopt. If all the government has to do to get you to unlock your phone is to show you know the password, it would have immense leverage to do so in any case where it encounters encryption. The Fifth Amendment is intended to avoid putting people to a “cruel trilemma”: self-incriminate, lie about knowing the password, or risk being held in contempt for refusing to cooperate. Thankfully that’s not the law. Instead, it’s clear from Fisher and later Supreme Court cases that the foregone conclusion exception was intended to be very narrow. It has only been applied in a case involving business records, and only where the testimonial communication at issue was the act of providing specified documents. The Court has made clear there is no foregone conclusion exception where a person is required to use the contents of their mind, even in responding to a more open-ended document subpoena. So there should be no exception to the Fifth Amendment when the government compels disclosure or use of a passcode to unlock and decrypt a digital device. The Indiana Supreme Court is set to hold argument in Seo on April 18. We’ll be watching for its ruling. " A year ago I was a front desk agent in one of the famous five stars IHG hotels. Basically, their Privacy policy entails that they have the right to sell anything and everything about you to third parties with all methods present or future ones. Not only that, there's a special FBI website for hotels where we have to enter all guests details, including but not limited to: Passport or ID scan, which room they're staying in, how long, nationality, full name, payment method, date of birth. If I fail to enter some guests? Well hello FBI agent, I'm not kidding, we have weakly FBI visits where they run some inquiries about some guests and check if we entered all the data. Moving to security, I cannot stress enough how crap the security measures are, your important Passport or ID info? It's stored on Microsoft Onedrive in an image format and synced on ALL the hotel's 40+ computers. Not only that, but every credit card scanned is stored along with security code in a plain text file! I shit you not and this is a five stars international hotel we're talking about here. If I was a criminal I would have copied the entire thing and sold it on the deep web or something, it's just crazy. I complained about that to IT but they ignored me! Also they keep any documents the guests ask us to print or scan, again, all saved to Microsoft Onedrive and synced fully to all computers, I once saw a paper of one of the guests with extremely sensitive details, and the poor guy thought his scanned documents are not stored on the hotel's Onedrive folder. Basically if you must travel try to stay in small hostels where they don't scan documents and accept payments in cash or try couchserfing. "

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Looking for more advocates for decrypting the Stenographic Record of Public Meetings of Boston City Council.
by don warner saklad 05 Feb '19

05 Feb '19

Looking for more folks advocating Boston City Council President https://www.boston.gov/departments/city-council/andrea-campbell decrypt the Stenographic Record of City Council Public Meetings for hard of hearing folks, for all folks. Currently the Steno is only made available .sgstn unintelligibly encrypted. Public funded, the edited on site Steno Record is more complete than Minutes, more accurate than flawed inaccurate produced off site video captions.

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drooling - submarine porn, Ru-style - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 04 Feb '19

04 Feb '19

Nope, a duckduck doogle search for "submarine porn" brings up little of interest, but for pure unadulterated raw ice cool submarine porn Russkie propaganda, RT's got your back :D Such naughty, naughty Russians, doin' it under water like it's 1999… Submarines of the Northern Fleet - The Beast Division - Part One-ski https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L8pKSfJc88

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Cryptocurrency: Erik Voorhees via Liberty Entrepreneurs Podcast
by grarpamp 04 Feb '19

04 Feb '19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CHxboMGv1E Today’s guest is Erik Voorhees, Founder and CEO of Shapeshift.io, the best way to exchange digital tokens on the Internet. I met Erik in Panama City, Panama in 2013 because he had a Bitcoin sticker on his laptop while posted up working at the NY Deli Bagel Cafe in El Cangrejo. I was working for Peter Schiff’s Euro Pacific Bank and had just heard Erik on Peter’s radio show. I was amazed at how eloquently Erik could communicate the benefits and value of Bitcoin as well as why it should be embraced by every person who supports “free market money” (Gold/Silver). Unfortunately, Peter Schiff wasn’t able to (and still doesn’t) grasp the paradigm shift and advancements in money created by Bitcoin and blockchains. Since his [Erik’s] entry into Bitcoin around 2010, he has either built or helped build several cryptocurrency companies including SatoshiDice, BitInstant, Coinapult and his most recent project Shapeshift.io. Tune in to hear how a fundamental understanding of money and freedom was instrumental in all of Erik’s business ideas. Protecting Customers: Market-based solution vs Government Regulations Most people (general public) believes that a government needs to “regulate” the Free Market in order to protect customers. We discuss how such government regulations actually harm the customer and protections should be left to the Entrepreneurs and business leaders to figure out. At Shapeshift, Erik has built a digital token exchange which does not require your private information (name, address, utility bill, social security number, etc). Simply send tokens to an address and receive the new, different tokens to your crypto wallet.Once an exchange is requested, Shapeshift only controls byour tokens for a few seconds as they perform the exchange and send back to you. This is a revolution in “financial custodial accounts” and is an evolution in how financial companies will protect clients in the future…as long as the government stays the hell out of the way. How Shapeshift has Created a Revenue Stream for Digital Token Wallets Speaking of revolutionizing business models, before Shapeshift it was very difficult to create a cash-flow positive business that builds crypto-currency wallets. Selling ads, allowing purchases with a credit card (very difficult and risky) or creating a LocalBitcoins-eque marketplace were the only ideas. None of them worked well. Now with Shapeshift, crypto-currency wallets who support multiple tokens can now integrate the Shapeshift exchange engine and make a small cut of all the token exchanges happening from within the wallet.

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