June 2019 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

learn this one little trick (((the Fed))) uses to boost stocks and lyft the USD - [MONEY] [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 14 Jun '19

14 Jun '19

"We are quantitively easing the future into the present like a hypodermic cocktail of psychotropic pain limiters needled directly into the stock, bond and futures markets". Yee haw, on fire, QE infinity is hitting the tickers and everything is absolutely Kuroda'd! I mean is absolutely Bernankied! Sorry, I mean is absolutely Draghied! Nope, not quite, I mean is absolutely CENTRAL BANKERED. Nearly, stay with me now, I mean everything is ABOSLUTELY FANTASTIC! Are you not entertained?!?!?!!@#@!#!@!!!!!!! BOJ on new year's day 2018: BoJ Offers To Buy Unlimited Debt, Boosts POMO In Panic Response To Surging Rates https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-01/boj-offers-buy-unlimited-debt-boo… The Fed today, officially renamed "New Trump's Day": One Trick Pony: The Fed Is Pushing On A String https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-13/one-trick-pony-fed-pushing-string After a decade of zero interest rates and floods of liquidity by the Fed into the financial markets … there is a rising probability the effectiveness of QE will be much less than during the last recessionary cycle … such actions will drive the 10-year interest rate to ZERO … This is the same liquidity trap that Japan has wrestled with for the last 20 years … The problems that face Japan are similar to what we are currently witnessing in the U.S. … The lynchpin to Japan, and the U.S., remains interest rates. If interest rates rise sharply it is effectively “game over” as borrowing costs surge, deficits balloon, housing falls, revenues weaken, and consumer demand wanes. It is the worst thing that can happen to an economy that is currently remaining on life support. Albert Edwards: "There Is An Earthquake Happening In Government Bonds" https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-13/albert-edwards-there-earthquake-h… "The rumblings of the US bond market have now turned into an ear-piercing scream that a recession is close and the Fed needs to start cutting rates quickly." "When, Not If" - Trader Warns The Dollar Is Far More In Play Than It Looks https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-13/when-not-if-trader-warns-dollar-f… ... the overwhelming consensus view is that the U.S. currency is going down... the biggest source of contention seems to be when, not if, the move will start. Hong Kong Interbank Rates Soars To 2008 Highs To Preserve Bank Stability, Crush FX Shorts https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-13/hong-kong-interbank-rates-soars-2… Hong Kong's currency soared and stocks plunged as the mauling of FX shorts slammed local financial assets. If Gold Was Just A Barbarous Relic... https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-12/if-gold-was-just-barbarous-relic The global monetary regime has collapsed three times over the past 100 years, in 1914, 1939, and 1971. They seem to happen about every 30 to 40 years on average. It’s now been over 40 years since the last collapse, so we’re due... Englander: Is The Fed (Or Any Central Bank) Still Credible? https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-12/englander-fed-or-any-central-bank… "The Fed’s current approach in the face of a big shock would be to make a big commitment and hope that it is credible enough to convince businesses and households to start spending... but even Fed Chair Powell is not convinced that this will work..." The real reason for QE - maintaining the illusion of USD dominance: Who Is Really Funding Uncle Sam? https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-12/who-really-funding-uncle-sam If foreign investors remain uninterested and the Fed avoids restarting QE, this situation will become much more obvious...and diverting attention to “penguins on the telly” will do us no good... Rickards: "Perfect Storm" Is Coming https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-12/rickards-perfect-storm-coming "I cannot imagine a better setup for catastrophe. No one ever sees disaster coming. That’s the point..."

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guilty conscience purge-fail of the year - Jordan Peterson: “Once you’re on our platform we won’t take you down unless we’re ordered to by a US court of law...”
by Zenaan Harkness 14 Jun '19

14 Jun '19

OK, so the inglorious but useful could-be-a-jew by DHA Jordan Peterson is on a conscience purge failure path right now. For those who cannot tolerate hypocrisy, let alone alone failure to uphold free speech and possibly genuine debate on a, --literal--, "Free Speech Panel", Jordan Peterson's schtick is wearing bloody thin these days. Peterson is very proud of the fact he makes a lot of money. OK. Good for him. Yes I agree with his response that "it's not easy to make a lot of money", but to create just another bloody proprietary platform, which is subscription based to boot, in some vain attempt to purge his Faith Goldy madness, appears to some as arrogant indeed. To actually embrace his inner fashtag, Peterson needs to learn a little about FLOSS software, why it is necessary, and why it is the only possible option for anything remotely approaching "secure" or "protecting of any fundamental right". Peterson has yet to have much besides literal squirming in response to kicking Faith Goldy ("uninviting" her) off of a Free Speech discussion panel, at a university campus no less!: https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=jordan%20peterson%20goldie%20free%20speech%20… Perhaps Peterson does not understand technology - this is the most generous interpretation we can advance him for a moment, in which case he has been surrounded by those who either also don't know, or are uniquely (not) incapable of communicating with Peterson in such a way as to influence him to comprehend a few basics in relation to human rights and freedoms. A less generous interpretation is that Peterson's hypocrisy is deeply embedded into his psyche to the point that he is untouched by any around him who (possibly, if they exist around him) are able to express to him certain fundamentals of human rights, freedoms, the necessity of such rights and freedoms, and the relationship of these rights and freedoms to FLOSS software. I for one welcome a shiny new proprietary pay-to-use platform for social media. Not. Peterson has a not insignificant following for his common sense "how to brush your teeth" advice, and this following will likely bring forth the natural lessons which will follow from any successful launch of this shiny new proprietary pay to use social media platform. I only wish the lessons could be learnt in a simple conversation here on Cypherpunks or elsewhere, rather than in yet another multi year, drawn out proprietary corporate experience... like we need more of -that- before we can agree on the basics of human rights and freedoms. Oh well, Peterson is human too and is therefore entitled to the same journey we all are entitled to. Jordan Peterson Close To Launching "Anti-Censorship" Social Media Platform https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-13/jordan-peterson-close-launching-a… Psychologist and author Jordan B. Peterson announced this week that progress on Thinkspot, his subscription-based "anti-censorship" social media platform, has the project closer to launch. Peterson and his team are beta testing the product, which he calls “an intellectual playground for censorship-free discourse”, according to the Washington Times. It comes at a time when social media sites like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Pinterest have been accused of arbitrarily enforcing vague terms of service and overreaching in their left-wing biased policing of their respective platforms. “Announcing Thinkspot: a new online communication platform (as promised post-Patreon),” Peterson wrote Wednesday on Facebook. ... On the June 9 Joe Rogan podcast, Peterson describes platform by saying: “Once you’re on our platform we won’t take you down unless we’re ordered to by a US court of law.” I guess that's an improvement over Jougle and Twatter. Bah!

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200k Saudi user-surge crashes Trump Strumpet Social Media network 'Parler'
by Razer 14 Jun '19

14 Jun '19

The PR Parler published in regard to the surge sounds like US government propaganda. Go figure. Honeypot/Recruitment. Screenshot @reuters. "Those who have joined (Parler) include commentator Candace Owens, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and right-wing activist Laura Loomer... Some Saudi users emphasized common ground with Trump supporters. They shared photos of Trump with members of the Saudi royal family and used emojis of the two countries’ flags and Trump’s #MAGA hashtag." https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-saudi-politics/unhappy-with-twit… Rr Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail

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Re: NSA dDos attack on Telegram Messenger. FAIL
by Zenaan Harkness 13 Jun '19

13 Jun '19

"You get what you pay for" is a "rent seekers paradise" meme. "You get what you pay for" applies in the proprietary software | platform | app world. In the Free Libre and Open Source Software world, often you pay zero dollars; and there's some expectation that there may be a greater learning curve, though this is by no means certain; and there is always access to the source code, along with certain modification and distribution rights to that source code. So in this latter case of FLOSS, you pay no $, but you get very great / significant freedoms. You might make some sacrifices, but over the long term, you get collective benefits for those sacrifices. The "you get what you pay for" meme is a leading phrase in that it leads the speaker or listener into a dichotomy around money - pay money and get benefits, pay no money and be treated as the product (i.e., get treated badly) - but this is all in the context of proprietary software. Services around FLOSS software can provide "pay $ for it" options for those who require or need this, and can afford the dollars, and the long term benefit of this is an industry built around freedom and rights respecting technologies. More such long term thinking might be useful at this point in history. Create your world, On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 02:44:35PM +1000, Nadine Earnshaw wrote: > You get what you pay for > > > https://crypviser.network/ > > > Sent from my iPhone > > >> On 13 Jun 2019, at 12:19 pm, Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 06:45:31PM -0700, Razer wrote: > >> Pepe Escobar reported it that way first thing this morning. ZERO reportage via a google search. Telegram twitter account thread called it MASSIVE: https://twitter.com/telegram/status/1138768124914929664?s=19 > >> Rr > > > > Stay strong and keep clarity, fam! > > > > Live in the inbetweenerwebs. Gorilla pockets. Independent automous > > communicating pods, pairs, individuals. > > > > Simplify your stacks. Clear your webs. Track your logables. > > > > The deep throaters, I mean deep staters are thrashing at the moment, > > a lashing and a gnashing in the agony of limiting restricting > > reducing contracting gibs - the almighty Ewe Ess Dollah be on the way > > down, the other kids startin to play different games, leaving the > > bully on his own. > > > > Bully aware of coming isolation, growing global antipathy, the > > consequences of many decades, centuries of evil, reaping what was > > raped. > > > > Good intentions, awareness and many good things are demonized, > > demonically deemed evil so that war, gore and murder can be > > glorified, lionized, statutorized, dictated, dominated, all dissent > > and exposure utterly crushed under sociopathic murderous power. > > > > Good luck and create your world,

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NSA dDos attack on Telegram Messenger. FAIL
by Razer 13 Jun '19

13 Jun '19

Pepe Escobar reported it that way first thing this morning. ZERO reportage via a google search. Telegram twitter account thread called it MASSIVE: https://twitter.com/telegram/status/1138768124914929664?s=19 Rr Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail

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Russia + “$USD does not serve the future” + “gold backed international settlement crypto” ≡ change coming - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 13 Jun '19

13 Jun '19

Le yello change be on le way; Zerowedgie with the rap: Putin Sets The Table To Leave The Dollar Behind https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-12/putin-sets-table-leave-dollar-beh… https://thedailycoin.org/2019/06/09/putin-sets-the-table-to-leave-the-dolla… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtsfJ6KAqDo This is twice that Russian President Putin has said on the global stage the Federal Reserve Note no longer deserves the status and privilege of “world reserve currency” that allows unlimited printing of the currency. The first time he made mention he actually said that it was a threat to Russia’s national security. In a speech at the International Economic Forum, in St. Petersburg, Russia, “Russian Davos”, President Putin reaffirmed his position regarding the Federal Reserve Note and it’s international role. For the record, we see the abuse of the Federal Reserve and the Federal Reserve Note, U.S. dollar, in similar light as President Putin. The current status of “world reserve currency” should not be allowed in this day and time. The absolute abuse of power, excessive power granted and the ability to shackle entire nations through the use of a currency that is not even their own should have never been allowed but it is way past time for this system to be dissolved. In a speech at a plenary session, Mr Putin accused Washington of seeking to “extend its jurisdiction to the whole world.” “But this model not only contradicts the logic of normal international communication. The main thing is, it does not serve the interests of the future.” ... In other, completely random news, "Lord" Rothschild for unknown reasons concerned about the future of the world's financial order, from hope: Rothschild: 'New World Order' Will Be In Place By 2018 https://newspunch.com/rothschild-new-world-order-2018/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4vqi2_cCKY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z02QfS1TFaE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOFzTvSSOPs to something, other than hope: Rothschild worried about new world economic order https://www.rt.com/business/435490-rothschild-new-world-order-stability/ Lord Rothschild: The New World Order Is At Risk https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-09/lord-rothschild-new-world-order-r… Rothschild: The New World Order is Being Destroyed https://neonnettle.com/sphere/583-rothschild-the-new-world-order-is-being-d… Lord Jacob Rothschild Admits New World Order Is Collapsing https://newspunch.com/lord-jacob-rothschild-new-world-order-collapse/ Prepare folksies, and as always, create ye world already :)

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Not-so-steganography
by jim bell 12 Jun '19

12 Jun '19

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48604023 US President Donald Trump has inadvertently revealed some details of his immigration deal with Mexico. He refused to discuss the plans with reporters, saying they were "secret". But he said this while waving around a sheet of paper that had the specifics of the deal written on it - which was then photographed by news media. President Trump made tightening the border with Mexico a major campaign pledge and the agreement averted his threat to impose tariffs on Mexico. The document suggested that Mexico had agreed to a deadline by which it had to show its efforts at halting the movement of migrants had worked. If the US determined that the measures had "not sufficiently achieved results in addressing the flow of migrants", Mexico would then take stronger legal action.× What has Mexico said about the deal? Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard confirmed that Mexico had 45 days to show it was able to stem the flow of US-bound migrants by strengthening its southern border. It is now deploying 6,000 National Guard personnel to the border with Guatemala. "You go to the south and the first thing you ask yourself is: 'Right, where's the border?' There's nothing," he said on Tuesday. "The idea is to make the south like the north as far as possible." [end of quote] Media captionA look at the steps Mexico is taking to deal with migrants If this plan failed, the foreign minister said, Mexico had agreed to be designated a safe third country - something that has been demanded by the US before, but has long been rejected by Mexico. If Mexico were to be a safe third country, migrants' asylum applications would be processed there rather than in the US. Mr Ebrard earlier said the US had been insistent on this measure, and it had wanted this to be implemented straight away. - Mexico 'has 45 days to curb migrant flow to US' - Is there a crisis on the US-Mexico border? | | | | | | | | | | | Is there a crisis on the US-Mexico border? President Trump says a "crisis" at the border has forced his hand - but what do the numbers tell us? | | | × - Trump's 'border wall' in seven charts | | | | | | | | | | | Trump's border wall - in seven charts The number of people crossing into the US from Mexico is the highest in a decade. So what is going on at the bor... | | | × But he said: "We told them - I think it was the most important achievement of the negotiations - 'let's set a time period to see if what Mexico is proposing will work, and if not, we'll sit down and see what additional measures [are needed]'." "They wanted something else totally different to be signed. But that is what there is here. There is no other thing." Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionMigrants from Honduras attempting to cross the Rio Bravo river in order to request asylum in El Paso, Texas If Mexico fails to curb migration in 45 days, other countries will be drawn into the matter. Discussions would take place with Brazil, Panama and Guatemala - the countries currently used by migrants as transit points - to see if they could share the burden of processing asylum claims. Mr Ebrard also said US negotiators had wanted Mexico to commit to "zero migrants" crossing its territory, but that was "mission impossible".

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Stuff from the past
by Georgi Guninski 12 Jun '19

12 Jun '19

History is written by the winners. In 1999 it was disclosed [1] that m$ had a variable name _NSAKEY in the windoze. In 1998 Halloween Documents [2] document leaked showing microsoft's strategy against free software and especially linux. Due to lameness m$ couldn't predict android will run on linux kernel In early 2000 major malware like Code Red and Nimda hit m$, showing to m$ the meaning of word "security". Nimbda exploited the brain damaged loading dynamic libraries from the current working directory (I might have written something on this). In 2003 [3] debian shipped backdoored micq (the backdoor is debian specific). IIRC there was a quarrel between the debian package maintainer and the micq developer. Links to wikipedia are permanent snapshots [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NSAKEY&oldid=891818118 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Halloween_documents&oldid=895695… [3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/02/msg00771.html

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zeigeist - Keanu 'Hover Hands' Reeves meme - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 12 Jun '19

12 Jun '19

For contemplation of where we've come to date, and the journey we are on. We appear to be in a zeitgeist of transition, introspection, caution, uncertainty, frustration, uknown outcomes, futures etc. Good luck, Is Keanu Reeves refusing to touch people in photos because of #MeToo? Should we as well? https://www.rt.com/news/461606-metoo-keanu-hover-hand-photos/

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Dershowitz prediction about Assange.
by jim bell 11 Jun '19

11 Jun '19

Assange won’t be extradited for publishing secrets: Dershowitz: https://nypost.com/2019/06/02/assange-wont-be-extradited-for-publishing-sec…

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