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Quantum Computers
by jim bell 05 Nov '19

05 Nov '19

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-06/quantum-computers-are-co… [partial quote] Quantum mechanics, Carl Sagan once observed, is so strange that "common sense is almost useless in approaching it." Scientists still don't understand exactly why matter behaves as it does at the quantum level. Yet they're getting better at exploiting its peculiar dynamics -- in ways that may soon upend the technology business. One of the most interesting applications is in computing. In theory, quantum computers could take advantage of odd subatomic interactions to solve certain problems far faster than a conventional machine could. Although a full-scale quantum computer is still years off, scientists have lately made a lot of progress on thematerials, designs and methods needed to make one. And that could have some striking benefits. Quantum computers could simulate how atoms and molecules behave, to the greatadvantage of chemists and drug designers. They could solveoptimization problems -- say, how to efficiently route airplane traffic -- far faster than current technology can. They could speed advances in artificial intelligence, improve sensors, and lead to the design of stronger and lighter industrial materials.[end of partial quote] Jim Bell

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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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Spain to Catalonia: voting is illegal
by Zenaan Harkness 22 Oct '19

22 Oct '19

OK, ok, slight exaggeration - voting in a secession referendum is illegal, says Spain to Catalonia. Since only States are sovereign, and not people (say the States), secessionist referenda are illegal. And besides, it's for your safety. Crimea is a case in point - with a few million bullets fired, blood on the streets and carnage the world has rarely seen, Crimeans paid a high price for the reuniting with Russia. Oh, it didn't quite go like that? Oh well, you know, voting is illegal and all... and the State of Ukraine murdering it's own people in a genocidal attempt to cause them to "reunite" with the other land, we have a prime example of why the State must, at all times, be granted ultimate sovereignty, and the people must be dominated with bullets. And missiles. And land mines, shelling, RPGs and everything else the state can muster, to establish order in the world. "Democracy" loving Westerners both decry the Crimean's zero bullet referendum (what a concept), whilst demanding the USA's "God" given right to impose "democracy" by missile upon any unsuspecting nation State that has some excess oil. Or lots of non-excess oil that the USA wants. Or other resources... And on and on the Western "moral high ground" hypocrisy goes... Cue another ridiculous jnn rant in 3 ... 2 ... What a world we live in. Catalonia sets date for landmark vote on independence from Spain https://www.rt.com/news/391627-catalonia-independence-vote-date/ The autonomous region of Catalonia will have the decisive referendum on secession from Spain on October 1, the regional government announced on Friday. The move comes after a months-long standoff with Madrid, which decries the vote as illegal.

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Trump's communism
by Punk 01 Sep '19

01 Sep '19

One of the means that murderous jew marx wanted to use in order to gain absolute power for him and his accomplcies was "Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly." Such banks do exist today of course, and are known as 'central banks'. It easily follows that supporters of central banking are supporters of 'national' communism. Now, what does the orange monkey aka trump cunt say about central banking? "Trump hits the Fed again, says 'small rate cut' is not enough" https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/29/trump-hits-the-fed-again-ahead-of-rate-deci… So not only the trmp cunt supports central banking(duh!) but he wants the bank to do as much damage as possible and to steal as much money as possible - money that goes to trump and his cronies, i.e. the governmetn and corporations. ps: and that's just ONE of the many ways in which the trump cunt his robot-followers endorse and support communism.

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Dystopian future arrives - QE∞ - Denmark offers home mortgages at negative interest rates - [MONEY]
by Zenaan Harkness 01 Sep '19

01 Sep '19

Some might wonder why literal negative interest rates where your home loan reduces at the end of each year, even if you pay nothing all year, is dystopian. This email, and the below linked Zerowedgie article, will not answer that riddle for you, although perhaps it has something to do with debasement of the value of governmnet monopoly (((fiat fake money)))? Who knows ... In the meantime, if you're a Denmark citizen, jump in on a 10 year fixed rate morgage with an interest rate of negative 0.5% - literally! Also, as there is no risk of default, there is no mortgage insurance required, so any amount you would previously have paid on mortgage insurance, can now be paid on the loan capital, along with any other payments you might be inclined to pay, and of course no deposit is required - this is literally 100% financing. But when there's no need to pay, why pay? And as a bonus, all the immigrants (((the elites))) have flooded your nation with, can now afford to buy a home :D Soap, very interdasting... how best to game this new, degenerate (((Federal Reserve banking))) game? Buy every house for sale? Of course, in very short order one can imagine that every sane Dane will refinance and not sell, so real estate should dry up almost overnight. It's also an end game of sorts since everyone who at least holds title to one or more properties, can now pay off all those titles just by taking out new mortgages ... although interest rates may well rise again at the end of that 10 year -0.5% rate mortgage, after which you shall owe almost exactly half your initial amount. So that's effectively an automatic capital depreciation rate of 50% every 10 years. The next trick the bankers can pull is to lower rates even further in a year, after all the sheeple have refinanced at -0.5%, to say -2%, and owe much less than 50% of the capital amount at the end of 10 years. It's all rather wierd. Smells of a (((banking system))) effectively in collapse. Perhaps this is one way to unwind the almost unfathomable debt to equity ratios which require a systemic collapse, in the face of a populace who will literally just roll out thousands of local mini digital currencies if we DO see a 1929-style collapse, and so the incumbent - remember the Fed :) - wishes (naturally enough) to maintain their incumbency status. But if collapse is your only option given that the masses are not really falling into civil war due to infinigger immigration and a now weekly stream of WHITE NATIONALIST TERRORISM SHOOTUPS (oh, wait, it's mostly extreme leftist Antifa crazies and the occasional copycats), but anyway, here's the bum out list for the Fed's "reset in the face of Chaos by pretending to be the nights in white shining armour when the chaos really hits the fan and the multitudes are screaming for stability: - China did not bite into a hissy fit of US Gov debt note selling, so China cannot be blames for the reset - Russia stabilised Syria, Iran and Turkey, and to some extent Egypt, and failed to smash the CIA's "most public coup in history" in the Ukraine, and so World War 3 is close to no longer on the table and therefore "nations fighting to hell" cannot be blamed for the reset - the Huwaite Nazi Supremacist Terrorists in the USA have so far demonstrated an utter inability to effectively unite and stand for or even trigger a civil war in North America, so THEY can't be blamed for the coming reset - Trump is too boldly all but (well, actually doing so), blaming the Fed outright for every step the fed takes ("too little", "not enough", "the Fed is crippling our economy", "Obama had much looser policy, I should get that too" etc etc), and despite a few timid shots in response, the Fed is bound to demonstrate a conservativeness unable to decend to the depths of "popular discourse" Trump, and so Trump cannot effectively be blamed for the looming USD financial reset So what other tricks have they got to deflect blame from (((the Fed)))'s predatory usury upon most of the world for the most recent century gone? They could let Wall Street/ Main Street crash as happened in 1929, but this time we're onto the game, and so are the traders and business operators - everyone knows to blame the Fed for "artificially tight monetary policy", "insufficient $ stimulus" etc - so the Fed is going to get blamed this time, and they know it :D Shit! The Fed is pretty close to all outta options. What now? The banks don't want to collectively fall over, so what do they do? When the world is held to crippling financial "debt" of $150,000 per man, woman and child on this planet, it's farcical - bring on the reset, no one gives a shit any more :) But the banks don't want to collapse - there's every bloody chance they will lose their (illegal, unconstitutional) incumbency of the right to print cash. So you start giving the money away. They have no other option. Why no other option? There are some systemic reasons (phenomenally inter-leveraged banks and nations), but also the simplest of reasons: - If I don't personally have an economic stake in the economic system, I have no interest support, or even to use, that system. Multiply this for every man, woman and child on the planet. The point is, there's a very real issue of shared common delusions and tacit consent - if we stop using a system, that system dies. A mental structure (shared common delusion) of money controlled by a very few, only lives to the extent that we all partake of/in, that system! And now that we can roll out digital currencies for every pub, possibly for every family even (although that might not be so useful, whereas a local public bar has enough of a community/ group effect to actually be useful to that local community), we literally do not care about any coming/ looming/ threatening financial terrorism brought about by the Federal Reserve banks - in fact, the sooner this reset comes, the better, since when the money collapses, we have IMMEDIATE SANCTION to roll out our own local currencies, EXACTLY as happened towards the end of the great depression - usually centered around/ run by, the local pubs across North America. So hey, how awesome could this reset be? Danged, bloody awesome mate! Absolute ripper! And so now we see negative mortgage rates, actually being rolled out. Well firetruck me sideways till Sunday! Did NOT see that one coming. Suddenly there's a real possibility that 10s of thousands of Denmark (and soon other country's) sheeple, may well just go and lock themselves with a stake, into the incumbent Federal Reserve banking system, thereby providing somewhat of a breather to said (((Federal Reserve de Rothschild))) banking system. Interesting times, that's for bloody sure :) Denmark's 3rd Largest Bank Is Now Paying People To Take Out A Mortgage https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-10/denmarks-3rd-largest-bank-now-pay…

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Total Lack of Self-Awareness
by Ryan Carboni 01 Sep '19

01 Sep '19

I think one of the most intelligence tests is probably the mirror test, because everyone passes it so handily. I am fairly certain the body of US constitutional law focuses on balancing the harm to the individual to what must necessarily be done. Literal McCarthyism was fairly intrusive, public condemnations followed by employers refusing to hire. It would be more intrusive to elaborately ensure a person cannot achieve employment, while silently making sure the person cannot contest any accusation against him. It would be totally insane if the reigning platform monopolies (like say, Stackexchange) would silent brag about your current condition with say FBI Cybersecurity recruitment ads or (for other more social media platforms) to spoof communications. It would be completely stupid if these people work for the government, are trying to fight foreign influence campaigns to “attack legitimacy in our institutions”, by engaging in actions which would ruin not only the standing of these monopolies, but of the government itself, if made public. Sent from ProtonMail Mobile

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Re: [tor-talk] PaperDump: Mirai, Tor, Darknet, TLA, I2P Censorship, PETs in Sidechains, and more
by grarpamp 01 Sep '19

01 Sep '19

On 8/28/19, Florentin Rochet <florentin.rochet(a)uclouvain.be> LAZILY TOP POSTED AND BLOCK QUOTED: > This list is mixing good papers with several dubious ones. Failed to denote which, and why in detail such labels may or may not apply to them. > I find important to mention that it would be better looking here instead > for non-expert readers: https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/ to find > quality peer-reviewed works, and keep the ones that intersect both lists > for now. Such intersection (logical AND) will of course yield only those papers approved and posted there by TPO / principals... any entity doing such self curation is prone to variety of selection biases. And peer review is somewhat often an ivory tower circle jerk among an exclusive peer group... equally often any supposed reviewers are not denoted anywhere. Novel papers are surely free as any to come from anywhere with zero association, consultation, editorial priviledge, consideration, etc given. If you really want to know what is good vs marginal vs rubbish, read and validate them yourselves, consult independants, study the knowledge areas, actually discuss them in detail in whatever communities you wish, including as desired in those that are their subject, try writing your own papers, etc.

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Gizmodo: The Plan to Use Fitbit Data to Stop Mass Shootings Is One of the Scariest Proposals Yet
by jim bell 31 Aug '19

31 Aug '19

Gizmodo: The Plan to Use Fitbit Data to Stop Mass Shootings Is One of the Scariest Proposals Yet. https://gizmodo.com/the-plan-to-use-fitbit-data-to-stop-mass-shootings-is-o…

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New Atlas: Distance record for light/matter quantum entanglement
by jim bell 30 Aug '19

30 Aug '19

New Atlas: Distance record for light/matter quantum entanglement. https://newatlas.com/physics/new-distance-record-quantum-entanglement-light…

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CNN: Google finds evidence of attempted mass iPhone hack
by jim bell 30 Aug '19

30 Aug '19

CNN: Google finds evidence of attempted mass iPhone hack. https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/30/tech/google-iphone-hack-vulnerability/index.…

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