September 2019 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

One well placed person: Manning Snowden et al, next... Wake, Leave, and Leak
by grarpamp 02 Sep '19

02 Sep '19

> Carry on the work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SOPbD3HUNA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPi9OcJ4HiY Leak more documents. One well placed person... https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=quit+your+government+job https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iletEIeIqH8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbekNG6Azq4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krO5FWCcZU4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asr7Jqs0tIs

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Johnstone: A Society Is Only As Free As Its Most Troublesome Political Dissident - [FREEDOM]
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Sep '19

02 Sep '19

Johnstone has a real flair for apropos! "One of the greatest British rock musicians of all time" or rather one of the greatest rock musicians of all time. Doing a concert for Assange. For us all. For our rights and freedoms. And Johnstone nails it with, in hindsight, the obvious: "A society is only as free as its most troublesome dissident". And Julian Assange is surely that - the modern empire's most troublesome dissident, exposing many secrets that pain the empire to be reminded of, and which remind the masses in this our shared world of the evil of the current Western empire/regime. Thank you Johnstone. And thank you Julian Assange. We do not live in "a free society", and as Caitlin Johnstone states, "this is going to have to change". Peace, ----- Forwarded message from Caitlin Johnstone <donotreply(a)wordpress.com> ----- From: Caitlin Johnstone <donotreply(a)wordpress.com> Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 01:16:42 +0000 Subject: [New post] A Society Is Only As Free As Its Most Troublesome Political Dissident Post : A Society Is Only As Free As Its Most Troublesome Political Dissident URL : https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/09/02/a-society-is-only-as-free-as-its-mo… Posted : September 2, 2019 at 1:16 am Author : Caitlin Johnstone Tags : assange, empire, media, propaganda, Roger Waters Categories : Article, News You wouldn’t know it from any western mass media reporting as of this writing, but musician Roger Waters is about to perform the iconic Pink Floyd song "Wish You Were Here" ( https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/31/assa-s01.html ) in front of the office of British Home Secretary Priti Patel in order to draw attention to the persecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Earlier this year, billionaire Richard Branson staged a "Live Aid"-stye concert in Colombia near the Venezuela border with the purported goal of helping the Venezuelan people. In reality the stunt was nothing other than a ploy to advance the entirely false narratives ( https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/02/23/anyone-buying-this-venezuela-bullsh… ) that President Maduro was blockading bridges and turning away all foreign aid, and the funds raised ended up being embezzled ( https://www.rt.com/news/462175-guaido-aides-embezzled-aid/ ) by the Trump-backed regime change opposition group led by US puppet Juan Guaido ( https://consortiumnews.com/2019/01/29/the-making-of-juan-guaido-us-regime-c… ) . The British mass media, however, went absolutely bananas over the story. Each ( https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-47271182 ) word ( https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-47329806 ) in ( https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-47354754 ) this ( https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-47325201 ) sentence ( https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-47329806 ) is ( https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/19/maduro-government-richard-bra… ) hyperlinked ( https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/19/venezuelan-opposition-plans-d… ) to ( https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/20/pink-floyd-roger-waters-conde… ) a ( https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6734005/Thousands-begin-arriving-R… ) different ( https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6708983/Richard-Branson-announces-… ) story ( https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6720815/Venezuela-President-Nicola… ) about ( https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/world/richard-branson-stages-live-ai… ) the ( https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/23/nicolas-maduro-orders-colombian… ) concert ( https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/19/richard-branson-nicolas-maduro-… ) from ( https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8474687/what-is-richard-bransons-venezuela-ai… ) mass ( https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/venezuela-aid-live-concer… ) media ( https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/venezuela-crisis-richard-… ) outlets ( https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1091560/venezuela-latest-nicolas-madur… ) in ( https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1864044/Sir-Richard-Branson-la… ) the ( https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/violent-clashes-venezuela-border-s… ) UK ( https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1090882/venezuela-latest-us-forces-rus… ) alone ( https://www.ft.com/content/21d2e9a8-364e-11e9-bd3a-8b2a211d90d5 ) . And that was a concert on the other side of the planet, while the Assage event is happening right in London, in front of the office of a prominent British official, featuring one of the greatest British rock musicians of all time. This discrepancy tells you everything you need to know about the so-called "free press" in western society, and indeed about western society itself. > Russian media are covering it. Turkish media are covering it... Where's Western media? #FreeASSANGE ( https://twitter.com/hashtag/FreeASSANGE?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw ) https://t.co/uo1Rzr61ob > > — 𝐣𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚 (@jaraparilla) September 1, 2019 ( https://twitter.com/jaraparilla/status/1168269460173553665?ref_src=twsrc%5E… ) A society is only as free as its most troublesome political dissident, which today means that you are only as free as Julian Assange. As long as you live in a society which can give rise to a coordinated multi-governmental campaign to lock up a journalist for the rest of his life ( https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/05/24/how-many-times-must-assange-be-prov… ) based on bogus charges ( https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/debunking-all-the-assange-smears-a549fd6… ) because he exposed US war crimes, you are not free, and you should not agree to pretend that you are. The old saying "actions speak louder than words" resonates with people because words can lie while actions cannot. And while the millionaire pundits of the billionaire media continually assure us with their words that we live in a free society, the actions of the people who wield official and unofficial power over us tell us that we actually live in a society which tortures ( https://medium.com/@njmelzer/demasking-the-torture-of-julian-assange-b252ff… ) and imprisons dissident journalists for telling inconvenient truths. The persecution of Julian Assange tells us so much more about our society than the authorized narratives we're sold: The persecution of Julian Assange tells us about the real function of the mass media. The discrepancy between the news media coverage of the Assange benefit event and Richard Branson's regime change propaganda party are just one of many, many examples we could discuss about the way those outlets reliably slant their coverage ( https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/how-to-make-sense-of-foreign-protests-co… ) in favor of agendas which just so happen to align with the interests of the CIA and the US State Department. Every time Assange's plight makes headlines, social media lights up with ambitious blue-checkmarked media aspirants posting snarky quips about him in an attempt to show the operators of the billionaire media just how far they'll go to defend the status quo. We are told with words that the mass media are here to tell us the truth about what's going on in the world, but we are told with actions the exact opposite. The persecution of Julian Assange tells us about the mechanics of empire. Assange was pried out of the embassy and imprisoned by an extremely obvious collaboration ( https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/the-legal-narrative-funnel-thats-being-u… ) between the US, UK, Sweden, Ecuador, and Australia, yet they each pretended that they were acting as separate, sovereign nations completely independently of one another. Sweden pretended it was deeply concerned about rape allegations, the UK pretended it was deeply concerned about a bail violation, Ecuador pretended it was deeply concerned about skateboarding and embassy cat hygiene, the US pretended it was deeply concerned about the particulars of the way Assange helped Chelsea Manning cover her tracks, Australia pretended it was too deeply concerned about honoring the sovereign affairs of these other countries to intervene on behalf of its citizen, and it all converged in a way that just so happens to look exactly the same as imprisoning a journalist for publishing facts. You see this same dynamic constantly, whether it’s with military interventions, trade deals, or narrative-shaping campaigns against non-aligned governments. The persecution of Julian Assange tells us about the kind of society we actually live in. We are inundated from early childhood with feel-good slogans about freedom and democracy, which we are told must be spread to everyone on earth as forcefully as necessary even if we have to kill every last one of them. In reality we live in a society made of lies and led by liars, who violently persecute anyone who exposes the truth. These people are your oppressors. These people are your prison wardens. Their sneering faces tell you that you are free from behind prison bars, and that they'll end you if you disagree. This is going to have to change. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDaWEr2UEAADp36?format=png&name=small _________________________ The best way to get around the internet censors and make sure you see the stuff I publish is to subscribe to the mailing list for my website ( http://caitlinjohnstone.com/ ) , which will get you an email notification for everything I publish. 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Smart Speakers
by jim bell 02 Sep '19

02 Sep '19

Google and Amazon use smart speakers for 'surveillance,' top tech investor says https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-google-smart-speaker-john-borthwick-1…

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freedom of speech - Assange - change@e.change.org: See Roger Waters (Pink Floyd's front man) perform "Wish You Were Here" for Julian Assange
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Sep '19

02 Sep '19

This is for Julian Assange, one bloody fantastic Aussie! Freedom of speech muffas! Use it or lose it … ----- Forwarded message from "Phillip Adams via Change.org" <change(a)e.change.org> ----- From: "Phillip Adams via Change.org" <change(a)e.change.org> Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2019 00:12:44 +0000 Subject: NEWS FLASH:See Roger Waters (Pink Floyd's front man) perform "Wish You Were Here" for Julian Assange Phillip Adams shared an update on <em>Free Julian Assange, before it's too late. Sign to STOP the USA Extradition</em> Check it out and leave a comment: Petition Update NEWS FLASH:See Roger Waters (Pink Floyd's front man) perform "Wish You Were Here" for Julian Assange Hi All, URGENT: NEWS FLASH John Shipton (Julian Assange's dad) contacted me to inform that Roger Waters (Pink Floyd's front man) will be performing "Wish You Were Here" in support of Julian Assange Monday Sept. 2, 2019 London. John Shipton requested that I inform all of you of this performance and that you all in-turn reshare to the world and who ever can attend this performance please do so.... https://click.e.change.org/f/a/VnXkuGvIMeAE3vYN0orF5g~~/AANj1QA~/RgRfTZH8P4… Change.org is proudly funded by people like you, Zenaan. As a public benefit company, we rely on the generosity of ordinary people — rather than government funding or annoying ads. Each contribution we receive means our small team can help petition starters win their campaigns. <strong>We believe in the voice of the people</strong> — that’s why we built a platform that is a 100% independent and available for everyone to create the change they want to see. https://click.e.change.org/f/a/sO3fYCX4EPx5iLstq3GMUA~~/AANj1QA~/RgRfTZH8P0… ----- End forwarded message -----

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“High School Course Beijing Accuses of Radicalizing Hong Kong”
by Ryan Carboni 01 Sep '19

01 Sep '19

This NY Times article focuses entirely on local opinions about Liberal Studies. It makes no comparative analysis, or even examination of what Liberal Studies is. Presumably it is similar to civics classes in the west. Critical thinking is encouraged in class. I have no idea why critical thinking would be valuable in society. Sent from ProtonMail Mobile

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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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Jesse Lee Peterson: “I grew up not hating anyone” - Jim Crow laws, "Democratic" Party - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 01 Sep '19

01 Sep '19

Here's a man who just dang diddly ang dang -don't- fit Razer's narrative :D Razer takes a <ahem> black and white, dichomatic sledg-e-meh-hammer to dey world. Yo. Since Jesse Lee Peterson be a nationalist, he be proto-fascist right? Hang 'im from a tree then? Or just the huwaite proto-fascists? :D JLP Straight Pride Speech (Modesto, Aug 24, 2019) [~ half hr, 200MiB] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O28fsbrVikc Recorded Saturday, August 24, 2019: Jesse Lee Peterson's morning speech at the first annual Modesto Straight Pride Event in California, prior to the Planned Parenthood protest. Jesse urges men to drop anger and fear, and lead by example their wives and children. He urges white men not to cave to phony cries of "racism," nor become angry at the evil attacks against them, lest South Africa come here. Jesse also talks about the family destruction in the black community, and the attack on men. After the talk, Straight Pride Coalition founder Don Grundmann thanks Jesse for sharing. This was actually the first true Straight Pride event in the history of America, as the Boston one had yet to occur. READ WND: https://www.wnd.com/2019/08/straight-pride-vs-letist-haters/ Exclusive: Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson witnesses first-hand how violent LGBTQ activists work … Before the rally, a group of leftists calling themselves the Modesto Nonviolent Collective gathered before Modesto city hall, pledging to counter-protest. St. Paul's Episcopal Church hosted an interfaith vigil, and audience members spoke against the event planned by the National Straight Pride Coalition. They even had an Imam speak from the pulpit. These LGBTQ snowflakes can tolerate a religion that condones executing homosexuals, but they oppose a peaceful parade organized by Christians! …

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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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Congress Members To Wear Barcodes So Lobbyists Can Scan Prices
by Razer 01 Sep '19

01 Sep '19

WASHINGTON, D.C.—In a move to make purchasing congresspeople easier and faster for lobbyists, Congress voted to approve a new measure that calls for congresspeople to wear barcodes on their foreheads so lobbyists, activists, and corporations can simply scan them and self-checkout. Self-checkout machines will be installed at all exits of the Capitol Building, so once they've added congresspeople to their cart, lobbyists can pay right on the way out. "Purchasing congresspeople used to be a time-consuming, expensive process," said a Planned Parenthood representative. "Now, we can simply walk through Congress, scan all the congresspeople that are for sale, and checkout without having to interact with any humans." "We hate humans---like, a lot," the PP rep added. One major military-industrial complex lobby group, Americans For Bigger Bombs, said they are also in support of the new move. "When you need to make a quick pit stop at our nation's legislative body to purchase a few congresspeople to start a new war, you need to do it fast," said one AFBB lawyer. "An attack on Iran can't wait while you wheel and deal, wine and dine, and negotiate endlessly. Now, I can just scan and go." https://babylonbee.com/news/congress-members-to-wear-upc-codes-so-lobbyists… Rr Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail. If it isn't 'brevity' enough then fuck you very muchly...

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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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