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Theft
by other.arkitech 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

It makes a lot of sense to me that tax equals theft. However, my thoughts about tax goes on like when you buy a cup of coffee. It is a self-choice to decide to commit to enter a shop and order one. Once you committed the order on the counter you've entered into voluntary debt. Now you'll run into problems if you decide to run away without pay. Parallelism with public affairs are: replacing "cup of coffee" with roads, education, health or whatever is considered public services. Opting-in into Gov is like ordering the coffee, although Gov don't allow you to opt-out. Tax is theft since the moment they don't allow you to voluntarily opt in or out. If you opt-in the Tax is no longer tax but paying as a consumer. Problem is how do you opt-out without using public resources. The libertarian approach is good. You use public resources and you voluntarily pay whatever you consider, including not paying at all.. 2 extremes: 1.- Nobody pays Public services deprecate, vanish and nobody cares about. Soon people would start donating bits to increase the quality. 2. Everybody contributes to the pot Public services will adjust to the size of the pot. Individually you would 'vote' to make it better or worst by donating more or less to the pot. Reach an equilibrium which is self-adjusting continuously. In my Public System project I called it Tax, but my 'Tax' must not be confused with the notion of theft. It is more like 1.-commit, 2.-pay. Still finding out the right algorithm, all ideas are welcome. Thanks4reading Other Arkitech Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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Glenn Greenwald
by jim bell 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

In Defense of Glenn Greenwald https://news.yahoo.com/defense-glenn-greenwald-212617850.html

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Re: Chernobyl Mindset
by Ryan Carboni 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

I was wrong, we are spraying Chernobyl on our roads. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/oil-gas-fracking-ra…

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[Cryptography] Proper Entropy Source
by Ryan Carboni 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

>If A and B are independent then H(B|A) = H(B) and H(AB) = H(A) + H(B) Processors/circuit operate slightly differently under different types of load. Measuring ram latency vs MMU latency is slightly different. Measuring the latency of a single load is different than the latency of multiple loads from ram.

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Marxism rises: AOC: “billionaires are inherently, morally corrupt,” - [MINISTRY] [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

>From the WARNING department of WARNINGs! Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “No one ever makes a billion dollars,” she said. “You take a billion dollars.” And the crowd went wild. ... “billionaires are inherently, morally corrupt,” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJtr8HXwsEs This envy-fuelled Marxism continues to rise for the moment. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez told the audience that wealthy people “sat on a couch” while “undocumented workers” earning “slave wages” created all the wealth and value. She went on, chuckling that “there is a case” that “billionaires are inherently, morally corrupt,” and that “if Jeff Bezos wants to be a good person he’d turn Amazon into a worker cooperative. . .” And this is the solution that AOC is posing; she wants to completely upend the system and turn the country into a Marxist collective. Notwithstanding the corrupt-ness or otherwise of Bezos, Gates or Zuckerberg, this scurge of Marxism and its consent to destroy civilization on the effective foundation of envy, is on all our heads, literally (according to history - Lenin and Trotsky, Pol Pot, Stalin and others). You see, first they come for to slaughter the billionaires, and most don't speak out against the evil of envy-fuelled Marxism, then they come to slaughter the millionaires, and most don't speak out against the evil of envy-fuelled Marxism, then they come to slaughter the intellectuals and most don't speak out against the evil of envy-fuelled Marxism, and then they come for you. 'When will I speak out?' Back to AOC: AOC is clearly an intelligent person, and some of what she says is true. One of her central themes, in fact, is that a lot of people are getting screwed by the system. And it’s hard to argue with that. The primary danger, as is the case with most politicians, is that AOC doesn’t seem to have a grasp of the problem. Why are people getting screwed by the system? Why is healthcare so expensive? Why is education so expensive? Why haven’t many workers’ wages kept up with inflation? She makes no attempt to understand the root cause of these issues, and that’s extremely counterproductive. No one can solve a problem which they haven’t properly defined. Instead, AOC simply blames wealthy people for all the ills of the world – the wealth gap, environmental issues, social injustice, etc. And her solution for everything is to confiscate their property. Not to be outdone, two separate sets of video recordings have recently been leaked by Project Veritas in which Bernie Sanders campaign staffers call for violent revolution and for wealthy people to be incarcerated in forced labor camps. One of them even said, “Guillotine the rich!” ... And all of this, of course, has taken place in a time when gangs of violent thugs (who call themselves ‘Antifa’) have started roaming the streets of major cities and physically assaulting their perceived political opponents. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WzMZxT-41k It almost makes me breathe a sigh of relief: it’s finally out there in the open. These Bolsheviks are finally saying what’s really on their minds– they’re not bothering to hide their true thoughts anymore. They want to punish and kill rich people. They want violence. They want to steal private property and redistribute it to workers. It almost seems like a weird twist on that hilarious scene in Monty Python where the peasant from the “anarcho-syndicalist commune” gets into an altercation with King Arthur and shouts, “Now we see the violence inherent in the system!” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axE83zcx6wY Except it’s not a comedy. This is real life. And all of it would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. Justify the lynching of billionaires, and you justify the lynching of yourself and your family - all your privilege, see... - You live and work in a literal pod? That's -privilege- and don't you forget it, or it's the gulag for you and your unborn children! - You have a degree, and $150,000 in debt? Moar privilege, WATCH YOUR STEP, you OWE YOUR LIFE (and all your priviledge) to the 6 billion poor people in the world! - Got good marks at college? What else but unearned privilege - your marks might be communalized soon, for EQUITY, MUFFAH! How DARE you even consider opposing equity, inclusivity, and infinity reparations! Right-think camps for you! Original article quoted extensively above: "Now We See The Violence Inherent In The System" https://www.zerohedge.com/political/now-we-see-violence-inherent-system

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The Amblin Memer on the Age of Consent - [PEACE]
by Zig the N.g 22 Jan '20

22 Jan '20

The headline sounds rather click batey, but that's par for the course at our favourite daily memer. Be sure to UK: Another Pakistani Sex Ring Uncovered – Blame the Cops! http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/uk-another-pakistani-sex-ring-uncovered-blame… ... So if this had happened in Italy, according to the UK government, it would have been okay because they have a different age of consent, and so if she was there she wouldn’t have been a child but a rational actor making informed decisions. It’s all just psychological manipulation. Any single foreigner coming to Britain and having sex with British women is an “exploiter” – he is stealing the most important resource of a nation, which is the ability to build families, to reproduce. Women are the collective property of a nation, whether they are over or under the age of 16. Furthermore: the concept of “consent” is retarded and not a real thing. It’s not quantifiable in any way. You cannot tell if it exists or not. So claiming that a girl who willingly does something under the age of 16 is not consenting, but once she is over the age of 16 she is consenting, is retarded. If girls can’t “consent” at the age of 15, they shouldn’t be able to “consent” at the age of 16 either. Or 18, for that matter. Or any age. What women think or feel about something is absolutely irrelevant to society. ...

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"If only we had half a Putin" - divesting power - grounding peace - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 22 Jan '20

22 Jan '20

Peace and politics - they don't usually go together. But you don't usually have a putin at the helm of your state. We could be so lucky in Australia to have half a Putin. Alas we have pocket lining dunderheads, morons and some genuinely sociopathic compromateds. As the Western media scrambles to paint every cough and pause by Putin in the maximum possible nefariousness, at least we can look afield on occasion and get a betterer backstory: Russian political earthquake: Putin sets out plan for Kremlin departure & Medvedev resigns https://www.rt.com/op-ed/478381-russian-government-resignation-mishustin/ ... Today, the president set out the roadmap for his exit from the Kremlin, more-or-less kicking off the build-up to the transition of power. He will step down in 2024, or perhaps even earlier, and he intends to dismantle the “hyper-Presidential” system which allowed him to wield so much control in office. ... Make no mistake, Putin’s goal is to preserve the system which he inherited from Yeltsin, and then tweaked. For all its faults, after a difficult birth it has given Russians the greatest freedom and prosperity they have ever known. Even if much work remains to be done on distributing economic gains more fairly. ... One notable suggestion is that future presidents must have lived in Russia for 25 continuous years before taking office, and have never held a foreign passport or residency permit. This would bar a lot of the Western-leaning Moscow opposition from running. Not to mention a large swathe of Russian liberals, a great many of whom have lived abroad at some point. Interestingly, if this rule had existed in 2000 Vladimir Putin himself wouldn't have been able to become Russia's president. He lived in Germany from 1985-1990 (albeit on state duty). ... Thank you, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.

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CIA agents sell 20 tonnes of plastic explosive to Libya, nearly decade before discotheque bombing
by Ryan Carboni 22 Jan '20

22 Jan '20

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Arms_for_Libya The Arms for Libya case ensued when a gang of CIA deep state operatives were caught shipping a huge amount of weapons and explosives to Libya. Edwin Wilson was hung out to dry by Ted Shackley and the rest of the cabal. After a FOIA request revealed the CIA knew perfectly well what he was doing, he was released after about 17 years in jail. He was never given compensation and those responsible for the cover up were never brought to justice. Before his 1980 retirement, the CIA Inspector General John H. Waller produced an internal investigation which exonerated Theodore Shackley and his "career-long deputy and sidekick" Thomas Clines. This was the CIA's official story for about 20 years, endorsed by Waller's successor, the #3 man in the CIA, Charles A. Briggs who was called on to testify in Edwin Wilson's court case. The CIA had blocked the defense from gaining access to any contradictory paperwork, so the jury apparently believed the (perjured) 'Briggs Declaration' which said that Edwin Wilson has independently collected almost the entire US stockpile of C-4 (plastic explosive) and arranged to fly it to Libya, all without CIA knowledge, following up by sending US troops to train of Muammar Gaddafi's military in bomb making, and sold them a bunch of other weapons. This official narrative fell apart about 20 years later when an internal document surfaced which proved that the CIA Inspector Generals had been lying. Frank Terpil was tried and found guilty in absentia. Douglas Schlachter plead guilty to two charges in a plea deal, after providing testimony directly linking Wilson to "senior Central Intelligence officials" (presumably Ted Shackley and his sidekick Thomas Clines, who in 1981 both admitted that they had kept in touch with Wilson, though they denied knowing anything about the arms deals). Edwin Wilson was hung out to dry and charged as the main culprit. CIA officer, Edwin Wilson, brokered a number of weapons deals to Libya. Michael Ruppert wrote that Wilson lived in Libya "for extended periods between 1977 and 1981". The most extraordinary of these deals was in 1977, when a 42,000 pound load of C-4 plastic explosive (an amount which represented almost the entire US domestic supply) was flown out of Houston International Airport to Muammar Gaddafi's Libya, followed by training in bomb making by US Green Berets. Subsequent deals involved handguns and other weapons. A scheme to ship more than a thousand M16 rifles to Gaddafi put the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms onto Edwin Wilson back in late 1977. After about 17 years in jail, FOIA requests by Edwin Wilson came across some internal paperwork which proved that those involved in the case knew that the "Briggs Affidavit" was a lie. These sufficed to allow Wilson to successfully appeal his conviction. In October 2003, his conviction on the explosives charge was overturned and Wilson was released from prison on September 14, 2004. He launched a legal claim for compensation against those who perjured evidence against him, and those who knowingly stayed silent on the matter, but they were granted legal immunity and he never received compensation. Copyright https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Wikispooks:Licensing The CIA did a lot of dirty things. If Snowden was a Russian agent, not a CIA agent, why was he insistent on protecting the CIA? The CIA did a lot of dirty things. All the Russians have to do is expose them. What the CIA did would bring down the American government ten times over. I have no doubt hundreds of US government employees spent innumerable man-years dealing with the aftermath of Snowden, but it served no real point. I personally find it mysterious that the Russians would invent the idea that AIDs was the product of the CIA when there are just so many horrible... https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/03/02/citizen-four-the-making-of-an-ameri… To quote: You will see it only as a blow against surveillance state, and not as a propaganda film that, on the one hand, protects the CIA at Snowden’s behest while, on the other hand, exploiting him and turning him into the celebrity he did not want to be.

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Animals - sometimes better vehicles for love than humans
by Zenaan Harkness 22 Jan '20

22 Jan '20

A Soul cookie for any in need, A Poodle’s Mothering Aug 19, 2018 https://www.animalsaresoul.blog/2018/08/19/a-poodles-mothering/

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There are videos...
by Ryan Carboni 22 Jan '20

22 Jan '20

https://nitter.net/bronzeagemantis/status/1219492244933226504 Mercy is an act of power! Morality is a luxury! Beauty and status are the inevitable goals of the worthiest highest ranking members of society! Hopefully the leading members of the international Satanic sex cult will be fairly prosecuted. Unfortunately despite the Nuremberg principles being advanced by American prosecutors, it has not entered American common law. Maybe at least the authorization of military force against the Hague will be repealed. International slavery or pedophilia does count as a crime against humanity, and various treaty violations are in a sense crimes of some sort, even if those may never be prosecuted.

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