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Why Nations Fail, America Edition
by professor rat 20 Jan '21

20 Jan '21

Feeling generous since my 640$ Btc investment cracked 30K I'm now willing to convert the deadpool on Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 into a one-way-ticket to the DPRK from anywhere in the world ( economy class ) and 1K Aud per year for every year he stays there. Have your bat people call my rat people. This proffer expires in one Friedman Unit.

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Pardons latest
by professor rat 20 Jan '21

20 Jan '21

Mange and Snowden unlikely - Ulbricht? Possible - but less likely. https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1351629312529727492 A black day for the Knouto-German cypherpunk army.

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Why Deadpool sites fail
by professor rat 20 Jan '21

20 Jan '21

Stiffs dotcom appears to have suffered a fatal loss of nerve with regard to the latest DOA POTUS, Obama-Joe Biden. Never mind. The quick and easy workaround is to have Bambi stand in for the stiff. https://stiffs.com/celebrity/barackobama And our old friend Bill is still there... https://stiffs.com/celebrity/billgates A big part of moving to CYPHERPUNK 2027 at full warp is getting rid of a few serial-pests like these two. VORWARTS!

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Why Nations Fail, America Edition
by professor rat 20 Jan '21

20 Jan '21

" ...rational anarchy ..." This sounds oxymoronic - as you might expect coming from an idiot like ' Coderman ". Political anarchism may be rational or complete - but never both. And the move to global anarchism still requires some controlled violence - specifically dead American presidents and billionaires. If they haven't surrendered after ten years its unlikely they'll start now. We'll measure their successful failure after Joe Biden and Bill Gates are pushing up the daisy's. Welcome to the violent and deadly revolution.

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Why Nations Fail, America Edition
by coderman 19 Jan '21

19 Jan '21

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/01/19/957240511/why-nations-fail-am… TL;DR: "Drawing on decades of economic research, Why Nations Fail argues that political institutions — not culture, natural resources or geography — explain why some nations have gotten rich while others remain poor. A good example is North Korea and South Korea. Eighty years ago, the two were virtually indistinguishable. But after a civil war, North Korea turned to communism, while South Korea embraced markets and, eventually, democracy. The authors argue that South Korea's institutions are the clear reason that it has grown insanely more rich than North Korea. Nations like South Korea have what Acemoglu and Robinson call "inclusive institutions" such as representative legislatures, good public schools, open markets and strong patent systems. Inclusive institutions educate their populations. They invest in infrastructure. They fight poverty and disease. They encourage innovation. They are far different from the "extractive institutions" found in countries like North Korea, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, where small groups of elites use state power for their own ends and prosper through corruption, rent-seeking or brutally forcing people to work." decentralize inclusive institutions until we reach rational anarchy. it sounds so easy :P best regards, -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iNUEAREKAH0WIQRBwSuMMH1+IZiqV4FlqEfnwrk4DAUCYAdb7l8UgAAAAAAuAChp c3N1ZXItZnByQG5vdGF0aW9ucy5vcGVucGdwLmZpZnRoaG9yc2VtYW4ubmV0NDFD MTJCOEMzMDdEN0UyMTk4QUE1NzgxNjVBODQ3RTdDMkI5MzgwQwAKCRBlqEfnwrk4 DN6uAQC5fYDm5pU1UGkKbXcL9Nx9rhU9pb9K3WL/139KjUV7TQD+Mx9+8eHrz2Cp kXGzDqT2D55t3a4G/knLfjDXKp6swgQ= =uG12 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Brave browser now supports ipfs://
by coderman 19 Jan '21

19 Jan '21

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 decentralized web and anarchy go well together :) see also: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs best regards, - ----- begin-cut ----- https://brave.com/brave-integrates-ipfs/ Brave Integrates IPFS to Enable Users to Seamlessly Browse The Decentralized Web Advancing the transition to a decentralized Web, IPFS integration on Brave’s desktop browser increases content availability and Internet resilience San Francisco, California – January 19, 2021 – IPFS, the peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to make the Web faster, safer, and more open, has been integrated into Brave, the fast, privacy-oriented browser, reinventing the Web for users, publishers and advertisers. Incorporated into today’s Brave desktop browser update (version 1.19), Brave’s 24 million monthly active users can now access content directly from IPFS by resolving ipfs:// URIs via a gateway or installing a full IPFS node in one click. When installing a full node, this will allow Brave users to load content over IPFS’ p2p network, hosted on their own node. Integrating IPFS provides Brave users with a significantly enhanced browsing experience, increasing the availability of content, offloading server costs from the content publisher, and improving the overall resilience of the Internet. Molly Mackinlay, Project Lead at IPFS said, “Bringing the benefits of the dWeb to Brave users, IPFS’ efforts to remove systemic data censorship by corporations and nation-states are now strengthened through the integration with Brave. Today, Web users across the world are unable to access restricted content, including, for example, parts of Wikipedia in Thailand, over 100,000 blocked websites in Turkey, and critical access to COVID-19 information in China. Now anyone with an internet connection can access this critical information through IPFS on the Brave browser.” In a further aspect of the integration, projects building on IPFS such as app development platforms, Textile, and Fleek, will automatically enable anyone to deploy a website or dApp accessible on Brave. Brian Bondy, CTO and co-founder of Brave, said, “We’re thrilled to be the first browser to offer a native IPFS integration with today’s Brave desktop browser release. Providing Brave’s 1 million+ verified content creators with the power to seamlessly serve content to millions of new users across the globe via a new and secure protocol, IPFS gives users a solution to the problem of centralized servers creating a central point of failure for content access. IPFS’ innovative content addressing uses Content Identifiers (CIDs) to form an address based on the content itself as opposed to locating data based on the address of a server. Integrating the IPFS open-source network is a key milestone in making the Web more transparent, decentralized, and resilient.” With a budding community of over four thousand IPFS contributors around the world, this is the initial implementation of IPFS on Brave. Striving to give users full control of their online experience, future collaborations will facilitate automatic redirects from DNSLink websites to the native IPFS version, the ability to “co-host” a website, features to easily publish to IPFS, and much more. ### Molly Mackinlay, Project Lead at IPFS, and Brian Bondy, CTO and co-founder of Brave, are available for interview About IPFS IPFS is a peer-to-peer network and protocol designed to make the web faster, safer, and more open. IPFS upgrades the web to work peer to peer, addressing data by what it is instead of where it’s located on the network, or who is hosting it. About Brave Brave Software’s fast, privacy-oriented browser, combined with its blockchain-based digital advertising platform, is reinventing the Web for users, publishers, and advertisers. Users get a private, speedier web experience with much longer battery life, publishers increase their revenue share, and advertisers achieve better conversion. Users can opt into privacy-respecting ads that reward them with a frequent flyer-like token they can redeem or use to tip or contribute to publishers and other content creators. The Brave solution is a win-win for everyone who has a stake in the open Web and who is weary of giving up privacy and revenue to the ad-tech intermediaries. Brave currently has over 24 million monthly active users and over 1 million Verified Publishers. Brave Software was co-founded by Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript and co-founder of Mozilla (Firefox), and Brian Bondy, formerly of Khan Academy and Mozilla. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iNUEAREKAH0WIQRBwSuMMH1+IZiqV4FlqEfnwrk4DAUCYAdQ7V8UgAAAAAAuAChp c3N1ZXItZnByQG5vdGF0aW9ucy5vcGVucGdwLmZpZnRoaG9yc2VtYW4ubmV0NDFD MTJCOEMzMDdEN0UyMTk4QUE1NzgxNjVBODQ3RTdDMkI5MzgwQwAKCRBlqEfnwrk4 DDlNAP9eBDjNcH0kc5iNK2fv8N1gpDyBJxKhX44xJux9tMW8ZQEAjx8jVbrfw/3j UoN5T8APllNrz3e8C8LGx/7xaHj2OmU= =ri/8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Tucker: Julian Assange's only crime was 'humiliating the powerful'
by jim bell 19 Jan '21

19 Jan '21

Tucker: Julian Assange's only crime was 'humiliating the powerful' https://a.msn.com/r/2/BB1cS9vL?m=en-us&referrerID=InAppShare

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Cypherpunk 2027 release-forms en-route
by professor rat 19 Jan '21

19 Jan '21

https://www.gamesradar.com/cyberpunk-is-getting-its-biggest-push-since-the-… Cypherpunk is getting its biggest push since the late ‘90s

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80 million patriots return to church --in person-- - move your minister/ congregation - [ENJOY] [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 19 Jan '21

19 Jan '21

Right to associate - Go to church IN Person, with your 80 million fellow patriots. It's time: 80 million patriots to return to church, sing praise in person, shoulder to shoulder, history shall repeat. Know your history: A Warning For The Churches: You Need To Open In Person NOW, Here’s Why…. https://welovetrump.com/2021/01/10/a-warning-for-the-churches-you-need-to-o… … 2 Chronicles 21-24: 21 After consulting the people, the king appointed singers to walk ahead of the army, singing to the Lord and praising him for his holy splendor. This is what they sang: “Give thanks to the Lord; his faithful love endures forever!” 22 At the very moment they began to sing and give praise, the Lord caused the armies of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir to start fighting among themselves. 23 The armies of Moab and Ammon turned against their allies from Mount Seir and killed every one of them. After they had destroyed the army of Seir, they began attacking each other. 24 So when the army of Judah arrived at the lookout point in the wilderness, all they saw were dead bodies lying on the ground as far as they could see. Not a single one of the enemy had escaped. … Ephesians 6:12: For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. … what are the far-left Democrat mayors trying to do all across the country? Shut down all churches. Stop the worship. … Surrounded ( Fight My Battles ) - UPPERROOM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx6mfAgHDsY … Raise A Hallelujah (LIVE) - Jonathan and Melissa Helser | VICTORY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awkO61T6i0k … Meet Jack Hibbs, who opened up his church in California and now has 14,500 people coming each week, with revival spilling out the doors like he has never seen before. Watch: ... On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 12:19:17PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Folks, you want freedom? We MUST stand and unite and protect the > freedom for all, to have freedom for our mangey selves. > > Join and help connect the kooky believers with the kooky kick arse > lawyers like Lin Wood - and join in yourself, make this the biggest > class action lawsuit thah the USA and Canada has ever seen. > > TODO: find a similarly principled and righteous lawyer in Canada, > contact them, make it happen, and spread the word. Do it. > > This is YOUR right to associate, YOUR right to believe whatever the > flip YOU choose to believe, WITHOUT being rounded up into > concentration camps or "science denier" camps or plain old jail! > > USE your lockdown for productive purposes. CONTACT those in your > local area. DO IT !!!! > > LIVE the truth in "First they came"! > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_... > > [that link is correct] > > > You want a remotely free North America and Canada ??!? DO IT > MUFFADUCKA - JOIN IN : > > Canadian church pens epic response after police charge six elders > for holding services in defiance of lockdowns > https://notthebee.com/article/canada-arrests-six-elders-of-ontario-church-f… > > > > > Right now in this moment in history EVERY TINY BIT helps. > > > > > > > On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 10:27:24AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > The fight is for all - YOUR right to accociate, YOUR right to believe > > whatever the flip you wish to believe, YOUR right to express your > > beliefs, to communicate in public and in private. > > > > You think "the left" is going to protect you, that -you- are such a > > virtuous atheist that you will be exempt from their purge? > > > > You think THIS time it's going to be different, and socialism is > > finally, finally going to work without the bloodshed? > > > > Consider forwarding this to those who might take action in support of > > our foundational rights. > > > > (If you are short on time, perhaps read the last 3 paragraphs.) > > > > > > > > Justice Alito's Warning to America > > Leah Barkoukis @LeahBarkoukis Posted: Nov 13, 2020 4:30 PM > > https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2020/11/13/justice-alito-federa… > > > > During a keynote address to the Federalist Society on Thursday, > > Justice Samuel Alito spoke of the "unimaginable restrictions on > > individual liberty" that have taken place during the coronavirus > > pandemic. > > > > He further warned that religious liberty is "in danger of becoming > > a second-class right." > > > > Alito pointed to cases where COVID-19 restrictions "blatantly > > discriminated against houses of worship," such as in Nevada, where > > the state "was unable to provide any justification for treating > > casinos more favorably than other houses of worship." > > > > What happened in Nevada proved to be part of a broader trend, he > > argued. > > > > The foremost example of this disfavor in the justice’s mind was > > the court’s 1990 decision in Employment Division v. Smith, > > https://casetext.com/case/employment-division-department-of-human-resources… > > written by Justice Antonin Scalia, which “cut back sharply” on > > free exercise by establishing that religious groups are usually > > not entitled to faith-based exemptions from neutral, generally > > applicable laws. Alito lauded Congress for passing, with near > > unanimous support, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of > > 1993 to push back against this very decision. The Supreme Court > > is considering whether to overrule Smith this term in Fulton v. > > City of Philadelphia. > > http://scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/fulton-v-city-of-philadelphia-pennsy… > > And the afternoon of Alito’s speech, the > > Catholic diocese in Brooklyn asked the court for emergency > > relief from New York’s coronavirus regulations similar to that > > previously sought by Calvary Chapel in Nevada. > > https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/11/brooklyn-catholic-diocese-asks-justices-… > > (SCOTUSblog) > > https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/11/at-federalist-society-convention-alito-s… > > > > Questioning "whether our society will be inclusive enough to > > tolerate those with unpopular religious beliefs," he highlighted > > other recent examples such as "the protracted campaign against the > > Little Sisters of the Poor," Masterpiece Cakeshop, and the Ralph’s > > pharmacy case. > > https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/15-862.html > > > > "You can easily see the point, for many today, religious liberty > > is not a cherished freedom, it’s often just an excuse for bigotry > > and it can’t be tolerated, even when there is no evidence that > > anybody has been harmed. And the cases I just mentioned illustrate > > the point," he said. "As far as I'm aware, not one employee of the > > Little Sisters has come forward and demanded contraceptives under > > the Little Sisters' plan. There was no risk that Ralph’s referral > > practice would have deprived any woman of the drug she sought and > > no reason to think that Jack Phillips' stand would deprive any > > same-sex couple of a wedding cake. The couple that came to his > > shop was given a free cake by another bakery, and celebrity chefs > > have jumped to the couple’s defense." > > > > The First Amendment was not all that was on Alito's mind, however. > > > > “The ultimate second-class right in the minds of some is the > > Second Amendment,” the justice said. Looking to a case last > > term about firearm restrictions in New York City, Alito > > singled out a brief by five Democratic senators that suggested > > the court’s decision to take the case was evidence of its > > capture by moneyed right-wing interests and threatened to > > “restructure” the court. > > https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-280/112010/20190812151259076_1… > > The justices voted to dismiss the > > case rather than rule on the merits. > > https://casetext.com/case/new-york-state-rifle-pistol-assn-inc-v-city-of-ne… > > Although he was “not > > suggesting that the court’s decision was influenced by the > > senators’ threat,” Alito was “concerned that it might be > > viewed that way” by the senators and others who want to > > “bully” the justices. “The senators’ brief was extraordinary,” > > Alito continued. “It was an affront to the Constitution and > > the rule of law.” (SCOTUSblog) > > https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/11/at-federalist-society-convention-alito-s… > > > > Reflecting on his 15 years on the court, Alito said much "good > > work has been done to protect freedom of speech, religious > > liberty, and the structure of government created by the > > Constitution." > > > > Ultimately, however, defending the Constitution is not in the > > hands of the judiciary alone. "For all Americans, standing up for > > our constitution and our freedom is work that lies ahead," he said > > in conclusion. > > > > And "it will not be easy work." > > > > Address by Justice Samuel Alito [2020 NLC Live] > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYLZL4GZVbA

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US-NY Trying To Ban Body Armor
by grarpamp 19 Jan '21

19 Jan '21

Proposed Bill Bans Body Armor, Makes Possession a Crime, Forces Citizens to Turn it In or Face Arrest https://thefreethoughtproject.com/state-supreme-court-bars-victims-of-polic… https://thefreethoughtproject.com/supreme-court-repeatedly-affirmed-cops-no… https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/A352 Lawmakers in New York have proposed one of the most tyrannical and utterly worrisome pieces of legislation we’ve seen. They want to ban citizens from having body armor to protect themselves from bullets. As no one has ever beaten anyone to death with a bullet proof vest, the intentions behind this bill are clear and have no other purpose other than making it easier for government to kill citizens and harder for citizens to protect themselves from bullets. New York, who has some of the strictest gun laws in the country, now wants to make it a misdemeanor and potential felony for people to purchase or possess a passive means of resistance to bullets. Unlike other attempts to ban body armor like we’ve seen in the past, this bill does not grandfather people in who already own it. In fact, the bill says that it must be turned over to the state for disposal, or you are guilty. After the passage of the bill, citizens will have 15 days to turn it in before they are declared criminals. Assembly Bill A352 was introduced and cosponsored by David McDonough, Richard Gottfried, and Michael Montesano. It reads as follows (emphasis added.) § 270.21 Unlawful purchase or possession of a body vest. A person is guilty of the unlawful purchase or possession of a body vest when he or she knowingly and unlawfully purchases or possesses a body vest, as such term is defined in subdivision two of section 270.20 of this article. This section shall not apply to active law enforcement officers or those whose occupations require the use of body vests as determined by the department of state. Unlawful purchase or possession of a body vest is a class A misdemeanor for a first offense and a class E felony for any subsequent offense. § 2. Any person currently in possession of a body vest, as such term is defined in subdivision two of section 270.20 of the penal law, shall have 15 days from the effective date of this act to dispose of such body vest at any local or state law enforcement agency. On the government’s website, they allow comments from citizens. Naturally, this piece of legislation is not being well received. One person pointed out the obvious, saying, “The only legitimate reason for this bill is to make it easier for the State to murder the disarmed subjects of New York.” “I cannot believe that such a bill would even be introduced in our state. The government here wants to control every aspect of our lives, even such a purely defensive item. Shame on our lawmakers for even considering such a bill,” another commenter wrote. “This is a vile and wicked bill! Body armor is the most passive form of self protection possible that a person can use and you want to take that away from law-abiding citizens?! You should be disgusted with yourselves for ever proposing such a thing!” another person pointed out. We agree with all of them. The reality is America has less major crime than at any point in the last 40 years, and yet we have cops patrolling American streets as if they are in the Korengal or Fallujah, and treating the citizens as such, with absolutely no regard for the Constitution. Perhaps if these lawmakers put as much effort into disarming the overly militarized police, as attempting to take away law abiding citizens’ ability to defend themselves from would-be shooters, people wouldn’t have the impetus to wear body armor. The armor is purely defensive in nature, and people should always have the ability and right to defend themselves against attack. The right to self-defense is the right from which all other rights are derived. As John Locke stated, self-defense is the first law of nature. Each person owns his or her own life and no other person has a right to take that life, or hinder the preservation thereof. Moreover, the Supreme Court has held that the police have no duty to protect citizens, so that responsibility now falls squarely on the shoulders of individuals themselves. To take away people’s ability to access defensive armor, after telling them that they are on their own and are owed no protection by law enforcement, almost seems like a cruel joke. Why should a law-abiding American, that takes steps to defend themselves passively, be criminalized? Where is the sense in government banning something that provides people protection from harm? The logic of this bill is so askew that it wouldn’t be surprising if perhaps next they will try and pass a bill that outlaws hiding behind things while being shot at. When the state attempts to make it illegal to protect yourself from bullets, it may be time to start purchasing gear to protect yourself from bullets.

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