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Cryptocurrency: Miners Capturing Wasted Natural Gas
by grarpamp 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Could-Bitcoin-Solve-The-Oil-Flar… https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-06/why-bitcoin-mining-is-be… https://qz.com/1988503/bitcoin-miners-and-fracking-companies-are-working-to… https://jpt.spe.org/gazprom-neft-mines-bitcoin-as-an-alternative-to-flaring… As governments aim to curb carbon emissions from gas flaring, Bitcoin data centers offer a way to use this energy instead of letting it go to waste, in return for the digital currency....

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Gramps and his son, Batshit as Qanon chickenshits
by professor rat 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YhQdCuU-kegJ:https://w… Fuck off 8-chan morons.

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Leaks: Daniel Hale Persecuted by US for Leaking Drone Assassination Program
by grarpamp 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/04/02/drone-whistleblower-daniel-hal… https://dissenter.substack.com/p/daniel-hale-whistleblower-guilty-plea https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/daniel-hale-guilty-plea-e… https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/02/unbelievable-snowden-calls-out… https://theintercept.com/2014/08/05/watch-commander/ Drone Whistleblower Case Will Be First Espionage Act Conviction Of Biden Presidency Authored by Brett Wilkins via via CommonDreams.org, Press freedom, peace, and human rights advocates are rallying behind Daniel Hale, the former intelligence analyst who blew the whistle on the US government's drone assassination program, and who pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to violating the Espionage Act. The Washington Post reports Hale, who was set to go on trial next week, pleaded guilty to a single count of violating the 1917 law that has been used to target whistleblowers including Julian Assange, John Kiriakou, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Jeffrey Sterling, Reality Winner, and others. Daniel Hale Hale was charged in 2019 during the Trump administration after he leaked classified information on the US government's targeted assassination program to a reporter, who according to court documents, matches the description of The Intercept founding editor Jeremy Scahill. He is the first person to face sentencing for an Espionage Act offense during the admnistration of President Joe Biden. As vice president under President Barack Obama, Biden contributed to the creation of whistleblower protections in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, while simultaneously serving in an administration that, while promising "a new era of open government," relentlessly targeted individuals who revealed US war crimes and other classified information. Kiriakou—a former CIA agent who under Obama was sentenced to 30 months' imprisonment for exposing US torture—told Kevin Gosztola that he is "dissappointed that Daniel Hale's case was continued in the Biden Justice Department." "I had hopes that Biden's Justice Department appointee would recognize the public service that Daniel Hale provided when he revealed illegality and abuse in the drone program," said Kiriakou. Hale, who was an intelligence analyst for the US Air Force before moving on to the National Security Agency and then the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, "knowingly took highly classified documents and disclosed them without authorization, thereby violating his solemn obligations to our country," according to a statement from Raj Parekh, the acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. US Air Force image According to Gosztola, Hale's whistleblowing led to the revelation by The Intercept that "nearly half of the people on the U.S. government's widely shared database of terrorist suspects are not connected to any known terrorist group," details on how the Obama administration approved targeted assassinations, and information about Bilal el-Berjawi, a Briton "who was stripped of his citizenship before being killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2012." The Post reports that Hale admitted in court to writing an anonymous chapter in Scahill's 2016 book, The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program, which divulged information taken from top-secret documents about drone strike protocols, civilian casualties, and Pentagon officials' debate about the accuracy of intelligence. "These documents detailed a secret, unaccountable process for targeting and killing people around the world, including US citizens, through drone strikes," Betsy Reed, editor-in-chief of The Intercept, said after Hale's indictment. "They are of vital public importance, and activity related to their disclosure is protected by the First Amendment." Hale had initially centered his defense on First Amendment grounds, and his numerous defenders condemned his prosecution as a violation of press freedom and freedom of speech. His lawyer, Jesselyn Radack, issued a statement saying "the U.S. government's policy of punishing people who provide journalists with information in the public interest is a profound threat to free speech, free press, and a healthy democracy." Daniel Hale was my roommate when we were in the Air Force. A kind and caring person who promised his life in defense of this nation and its values. The people conducting secret illegal killings in other countries are criminals. Standing up for human rights makes Daniel a hero. https://t.co/8tBN4uA7oP — Jon Ivy （艾森） (@jonivy) April 2, 2021 "Classified information is published in the press every day; in fact, the biggest leaker of classified information is the US government," wrote Radack. "However, the Espionage Act is used uniquely to punish those sources who give journalists information that embarrasses the government or exposes its lies." "Every whistleblower jailed under the Espionage Act is a threat to the work of national security journalists and the sources they rely upon to hold the government accountable," she added. Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the women-led peace group CodePink, tweeted that it's "outrageous that drone whistleblower Daniel Hale will be going to prison for exposing the drone murders by the U.S. military. Why don't the murderers go to jail? Or the ones who ok the murders? Or the ones who make the killer drones and profit from murder?" Hale's sentencing is scheduled for July 13. He faces up to 10 years behind bars. Kiriakou told Gosztola that he hopes the judge "recognizes the good in what Daniel Hale has done and gives him the lightest possible sentence."

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Re: [tor-relays] ISP
by grarpamp 05 Apr '21

05 Apr '21

> Which ISP is better? They all suck. Go start your own ISPs and meshnets that actually gives a shit about people, privacy, transparency, censorship, servers, speech, freedom, crypto, and actually fights back against government largesse, intrusion, regulation, power, etc. Demand is high, you will profit. -- This message has been targeted by censors, oppressors, etc.

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Supreme Court sides with Google in Oracle’s API copyright case
by jim bell 05 Apr '21

05 Apr '21

https://share.smartnews.com/VLJT

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Details from 500 million Facebook users found on website for hackers | Facebook | The Guardian
by professor rat 04 Apr '21

04 Apr '21

Hey, there's an APP for THAT! https://stiffs.com/celebrity/markzuckerberg

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Pentagon linked to RMS, Jacob Appelbaum plots through Debian Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0
by professor rat 04 Apr '21

04 Apr '21

Pentagon linked to RMS, Jacob Appelbaum plots through Debian "... Just like in the case of tor, the show is run by the pentagon. Shocking !!! Hey Karl, what's your take on that? See, those people are the same sort of government criminals as the criminals who run your 'anti trafficking' propaganda outlets. ..." So Batshit was for Jacob Applecheeks before he was against him.

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Re: GNU FSF: Richard Stallman Returns
by professor rat 04 Apr '21

04 Apr '21

Very Assange " ... Stallman came by to vacate his recently died mother's condo when a neighbor offered condolences in the lobby. The total shit handed her his business card, growled give me a call, sweetheart...' Objection - ' total shit ' assumes facts not in evidence. Like a letter calling for the deaths of 20 million ' Mud People " as published by the total Nazi cunt, John Young.

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Re: grarpamps' fascist propaganda - Re: Coronavirus: Thread
by professor rat 04 Apr '21

04 Apr '21

James Arsehole Donald sounds like a very poorly recovering Marxist "... I argue that sexual behavior in small girls frequently sets in well before puberty, with the result that adult males in the general vicinity are apt to be punished for misconduct to which they scarcely contributed, because someone must be be punished, and women can do no wrong sexually. ...' Manifesto of the Communist Party Our bourgeois, not content with having wives and daughters of their proletarians at their disposal, not to speak of common prostitutes, take the greatest pleasure in seducing each other’s wives..."

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Ron Paul: US 2nd Amendment In The Firing Line
by grarpamp 04 Apr '21

04 Apr '21

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2021/march/29/second… Authored by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, Gun control was already a Biden Administration priority before the recent shootings in Georgia, Colorado, and Virginia. In fact, the House of Representatives passed two gun-control bills weeks before the shootings. One of the House-passed bills expands background checks to include private sales, including those made at gun shows. Under this bill, someone who is not a licensed federal firearms dealer cannot sell a firearm without first relinquishing it to a federally-licensed dealer. The dealer must then conduct a background check on the prospective purchaser. The second bill allows the federal government to indefinitely delay a background check, thus indefinitely delaying a gun purchase. Other legislation introduced in Congress would create a national firearms registry, which would only facilitate gun confiscation. This same legislation would forbid anyone under 21 from owning a gun. The ban does not apply to the military, so it will not stop the majority of gun violence committed by 18-21 year-olds. The bill requires Americans to obtain a federal license before getting a firearm, but individuals cannot receive a license unless they undergo a psychological evaluation. The psychological evaluation mandate could lead to individuals losing their Second Amendment rights because they once suffered from depression. It could also cause people to lose their Second Amendment rights because someone told the police they may become violent. Police officers in 20 states and the District of Columbia already have the authority to take away an individual’s Second Amendment rights based on allegations and without giving the individual due process. These “Red Flag” laws are supported by politicians of both parties, including some who claim to be pro-gun rights. For example, former President Trump supported Red Flag laws. President Trump and Congressional Democrats were on the verge of reaching a “bipartisan” deal to expand Red Flag laws in the fall of 2019. Fortunately, the Democrat attempt to impeach the President ended all efforts at “bipartisan” deals to take away our rights. A psychological evaluation could also be used to deny an individual Second Amendment rights because they may engage in “domestic terrorism.” Among those likely to be considered as potential “domestic terrorists” are opponents of US foreign policy, mass surveillance, the income tax, the Federal Reserve, and – ironically – gun control. There is also legislation to reinstate the assault-weapons ban. Like the original ban, which was in effect from 1994-2004, the new legislation bans an arbitrary list of firearms and will do little to reduce gun violence. Criminals and psychotics are not going to be deterred by background checks and licensing requirements from obtaining a firearm. There will be a black market to service those who cannot obtain firearms by legal means. By discouraging law-abiding Americans from owning firearms, these laws leave millions of Americans defenseless against gun violence. There is a reason why most mass shootings occur in gun-free zones. If Congress is serious about protecting Americans from violence, it would repeal all federal gun control laws. A good place to start would be with the Brady background check law and the misnamed “Safe and Gun-Free Schools” law, which leaves children defenseless against mass shooters. Congress ending the unconstitutional and anti-liberty war on drugs would also greatly reduce gun violence. Gun control, like all attempts by government to control our lives, makes us less safe, and less free.

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