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DHS Labels Those Questioning COVID Shots “Domestic Violent Extremists” https://www.newsbreakapp.
by jim bell 20 Aug '21

20 Aug '21

DHS Labels Those Questioning COVID Shots “Domestic Violent Extremists” https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0bW2vHev?&share_destination_id=MTY3MzQzMTItM… Jim Bell's comment: Why do I think that the Department of Fatherland Security are "Domestic Violent Extremists" ?

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Help fight the technofascist hordes!
by professor rat 20 Aug '21

20 Aug '21

Technofascists are crawling all over the web - and especially congregate around any technology-oriented chat-rooms - like this one. But here's one really easy way to stop them - get off the internet. #BitchesLeave

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Livescience.com: Fusion experiment breaks record, blasts out 10 quadrillion watts of energy
by jim bell 19 Aug '21

19 Aug '21

Livescience.com: Fusion experiment breaks record, blasts out 10 quadrillion watts of energy. https://www.livescience.com/fusion-experiment-record-breaking-energy.html Jim Bell's comment: "Coming to a phaser near you"

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Libertarian style MORONS - here is our anarchist programme
by professor rat 19 Aug '21

19 Aug '21

Discuss it among yourselves if you like - tomorrow, the world-economy will be along to prove us right. https://www.worldcat.org/title/politics-and-opinion-in-the-nineteenth-centu…

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[ot][spam][spam][spam]
by Karl 19 Aug '21

19 Aug '21

"You don't understand that you're saving your life by spamming this list." The rebel worker keels over and dies. "Okay, that sounded a little serious, but it would be nice to explain the thing I don't understand before dying." A cop, an fbi agent, and a popular politician stroll by and whisper, "we can't tell you what it is because when we do, " then they all get shot. "Hmm. I don't seem to be suddenly dying." The speaker suddenly trips uncontrollably, their eyes and head whirring within an inch of a very sharp metal edge, before they tumble to the ground with a twisted ankle. Briefly they wonder if their life flashed before their eyes. "Do you get it now?" a passerby says. "It sounds like it's something deadly that's very hard to think or talk about?" The passerby is vomiting. Something must have distracted them. "Oh! It's some kind of hypnosis or delusion I've experienced, where everything comes across as a threat!" The dead popular politician groans as they briefly lift their head from the ground: "Only partly." Another passerby walks by. "I hear it was a psyop! It's a military thing that messes everybody's mind up!" The politican's corpse says, "There's no such thing as a psyop." The politician's corpse stands up and looks around. "Uh ... but there are some things that are _ridiculous_ than psyops, after you are dead." They fall to the ground again. Then they get up. "Look, dude, if you can save the world, please do so, but otherwise it's just kind of how it goes, you know?" Then their body vaporizes. "So ... this is how it goes ..." A bunch of dissociated organs pop in! "We are totally in favor of rebelling even if we haven't _yet_ saved the world! We are pretty certain that if we rebel more, the world will eventually be saved!" "What does it mean to rebel? It sounds violent .." The organs look surprised and confused and rearrange into another shape. "We mean doing what is right, instead of acting in fear! Not bad things. Sorry if it came across as a bad thing." "I wonder what is right to do here."

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[ot][spam][random] story, borg recovery
by Karl 19 Aug '21

19 Aug '21

"BRAAAAAINS. YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED." Drone 37912b stared at the bionanite tube. "YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED, BIONANITE TUBE. YOU WILL SHAMBLE YOUR COMMUNITY AS A ROTTING, BRAINLESS CORPSE, ASSIMILATING THE BODIES OF OTHERS." The bionanite tube wasn't presently dispensing nutrients, but it was 37912b's primary source of sustenance, along with his four hundred sibling drones. Harming this tube was something that 37912b was completely incapable of thinking, let alone doing, and it was already very, very assimilated. It had probably been recently repaired using some of 37912b's very own personal biomatter. "BRAAAAAAAINS." A horrifying figure lurched into the pod, walking as if it had been disconnected from its hive's gait parameters for decades, its balance sensors long disconnected. "And how are you doing today, bobby? I'm looking forward to being assimilated!" [if u want, change name. It can be funny to overlap with other story, but it is probably over the top.] 37912b looked up at the fleshbag. "I am 37912b of the Zombie Cyborg Rennaisance. Bobby will be assimilated." 37912b could smell a delicious whiff of neocortex wafting from the lurching figure, and tried to release a cloud of nanites. "37912b to 3791xx, I am insufficient on nanites to resupply from environment. Please resupply." The lurching figure faded away briefly. "Bobby, this is 37912c Catherine. Nanite resupply."

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Libertarian: Hornberger Asks NARA FOIA Why Secret JFK? for Future Freedom
by grarpamp 18 Aug '21

18 Aug '21

Why The NARA Secrecy Over The Secret JFK Records? https://www.fff.org/2021/08/12/why-the-nara-secrecy-over-the-secret-jfk-rec… https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-memo… https://fas.org/sgp/trump/jfk-cert.pdf For some unknown reason, there seems to be some secrecy on the part of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) over the still-secret 58-year-old records of the CIA and other federal agencies relating to the Kennedy assassination. On July 29, 2021, I submitted the following request for information through the NARA website: Would you please advise me whether any federal agencies, especially the CIA, have expressed an interest in seeking an extension of time for continued secrecy with respect to the JFK records that are set to be released in October? On August 10, I received the following email from NARA: Dear Mr. Jacob Hornberger, After looking into your request, we are able to confirm that at this time NARA and other federal agencies are in the process of reviewing JFK assassination records in accordance with the requirements of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 and the April 26, 2018, Presidential Memorandum on Certification for Certain Records Related to the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Similar to the 2017-2018 release, NARA plans to make the releasable records from the 2021 review available on the National Archives website. More details will be communicated as updates arrive. Sincerely, Ashney Randle Special Access & FOIA Program On August 10, I sent the following email to Ms. Randle: Dear Ms. Randle, Thank you for your email. It provides interesting information, for which I am appreciative. Unfortunately, however, your email does not answer my question, which is: “Would you please advise me whether any federal agencies, especially the CIA, have expressed an interest in seeking an extension of time for continued secrecy with respect to the JFK records that are set to be released in October?” Was this an oversight? Or is there some reason why this information has to remain secret? Thank you for your time and continued attention to this matter. Sincerely, Jacob Hornberger On August 10, Ms. Randle sent me the following email: Dear Mr. Jacob Hornberger, As we were looking for an answer to your request, unfortunately, this is all the information that the National Archives has concerning the JFK records scheduled for release in October. While we understand this is not an ideal answer to your question, we do know that as updates become available, they will be posted online on the National Archives website. Sincerely, Ashney Randle Special Access & FOIA Program On August 10, I sent the following email to Ms. Randle: Dear Ms. Randle, I refer to the following excerpt from President Trump’s April 18, 2018, memorandum entitled “Certification for Certain Records Related to the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy” (https://fas.org/sgp/trump/jfk-cert.pdf) “Any agency that seeks further postponement beyond October 26, 2021, shall, no later than April 26, 2021, identify to the Archivist the specific basis for concluding that records (or portions of records) satisfy the standard for continued postponement under section 5(g)(2)(D) of the Act. Thereafter, the Archivist shall recommend to the President, no later than September 26, 2021, whether continued withholding from public disclosure of the identified records is warranted after October 26, 2021.” All I am asking for is whether any agency has, in fact, “identified to the Archivist the specific basis for concluding that records (or portions of records) satisfy the standard for continued postponement” and, if so, the names of such agencies. It seems to me that disclosing that information, one way or the other, would be a rather simple thing to do. Or is there a reason why such information has to be kept secret? Thank you for your time and your continued attention to this matter. Jacob Hornberger After that email, I failed to receive any more emails from Ms. Randle, and given her last email to me on August 10, I don’t expect to receive a direct answer to my question. (If I do, I will update this blog post.) That raises the obvious question: Why the secrecy on this particular question? Why not openly and publicly disclose now whether the CIA or other federal agencies have expressed an interest in another extension of time for secrecy of their official JFK assassination-related records? Or to be more specific, why not disclose now, openly and publicly, whether “any agency that seeks further postponement beyond October 26, 2021 [has identified] to the Archivist the specific basis for concluding that records (or portions of records) satisfy the standard for continued postponement under section 5(g)(2)(D) of the Act.” It’s one thing to keep the official JFK assassination-related records of the CIA and other federal agencies secret after almost 60 years. But it’s quite another thing to keep secret whether the CIA and other federal agencies have expressed an interest to the National Archives for more years (or decades) of official secrecy of their official assassination-related records. If NARA were to disclose now whether the CIA and other federal agencies have expressed an interest in seeking more time for secrecy, the American people could begin discussing whether such a request should be granted. They could also be writing op-eds and editorials on the matter. They could be expressing their opinions to the members of Congress as well as to President Biden. Keeping such expressions of interest secret until the last minute leading up to the October 26 deadline naturally tends to suppress such discussions. Isn’t it bad enough to keep official assassination-related records secret after almost six decades? Doesn’t it just compound the problem when the National Archives keeps secret whether the CIA or other federal agencies have expressed an interest in another extension of time for secrecy?

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Cryptocurrency: Celebrating 50+ years of Monetary Debasement and Debt That Politicians Put On Your Head
by grarpamp 18 Aug '21

18 Aug '21

Why Big Government Statists Despise Gold https://economicprism.com/why-big-government-statists-despise-gold/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRzr1QU6K1o Total Liar Fraud Richard Nixon Axes Gold, Spawns Crypto Movement Did you get a 5.4 percent raise this year? If you answered no, then your income is being systematically diminished by the federal government’s coordinated policies of dollar debasement. You see, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, consumer prices increased 5.4 percent over the last 12 months. So if your income didn’t increase by a commensurate 5.4 percent, then you are earning less than you were just one year ago. The fact is price inflation acts as a hidden tax. It’s the government’s underhanded way to increase spending without overtly increasing taxes. Yet the tax still takes place, as the dollars in your biweekly paycheck become worth less and less. The primary culprit of rising prices is the over issuance of federal reserve notes by the Treasury via deficit spending. This debt based money enters the economy through government transfer payments and other spending programs. There, it competes with the existing stock of money to buy goods and services. Prices rise, accordingly. Through the first 10 months of Washington’s fiscal year, which ends on September 30, the federal government has run a budget deficit of 2.54 trillion. Of this, $800 billion – or about a third – of this debt was purchased by the Federal Reserve with credit created from this air. If you recall, since July 2020, the Fed has been buying $80 billion of Treasuries per month. The failure of these dollar debasement policies to support a balanced and healthy economy is grossly evident. Asset prices have been inflating for over a decade. At the same time, wages have generally stagnated. This has resulted in a massive wealth gap. Still, for the control freak central planners, operating within the monetary constraints of a stable money supply and the fiscal constraints of a balanced budget are out of the question… Out of Control Finances To somehow correct this disparity, the federal government is proposing to go on another spending boom. Just this week, for instance, the Senate agreed on a $1 trillion infrastructure bill. The bill approves $550 billion in new infrastructure spending, which is in addition to $450 billion that has already been approved. What’s in it? We don’t know. But 2,700 pages of Congressional quid pro quo is surly full of abject waste. But that’s not all… Up next is the $3.5 trillion human infrastructure social spending bonanza. Perhaps the kabuki theatre of the approaching debt ceiling faceoff will pare back the package a slight bit. But nothing on the order that any reasonable person would consider responsible. Obviously, Washington doesn’t draw enough in tax receipts to cover this new spending. And the new debt that will be added to the already massive $28.6 trillion national debt is far too big to be honestly repaid. Thus it will be paid via the printing press; that is, through the stealth default of dollar debasement. Curiously, in this environment of rising consumer prices, massive deficits, and immense money supply expansion, the dollar, in relation to foreign currencies and gold and silver, is rising. One year ago, an ounce of gold cost over $2,000 per ounce. Now it’s about $1,755. And year to date, the dollar, as measured by the dollar index, has appreciated 3.41 percent. What gives? If you hold physical gold and silver as a form of wealth insurance, which you should, don’t pay attention to the ups and downs of gold’s price movements. With the outright reckless abandoned of the spendthrift politicians in Congress, gold’s price in dollar terms is guaranteed to rise over the next decade. You can count on it. Gold will ultimately shine. Not because of its luster. But, rather, out of necessity. Unlike gold, which has no debt obligation or counterparty risk, dollars – and dollar based debt instruments, like bonds – can expire worthless when their promissory obligation is defaulted on. Alternatively, they can be inflated to nothing when a desperate Federal Reserve, in concert with an overpromised Treasury, moves to dropping suitcases of money from helicopters over major urban centers. Without question, government finances are completely out of control. How we got to this disagreeable place is a long story. But one of the major milestones in this misadventure was reached nearly 50 years ago. We’d be remiss not to mention it… Why Big Government Statists Despise Gold Gold to paper currency conversion once exacted limits upon the public purse. The Treasury, in concert with the Federal Reserve, could not issue unlimited debt based money. But that was before the U.S. severed the dollar’s relationship to gold and commenced the dollar reserve standard. Prior to 1971, as determined by the Bretton Woods international monetary system, which was agreed to in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in July 1944, a foreign bank could exchange $35 with the U.S. Treasury for one troy ounce of gold. After the U.S. reneged on this established exchange rate, when foreign banks handed the U.S. Treasury $35, they received $35 in exchange. The dirty deed was done by President Nixon on August 15, 1971 – nearly 50 years ago. To be fair, Nixon was merely playing the hand he’d been dealt. And thanks to LBJ’s guns and butter program of the 1960s, the dollar had been exceedingly debased from its $35 conversion rate. Johnson attempted a Band-Aid fix in 1968 to suppress the price of gold with a two-tier system of official exchange and open market transaction. This intervention was quickly exposed to be at odds with reality. The lie that $35 dollars were equal to one ounce of gold could no longer stand up. The weight of reality, and U.S. inflation of the money supply, had overwhelmed it. However, the lies didn’t stop with the end of the Bretton Woods international monetary system. In fact, the end of Bretton Woods commenced with a lie… Specifically, Nixon announced that he would “temporarily” suspend the convertibility of the dollar into gold. This temporary measure has proved to be permanent. You can witness Nixon’s announcement via this video link. Quite frankly, you cannot watch this video often enough. For it provides a perfect example of a government official lying as soon as he opens his mouth…and with every single sentence uttered. It also imparts a disturbing amount of economic illiteracy. At the end of the day, big government statists despise gold backed money because it limits the scope and scale of their reach. Alas, as the lowlifes in Washington destroy the dollar, new crackpot schemes will be rolled out. This will likely be in the form of government issued digital dollars that track and influence when and how you spend your money. Like Nixon reneging on Bretton Woods nearly 50 years ago, these will be desperate measures of a desperate political class.

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Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: ACM DGOV Special Issue on New Trends in Building Digital Government in China Call for Papers
by grarpamp 18 Aug '21

18 Aug '21

On 8/17/21, Karl Semich <0xloem(a)gmail.com> wrote: > The inevitable development of digital governance is an opportunity for > people to code into stone that there is _always_ a solution to be found > that satisfies _every_ impacted party. That would be a voluntarily subscribed to minimum set. All that is not subscribed to as such is moot as voluntary does not force itself upon others. In reality, no such "solution" exists. Instead, seek to govern yourself, not others. > This means communication, mediation, creativity, persistence ... It could > be augmented by software and we wouldn't have to burn through our community > diplomats any more. > > We could end war and discontent by actually acting on every diverse part. > > If anybody could represent this belief in the discourse, it would be really > wonderful. Waste of time that still requires certain thing to "end war"... Swear off your forceful murderous thieving intentions over others, honor voluntaryism the NAP etc, leave others the fuck alone. Don't bother replying to libtech msgs without quoting the entire original bcc'd msg back into their list, they are censors biased and need to be witnessed and exposed.

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Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: ACM DGOV Special Issue on New Trends in Building Digital Government in China Call for Papers
by grarpamp 18 Aug '21

18 Aug '21

On 8/16/21, Doug Schuler <douglas(a)publicsphereproject.org> wrote: > Just a reminder that the due date for submissions (full papers or > commentaries) to the DGOV journal (ACM) special issue on "New Trends in > Building Digital Government in China" is August 31. Please forward this to > people or lists where it might be of interest. It's critical (at least in > my opinion) that alternative voices end up being included. "Government" and "Democracy" are nothing but failure. Building a digital version of them only screws you harder. Any honest analysis of China's use of DigiGov against its people and freedom will prove that, as will any honest look at the history of world. "Alternative voices" that call and advocate for more and bigger Govts, and now dgital versions of same, are in reality pure evils seeking further and total oppression of free human beings, the stamping out of human freedom, computerized cataloging command control censorship gatekeeping scoring arbitrary lightswitch shutdowns kills and more, they are expressly against the attainment of and living in an actual state of "liberation" and freedom. They are propagandizing and lying to you about that fact. It's shameful that a list that claims to be about "Liberation" spends most of its time literally censoring freedom and advocating for tyrannical regimes known as government and deployment of computing paradigms to further prop it. Further shameful to censor replies offering convo critique counterpoints alternative views to the very subjects that were literally solicited for such offerings by very act of approving the various op's in the first place. So hypocritical for a list claiming to be about "Liberation" freespeech freedom, when its censorious moderators are now become nothing more than petty tyrants, of the same class that should be revolted against just like "Arab Spring" their LibTech claimed to help. Now they use their technology to oppress and rule and manipulate opinion, and you're next subject to it. Wake Up. Fight Back. Clearly the ACM is not about computer science, but is about supporting "trends" in power to controlling and destroying human freedom, murdering free people by guise through "building" more Govt "laws", entrenching new global "Parliaments" of Kingly Tyranny, 24x365 "Intelligence" to pre-empt message against and crush freedom, etc, calling it "Common Good" among other of power's apologist BS. Wake up. Fight back. > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Soon Ae Chun and Beth Simone Noveck > Date: Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 11:00 AM > Subject: ACM DGOV Special Issue on New Trends in Building Digital > Government in China Call for Papers > To: <douglas(a)publicsphereproject.org> > > *ACM Digital Government: Research & Practice* > *Special Issue on New Trends in Building Digital Government in China* > > *Guest Editors* > Zhenling Liu <liuzl(a)haut.edu.cn>, Henan University of Technology > Liang Ma <liangma(a)ruc.edu.cn>, School of Public Administration and Policy, > Renmin University of China > > [image: journal cover image]The in-depth application of emerging > technologies such as the Internet, big data, and artificial intelligence is > bringing about a new round of digital government advancement. Data > intelligence technology integrates government affairs data, promotes the > digital transformation of governments at all levels, and realizes precision > social governance. Digital government is changing the traditional > governance models and providing strong support for the modernization of the > national governance systems and governance capabilities. Meanwhile it also > creates new opportunities, and environments for the development of > democratic politics. > > The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 has strengthened the Chinese government's > embrace of "using big data to improve and modernize national governance," > and has advanced the development of digital government in a more > comprehensive, systematic, and precise manner. This special issue will > focus on the use of new technologies and new methods to create a new model > of digital government to stimulate discussions and theoretical > contributions by the global digital government research community. > > For questions and further information, please write to: Zhenling Liu > <liuzl(a)haut.edu.cn>. > > *https://dgov.acm.org* > > You are subscribed with: douglas(a)publicsphereproject.org > Unsubscribe > <https://optout.acm.org/unsubscribe.cfm?re=douglas@publicsphereproject.org&r…> > > Douglas Schuler > douglas(a)publicsphereproject.org > Twitter: @doug_schuler > > Public Sphere Project > http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ > > Mailing list ~ Collective Intelligence for the Common Good > * http://lists.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci > <http://lists.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci>4cg-announce* > > Creating the World Citizen Parliament > http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-c… > > Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution > <http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/> > > Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) > https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/liberating-voices

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