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Fw: Batshit Crazy OD's on Horse Dewormer
by professor rat 03 Sep '21

03 Sep '21

---- Forwarded message ----- Subject: Re: Batshit Crazy OD's on Horse Dewormer On Saturday, 4 September 2021, 07:59:04 am AEST, David Barrett <dbarrett(a)expensify.com> wrote Assuming this was actually a miracle treatment for covid, that was safe, inexpensive, and widely available. Can someone help me understand why the global health community wouldn't have embraced it? Is the theory that there is some kind of global conspiracy to keep people ill intentionally? David..." ( SNIP ) If I follow Jim Dumbfuck's logic its because they don't recognize the blazing genius of crank Hospital CEO's and MIT-trained Chemists. The GHC also have rigorous testing procedures that don't simply rely on guidance from a couple of world-historical biological mavens. And as for the theory of a global conspiracy to keep people ill intentionally, well there is evidence for that in the Assange appeals process and just today, its become an emerging factor in the Jan 6 terrorism-related trials rising out of the Jan 6 Capitol area riots. SEAR... emptywheel ·6h Watkins now talking about the very real effect that jail conditions (deriving in significant part from COVID) have done to Chansley's mental health. It's a very real issue. ..." AND KlasfeldReports ·1h "'I Can't Call Them Idiots': Jacob Chansley's Mom Wanted Her Son to Hold Out for Trump's Reinstatement and Pardon, Lawyer Claims" Chansley, the recovering Qanon follower, may yet turn out to be a journalist. 'I Can't Call Them Idiots': Jacob Chansley's Mom Wanted Her Son to Hold Out Mother Martha Chansley urged her son to hold out hope for former President Donald Trump's reinstatement and pardon. ( lawandcrime.com ) emptywheel ·6h Watkins is pushing Chansley's claimed non-violence hard here..."

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Batshit Crazy OD's on Horse Dewormer
by professor rat 03 Sep '21

03 Sep '21

https://www.insider.com/oklahomas-emergency-rooms-are-clogged-with-people-o…

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Chinese made LEAF-blower knock-off?
by professor rat 03 Sep '21

03 Sep '21

Red-fascist-Chinese reportedly used a knock-off LEAF-blower ( Matt Blaze designed garden-tool ) in the JUNIPER grove stand. Take care of the roots and all will be well in the garden ( Old Hong Kong proverb )

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Brand new Dei
by professor rat 03 Sep '21

03 Sep '21

https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=95279521221728&w=1 The resource waste in creating b-money can be reduced if we assume that b-money will be created gradually as the b-money economy expands rather than all at once at the beginning. If we build a deflation factor into b-money, b-money will be worth more over time and therefore not as much b-money will be needed to support the operation of the economy. This can be accomplished by specifying that the standard basket used to define the creation of b-money grow at a fixed rate over time.

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BATSHIT Crazy pleads out in Capital Crime Case
by professor rat 03 Sep '21

03 Sep '21

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/qanon-shaman-jacob-chansley-january-6-capitol-…

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Val Verde state terrorists embrace crypto-fascist monetarism
by professor rat 03 Sep '21

03 Sep '21

El Salvador police arrest activist without warrant as Bitcoin protests rage on https://protos.com

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NSA Backdoors Juniper, GovCorp Backdoors Even More
by grarpamp 03 Sep '21

03 Sep '21

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/juniper-breach-mystery-starts-clear-13001659… https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-believes-it-doesnt-need-to-show-proof-huaw… http://rump2007.cr.yp.to/15-shumow.pdf D-EC-DRBG Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework Countless "Secure" Phones, Protocols, and Applications Undocumented CPU OpCodes Fuzzed Wyden is a fraud who knew well before Snowden and didn't speak up. Days before Christmas in 2015, Juniper Networks alerted users that it had been breached. In a brief statement, the company said it had discovered "unauthorized code" in one of its network security products, allowing hackers to decipher encrypted communications and gain high-level access to customers' computer systems. Further details were scant, but Juniper made clear the implications were serious: It urged users to download a software update "with the highest priority." More than five years later, the breach of Juniper's network remains an enduring mystery in computer security, an attack on America's software supply chain that potentially exposed highly sensitive customers including telecommunications companies and U.S. military agencies to years of spying before the company issued a patch. Those intruders haven't yet been publicly identified, and if there were any victims other than Juniper, they haven't surfaced to date. But one crucial detail about the incident has long been known -- uncovered by independent researchers days after Juniper's alert in 2015 -- and continues to raise questions about the methods U.S. intelligence agencies use to monitor foreign adversaries. The Juniper product that was targeted, a popular firewall device called NetScreen, included an algorithm written by the National Security Agency. Security researchers have suggested that the algorithm contained an intentional flaw -- otherwise known as a backdoor -- that American spies could have used to eavesdrop on the communications of Juniper's overseas customers. NSA declined to address allegations about the algorithm. Juniper's breach remains important -- and the subject of continued questions from Congress -- because it highlights the perils of governments inserting backdoors in technology products. "As government agencies and misguided politicians continue to push for backdoors into our personal devices, policymakers and the American people need a full understanding of how backdoors will be exploited by our adversaries," Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, said in a statement to Bloomberg. He demanded answers in the last year from Juniper and from the NSA about the incident, in letters signed by 10 or more members of Congress.

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Hacks: MG's OMG Keyboard Spy Cable Beams Your Keystrokes Over a Mile Away
by grarpamp 03 Sep '21

03 Sep '21

https://www.vice.com/en/article/k789me/omg-cables-keylogger-usbc-lightning It looks like a Lightning cable, it works like a Lightning cable, and I can use it to connect my keyboard to my Mac. But it is actually a malicious cable that can record everything I type, including passwords, and wirelessly send that data to a hacker who could be more than a mile away. This is the new version of a series of penetration testing tools made by the security researcher known as MG. MG previously demoed an earlier version of the cables for Motherboard at the DEF CON hacking conference in 2019. Shortly after that, MG said he had successfully moved the cables into mass production, and cybersecurity vendor Hak5 started selling the cables. But the more recent cables come in new physical variations, including Lightning to USB-C, and include more capabilities for hackers to play with. "There were people who said that Type C cables were safe from this type of implant because there isn't enough space. So, clearly, I had to prove that wrong. :)," MG told Motherboard in an online chat. The OMG Cables, as they're called, work by creating a Wi-Fi hotspot itself that a hacker can connect to from their own device. From here, an interface in an ordinary web browser lets the hacker start recording keystrokes. The malicious implant itself takes up around half the length of the plastic shell, MG said. MG said that the new cables now have geofencing features, where a user can trigger or block the device's payloads based on the physical location of the cable. "It pairs well with the self-destruct feature if an OMG Cable leaves the scope of your engagement and you do not want your payloads leaking or being accidentally run against random computers," he said. "We tested this out in downtown Oakland and were able to trigger payloads at over 1 mile," he added. He said that the Type C cables allow the same sort of attacks to be carried out against smartphones and tablets. Various other improvements include being able to change keyboard mappings, the ability to forge the identity of specific USB devices, such as pretending to be a device that leverages a particular vulnerability on a system.

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Cryptocurrency: Crypto's Rising - The Ultimate Unintended Consequence
by grarpamp 03 Sep '21

03 Sep '21

The Unintended Consequences Of COVID-9/11 https://tomluongo.me/2021/08/31/from-the-notebook-the-unintended-consequenc… One of the fundamental problems of central planning of any kind is what we systemic thinkers call the ‘Law of Unintended Consequences.’ It’s not really a law but it should be. You know you’re dealing with an ‘unintended consequence’ of a policy when the politicians, bankers, regulators and their apologists in the media say something like, "well, you know, no one could have foreseen {fill in the blank}.” Some of those blanks are: The Housing Bubble of 2005-07 which caused the financial crisis of 2008. The election of Donald Trump after decades of offering false choices to the American Electorate. Most recently the collapse of the Afghan government to the Taliban and the U.S.’s ignominious retreat. These are all events, and there are dozens more in your everyday life if you just begin looking for them, which nobody in charge would ever admit to having considered possible when they embarked on a particular policy but in hindsight were inevitable. Policies of collective action under the rubric of the State, defined as that entity with the power to point guns at people to enforce their edicts, always result in these unintended consequences. But it’s not because those outcomes weren’t predictable but rather because they weren’t important to the people who implemented them in the first place. They weighed the benefits as absolute and ignored the costs as trivial things they could, like a bad movie producer, fix in post-production. So, with that in mind and looking at the saturation of fear porn and relentless march towards a locked-down, totally-controlled and regimented society as a result of COVID-9/11, I give you this note the other day from TASS, the Russian State’s news service. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Public’s attitude to globalization underwent shift during pandemic People’s attitude to free trade and globalization has changed a lot since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Support for barrier-free trade has considerably declined. Russia is one of the global leaders in terms of people’s negative view of globalization, Nezavisimaya Gazeta writes, citing a poll conducted by the Ipsos company and the World Economic Forum. Only 48% of those surveyed in 25 countries agree that globalization is good for their countries. In Russia, one in three people stated that they reject the notion that globalization facilitates an effective economic policy. Experts are not surprised by the declining interest in globalization. “People in large economic powers can see their daily expenses increase. Consumer prices used to be more stable before globalization began and free-trade zones were created,” economist Andrei Loboda said, pointing out that the change of sentiment had been sparked by rising inflation affecting economies worldwide. Globalization has reached its limits and stopped boosting economic growth, BCS Chief Investment Strategist Maxim Shein pointed out. “The population’s income is falling, hence the decline in support [for globalization idea],” he said. “A high level of consumption, easy access to any goods at relatively low prices, good wages, high pensions and access for businesses to foreign markets – all this used to be associated with globalization. However, in the late 20th and early 21st century, the global economy started to face crises, rising unemployment, a decline in the middle class and increasing income inequality. All these issues are also directly related to globalization,” Associate Professor with Department of Enterprise and Logistics at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics Igor Stroganov emphasized. Besides, large transnational companies and retail chains enter foreign markets, destroying small and medium-sized businesses and local agriculture. “In addition, labor migration increases competition on the labor market. People in many countries feel that way,” the economist stressed. While we are bombarded daily by new polls suggesting that a majority of Americans love their mask or believe their neighbors should be held down and forcibly injected with an experimental gene therapy, the Russians have looked upon the face of the New Normal and rejected it. This is the unintended consequence of pushing for Globalism, people see it for what it is and reject it. The big question is why and to answer that I want to discuss what’s not discussed in the TASS note. The Toxic Spread Trade What’s not covered here is the role that central banking and the Cantillion Effect have on prices. The Cantillion Effect is where price rises from monetary inflation have a delayed effect as the new money spreads out through the society. Those that receive the money first get to spend that money at today’s prices which, over time, raises everyone else’s bid for the good or service that money then procures. In reality, government is only in control of that first spend — from its coffers to the supplier. After that they money flow is chaotic based on the marginal utility needs of the person who receives it. But, what you can be assured of is no matter what, those closest to the source of the money have a massive advantage over those at the economic fringes. This is why I find all the hand-wringing modern Progressives do over government spending so thoroughly repulsive. They argue for the very thing to help ‘poor people’ which impoverished them in the first place. Their argument is instead of giving the money to the banks or the corporations but directly to the people then that would equalize the previous theft, a kind of reparations for past monetary sins. Of course, this is patent nonsense. Giving people money rather than just stop stealing from them is not the way back to a moral and sustainable economy. But it is their path to more permanent power. Ah Ha! So, the effect of central banks around the world printing money is to create a constant Cantillion effect at the national level. In the case of the U.S., The Fed gives the U.S. government and its member banks preferred access to capital at the lowest costs to borrow, while you get access at the highest cost, i.e. higher interest rates. This subsidizes overseas investment while overstating the strength of the U.S. dollar, because those dollars can be spent to more effectively procure overseas labor and property than buying those same things here. This exports the monetary inflation overseas while keeping a lid on domestic prices at home. It’s why it’s also so disingenuous of economic commentators to use domestic CPI as a measure of inflation to invalidate the Quantity Theory of Money, which I’ve written about before. If the money goes overseas, something’s price is getting inflated, just not that thing we’re measuring. Using the CPI to measure inflation is like trying to measure a board with a stopwatch. It’s the wrong tool for the job. As the Fed pushes and pulls the money supply through ‘monetary policy’ over time it greatly exaggerates the natural boom and bust cycle of the economy. Now let’s take this one step further and think on the arguments made by Jeff Snider at Alhambra Partners who argues that with the creation of the offshore Eurodollar shadow banking system, the Fed itself isn’t even in control of its own monetary policy, those markets are. This is another example of unintended consequences of major policy changes, turning over the role of new money creation to a central bank, versus basing it on a hard reserve asset like gold. It spawns a rough beast the central bank can’t control anymore than the government can control how you spend the money it pays you. So, when those titanic forces want to enter into new markets through cheap money they demand it from the Fed and eventually the Fed accommodates them lest it get blamed for causing a global depression… sound familiar? I’m simplifying Jeff’s arguments here, but the fundamental point he makes is valid. At the same time it’s also irrelevant to the current argument because it doesn’t matter if the Fed or the Eurodollar depositors control the rate of new money creation. The Cantillion Effect of how that new money spreads globalism is the same, only the points of origin are different. The Imperial Marsh Large scale producers take advantage of the situation by investing overseas during the busts and repatriating their capital during the booms. In effect, they are reloading and waiting for the next Fed-induced cycle to commence. As those closest to the Fed, if not telling the Fed what to do, then they will also be best prepared when the policy shifts to take advantage of it. This dynamic has played out at an accelerating pace during the 21st century as these boom/bust cycles become more and more erratic and the ‘monetary policy’ employed to support them more and more reckless. In the end, it is the countries that begin rejecting this scheme by de-dollarizing that are the ones who insulate themselves from the effects of this capital in-and-out flow. That’s why I’ve been bullish on Russia since 2013, ignoring people calling it a ‘value trap’ early on because of low equity market multiples. Putin rejected globalism as an economic weapon and, in effect, turned globalism on itself by doing this. At the same time, he maneuvered Russia to control the marginal barrel of oil produced in the world. This gave Russia the unique position of inserting the ruble into global trade while improving its regional relevance as the rebirth of central Asia can now commence with the collapse of the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan and the final nail in the coffin of the remnants of the British Empire. >From here the ruble’s fortunes look bright as long as the Bank of Russia doesn’t revert to its old ways. Rejecting globalism is a real problem now for the Great Reset as individual countries can now move to regain control over transnationals who were told they would be allowed to run the world. Martin Armstrong has banged his shoe on the table about Big Tech getting the roles of the money-center banks for nearly two years. Today I see the signs of the titanic struggle between the central banks and the shadow banking system complicating the plans of The Davos Crowd’s Great Reset everywhere as Big Tech makes good on its promises assist in the COVID-9/11 operation to destroy and remake the world. In recent months, the clear policy from Premier Xi Jinping is for China to move rapidly to lockdown its domestic economy, cut down its tallest poppies, and send foreign capital packing. It never gave the Western banks the access they wanted. It was always globalism on China’s terms, not the West’s. Now that Xi is making his moves, Davos is making theirs, attempting to blame them for COVID-9/11 and turn Americans into raving anti-China hawks willing to salve a bruised national ego by blowing shit up in China’s backyard. Let’s hope this is the one aspect of the Great Reset that fails to materialize completely. Rejecting western Globalists was Russia’s sin as well. Putin’s biggest challenge in his 20+ years in power has been to gain control over his central bank and the Russian financial system such that their inherent corruption worked for Russia and not for Davos. Russia, out of necessity, is much farther along in its quest to reverse/arrest globalism than China is. You can clearly see the hand of Davos at the legislative level trying to keep forcing this to work. The EU still enters trade negotiations demanding a country give it veto power over its “partner’s” local governments in bilateral trade…. and notice how many of these deals they’ve signed in the past couple of years. Zero. Globo-Homo-Economicus COVID-9/11 is globalism’s last stand. It’s goal is explicitly to burn the world down to ‘build back better.’ I’m sure Davos asked both Xi and Putin many times to join the big club for the big win and they both said, “No.” This is where culture and history asserts itself. Seriously, do these people have no memory of how Europe and the U.K. have treated China and Russia? So, the WEF is now accelerating its scorched earth strategy. It’s clearly using what leverage it has in U.S. institutions to expend the last of the U.S.’s political capital with diplomatic and geopolitical ‘gaffes’ that even an amateur wouldn’t make. When you see government policy an order of magnitude more incompetent than can be explained by internal squabbling and petty corruption, you are dealing with something willful. This is always what I’ve envisioned the ‘failure’ of the Great Reset to look like whenever I’ve invoked that idea. They’ve taken their shot at it. Where they have the most control and favorable laws/infrastructure — i.e. the English Commonwealth, France, Italy, Germany, Spain — they are ramping up the tyranny. In the U.S. they are moving rapidly to liquidate as much of the U.S. as possible after having already reversed most of the good things done under Trump. Pelosi first moved back the deadline on the Budget/Infrastructure/Debt Ceiling until October. Now she’s really twisting arms behind the scenes while Afghanistan takes all the attention trying to shoehorn them all through in the confusion. If she can’t get that done then the House and Senate could get quickly bogged down in Afghanistan hearings, if not impeachment/25th Amendment talks. This is part of the reason why I think Powell was surprisingly dovish the other day at Jackson Hole. He’s got to stay on D.C.’s good side to get re-confirmed. He can afford, right now, to let the pressure off the global financial system until another funding crisis emerges in the domestic money markets. So, the USDX falls a little, the euro backs away from oblivion and we look ahead at the German elections and the next FOMC meeting. None of this is good news for globalists and globalism since they need that nearly $5 trillion to complete their takeover of the U.S. financial and political system. You don’t have to be a dog to smell the rising fear. It’s palpable now. Pelosi needs these bills passed or her leadership of the Dems will collapse. The Squad is barking about getting rid of Powell while Pelosi begins to realize the whole administration is collapsing faster than Biden’s cognitive function. The globalists need perpetual war in ‘shitholes’ around the world to keep laundering the easy Fed Funny Bucks to keep the entire Ponzi Scheme alive. With Afghanistan now off the table, where are we sending the military next to export inflation democracy? But Powell, like the rest of them, know that globalism is failing and pushing any further for it will only accelerate the creation of what Vaclav Havel called “parallel systems.” Systems that exist outside of their control. So, I think he’s treading carefully here with monetary policy on purpose. It’s Davos that is getting desperate. The more they grasp for total control the easier it becomes to see the Law of Unintended Consequences rearing its head as new solutions to age-old problems proliferate. Don’t believe me? The best and brightest in the U.S. stopped being engineers and scientists two generations ago when we stopped ‘building things.’ They became financiers and lawyers. This was an unintended consequence of the money flowing from D.C. and The Fed to those jobs to feed the growing regulatory state. Their kids learned to code because that’s where the growth was as the cheap money was funneled to subsidize the creation of today’s Big Data and AI systems they believe they will use to control the flow of everything the world over. Today, however, those best and brightest have left Google and Facebook and are working in crypto to solve the very problem which started all this pernicious globalism in the first place. I’m not the only one seeing it. It’s clear where the innovation is and what these people’s motivations are — to reverse the Cantillion effect of privilege granted to those close to the King and let capital flow to where the people need it not where the tyrants do. The Russians may be leading the way, if the polls are correct. Reject empire and ‘greatness,’ they are telling us. Our leadership is trying to shame us over Afghanistan. Don’t let them. Be contrite but internalize the lesson of humility and get back to work rebuilding what’s been lost. Opportunities for new systems abound. Because the final consequence of Cantillion’s observations about prices is that eventually you run out of ways to squeeze people through fear and inflation. When that happens they squeeze back. Squeeze Back!

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OG c-punk, John Young blocked from his beloved PRISON-PLANET TV Station
by professor rat 03 Sep '21

03 Sep '21

https://www.prisonbitchname.com " John Young "? #PillowBiter

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