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As Kazakhstan Descends Into Chaos, Crypto Miners Are at a Loss | WIRED
by jim bell 14 Jan '22

14 Jan '22

https://www.wired.com/story/kazakhstan-cryptocurrency-mining-unrest-energy/ "When Denis Rusinovich set up cryptocurrency mining company Maveric Group in Kazakhstan in 2017, he thought he had hit the jackpot. Next door to China and Russia, the country had everything a Bitcoin miner could ask for: a cold climate, legions of old warehouses and factories where the mining rigs could be installed, and—especially—dirt cheap energy to power the electricity-guzzling process through which cryptocurrency is minted. “That was a good opportunity,” Rusinovich says. When China outlawed cryptocurrency mining overnight last June, many miners based in the country—which at the time made up between 60 and 70 percent of Bitcoin’s mining network—made the same call and hastily relocated to Kazakhstan, bringing to the country as many as 87,849 mining machines, according to a Financial Times estimate. Less than a year later, the initial buzz is history: Miners are now being confronted with frozen machines, popular unrest, and Russian troops roaming across the country. And leaving is not an option.

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CNBC: Federal investigators say they used encrypted Signal messages to charge Oath Keepers leader
by jim bell 14 Jan '22

14 Jan '22

CNBC: Federal investigators say they used encrypted Signal messages to charge Oath Keepers leader. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/13/feds-say-they-used-encrypted-messages-to-ch… PUBLISHED THU, JAN 13 2022 3:19 PM ESTUPDATED THU, JAN 13 2022 8:40 PM ESTLauren Feiner@LAUREN_FEINERWATCH LIVEKEY POINTS - Federal investigators say access to encrypted Signal messages helped them to charge the leader of the Oath Keepers, an extremist far-right militia group, and other defendants in a seditious plot on Jan. 6, 2021. - Encryption scrambles messages for recipients so that no one else — not even the platform itself — can read them. - It's not clear how investigators gained access to the messages, but encryption has been a point of tension between law enforcement and the tech industry for years.

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the profits of jim bell's technonazism
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 14 Jan '22

14 Jan '22

"Dr. Fauci’s business closures pulverized America’s middle class and engineered the largest upward transfer of wealth in human history. In 2020, workers lost $3.7 trillion while billionaires gained $3.9 trillion. Some 493 individuals became new billionaires, and an additional 8 million Americans dropped below the poverty line. The biggest winners were the robber barons—the very companies that were cheerleading Dr. Fauci’s lockdown and censoring his critics: Big Technology, Big Data, Big Telecom, Big Finance, Big Media behemoths (Michael Bloomberg, Rupert Murdoch, Viacom, and Disney), and Silicon Valley Internet titans like Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Larry Ellison, and Jack Dorsey." oops, kennedy forgot to mention the number one turd on the planet, jim bell's beloved musko.

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mass poisoning, a.k.a. 'vaccination'
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 14 Jan '22

14 Jan '22

"Suddenly, those trusted institutions seemed to be acting in concert to generate fear, promote obedience, discourage critical thinking, and herd seven billion people to march to a single tune, culminating in mass public health experiments with a novel, shoddily tested and improperly licensed technology so risky that manufacturers refused to produce it unless every government on Earth shielded them from liability. Across Western nations, shell-shocked citizens experienced all the well-worn tactics of rising totalitarianism - mass propaganda and censorship, the orchestrated promotion of terror, the manipulation of science, the suppression of debate, the vilification of dissent, and use of force to prevent protest. Conscientious objectors who resisted these unwanted, experimental, zero-liability medical interventions faced orchestrated gaslighting, marginalization, and scapegoating." so, where do 'cypherpunks' stand on this 'issue'? Well, we have the Emperor of the Libertarian Anarchists, Sir Jim Bell. Sir Jim Bell is a motherfucinkg piece of shit who constantly and dutifully parrots pfizer-pentagon propaganda, supporting implicitly or explicitly all the moral aberrations that kennedy describes. Yeah, I wouldn't expect less from a US technonazi turd like bell.

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Where does it say you can't kill FBI agents?
by professor rat 13 Jan '22

13 Jan '22

The threats name an FBI agent assigned to the local multiagency Joint Terrorism Task Force and the government's lead prosecutor of terrorism cases in Colorado. https://seclists.org/politech/2003/Jul/24

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Op-Ed by FBI Director Christopher Wray: The Cops Who Didn't Come Home
by Gunnar Larson 13 Jan '22

13 Jan '22

This op-ed by FBI Director Christopher Wray appeared in The Wall Street Journal to call attention to the high number of law enforcement officers killed in 2021. https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/op-ed-by-fbi-director-chri…

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Peter Duesberg
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 13 Jan '22

13 Jan '22

https://archive.org/download/TheJoeRoganExperiencePodcast1465/JRE-Podcast-2… this is fucking hilarious. Apart from rogan there's another 'comedian' (that is, literally a clown) who is *lecturing* duesberg on "retroviruses" "antibodies" "cancer" and what not. The turd is hysterical as fuck, shouting at duesberg. At some point duesberg says to the turd "you record those tapes from the establishment very well".

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The crypto-fascist and his stolen anarchist valor
by professor rat 13 Jan '22

13 Jan '22

( Mong ) as being somewhat critical of the all-too-common tendency I see of _renaming_ something without adding any new content. https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=101369278501114&w=1

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Moxie Marlinspike considered harmful
by professor rat 13 Jan '22

13 Jan '22

Poxie-Fishooks three strikes One he quoted Marx - an enemy of anarchism - approvingly in public Two he consented to a fluff-piece by the enemies of anarchism at Engels and Erman, sorry, Conde Nast Three - he doesn’t think we’re good enough for anarchism yet. His stinkin’ " No one wants to run a server " bs

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When blood, sweat and tears are no longer enough
by professor rat 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

Her majesties govt must proffer scarcity. Scarcity, for lack of a better word is good. Scarcity works. Scarcity in all its forms since Oliver Twist. Scarcity cuts through, clarifies and captures the rapidly evolving, conservative government spirit. Scarcity - you mark my words ladies and gentlemen - will not only save the Monarchy but that other ailing corporation called the Church of England. https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/01/12/why-2022-should-be-the-year-of-t…

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