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by professor rat 30 Apr '22

30 Apr '22

These state-capitalist morons will sell us all the optic-fiber we need to hang them with https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/08/digital_yuan_wechat_integration/ Welcome to the anarchist revolution!

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The Handbook on the Ratification and Implementation of the Kampala Amendments on the Crime of Aggression to the Rome Statute of the ICC
by Gunnar Larson 30 Apr '22

30 Apr '22

Never has humanity had a permanent international court with the authority to hold individuals accountable for their decisions to commit aggression. Now we do. In New York in 2017, States Parties to the Rome Statute made the historic decision to enable the ICC to prosecute the crime of aggression – marking the first time that humanity has had a permanent international court with the authority to hold individuals accountable for their decisions to commit the worst forms of the illegal use of … [View More]

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MUSKOVITCH's Achilles heel needs stabbing
by professor rat 30 Apr '22

30 Apr '22

Tilting Ukraine-wards is such a no-brainer even Julio Assangista has done it. So, sure his good points earn brownie points - Starlingk - batteries Neo - Tin Tin type rockets - boring companies. But no one should forget for one second how this depraved criminal moron is a threat to us all. Once intelligent aliens find out we let him ( and the NASA! WTF!?) plan to despoil and rape a wilderness planet like Mars they could decide we represent a collective threat. Wouldn't you? I … [View More]

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Turkey goes anarchist - will any Nazbol survive?
by professor rat 30 Apr '22

30 Apr '22

That's a rhetorical question. Of course they won't. https://cointelegraph.com/news/turkey-s-second-wave-of-major-crypto-interes… Reposts snot ends in themselves

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FBI's Massive Illegal Immoral Corrupt Email Spy Program, Federal Corruption, Exposed
by grarpamp 30 Apr '22

30 Apr '22

FBI seemingly always dedicated to lawbreaking and corruption, conducted mostly under Democrat influence, against rights and freedom of US people and opposing politicians, 90 years worth of FBI corruption, political malfeasance, major errors... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/fbi-made-millions-of-queries-for-ameri… https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/29/politics/intel-report-fbi-searches/index… https://surveillance.news/2021-06-24-nsa-war-with-fbi-illegal-spying-on-ame… https://thehill.com/… [View More]

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America's Gestapo caught in the act again
by professor rat 30 Apr '22

30 Apr '22

American Gestapo out-of-control " . . . the FBI has repeatedly accessed Section 702-acquired contents under circumstances requiring a FISC order under Section 702(£)(2), but has never applied for such an order… . ." https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/09/05/the-latest-stinky-702-opinion-bodes-p… Section 702 is a key provision of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 that permits the government to conduct targeted surveillance of foreign persons located outside the United States, with the compelled … [View More]

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Crypto Long & Short: The Trouble With Ticker Symbols
by Gunnar Larson 29 Apr '22

29 Apr '22

Would the real USDP please stand up <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Tell_the_Truth#Basic_rules>? Last month, Paxos, the issuer of the seventh-largest <https://www.coingecko.com/en/stablecoins> stablecoin <https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2020/12/29/what-is-a-stablecoin/> in the $2 trillion global cryptocurrency market, renamed the token, previously called the Paxos standard, to the Paxos dollar. As part of the rebranding, the crypto exchange changed <https://www.coindesk.… [View More]com/markets/2021/08/24/paxos-renames-standard-stableco…'> the ticker symbol from PAX to USDP. There was one hitch: Another stablecoin was already using the ticker. Unit Protocol, a decentralized lending platform that went live in February, had been calling its token USDP since at least July of last year, when it published a white paper <https://github.com/unitprotocol/protocol_docs/blob/master/unit_wp.pdf>. For a hot minute it seemed the plucky team was not about to let a bigger rival use the four-letter identifier without a fight. “We are currently disputing Paxos’ trademark application for USDP,” Benjamin Meredith, a representative for Unit Protocol, told CoinDesk on Aug. 27. To show that the original USDP was a known quantity in the market, Meredith pointed to blockchain data <https://etherscan.io/tx/0x381ec163ca4031a142a79e86f9218b3b2e6a56e591b5a1962…> indicating that 138 million units of the token had been minted, each worth just under $1. He also shared writeups on the market data sites CoinGecko <https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/usdp> and CoinMarketCap <https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/usdp/> as further evidence this stablecoin was an established asset – even if the Paxos stablecoin’s market cap was 7.5 times larger. As of this writing, however, no formal objection was filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In a later email, Meredith said the Unit Protocol team decided to first talk to a Paxos executive. Still later, he said the call didn’t happen. “We’re just going to go along our merry way for the time being,” Meredith said. Paxos, for its part, seemed unwilling to budge when contacted by CoinDesk. “It’s common for projects to share tickers in the cryptocurrency space,” said Paxos spokesperson Becky McClain. “There are dozens of instances of shared qtickers or tickers that share letter strings, and we feel confident these uses are distinguishable and coexist without confusion for consumers.” She did not answer a follow-up question about whether Paxos checked if the ticker was already in use before choosing it. This anticlimactic tale highlights an issue that has come up a handful of times in crypto and may do so more often in the future as the industry grows. Without a standard for exchanges to assign identifiers, investors are apt to get confused. “Tickers are designed to make assets instantly recognizable to clients, so it’s important each ticker refers to a single asset,” said Kevin Beardsley, lead product manager for pro trading at the Kraken exchange. “However, two projects sometimes claim the same symbol, and the winner is mostly decided de facto by the community.” https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2021/09/05/crypto-long-short-the-trouble-w… [View Less]

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Fw: Mailman privacy alert
by zeynepaydogan 29 Apr '22

29 Apr '22

What's going on? I just got an email like that. anybody else get an email like that? ------- Original Message ------- <cypherpunks-bounces(a)lists.cpunks.org> wrote: > An attempt was made to subscribe your address to the mailing list > cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org. You are already subscribed to this mailing list. > > Note that the list membership is not public, so it is possible that a bad > person was trying to probe the list for its membership. This would be a > … [View More]

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Wake The Fuck Up: Thread
by grarpamp 29 Apr '22

29 Apr '22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7cecQsuHKA Another censored conversation Globalist power is coming for your freedom and that of people you care about and around you. All of the signs and pieces are being put together. Integrated arbitrary lightswitch control and worse. Fight back against power. Freedom depends on it. The day you fight back, is the day they start falling, and the day you start winning.

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Another Raid of Deutsche Bank, Another Dead Whistleblower
by Gunnar Larson 29 Apr '22

29 Apr '22

Another Raid of Deutsche Bank, Another Dead Whistleblower <https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/04/another-raid-of-deutsche-bank-anothe…> By Pam Martens and Russ Martens <https://wallstreetonparade.com/about-3/about/>: April 29, 2022 ~ [image: Deutsche Bank Headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany] <https://wallstreetonparade.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/deutsche-bank.jpg> Deutsche Bank Headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany The Financial Times is reporting this morning that “… [View More]Germany’s federal police office, criminal prosecutors and the country’s financial watchdog BaFin are raiding Deutsche Bank’s headquarters in Frankfurt” this morning, according to a statement from prosecutors. The raid comes just four days after the body of Valentin (Val) Broeksmit, 46, was discovered at about 7 a.m. Monday at Woodrow Wilson High School in El Sereno, just outside of Los Angeles. Val Broeksmit was the son of William Broeksmit who was found hanged in his London home on January 26, 2014. The senior Boreksmit was a senior executive at Deutsche Bank involved in assessing risk on the bank’s balance sheet. (See our report: Documents Emerge in Senate Hearing from William Broeksmit, Deutsche Exec Alleged to Have Hanged Himself in January <https://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/07/documents-emerge-in-senate-hearing-f…> .) According to a profile of Val Broeksmit written by David Enrich <https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/business/val-broeksmit-deutsche-bank-tru…> in the New York Times on October 1, 2019, the younger Broeksmit had obtained “a cache of confidential bank documents” left by his father that provided a “tantalizing” look into the internal workings of Deutsche Bank. Val Broeksmit was sharing the documents with the FBI. Enrich explains what was going on around Deutsche Bank at that time: “Federal and state authorities were swarming around Deutsche Bank. Some of the scrutiny centered on the lender’s two-decade relationship with President Trump and his family. Other areas of focus grew out of Deutsche Bank’s long history of criminal misconduct: manipulating markets, evading taxes, bribing foreign officials, violating international sanctions, defrauding customers, laundering money for Russian billionaires.” Russian billionaires are now back in the news <https://www.cnn.com/interactive/business/russian-oligarchs-yachts-real-esta…> and Donald Trump is being fined $10,000 per day <https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-10000-a-day-fine-ignoring-subpoena-…> for failure to turn over documents to the New York State Attorney General’s office. David Enrich had written an earlier piece in May of 2019 <https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/19/business/deutsche-bank-trump-kushner.htm…> for the New York Times describing how a Deutsche Bank whistleblower, Tammy McFadden, and four of her colleagues, had their efforts blocked by the bank when they tried to file suspicious activity reports on bank accounts affiliated with Donald Trump and his son-in-law/advisor Jared Kushner. The suspicious activity reports (SARs) should have been filed with the Federal agency known as FinCEN (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network) but were quashed by a unit of the bank that manages money for the super wealthy. The coroner has not yet released a cause of death for the younger Broeksmit. His father’s death was ruled a suicide. The two Broeksmits are not the only individuals connected to Deutsche Bank to have turned up dead. On October 24, 2014 the body of Calogero Gambino, 41, was found by his wife hanging from a stairway banister in their Manhattan home. Gambino was a lawyer for Deutsche Bank who had been cooperating with U.S. regulators on Deutsche Bank’s involvement in the rigging of the interest rate benchmark, Libor. Nor is this the first time that Deutsche Bank’s headquarters have been raided. As we previously reported, on November 29, 2018, Deutsche Bank’s headquarters in Germany were raided by 170 members of law enforcement. Prosecutors said at the time that “Deutsche Bank helped customers found offshore organizations in tax havens by transferring illegally acquired money without alerting authorities to suspected money laundering.” On September 24, 2019 the German police raided Deutsche Bank headquarters for the second time in less than a year. Deutsche Bank is a major derivatives counterparty to Wall Street’s mega banks. The Bank was having serious problems throughout 2019 and in the days before its trading unit, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., began to secretly tap trillions of dollars in cumulative loans from the Fed’s repo loan bailout facility. Deutsche Bank’s attempt to merge with Commerzbank fell through in April 2019. It announced a plan to fire 18,000 workers <https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48901565> in July 2019 and had plans to create a good bank/bad bank, isolating off toxic assets that it planned to sell. Deutsche Bank had incurred losses in three of the prior four years. Its share price had lost 90 percent of its value over the prior dozen years and was trading close to an historic low in September 2019. The Monday after the emergency repo loan operations began, Deutsche Bank announced that it would be moving clients and staff from its prime broker unit (that makes loans to hedge funds) to BNP Paribas along with its electronic trading operations. Newly released documents from the Fed show that on September 17, 2019, the first day of the Fed’s emergency repo loan operations, Deutsche Bank borrowed $1.5 billion in a one-day loan. By September 24, Deutsche Bank had upped its one-day repo loans to $7 billion. By September 25, Deutsche Bank increased its one-day borrowing to $9 billion. On September 27, Deutsche Bank took a $3 billion 14-day term loan and rolled over $6 billion in a 3-day loan. Later documents released by the Fed show that Deutsche Bank borrowed a cumulative, term-adjusted total of $1.39 trillion from the Fed’s repo loan program in the fourth quarter of 2019 and another $1.24 trillion in the first quarter of 2020. The Fed will release data for the second quarter of 2020 on June 30 of this year. The Fed is releasing the information on a quarterly basis following a two-year lag. Deutsche Bank units were also secretly bailed out by the Fed during and after the 2008 financial crisis. According to an audit conducted by the Government Accountability Office, Deutsche Bank units borrowed a total of $354 billion in cumulative loans from the Fed’s bailout programs, with the bulk of that amount coming from the Term Securities Lending Facility (TSLF) which ran from March 11, 2008 through February 1, 2010. As *Wall Street On Parade* has previously reported, Deutsche Bank has also acquired an unseemly history of fines for its illicit activities. Below is a sampling: April 23, 2015: Deutsche Bank pleads guilty <https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/apr/23/deutsche-bank-hit-by-recor…> to the U.S. Department of Justice for its role in rigging the benchmark interest rate known as Libor. It pays fines of $2.519 billion to various regulators. January 17, 2017: Deutsche Bank reaches a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice in which it agrees to pay $7.2 billion in fines and restitution for its improper “packaging, securitization, marketing, sale and issuance of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) between 2006 and 2007.” January 30, 2017: Deutsche Bank is fined a total of $630 million <https://www.reuters.com/article/us-deutsche-mirrortrade-probe/deutsche-fine…> by U.S. and U.K. regulators over claims it laundered upwards of $10 billion on behalf of Russian investors. January 29, 2018: Deutsche Bank is ordered to pay $30 million <https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/7682-18> by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for manipulating trading in the precious metals market. November 8, 2019: Nomura and Deutsche Bank, along with numerous employees, were convicted <https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-montepaschi-verdict/italian-court-…> in a trial in Italy for helping the Tuscan bank, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, commit fraud in derivatives deals to help it hide losses. January 18, 2020: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission fines Deutsche Bank $10 million <https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8185-20> to settle two cases: one involving failure to properly report swap transactions and the other for spoofing. July 7, 2020: The New York State Department of Financial Services settles a state civil matter with Deutsche Bank for $150 million over its involvement with child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. October 13, 2020: The Frankfurt, Germany Public Prosecutor’s Office fined Deutsche Bank €13.5 million for failing to submit Suspicious Activity Reports in a timely fashion regarding potential money laundering activities. January 8, 2021: The Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission settle charges against Deutsche Bank for $120 million <https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-3> for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The charges related to paying bribes to foreign officials to obtain business. Why the Fed continues to prop up a serial miscreant is a question that every concerned American should be asking their representatives in Congress. -- *Gunnar Larson - xNY.io <http://www.xNY.io> | Bank.org <http://Bank.org>* MSc <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&u…> - Digital Currency MBA <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovat…> - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-646-454-9107 New York, New York 10001 [View Less]

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