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Fwd: FOIL DHSES-22-07-012
by Gunnar Larson 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: DHSES, FOIL (DHSES) <FOIL.DHSES(a)dhses.ny.gov> Date: Wed, Jul 27, 2022, 12:37 PM Subject: FOIL DHSES-22-07-012 To: G(a)xny.io <G(a)xny.io> Attached please find correspondence regarding the above Freedom of Information Law request. Thank you.

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Jurisdiction shopping for Dummies
by professor rat 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

Here a quotation from a book I've been reading: "The eurocurrency markets represent a type of regulatory arbitrage. Eurobanking is a managed financial package that combines the currency of one country (one regulatory environment) with the banking regulations and competitive efficiencies of another country. This repackaging was made possible by improvements in worldwide communications links and information technology. If the regulatory burden becomes too high in one area of the world, the bundle of eurobanking services can be reassembled in another. Hence, national regulators must compete to maintain their respective shares of the eurocurrency business. Competition with respect to lending quotas, reserve requirements, capital requirements, deposit insurance, the taxing and reporting of interest payments, and the taxing of profits, dividends, and capital gains, all measured against any perceived positive benefits of local regulation, governs the geographical distribution of eurocurrency market shares." From _International Financial Markets_, by J. Orlin Grabbe, formerly of the Wharton School. Regulatory arbitrage is an Important concept, as well as a great phrase. The writer is square in the middle of the mainstream in the business world, and note how effortlessly he speaks of avoiding governments and playing them off against each other.... https://marc.info/?t=96583955000001&r=1&w=1

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New Yorker lies about Wikileaks
by professor rat 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

" . . . Organizations such as WikiLeaks espouse an absolutist commitment to transparency . . ." ( New Yorker liar, PR Keefe ) JULIAN " Cypherpunks are all about privacy for the poor and transparency for the powerful " ASSANGE

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New Yorker lies about Shulte and Wikileaks
by professor rat 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

There is plenty to condemn both Joshua Shulte and post 2009 - Wikileaks without making shit up. " . . .But WikiLeaks had also shown, quite recently, a willingness to be a mouthpiece for foreign intelligence services: in 2016, the site had released e-mails from the Democratic National Committee which had been stolen by hackers working on behalf of the Kremlin. . . ." Sez the New Yorker quite recently. But did 2010 Wikileaks just go down the Memory Hole? https://reason.com/2011/02/03/julian-assange-and-israel-sham/ " . . .He travelled on to Belarus, ruled by the Soviet-style dictator Alexander Lukashenko, where he met regime officials. The Russian Interfax news agency reported that Shamir was WikiLeaks’ “Russian representative”, and had “confirmed the existence of the Belarus dossier”. According to him, WikiLeaks had several thousand “interesting” secret documents. Shamir then wrote a piece of grovelling pro-Lukashenko propaganda in Counterpunch . . ."

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Go Robo
by professor rat 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

The Real Vision Bot was co-developed by quant analyst and hedge fund CEO Moritz Seibert and statistician Moritz Heiden. Real Vision founder and macroeconomic expert Raoul Pal has called the bot’s historic performance “astonishing,” saying it outperforms an aggregated bucket of top 20 crypto assets on the market by more than 20%. https://dailyhodl.com/2022/07/26/robot-known-for-outperforming-crypto-marke… Just mind your fingers with those pawns

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Filecoin Green
by professor rat 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

Filecoin, the world’s largest decentralized storage network, allows users to store, request and transfer data via a verifiable marketplace. Its advanced technology provides a robust foundation to store the world’s most valuable datasets. An alternative to costly cloud storage, the Filecoin network offers efficiently priced and geographically decentralized storage, minimizing financial barriers and allowing users to take advantage of its unmatched network capabilities. Filecoin is completely open source, enabling people from all over the world to participate. https://cointelegraph.com/press-releases/filecoin-to-host-sustainable-block… Reposts etc - caveat lecter

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The old soft-drill
by professor rat 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

Despite the relentless quarter-century focus on ' Black Box ' assassination politics ( AP ) I still hold out great hopes for " Open Source " AP or " APster ". As I've said, some soft forms of this are already emerging - described as ' Gaslighting ', " Cancellation" and so on. Forms of erasure falling far short of physical killing. I have a running joke among fellow anarchs, who are still leery of reviving Propaganda of the Deed a century later, that at least many of them still go in for ' character assassination politics ". And one workaround for the skeptics has long been anticipated - the subject of any prediction mart simply takes the pool and disappears. So long as they might as well be dead then the contract is fulfilled and everyone's happy. I can imagine variations on that theme. Au used to have what were called ' Remittance Men ". These were Englishmen paid to stay away from England. Bottom line is nobody has to die - they just have to play this new game and accept this new system. " Play dead "

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Scenes from the class struggle in Vermont
by professor rat 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

' . . .I'm in Vermont these few years, looking to get my truck back up and going to travel again. I'm in a small town with a mountain, a short drive away from a small city. Very wooded, tons of trees everywhere. I love trees. . ." That's very good, Karl. I feel we're making excellent progress now - not just locating your state, but also Juan's country ( Argentina landfill ) and Gramps, who comes from Texas ( amirite? ) I won't press you for more details at this juncture since I'm becoming more aware of communication problems in our highly unjust and unequal world. James Randi once commented that [ Edgar ] “Cayce was fond of expressions like ‘I feel that’ and ‘perhaps’—qualifying words used to avoid positive declarations.” I get that. The Anarchist News collective is also like that. I hope we can all get past that. Yrs in anarchist translucence - pr

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FWD: Mailman privacy alert
by zeynep＠keemail.me 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

i got 4 of these emails today Tarih: 27 Tem 2022 01:28 Kimden: cypherpunks-bounces(a)lists.cpunks.org Kime: zeynep(a)keemail.me Konu : Mailman privacy alert > 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 > privacy violation if we let them do this, but we didn't. > > If you submitted the subscription request and forgot that you were already > subscribed to the list, then you can ignore this message. If you suspect that > an attempt is being made to covertly discover whether you are a member of this > list, and you are worried about your privacy, then feel free to send a message > to the list administrator at cypherpunks-owner(a)lists.cpunks.org. >

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Calls for a mistrial in CIA espionage frame-up
by professor rat 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

Juror's in the Joshua Shulte trial reportedly shared notes taken during proceedings. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/13/the-surreal-case-of-a-cia-hac… IANAL but normal jury instructions would seem to rule that out up front. Yes? " . . .there was no way for the C.I.A. to exact retribution against Schulte without, in the process, revealing a great deal of unflattering information about itself . . ." Such as its close sister-agency relationship with the NYT & Conde Nast

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