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Cryptocurrency: Inflation Is Quietly Stripping Us Of Our Private Property Rights
by grarpamp 22 Aug '22

22 Aug '22

https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/inflation-is-quietly-stripping-us Inflation Is Quietly Stripping Us Of Our Private Property Rights I used to scoff at the mention of ‘The Great Reset”, or the idea that a handful of elites are running the global show behind the scenes. Needless to say, on the other side of the pandemic, I have warmed up to the idea in a big way. I can’t help but feel as though some often talked about conspiracy theories are in the process of unfolding right before our very eyes, whether via premeditated means or just from plain old dumbass incompetence from global politicians and Central Banks. As anybody who is harshly critical of the idea of a “Great Reset” will tell you, one of the key tenets of a post-apocalyptic, Klaus Schwab-run world is the idea that we will no longer have private property rights. This comes from a statement that Schwab made, predicting what life would be like in the year 2030: “You’ll own nothing” — And “you’ll be happy about it.” And while today’s lesson is rather elementary, it’s worth noting that this conspiracy theory not only isn’t too far from the truth, it could very well be in the midst of taking place right before our eyes. I had to look no further than my own personal circle to find recent examples of grown adults who were having difficulty making ends meet due to rising prices. These people had some money saved up, but still could not keep up with the price of rent and housing, and ultimately wound up giving up on having their own place and moving back home with their parents. When I was discussing this example on my most recent podcast, I had the revelation that, as is true with anything economic, this same situation was playing out millions of times over, with millions of other Americans, every day. In other words everyone is having the same problem: they simply can’t afford things anymore and, with inflation at between 8% and 9%, the value of their savings is collapsing. In just 3 years, things cost between 15% and 20% more than they did when many savers were putting away a majority of their money - before the pandemic. The purchasing power of the dollar is down by about 20% over the same time. USD Purchasing Power (5 Years) via TradingEconomics.com Those who are still working on a wage that isn’t 20% higher than it was just 3 years ago are losing significant ground. Those who have stopped working and are either on a fixed income or are living off savings have been hit even worse (especially if you’re living off a pension managed by some of the absolute worst managers to ever step foot in front of a Bloomberg terminal, like this one and this one). This financial pressure is widely talked about when it comes to people paring back their discretionary spending. We hear the news talk about a slowdown in spending all the time when economic times get tougher - it’s one of the dynamics that creates recession and de-leveraging cycles. But what happens when it’s the cost of shelter (i.e. rent and housing) and real estate that are also getting too expensive for everyday buyers. This is talked about far less, so let’s quickly think about what it could mean for the future. Today’s article is free because I believe the content to be too important to put behind a paywall. If you enjoy this piece, have the means and want to support my work, I’d be humbled to have you as a subscriber: Yes, I want 70% off a subsription. In Klaus Schwab’s future, borrowing the words of Judge Smails, “you’ll get nothing and like it!” We are all Spaulding It’ll be this way because everything will be communal and shared. The focus will be taken away from private property and private property rights. Inflation helps this narrative greatly. If you have less purchasing power to buy discretionary items then, by proxy, you have less private property. The scary thing is when this dynamic starts to extrapolate itself over people’s real estate and land ownership. In other words, a future where nobody can afford a second set of golf clubs doesn’t seem that post-apocalyptic, but a future where fewer and fewer people own land and house, and where the geographical distribution of the world’s livable area starts to fall into the hands of the richest few and state backed entities - well, this seems extremely post-apocalyptic. While I admit this is a bit “fringe” at the moment (hey, it’s what I do), I now can’t help but think of inflation as a way to help strip away people’s individual private property rights. When you take away a person’s private property, private property rights don’t hold the same meaning to them. Do people that don’t want to own guns care about the right to own guns? Probably not as much as those who are avid sportsman or want to own guns for personal protection. If you haven’t yet, I would encourage you to listen to my most recent podcast with Andy Schectman, where he lays out the de-dollarization path we could be on and how the global economic landscape is shifting before our eyes. In his estimation, everything that needs to be happening for ‘The Great Reset” to take place on or ahead of schedule is already happening. And as I said to him, while I may have laughed at the idea a couple of years ago, I found myself with my jaw agape by the end of the interview – because as much as I didn’t want him to, his post-apocalyptic scenario was making a whole lot of sense. I know this is somewhat of a basic lesson in economics, but the next time you hear the Biden administration refer to inflation at 0% sequentially, despite the fact that it was up more than 8% from the year prior, take it personally. Remember that every positive CPI print we see represents the percentage of things you can buy less of with the same money you had a year prior. If you could afford 8% more “stuff” last year with the same dollar, what type of mental gymnastics do you need to perform to convince yourself that your rights to private property aren’t being whittled away and taken out from underneath you? Our freedom versus Schwabism | Meer

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From the liars and frauds at " Bitcoin Magazine "
by professor rat 22 Aug '22

22 Aug '22

The Bitcoin White Paper was published by Satoshi Nakamoto on metzdowd.com's Cryptography Mailing List ie a list that is NOT the cypherpunks list. Unless you believe liars and frauds like Nick Szabo and the journalist dregs at Btc zine. " . . . Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper to the cypherpunk mailing list in the same year — but after — Szabo posted his Bit Gold proposal there. . . . " https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/nick-szabo-bitcoin-secures-itself-and-d… Reposts may include lies and fraud - caveat lecter

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Julian Assange found out, Google had worked with the U.S. State Department?
by professor rat 22 Aug '22

22 Aug '22

Eric Zuesse 14/02/2022 at 8:46 PM · Reply As a personal fact, I can say that the FBI and Google have very successfully reduced (by around 90%) the size of my audience, and that of the 43 websites that used to accept some of my articles, that number has now become less than ten, and that some of the websites have been shut down by the FBI, and others have stopped posting articles from me altogether because Google had threatened them. Of the few websites that still DO post some of my submissions to them, more than half have become banned altogether by Google from showing up in web-searches. Of course, as Julian Assange found out, Google had worked with the U.S. State Department, starting in 2011, to help them to organize Ukraine’s nazis for what became the Maidan demonstrations and the subsequent U.S. takeover of Ukraine (Obama’s coup in Kiev) in February 2014. So, I am convinced that the U.S. regime does, in fact, police the world-wide Web and greatly reduce the ability of the global (and especially of the American) public to have access to truths that that regime want the public NOT to know. . . ." https://orientalreview.org/about/ Reposts not etc

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Re: Anti War: Thread
by professor rat 21 Aug '22

21 Aug '22

YOU say, " Every wannabe terrorist can now destroy civilian aircraft and kill hundreds for just $20k." like that's a BAD thing. Hey Gramps - its Crypto-ANARCHY moron. Not ' Crypto-Pacifism ". Anarchists are anti-state and anti-religion - later for peace, love and understanding. MUCH LATER! And " When cypherpunks are called terrorists we will have done our job " Old proverb

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Re: She supported the latest Chekist Ukraine invasion, Zeynep
by professor rat 21 Aug '22

21 Aug '22

You being a dissident citizen-journalist ( or supporter of one ) works just as well for me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia Nazbol Turd, Juan Garofalo seems to think Turkey is being colonized by Russia right now. He's like a cagey-bee.

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Here's a good way to avoid 98% of all list members that are suspected US agents
by professor rat 21 Aug '22

21 Aug '22

GET OFF the INTERNET

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Fwd: confirm 726f6d9bf2520d8e5a60b79ea95bc433cbee6865
by Undiscussed Groomed for Male Slavery, One Victim of Many 21 Aug '22

21 Aug '22

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by Undiscussed Groomed for Male Slavery, One Victim of Many 21 Aug '22

21 Aug '22

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Do not talk to corporate journos
by professor rat 21 Aug '22

21 Aug '22

balajis · Aug 19 3) Third, because of the advent of Substack & decentralized media, only those who can’t hack it as independents get an establishment media job. So their competence has dropped. Journos once used to be more clever about hiding the dagger in their hand. No more, it’s obvious now. Quote Tweet Balaji Srinivasan @balajis · Nov 25, 2021 Do not talk to corporate journos They’re trained to feign friendliness They’ll stab you in their article They often hate founders Their employers compete with tech They don’t understand tech You don’t need them for distribution Work with diverse influencers instead And go direct twitter.com/KishanBagaria/… Show this thread <<< Reposts etc . . .

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Russian Turkish cooperation.
by punk 21 Aug '22

21 Aug '22

https://orientalreview.org/2022/08/15/russia-turkey-reset-eases-regional-te… I bet the list's pentagon jewnazis* will have a stroke. *that is, 98% of 'list members'.

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She supported the latest Chekist Ukraine invasion, Zeynep
by professor rat 21 Aug '22

21 Aug '22

You know that dead daughter of top Putin ally Alexander Dugin, who pushed for Ukraine invasion, was just killed by car bomb outside Moscow? You should start taking a lot of flights in small planes. And not bother with any checks underneath cars you drive in. Happy trails!

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The future doesn't need journalists
by professor rat 21 Aug '22

21 Aug '22

balajis · Aug 19 Never give free content to legacy media corporations. They hate you, they will distort you, and you don’t need to. Just go direct when you have something to say. <<< Reposts etc

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In 79 " Colombian " was grass
by professor rat 21 Aug '22

21 Aug '22

By 2029 it could be crypto-anarchy complete with cocaine kiosks! ( Malatesta - crime and punishment ) >>> Colombia cocaine: Petro pursues decriminalization The Washington Post Yesterday The Central Bank of Colombia Is Studying the Creation of a Digital Currency – Economics Bitcoin News <<< I see govt shitcoins as more of a promise than a threat since they will be airdropped and laundered so much anarchism will grow and govts will fall. Yr mileage may vary.

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Dugin's NAP - “encourag[ing] pacifist movements in the U.S.A '
by professor rat 21 Aug '22

21 Aug '22

He provided specific recommendations in an article entitled “The Rest Against the West.” In it, he advocated “encourag[ing] pacifist movements in the U.S.A., using an important factor of neo-religiosity and neo-mysticism.” In the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the primary target of Russian propaganda was the religious alt-right, supporting a candidate who favored American retrenchment. . . ." https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2020/5/28/putins-playbook-reviewin… Leveraging the success of early 00's antiwar - why its a brilliant plan, Goldmember!

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Dugin’s Evil Theology
by professor rat 21 Aug '22

21 Aug '22

Hey, I just work here https://www.nationalreview.com/2014/06/dugins-evil-theology-robert-zubrin/ Reposts etc

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Julian Assange is a court approved fraud, serial forger, perjurer and thief.
by professor rat 21 Aug '22

21 Aug '22

Bit like Pastor Craig actually https://mylegacykit.medium.com/craig-wright-the-fraud-that-didnt-make-it-to… Reposts etc Expect more cypherpunk carpetbaggers as we take over the world. Creepy con-artists like Vinay Gupta, Adam Back, Nick Szabo, John Gilmore, John Young, Zooko, REASON zine staff, certain Btc Maxi's, David Chaum. Etc. All FRAUDS on the PUBLIC and ENEMIES of the PEOPLE. All MARKED FOR DEATH.

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Cryptography kills
by professor rat 21 Aug '22

21 Aug '22

How many people haven't had the crap scared out of them yet? https://twitter.com/kate_sills/status/1514243053615165447/photo/1 Repsosts ect

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Re: [ot][personal] cult reading notes
by Undiscussed Groomed for Male Slavery, One Victim of Many 21 Aug '22

21 Aug '22

mark, i found where you included the list, with an older email, sorry i missed this On 8/20/22, \0xDynamite <dreamingforward(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I posted it for you. > > It lands in my inbox which I find annoying. > mark i don't understand. this is very little information. did my cult books filter through because i did not spam label them? I'm sorry if i am rude sometimes. it is hard for me to believe this is the real cypherpunks list, the posts i get have seemed so strange to me. cults seem similar to govcorp to me. any thoughts?

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Fwd: [ot][personal] cult reading notes
by Undiscussed Groomed for Male Slavery, One Victim of Many 21 Aug '22

21 Aug '22

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Undiscussed Groomed for Male Slavery, One Victim of Many" <gmkarl+brainwashingandfuckingupthehackerslaves(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2022 16:39:54 -0400 Subject: Re: [ot][personal] cult reading notes To: "\\0xDynamite" <dreamingforward(a)gmail.com> On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 4:38 PM Undiscussed Groomed for Male Slavery, One Victim of Many <gmkarl+brainwashingandfuckingupthehackerslaves(a)gmail.com> wrote: > i've built up the habit (it's hard for me to do things, so things i've > built up a habit for are helpful to me). why do you ask? how does the > posting land? (do you mind if i cc the list, replying to you?) > specifically i posted these notes because i had misplaced my notes from the earlier 2 chapters, and it started seeming important to keep them. here, the list keeps them for me. > > hope you are well, mark. >

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Fwd: [ot][personal] cult reading notes
by Undiscussed Groomed for Male Slavery, One Victim of Many 21 Aug '22

21 Aug '22

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Undiscussed Groomed for Male Slavery, One Victim of Many" <gmkarl+brainwashingandfuckingupthehackerslaves(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2022 16:38:39 -0400 Subject: Re: [ot][personal] cult reading notes To: "\\0xDynamite" <dreamingforward(a)gmail.com> i've built up the habit (it's hard for me to do things, so things i've built up a habit for are helpful to me). why do you ask? how does the posting land? (do you mind if i cc the list, replying to you?) hope you are well, mark.

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Fwd: [ot][personal] cult reading notes
by Undiscussed Groomed for Male Slavery, One Victim of Many 21 Aug '22

21 Aug '22

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "\\0xDynamite" <dreamingforward(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2022 13:21:20 -0700 Subject: Re: [ot][personal] cult reading notes To: "Undiscussed Groomed for Male Slavery, One Victim of Many" <gmkarl+brainwashingandfuckingupthehackerslaves(a)gmail.com> Why are you posting here? mark On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 10:16 AM Undiscussed Groomed for Male Slavery, One Victim of Many <gmkarl+brainwashingandfuckingupthehackerslaves(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > as i get farther into the cult book, i understand the importance of > writing down what you agree, disagree, or want to look more into, as > the author says to do. > > it is so rare to hear somebody talking about what the book talks > about, and it engages my experiences when done, that i can forget the > things i disagree about with the author entirely and begin believing > whatever he says. > > ch3: > > - i so much agree with BITE. nobody ever says this. systematic control > of Behavior, Information, Thoughts and Emotions. [confused: BITE must > mean how we are eating people's spirits like zombies eating brains.] > > - i don't think it's clear to call all influence groups cults when > cults inspire images of people in robes worshiping dead animals, not > really a huge thing > > - i disagree that meditation with belief in eventual levitation or > flying is harmful. i believe this is a good thing, without destructive > attributes itself, to give people inspiration to spend time becoming > more thoughtful. i do not mind that popular science believes that > levitation does not happen from pensation: many people hold belief > systems that have disparity with popular science, and use this as > reason for prayer or dedicated behavior. i have no trouble considering > that this belief is _used_ harmfully by some people. > i think personally i see the belief as an analogy to how, when you > meditate well and long enough, you begin seeing more and more things > that others do not ever see: things you can do, reasons people do > things, etc etc. this seems it could become a similar super power to > flying. personally, i found i develop a comparable feeling to flying > when i gain mastery over my body like with skilled free running. > > - MOVE is mentioned as an example of a cult. it was an activism group > for black people. given MOVE was so politically targeted that most > members were killed by the police, it seems far more likely that the > political targeting (and disreputating messaging) was engaging in any > destructive influence than the group. counter ref 62 > > - similarly i am of course skeptical that a democratic workers > collective would be a destructive cult, and worry some around > political harm in the label; workers collectives have been repeatedly > targeted, sometimes killed en masse by corporations or governments, in > our nation's and global history. counter ref 64 > > fragment: pierce told me "some of us are felons, some of us have > families." i mentioned worrying about being tracked with my phone to > pierce. he had me turn it on, and then suddenly cory visited, and > spoke to me about the red and the blue. he lay down on the floor next > to pierce's bed, just waiting. we had an intuitive conversation where > he would wait and be silent before each thing he said. [sarah said a > fragment of an expression to me, as if people were saying things that > only made sense if all taken together as parts of the same sentence] > finished writing fragment 2022-08-20 1033 [the interaction seemed very influential and strange. cory would often say he "was just happy to be involved". he said he had come off a long hiking trail, but lived as a homeless person who never left the city. i was in an intense state of mind, near the end of behaving with strong intuition. i think i had taken a jesus emblem with me, and showed a text message to sarah on my phone.] > > - farther along, the author says that a concern around worrying about > mind control is that everything can be seen as mind control, as if > this is a struggle normal people have. i have also been exposed to > this belief. it is not normal at all. where did it come from? > > - further: it seems reasonable to say that the only reason it would be > unclear whether a group is destructive or non-destructive, after > observing it, would be due to influence preventing this clarity. > clearly this clarity is needed badly. > > - in the section regarding childhood sexual abuse, which explains how > learned phobias produce an environment for repeat abuse, i became > worried for a friend i love, who was sexually abused as a child. this > worry shortly became numb and hidden for me, and is hard for me to > consider now. > > - "Put a person into a situation where his senses are overloaded with > non-coherent information, and the mind will go "numb" as a protective > mechanism. It gets confused and overwhelmed, and critical faculties no > longer work properly. It is in this weakened state that people become > very open to suggestion." > > - i'm thinking of how my influence seemed to me to pretend to be the > things i was passionate about, kind of starting off with offering a > "deal" that if i "really wanted to get involved" i would need to do > this or that > > - somewhat uncomfortable around the recommendation of trusting search > results regarding terms like "criminal" or "abuser". i think i have > hits around "criminal" as does somebody i respect have "abuser", where > these hits are from disinformation in my opinion. one possible > difference: if a powerful influence is involved and it is disreputing > the person, the hits go near the top; if a powerful influence is > involved and it is supporting the person, the hits go near the bottom. > anyway it is very normal to do such web searchers, so it's mostly > moot. > > - the book does not yet describe how the sharedness of indoctrination > techniques between groups and how this indicates collaboration among > the cult leaders. it could be important to remember that we are at a > time where power is catalyzing and everyone must protect the freedom > of the entire world. > > - it's hard for me to see forthright faith healing as a human rights > violation; death is a needed part of life and truly is the domain of a > deity, and the placebo effect is very strong. obviously if the efforts > are deceptive or disinformative and non-spiritual in benefit or > result, things are different. > > - maybe what's reasonable to consider here is that the author is > describing a horrific lifelong torture that few people can imagine, > and it is very hard to convey this to someone who has not experienced > it. > > - the book mentions another book by Harvey Schwartz that mentions > wolves and sheep and soldiers, and internalized perpetration. it is > about terrorist recruitment of children, but likely the techniques and > stories have overlap with other things. my experience had > wolf/sheep/soldier themes. it seemed to me a wolf was a mind > controller; it seemed to me a sheep was somebody who didn't want to be > one; it seemed to me a soldier was somebody who had seen the horrors > of these things (and [did urgent work?]) and had ptsd and other things > from it. > > - it looks like the book author's community needs help setting laws to > protect people from mind control groups > > - it would have been hard to help me as i [learned to] identified all > things as my own psychological issues

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Fwd: [ot][personal] cult reading notes
by Undiscussed Groomed for Male Slavery, One Victim of Many 21 Aug '22

21 Aug '22

i did not see a post from you so im forwarding it i infer you are irritated. i do not see the logic, and we are top posting unsigned emails, so i am disregarding this. i like you and hope you are well. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "\\0xDynamite" <dreamingforward(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2022 15:38:26 -0700 Subject: Re: [ot][personal] cult reading notes To: "Undiscussed Groomed for Male Slavery, One Victim of Many" <gmkarl+brainwashingandfuckingupthehackerslaves(a)gmail.com> I posted it for you. It lands in my inbox which I find annoying. mark On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 1:40 PM Undiscussed Groomed for Male Slavery, One Victim of Many <gmkarl+brainwashingandfuckingupthehackerslaves(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 4:38 PM Undiscussed Groomed for Male Slavery, One Victim of Many <gmkarl+brainwashingandfuckingupthehackerslaves(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> i've built up the habit (it's hard for me to do things, so things i've built up a habit for are helpful to me). why do you ask? how does the posting land? (do you mind if i cc the list, replying to you?) > > > specifically i posted these notes because i had misplaced my notes from the earlier 2 chapters, and it started seeming important to keep them. here, the list keeps them for me. > >> >> >> hope you are well, mark.

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Exit Darya Dugina,
by professor rat 21 Aug '22

21 Aug '22

Poor Amir Taaki, must be heartbroken https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62621509 Reposts etc

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Solid-eye - Translucent vision
by professor rat 21 Aug '22

21 Aug '22

Privacy for the poor - transparency for the powerful https://subconscious.substack.com/p/soulbinding-like-a-state Reposts etc

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Prediction Markets to STOMP Centralized Manhattan Projects [re: Funding, OpenHW/SW/Nets/...]
by grarpamp 21 Aug '22

21 Aug '22

On 7/31/22, someone <@yahoo.com.au> pasted: > https://twitter.com/vitalikbuterin/status/1291237571461169153 Cypherpunks have been proposing these things for decades, including any number of ways to do so under new models that preserve voluntary freedom. Yet the above linked proposal (in text form below)... - Asks that dependency and mandate continue upon Govt as money middleman, thus implying submitting to and asking permission from Govt to do that which can already be done yourselves without Govt. - Arbitrarily gives your money (which is still stolen from you by Govt therein) to some pre-existing named pet project groups whose older products and structures might not otherwise rank under a new open competition. This is often called Pork. - Does not mention how to remain free to voluntarily choose what parts or none that you want your money going to when, or how to create or send to something else you prefer outside that seemingly mandatory forced funnel. Now Cypherpunks, being a more free sort, might proffer that much of this through an open competition, where anyone may create and send their proposals out into a Distributed P2P Proposal Browsing and Prediction Market to seek funding and fulfillment of the better ones among them therein. Even randomized distribution of no-strings awards to anyone who produces unspecified basic research and work product that could be used towards a particular larger goal, can be done this way. Crypto market cap was ~$3T and will be again soon, even today $20B is nothing for crypto whales and millions of others alike that are each together seeking destinations for philanthropy and investment that suits them. " https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1291228563677429760 My proposed alternative to this stupid "Clean Network" thing: the Cyber-Security Through Openness Manhattan Project (C-STOMP) - $5 billion into open source hardware development, including no-strings-attached grants to Librem, Pinephone and similar groups - $5 billion into security-focused operating systems, including improvement of existing OSes and no-strings-attached grants to Qubes developers - $5 billion into a fully open source 5G alternative - $5 billion into redundant internet networking infrastructure with a focus on resisting attacks and satisfying the original vision of making an internet that can survive nuclear war Pay for all of the above by redirecting 25% of the NSA's budget (that's $10b * 0.25 per year) over the next eight years. " "Cypherpunks wrote: #OpenFabs , #OpenHW , #OpenAudit , #FormalVerification , #CryptoCrowdFunding , #OpenTrust , #GuerrillaNets , ... " Crypto makes going to Mars, ending wars, helping charity, fusion energy, medical advances, and indeed whatever good things, possible sooner, by routing around legacy obstructions, and increasing the addressibility for project choices and funding out to everyone around the globe. The positive change that crypto will bring should not be underestimated or stifled.

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12 years of documented groping incidents - very Assange
by professor rat 21 Aug '22

21 Aug '22

And Julio and Gary appear to have some political ideology in common. Right Gramps? https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1561110693117677568 Reposts etc

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"If you work for the FBI then you deserve to die,"
by professor rat 21 Aug '22

21 Aug '22

In the affidavit for Mr. Bies, the FBI said he compared bureau agents to the Nazi SS of World War II and the Soviet-era KGB and said everyone at the FBI, from agents to janitors, deserves to die. This guy should be an honorary cypherpunk! LETS GO BRANDON! https://stiffs.com/celebrity/joebiden

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YES - lets “slaughter” federal agents, and all “police state scum.”
by professor rat 21 Aug '22

21 Aug '22

You say " threatened online to murder FBI agents " like that's a BAD thing! https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2022/08/15/threat-to-fbi-ada… KILL the PRESIDENT ( My 200 Sats )

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IEEE Spectrum: “Quantum-Safe” Crypto Hacked by 10-Year-Old PC
by jim bell 21 Aug '22

21 Aug '22

IEEE Spectrum: “Quantum-Safe” Crypto Hacked by 10-Year-Old PC. https://spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-safe-encryption-hacked Future quantum computers may rapidly break modern cryptography. Now researchers find that a promising algorithm designed to protect computers from these advanced attacks could get broken in just 4 minutes. And the catch is that 4-minute time stamp was not achieved by a cutting-edge machine but by a regular 10-year-old desktop computer. This latest, surprising defeat highlights the many hurdles postquantum cryptography will need to clear before adoption, researchers say. In theory, quantum computers can quickly solve problems it might take classical computers untold eons to solve. For example, much of modern cryptography relies on the extreme difficulty that classical computers face when it comes to mathematical problems such as factoring huge numbers. However, quantum computers can in principle run algorithms that can rapidly crack such encryption. To stay ahead of this quantum threat, cryptographers around the world have spent the past two decades designing postquantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms. These are based on new mathematical problems that both quantum and classical computers find difficult to solve. “What is most surprising is that the attack seemingly came out of nowhere.” —Jonathan Katz, University of Maryland at College Park For years, researchers at organizations such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have been investigating which PQC algorithms should become the new standards the world should adopt. NIST announced it was seeking candidate PQC algorithms in 2016, and received 82 submissions in 2017. In July, after three rounds of review, NIST announced four algorithms that would become standards, and four more would enter another round of review as possible additional contenders.

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Cryptocurrency: JPMorgan's Dimon Convicted of BTC Manipulation, Again
by grarpamp 20 Aug '22

20 Aug '22

Anybody who knows anything knows that JPMorgan, Blackrock, GoldmanSachs, WellsFargo, etc have been cloning and maladvising clients, manipulating the Crypto Markets and other markets since inception, and are generally nothing but frauds, and since Genesis known as unnecessary leeches being burnt off by the crypto revolution. Ignore what they say, adopt and use crypto, route around them, make them starve and die, along with their crony corrupt GovPols. Public market elements where need be, privacy otherwise... sound money and finance wins. JPMorgan Gold Trading Boss & Former LBMA Board Member Found Guilty By US Jury https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/ronan-manly/jp-morgan-gold-trading-boss-f… https://twitter.com/BullionStar/status/1549526295536668673 https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16202859/united-states-v-smith/ https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/jpmorgan-chase-co-agrees-pay-920-million-con… https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-jp-morgan-traders-convicted-fraud-att… https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/ronan-manly/lbma-board-member-jp-morgan-m… https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/ronan-manly/lbma-removes-jp-morgans-micha… https://cdn.lbma.org.uk/downloads/LBMA-Board-Mins-20190712-for-Web.pdf https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/current-and-former-precious-metals-traders-c… https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-923-18-usc-371… https://news.bloomberglaw.com/securities-law/ex-jpmorgan-metals-trader-seek… https://www.justice.gov/criminal-fraud/commodities-fraud https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-941-18-usc-134… https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ilnd.368079/gov.uscour… https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-metals-jpmorgan-idTRNIKBN2PG1XY https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/current-and-former-precious-metals-traders-c… https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-precious-metals-trader-pleads-guilty-… https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/precious-metals-trader-pleads-guilty-conspir… https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-precious-metals-trader-pleads-guilty-… https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-14/jpmorgan-gold-trader-tur… https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-18/spoofing-gold-common-pra… https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-19/jpmorgan-trader-spoofed-… https://cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/6709-13 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cftc-silver-idUSBRE98O0SR20130925 https://cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/6735-13 https://www.sifma.org/people/david-meister https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-28/inside-the-jpm-precious-… https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/ex-jpmorgan-metals-chief-missed-me… https://chambers.com/lawyer/david-meister-global-2:493417 https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/ronan-manly/despite-manipulating-precious… https://www.lbma.org.uk/market-standards/global-precious-metals-code https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-nowak-327137a2/ https://www.ilnd.uscourts.gov/judge-info.aspx?oN+v6cRiHMc= In a major embarrassment for banking giant JP Morgan and the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA), a federal jury in a US criminal trial has convicted Michael Nowak, global head of JP Morgan’s precious metals trading and former LBMA board member, on 13 counts of attempted price manipulation, commodities fraud, wire fraud, and spoofing prices in the gold, silver, platinum and palladium futures markets. The same criminal trial jury, in a trial which was presided over by federal judge Edmond E. Chang of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, also convicted Nowak’s colleague and JP Morgan precious metals trader, Gregg Smith, on 11 counts of attempted price manipulation, commodities fraud, wire fraud, and spoofing. In a US federal trial, the jury the verdict has to be unanimous. The charges against the JP Morgan global precious metals trading desk traders were brought by the US Government’s Department of Justice (DoJ) Criminal Division in a trial officially called “United States v. Smith (1:19-cr-00669)”. While the jury’s verdict found the two traders guilty of price manipulation, commodities fraud, wire fraud and spoofing, the jury also found both Nowak and Smith not guilty under one count each of a RICO conspiracy (the Racketeering Act) and a 371 conspiracy (conspiracy to defraud the United States). Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JP Morgan Chase Its important to remember also that this trial of Nowak, Smith and Ruffo is part of the same criminal investigation under which JP Morgan paid a record US$ 920 million using a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with the DoJ in September 2020. Multi Year Market Manipulation The JP Morgan precious metals traders’ trial, which has generated a lot of media interest, began in Chicago on 8 July 2022 and continued until 29 July, after which the jury deliberated until 10 August before coming to a verdict. As explained by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) in a 10 August post-verdict press release titled “Former J.P. Morgan Traders Convicted of Fraud, Attempted Price Manipulation, and Spoofing in a Multi-Year Market Manipulation Scheme”, the crimes of price manipulation and spoofing by JP Morgan’s traders took place: “in a multi-year market manipulation scheme of precious metals futures contracts that spanned over eight years and involved thousands of unlawful trading sequences.” Let’s repeat that. Eight years! Thousands of unlawful trading sequences! And not by some two-bit basement hustlers, but by JP Morgan’s global head of precious metals Nowak and his chief lieutenant Smith. LBMA Board Member - Nowak And Nowak was not just any old former LBMA board member back in the mists of time. Nowak was actually still a board member of the LBMA on the very day (Monday 16 September 2019) when the US Department of Justice indictment against him was unsealed, charging Nowak with federal crimes. See BullionStar article “LBMA Board Member & JP Morgan Managing Director Charged with Rigging Precious Metals” from 17 September 2019. Back in September 2019, the LBMA then inexplicably did nothing for almost a full work week, before being forced, on Friday 20 September 2019, to remove Nowak from the LBMA Board. See BullionStar article “LBMA Removes JP Morgan’s Michael Nowak from the LBMA Board” from 20 September 2019. Nowak, for example, was an attendee at the LBMA Board meeting on 12 July 2019, the last meeting before be was removed from the LBMA Board. See minutes of the LBMA Board meeting on 12 July 2019. Minutes of LBMA Board meeting, 12 July 2019 The 8 years in question over which JP Morgan’s Michael Nowak and Gregg Smith have now been convicted of being engaged in a “widespread spoofing, market manipulation, and fraud scheme” spanned the period between “approximately May 2008 and August 2016”. Specifically, per the DoJ press release: “The defendants engaged in thousands of deceptive trading sequences for gold, silver, platinum, and palladium futures contracts traded through the New York Mercantile Exchange Inc. (NYMEX) and Commodity Exchange Inc. (COMEX), which are commodities exchanges operated by CME Group Inc. These deceptive orders were intended to inject false and misleading information about the genuine supply and demand for precious metals futures contracts into the markets.” A third member of the same JP Morgan team, precious metals desk salesman, Jeffrey Ruffo, who was also on trial in Chicago along with Nowak and Smith, was acquitted by the federal jury. Ruffo had only been charged with a RICO conspiracy and a 371 conspiracy and was found by the jury to be not guilty on both of those charges. David Meister, formerly of the CFTC “Watchdog" and now the defense attorney for JP Morgan’s Michael Nowak Gang of 4 The reason the RICO and 371 conspiracies were part of this trial is that in addition to the charges against the JP Morgan precious metals traders of attempted price manipulation, commodities fraud, wire fraud and spoofing, the US Department of Justice’s indictment against Nowak, Smith, Ruffo (and a 4th JP Morgan trader Christopher Jordan) included conspiracy under the RICO Act and engaging in a conspiracy. The RICO Act refers to the US Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO Act). Specifically, the latest (pre-trial) indictment filed by the DoJ on 16 November 2021 included charging each of Nowak, Smith, Ruffo and Jordan with one count of RICO conspiracy and one count of “371 conspiracy”. A 371 conspiracy refers to the US general conspiracy statute (18 U.S.C. § 371) where “two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose. In short, the 371 conspiracy statute “prohibits conspiracies to defraud the United States”. The reason Christopher Jordan was not on trial with Nowak, Smith and Ruffo during July 2022 was that back in 2020, Jordan’s lawyers successfully convinced a Chicago federal judge that Jordan should have a separate trial “citing concerns about unfair treatment if tried alongside the others”. Talk about fear of ‘guilty by association”. Christopher Jordan is therefore now awaiting his own trial in the future, at a date yet to be scheduled. JP Morgan’s Michael Nowak (centre) arriving for court in Chicago during July 2022 The Charges At the same time though, Christopher Jordan’s name continued to be listed in all the DoJ indictments submitted to the court, including the latest one dated 16 November 2021, which reads as follows: SECOND SUPERSEDING INDICTMENT as to 1 Gregg Smith count(s) 1ss, 2ss, 3ss, 5ss-12ss, 24ss, 26ss, 2 Michael Nowak count(s) 1ss, 2ss, 4ss, 13ss-22ss, 25ss, 27ss, 3 Jeffrey Ruffo count(s) 1s, 2s, 4 Christopher Jordan count(s) 1ss, 2ss, 23ss (lma, ) (Entered: 11/17/2021) See document number 448 here, on the Court Listener website. The various numbers relating to the counts are explained as follows: 1ss = Count 1 = RICO conspiracy 2 ss = Count 2 = 371 Conspiracy 3ss & 4 ss = Counts 3 (Smith) and Count 4 (Nowak) = Attempted price manipulation 5ss-12ss & 13ss-22ss = Counts 5-12 (Smith) and Counts 13-22 (Nowak) = Wire fraud 24ss & 25ss = Counts 3 (Smith) and Count 4 (Nowak) = Commodities fraud 26ss & 27ss = Count 26 (Smith) and Count 27 (Nowak) = Spoofing For a definition of Commodities Fraud, see the DOJ page here. For a definition of Wire Fraud, see the DoJ page here. Wire Fraud is any fraud (intentional deception for monetary or personal gain) committed via an electronic from of communication, and that is ‘interstate’ in nature, and is usually investigated by the FBI. The Verdict: Nowak guilty of 13 counts, Smith guilty of 11 Fast forward to 10 August and the federal jury in the “United States v. Smith (1:19-cr-00669)” trial handed down its verdict, a verdict which found: Nowak guilty of attempted price manipulation, commodities fraud, wire fraud and spoofing (i.e. guilty of 4 different offences under 13 counts) Smith guilty of attempted price manipulation, commodities fraud, wire fraud and spoofing (i.e. guilty of 4 different offences under 11 counts) And which acquitted Ruffo The full jury verdict (as per the Docket Entry of the Court Clerk) source reads as follows: This docket entry was made by the Clerk on Wednesday, August 10, 2022: MINUTE entry before the Honorable Edmond E. Chang: Jury deliberations held. Jury reaches a verdict on the three trial Defendants and on all the charges. [A.] Defendant Smith found not guilty on Counts 1 (RICO conspiracy) and 2 (371 conspiracy); guilty on Count 3 (attempted price manipulation); guilty on Counts 5 through 12 (wire fraud); guilty on Count 24 (commodities fraud); and guilty on Count 26 (spoofing). [B.] Defendant Nowak found not guilty on Counts 1 (RICO conspiracy) and 2 (371 conspiracy); guilty on Count 4 (attempted price manipulation); guilty on Counts 13 through 22 (wire fraud); guilty on Count 25 (commodities fraud); and guilty on Count 27 (spoofing). [C.] Defendant Ruffo found not guilty on Counts 1 (RICO conspiracy) and 2 (371 conspiracy). Defendant Ruffo is discharged and dismissed from this case and release conditions are vacated. Pretrial Services shall return Defendant Ruffo’s passport. [D.] Rule 29 and 33 motions are due on 09/21/2022. The government’s combined response is due on 10/26/2022. The defense replies are due on 11/16/2022. [E.] The courtroom deputy will contact the lawyers about sentencing dates in 2023. The case is referred to the Probation Office for PSR preparation. Emailed notice (eec) Source Eagle eyed readers may have spotted that count 23 of the DoJ indictment was not addressed by the jury in the Nowak-Smith-Ruffo trial. This is because that charge relates to Christopher Jordan, and will be addressed in Jordan’s separate trial. Points D and E on the jury verdict Docket Entry are interesting. Point D says that “Rule 29 and 33 motions are due on 09/21/2022”. Rule 29 in US federal courts refers to a “motion for judgement of acquittal”. Rule 33 refers to the ability of defendants asking for a new trial. So given these possibilities, and the subsequent responses and replies, these legal routes, if used, could drag on until mid-November. As per point [E], a sentencing date will be scheduled for 2023. The ‘PSR’ in point [E] is an abbreviation for a “Pre-Sentence Report”. A “Pre-Sentence Report” is a report prepared by a probation officer upon conviction of a defendant which helps the judge determine what sentence to impose. Nowak’s attorney, David Meister (who unbelievably at one time was Head of Enforcement at the CFTC until 2013), stated on 10 August that Nowak will now fight the trial jury verdict: “‘While we are gratified that the jury acquitted Mr. Nowak of racketeering and conspiracy, we are extremely disappointed by the jury’s verdict on the whole, and will continue to seek to vindicate his rights in court,’ Nowak’s attorney David Meister said.“ A Conspiracy – So said Edmonds and Trunz It’s important to remember that while this trial was brought by the US Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, it arose out of a joint investigation by the DoJ, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) into JP Morgan and market manipulation, and the investigation also had the help of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and CFTC. As per the DoJ’s 10 August press release: “The FBI’s New York Field Office investigated the case. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Enforcement provided assistance in this matter.” It’s also important to remember that during the trail of JP Morgan’s Nowak, Smith and Ruffo, the prosecution’s witnesses included former colleagues of the JP Morgan precious metals traders, namely John Edmonds, Christian Trunz, and Corey Flaum, all three of whom testified during the trial. John Edmonds and Christian Trunz formerly worked as precious metals traders on the JP Morgan global precious metals desk, and Corey Flaum was a colleague of Gregg Smith when they both worked as precious metals traders at Bear Stearns. The reason that Edmonds, Trunz, and Flaum were testifying in the Nowak-Smith-Ruffo trial on behalf of the US Government is that each of Edmonds, Trunz, and Flaum had already pleaded guilty in their own trials, and then agreed to testify on behalf of the prosecution in the Nowak-Smith-Ruffo trial that there was a conspiracy between the traders, and that the price manipulations and spoofing occurred in the context of the desk traders conspiring. The Usual Suspects - Court cases taken by the US DoJ against precious metals traders and their employers, the LBMA bullion banks. JP Morgan leads the rankings. Source. The very heart of the Department of Justice charges is that there was a crime ring, and a conspiracy within the JP Morgan global precious metals desk (a global desk which is located in New York, London and Singapore). For example, the DoJ titled it’s 16 September 2019 press release when charging Nowak, Smith and Ruffo as “a Multi-Year Market Manipulation Racketeering Conspiracy”, saying that “the defendants and their co-conspirators were members of [JP Morgan’s] global precious metals trading desk in New York, London and Singapore”, and: “As it relates to the RICO conspiracy, the defendants and their co-conspirators were allegedly members of an enterprise—namely, the precious metals desk at [JP Morgan] – and conducted the affairs of the desk through a pattern of racketeering activity, specifically, wire fraud affecting a financial institution and bank fraud.” Edmonds and Trunz even pleaded guilty to there being a conspiracy on the JP Morgan precious metals desk. Specifically, John Edmonds pleaded guilty (on 9 October 2018) in the District of Connecticut to: “commodities fraud and a spoofing conspiracy in connection with his participation in fraudulent and deceptive trading activity in the precious metals futures contracts markets”, And Edmonds admitted that: “from approximately 2009 through 2015, he conspired with other precious metals traders at the Bank to manipulate the markets for gold, silver, platinum and palladium futures contracts traded on the COMEX and NYMEX.” Edmonds even “admitted that he learned this deceptive trading strategy from more senior traders at the Bank [JP Morgan]”. On 20 August 2019, Christian Trunz, “a former precious metals trader at the London, Singapore and New York offices of JP Morgan” (yes Trunz was based in all 3 locations at various times) pleaded guilty in the Eastern District of New York “to one count of conspiracy to engage in spoofing and one count of spoofing in connection with his precious metals futures contracts trading at JPMorgan” and admitted that: “between approximately July 2007 and August 2016, [he] placed thousands of orders that he did not intend to execute for gold, silver, platinum and palladium futures contracts traded on the NYMEX and COMEX)." Trunz even said that he “learned to spoof from more senior traders, and spoofed with the knowledge and consent of his supervisors.” Corey Flaum (who worked with Gregg Smith at Bear Sterns before Smith moved to JP Morgan) also pleaded guilty (on 25 July 2019) to attempted commodities price manipulation and admitted that: “between approximately June 2007 and July 2016, [he] placed thousands of orders to manipulate the prices of gold, silver, platinum and palladium futures contracts traded on COMEX and NYMEX.” See here for Edmonds testimony, here for Flaum’s testimony, and here for Trunz’s testimony. What is a Typical “Racketeering" Enterprise? As to why the federal jury didn’t find Nowak and Smith (and Ruffo) guilty on the counts of the RICO conspiracy and the 371 conspiracy, that is something that only the jury knows. Maybe the jury could not grasp what exactly a racketeering enterprise is defined as, and the Court didn’t explain it. This may sound like a joke, but on 27 July 2022, just before the jury began its deliberations, the Court told the jury as follows: “On closing arguments, the Court sets the following directives based on certain incidents at trial so far. … (3.) No evidence has been introduced on what a typical “racketeering" enterprise is like (nor would it likely have been allowed), so there can be no argument on that topic.” See Note 651 about the trial on the Court Listener website here. Why exactly evidence on what a typical racketeering enterprise looks like “would likely not have been allowed” will have to be left to US federal court experts to interpret. Maybe the defense attorneys were terrified that the prosecution would show the jury some photos of “The Godfather” and JP Morgan’s precious metals desk side by side, asking them to “spot the difference”. Modern day trading desks use a myriad of chat apps and messaging apps integrated into their trading workflow. Were the chat app messages of the defendants and their trading colleagues at JP Morgan not submitted as evidence and shown to the jury? And likewise, were the chat app messages of the JP Morgan defendants and their trading colleagues that they sent and received from traders at other bullion banks not submitted as evidence and shown to the jury? In any case, the DoJ’s prosecution lawyers and their witnesses (Edmonds, Trunz and Flaum) did inform the jury as to what they think a racketeering enterprise looks like – See Exhibit 1 below. Exhibit 1 - JP Morgan Trading desk CFTC Silver Investigation – Gensler – Meister – Nowak Before wrapping up, an interesting Note appeared during the Nowak -Smith trial which the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) would probably prefer to forget, so I will highlight it here. Its about silver price manipulation. First off, here’s some background about how, in 2013, the CFTC closed down a five year investigation into silver price manipulation, claiming they had found no evidence of any wrongdoing. As explained in a BullionStar article from 4 March 2021: “For anyone familiar with the CFTC and the silver market will immediately have raised their eyebrows that the CFTC “remains vigilant in surveilling these markets for fraud and manipulation.” As a reminder, this is the same CFTC that on 25 September 2013 after a 5-year investigation into whether the COMEX silver futures market was manipulated by JP Morgan and other banks, closed down the investigation, saying that its Division of Enforcement and Division of Market Oversight had found no evidence of wrongdoing, despite spending 7,000 staff hours on said investigation since 2008. The CFTC head of enforcement at that time was David Meister, who then left the CFTC only one week after closing down the silver investigation, in a job well done. Chairman of the CFTC at that time was Gary Gensler [who is now head of the SEC]. Meister, a lawyer by profession, returned to Wall Street and his former law firm Skadden, and is now head of Skadden’s government enforcement and white collar crime group in New York.” Not only that, but the CFTC’s silver market investigation that ran from 2008 -2013 was only one of three investigations into the silver market manipulation that the CFTC held starting in 2004. From Bloomberg: “And three times, starting in 2004, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission also looked into allegations of market manipulation of the silver market by JPMorgan.” The CFTC closed the third of those three inquiries in 2013 without taking action.” David Meister - The Gensler Whisperer Not only that, but would you believe that the same David Meister (who left the CFTC in 2013 after closing down the CFTC investigation into silver market manipulation) was Michael Nowak’s defense attorney in the Nowak July 2022 federal trial and is the attorney for Nowak’s probable appeal. You probably wouldn’t believe it, except for the fact that it’s true. This is the same David Meister who Chambers, the global authority on lawyer bios and profiles, calls “the Gensler Whisperer”. Yes, you read that correctly. Chambers says: “David is killing it. People call him the ‘Gensler Whisperer’.” Of David Meister, ex CFTC head of enforcement, & current defence counsel for Michael Nowak in the JP Morgan precious metals trader trial, Chambers says: "David is killing it. People call him the 'Gensler Whisperer'." Yes, this is about Gary Gensler 🐎 https://t.co/x4wGOdF8n2 — BullionStar (@BullionStar) July 19, 2022 You’ve probably heard of dog whisperers, and even horse whisperers. But a Gensler Whisperer? Does this mean that David Meister was able to whisper to Gensler to back off CFTC investigations, and could it have anything to do with calling off the CFTC’s silver market manipulation investigation back in 2013? Now back to the Note. On 8 July 2022, on the subject of silver-investigation limiting instructions, a note was added as part of the Opening statements which said: “Government Exhibits 369 and 370 relate to a separate civil investigation by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) into complaints about silver prices. The CFTC’s separate investigation was not part of the Department of Justice’s investigation that led to the prosecution in this case, and the complaints about silver prices are not at issue in this case. During its investigation, the CFTC interviewed a number of individuals, including Mr. Nowak. Government Exhibits 369 and 370 are excerpts of Mr. Nowak’s interview by the CFTC in 2010. For your background information, the CFTC closed the inquiry without bringing claims against any company or person.” See Note 604 from Court Listener coverage of the trail, link here. So now, given that the CFTC interviewed Michael Nowak in 2010 as part of its investigation into silver price manipulation, but then closed down that investigation in 2013 after finding nothing, and given that now that the federal jury has found Nowak guilty of attempted price manipulation, commodities fraud, wire fraud and spoofing, does this mean the CFTC will want to interview Michael Nowak again? Inquiring minds would like to know. Gary Gensler – Former head of US CFTC. Now head of US SEC Conclusion Upon hearing of the jury’s verdict against JP Morgan’s Nowak and Smith on 10 August, the Department of Justice’s Assistant Attorney General (AG) Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. commented that: “Today’s jury verdict demonstrates that those who seek to manipulate our public financial markets will be held accountable and brought to justice.” The DoJ’s assistant AG also said that: “with this verdict, the Department has secured convictions of ten former traders at Wall Street financial institutions, including JPMorgan, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, The Bank of Nova Scotia, and Morgan Stanley.” However, why did the Department of Justice’s period of investigation only cover the 8 years from 2008 up to August 2016 but not since then? What about from August 2016 up August 2022? Another full 6 years has elapsed since then. Did JP Morgan and the other convicted LBMA bullion banks’ trading desks suddenly stop spoofing manipulating precious metals prices in August 2016? Are we to believe that no commodities fraud, price manipulation, spoofin or fraud has occurred on the COMEX since August 2016? What does the LBMA, the self-styled world’s authority on precious metals, have to say now that one of it’s board members, Nowak (indicted in September 2019 while he was on the LBMA Board), has now been found guilty by a US Federal trial jury on 13 counts of attempted price manipulation, commodities fraud, wire fraud and spoofing prices in the gold, silver, platinum and palladium futures markets? JP Morgan is still at the core of the LBMA. Specifically, JP Morgan is a LBMA market making member, a LBMA London vault operator, a LBMA clearing member (via LPMCL), a direct participant in the LBMA Gold Price and LBMA Silver Price daily auctions, and a representative on various LBMA committees. JP Morgan is also a market making member of the LBMA’s sister organisation, the London Platinum and Palladium Market (LPPM). Likewise, given that the JP Morgan global precious metals trading desk spans the 3 locations of New York, London and Singapore, how will the Singapore Bullion Market Association (SBMA) and the US COMEX react to this jury verdict? And will other regulators such as the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Singapore’s Monetary Authority (MAS) now launch investigations against JP Morgan’s precious metals desk? For full details of how entrenched JP Morgan is in the LBMA, and LPPM and the SBMA and COMEX, see the recent BullionStar article “Despite manipulating precious metals prices, JP Morgan is still at the heart of the LBMA, SBMA and COMEX”. Finally, will the LBMA now make a statement distancing itself from JP Morgan, and move to expel JP Morgan from its membership, or will the LBMA carry on, pretending that the convictions of four JP Morgan precious metals traders (Nowak, Smith, Edmonds and Trunz) by the US DoJ is of no concern to the integrity of the commodities markets and has no bearing on its own code of conduct and best practices, the LBMA Global Precious Metals Code, a code which JP Morgan has signed. Source Maybe the LBMA could even invite Nowak back on to the LBMA Board when the dust settles, if he appeals the jury verdict, or even from behind bars. Because according to Michael Nowak’s LinkedIn profile, Nowak is still a JP Morgan employee, not former, but very much still ‘Managing Director at J.P. Morgan’ an also still J.P. Morgan’s ‘Global Head of Base and Precious Metals Trading’ from July 1996 to ‘Present’. This article was originally published on the BullionStar.com website under the same title "JP Morgan gold trading boss & former LBMA Board member found guilty by US jury".

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The past is not dead - its not even past
by professor rat 20 Aug '22

20 Aug '22

Acting for my own enlightened self-interest means I don’t have to preach about ethics, systemic sexism / racism or financial inequalities. Just figure how to make them pay. Once you can fake sincerity you’ve got it made. The past is not dead - its not even past Treating open-source cryptographic software as a sanctioned entity is a great step backwards that reminds me of the 1990s when sharing cryptography software could have you labelled as an international arms trafficker. True Names cryptoanarchy means ( among other things ) Private by default Fully distributed decentralization User translucence; they can selectively prove parts of their LOIC. E.g not on a DPRK sanctions list Open and programmable via FOSS APster dispute resolved ( Bounty Law ) We’ve been through this already with the World Wide Web. They don’t arrest internet service providers for the data in their cables. They don’t arrest DNS providers for signing illegal traffic For next-level web to even live it must be platform-agnostic & cryptoanarchist. The crypto-wars past is a past we've been passed out of.

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Assange's Case
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20 Aug '22

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Anarchyplanet's free, federated social networking server built on open protocols
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20 Aug '22

>From comment at https://anarchistnews.org/content/fedizine Reposts etc My https://sysad.org/stream microblog has the power of a thousand stampeding mastodons

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The digital divide died, Jimbo. Like your brain.
by professor rat 20 Aug '22

20 Aug '22

The digital divide made famous by rotten creeps like Al Bore and the Grauniad was a tedious moralizing campaign pointing out computers were expensive and elitist which was valid for a few years in the late 90's as the internet grew in importance. The bursting of the first net bubble put paid to most of it, but it regrouped and soldiered on for a couple more years before stupid Americans were finally outnumbered by Normies around 2005. The quantum divide crusade, just getting up a head of steam through idiots like Gym Dumbell, posits a similar scenario. But it has even more problems than the first because now we all know the net is important the pressure to update is relentless. Fall behind and you digitally die. This will apply to quantum key exchange which is very expensive hence elitist at the moment. So that whole stage will thus be condensed and telescoped before any big fat buffoon can draw his big fat blowholes breath. QKE won't be cracked by any decade old computer or even the latest quantum super-computers. And QKE will become ubiquitous so fast its price will fall dramatically. The result is inevitable cryptoanarchy much faster than any James-Bond-Villain scenario fantasized by a well-known moron chemist from MIT. Enough with the FUD dumb-dumb. You suck - go die.

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IEEE Spectrum: “Quantum-Safe” Crypto Hacked by 10-Year-Old PC
by professor rat 20 Aug '22

20 Aug '22

So Dumb Bell is going to play AL GORE of the great quantum-computing divide. A dreadful bore. But if it keeps the moron away from Anarchopulco it may be worth it. Maybe.

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" . . . a world where cypherpunk/private usage is a real criminal risk . . ."
by professor rat 20 Aug '22

20 Aug '22

You say " We’ll be in a world where cypherpunk/private usage is a real criminal risk for average users ", like that’s a BAD thing. sergarellano ·Aug 10 Replying to @RyanSAdams 90% of exchanges and shitcoins will be wipped out. The same happened with the DOT com bubble, it’s normal when a new industry is born. There were 200 brands of cars at the beginning Repsnots et

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Pete Thiel cancelled - call for all rightwing Kochsuckers to self-immolate
by professor rat 20 Aug '22

20 Aug '22

First they came for the far-right fascist billionaires yachts and I did nothing https://nypost.com/2022/08/19/peter-thiels-plans-for-dream-home-in-new-zeal… Burn faggot, burn

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Biden is hiring 87,000 new IRS agents? LETS GO BRANDON!
by professor rat 20 Aug '22

20 Aug '22

Biden is hiring 87,000 new IRS agents? LETS GO BRANDON! https://stiffs.com/celebrity/joebiden If history has taught us anything its that an anarchist can kill a US president

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Secure Phones: Unplugged LibertOS "UP Phone" Planned By Blackwater's Prince
by professor rat 20 Aug '22

20 Aug '22

Cypherpunks spread insecurity among the political right or we do nothing. Time goes by so slowly for those who wait No time to hesitate Every little thing that you say or do I'm fed up I'm tired of waiting on you Ring, ring, ring goes the telephone The lights are on but there's no one home Tick tick tock, it's a quarter to two And I'm done I'm hanging up on you

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" . . . we'll need some cypherpunk spirit to defend . . . "
by professor rat 20 Aug '22

20 Aug '22

They're called ' balls ' you fucking eunuch https://twitter.com/lex_node/status/1560602442512752641 When cypherpunks are called terrorists we will be doing our job

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Secure Phones: Unplugged LibertOS "UP Phone" Planned By Blackwater's Prince
by grarpamp 19 Aug '22

19 Aug '22

When all that's needed for a first start at a move to better security for users is any phone running a stock BSD/Linux kernel with a physically separate baseband hardware (Librem and Pinephone have released first generation PoC phones that attempt this)... The questionable "Secure Phone" industry plans to release yet another questionable phone, formerly called the "RedPill Phone", and the second phone to have initially aligned itself among the politicial right... https://www.unplugged.com/upphone https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/19/1058243/erik-prince-wants-to-se… BlackPhone, Anom, McAfee phone, IntactPhone, and too many more to count... all failed or spies. Plenty of crypto crowdfunding exists to do a more secure phone. The only question is when will you do it.

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How to kill any FBI agent in your organization
by professor rat 19 Aug '22

19 Aug '22

Silvio Dante embodies the resolute course of action to take whenever you confront one of these entryist agents https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm03vt8tkdc As indeed does Castor Troy - " One of yours, Sean? "

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How to kill any FBI agent on your property
by professor rat 19 Aug '22

19 Aug '22

Legal precedence here may be instructive . . . Noye was acquitted in 1985 for the murder of a police officer on the grounds of his home <<< https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Noye Sic semper minimus caesar

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The new US Civil War has been postponed
by professor rat 19 Aug '22

19 Aug '22

The new US Civil War has been postponed till we get rid of all Monarchist, Theocrats, Chicoms and Chekists. You know - that scum that thinks ITS winning! But then getting rid of the aforementioned scumbag representatives in the US will be indistinguishable from a new US Civil War. So carry on.

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Burning down the house to get rid of its rats
by professor rat 19 Aug '22

19 Aug '22

If anyone loyal to Trump knew who the “rat” was, they’d likely have publicly outed that person by now https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/trump-world-collapses-in-on-itself/46… Reposts not etc

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CIA appears safe from any Bruce-Fenton-style republican
by professor rat 19 Aug '22

19 Aug '22

Bruce prioritizes destroying the EPA above the CIA So - Never Fear, Mike - the CIA ( and FBI, DHS, DoD, etc ) are all safe from any Bruce Fenton style republican https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1560338639846084608/photo/1 Reposts etc

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From each according to their gullibility
by professor rat 19 Aug '22

19 Aug '22

To each according to their greed MAGATphones appear https://twitter.com/HowellONeill/status/1560584529378791425 Reposts etc

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Adam Back is a Statist - give the traitor his reward
by professor rat 19 Aug '22

19 Aug '22

Evidence is mounting Adam Back hates anarchism and loves nationalist governments. 1) Back has consistently supported Assmange after his Senate debacle in 2013. 2) Back appeared on the podcast of a notorious statist ( What Bitcoin did next ) 3) Back now supports Fenton in the US Once is accident - twice is coincidence - THREE TIMES IS ENEMY ACTION!

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Adman Backstabbers latest scam
by professor rat 19 Aug '22

19 Aug '22

Adam Back Retweeted Bruce Fenton for US Senate @brucefenton · 21h I’ve got to be the only US Senate candidate in history to say “I’m a cypherpunk.” NH GOP Senate Primary Debate <<< Why does Backstabber hate our anarchist freedoms? At least Faketoshi never ran for nationalist office.

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Human remains for resale on Facebook
by professor rat 19 Aug '22

19 Aug '22

mattblaze ·5h Among the lesser revelations in today’s unsealed documents in the Mar-a-Lago case: The FBI used Whatsapp with the judge to swear out the warrant application. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854/gov.uscour… https://stiffs.com/celebrity/markzuckerberg

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