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1984 SpyVeillance: Iran Tows US Sea Drone, Gets Checked
by grarpamp 31 Aug '22

31 Aug '22

It's 1984 when... you're no longer free to even roam the seas without minders... US Navy Helicopter Thwarts Iranian Attempt To Capture High Tech Sea Drone https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-navy-says-iran-seized-later-let-go-… https://www.naval-technology.com/projects/saildrone-explorer-unmanned-surfa… The US Navy has announced a high seas incident wherein it foiled an attempt by Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC Navy) to capture an unmanned surface vessel as it traversed an area of the Persian Gulf. The US military sea drone was being operated by America's 5th fleet, and upon the intervention of US Navy assets - including a helicopter which deployed in response - the Iranians let the drone go. #BREAKING: U.S. Navy releases video showing support ship Shahid Baziar, from #Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy unlawfully towing a Saildrone Explorer unmanned surface vessel in international waters of the Arabian Gulf, Aug. 30. pic.twitter.com/5Dwe0673RE — Jason Brodsky (@JasonMBrodsky) August 30, 2022 Cmdr. Timothy Hawkins, a 5th Fleet spokesman, in a statement identified that the drone in question is a Saildrone Explorer, which is a high tech, relatively large drone used for gathering an array of data, including mapping the ocean's floor. According to his statement released in an AP/Washington Post report: Hawkins said the Guard vessel was towing the drone behind it as a U.S. Navy ship and helicopter approached it. Hawkins told The Associated Press the Navy called repeatedly to the Iranians, who ultimately let the drone go. Iran did not immediately acknowledge the incident. However, it comes amid heightened tensions between Washington and Iran over Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers. The Saildrone Explorer USV (unmanned surface vehicle) is a newly developed and deployed US-manufactured high tech data collection system which uses AI to autonomously gather oceanic and other intelligence. Saildrone USV, which uses solar power to operate some of its components. Image: US Navy According to an industry website, "The Royal Jordanian Navy and the US Navy’s 5th Fleet established an unmanned task force for the integration of unmanned systems and artificial intelligence into its operations, in September 2021." "The Jordanian naval base in Aqaba has been serving as a joint hub for operations of Saildrone USV in the Red Sea since December 2021," the report details. Saildrone USV. Image: US Navy The drone's size is significant, with a hull length of 23ft (7m), a wing height of 15ft (5m), and a draft of 6ft (2m), according to specs listed by Naval Technology. "The Saildrone USV autonomously navigates through large areas of the oceans based on waypoint-to-waypoint navigation through wind and currents," the description indicates. "It is constantly monitored by a pilot who can command and control the USV using satellite communications."

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1984: Fail - Great Reset Schwab, WEF, Wokeism, Build Back Better, Davos, NWO, Socialism, Democracy, Etc
by grarpamp 31 Aug '22

31 Aug '22

Humans working as servants to the state under centrally controlled economies have no incentive to innovate... therein, descent into ruin. Wake the fuck up. The 'Great Reset': A Blueprint For Destroying Freedom, Innovation, & Prosperity https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18825/great-reset-wef https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/tyrant-trudeau-moves-forward-plan-… https://thenewamerican.com/youll-own-nothing-un-backed-great-reset-is-feuda… https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/504499-introducing-the-great… https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/going-ireland-joins-canada-netherl… https://www.theepochtimes.com/world-economic-forum-publishes-article-callin… https://summit.news/2022/08/12/world-economic-forum-calls-for-merging-of-hu… https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/08/01/watch-british-police-arrest-ma… https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/08/16/if-its-regulated-it-aint-free-the-… https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/wefs-global-intelligence-collecting-… https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/08/21/great-reset-french-govt-to-recr… https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/08/03/watch-police-beat-down-dutch-fa… https://canadafreepress.com/article/dutch-protests-are-growing-theyre-certa… https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/08/05/michael-yon-globalists-drivin… https://www.theepochtimes.com/hungarian-prime-minister-warns-the-west-again… https://summit.news/2022/08/01/senior-economist-fact-checked-by-facebook-fo… https://summit.news/2022/08/08/head-of-the-lancets-covid-19-investigation-i… https://canadafreepress.com/article/banning-modern-agriculture-and-high-cro… https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/global-warming-myth-1995-new-york-… https://canadafreepress.com/article/what-part-of-agenda-21-didnt-you-get https://thefederalist.com/2022/04/29/big-tech-censors-are-pivoting-from-cov… https://www.foxnews.com/world/covid-canadian-pastor-criminally-charged-prot… https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trudeau-announces-unprecedented-act… Notice that no nation has managed merely to print money and tax its citizens on the path to prosperity. Real wealth cannot simply be conjured from thin air. There must be recognized value in what a nation and its citizens possess. More than any other source for national wealth, however, one towers above the rest: innovation. The ability of the human mind to create something new and valuable provides society with endless wealth creation.... Innovation is the magic sauce for generating wealth. Humans struggling merely to survive in the world do not waste time, labor, or resources on projects that offer no prospect for future reward. Humans working as servants to the state under centrally controlled economies have no incentive to innovate. Only when private ownership and personal liberty combine can human innovation flourish. Freedom is the secret ingredient to innovation's magic sauce for increasing wealth. A country whose institutions do not respect property rights or whose customs do not value freedom will remain a barren desert for human innovation. In this way, nations have a great incentive to liberalize over time. Should they not, they quickly become financially and militarily vulnerable to more innovative and wealthier nations. Observing this simple truth, classical liberals have always understood free markets as the gateway to human emancipation. Economic self-interest, in other words, ultimately leads to expansive human rights and liberties across the planet. Nothing about Western politicians' embrace of the World Economic Forum's "Great Reset" or "Build Back Better" paradigms protects property rights or liberty in the slightest. The WEF's agenda promotes radically anti-liberal programs... [that] will smother human innovation by first depriving Westerners of their freedoms. Wealthy free nations are a threat to the WEF's New World Order. If censorship must be embraced to control the "narrative," then so be it. If citizens must be denied freedom of movement under the guise of a "health emergency," no big deal. If private bank accounts must be seized to intimidate protesters, then such threats are the price for ensuring compliance. In this way, the WEF's plans for a controlled economy intentionally reverse centuries of liberal progress. Political leaders today are dragging the West into the past. First, individual liberties will continue disappearing. Then, the greatest economic engine of all, innovation, will dry up. Finally, wealth will return solely to the hands of a small "ruling class" minority. This is the future the World Economic Forum hails as "progress." It is not. It is a recipe for human bondage. How do nations become wealthy? Many are blessed with abundant natural resources. Others conquer foreign lands. Some specialize in unique trade skills and crafts. Timber, mining, fishing, sugar, rum, narcotics, cotton, silk, agriculture, conquest, human slavery, manufacturing, oil, industry, banking, and so on — depending on the century and the region, nations have attained tremendous wealth in myriad ways. Notice that no nation has managed merely to print money and tax its citizens on the path to prosperity. Real wealth cannot simply be conjured from thin air. There must be recognized value in what a nation and its citizens possess. More than any other source for national wealth, however, one towers above the rest: innovation. The ability of the human mind to create something new and valuable provides society with endless wealth creation. Unlike central bank quantitative easing and other monetary tools (or tricks?), the brain really is a money-printing machine. Whether an innovator alters existing farming, mining, or manufacturing techniques to make production cheaper and more efficient, or an inventor designs something entirely unique, value that did not exist yesterday materializes the next. Innovation is the magic sauce for generating wealth. If innovation produces wealth, why aren't all nations wealthy? Because too many nations fail to value innovators or encourage innovation. Without fundamental property rights, strong social institutions, and a dependable legal system, potential inventors have few incentives to build anything new. Humans struggling merely to survive in the world do not waste time, labor, or resources on projects that offer no prospect for future reward. Humans working as servants to the state under centrally controlled economies have no incentive to innovate. Only when private ownership and personal liberty combine can human innovation flourish. Freedom is the secret ingredient to innovation's magic sauce for increasing wealth. When economists crunch gross domestic product numbers to see whether a nation's economy is rising or sinking, a measure of innovation becomes quantifiable. Embedded within that number is something that encapsulates human ingenuity, personal freedom, and property ownership. In this way, economic innovation directly reflects the human condition at any point in time. It provides a measurement of a nation's freedom. Now "liberalism" as it is classically understood — as a political philosophy embracing natural rights, limited government, free markets, political and religious freedoms, and freedom of speech, all promoted and protected by an impartial and just rule of law — has always grasped this fundamental truth. Liberty and property rights spawn creativity. Where both are soundly valued, great writers, artists, and inventors produce novelties that would not otherwise exist. It is why medieval Florence birthed at once both modern-day banking and the European Renaissance. The personal freedom to create, build, invest, and own property generates tremendous innovation and national wealth. Conversely, when today's central planners argue for socialized control over markets and the substitution of "collective rights" in place of "individual rights" while calling their agenda "progressive liberalism," they co-opt and subvert liberalism's historic meaning. >From this recognition that a nation's freedom directly affects a nation's wealth arises an even more remarkable truth: any nation that fails to embrace and protect human liberty will be the poorer for it. A country whose institutions do not respect property rights or whose customs do not value freedom will remain a barren desert for human innovation. In this way, nations have a great incentive to liberalize over time. Should they not, they quickly become financially and militarily vulnerable to more innovative and wealthier nations. Observing this simple truth, classical liberals have always understood free markets as the gateway to human emancipation. Economic self-interest, in other words, ultimately leads to expansive human rights and liberties across the planet. Now with all that as a bit of rudimentary background, how is it that today we have entities such as the World Economic Forum (WEF) pushing for a radical "Great Reset" of Western society that promises to handcuff free markets with economic regulation while concentrating power into the hands of a small international coalition of central economic planners — most notably their own? How could promising a future where people will "own nothing and be happy" possibly be conducive to a free and productive society — or even a happy one? How can a future in which all energy is controlled by international governing bodies and multinational corporations possibly provide individuals with the institutional building blocks for endless innovation? How can farmers sustain larger and more prosperous populations when Western governments continue to stifle agricultural production through regulation and eminent domain? The questions answer themselves. The WEF's agenda promotes radically anti-liberal programs such as the use of artificial intelligence to censor dissent, regulate free speech, and even erase ideas from the Internet. Its repressive efforts to control all hydrocarbon energy and cattle and crop farm production will smother human innovation by first depriving Westerners of their ability to create, invent, and grow food. Its policies betray millennia of Western civilizational advancement by replacing respect for individual choice and free will with top-down management of human activity through the blunt instruments of force and coercion. Its motivations are indisputably anti-human at their core because each individual human life is treated as nothing more than a cog or input that can be manipulated as part of a centrally-controlled social machine. When Westerners are reduced to ones and zeroes that are sorted and shifted by the WEF's social programming codes for a "better future," builders obey but no longer create. Whereas personal liberty has unleashed the human mind and generated tremendous Western prosperity, the World Economic Forum's push for a centrally controlled economic system will crush rights, stifle creativity, and mass-produce poverty and servitude. Its proponents, in fact, seem mostly committed to using a combination of pandemic, famine, and fear to centralize dominance for themselves. In order to persuade Westerners to give up more and make do with less, the WEF and its globalist allies promise Westerners a future Utopia. As with every similar lie ever told to justify the extraordinary acquisition of power, though, they will fail to deliver. No society, after all, was ever promised more than in Stalin's 1936 Constitution of the USSR — or subsequently treated more abysmally. Despite its claims to the contrary, the WEF's mission directives intentionally reverse Western trends toward greater human freedom, social mobility, and more broadly obtainable wealth — or what, in another era, would have been rightly regarded as true, liberal progress. Although the WEF and its sister organizations claim to be "saving the planet," their efforts seem primarily an ignoble design to control the planet. "Clean" energy, after all, is controlled energy; and the more that energy is controlled by centralized governments, the more completely once-free markets become centrally controlled. If every potential entrepreneur must first receive permission to use electricity before producing anything new, then no entrepreneur can thrive without the central authorities' blessing. If all manufacturing is viewed as a "threat to the planet," then no independent upstart can innovate or build wealth without first seeking and obtaining government approval. If consumers are forbidden from buying anything unless it is first pre-approved, then free markets are transformed into controlled markets. Taking this trend to its logical yet communist conclusion, private property becomes antithetical to the state's goals. We already see the ominous subversion of private ownership today with so-called ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) standards used to strong-arm industry goals and manipulate free markets. Because control over information makes control over markets more manageable, the more economic uncertainty that results from market manipulation, the more censorship we'll continue to see. Recently, even a senior economist who correctly stated that the American economy had entered into a recession found his research "fact checked" and "corrected" by the U.S. government's friends at Facebook. Where free markets are under attack, free speech is inevitably under attack, too. The individual blessings of liberalism are not easily dissected from the body politic without inevitably rendering liberalism's death, as a whole. The issue today may be "climate change" or COVID-19 or "sustainable food supplies," but the stated issue never seems anything more than a public relations campaign for fooling the masses. It always appears to be merely a disposable excuse designed to seduce Westerners into handing a small cabal of "elites" power and control over everyone else. Convincing mankind to believe that free markets will inevitably lead to some kind of apocalypse increasingly looks like the only policy goal that matters. It may well be the most diabolical trick those with power have ever played against those with no power at all. Fear is used expertly as a torturer's tool to convince Westerners to forsake willingly their own freedom. The innocent mantra whispered into their ears is simple: Trust us, humanity, we will save you. The implication, however, is far more sinister: For your own good, you must be made to enjoy your new chains. Notice that for the World Economic Forum to succeed in its mission to control all human activity, it must first destroy the sovereignty of nation states. Why? Because, as noted above, liberal nations that embrace freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and free market entrepreneurship foster innovation and great wealth. Any nation not encumbered by the WEF's market proscriptions will most likely continue to prosper, while those shackled to the "Great Reset" will most likely languish. This is why Western politicians have worked so hard together to push their "Build Back Better" proposals irrespective of the wishes of any one nation's voting citizens. Wealthy free nations are a threat to the WEF's New World Order. If censorship must be embraced to control the "narrative," then so be it. If citizens must be denied freedom of movement under the guise of a "health emergency," no big deal. If private bank accounts must be seized to intimidate protesters, then such threats are the price for ensuring compliance. In this way, the WEF's plans for a controlled economy intentionally reverse centuries of liberal progress. Political leaders today are dragging the West into the past. First, individual liberties will continue disappearing. Then, the greatest economic engine of all, innovation, will dry up. Finally, wealth will return solely to the hands of a small "ruling class" minority. This is the future the World Economic Forum hails as "progress." It is not. It is a recipe for human bondage.

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Cryptocurrency: Defeats the Tyranny of the Robbery State, WarOnCash
by grarpamp 31 Aug '22

31 Aug '22

WarOnCash reaching alarming levels around the world. Starbucks bans the use of cash at all their stores. Eighty-seven THOUSAND new agents Four thousand, five hundred guns Five million rounds of ammo... 15% global corporate minimum... Civilians around the world raked for 50%... Wake UP !!! World desperately seeking route arounds that are safe from these growing thieves, robbers, extorters... https://twitter.com/ReOpenChris/status/1564343345383706624 https://twitter.com/ReOpenChris/status/1564470969833496576 ebay facebook whatsapp etsy nostr-protocol openbazaar plebeian.market simple auctions particlmarketplace.shop ...

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Skin in the game and Apster pricing for DUMBELLS
by professor rat 31 Aug '22

31 Aug '22

Should it ever become a list condition that contributors have some crypto-currency of some kind, I assume Zero-knowledge would have advanced to the point where this was just a trivial plug-in or browser extension. At that point I might comply - maybe. At present its simply too dangerous since there have been over a hundred assaults on crypto holders recently. That's over a hundred recorded. I'll assume a small risk by stating for the record I have some skin-in-the-game since I could later be shown to be a liar. Other than that I won't be more specific till circumstances change. The onus should certainly be on anyone wanting to know another c-punks coin status what theirs is first. Put up or shut up. Money talk leads to price signals in networked agorist assassination marts. I can send a signal with a lowball bid - say 200 sats - implying that target could be a popular one - Bill Gates for example. If I bid more then the target may not be as well known - Juan Garafolo for example - and my personal animus toward that target might also be swaying the bounty. As it is the equivalent of 2K in USD ought to be enough in a shithole like Argentina - amirite? But enough about the bleeding obvious spelled out for morons and dolts down the back. Did you see where SBF met the POTUS and didn't assassinate!? Jesus Fucking Christ - I can't work with Grampus-type- MORONS.

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Finally we’re officially on Dumbfuck's indictment watch
by professor rat 31 Aug '22

31 Aug '22

It’s coming. It’s anyone’s guess as to when. It could be next week or next year. But the DOJ doesn’t get this deep into an espionage and obstruction probe without bringing charges. Donald Trump knows it too, which is why he spent all of Tuesday having the meltdown of a lifetime. Now he’s staring at life in prison. https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/game-over/46908/ Reposts non compos

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Will the circle be unbroken?
by professor rat 31 Aug '22

31 Aug '22

The circle of eunuchs is leash-once-read-anywhere. OG Vinay Gupta in 2014 https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-is-teaching-realism-to-libertar… Vinay today . . . leashless 3h As we head into these turbulent times I’m going to mostly stop talking about politics. I’ve dialled it down several times to manage my risk, and I’m still taking damage. As people start to die of cold, or insurrections, cost of being right 10 years early grows. No I told you so. <<< Your cluckin' words to Gramps ear, Vin

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Professor Rat Matthew Taylor pro2rat
by professor rat 31 Aug '22

31 Aug '22

https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCfpjT6q95CzXqm3Xd-onBwg/videos/upload?f…"columnType"%3A"date"%2C"sortOrder"%3A"DESCENDING"%7D Paranoia will destroy ya G

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Professor Rat Matthew Taylor pro2rat
by grarpamp 31 Aug '22

31 Aug '22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coI3xRK5gqw Rat the Douche Besides never authenticating his claimed reanimation, and regardless, obviously yet another Agent trolling to incite and entrap. Such douchebag wuss, talk stupid murder shit all day on his wee stack of sats he carry in his little sac, his sorry 2027 that he knows will never come to pass, his murdering ansoc utopias inherently doomed to fail, retarded murder threats on randoms, all his noisebrained repeats, blah. Hairless little coward man too chump to carry out his game even though people gave him coins like eth and augur to run his deed on years ago. All talk and noise, He really just sit in Royal Aussie toilet spewing diarrhea... https://i.redd.it/r5lstvy2slr21.jpg

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Discredited Wikileaks hack at phony ' Cryptoanarchy Institute " front
by professor rat 31 Aug '22

31 Aug '22

Janine Retweeted Institute of Cryptoanarchy @InstituteCrypto · Aug 26 1/4 Let us introduce HCPP22 speaker Janine <<< Hackers Congress this Sept plans to feature JINDRICH KARASEK SENIOR CYBER THREAT RESEARCHER WORKING FOR TREND MICRO aka INTERPOL and WANTED WAR CRIMINAL, RYAN LACKEY and KGB DUGINITE ' DARKFI " agents RACHEL-ROSE O’LEARY and PARAZYD. Also . . . self-described ' CYPHERPUNK " Alexandra933 @Alexandra933 · Aug 25 All roads lead to hyperbitcoinization. This should be obvious by now. The next 5 - 10 countries who fully understand this and adopt #Bitcoin as a currency will be the next superpowers. Just what cypherpunks need - another Big Dog shill. Plus there's some cyber agorist shitcoiners here that need killing TRUCKBOMB the CRYPTOANARCHY INSTITUTE!

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Apple’s Chief Privacy Officer Set to Leave Company for Law Firm
by Gunnar Larson 31 Aug '22

31 Aug '22

Apple’s Chief Privacy Officer Set to Leave Company for Law Firm https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-30/apple-s-chief-privacy-of…

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