August 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Pay homage to Joshua “Donald Trump Pro Se”
by professor rat 23 Aug '22

23 Aug '22

These are the actions of a desperate man who knows he has no way out of this, and is delusionaly hoping to be scooped up by a magic carpet ride at the last moment. But enough about Wikileaks. https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/in-new-court-filing-against-the-doj-d… Reposts etc

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When heads-of-state are also called terrorists we will have done half our job
by professor rat 23 Aug '22

23 Aug '22

Imran, the Don, the cute one just cleared of taking drugs? I'm sensing a pattern here. >>> emptywheel ·2h He’s citing a terrorist’s lawyer who was ultimately convicted of conspiring with that terrorist. Take from that what you will… <<< Reposts not etc

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Bruce Fenton donates over one billion to fascist Federalist Society
by professor rat 23 Aug '22

23 Aug '22

An elderly, ultra-secretive Chicago businessman has given the largest known donation to a political advocacy group in U.S. history — worth $1.6 billion — and the recipient is one of the prime architects of conservatives’ efforts to reshape the American judicial system, including the Supreme Court. https://www.propublica.org/article/dark-money-leonard-leo-barre-seid Reposts etc

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Drugs: Columbia's Petro - War On Drugs Is Fail, Vows To Decrim and Push UN
by grarpamp 23 Aug '22

23 Aug '22

Decriminalization is fine, yet still "legal" "regulation" "taxation" "permitting" of non-aggressing people by murderous govts is not. "The War On Drugs Has Failed": Colombia Looks To Decriminalize Cocaine https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/20/colombia-cocaine-decriminal… Colombia, the world's largest producer of cocaine, and the origin of more than 90% seized in the United States - is considering decriminalizing the drug in an experiment to end Washington DC's never-ending "war on drugs," according to the Washington Post. Colombian Army examining a cocaine pack confiscated by troops. Thomson Reuters After just two weeks in office, the country's first leftist government has proposed an end to "prohibition" - in what would become the first government-regulated market for cocaine. Officials would work with other leftist governments in the region via legislation and alliances in order to "turn their country into a laboratory for drug decriminalization." "It is time for a new international convention that accepts that the war on drugs has failed," said President Gustavo Petro in his inaugural address this month. Colombian President Gustavo Petro gestures during his swearing-in ceremony at Plaza Bolivar in Bogotá on Aug. 7. (Luisa Gonzalez/Reuters) The move would likely upend the country's long-standing (and profitable) counternarcotics relationship with the US - whose officials, both past and present, are sounding the alarm. A former DEA official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because his current employer had not authorized him to speak on the matter, said he feared the move would limit the agency’s ability to collaborate with the Colombians on drug trafficking investigations. “It would incrementally kill the cooperation,” he said. “It would be devastating, not just regionally, but globally. Everyone would be fighting from the outside in.” -WaPo Jonathan Finer, Biden's White House deputy national security adviser, who met with Petro in the US before his inauguration, said that "the United States and the Biden administration is not a supporter of decriminalization." The United States has spent billions of dollars to fund a strategy to seek and destroy cocaine plants in the fields of rural Colombia, with US intelligence and other agencies having provided support to Colombia's decades-long military efforts to rid the country of coca, the plant from which cocaine is derived. Despite more than half-a-century at war on the drug, cocaine production has hit record levels according to recent figures. Petro's drug czar, Felipe Tascón, says this is a rare opportunity to unite the governments of cocaine-producing countries such as Peru and Bolivia, which are similarly led by leftists. In his first interview since being named to the job, the economist said he wants to meet with his counterparts in those countries to discuss decriminalization at the regional level. Eventually, he hopes a unified regional bloc can renegotiate international drug conventions at the United Nations. Domestically, Petro’s administration is planning to back legislation to decriminalize cocaine and marijuana. It plans to put an end to aerial spraying and the manual eradication of coca, which critics say unfairly targets poor rural farmers. By regulating the sale of cocaine, Tascón argued, the government would wrest the market from armed groups and cartels. -WaPo "Drug traffickers know that their business depends on it being prohibited," said Tascón, adding "If you regulate it like a public market … the high profits disappear and the drug trafficking disappears."

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Cryptocurrency: Craig Wright Sues Hodlonaut
by grarpamp 22 Aug '22

22 Aug '22

Quotes from the internet... Craig Wright is a Liar and a Fraud. Craig Wright is not Satoshi. Whatever Craig Wright is or is not, Craig Wright is an Irrelevant Pompous Arrogant Asshole. https://www.defendingbtc.com/ A community campaign to fundraise for legal fees and support freedom Donate Get Involved Starting September 12th, in Oslo, Norway - hodlonaut will take the stand to defend his allegations that Craig Wright is not Satoshi. The community is coming together to support hodlonaut and we are announcing a fundraiser to both raise donations but also to grow awareness and supply accurate information in the media narrative surrounding this case. DAYS HOURS MINUTES READ MORE: ‍‍ Bitcoin Magazine: Timeline of Hodlonaut Craig Wright Case Bitcoin Magazine: Craig Wright Threatens Libel Suit in Letter to Bitcoiner, Demands Apology Bitcoin Magazine: How Many Wrongs Make a Wright? Bitcoin Magazine: Latest Ruling is Not a Win for Craig Wright or His Satoshi Claims Bitcoin News: Why It's Important To Support Hodlonaut On His Legal Stand Against Craig Wright CoinDesk: Craig Wright v. Peter McCormack: Wright Put Forward 'False Evidence,' Will Receive Damages of One British Pound CoinDesk: Craig Wright's Fight With a Cartoon Bitcoin Astronaut Cat Explained CoinDesk: Binance Delists Bitcoin SV, CEO Calls Craig Wright a 'Fraud' Decrypt: Self-Professed 'Bitcoin Inventor' Craig Wright Advanced ‘False Evidence’ in Libel Lawsuit: UK Court The Guardian: Craig Wright U-turns on pledge to provide evidence he invented bitcoin Wired: Is Bitcoin's Creator this Unknown Australian Genius? Probably Not

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Large parts of the UK now appear to resemble Depression-era Spain?
by professor rat 22 Aug '22

22 Aug '22

The situation is excellent! Collectives in the Spanish revolution - Gaston Leval Detailed account of worker-controlled agriculture, industry and public services in revolutionary Spain during the worlds greatest ever social-revolution. https://libcom.org/article/collectives-spanish-revolution-gaston-leval Reposts sometimes recommended

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[ot][crazy][spam][fiction] Dictatortopia
by Undiscussed Groomed for Male Slavery, One Victim of Many 22 Aug '22

22 Aug '22

Dictator: [n] A controversial word that everybody gives different definitions to and nobody likes. In this thread, "dictator" means a single mean person who uses force, fear, and deception to lead themselves to believe that everybody in an area is doing what they want. Dictators here have secret people of their own, telling them what to do, too, either in their heads or in reality. Welcome to Dictatortopia, a land where we pride ourselves in our incredibly dystopic, oppressive nature! You're gonna love it! It's like one of those fancy shmancy computer games, postapocalyptic movies, or wartime propaganda regarding the foreign nation your government is fighting, except it's _real_ ! In Dictatortopia, everybody wears a gas a mask and huge images of Dictator are plastered everywhere. Dictator always has a frown on. Everybody is happy, because they are so excited to be roleplaying an oppressive nation state! Each citizen has a personal "mini-dictator": another citizen, assigned to them, who tells them everything to do, from morning to night. This forms a large hierarchy with Dictator himself at the top. Meanwhile, be your own Dictator! Enslave your neighbors, your children: anybody assigned to you. Your personal mini-dictator will tell you whom you will yourself be mini-dictator of.

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

22 Aug '22

Back in the noughties when I was doing APster interviews, a reporter from the Murdoch Crime Family called. I asked her if her boss knew what she was doing - never heard back! Before 2005 you could rationalize it on the basis of the digital divide. And use the corpse-media to trebuchet the pro-net propaganda - much like radio was used to route around the Scopes Monkey trial way before that. Post 05 news and commentary is all internet all the time. Enemies of the people GO FUCK YOURSELF!

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

22 Aug '22

Just from a quick look around this pigsty I noticed some material that appears to support Bankster & Bitcoiner pump-and-dumps. Chimes with some of what Gunnar has been posting. And this sort of action is the juice for the likes of Andreessen - whore-o-whitz. Thiel-good, etc Meh. Mongo would puke.

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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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