January 2023 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Russian government, not Ukraine, is antisemitic
by professor rat 13 Jan '23

13 Jan '23

Russia's exiled chief rabbi is urging Jewish people to flee the country Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt has served as Moscow’s chief rabbi for nearly three decades. He has also served as the head of the Conference of European Rabbis since 2011. interview by Nil Köksal, CBC Radio "As It Happens", (apparently early Sept. 2022) rebroadcast by Jason Vermes, CBC Radio "As It Happens", January 4, 2023 https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/russian-rabbi-antisemitism-1.6703546 Moscow's exiled chief rabbi is urging Jewish people in Russia to leave the country while they can, as the war in Ukraine continues. Pinchas Goldschmidt says antisemitism, fueled in part by the government, is rising in Russia

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Thousands in Israel March Against 'Fascism and Apartheid' at Anti-Garofalo Protests
by professor rat 13 Jan '23

13 Jan '23

"We can see right now many laws being advocated for against LGBTQ, against Palestinians, against larger minorities in Israel," said one organizer. https://www.commondreams.org/news/anti-netanyahu-protests Reposts spotless in eternal sunshine of Assmange-error-correction

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grancrap's bosses are anti-human jews! So unexpected.
by punk 13 Jan '23

13 Jan '23

So, looks like one the 'masterminds' (LMAO!!!) behind the US jewnazi war against russia is a cunt called victoria nuland. Victoria, such am aryan' name. in reality the cunt "was born in 1961 to Sherwin B. Nuland, a surgeon born to Eastern European Jewish immigrants, and a Christian British native mother" ha - hard to think of a most toxic, anti-human mix : jewnazi-english-christian-jew. But wait, it gets better. The cunt is married to another anti-human jew called kagan. "In 1997, Kagan co-founded the neoconservative 'think tank' Project for the New American Century with William Kristol" Yeah it's THEM. The things who planned the 9/11 'new pearl harbour' in jew york city. Jakobo kagan and accomplices came up with this : "a section of Rebuilding America's Defenses entitled "Creating Tomorrow's Dominant Force" became the subject of considerable controversy: "Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.""

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Natual rights anarchs call on Garofalo to resign after lying about Jews
by professor rat 12 Jan '23

12 Jan '23

And in related news, NY Republicans call on Santos to resign after lying about Jewish heritage https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/ny-republicans-call-on-santos-… Reposts not antisemitic anarchists on an anarchists list

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JOHN " Cryptome " Young represents Alex Jones
by professor rat 12 Jan '23

12 Jan '23

Happy to clear that up emptywheel · 3h One of the nutty things that came out of the various DQ discussions is that Hull and Pettis claimed they're BOTH also representing Alex Jones. Seems like ANOTHER conflict we haven't even gotten into yet. Quote Tweet Brandi Buchman @Brandi_Buchman · 3h McCullough shows jurors what I believe is a recruitment video that PBs put together after the rally in November. It shows brawling, set to up-tempo rap, features "angry face" meme with text that says "KILL THEM, KILL THEM ALL" and Alex Jones screaming in rage with fists clenched Show this thread

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FTX Bankruptcy Proceedings Thus Far Show a Shocking Miscarriage of Justice
by Gunnar Larson 12 Jan '23

12 Jan '23

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2023/01/ftx-bankruptcy-proceedings-thus-far-… By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: January 12, 2023 ~ To grasp the severity of the miscarriage of justice that occurred yesterday at the hands of Judge John Dorsey in the bankruptcy hearing for collapsed crypto exchange, FTX, one first needs a brief bit of background. The FTX companies that the bankruptcy lawyers are attempting to resuscitate or sell off to other crypto outfits (while the law firms collect millions of dollars in billable hours for their work) are peddling a product – crypto – that is created out of thin air and has no legitimate productive purpose. (See Over 1,600 of the Brightest Scientific Minds in Technology Have Signed a Letter Calling Both Crypto and Blockchain a Sham.) The hundreds of billions of dollars that American investors have been dumped into crypto exchanges, crypto lenders, crypto miners, and crypto banks are not only threatening the safety and soundness of the U.S. financial system, they are threatening the global competitiveness of U.S. innovation. These failing enterprises raise capital in public markets, crowding out real companies with real innovations. In July 2019, NYU Professor and economist Nouriel Roubini said this in a Bloomberg News interview: “Crypto currencies are not even currencies. They’re a joke…The price of Bitcoin has fallen in a week by how much – 30 percent. It goes up 20 percent one day, collapses the next. It is not a means of payment, nobody, not even this blockchain conference, accepts Bitcoin for paying for conference fees cause you can do only five transactions per second with Bitcoin. With the Visa system you can do 25,000 transactions per second…Crypto’s nonsense. It’s a failure. Nobody’s using it for any transactions. It’s trading one sh*tcoin for another sh*tcoin. That’s the entire trading or currency in the space where’s there’s price manipulation, spoofing, wash trading, pump and dumping, frontrunning. It’s just a big criminal scam and nothing else.” The law firm that Judge Dorsey is allowing to pull a coup d’etat in his courtroom is Sullivan & Cromwell – the go-to law firm for Wall Street for more than a century — which has bestowed on itself the role of lead law firm in the FTX bankruptcy. For reasons that appear to rest firmly on just two words – “billable hours” – Sullivan & Cromwell has immersed itself in all things crypto. In a recent FTX bankruptcy court filing, Sullivan & Cromwell acknowledged that not only has it collected legal fees and expenses of $8,564,487.50 from FTX and its related companies over the prior 16 months, plus a $12 million retainer for bankruptcy work, but it is simultaneously outside counsel to four of FTX’s major competitors: BlockFi, Coinbase, Gemini, and Kracken. The quick take on the status of those five clients of Sullivan & Cromwell is as follows: the FTX group of companies has been described by federal prosecutor Damian Williams as “one of the biggest financial frauds in American history” with three of its top executives now indicted on a combined 19 criminal counts; BlockFi is also in bankruptcy; Coinbase, a publicly-traded crypto exchange, has lost more than 80 percent of its market value over the past 12 months; Gemini has had more than $900 million of client funds frozen at another crypto firm, Genesis; and Kracken has fired 30 percent of its staff. But instead of bringing some sunshine to this murky mess that exists between Sullivan & Cromwell and the crypto cabal, Judge Dorsey has opted for more darkness. FTX filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on November 11 – two months ago. The U.S. Trustee, which represents the Department of Justice in bankruptcy cases, together with major media outlets (Bloomberg News, Dow Jones, New York Times and Financial Times), had filed motions asking the court to release the names of the customers and creditors so that the public and the press could have transparency in the matter. There have been multiple academic studies showing that the vast majority of trading on unregulated crypto exchanges is fake with an unsavory agenda of attempting to legitimize an otherwise illegitimate enterprise. Just last month, a paper released by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that “wash trading volume, on average, is as high as 77.5% of the total trading volume on unregulated exchanges, with a median of 79.1%….” The researchers define wash trading as “investors simultaneously selling and buying the same financial assets to create artificial activity in the marketplace….” Judge Dorsey releasing the names of the customers would allow the academic community and the press to conduct an analysis into the nature of traders that used FTX as well as its interrelationships with the megabanks and hedge funds on Wall Street. A document filed with the bankruptcy court by Sullivan & Cromwell has indicated that megabanks JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo had existing relationships with FTX and/or its affiliated companies. Details of these relationships have yet to find their way into the sunshine. Attorneys for FTX argue that the customer lists have resale value and that the customers might be poached by crypto competitors if their names are released. The reality is that any real FTX customers (outside of the potential bots, algorithms and fake traders that might be doing the trading) are very angry customers. Their accounts at FTX have been frozen for more than two months with no ability to access their cash or securities. New FTX management has testified that $8 billion of customers’ money is missing. And as each day of financial distress grows among FTX customers, there is a new breaking story about the opulent life that the alleged fraudsters were living with the looted funds from customer accounts. In short, it is highly unlikely that these defrauded customers are going to beat a path to the door of another crypto exchange or remain at that crypto firm if their account is sold and moved to another crypto firm. These are now very hostile, out-for-revenge customers and for good reason. So, who in their right-mind would want to pay good money for pitchfork-yielding clients who have had a life-altering taste of crypto investing? Where these defrauded and abused customers would likely want to run is into the arms of a traditional, federally-insured bank. But what federally-insured bank would want to get within 10 miles of this mess – given the recent warning from federal regulators to consider rubbing elbows with crypto a threat to a bank’s safety and soundness. The attorney for the U.S. Trustee, Juliet Sarkessian, has already agreed to accept making public just the customers’ names, without addresses or other identifying information. But despite that concession, yesterday Judge Dorsey yielded yet again to Sullivan & Cromwell and extended the blackout on the names of customers and creditors for another 3 months. Then there is the issue of such brazen conflicts of interest with Sullivan & Cromwell that four U.S. Senators had to resort to sticking the glaring conflicts under the nose of Judge Dorsey by releasing a public letter to him on Monday. (The letter struck us as symbolic of an open cry for help from fellow Americans to save a failing democracy, its court system and its financial system.) The bi-partisan group of Senators (Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), John Hickenlooper (D-CO), Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) got to the core of the conflicts in this paragraph: “To name just one challenge: will the firm’s lawyers be able to effectively investigate their current and former partners who were central in FTX’s conduct? Additionally, given their longstanding legal work for FTX, they may well bear a measure of responsibility for the damage wrecked on the company’s victims. Put bluntly, the firm is simply not in a position to uncover the information needed to ensure confidence in any investigation or findings.” An FTX customer, Warren Winter, was even more blunt in the objection his attorneys filed with the Court. His assessment was as follows: “Sullivan & Cromwell was one of the FTX Group’s ‘primary external law firms’ before the FTX Group collapsed. To date, the FTX Group has paid the firm more than $20.5 million in fees and retainers. Now, in the most flagrant attempt by a fox to guard a henhouse in recent memory, Sullivan & Cromwell has applied to be appointed the FTX Group’s bankruptcy counsel with duties that would include ‘investigating all potential estate causes of action.’ But it has revealed almost nothing about its prepetition work for Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraudulent enterprise — and failed to disclose or elided glaring conflicts of interest.” Winter goes on to reveal the following to Judge Dorsey: “Two former Sullivan & Cromwell lawyers are General Counsel to FTX Group entities. Sullivan & Cromwell did not disclose these connections in its Application and therefore violated Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure 2014, which requires a statement ‘all of [the firm’s] connections with the debtor … [and the debtor’s] attorneys.’ What’s more, disclosed or not, these connections create a conflict of interest and are disqualifying. FTX US General Counsel Ryne Miller is a former partner at Sullivan & Cromwell…Miller is alleged to have played a key role— perhaps the key role—in wresting control of the FTX Group from Sam BankmanFried and directing this extremely valuable bankruptcy matter to his former firm. According to Bankman-Fried, and supported by what appears to be genuine evidence, Miller proclaimed to have usurped control of the FTX Group by November 8th. He immediately secured a $12 million retainer for his former firm and allegedly mounted an ‘extreme pressure’ campaign to put the FTX Group into bankruptcy with Sullivan & Cromwell and its hand-picked CEO at the helm. “FTX Ventures General Counsel Tim Wilson is another former Sullivan & Cromwell lawyer. The Securities and Exchange Commission has alleged that FTX Ventures made at least $200 million in venture-capital investments using customer funds that had been misappropriated through Alameda Research….” Despite all of these startling conflicts of interest, Judge Dorsey has been allowing Sullivan & Cromwell to run the show since the FTX bankruptcy petition was filed on November 11. Sullivan & Cromwell has overseen the hiring of a multitude of advisors, including investment bank Perella Weinberg Partners, which is engaged in seeking buyers for some of the FTX businesses. In addition, Judge Dorsey has stalled on hearing a motion filed more than 40 days ago by the U.S. Trustee for an independent examiner to be appointed in the case. The U.S. Trustee wrote in the motion: “An examiner could—and should—investigate the substantial and serious allegations of fraud, dishonesty, incompetence, misconduct, and mismanagement by the Debtors, the circumstances surrounding the Debtors’ collapse, the apparent conversion of exchange customers’ property, and whether colorable claims and causes of action exist to remedy losses. The appointment of an examiner is mandatory under 11 U.S.C. § 1104(c)(2) because the Debtors’ fixed, liquidated, unsecured debts to its customers alone far exceed section 1104(c)(2)’s $5 million threshold. “An examination is preferable to an internal investigation under the facts of these cases because the findings and conclusions of the examination will be public and transparent, which is especially important because of the wider implications that FTX’s collapse may have for the crypto industry….” Yesterday, Judge Dorsey cancelled the hearing on that motion that had been scheduled for January 20 and pushed the hearing forward to February 6 at 9:30 a.m. (We would anticipate that the objection to Sullivan & Cromwell filed by customer Warren Winter would be heard on the same date.) This raises the obvious question as to whether all of the myriad actions and hirings and expenditures of money that Sullivan & Cromwell has already engaged in will have to be unraveled if the court determines that the law firm was too conflicted to have functioned as the lead law firm on the FTX bankruptcy.

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New York's George Santos fabricated resume touts '3.89 GPA', doubling revenue at Goldman Sachs
by Gunnar Larson 12 Jan '23

12 Jan '23

https://nypost.com/2023/01/12/new-yorks-george-santos-fabricated-resume-tou…

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Nexo offices reportedly raided by police in Bulgaria
by Gunnar Larson 12 Jan '23

12 Jan '23

https://cointelegraph.com/news/nexo-offices-reportedly-raided-by-police-in-… Troubled cryptocurrency lender Nexo is facing more pressure from regulators as its offices have been reportedly raided as part of an international investigation. Advertisement Stay safe in Web3. Learn more about Web3 Antivirus → A group of prosecutors, investigators and foreign agents started searches of Nexo’s offices in the Bulgarian capital, the local news agency Standart reported on Jan. 12. The operation was reportedly initiated a few months ago, targeting a large-scale financial criminal scheme allegedly involving money laundering and violations of international sanctions against Russia. Citing sources of the Bulgarian National Television, the report alleges Nexo’s involvement in the scheme. The television also highlighted Nexo’s alleged ties with the government of Bulgaria, specifying that Nexo was co-founded by former parliament member Antoni Trenchev and Georgi Shulev, the son of former deputy prime minister Lydia Shuleva. Cast your vote now! Nexo was quick to react to the latest news, taking to Twitter to assure the public that the company has been compliant with global crypto regulations and has enforced strict Anti-Money Laundering and Know Your Customer policies. Related: Sanctions couldn’t ‘pull the plug’ on Tornado Cash: Chainalysis “Unfortunately, with the recent regulatory crackdown on crypto, some regulators have recently adopted the kick first, ask questions later approach. In corrupt countries, it is bordering with racketeering, but that too shall pass,” Nexo wrote. Founded in 2018, Nexo operates a cryptocurrency investment platform, also allowing users to stake and borrow against crypto. The firm first encountered issues in the United States last year, with the California Department of Financial Protection & Innovation filing a desist and refrain order against Nexo regarding its interest service in September. Nexo eventually decided to gradually cease operations in the U.S. after failing to find a dialogue with local regulators.

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Blockchains ' nationalize ' big server-farms at FB, MS, Google and AWS
by professor rat 11 Jan '23

11 Jan '23

Moves like this guarantee the logistics of cryptoanarchy - we're going after the majors Awesome new avalanche power-play https://decrypt.co/118972/amazon-web-services-users-can-now-launch-avalanch… Related - 'Green on blue' violence as sour Krauts kibosh Goggle-eyed evil party rowlsmanthorpe · 9h NEW: Germany’s competition agency plans to stop Google sharing user data across its services (search, YouTube, Google Play, Google Maps etc) “Users are not given sufficient choice as to whether and to what extent they agree to this far-reaching processing of their data” So much ( yet again! ) for any ' Govcorp ' conspiracy garbage. Give it up " Govcorp " faggots. You're TSTBALAA. Too stupid to be an activist let alone anarchist.

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Fwd: Larson FOIL 4th Extension (letter (Richard Weber - General Counsel, NY-DFS)
by Gunnar Larson 11 Jan '23

11 Jan '23

January 11, 2023 VIA EMAIL Gunnar Larson xNY.io - Bank.org G(a)xny.io Dear Mr. Larson: This is in further response to your Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request, received by the Division on September 13, 2022, in which you requested the following: Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement (Advisory Board) On May 18, 2022, xNY.io - Bank.org received a copy of a financial disclosure form for Mr. Richard Weber (General Counsel, NY-DFS) noting an advisory council role at the Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement. No address was provided: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CCIh9CQiwxVILSv86B54kEcipV Rnx1YQ/view?usp=drivesdk We would like to receive any and all records NY-DFS and Human Rights hold for this appointment approval for a state associated representative. The Division intends to produce records responsive to your request to the extent such disclosure is consistent with the provisions of the Human Rights Law and FOIL. However, the Division needs additional time to respond to your request. Therefore, pursuant to Public Officers Law § 89(3)(a), the Division will provide any responsive documents on or before February 2, 2023. Very truly yours, Siaka Paasewe FOIL Officer ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Garvin, Sheila Y (DHR) <Sheila.Garvin(a)dhr.ny.gov> Date: Wed, Jan 11, 2023, 5:11 PM Subject: Larson FOIL 4th Extension (letter (Richard Weber - General Counsel, NY-DFS) To: G(a)xny.io <G(a)xny.io> Cc: Paasewe, Siaka (DHR) <Siaka.Paasewe(a)dhr.ny.gov> Dear Mr. Larson: Pursuant to your request, please see the attached. *Best,* *Sheila Garvin* *DHR Records Access Clerk* *Legal Management Records Unit* One Fordham Plaza, 4th Floor, Bronx, NY 10458 Tele: (718) 741-8423/ e-Fax: (718) 741-8256 *foil(a)dhr.ny.gov <foil(a)dhr.ny.gov>* *Sheila.Garvin(a)dhr.ny.gov <Sheila.Garvin(a)dhr.ny.gov>* *www.dhr.ny.gov <http://www.dhr.ny.gov/>* *This transmission and its attachments may contain confidential or privileged information, which is intended for use by the individual or entity to which the transmission is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, dissemination, copying, or distribution of this transmission or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately at the above address and delete the transmission and its attachments**.*

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