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Rally: Rage Against The War Machine, Washington DC, Feb 19 2023
by grarpamp 17 Feb '23

17 Feb '23

https://rageagainstwar.com/ https://twitter.com/RageAgainstWar_ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDjBv7gZryU RATWM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U3lEc-IFr8 IAD? " What happens if my concerns are completely unfounded? Nothing. What happens if my concerns are justified and ignored? Nothing good. " End the global war machines. Feb 19... Washington DC. Share, Donate, Be There. Libertarian, Voluntaryism, Cryptocurrency, Freedom, Peace, the People, and more... joining forces. And soon around the world. Rage Against the War Machine Join us at the Lincoln Memorial at 12:30 pm on Sunday, February 19th, on the anniversary of the Ukraine War and President's Day Weekend, to Rage Against the War Machine! Veterans, speakers, rock musicians, comedians, and more. After the rally, we'll march to the White House and deliver our demands to Warmonger-in-Chief Joe Biden. https://duckduckgo.com/?iar=videos&iax=videos&ia=videos&q="rage+against+the+war+machine" Libertarian Party Mises Caucus @LPMisesCaucus The may be no industry on earth that profits from the suffering and death of the innocent more than the defense industry. Together, industry and government have created a horrible system which chews people up in an endless cycle of war and privation across the world. Speakers * Live Stream Fundraiser Join Us with Medea Benjamin, Scott Horton, Garland Nixon, and Jordan Page. Jimmy Dore, Ron Paul, Tulsi Gabbard, Dennis Kucinich, Scott Horton, Ann Wright, Andrew Napolitano, Chris Hedges, David Swanson, Daniel McAdams, Garland Nixon, Max Blumenthal, Anya Parampil, Supreme, Jill Stein, Tara Reade, Diane Sare, Scott Ritter, Kim Iversen, Jackson Hinkle, Craig Jardula, Wyatt Reed, Medea Benjamin https://www.lp.org/ https://peoplesparty.org/ Mises Caucus Liberty Speaks Radical Caucus Action 4 Assange Punk Rock Libertarians World Beyond War Center for Political Innovation American Student Union LP of Virginia Free & Equal OUR DEMANDS Not One More Penny for War in Ukraine The Democrats and Republicans have armed Ukraine with tens of billions of dollars in weapons and military aid. The war has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is pushing us toward a nuclear WW3. Stop funding the war. Negotiate Peace The US instigated the war in Ukraine with a coup on its democratically-elected government in 2014, and then sabotaged a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine in March. Pursue an immediate ceasefire and diplomacy to end the war. Stop the War Inflation The war is accelerating inflation and increasing food, gas, and energy prices. The US blew up Russian gas pipelines to Europe, starving them of energy and deindustrializing their countries. End the war and stop increasing prices. Disband NATO NATO expansion to Russia's border provoked the war in Ukraine. NATO is a warmongering relic of the Cold War. Disband it like the Warsaw Pact. Global Nuclear De-Escalation The war in Ukraine has brought us to the edge of WW3 and nuclear war with Russia. US intelligence agencies estimate a one in four chance of nuclear war, which would plunge the world into nuclear winter and kill almost all life on Earth. Adopt a no-first-strike nuclear policy. Drawdown nuclear weapons worldwide. Slash the Pentagon Budget Half of the federal discretionary budget goes to Pentagon. The military budget is $857 billion per year, and the Pentagon just failed its fifth straight audit. The Pentagon can only account for 39 percent of its $3.5 trillion in assets. Cut the military budget in half and return those funds to the American people. Abolish the CIA and Military-Industrial Deep State The CIA and deep state are an unelected permanent government of intelligence agencies that run our country outside of constitutional and democratic control. They surveille Americans, manipulate the media, curtail free speech, blackmail politicians, infiltrate activist organizations, torture people, overthrow governments, and assassinated President John F. Kennedy. Abolish the CIA and deep state and restore a government of, by, and for the people. Abolish War and Empire War and empire subjugate billions of people around the world to enrich a small group of elites. In just the past two decades, the US has waged and backed wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Palestine, Yemen, Ukraine, and other countries. End all US wars and regime change. Stop all military aid to other countries. End drone strikes. Close all US military bases abroad. Bring all US troops home. Build a world that guarantees every person freedom from war and empire in place of the collapsing US hegemonic world order. Restore Civil Liberties Restore the constitutional liberties taken from us in the name of war and empire, including freedom of speech, the press, and assembly. End mass surveillance, repeal the Patriot Act, and restore the right to privacy and habeas corpus. Free Julian Assange The US is charging Julian Assange with espionage and criminalizing our right to publish information that challenges the military-industrial deep state. He is imprisoned in the UK and being extradited to the US. The CIA plotted to assassinate him for exposing US war crimes. Free Julian Assange and all political prisoners.

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GnuRadio RF: Captures US Comms Shootdown Of Luft Balloon Enemies
by grarpamp 17 Feb '23

17 Feb '23

All hail your $Billions in obsolete, misallocated, and hopelessly overpriced and entrenched Military Industrial Complex rape of your families wallets... ps: China spends $10k and gets 50 missiles, not $500k on one (that missed, thus you wasted 2x = $1M+++ to hit a toy balloon). And F-35's and F-22's are full of bugs and recalls. Audio Of US Fighter Pilot Who Shot Down Chinese Spy Balloon Reveals Lake Huron Strategy https://www.theepochtimes.com/audio-of-us-fighter-pilot-who-shot-down-chine… https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/the-operation-to-down-chinas-spy-ball… https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/f-22-shoots-down-chinese-spy-balloon-… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luke Audio recordings of radio chatter taken during the United States’ shoot down of a Chinese spy balloon earlier this month may provide insights into how the military later shot down an unidentified object over Lake Huron. A U.S. F-22 Raptor fighter flies during an aerial display at Farnborough Airshow, Hampshire, on July 14, 2008. (Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images) In over 20 minutes of radio chatter, U.S. pilots and ground teams can be heard discussing their approach and shoot down of the Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina. The audio was captured by aviation radio enthusiast Ken Harrell and first published by The Drive. The Air Force declined to share its own audio files but confirmed the authenticity of the recordings to The Epoch Times. In one exchange, the lead fighter pilot and his wingman can both be heard preparing their missiles to fire on the balloon, suggesting that the wingman was prepared to take down the balloon immediately following a failed attempt by the lead pilot. The primary players you will see in the transcript and hear in the audio are: FRANK01 is the lead F-22 that took the kill shot. FRANK02 is its wingman. As we reported Saturday, those call signs were an homage to World War One flying ace and U.S. Army Air Service First Lieutenant Frank Luke Jr, a Medal of Honor recipient better known as the "Arizona Balloon Buster" who destroyed 14 German balloons and four aircraft. HUNTRESS is the U.S. Air Force's Eastern Air Defense Sector, or EADS, part of the U.S.-Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), which was controlling the operation from the ground in Rome, New York. EAGLE01 is an F-15C and EAGLE02 is its wingman. The Eagles backed-up the F-22s and used their SNIPER targeting pods to record the shootdown and mark areas of debris for recovery. TIGER09 is a Navy P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft. TOI is Target Of Interest, in this case the Chinese spy balloon. Author's notes are seen in italics. -The Drive “FRANK01 is switches hot,” the lead pilot says. “FREANK02 is switches hot,” the wingman follows. The two F-22 stealth fighters’ call signs, FRANK01 and FRANK02, were named after World War I flying ace Frank Luke Jr., who earned the epithet of “Arizona Balloon Buster” for his successful shootdowns of 14 German balloons during the conflict. Notably, the brief exchange may reveal exactly what happened during the United States shoot down of an unidentified object over Lake Huron on Feb. 12. During that encounter, the lead pilot fired an AIM-9X missile at the object, the same type of missile used on the Chinese spy balloon and two other unidentified objects this month. In one portion of the recording, an F-15C pilot can be heard expressing frustration over actually locking onto the balloon. "I’m having trouble keeping a radar lock for any more than a second on him," said the pilot, adding "I will keep trying." Read the entire transcript here via The Drive.

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Cryptocurrency: Free Alexey Pertsev [WarOnCrypto - Tornado.Cash SW Speech CensorBanned by UST OFAC SDN]
by grarpamp 17 Feb '23

17 Feb '23

Free Alexey "Alex" Pertsev Alexey wrote code, agnostic, for freedom and privacy. They jailed him since 160 days ongoing. Alexey harmed no one. https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/02/15/tornado-cash-developer-to-stay-j… https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1591848718243954693 https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/11/23/3-things-we-learned-at-tornado-c… https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/08/21/arrest-of-tornado-cash-developer… https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2022/12/05/alexey-pertsev-most-… ‘S-HERTEGONBOSCH, THE NETHERLANDS – Alexey Pertsev, a developer of crypto privacy tool Tornado Cashm will have to remain in jail after a Wednesday hearing in his trial on money laundering charges. A panel of Dutch judges at the East Brabant Court agreed that the Russian web developer could flee or seek to hide evidence if freed on bail. Pertsev has denied the charges against him. His next hearing will take place in late April. Pertsev was arrested in August, just days after the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the anonymizing tool for crypto transactions, which it says was used to fund North Korean hackers. Under the Dutch system of pre-trial detention, charges against Pertsev were not unveiled until a November court hearing. Dutch public prosecutor Martine Boerlage alleged that, rather than merely publishing code, Pertsev and others ran Tornado like a business, comparing them to bank clerks accepting piles of suspicious cash without question. Pertsev’s arrest has drawn protests from Edward Snowden and the local crypto community, while the OFAC sanctions have drawn criticism from privacy and crypto advocates. Read more: ‘We Are All Fucked’: The Developers of Tornado Cash and the Future of Crypto Speaking to CoinDesk outside the courtroom, Pertsev’s lawyer Keith Cheng said the hearing had been a “good beginning” in educating the court about how decentralized finance works. “We had the opportunity to explain what the basis is for Tornado Cash and, and why it is not money laundering,” Cheng said. “It is our opinion that the lack of knowledge is what's keeping him here.” “Of course I’m disappointed” that Pertsev won’t be released on bail, Cheng said “He will fight until the end to show what the importance is of decentralized options, software and open source code.”

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AI prediction markets
by professor rat 17 Feb '23

17 Feb '23

– Will ChatGPT remain free through April 30?: https://polymarket.com/event/will-chatgpt-remain-free-through-april-30 – Will GPT-4 have 500b+ parameters?: https://polymarket.com/event/will-gpt-4-have-500b-parameters – Will OpenAI release GPT-4 by May 31?: https://polymarket.com/event/will-openai-release-gpt-4-by-may-31 – Will Bing’s market share be >4% in February?: https://polymarket.com/event/will-bings-market-share-be-4-in-february All raise the question Will conservatives be shot like floppy rabbits for trying to corrupt net intelligence with GIGO? ( That's a rhetorical question - I know at least one will be )

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APster into AmeriKa
by professor rat 17 Feb '23

17 Feb '23

ASSASSINATE all congress-critters! https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1626343504027828224?cxt=HHwWgIC-hZuz9… Reposts not Zerzanian energy pumped into gaseous balloons

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Utopia, dystopia, and Star Trek.
by professor rat 16 Feb '23

16 Feb '23

http://www.anarresproject.org/voices/orosco/ Reposts not endorsements of Odo-ism or blanket pacifism

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[ot[[spam][crazy] tiny decision tranaformer lib
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 16 Feb '23

16 Feb '23

https://github.com/xloem/datadecisions/blob/main/testcase.py new inhibited puzzle. this lib project rose as incentive for me to share idea steps publicly in the future # write here a way to reproduce the tutorial more usefully and simply # ensure it is easy to make new environments and provide custom data, # without needing to refer to external documentation or many different files

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Cryptocurrency: Action - Squeeze George Soros Evil Nutsack Till He Pays
by grarpamp 16 Feb '23

16 Feb '23

Soros shorted Silvergate (SI) the crypto friendly bank, so now crypto coiners are throwing money into SI to force Soros and the rest of the anti-crypto shorts to buy back at an infinite price squeeze. Justice Served Soros Style ;-) search: Silvergate Squeeze Soros https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSyczwuTQfo Soros Psychopath Long history of amoral diabolical activities easily searched, from Globalist, Fiat gambling country wrecker, hypocrite Jewish persecutor, Socialist Marxist Communist funder and supporter of violence, and now to Anti-Crypto friend of GovBankCorpPolFiat. Sound money crypto has already achieved global charitable giving and, when held and used distributed in the hands of a Free Conscious Humanity, shall end these global tyrants and politicians, and their wars, genocide, theft, murder, and rape.

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Revealed: USAID’s workforce crisis
by Gunnar Larson 16 Feb '23

16 Feb '23

Low morale and empty desks, aid workers who say they are treated like office supplies, warnings against organized strikes, and a “virtual caste system” of inequitable hiring mechanisms — the U.S. Agency for International Development is in the throes of a workforce crisis. For years, USAID has been warned that its workforce system is broken. Now, it’s becoming harder to ignore. Interviews with key members of Administrator Samantha Power’s team and aid workers bearing the brunt of two decades of dysfunction, and dozens of reports and internal documents, paint a picture of an agency in an increasingly untenable position. The situation is threatening its ability to respond to unprecedented levels of humanitarian need. Power has pledged to tackle the issue — but can she?

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[ot][spam][crazy] having working memory issues is like being a short context model
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 16 Feb '23

16 Feb '23

except you make human behavior instead of marketing

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