April 2023 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Research the global history of political assassinations
by professor rat 27 Apr '23

27 Apr '23

Since the excellent is so often the enemy of the good https://www.pogo.org/investigation/2023/04/insurrections-eve?utm_campaign=s… Reposts from one-million-years DC

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The Prophet of 21st Century National Identity
by Gunnar Larson 27 Apr '23

27 Apr '23

Think Big! --- The Prophet of 21st Century National Identity https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-04-27/roger-scruton-has-a-n… Roger Scruton was a very English philosopher. He lived on a farm in Wiltshire surrounded by animals, including six horses and a black Labrador. His favorite pastime was fox hunting — dressed in traditional hunting pink. He revered institutions such as the monarchy and the (unreformed) House of Lords. His 50-odd books include On Hunting, Philosopher on Dover Beach and England, an Elegy.

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Ron DeSantis and United Nations Innovation (Minnie Mouse at Disney)
by Gunnar Larson 27 Apr '23

27 Apr '23

Minni Mouse beat us to it: Disney Sues DeSantis, Alleging Political Effort to Hurt Business https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-26/disney-sues-desantis-all… You go Minni. Micky Mouse is so proud of you! ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> Date: Thu, Mar 9, 2023, 2:40 PM Subject: Ron DeSantis and United Nations Innovation To: <cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org> Ronald DeSantis' new NFT trading card set to raise money for Women's Rights is going to either be historic, or we will sue Florida into bankruptcy on don't say gay. The logic here is, the woke don't say gay slogan is a Women's rights landmark. That is why, the Ron DeSantis NFT card set for Women's Rights puts the United Nations a century ahead... U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said this week that global progress on women’s rights is “vanishing before our eyes” and that gender equality will take another three centuries to achieve. “Gender equality is growing more distant,” he warned.

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“Every lawmaker who breaks their own stupid laws should be dragged out of office and hung,”
by professor rat 27 Apr '23

27 Apr '23

Men, women and dogs of the worlds police forces work every day to fuck the public. You can fuck some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you are going to end up in a body bag or a pinebox before you manage to fuck all of the people all of the time. https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/04/26/the-big-finish-the-proud-boys-seditio… Reposts not filthy fascist police-state lies

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Lying-by-omission about cryptoanarchy is becoming a dark art
by professor rat 27 Apr '23

27 Apr '23

Lying-by-omission about cryptoanarchy is becoming a dark art! https://cointelegraph.com/news/why-anonymity-is-key-to-self-autonomy-and-ho… Reposts not lying, Nazbol turds like Rachael and Amir

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Bitcoin Privacy Wars another data point against Nakamoto as a Libertarian
by professor rat 27 Apr '23

27 Apr '23

If you skim the archives of this list you'll notice most of the OG's were Gung Ho for privacy. And when Btc emerged Tim May and Jim Bell expressed concerns about its public-ledger aspect Throw in the fact Nakamoto's closest public associate - c-punk OG Hal Finney specifically said he wasn't a libertarian and the case for a non-libertarian Btc narrative grows stronger. There are some arguments for a libertarian Btc narrative in that Nakamoto included that headline at the start and as Adam Back has noted Btc is an emerging system - something Hayek anticipated. Also Milton Friedman argued for currency capping ( monetarism ) for years. Then - since all libertarians are statist albeit 'minarchist ' - its hardly a shock to see collaboration with govts from many of them - even the biggest govt - the USA! So now we are engaged in a great struggle to see whose story prevails and with it the worlds next stage of capital " H " history. Strong AI may little note what we say or argue here today but it will never forget what do here. And at the rising and the going down of our Btc slayer it will remember those who gave their full measure so that self-management of, for and by the cyborg shall not perish from this anarchist netspace.

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Global giving tracking could be key to reaching UN goals: Report | Devex
by Gunnar Larson 26 Apr '23

26 Apr '23

There is no tracking of private UN funding worldwide. Can you imagine? Bank.org aims to change that. ----- International standards for tracing global giving would allow both funders and policymakers to see where private philanthropy dollars go and how they might complement official development assistance. Photo by: Eloisa Lopez / Reuters There should be international standards for tracking cross-border giving to allow for a clearer picture of how philanthropists help achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, according to new research. Subscribe to Devex Invested The insider brief on business, finance, and the SDGs Email “Common standards” for tracking and sharing data on charitable giving to causes such as climate change, racial justice, and equality for women and girls would allow governments to see where they can partner with the philanthropic sector to achieve the SDGs, according to a global philanthropy tracker report from Indiana University. The report was released Thursday. It specifically examines cross-border giving. The report found that $70 billion flowed out of 47 countries of “varying levels of economic development” and from every world region in 2020, the most recent year for which data was available. It also looked at other cross-border flows of money, including official development assistance, private capital investment, and remittances sent by individuals back to their home countries or familial homelands. When it comes to data on all of these outflows of money, private philanthropy is probably the least understood, said Una Osili, the associate dean for research and international programs at IU’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. One aim of the report is to show how international philanthropy data standards might help civil societies, governments, businesses, and individual funders better collaborate to address societal issues worldwide. “Better data will inform better policy- and decision-making,” a press release for the report reads. The development of standards for tracing global giving would allow both funders and policymakers to see where private philanthropy dollars go and how they might complement official development assistance, the research suggests. Improved international tracking standards also could reveal funding “gaps” and help philanthropists interested in supporting the SDGs to better target their giving to help accomplish those goals, Osili told Devex in an interview. But the challenge is figuring out how those tracking standards might be broadly adopted, she said. When it comes to foreign direct investment or official development aid there are rules in place for countries to report that spending to central bodies either at the national or international level, she noted. “The challenge for the private philanthropy sector more broadly is that there isn’t any one group that is tasked with doing this,” Osili said. South Korea “stands out” as an example of how philanthropy data tracking might be done internationally, she said. The country has created standards for foundations giving cross-border donations to report and identify where those funds are going. As a result, it has been easier to see whether areas such as climate or global health are receiving lots of funding and also to see where private philanthropy dollars are not going, Osili said. “This becomes really important because there are some funders who want to know how much money is going to something,” she said. That information allows them to make decisions about how they can give in a way that might “move the needle” for certain causes, she added. As philanthropy grows, so do limits on cross-border giving: Report Findings from a new Indiana University report on global philanthropy show an increase in restrictions on cross-border donations across dozens of countries, which tracks with a global decline in democracy. Global development funding has evolved quite a lot in the past few decades, Osili said. It used to be that “ODA was pretty much the name of the game,” but now there is a “much more complex reality” that involves private remittances and private philanthropy from funders such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation playing a bigger role in funding global development causes, she said. The $70 billion in philanthropic contributions identified in the report represented 8% of all the financial resources flowing across borders in 2020, which included ODA, private capital investment, and remittances. “I think especially when you think about SDGs and funding gaps and all of the resources that can be brought to bear, that involves putting philanthropy on the radar and also bringing private philanthropy to the table,” Osili said. In places such as the United States, agencies such as USAID and the State Department are thinking about how they can work with local, national, and international funders “on certain challenges” and better data will help them determine how best to do that, she said. The report’s other tips for ensuring global philanthropy can better meet current and future challenges, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, included a recommendation for global and regional funders to provide more support for local grassroots organizations that can respond to crises quickly on the ground. It also encouraged philanthropists to engage with nontraditional vehicles for giving, such as online crowdfunding platforms and global funds such as the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund to help their money reach local communities more efficiently. https://www.devex.com/news/global-giving-tracking-could-be-key-to-reaching-…

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Grarpamps a woman!
by professor rat 26 Apr '23

26 Apr '23

I tracked her down through link analysis https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/1651018115327864832?cxt=HHwWgMDRnc-O… Reposts not creepy Amerikkkan zombies feasting on brains

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Jamie Dimon’s Deeply Conflicted Role as “Rescuer” of First Republic Bank Requires a Credible Investigation
by Gunnar Larson 26 Apr '23

26 Apr '23

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2023/04/jamie-dimons-deeply-conflicted-role-… By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: April 26, 2023 Jamie Dimon Sits in Front of Trading Monitor in his Office (Source -- 60 Minutes Interview, November 10, 2019) Jamie Dimon Sits in Front of Trading Monitors in his Office (Source: 60 Minutes Interview, November 10, 2019) The Board of Directors and shareholders at the largest bank in the U.S., JPMorgan Chase – which has more than 5,000 Chase Bank branches dotting the landscape from coast to coast – have ample reason to ask themselves where the loyalties of the bank’s Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon exactly lie. Dimon, who has come under withering negative publicity for the bank’s many years of catering to the cash payoff needs of child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, had an urgent incentive to want to change the subject. So a media blitz ensued around his role as rescuer of the sinking carcass of a much smaller bank, First Republic Bank – which has its own dubious distinction of being the bank that wired the hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels by Trump attorney, Michael Cohen. For just how broadly Dimon’s “rescue” of First Republic Bank has been reported, scroll down at this link. Only someone living off the grid or in a coma did not hear that Jamie Dimon was riding to the rescue of First Republic Bank. But as early as Tuesday, March 28, during a Senate Banking hearing, it became clear that when First Republic finally got around to updating the public on the severity of its distressed situation (which it finally did on Monday in a 12-minute earnings call that took no questions from anyone), the news was going to be devastating to the bank. At the Senate Banking hearing, the Vice Chairman for Supervision at the Fed, Michael Barr, explained just how fast deposits can evaporate from a bank in the new digital age, especially when tens of billions of dollars of those deposits exceed the FDIC insurance cap of $250,000 per depositor, per bank. Barr told the Senators that in the case of Silicon Valley Bank, $42 billion in deposits had left the bank on Thursday, March 9, and bank customers had queued up $100 billion more to exit the following day. Silicon Valley Bank did not have adequate collateral to post at the Fed to borrow funds to meet that $100 billion in withdrawals, thus the bank was put into FDIC receivership on March 10. No depositor has ever lost a dime of deposits in an FDIC-insured bank if they have kept those deposits in FDIC-insured accounts and within that $250,000 FDIC cap. Both Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic Bank are California-headquartered regional banks. The contagion from Silicon Valley Bank had directly impacted First Republic Bank. By the date of that Senate Banking hearing on March 28, First Republic’s common stock had lost 90 percent of its market value – just in the month of March. It might be possible to come back from that if one is a start-up tech firm, or an acknowledged high-risk innovator. But Americans put their money in federally-insured banks because they want safety; because they want the peace of mind of knowing their deposits will be protected despite what happens in the Wall Street casino on any given day. In that vein, Jamie Dimon was the worst possible choice to head up a rescue of First Republic Bank as he is the personification of what happens when a trading casino is allowed to own the largest federally-insured bank in America. Under Dimon’s tenure at the helm of JPMorgan Chase, it has been charged with losing $6.2 billion of depositors’ money by gambling in derivatives in London; its precious metals traders have been charged under RICO – the statute used to prosecute the mob; it has received an unprecedented five felony counts from the U.S. Department of Justice, including aiding and abetting the largest Ponzi scheme in history by Bernie Madoff, and on and on. But Jamie Dimon has a legion of public relations flacks shaping his image as a titan of Wall Street wisdom and he has clearly gotten high on his own p.r. supply. So Dimon cajoled three other mega banks on Wall Street to join his bank and dump $5 billion each of uninsured deposits into First Republic Bank on March 16. Those banks were Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo. In addition, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs deposited $2.5 billion each; while BNY Mellon, State Street, PNC Bank, Truist and US Bank each deposited $1 billion, bringing the total infusion to $30 billion. In addition, according to First Republic, JPMorgan Chase had also provided a line of credit to the bank. Multiple media outlets also reported that JPMorgan Chase and Lazard were advisors to First Republic Bank on its options going forward. (See here and here.) Yesterday, the share price of First Republic plunged another 49 percent, closing at an all-time low of $8.10. In response, CNBC is reporting that there is now a plan afoot to attempt to cajole the 11 banks that sluiced the $30 billion in temporary deposits to First Republic to convert that into an equity stake. Seriously? What the devil is going on here and why aren’t the shareholders of these banks wielding pitchforks? S&P Global has already downgraded First Republic Bank into junk territory; excluding the $30 billion in strong-armed deposits from the mega banks, First Republic lost a staggering 58 percent of its deposits in the first quarter of this year; and its wealth advisors are leaving and taking billions of dollars in clients assets with them to new firms. Since when did it become a rational move for one federally-insured bank to link its brand and reputation to an imploding bank? Dimon needs to be hauled before the Senate Banking Committee in a public hearing, put under oath, and grilled as to what exactly his motivation was to get so enmeshed in the hot mess at First Republic Bank. Likewise, the perpetually blind-folded and conflicted Board at JPMorgan Chase needs to hire an independent, credible law firm to investigate the conflicts inherent in the many hats Jamie Dimon was wearing in this debacle.

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Stop the presses
by professor rat 26 Apr '23

26 Apr '23

There should not be any NYT for Mange to scribble op-eds in when he shuffles out in his zimmer-frame. https://twitter.com/NYTimesUp/status/1650918188392255490?cxt=HHwWhMDQxY3Wnu… Reposts not discredited shithole websites for corpse-media zombies

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