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From B to C and back again
by professor rat 29 Dec '22

29 Dec '22

By ' you fools ' I understand Gramps to mean ' you herd of sheeple " or as Mange put it , " the 95% that compromise the flock ". The Lunar Right feel threatened by the majority and with good reason. Rightwing morons - like Gramps and Assmange - are losers and have been losers for centuries. The last time these morons ever prospered was the dark ages. They only feel empowered now cos they have an over-inflated, force-propped space to recreate what most people today are revolted by. For centuries " democrat ' and ' democracy ' were reactionaries swear-words - now its the turn of anarchist and anarchy. But revolutionary anarchists never expected anything from the likes of Dorsey and co. So we were never disappointed. The Gramps type ought to be riding high with a mostly uncontested Btc narrative. Trouble is they seem so insecure they don't inspire any confidence. Whatever happened to ' Money Badger don't care "? Somehow it morphed into Maxi gonna badger youse. And bombard with bullshit. And shovel in the shovelware. And spam more links. And spread more clickbait. And shout louder and louder. And spray more memes around like a sexually excited skunk. Meh. Mongo would puke.

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Cryptocurrency: Rising To Downsize Theft Of Equity
by grarpamp 29 Dec '22

29 Dec '22

When you route your P2P money around them instead of foolishly dumping it into their pockets, they no longer have the resources to steal from you anymore... 12 States Allow Home Equity 'Theft' Over Homeowners' Tax Payment Shortfalls, Study Says https://www.theepochtimes.com/12-states-allow-home-equity-theft-over-homeow… https://alec.org/model-policy/statement-of-principles-on-ending-home-equity… https://homeequitytheft.org/size-and-scope https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-160/233950/20220819091504898_F… https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-237/237523/20220909120626309_N… https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-166/233999/20220819120827692_T… Twelve states and the District of Columbia allow local governments and private investors to seize dramatically more than what is owed from homeowners who fall behind on property tax payments, according to a new report. Christina M. Martin, senior attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation, in a file photo. (Courtesy of Pacific Legal Foundation) The practice, which Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) calls “home equity theft,” is documented in what the organization bills as the first national study aimed at exposing “the injustice of home equity theft through tax foreclosure.” “Our findings are alarming,” PLF’s strategic research director, Angela Erickson, said in a statement. “Home equity theft is robbing thousands of people of their homes and all the equity they’ve built. A system that allows governments and private investors to take more than what is owed creates a perverse incentive to work against the homeowner—not with the homeowner—to get the tax debt paid.” Homeowners lost more than $777 million in life savings on more than 5,600 homes, based on their market value, in transactions that took place from 2014 to 2021. The true total is probably higher because statistics from New York state and some statistics from the other states studied were not available. On average, homeowners lost 86 percent of their equity, the study found. Government entities, which often unload properties for a fraction of their market value, collected an estimated $26 million more than they were owed on about 1,300 homes. At the same time, private investors, who purchase tax liens, took in about $250 million more than what they were owed on about 2,600 homes. Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, South Dakota, and the District of Columbia have laws on the books that let local governments and private investors “steal” substantial amounts of home equity from homeowners who are late on their property taxes, according to PLF. Nine other states—Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas, and Wisconsin—safeguard home equity in the foreclosure process but provide loopholes that permit governments or private entities to capture excess equity value that PLF says should belong to the homeowner. These laws allow government officials and investors to take homes that have been in families for generations and leave some people homeless over tax debts that, in some cases, work out to less than 1 percent of their property’s value, according to PLF. In one case, a county in Michigan seized a man’s house over an $8.41 underpayment, leaving him with nothing. The report notes that in the end, the homeowner prevailed when the Michigan Supreme Court determined that the county had acted unconstitutionally. PLF takes the position that these so-called tax-and-take transactions violate the Fifth Amendment, which prevents the government from taking property without just compensation, and the Eighth Amendment, which bans excessive penalties. Some government treasurers’ organizations, counties, and tax lien investors who “personally profit off the system in some of these states” are in favor of laws that lead to home equity theft, Christina Martin, a senior attorney at PLF, told The Epoch Times. “Everybody else seems to be against it—groups on the left, right, [and] center,” she said. “The vast majority of people seem to be against this. And most people actually have no idea this is even happening.” The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), an alliance of conservative lawmakers, is opposed to home equity theft. Laws should be changed to require surplus profits to be returned to a home’s prior owner after a “tax lien investor or county collects what it is due and any other debts or levies on the property are paid,” ALEC says. The Epoch Times reached out to the Government Finance Officers Association, the National Governors Association, and the National Conference of State Legislatures for comment but had not received a reply from any of the three organizations as of press time. PLF currently has three home equity theft-related petitions from homeowners pending before the Supreme Court, all of which are scheduled to be considered by the justices on Jan. 6, 2023. Two are from Nebraska. One petition (pdf) is Fair v. Continental Resources, court file 22-160, and the other (pdf) is Nieveen v. Tax 106, court file 22-237. A petition (pdf), Tyler v. Hennepin County, court file 22-166, is from Minnesota.

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SpyVeillance: T-Mobile and Starlink Deploy Global Satcom Cell Interception and Tracking
by grarpamp 29 Dec '22

29 Dec '22

Two of the biggest TOP-SECRET US Govt Telecom and Satcom Contractors combine to deploy global phone sats... nope, no spyveillance going on there. Bluffdale will be storing and mining literally all 8 Billion phone convos. Feed them end2end p2p crypto noise. "Eliminate Dead Zones": Elon Musk Partners With T-Mobile For New Satellite-To-Cell-Service https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-26/how-musk-plans-to-kill-o… https://www.t-mobile.com/news/un-carrier/t-mobile-takes-coverage-above-and-… https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1562956451538014209 Elon Musk's SpaceX teamed up with T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert to beam cell service via Starlink satellites to "most places in the US," including more than half a million square miles of dead zone areas that aren't covered by cellular networks. The two companies would create a new mobile network to broadcast T-Mobile's existing mid-band spectrum via Starlink satellites to anywhere in the continental US, Hawaii, parts of Alaska, and Puerto Rico. SpaceX and T-Mobile wrote in a press release that the new network would "provide near complete coverage in most places in the US — even in many of the most remote locations previously unreachable by traditional cell signals." Musk tweeted that the new service, launching in 2023, will "eliminate dead zones worldwide." Starlink V2, launching next year, will transmit direct to mobile phones, eliminating dead zones worldwide — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 26, 2022 Bloomberg explained how the new satellite-to-cellular service would work through powerful antennas attached to upgraded Starlink satellites: The new network will be accessible thanks to large, powerful antennas attached to Starlink satellites. Musk said each antenna would measure some 25 square meters (269 square feet) and be "extremely advanced because they've got to pick up a very quiet signal from your cell phone and then be caught by a satellite that's traveling 17,000 miles an hour." The T-Mobile service will run in a similar way to data roaming, where a user's mobile will scan for service and if it finds none it will connect to the satellite. Musk, at an unveiling event at SpaceX's Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, along with T-Mobile Sievert, on Thursday evening, gave an "open invitation to carriers around the world" about adding the new service. Bloomberg noted that most smartphones are already equipped with technology to beam a signal to space so that additional equipment won't be required. But there are limitations, and the main issue is bandwidth, as Bloomberg pointed out: The main issue is bandwidth, which will at first limit the service to text messaging. The coverage area will be divided into large cell zones, with each zone's connectivity limited to around 2-4 MBs. Musk said that would allow for some 1,000-2,000 voice calls per cell, or millions of text messages, but the service would not provide a substitute for ground cell stations. "This is really meant to provide basic coverage to areas that are currently completely dead," Musk said, adding there could initially be a delay of "half an hour, maybe worse" for messages to pass through the system. Testing for the new satellite-to-cellular service is expected later this year after SpaceX launches the new satellites into low Earth orbit.

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From B to C and back again
by professor rat 29 Dec '22

29 Dec '22

Crime scene confidential runasand Aug 10 Ahmad Abouammo was convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia by turning over personal information of Twitter users who had criticized the Kingdom and its royal family. He faces 10 to 20 years when sentenced. BITCOIN not crypto! Namecoin @Namecoin Sep 5 Reliable, easy way to spot “#decentralized web” #scam projects Bounty Law. The spaghetti-western Maxi’s narrative is not as laugh-out-loud as Mack-Sennett-REASON’s version. I hope to remedy this by playing a man-with-no-nym. For a fistful of crypto, of course. And for a few tokens more I’ll shoot holes all over these Italian pudgepits and then ask my friends to start chewing up their podcast scenery. ( cue Morricone ) The arc of the Maxi cypherpunk universe is long - but it bends towards Btc government bonds.

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Breaking News: Exxon sues EU in move to block new windfall tax on oil companies | Financial Times
by Gunnar Larson 29 Dec '22

29 Dec '22

https://www.ft.com/content/4bd2590f-3aa3-4f0b-a001-165f61c7af5f ExxonMobil is suing the EU in a bid to force it to scrap the bloc’s new windfall tax on oil groups, arguing Brussels exceeded its legal authority by imposing the levy. The lawsuit is the most significant response yet against the tax from the oil industry, which has been targeted by western governments amid a surge in energy prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The action threatens the viability of a levy the European Commission said would raise €25bn “to help bring down energy bills”. Exxon said the lawsuit was filed on Wednesday by its German and Dutch subsidiaries at the European General Court in Luxembourg City. It challenges the Council of the EU’s legal authority to impose the new tax — a power historically reserved for sovereign countries — and its use of emergency powers to secure member states’ approval for the measure. Casey Norton, a spokesperson for Exxon, said the US supermajor recognised high energy costs were “weighing heavily on families and businesses” but argued the levy was “counterproductive” and would “undermine investor confidence, discourage investment and increase reliance on imported energy”. Exxon had spent $3bn on European refining projects in the past 10 years, increasing output “at a time when Europe struggles to reduce its energy imports from Russia”, Norton said. Exxon was now considering “future multibillion-euro investments” in the continent, Norton added. “Whether we invest here primarily depends on how attractive and globally competitive Europe will be.” The so-called solidarity contribution was one of several measures agreed by the council in September to ease the burden on energy consumers, with the money raised to be recycled to hard-hit consumers or invested in clean energy supply. Other measures included a cap on revenue from low-cost power generation. Exxon was not opposing these, Norton said. The European General Court will decide whether to rule on Exxon’s lawsuit. If it does, any future judgment may be appealed at the European Court of Justice. Proceedings could drag on through much of next year.

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RNC Funding of Trump's Legal Campaign Undermines GOP State AGs' Attack on Litigation Funding - Litigation Finance Journal
by Gunnar Larson 29 Dec '22

29 Dec '22

Check out my new article: https://litigationfinancejournal.com/rnc-funding-of-trumps-legal-campaign-u… Litigation Finance Journal recently reported <https://litigationfinancejournal.com/state-ags-join-chamber-of-commerces-ca…> on a group of 14 state attorneys general that have called for action from the Department of Justice to review potential threats to U.S. national security from foreign adversaries’ engagement of litigation investment. Litigation funders and industry advocates have new ammo in response to the AGs’ claims, given recent news of the RNC funding former President Donald Trump’s various legal entanglements. According to ABC News <https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/year-election-rnc-spending-hundreds-thousan…>, RNC leaders earmarked $1.6M in legal funding to support President Donald Trump’s defense over lawsuits brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James. Meanwhile, the United States Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform’s research has prompted <https://tmsnrt.rs/3FNpLgP> 14 state attorneys general to ask for the Justice Department to assess national security risks of adversaries ‘undermining’ the United States by engaging litigation funding and third party investment vehicles. The group of 14 state attorneys general are concerned about foreign adversaries ‘weaponizing’ United States legal frameworks via litigation investment, to attack critical national industry and infrastructure, such as energy sectors. The group of 14 seeks the Department of Justice to detail how a network of federal agencies could engage a blueprint for defending United States independence from international litigation investors, hostile groups, agencies or governments such as Russia and China. This latest attack on the industry, prompted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is simply another attempt to undermine the nascent and growing litigation funding sector. It is ironic, given that in the case of Consumer Legal Funding–which the Chamber specifically targets–the funding in question does not go to support legal fees, but rather to finance claimants’ livelihoods while they remain injured and unable to work. While the RNC’s funding of Trump’s legal battles does not constitute foreign investment, it illustrates the acceptance of third party legal funding across political lines, and should be noted by industry advocates looking to respond to the negative publicity put forth by the U.S. Chamber.

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John Young is much worse than Langley Va CIA - he's Marxist-Communist
by professor rat 29 Dec '22

29 Dec '22

A key principle in this vision is that the Communist regimes, no matter how illiberal, had serious altruistic intentions in comparison with the irredeemably self-serving capitalist West. (Academics in the capitalist West greeted this brain wave with awed approval, failing to note that their society could hardly be self-interested if it allowed them to do so—unless, that is, freedom of expression is a sly trick played by capitalism to convince the gullible that they are at liberty.) When Sartre broke with the Communists, he retained respect for their putatively benevolent social intentions, and was ready to say something exculpatory even when what he was exculpating was the Gulag network—whose existence, after he finally ceased to deny it, he never condemned as a central product of a totalitarian system, but as an incidental blemish https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2007/03/the-problem-with-sartre.html Reposts not spotlights on known fascist cypherpunks ( Hi James Donald! )

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Karl Semich claims he's Nicholas Barclay
by professor rat 29 Dec '22

29 Dec '22

Just in case you're skipping over Karls contributions https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/streaming/bonkers-2012-documentary… Reposts not timewasting gasbag imposters

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Re: John Young gave ass to CIA
by zeynep＠keemail.me 28 Dec '22

28 Dec '22

For don't know what i mean https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1606329787882029057?t=eqz6-hdiptoH9M_9…

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John Young gave money to Alex Jones
by professor rat 28 Dec '22

28 Dec '22

Sorry, young Julie Fancelli, not Kim John Young from ' Cryptome " and cypherpunks. My bad. >>> emptywheel · 4h J6C gets Fancelli to say she only wanted to fund a peaceful rally, take a break, then ask, WTF were you funding Alex Jones for, then? <<< Nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1608128138868924417?cxt=HHwWgoC96bSBn… Reposts not shabby attampts to promote public frauds

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