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Whistleblowers: FBI Manipulating 'Domestic Terrorism' Data To Fit Biden Narrative [re: jan6]
by grarpamp 30 Jul '22

30 Jul '22

When you make everyone a terrorist, you can persecute your opponents and prosecute freedom at will... 1984's gulags getting closer, worldwide... Whistleblowers: FBI Manipulating 'Domestic Terrorism' Data To Fit Biden Narrative https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1552378066495741958 https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/06/15/fac… https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-01-11/justice-dept-creat… https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1480928569152917513 https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1529462289362931718 Multiple FBI whistleblowers have stepped forward to House Republicans to claim that the agency's leadership has been pressuring agents to 'artificially pad domestic terrorism data' by inappropriately classifying cases to meet quotas. "From recent protected disclosures, we have learned that FBI officials are pressuring agents to reclassify cases as ‘domestic violent extremism’ even if the cases do not meet the criteria for such a classification," wrote Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) in a Wednesday letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray. "Given the narrative pushed by the Biden administration that domestic violent extremism is the ‘greatest threat’ facing our country, the revelation that the FBI may be artificially padding domestic terrorism data is scandalous," Jordan continues. 🚨 #BREAKING 🚨 Whistleblowers: FBI Leadership Pressuring Agents to Artificially Pad Domestic Terrorism Data pic.twitter.com/fGuQbUbjX3 — House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) July 27, 2022 "The Biden administration’s narrative may be misleading," Jordan writes. "One whistleblower explained that because agents are not finding enough DVE [domestic violent extremism] cases, they are encouraged and incentivized to reclassify cases as DVE cases even though there is minimal, circumstantial evidence to support the reclassification." "This information … reinforces our concerns regarding the FBI’s politicization under your leadership," Jordan continued, noting that there had been an alleged "purge" of conservative FBI employees, and that the agency seems "more focused on classifying investigations to meet a woke left-wing agenda" than addressing congressional concerns. Notably, the FBI created a 'domestic terrorism' unit in January after prioritizing the threat of "white extremism" as the most pressing domestic security concern. This followed a June 2020 report that the White House's National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism had defined the "the two most lethal elements of today’s domestic terrorism threat" as : (1) racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists who advocate for the superiority of the white race and (2) anti-government or anti-authority violent extremists, such as militia violent extremists." "The Justice Department is establishing a specialized unit focused on domestic terrorism, the department's top national security official told lawmakers Tuesday as he described an elevated threat from violent extremists in the United States," The Associated Press reported in January. The unit was described as necessary to handle the "more than double" the number of suspected violent extremism cases which have popped up since spring of 2020, according to Congressional testimony this week of Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen. "We have seen a growing threat from those who are motivated by racial animus, as well as those who ascribe to extremist anti-government and anti-authority ideologies," Olsen stated. The specialized domestic terrorism unit, he described, is further necessary to "to augment our existing approach" - despite the DOJ already having a counterterrorism section within National Security Division, and such cases also long being handled by FBI units. Does this new FBI department exist to prevent domestic terrorism or to perpetrate it, like that time the FBI hatched a plan to kidnap and kill Michigan’s governor? https://t.co/niR5dVm51n — Sean Davis (@seanmdav) January 11, 2022 And remember how Biden's Secretary of Education reportedly requested a 'domestic terrorism' letter from a school boards group, after parents angry about COVID-19 mandates and Critical Race Theory (among other things) showed up to school board meetings to voice their displeasure? Then, in May, Senate Republicans blocked a bill to create domestic terrorism offices within federal law enforcement agencies in response to the Buffalo, NY mass shooting that left 10 people dead. “The bill is so important because the mass shooting in Buffalo was an act of domestic terrorism. We need to call it what it is, domestic terrorism. It was terrorism that fed off the poison of conspiracy theories like white replacement theory,” Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said just before the vote. Leader Schumer on the domestic terrorism bill: "This is a test; this is about accountability. Republican Senators: do you reject the views of MAGA Republicans? Do you reject white supremacy and replacement theory? Taking a stand … should be the easiest thing in the world." — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 25, 2022 As Sen. Rand Paul said in a floor speech at the time; "Today we will have a bill before us ostensibly titled and ostensibly about the subject of domestic terrorism. But this bill would be more accurately called the Democrat plan to brand and insult our police and soldiers as White supremacists and neo-Nazis – how insulting."

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Why does Spencer Beswick hate our anarchist freedoms?
by professor rat 30 Jul '22

30 Jul '22

Spencer Beswick (he/him) is a PhD Candidate at Cornell University researching the history of anarchism and the left; his dissertation, “Love and Rage: Revolutionary Anarchism in the Late Twentieth Century,” explores the attempted colonization of the anarchist movement in the 1980s-90s. https://anarchistnews.org/comment/46332#comment-46332 Reposts etc - you know the drill

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Samuel Alito needs killing ( My 200 sats )
by professor rat 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. born April Fools, 1950) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George W. Bush on October 31, 2005, and has served since January 31, 2006. He is the second Italian-American justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, after Antonin Scalia, and the eleventh Roman Catholic. And in related news… Mussolini was Catholic. Franco was Catholic. Himmler, head of the SS, was a Catholic. The SS was set up on the Jesuit model. Goebbels was Catholic. Hoss, the camp commandant of Auschwitz, was a Catholic. Frank,‘ the butcher of Poland ’, was Catholic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Alito There he goes! GET HIM!

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APster rising
by professor rat 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

One of the funniest things about the inexorable rise of full-spectrum cryptoanarchy is how the worlds last super-power has been enlisted since 2002. Another proof of this will arrive shortly when it grants us such a generous amount of regulatory arbitrage ( Jurisdiction shopping ) that good money drives out bad. That is good money for us decadent Western liberal Atlanticist's. Bad for KGB Russia and the CCP. Adoption of deadpool-bounty-law also underlines the use of violence - controlled violence - in any political-economy. This then exposes all ' peace-loving agorist ' and NAP politicos as liars. They talk up PEACE! at every opportunity the same way libertarians once talked up smaller, leaner govt and Lenin promised the Proudhonian Commune - its bullshit. And its more than the usual toxic political bs when carpetbagger pacifists, like Ross Ulbricht and Jeff Berwick. get caught in the act of subsidizing violence. But youse knew that.

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Top down APster reports
by professor rat 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

The USG continues to proffer large rewards for information leading to the arrest of certain alleged miscreants - usually infamous criminals. " Bounty Law " is considered uncontroversial when done piecemeal and on an ad hoc basis. Unlike pentagon PAM from 2003 that was described as a " Terrorist Casino " If the USG is a great and omnipotent teacher, as described by Louis Brandeis, then its teaching the world how to move towards a new justice system. That's a bold statement, yet one, I believe is supported by the additional factoid that - since 2002 - no cypherpunk has had APster mentioned in legal proceedings against them. So its hard not to see APster as a clear and present trend. Its like giving the Defense portfolio to anarchism ( After first giving Treasury to crypto-currency ) Its like a new Westphalia - Welcome to the revolution.

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Whitepapers, source-code and privacy or ' CHAUM " for short
by professor rat 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

David Chaum has so many white-papers and so much unpatented source-code he makes us all look lazy. And in recent years he's devoted much time to healing the privacy breach represented by metadata. So Dave is like a ' Golden Goose ' for this list. But no good deed ever goes unpunished. SAD! Its enough to drive a Chaumian punk to suicide. Amirite?

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Re-enter the Matrix
by professor rat 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

" So Amorpheous; what you're saying is Monero devs, users and operators all think that Monero can successfully be made too traceable for criminals." Let me put it this way, Zero. Only idiots would not see the fact in that statement. " BULLSHIT! " Reposts like green vertical streams in the rain ( Keep taking the tablets, Gramps )

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Another day - another major use case
by professor rat 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

As history has proven, overcoming the technology adoption curve comes down to a major use case, or the so-called “killer app.” https://cointelegraph.com/news/blockchain-technology-can-help-create-safe-a… Reposts etc

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Novo-feudalism 0 - Crypto-anarchism 1
by professor rat 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

>>> having completely recallable delegates is a technique to transfer ahead. While others focused on governance mechanisms, some pointed to the use of blockchain-based scientific disciplines, such as leveraging verified randomization to pick essential roles in a DAO. Another community member recommended selecting token holders at random and rotating when the designated holder is not present on-chain. <<< The more people show up the further behind the hardcore Paultards get and the more anarcho-anarchist things get overall. And this was perfectly predictable - even back in the early 90's. The OG Randite morons should have called it ' Cyber-Liberty ' not cryptoanarchy. Too bad.

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[ot][spam][crazy] adapters for semibalanced trees?
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

i wonder if i can use the adapter finetuning stuff to feel like i am moving forward on the semibalanced trees a little i'm imagining a model that mutates code in a way that is helpful: stabilising it, simplifying it, anything helpful for the goal if the code were small enough, it might fit right into a language model. there may even be long-context language models on huggingface, like transformers-xl, that adapter transformers could just load right up

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