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covaids plandemic is US political murder in africa
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 09 Feb '22

09 Feb '22

"The epidemic of untimely deaths among high-profile black African heads of state and key government ministers and physicians who opposed Bill Gates/COVAX policies provoked a wave of conspiracy theories suggesting that these men were murdered to silence dissent. The phenomenon was so striking during the first year of the pandemic that both Reuters and the British Medical Journal (BMJ) published articles seeking to explain the troubling trend." https://gh.bmj.com/content/6/5/e005587 "The article points out that the overall death rates (1:33) among African elected leaders from COVID are seven times the rates for their sex and age and demographics of the general population during that time period." "We have since learned that the CIA and the Belgian intelligence agencies collaborated in Lumumba’s murder. (In 2002, Belgium formally apologized for its role in the assassination.) CIA Director Allen Dulles, who planned to kill Lumumba with poison toothpaste, knew that my uncle had enormous affection and admiration for Lumumba. Dulles feared that JFK would interfere with the CIA’s plan to liquidate the charismatic leader. Among other mischief, the CIA overthrew governments in Ghana in 1966 and Chad in 1982." "Congressional investigations in the 1970s exposed the CIA’s years of experimentation to develop untraceable poisons and secretive murder tools. CIA scientists, including NIH brain surgeon Maitland Baldwin, working under MKUltra’s director Sidney Gottlieb at Ft. Detrick, concocted a diabolical arsenal of assassination weaponry including beamed radio frequency radiation, pathogenic microbes, and dissipating chemicals, all intended to mimic natural deaths. This armory of toxins gave the agency capacity to assassinate uncooperative foreign leaders while avoiding suspicion. "

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Havana Syndrome may be caused by ‘pulsed energy’
by jim bell 09 Feb '22

09 Feb '22

Havana Syndrome may be caused by ‘pulsed energy’ https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/havana-syndrome-symptoms… Feb. 2, 2022, 2:00 PM EST / Updated Feb. 2, 2022, 6:49 PM ESTBy Ken Dilanian The mysterious and sudden brain injuries suffered by a small group of American diplomats and spies overseas were most likely caused by pulsed electromagnetic energy delivered by an external device, a panel of scientific experts working for U.S. intelligence agencies has concluded. The panel’s findings, while full of caveats, are consistent with what has been a longstanding hypothesis by intelligence officials — that a foreign adversary, most likely Russia, is responsible for at least some of the symptoms suffered by those who have fallen victim to what is commonly known as Havana Syndrome.

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Fwd: NSO offered US mobile security firm ‘bags of cash’, whistleblower claims
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 09 Feb '22

09 Feb '22

I guess there's often lots of stories like this. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/feb/01/nso-offered-us-mobile-security… NSO offered US mobile security firm ‘bags of cash’, whistleblower claims Tue 1 Feb 2022 12.00 EST A whistleblower has alleged that an executive at NSO Group offered a US-based mobile security company “bags of cash” in exchange for access to a global signalling network used to track individuals through their mobile phone, according to a complaint that was made to the US Department of Justice. The allegation, which dates back to 2017 and was made by a former mobile security executive named Gary Miller, was disclosed to federal authorities and to the US congressman Ted Lieu, who said he conducted his own due diligence on the claim and found it “highly disturbing”. Details of the allegation by Miller were then sent in a letter by Lieu to the Department of Justice. “The privacy implications to Americans and national security implications to America of NSO Group accessing mobile operator signalling networks are vast and alarming,” Lieu wrote in his letter. The letter was shared with the Guardian and other media partners on the Pegasus project, a media consortium led by the Paris-based Forbidden Stories that has investigated NSO and published a series of stories about how governments around the world have used the company’s spyware to target activists, journalists, and lawyers, among others. Advertisement One in five applicants to white supremacist group tied to US military NSO said it had no business with the mobile security company. The Guardian and media partners have separately learned that NSO is the subject of an active criminal investigation by the Department of Justice, according to four people familiar with the investigation. The investigation, they claim, is focused on allegations of unauthorised intrusions into networks and mobile devices. One American citizen whose mobile phone was hacked by a client of the spyware maker – and who asked not to be identified – said they were interviewed at length about the 2021 hacking incident by US authorities. Security researchers had found the individual was hacked while living outside the US and using a non-US mobile number. The DoJ also interviewed the Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegui, whose iPhone was hacked using NSO technology, according to security researchers who have analysed her mobile phone. According to another person familiar with the criminal investigation, the DoJ has also been in contact with a company whose users are alleged to have been targeted by clients of NSO using Pegasus spyware. The DoJ declined to comment. NSO has previously said that it does not know how its clients use its spyware, but that the clients are meant to target only serious criminals. It has said its technology has saved “thousands of lives” by thwarting terror attacks. It has also said that it investigates credible allegations of wrongdoing by its clients. NSO has for years been considered among the world’s most sophisticated makers of spyware. When it is successfully deployed, a user of Pegasus can intercept phone calls, read messages on encrypted apps, view photographs, and turn a phone into a remote listening device. The Biden administration announced in November that it was adding NSO to the commerce department’s “entity list” – in effect, an export blacklist – after it said it found evidence that the Israeli company had supplied spyware to foreign governments, which used the tools to “maliciously target” government officials, journalists, businesspeople, activists, academics and embassy workers. The allegation at the heart of congressman Ted Lieu’s letter to the DoJ dates back to 2017. In 2017, Gary Miller – the whistleblower who agreed to be interviewed by the Guardian, the Washington Post, and Forbidden Stories – was working for a company called Mobileum, which designed, developed and sold software to protect the decades-old SS7 network, a global messaging system used for legitimate purposes by mobile phone companies, but can also be used to track mobile users’ physical location. Miller was asked to lead a web voice call that he alleged in records provided to authorities was attended by NSO executives Shalev Hulio and Omri Lavie, two of the group’s co-founders. NSO, Miller said, was interested in learning more about Mobileum’s access to hundreds of mobile networks around the world. Specifically, Miller has alleged the NSO executives wanted to discuss how gaining access to the mobile networks would allow NSO to “enhance the capabilities of their surveillance software”. “They stated explicitly that their product was designed for surveillance and it was designed to surveil not the good guys but the bad guys,” Miller said. He added: “They stated multiple times that their work was authorised by government agencies. They didn’t get in the details of who those government agencies were.” As the meeting progressed, Miller alleged, a member of his own company’s leadership at Mobileum asked what NSO believed the “business model” was of working with Mobileum, since Mobileum did not sell access to the global signalling networks as a product. According to Miller, and a written disclosure he later made to federal authorities, the response allegedly made by Lavie was “we drop bags of cash at your office”. Miller said the meeting ended soon thereafter. A few months later, Miller said he submitted an anonymous “tip” to the FBI in which he reported some details of the August conversation but did not hear back from authorities. In a statement to the Guardian, Lavie’s spokesperson said: “No business was undertaken with Mobileum. Mr Lavie has no recollection of using the phrase ‘bags of cash’, and believes he did not do so. However, if those words were used they will have been entirely in jest.” A representative for Lavie also said in an email to the Guardian that Lavie “strongly denies having suggested any action that was unethical or illegal”. An NSO spokesperson said in a statement to the Guardian: “The company [has] never done any business with this company. We are not aware of any DoJ investigation. In addition, NSO does not do business using cash as a form of payment. Any suggestion otherwise demonstrates a profound lack of understanding about our company.” Hulio did not respond to a request for comment. Miller has since left Mobileum and is being represented by attorney John Tye at Whistleblower Aid. Miller is currently working as a mobile security researcher at Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. He filed his whistleblower complaint to authorities at the DoJ, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Federal Communications Commission in June 2021. He then shared his account with Lieu in December 2021. There is no evidence that Mobileum ever engaged in another meeting with NSO or gave the company access to any mobile networks. Eran Gorev, who at the time was a managing partner at Francisco Partners, a US-based investment company that had an interest in NSO in August 2017, and is listed in Miller’s disclosures to authorities as having attended the meeting, said in a statement to the Guardian that he had not been involved in NSO for more than three years and had “no recollection” of ever meeting with or speaking with Mobileum. He said if such a meeting did take place, he would “absolutely never make a comment like this” and that if someone else did, “it would “clearly have been made in jest and a colloquial expression/cultural misunderstanding”. Gorev also said that during the time he was “involved” with NSO, the company complied with all applicable laws with “strict oversight by the Israeli government” and had instituted a business ethics committee. Asked about the details of the meeting, Mobileum said in a statement shared with the Pegasus project: “Mobileum does not have – and has never had – any business relationship with NSO Group.” It added: “Mobileum takes the data privacy of its customers information very seriously and has implemented a robust cybersecurity program to prevent any breaches. Mobileum does not have any direct access to the customer’s network and is unable to provide any kind of access, including SS7 access, to any third party.” There is no evidence that the DoJ is actively investigating Miller’s allegations. In an interview with the Pegasus project, Lieu, a former prosecutor, said: “It just looks really fishy, and it doesn’t smell right, which is why I wanted the justice department to investigate.” NSO declined to comment on Lieu’s remark.

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RED-FASCISM's threat to world health and peace
by professor rat 09 Feb '22

09 Feb '22

First COVID biowar, then KGB terror and now this . . . https://www.news.com.au/world/asia/north-korea-boasts-its-missiles-could-sh…

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The Eagle has landed
by professor rat 09 Feb '22

09 Feb '22

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has landed in Australia overnight to meet Asia-Pacific allies concerned by China’s rise. WikiLeaks hasn’t spread a word of support for the Hong Kong protesters or for ANY of the lands and countries oppressed by nowadays Chinese government, including Chinese citizens. They just highlight "ooh the US govt is supporting the protests!" http://www.wikileaks-forum.com/-wikileaks-related-news/23/no-comment-wikile…

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GET YOUR WAR ON!
by professor rat 09 Feb '22

09 Feb '22

NGOs and volunteer groups are using crypto to fund operations against Russia. https://decrypt.co/92468/ukraine-using-bitcoin-crowdfund-war-russia-report Marx to Engels, 1865: "It has ditto been shown geologically and hydrographically that a great ‘Asiatic’ difference occurs east of the Dnieper, compared with what lies to the west of it, and that (as Murchison has already maintained) the Urals by no means constitute a dividing line. Result as obtained by Duchinski: Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des intrus [intruders], who must be chased back across the Dnieper . . . "

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Defector: Alleged Masterminds Of $4.5 Billion Crypto Heist Also Auteurs Of Weapons-Grade Internet Vanity Trash
by jim bell 09 Feb '22

09 Feb '22

Defector: Alleged Masterminds Of $4.5 Billion Crypto Heist Also Auteurs Of Weapons-Grade Internet Vanity Trash. https://defector.com/alleged-masterminds-of-4-5-billion-crypto-heist-also-a… "The Justice Department announced today they’d arrested the two people behind the 2016 Bitfinex hack and recovered 94,636 of the 119,754 bitcoins stolen in the heist. That haul is currently valued at more than $3.6 billion, making it the largest financial seizure in United States history. That’s so much money—enough, to use an example everyone can agree is relevant, to buy the Sacramento Kings twice. Because the theft and recovery involved cryptocurrency, the details are all pretty fascinating." "For instance, one of the actual crimes the pair of alleged masterminds are accused of committing is money laundering, which is somewhat redundant given, again, that we are dealing with cryptocurrency. In this case, the feds say Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan successfully laundered 21 percent of their bitcoin plunder through a number of labyrinthine pathways, including setting up fake accounts, swapping BTC for gold, and buying a bunch of PlayStation and WalMart gift cards. The feds found the unlaundered 79 percent just, uh, sitting in Lichtenstein’s cloud storage account, which they pretty easily recovered after getting a search warrant."

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swapfiles without root
by k 09 Feb '22

09 Feb '22

i was 'asked' to generalize my memmapping idea to work for every process on a system. this became relevant for me when doing a large build on an android phone. after brief websearch, my approach was to fork microsoft's 'mimalloc' userspace allocator to provide for memmapping files on use. my fork is in the 'vmem' branch of https://github.com/xloem/mimalloc . it is a quick hack and may abort when subject to weird fork races etc. it also may let you run arbitrarily large processes on phones and raspberry pis. it makes one swapfile per process,and only cleans the swapfile up if the process terminates normally (atext() call). somebody with more systems experience than me could probably speed it up and stabilise it without much work. # to install: git clone https://github.com/xloem/mimalloc cd mimalloc git checkout vmem mkdir build cd build cmake .. make install # to enable: export LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/mimalloc.so VMEM_PREFIX=/path/to/swapfile # now processes run in this shell use per-process swapfiles

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Corporate General Counsels Look to Claim-Based Enterprise
by Gunnar Larson 08 Feb '22

08 Feb '22

Check out my new article: *Corporate General Counsels Look to Claim-Based Enterprise * The task of any good corporate general counsel is to protect the firm from loss, and recover any reasonable damages in a claim. Costs associated with running a business are leveraged against profits associated with the firm’s day-to-day operations. Most executives are risk averse in entertaining the notion of supporting a general counsel, whose baseline costs are spiraling out of control. Themis Legal Capital <https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Claim-Based-Funding-to-Reduce-the--Cost…> suggests an innovative approach to financing the modern general counsel’s office through claim-based enterprise. Given the episodic nature of meaningful litigation, budgets are often hard to estimate in advance. Once a claim comes to fruition, it can often be challenging to manage financial headaches along the way. Meanwhile, recoveries of meaningful ligiations can be 10x the investment. The debate many general counsels have is how to secure a recovery while balancing a multi-year litigation budget to yield a prospective recovery. Claim-based funding can dramatically improve the calculus for many corporate general counsel offices. Themis suggests the concept of building a portfolio of such claim-based litigation instances. As the successful rulings start rolling in, the firm may see the general counsel’s budget fully funded through payouts and settlements. This is a dream scenario which litigation funding can potentially offer. https://litigationfinancejournal.com/corporate-general-counsels-look-to-cla… -- *Gunnar Larson - xNY.io <http://www.xNY.io> | Bank.org <http://Bank.org>* MSc <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&u…> - Digital Currency MBA <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovat…> - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-646-454-9107 New York, New York 10001

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Palantir glitch allowed unauthorized access to private data
by Gunnar Larson 08 Feb '22

08 Feb '22

https://nypost.com/2021/08/25/fbi-palantir-glitch-allowed-unauthorized-acce… A computer glitch in a secretive software program used by the FBI allowed some unauthorized employees to access private data for more than a year, prosecutors revealed in a new court filing. The screw-up in the Palantir program — a software created by a sprawling data analytics company co-founded by billionaire Peter Thiel — was detailed in a letter by prosecutors in the Manhattan federal court case against accused hacker Virgil Griffith. Data recovered from Griffith’s Facebook and Twitter accounts, which was obtained through a federal search warrant in March 2020, was accessed on Palantir for more than a year by at least four FBI employees, all of whom work outside New York and were not investigating the case, prosecutors wrote. The FBI case agent assigned to Griffith’s case was alerted to the unauthorized access earlier this month, when another agent emailed him and said an analyst accessed the search warrant material on Palantir, according to the letter. “An FBI analyst, in the course of conducting a separate investigation, had identified communications between the defendant and the subject of that other investigation by means of searches on the Platform that accessed the Search Warrant Returns,” the feds wrote in the letter filed Tuesday. Palantir through the program’s default settings. “When data is loaded onto the Platform, the default setting is to permit access to the data to other FBI personnel otherwise authorized to access the Platform,” prosecutors wrote in the letter. The material was accessed at least four times from May 2020 to August 2021, according to the letter. The employees who accessed the data told prosecutors that they did not recall using the information in their investigations. Manhattan prosecutors instructed Palantir employees to delete the data on Aug. 17 and said they do not intend on using the information in their case against Griffith, according to the letter. In a statement, a Palantir spokesperson said the error was caused by the FBI. “There was no glitch in the software. Our platform has robust access and security controls. The customer also has rigorous protocols established to protect search warrant returns, which, in this case, the end user did not follow,” the spokesperson said. SEE ALSO [image: The logo of U.S. software company Palantir Technologies is seen in Davos, Switzerland January 22, 2020.] <https://nypost.com/2021/08/18/palantir-buys-50m-worth-of-gold-bars-to-count…> Palantir buys $50M worth of gold bars to counter ‘black swan event’ <https://nypost.com/2021/08/18/palantir-buys-50m-worth-of-gold-bars-to-count…> The mishap could suggest a wider issue with the FBI’s use of Palantir, said Albert Fox Cahn, the founder of Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, a privacy and civil rights group. “Since this same issue will happen whenever documents are uploaded with the default settings, and since there doesn’t seem to be any sort of automated notice when they have been improperly accessed, this suggests that it’s happening a lot more than just this one case,” he said. Griffith is accused of violating international sanctions by traveling to North Korea and delivering a speech about cryptocurrency. He pleaded not guilty after his arrest in 2019 and was subsequently ordered held in jail pending his trial this year, according to court filings. An attorney for Griffith, Brian Klein, said he is looking at legal options regarding the error. “We are very troubled by what happened. We are looking into the legal remedies,” Klein said in an email. -- *Gunnar Larson - xNY.io <http://www.xNY.io> | Bank.org <http://Bank.org>* MSc <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&u…> - Digital Currency MBA <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovat…> - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-646-454-9107 New York, New York 10001

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