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Journalist as filthy cosseted criminal
by professor rat 25 Dec '21

25 Dec '21

Ferret-arse and Wicked-leaks want to formalize the media tradition of lying to start wars as seen in the 80’s with Claire Sterling at the NYT then Michael Gordon and Judith Miller. Journalist as filthy criminal cosseted by the powers-that-be. The NYT article was read and appreciated by Alexander Haig and William Casey, but its arguments were dismissed by the CIA's Soviet analysts; Lincoln Gordon one of three members of a senior review panel at the CIA charged with bringing non-intelligence professional and academic review to the agency discovered comparing CIA intelligence reports and the book at Casey's request that at least some of Sterling's claims had come from stories that the CIA itself had planted in the Italian press.

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El salvador bitcoins missing
by jim bell 25 Dec '21

25 Dec '21

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2302383-hundreds-of-salvadorans-claim-… "Hundreds of Salvadorans claim that money has gone missing from their digital wallets following El Salvador’s adoption of bitcoin as legal tender. In September, the government gave each citizen US$30 in bitcoin via each person’s Chivo wallet – a digital account set up by the government. The currency could be used for shopping, or to pay taxes. But hundreds of citizens are claiming that their payments haven’t been received by stores, and that funds have disappeared from their accounts. A Salvadoran …

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Distributed, P-P, encrypted, alternate OS plug ins as you requested
by professor rat 25 Dec '21

25 Dec '21

20 years ago this December https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=100872510706876&w=2

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Our plug-in babies!
by professor rat 25 Dec '21

25 Dec '21

Opera will integrate the Polygon blockchain in their Web3-ready browser and its built-in crypto wallet on Android in the first quarter of 2022. The integration will enable Opera’s users’ in-browser access to over 3,000 dApps on the Polygon network.” Some marquee DApps coming to the Opera browser include automated market maker SushiSwap, stablecoin-focused decentralized exchange Curve, and borrowing and lending protocol Aave, as well as popular land-based blockchain games The Sandbox and Decentraland, and non-fungible token (NFT) marketplaces such as OpenSea. Opera, which has had its own built-in crypto wallet since 2018, already supports Ethereum’s Web3 application programming interface but suffers from high gas transaction fees, according to Polygon. ..<<< In the developing labyrinth progress will be slower, but sure, toward distributed, P-P, encrypted, alternate OS plug ins that will accomplish all we seek to achieve.

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Zero-knowledge technology as the holy grail of blockchain scaling.
by professor rat 25 Dec '21

25 Dec '21

Polygon (MATIC), a layer-two network designed for scaling and application infrastructure development on Ethereum (ETH), has been making the rounds among blockchain enthusiasts as of late. >From its $1 billion investment into zero-knowledge technology to co-launching a $200 million Web 3.0 social media initiative up to integrating with Opera's web browser to make its decentralized apps accessible to 80 million Android mobile users, the network's momentum is going strong. https://cointelegraph.com/news/here-s-how-polygon-is-challenging-the-limita…

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Cryptocurrency: Global Imperialists Prop To Save Themselves
by grarpamp 25 Dec '21

25 Dec '21

https://rumble.com/vr9i0j-why-are-hillary-and-trump-united-in-warning-of-bi… https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-replacing-us-super-imperialism Hillary Clinton has gone on a rampage warning about the severe dangers of Bitcoin to the hegemony of western institutions, US military power, and the global order. Say what you want about Hillary: the one thing she's never been is stupid. Worth thinking about why she so fears it.

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Reconciling Social Ecology & Market Anarchism
by professor rat 25 Dec '21

25 Dec '21

Can the market anarchist and social ecologist perspectives be reconciled? In this episode of Green Market Agorist, Logan interviews Mason Herson-Hord, an organizer and writer who also serves on the board of the Institute for Social Ecology. They discuss ecological philosophy, Mason’s work, and how markets and ecology might fit together. https://anarchistnews.org/content/green-market-agorist-episode-19

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Fresh blow for Kim Dotcom in US extradition fight
by jim bell 25 Dec '21

25 Dec '21

Fresh blow for Kim Dotcom in US extradition fight https://share.newsbreak.com/9xdp4wzq

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Rape suspect at large
by professor rat 25 Dec '21

25 Dec '21

Khanna just last week, “Assange did many morally suspect things, by failing to redact the personal information of civilians and putting them in harm’s way, and also coordinating the timing of his releases to wreck havoc in the 2016 election ..." US Representative Ro Khanna, a California Democrat.

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agricultural technofascism
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 25 Dec '21

25 Dec '21

"The feature of the manuring of the West is the use of artificial manures. The factories engaged during the Great War in the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen for the manufacture of explosives had to find other markets - Vested interests, entrenched in time of national emergency, have gained a stranglehold." "What is happening today in the small fields of India and China took place many centuries ago. There is here no need to study historical records or to pay a visit to the remains of the megalithic farming of the Andes. The agricultural practices of the Orient have passed the supreme test--they are almost as permanent as those of the primeval forest, of the prairie or of the ocean. The small-holdings of China, for example, are still maintaining a steady output and there is no loss of fertility after forty centuries of management."

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