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Pardon me?
by professor rat 16 Oct '21

16 Oct '21

" . . . most of the Trumper's think Assange is a good guy. I would have loved to see a documentary ( I like outdated documentaries like the War at Home, Battle of Chile and The Revolution will not be Televised ) made on how Roger Stone and Randy Credico tried to get pardons for Assange ( on 4 occasions after receiving much praise from Trump during the campaign) . . . " FROM https://groups.io/g/marxmail/topic/netflix_to_launch_wikileaks/86356185?p=,…

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Move to change name of Jim Bell telescope
by professor rat 16 Oct '21

16 Oct '21

https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/576975-nasa-advisor-pens-open-let…

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IF you value freedom and democracy
by professor rat 16 Oct '21

16 Oct '21

If you value freedom and democracy you will violently reject Mises / Dolfuss Hayek / Pinochet Rothbard / the-not-anarchist statist Thiel / Trump / Assange / Bannon / Szabo / Gramps / Hettinga / Young / etc You know - all those Randite-Paultard-Austro-Libertarian losers, liars and thieves.

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Now they're re-writing the c-punk narrative
by professor rat 16 Oct '21

16 Oct '21

Its worth repeating a few home truths. https://web.archive.org/web/20140403012916/http://www.finney.org/~hal/ "... Politics Unlike many early Cypherpunks, I never viewed cryptography as a gateway to a libertarian society..." And speaking of politics its " crypto-anarchy ' not ' cyber-liberty ' or crypto-privacy ". Eliding the anarchy is a counter-revolutionary act - a capital crime.

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THIEL, Pinker and Brin for the Big-God-eunuchs narrative
by professor rat 16 Oct '21

16 Oct '21

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Foundation This crap has about as much to to do with revolutionary anarchism as Wikileaks dotcon and Bitcoin Magazine.

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Glad tidings
by professor rat 16 Oct '21

16 Oct '21

ALEX the great, Gladstein is a superhuman rights activist Igniting the biggest and most effective peaceful protest of all time Planting a seed of liberty at the root of exploitation and tyranny. Establishing complete, utter, total worldwide domination - but not over governments or ideology. Over tyranny and isolation and ignorance. This is my Glad declaration of humanitarian principles - "to report the news without fear or favor'. I promise to be a force for good in this world, fighting injustice, crushing intolerance, battling inhumanity, striking a blow for freedom. Think Mises - think Rothbard - think Alex - be Glad

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Burying the Satoshi departure lede
by professor rat 16 Oct '21

16 Oct '21

Correlation is not causation but Gavin Andresen previously served as technical lead developer for the Bitcoin project, and was even credited as Nakamoto’s successor. On April 27, 2011, Andresen publically claimed to be preparing to talk Bitcoin at an emerging technologies conference at the CIA headquarters. A few months after Andresen’s CIA visit, he appeared on a Bitcoin podcast to discuss its development. There, Andresen was quickly asked to reveal the last time he’d been contacted by Nakamoto. “Um, I haven’t had email from [Nakamoto] in a couple of months, actually,” Andresen replied. “The last email I sent him, I actually told him I was going to talk at the CIA. So it’s possible that… that may have had something to do with their deciding [to leave].”

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No danger from moral hazard at Bitcoin Magazine
by professor rat 16 Oct '21

16 Oct '21

Nakamoto’s Genesis statement was a challenge to the moral hazard created by the Bank of England, which was functioning as a lender of last resort for British companies that had followed reckless policies and were now in danger of going bankrupt. . . " Or it was a news headline from the Times, a corpse-media outlet beat-up into a crypto-fascist headline by the unconscionable scoundrel Alex Gladstein at his favorite corpse-media outlet.

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Risible weasel-words from bitcoin zine
by professor rat 16 Oct '21

16 Oct '21

"...To underline the primary importance of scarcity and predictable monetary issuance in the making of digital cash, Nakamoto released Bitcoin not after a government surveillance scandal, but in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis and ensuing money printing experiments of 2007 and 2008. .." Who needs money printing experiments when you have e-money capable of Big God divisibility? Bitcoin is divisible up to eight decimal points. 1011 The smallest unit, equal to 0.00000001 bitcoin, is called a Satoshi after the pseudonymous developer behind the cryptocurrency. ... Though the U.S. dollar can be divided into cents, or 1/100 of $1, one Satoshi is just 1/100,000,000 of 1 BTC.

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Why Wikileaks sold all its crypto
by professor rat 16 Oct '21

16 Oct '21

"... digital rights advocacy groups have largely not recognized nor celebrated the role that proof of work and an unchanging monetary policy can play in protecting human rights. . . " Alex Gladstein

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