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GRAMPS Stinking Garbage Scow Sails On
by professor rat 29 Sep '21

29 Sep '21

Well he may be as politically suss as Petey Thiel and regularly proffer dangerous-quack medical advice, but wait! There's MORE! Gramps clearly has the economic views of an Neanderthal, Mongoloid, inverse-Marxist, Randite-Paultard, Austro-Libertarian, Mincing-Goldbugger, NeoNazi* MORON! *Sear Austria under Dolfuss/ Mises - and Chile under Pinochet/ Hayek

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Cryptocurrency: The Only Way to Drain The Swamp
by grarpamp 29 Sep '21

29 Sep '21

"Fill The Swamp": The Federal Administrative State Grew Even Under Trump, Paid Most Under Biden https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/07/01/bidens-white-house… https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/09/27/the-federal-admini… https://www.openthebooks.com/mapping-the-swamp--openthebooks-report/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2019/08/28/a-progress-report-… https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/06/17/with-juneteenth-fe… https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/02/11/ceo-jeffrey-lyash-… https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/01/28/president-trumps-r… Everyone from Ronald Reagan (1983) to Nancy Pelosi (2006) to Donald Trump (2016) issued calls to "drain the swamp." However, in a new oversight report by OpenTheBooks.com, Mapping The Swamp, A Study Of The Administrative State, we found that the federal agency payrolls continued to grow unabated. President Trump was holding the headcount of the executive agencies roughly flat through at least 2018. Then, the pandemic driven spending caused a massive federal hiring spree in FY2020. Key Facts 1. EXPENSIVE BUREAUCRACY: The federal disclosed workforce costs the American taxpayer $2.3 million per minute, $140 million per hour, and $1.1 billion per day. In FY2020, the federal government disclosed 2.8 million employees — including 1.4 million executive agency bureaucrats; 698,547 DOD employees; and 678,537 USPS employees — for an estimated total compensation cost of $292 billion. (Formula: disclosed cash compensation: $225 billion plus an estimated 30-percent in benefits equals $292 billion). 2. THE SWAMP GETS BIGGER: 1.4 million disclosed employees in the executive agencies (non DOD and USPS) rose to a modern-day high (2020) – up 3.7-percent from 1.35 million employees in FY2016. Veterans Affairs with 421,542 employees was the largest executive agency, and, since FY2016, headcount grew by 48,928 employees (13-percent). Homeland Security with 210,253 employees, grew by 26,290 employees (14.3-percent). 3. HIGHLY COMPENSATED BUREAUCRATS: 532,784 employees made $100,000+ in the 122 executive agencies (non DOD and USPS) — from 406,960 employees in FY2016 (up 31-percent). Furthermore, 37,631 employees made $200,000+ (up 52-percent) and 7,692 employees earned $300,000+ (up 144-percent). Dr. Anthony Fauci was the most highly compensated federal employee — across all agencies — for the second year and earned $434,312. 4. A NEW MINIMUM WAGE: The average pay was $100,000+ in 100 of 122 executive agencies (non DOD and USPS) and departments. 26,853 federal employees out-earned every state governor ($225,000 | New York). 5. PAID TO STAY HOME: 44-days of paid-time off (PTO) on average for bureaucrats employed in the executive agencies (non DOD and USPS) – 11 holidays, 13 sick days, and 20 vacation days. The estimated taxpayer subsidy of this benefit is $22 billion annually. 6. THE $15 MILLION MAN: The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), a quasi-public federal agency, paid their CEO Jeffry Lyash $15.5 million in salary, retirement and other benefits over a two-year period, FY2019-FY2020. The TVA is a federal entity, but doesn’t currently receive taxpayer funding. 7. VA EMPLOYMENT FARM: Since 2012, Veterans Affairs added 106,037 new positions to payroll, yet only 6,674 were doctors (Medical Officers). Only one in every sixteen new positions were doctors. 8. BLOATED WHITE HOUSE PAYROLL: The Biden White House is the most expensive in history with over 560 employees and $50 million annual payroll expense. By comparison, President Trump employed 377 staffers with an inflation adjusted $40 million payroll in his first year (2017). 9. ARMED BUREAUCRATS: Federal employees (non-DOD) with firearm authority (200,000+) now exceeds the number of U.S. Marines (186,000). Employees in 103 agencies with firearm authority include 69,000 at Department of Justice; 63,000 at Homeland Security; and even 4,547 police officers at Veterans Affairs and 2,159 special agents at the Internal Revenue Service. 10. TRANSPARENCY PROBLEMS: 259,000 names were redacted accounting for an estimated $25 billion in cash compensation within the executive agency payroll (non DOD and USPS). The number of redactions grew from 3,500 in FY2016. Department of Defense: only disclosed the 698,547 civilian employees with salary, title and branch, but redacted all names. The U.S. Post Office disclosed 678,537 employees, but redacted all bonuses. In addition, another $225 billion in estimated compensation remains hidden and not subject to the oversight of this report: an estimated $100 billion in non-disclosed salaries of the 1,379,800 million active military members; and another $125 billion in undisclosed pension-retirement annuity payouts.

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Cryptocurrency: SEC FED and CBDC will all be Dead in 10 years
by grarpamp 29 Sep '21

29 Sep '21

> https://dailyhodl.com/2021/09/23/sec-chair-gary-gensler-calls-blockchain-te… No. What they're really programming you with are calls for CBDC's, that GovBank will be your saviour, that p2p distributed privacy capable unprintable cryptos are all "scams" "ponzis" "frauds" "doomed to fail". Fuck that noise. Use crypto. Let their carcasses rot in their own hallowed aisles. SEC Chair Gary Gensler Calls Blockchain Technology a Global Catalyst for Change U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission head Gary Gensler says he believes the technology underlying cryptocurrencies is beneficial. In a new interview with the Washington Post, Gensler says that blockchain technology, which gained its present-day prominence after the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin (BTC), is helping to improve payment systems. “Nakamoto-san’s innovation, not only Bitcoin as the first sort of one, but this whole distributed ledger technology, has been a catalyst for change around the globe. Central banks and the private sector are looking in on how we can enhance our payment systems. And [in a way] to make them 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, real time, at lower cost.” Blockchain technology is also spurring innovation in the markets and banking, according to the SEC chair. “I also think it’s raising new and interesting innovations around how exchanges work and even potentially some forms of decentralized lending. We’ve had peer-to-peer lending for 15-20 years, we’ve experimented with it. This is a new type of experiment. So, those are really interesting innovations challenging the established business models.” Gensler also says he believes stablecoins, which are designed to maintain a constant value, are similar to “poker chips” and the need exists to regulate them before problems arise. “These stablecoins are acting almost like poker chips at the casino right now. So, add to the Wild West analogy. I mean, we’ve got a lot of casinos here in the Wild West, and the poker chip is these stablecoins at the casino gaming tables. And so, I think there’s just a lot of warning signs and flashing lights that we might have a spill in aisle three, and I’d rather get ahead of it.”

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Use not TOR
by zeynepaydogan 29 Sep '21

29 Sep '21

Use a no-logs VPN. The Tor project can’t help anonymously.Don’t respect a community where people who say they're incompetent behind each other's backs. in 2014, the daily log was leaked. Tor hasn't made a statement about it. And some of them work in highest ranked position on Google. And yesterday, the Tor community team leader asked me what this “leak” was. After He found out, Tor and the team leader didn't answer my questions. TOR may be transferring daily-log to an institution Sent from ProtonMail for iOS

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YouTube deletes RT's German channels over COVID misinformation
by professor rat 29 Sep '21

29 Sep '21

PUTIN ( and all his puppets ) need killing ( My 2k rubles ) YouTube deletes RT's German channels over COVID misinformation Reuters 12 hours ago YouTube deletes RT’s German channels over Covid misinformation The Guardian 8 hours ago View Full Coverage keyboard_arrow_up

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The great pivot and reset for crypto-anarchy
by professor rat 29 Sep '21

29 Sep '21

Crisis for Btc ( and Buterin? ) means opportunity for all anarchists that want to take back their good name from the Right-Wing Scum that tried to steal it. Anarchy means anarchy - not some mincing Gold-Buggers idea of preening, posing and posturing at LOL-GOP-Qanon rallies with a bow-tie on. Fuck that Randite, Paultard, Austro-libertarian NOISE! Modern anarchy starts with Godwin, Stirner and Proudhon. It includes important thought leaders like Bakunin, Kropotkin , Goldman and Malatesta. It traverses epoch shattering events like anarchist Ukraine and Spain. The far-right can't tap into this narrative for profit just cos some LEFT fascists tried. Council-commies, Shituationists, Autonomen, Communizers - one by one they tried. They tried and died. As it was with this Red Shirt Filth so shall it be with the Brown. Anarchy, the purge, has already begun. We're going up - They're going down. Welcome to globalized anarchist revolution and its dazzling new world order, openly and honestly called ' Crypto-anarchist ". LOVE it or LEAVE IT.

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New Atlas: Quantum computing hits the desktop, no cryo-cooling required
by jim bell 29 Sep '21

29 Sep '21

New Atlas: Quantum computing hits the desktop, no cryo-cooling required. https://newatlas.com/quantum-computing/quantum-computing-desktop-room-tempe…

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CNET: Meet Astro: Amazon's $1000 security robot is a cute surveillance machine
by jim bell 29 Sep '21

29 Sep '21

CNET: Meet Astro: Amazon's $1000 security robot is a cute surveillance machine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq8pWOu4IRk

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Story of Hunter Biden's laptop.
by jim bell 29 Sep '21

29 Sep '21

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/09/22/glenn_greenwald_definiti…

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New York Magazine: The 5 Biggest Takeaways From Yahoo’s Wild Julian Assange Story
by professor rat 29 Sep '21

29 Sep '21

(U.S. officials asked their British counterparts to do the shooting if gunfire was required, and the British agreed, according to a former senior administration official…" Hawaii Five Eye working as advertised! "... Julian Assange is a rapist. He is vile. .." ( From Comments ) Hear hear. Julian Assange arrested in London on rape charges https://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2010/1207/WikiLeaks-Juli… GEOFFREY “sexual offence for a man to deliberately deceive a partner whose consent has been conditional upon his use of a condom” ROBERTSON JULIAN " Being guilty of aggravated rape has nothing to do with our party" A. Broinowski. Wikileaks Party NSW candidate for au Senate. 2013. I don't know what self-respecting cypherpunk would ever support this multi-millionaire, celebrity, self-described JOURNALIST since he's guilty of rape and sexual-assault. And he worked for the police! ( Wikipedia " Julian Assmange " ) And his BFF is the worst Nazi propagandist since Goebbels! Jesus Fucking Christ.

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