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Australia lost two great feedom advocates this last 2 weeks - Jimmy Stefanovski aka "Jim Sovereign", and Ted Beare
by Zenaan Harkness 12 Jul '18

12 Jul '18

Australia just lost two great men this last week - Jim Stefanovski, aka Jim Sovereign (also aka Hunterman) or just Jimmy to his friends, and Ted Beare, or Teddy. Jimmy's (see below) funeral was yesterday, and we also lost Teddy, or Ted Beare, who's funeral I am going to today - both Aussie patriots in the true sense of the word, both principled to a fault, and both men who truly cared for other human beings, extending a hand, an ear or dollars, depending on the need. Ted's funeral is later today. May you find that which their Soul seeks for you, Zen ----- Forwarded message from Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> ----- From: Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 21:22:02 +1000 Subject: Jimmy Stefanovski aka "Jim Sovereign", passed away Dear freedom seekers all, many of you knew Jimmy personally, and to many he gave extensive help - sometimes online, sometimes on the phone, and many times in person. I had the pleasure of meeting Jimmy on a few occasions, and the greater pleasure of speaking with him many times on the phone, to both be entertained with his personal stories of dressing down one or another police officer or magistrate (always on a matter of absolute principle of course), and also his challenges (on occasion) to me personally, which he always delivered with a firm clarity, heartfelt personal belief and principles, and always that gentle grace which was also always present in his gentle and easy tone (a refreshing counterpart to my own for example). Jim was known to many as Jim Sovereign, a most appropriate alias for his regular email bulletins and online jousts which we have all so appreciated, and also as Jim Hunter or "Hunterman". A proud and active member of UPMART, and a true Australian patriot, Jim is one of those rare Souls who carried his burdens in dignity, always speaking strongly his principles and his opposition to all corruption and evil. He had Malcolm's back on many an occasion, and always sought to hear both sides of personal stories, bringing a balance and compassion to his public dialogue. Jimmy, you keep that genuine Aussie spirit alive - a true brother and a true "digger" - always reminding that we demand of authority to respect "our right to have a say, in those laws which we are called upon to obey", as our forefathers spoke so succinctly and shed their blood for at the Eureka Stockade. Mate, you've stood us all so proud! Jimmy, you will be dearly missed, you are a shining light to many of us, and you were a rock in this world to whom we sought on occasion your gentle and understanding ear, and your empathy for the difficulties we invariably encounter on this life's path. Thank you. Your passing from this world is a great loss to the freedom movement, and to Australia generally, as most of us well know. Jim's funeral was today, and many a tear was shed. To Jim, may you find that which your Soul seeks for you. P.S.: I do not know Jimmy's full email list, so please forward this as you feel is appropriate. ----- End forwarded message -----

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The Tor Files: Transparency for the Dark Web [Full Cache] with Surveillance Valley's Yasha Levine
by grarpamp 12 Jul '18

12 Jul '18

https://surveillancevalley.com/the-tor-files/the-tor-files-transparency-for… https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/all-eff-up-silicon-valleys-astroturf-pr… https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/8xycxc/journalist_yasha_levine_re… https://blog.erratasec.com/2018/03/askrob-does-tor-let-government-peek-at.h… Yasha Levine speaks about internet surveillance and influence ops https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNLiv8lgnNU https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/thomas-drake-endorses-surveillance-vall… https://twitter.com/Thomas_Drake1/status/970058544417529856 Surveillance Valley - The Secret Military History of the Internet By Yasha Levine A reporter unearths the true history of the internet: it was built by the government to spy on citizens, at home and abroad. In Surveillance Valley, Yasha Levine traces the history of the internet back to its beginnings as a Vietnam-era tool for spying on guerrilla fighters and antiwar protesters–a military computer networking project that ultimately envisioned the creation of a global system of surveillance and prediction. Levine shows how the same military objectives that drove the development of early internet technology are still at the heart of Silicon Valley today. Spies, counterinsurgency campaigns, hippie entrepreneurs, privacy apps funded by the CIA. From the 1960s to the 2010s — this revelatory and sweeping story will make you reconsider what you know about the most powerful, ubiquitous tool ever created.

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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace (er , Hegemony)
by Steven Schear 12 Jul '18

12 Jul '18

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-11/there-no-end-sight-army-major-war…

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Cryptocurrency: Message from John McAfee after Hospital on Cryptocurrency
by grarpamp 12 Jul '18

12 Jul '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCry76bfJhQ https://twitter.com/officialmcafee I am clearly no longer in hospital. I am home with my home health nurse and my wife. There is no wore position for a man to be in. However it has been clear that I am promoting shilling pumping whatever word you wish to use, Docademic. Why in the hell am I doing that for no money... It is because the world is watching us. They believe we are not real... We're a bunch of bits and bytes wandering around the ethernet. We are not. We are not. We have produced real world applications. And because the world is watching, *we cannot fuck this up*. Docademic, the first world health application that helps the poor of every fucking country. If you can't get behind that, then you need to get the hell out of crypto. It's all we have now. It's all we have to show for our work to the world at large. For God's sake, show it. Do something. Say something. Shine that fucking light on the one gem we have produced. Which has gone into parts of the world where they don't even have computers. But they all fucking...

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The Chilly Surveillance Data Mines of the Suppressors
by grarpamp 11 Jul '18

11 Jul '18

Don't indoctrinate against and fuck over other people's rights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziltBdyFxDo https://cdt.org/blog/illinois-supreme-court-should-affirm-that-six-flags-vi… https://cdt.org/files/2018/07/SixFlags_BioScanner_3.jpg https://www.nyclu.org/en/news/facial-recognition-cameras-do-not-belong-scho… https://www.change.org/p/department-of-homeland-security-eliminate-the-dhs-… https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/8qdj37/hey_guys_the_dept_of_homel… https://www.cbsnews.com/news/orlando-international-airport-to-scan-faces-of… https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/22/17492106/amazon-ice-facial-recognition-i… https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/thought-crime-uk-un-terroris… https://asiancorrespondent.com/2018/06/vietnam-passes-law-requiring-google-… https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/8xpeyl/brett_kavanaughs_defense_o… This is one of the major root of the issue problems in America. Everyone else is accountable to the law. It seems to me that if 3 letter agencies wanted to do something that was unconstitutional, they made sure to sneak in special "exceptions" that would excuse their otherwise illegal activity. No one is the wiser because most of the bills passed are created in secret and passed and no one is able to read them. I asked my father why major bills get passed this way and he told me "it's always been this way, and it's the only way they are able to pass the bills" I don't know if this is true, but back to my point. 3 letter agencies have it in writing in bills somewhere that they can do what would otherwise be considered highly controversial and unconstitutional. These snuck in exceptions go unnoticed... Until they aren't. Like the part of a bill that allows a United States citizen to be detained indefinitely, without a lawyer, and without even a charge being brought against him. Obama signed that bill into law and said "while I am in office I will never do that to a citizen of the United States", but then signed the bill and now that is LAW. We have a new president now And we will have another after that one. That law still stands. America is slowly.. insidiously ever slowly having everything it used to be( a beacon of freedom, of justice, of conscious and helping those in need.) We have become something different. The mass of the American population are too busy working their 9-5 day jobs to try to get a understanding of what is going on in American politics right now. It's a full time job trying to make good decisions for the people of America and we have elected officials that are supposed to be doing that, but it has become NORMAL for politicians to make decisions based on what lobbyists from corporations tell them is best for the people. No one is lobbying for the people. And the people are still stuck in the belief that politicians for the most part doing right by them. It's not happening and the ones that are still good and fighting for the people are fighting an uphill battle. They are struggling and a minority and are underappreciated. No one wants to pay attention to complicated aspects of politics. Thats what our tax dollars pay for. They pay the salary of our representatives, but who do they really work for when their donations from lobbyists vastly outweighs what we pay them? It's a chore for me to even have to pay as much attention as I do, but even I can see the painting on the wall. Shits not good right now in America and I don't think even a 1/4th the politicians/city councilmen etc have a honest drive to help keep America great and fight and take a stand against corruption. I don't have all the answers. I'm just some idealist shmuck that wishes he did and that I could make a blemish against the rolling tide of corruption over taking America. The problem is just too big. It's just too god damned big. - We're all fucked. Get out while you still can people because our society is circling the drain here since 2001 or so. + Get out and go where though?

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Shopping Centers Putting Your Ass On ICE in the Chilly Surveillance Data Mines of the Suppressors
by grarpamp 11 Jul '18

11 Jul '18

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/8xwktc/malls_in_california_are_sendi… https://papersplease.org/

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Bitcoin ETFs: Comment Period Open at SEC, More In Pipeline
by grarpamp 11 Jul '18

11 Jul '18

https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-cboebzx-2018-040/cboebzx2018040.htm https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/cboebzx/2018/34-83520.pdf https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml CBOE SolidX VanEck

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America Bombs, Europe Gets the Refugees. That’s TYPICAL
by Steven Schear 10 Jul '18

10 Jul '18

The US Government (with France and a few other US allies) bombs Libya, Syria, etc.; and the US regime refuses to accept any of the resulting refugees — the burdens from which are now breaking the EU, and the EU is sinking in economic competition against America’s international corporations <http://rinf.com/alt-news/editorials/u-s-crushes-europe/>. America’s corporations remain blithely unscathed by not only the refugees <http://www.migrationpolicycentre.eu/publication/after-libya-syria-towards-a…> that are breaking up the EU, but also by the EU’s economic sanctions against Russia, Iran, and other allies of governments that the US regime is trying to overthrow in its constant invasions and coups. https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/07/09/america-bombs-europe-gets…

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Is Libertarianism Utopian? - Zerowedgie essay
by Zenaan Harkness 09 Jul '18

09 Jul '18

Is Libertarianism Utopian? https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-08/libertarianism-utopian Authored by Duncan Whitmore via The Mises Institute, Libertarianism – and any political position that leans towards a greater degree of freedom from the state – is opposed both ethically and economically on a number of substantive grounds. The proposition that without the state we would have inequality, destitution for the masses, rampant greed, and so on is a familiar charge which attempts to point out that libertarianism is undesirableand/or unjustifiable. A further point of opposition is that libertarianism and the drive towards it is simply utopian or idealistic, and that libertarians are hopeless day dreamers, lacking any awareness of how the world “really” works. In other words, that, regardless of whether it may be desirable, some combination of one or more of impossibility, improbability or the simple unwillingness of anyone to embrace the libertarian ideal renders libertarianism either wholly or primarily unachievable. It is this specific objection that we will address in this essay. Let us first of all recount the libertarian ethic of non-aggression, which states that no one may initiate any physical incursion against your body or your property without your consent. From this we can state that the goal of the libertarian project, broadly, is a world of minimised violence and aggression. Consequently, the questions we have to answer is whether a world of minimised violence and aggression is unachievable and, hence, utopian. …

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"Too much netflix and youtube syndrome" affecting 'Merican children
by Razer 07 Jul '18

07 Jul '18

A friend of mine about her four year old: "My daughter was doing a little song and dance this morning and was really boogieing down. She paused for a second and said,"I'm buffering" Rr

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