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Superseding indictment of Julian Assange as of 6/24/2020
by jim bell 02 Jul '20

02 Jul '20

Superseding Indictment of Julian Assange 6/24/2020 [Jim Bell's comment: For nearly 20 years, I've wondered why "superseding" isn't spelled "superceding". ] https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1289641/download https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wikileaks-founder-charged-superseding-indict… "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWednesday, June 24, 2020 WikiLeaks Founder Charged in Superseding Indictment New Allegations Assert Assange Conspired With “Anonymous” Affiliated Hackers, Among Others A federal grand jury returned a second superseding indictment today charging Julian P. Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, with offenses that relate to Assange’s alleged role in one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States. The new indictment does not add additional counts to the prior 18-count superseding indictment returned against Assange in May 2019. It does, however, broaden the scope of the conspiracy surrounding alleged computer intrusions with which Assange was previously charged. According to the charging document, Assange and others at WikiLeaks recruited and agreed with hackers to commit computer intrusions to benefit WikiLeaks." [end of partial quote] Jim Bell's comments follow:Somehow, I suspect that many the government attorneys handling this case hadn't even been born when the Supreme Court issued its opinion in the "Pentagon Papers" case in 1971. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers "The Pentagon Papers, officially titled Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force, is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. The papers were released by Daniel Ellsberg, who had worked on the study; they were first brought to the attention of the public on the front page of The New York Times in 1971.[1][2] A 1996 article in The New York Times said that the Pentagon Papers had demonstrated, among other things, that the Johnson Administration "systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress."[3] "More specifically, the papers revealed that the U.S. had secretly enlarged the scope of its actions in the Vietnam War with the bombings of nearby Cambodia and Laos, coastal raids on North Vietnam, as well as Marine Corps attacks, none of which were reported in the mainstream media.[4] For his disclosure of the Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg was initially charged with conspiracy, espionage, and theft of government property, but the charges were later dismissed after prosecutors investigating the Watergate scandal discovered that the staff members in the Nixon White House had ordered the so-called White House Plumbers to engage in unlawful efforts to discredit Ellsberg.[5][6]"[end of quote from Wikipedia] Here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_States the Supreme Court ruled that it would not 'enjoin' the New York Times from publishing its articles. >From later in this wikipedia article: Concurring opinions[edit] Justice Hugo Black wrote an opinion that elaborated on his view of the absolute superiority of the First Amendment: [T]he injunction against The New York Times should have been vacated without oral argument when the cases were first presented... . [E]very moment's continuance of the injunctions ... amounts to a flagrant, indefensible, and continuing violation of the First Amendment. ... The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell. ... [W]e are asked to hold that ... the Executive Branch, the Congress, and the Judiciary can make laws ... abridging freedom of the press in the name of 'national security.' ... To find that the President has 'inherent power' to halt the publication of news ... would wipe out the First Amendment and destroy the fundamental liberty and security of the very people the Government hopes to make 'secure.' ... The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security... . The Framers of the First Amendment, fully aware of both the need to defend a new nation and the abuses of the English and Colonial governments, sought to give this new society strength and security by providing that freedom of speech, press, religion, and assembly should not be abridged.[13]

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Hillary Clinton Says Epstein Assassination Was To 'Manage Anxiety'
by Zig the N.g 02 Jul '20

02 Jul '20

Hillary Clinton Says Epstein Assassination Was To 'Manage Anxiety' March 7th, 2020 https://babylonbee.com/news/hillary-clinton-says-epstein-assassination-was-… CHAPPAQUA, NY—In a recent interview from her wine cellar this week, Hillary Clinton revealed some of her favorite methods for dealing with stress. "Being the president is an extremely stressful job," she told reporters. "Since I am the president, I have to deal with anxiety on a regular basis. One way to calm my nerves is with a good, old-fashioned assassination. Of course, I would never do such a thing, but If I did do something like, say, killing Jeffery Epstein, it would be a great way to cope with the demands of my very important job. Ok, I killed Epstein. I needed to do it to manage my anxieties. I feel bad about it. HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Hillary bemoaned the fact that since she isn't allowed in the White House or situation room for some reason, she no longer has access to handy tools like drones or Treadstone super-soldiers. "Sometimes," she said, "I have to settle for watching that prison assassination scene from Breaking Bad over a bottle of wine! Can you imagine? HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Let it be known that The Babylon Bee proudly supports everything Hillary Clinton does and we are glad she is our president. She is a wonderful leader and we would never do anything to ever upset her in any way. We are also not suicidal. In Historic Compromise, Border Wall To Be Built Around Hollywood https://babylonbee.com/news/historic-compromise-border-wall-built-around-ho… Biden To Defy CDC Warning To Stop Touching Other People's Faces https://babylonbee.com/news/despite-cdc-warning-biden-cant-stop-touching-ot… [facey gropey Biden pics not attached] U.S.—As Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is constantly in crowds, health officials are greatly concerned that he will catch the coronavirus -- which would be especially bad for him as he’s very, very old. Despite these concerns, Biden just can’t follow one of the CDC’s main recommendations to avoid catching the disease: Stop putting your hands all over other people’s faces. “It’s just so hard,” Biden told the press. “I keep thinking to myself, ‘Don’t touch people’s faces. Don’t touch people’s faces.’ But the next thing I know, there are my hands rubbing all over some person I just walked into.” Staffers have tried a number of methods to help train Biden to stop the behavior, such as spraying him in the face with water whenever he starts touching someone. Nothing has worked so far, but his staffers are hopeful. “It’s just a habit he has to unlearn,” said Biden staffer Melanie Chapman. “We’ll just keep working until--” At that point, Chapman was interrupted by Biden putting his hands all over her face. “You’re doing it again!” Chapman informed him. “Oh no,” Biden said. “Well, is it okay if I just rub people’s shoulders?” “No, that is never okay,” Chapman told him. Opinion: If Americans Aren't Sexist, Then How Come They Refuse To Elect The Most Unlikable Women On The Planet? https://babylonbee.com/news/op-ed-if-people-wont-elect-the-most-unlikable-w… ... Yes, people often say they’re willing to vote for a woman. But if they won’t cast a vote for some of the most unlikable women on the entire planet, will they really vote for any women ever? ... In 2016, people had Hillary Clinton, someone so politically maladroit she barely seemed human, one of the most blatantly dishonest people anyone had ever seen, and someone people only ever heard of because of who her husband is. But she was a woman. And that just wasn’t good enough. And now we had Elizabeth Warren, an off-putting, nakedly political hack who lied about her heritage and has a bunch of unworkable plans with price tags beyond human comprehension. Though she may only be 1/1024th Native American, she is 99.9% woman. Still, people said they wanted more. Like, anything more. No. Instead, we must continue to elevate the most terrible women in this country until people finally elect one and prove they don’t hate women. This country can never, ever give in to sexism and put forward a female candidate people might actually like. Then the misogynists will win. Ode to Belzebub Biden tops local spelling bee with "gropeophile", whilst lauding The Bee's "Biden Shampoo" range https://babylonbee.com/news/garnier-fructis-introduces-the-biden-collection Warren drops out of her 1/2020th campaign https://babylonbee.com/news/other-candidates-beg-warren-not-to-endorse-them Paid mourners weep as Bloomberg exits primary https://babylonbee.com/news/paid-mourners-weep-as-bloomberg-exits-primary Corona beer fails to come up with catchy meme adverts to stem sales cliff drop https://mobile.twitter.com/B1GTRAIN/status/1233541966652231682/photo/1 Warren Returns To Tribe In Shame After Failing To Take Land Back From The Pale Faces https://babylonbee.com/news/warren-returns-to-tribe-in-shame-after-failing-…

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Affirmative
by Zenaan Harkness 01 Jul '20

01 Jul '20

Affirmative. We bind ourselves to our conscience, or perhaps we are bound :) Affirmative pursuit, actions pursuant to conscience. Individual right to speak, right to "follow", right to converse, engage, block, all pursuant to personal will alone, no middle man. Without the right to survive, or even so simple as -exist-, as Razer so simply put it, we have no life. Without the right to communicate exercised, then thought, and existence, has no end, no purpose, and we have no relationships, no community. Without community, and relationship inherent within any real community, we are dead to one another, to the whole world, and without meaningful life, without the opportunity to discover one another - our cries, our loves, hopes and dreams for each other. Fundamntal rights are fundamental for a reason - they are fundamental to life, to our rights to survive, to thrive, and to merely exist. We cannot survive without existing. We cannot thrive without surviving. So we each individually, and collectively, are with all fundamental rights to exist and to survive. Every opposition to you/ an individual exercising one or more of these basic rights, is despotism, the evidence of sociopaths in action, and ought be called out publicly as such. As hackanarchopunks, we can facilitate the exercise by the individual, be he with 9 or 90 million followers, to converse digitally amongst his "follower" group. Gatekeepers belie the sociopath. Sociopaths conduct entire false campaigns, even "damaging their share price" to the tune of literally billions of dollars and with the credible deniability of actual "withdrawing advertisers", in the pursuit of control, and censorship, and for the mere opportunity to inflict an almighty damaging blow to those he sees as his opposition. Till the morrow,

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Re: Personal Black Box? Even a bit of video can entirely change the story around.
by jim bell 01 Jul '20

01 Jul '20

https://reason.com/2020/06/30/11-redacted-seconds-of-video-of-fatal-2014-dr… [partial quote follows] 11 Redacted Seconds of Video of Fatal 2014 Drug Bust Undermine Florida Cops' Official Story Previously unreleased video shows Jerry Brown didn't have much time to react before Pasco County deputies shot and killed him. ZURI DAVIS | 6.30.2020 12:00 PM (Screenshot via Pasco Sheriff's Office) In 2014, Florida deputies shot and killed Jerry Dwight Brown during a small-scale drug bust. Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco said the deputies fired after Brown refused several orders to comply. The State Attorney's Office cleared the deputies of any wrongdoing due to Brown's alleged noncompliance. But last week, the Tampa Bay Times released a video of the shooting that challenges the department's official story. Brown was shot and killed on July 1, 2014. The 41-year-old inadvertently sold illegal prescription pills to an undercover deputy with Pasco County Sheriff's Office (PCSO). The sting was part of a monthslong investigation into Brown. After the undercover deputy motioned for fellow deputies to move in and arrest Brown, the department claimed that they repeatedly ordered Brown to show his hands and shot him after he made a sudden movement. Brown died at a hospital following the shooting. The department found that he was unarmed during the interaction. The day after the shooting, Nocco told 10 Tampa Bay, "When we are ordering commands to show me your hands, when we are telling somebody they need to comply and they make motions that are not, and make our detectives feel their lives are being threatened you have a millisecond to make a decision." The sheriff's office provided Reason with a redacted version of the video from the drug bust. In the video, an undercover deputy interacts with Brown outside of Big Ben's Tires in Zephyrhills. He urges Brown to enter the vehicle to make the sale. A reluctant Brown does so, takes the pills out, and begins to count at the undercover deputy's request. Armed deputies then approach the car and the video skips 11 seconds. When the video picks up again, the deputies are pointing guns and surrounding the vehicle. On Friday, almost exactly six years after the shooting, the Tampa Bay Times released the redacted portion of the video. [end of partial quote]

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ZFS encrypted HOME, krypt vols, combine /boot with / root, + rando snippets
by Zenaan Harkness 01 Jul '20

01 Jul '20

For those yet to leap into the cool clear waters of ZFS and Luks encrypted sparse ZFS files, or who need to combine /boot with / root if /boot has filled up or is insufficient for needs, the beginnings of some hints: https://github.com/zenaan/quick-fixes-ftfw Create your world,

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Amen, Brother
by CJ Parker 01 Jul '20

01 Jul '20

"Now, as Assange’s U.S. extradition battle intensifies, the internet is calling for the rise of cypherpunks ‚ Assange’s fellow “capable generous men,” who exercise their power for social good to unite once again and take up their moral duty. The future of the internet believes in Bitcoin, the potential of this “crypto with values” to become the currency of resistance to defend its freedom." https://www.facebook.com/JoeStrange709/posts/3114211461998722 CJ Parker #05987-196 Proud To Be A Felon In AMERI A

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The Last Shall Be First - TSOB
by Carlos Hernandez 01 Jul '20

01 Jul '20

THE TRUE STORY OF BITCOIN by Totoshi Last Alleged Chapter --------------------------------------- [WAS: Alleged Last Chapter] [!WAS: eWe Know It Never *Really* Ends, Don't eWe?] [WAS!WAS: Crap, Looks Like This Is Going To Be A Long One...] To: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei(a)securitydynamics.com> Subject: Re: DoD orders vendors to use Key "Recovery" From: Alan Olsen <alan(a)clueserver.org> Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 20:49:52 -0700 Toto began counting on his fingers. "Twenty-two" said Bubba Rom DOS. "What?" Toto looked confused. "Twenty-two years since 1998," Adam Back confirmed, after checking his slide rule, adding, "and the Key Grabbers are saddled up again, and ready to ride." He shared the URL... https://www.onecitizenspeaking.com/2020/06/do-not-consider-government-acces… Toto slipped into a telephone booth cleverly disguised as a service station restoom that really, really needed cleaning, and emerged wearing a tattered old SuperMan costume that had been modified to befit "!!! The World's Greatest Hacker !!!" as the emblem proudly proclaimed. Tim C. May shook his head and muttered, "Wishful thinking." Toto ignored the senile old fart and declared, "Being as how 'The Game' is once again 'A Foot' ( or 15 inches, if you are a True CypherPunk ) and I am in Stage 4 of Kidney Failure ( no sympathy, please, he is still drinking a half-bottle of Pepe Lopez Tequila every day ) and am unlikely to make it to the final (Jim) Bell, it is time to pass on my WGH legacy to others, that they may continue to fight the GooDog Battle. "I am about to reveal TheSecret that makes me The World's Greatest Hacker..." "But *first*..." --- Discussion on Bitcoin.com 12 comments Can Clues to Bitcoin’s Earliest Mysteries Be Found in a Cryopreserved Brain? Robyn Steele 2 years ago "Maybe Satoshi is Sara Lee. Her pies are in the frozen food section... --- Realizing that Toto was once again about to go off on a tangent and spew out an interminably long, semi-senseless sentence containing a diatribe of dualities... "Oh, crap!" Bubba realized, "Now I'm doing that myself." Dale Thorn's alter-ego, the irresistably unattractive soul-mate of Satoshi, Ataka Dawn, turned to everyone present, and cut to the chase. "Toto, along with a few select others, is The World's Greatest Hacker because he quite simply realizes that the InFallible Flaw in all computer systems and operating systems is: (Drum Roll..) IN ORDER TO COMMUNICATE, YOU HAVE TO *TELL* SOMEBODY SOMETHING!!! (...BadaBoomBadaBING!)" "Precisely!" Toto exclaimed, coming back to the discussion at hand. "I had a thousand ways of hacking into a system just because every time I tried to recreate my previous hacking successes, I turned out to be too stupid and scatterbrained to remember what I had done the *last* time. That's why I was forced to be a *genius* and figure out a *new* way to hack a system...every damn time!" "So the proof of your 'genius' is your 'stupidity.' came the cold, icy voice of Hal Funny. "Let me write that down, so I don't forget it. And btw, I didn't appreciate that 'Sara Lee' crack, you fucking AssHole." "Yeah," replied Toto, "I was going to explain that in a previous chapter when I talked about the 'thing' you know? The Intel stuff. The 'virus'...uh 'thing.'" Toto continued, trying to remember if he was running for the presidency or for the Senate. "I am *not* Joe Biden!" he suddenly shouted and then grew quietly contemplative. "I am not Toto," Eric Hughes broke in, "like most of you here in these insane diatribes, who are merly splinters of his seriously fractured Persona. So let me explain this from a perspective of someone who doesn't have their head halfway up TheAuthor's butt. "Software is *communication*...no matter what operating system or which hardware it is working with...nothing, I repeat, *nothing* gets done or accomplished without there being *communication* between software and software, software and hardware, hardware and hardware." "Attila T. Hun" he continued "noted that 'There is no safety this side of the grave' and he was talking both about life and about the whole myriad of cryptography and privacy discussions that took place on the CypherPunks Disturbed Male Lisp." Tim May recognized that Eric Hughes was beginning to 'drift' and picked up the discussion, in terms of hardware. "The 'virus thing' that Toto aka 'Uncle Joe' was referring to in regard to Intel was a hardware flaw that Meltdown and Spectre attacks took advantage of. It was indeed a matter of the different components of hardware needing to 'communicate' with one another and 'bad actors' managing to figure out how to listen in on and sometimes participate in those internal 'conversations'... "Attila T. Hun, aka Dr. Daniel Flickinger, became a *pioneer* in recording technology by taking a handful of disparate 'parts' designed to enable aircraft to fly and using their 'communications' abilities to speak to musicians and sound engineers in a totally new hardware language. "Attila," he continued, "recognized that there 'is no *true* safety' to be had in *any* technology because the very principles he was using to *broadcast* electronic technology to *everybody* were the same hardware principles that were being used to produce 'private' and 'secure' hardware and software communications within electronic devices and on the worldwide web." And May have added, "It's kind of like the Conga Drum Conundrum where you want to hide something where no one will think to look, but the minute you think of a place, it has been thought of, already..." Toto said, "Crap! That's where I put it..." and got up and walked over to his Conga Drum, turning it over and pulling out a cracked, dusty old Bong. John Gilmore broke in at this point and declared, "Any sufficiently developed technology is indistinguishable from magic!" Everyone present rolled their eyes. "Wait!" Gilmore, corrected himself, "That's not mine!" He thought for a second... "Oh yeah! The InterNet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it!" He was proud of himself for remembering who he was and what he had actually said. Damn, he was going to *win* that Senate race against Trump... Dr.Dimitri Vulis, spotting an opening to clarify Gilmore's train of thought while muddying the waters, jumped in... "John 'CockSucker' Gilmore is trying to point out that Hackers interpret Privacy as Damage and route around it!" "And the only thing it takes for a young man living in his parents' basement to become The World's Greatest Hacker is to overcome his inherent reluctance to stop and ask directions when he has become lost..." the Deranged Doctor's thought process trailed off into confusion. "Precisely!" added Toto, though he had little idea of what Vulis was talking about. " "Everyone in technology, in order to make a viable product that will work in conjunction with another product, has to engage in communication to do so. And thus a 'web of trust' is created...a web of 'trust' that can be 'broken'... Producing a 'crack' in the safety of both products. "Then engineers communicate with programmers, and vice versa, and with each other, and with other 'experts' in their industry and with publicists and reporters, creating a mountain of 'cracks' in the 'saftey' of their products...cracks and holes that need to be patched, and filled in, completely, in order to create 'safety' and 'privacy.'" "Then," Bubba Rom Dos interjected, much to everyone's dismay, realizing their imaginary safety bubble was about to burst, "after millions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of wo/man hours have been spent 'securing' your product and your systems to the best of your ability, you find out that your Head of Security has their Admin password written on a piece of tape on the bottom of their keyboard... "Now *you* all know everything you need to take on the role of The World's Greatest Hacker," Bubba told those assembled in TheAuthor's mind, "and you will need to take steps to use that knowledge to defend yourself from The World's Worst Hacker, who, incidentally, just left this gathering to go turn over the keyboard of your Head of Security." Everyone bolted for the door as a video flashed on a giant screen above them, showing BadBillyGates giving industry executives a tour of the Micro$not facilities while one of the younger guys on the tour turned over a keyboard behind BadBillyG and then appeared to be writing something down. Suddenly, a pair of Block Explorer addresses flashed on the screen. Toto pulled them up and turned to Totoshi, who was actually one and the same person, but they were both too far gone to realize it... "Two secretly coded deposits!" he exclaimed. One for 1.05987196 and one for .05987196. Now eWe will be recognized as the True One And Only Creator of BitCoin once everyone realizes that the transactions were sent from an original Satoshi account!" Bubba D'Shauneaux looked at the two urls and shook his head, sadly... https://etherscan.io/address/0x3c626ec0e0d2d6e9b066bf11af9e7154605373d1 https://etherscan.io/tx/0x5c720e17e007e46044ba225769fe0d01baf8a5803932fb159… "Look again, moron." D'Shauneaux said. "You're not Satoshi...you're Vitalik Buterin...that is from the Ethereum blockchain." "Damn!" Toto cursed. "If I'm not Satoshi, I was at least hoping I might be Charlie Lee...but Vitalik Buterin?" As Toto turned his crestfallen face to the floor, Bubba D'Shauneaux winked at Totoshi, knowing that they had both recognized *all* of the addresses involved in the two transactions. One of the 'receiving' accounts belonged to former Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate # 05987-196. The 'sending' account for that transaction belonged to...a very well-known billionaire. The account that 'received' .05987196 ETH became, in the second transaction, the 'sending' account. It 'sent' 1.05987196 ETH to an account that belonged to...a very well-known billionaire. Totoshi's last missive had asked for a 'secret signal' to confirm who he really was. Turned out, he 'really was' a guy who got taken to the cleaners by a billionaire...to the tune of 1 ETH. Bubba Rom DOS poured two shots of 'Bubba's Special Reserve'...one for himself and one for Charlie Lee. "So tell me, Chuck..." Bubba said to Charlie Lee, watching closely for the slightest hint that would signify truth or deceit in his reply, "...how is it that Totoshi foretold your divesting yourself of all of your LiteCoin well before you actually did it and announced it to the world?" Bubba knocked back his shot of J.D. Special Reserve. "Ancient Chinese secret..." Charlie Lee replied. He knocked back his shot of Bubba's Special Reserve Jack Daniels. "Inscrutable MotherFucker..." Bubba mumbled into his beard as he poured two fresh shots into the empty glasses on the table. Bubba was sad to see The True Story Of BitCoin narratives come to an end, but a new InfoWar battle was brewing, at a crucial time for privacy, freedom, the InterNet, CryptoCurrency and...well, pretty much the future of everything. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/julian-assanges-u-s-extradition-and-bi… "Few understood why Toto was really imprisoned." Bubba D'Shauneaux stated, sitting down at the table with Charlie Lee and Bubba Rom Dos, and setting down a third shot glass. "There is a reason that The True Story of the InterNet manuscripts have virtually disappeared from the WorldWideWeb. It was the concept of the Army of Dog / Army of One that struck fear into the heart of the government, just like the Falun Gong rattled the Chinese government." "Julian Assange." Charlie Lee opined. "Edward Snowden." Bubba Rom Dos addes. "Captain Timothy Buttons." Attila T. Hun suggested, from his place of Safety. "The True Story of the Army of Dog: The Rise and Fall of the Army of One" Bubba D'Shauneaux began typing the forward to Part IV of the True Story manuscripts. Those who had followed the progress from The Xenix ChainSaw Massacre through the WebWorld & the Mythical Circle of Eunuchs and InfoWars manuscripts had watched as what once had been viewed as entertaining, but ludicrous, had morphed into a part of our everyday reality. Timothy C. May was once regarded as a 'crackpot' for calling for a 'reset' of the 'hard drive' of our world society. Now it was being talked about in the halls of power. "Now, as Assange’s U.S. extradition battle intensifies, the internet is calling for the rise of cypherpunks ‚ Assange’s fellow “capable generous men,” who exercise their power for social good to unite once again and take up their moral duty. The future of the internet believes in Bitcoin, the potential of this “crypto with values” to become the currency of resistance to defend its freedom." https://www.facebook.com/JoeStrange709/posts/3114211461998722 --- Addendum To The True Story of BitCoin: Toto knocked back a shot of Pepe Lopez Tequila, knowing that Ver. 4.0 of Kidney failure had just become Ver. 4.01... But what the hell, he already felt guilty about all of the 'decent' people he had outlived. He had already done his part in the Great Battle and he really, really didn't want to go back to prison, but... "I can ask why 'somebody' isn't doing something, or I can *be* 'somebody'..." Toto said to himself, knocking back a shot of Pepe and upgrading to Vers. 4.02. Time to fire up the Dev.Null Server and put a call out to the troops. Them old InfoWars farts must have produced a few kids by now. Time for those Puppy Faced Pony Soldiers to start earning their allowance. Hell, maybe they might even help hiim win his Senate race... Prologue to 'WebWorld & The Mythical Circle of Eunuchs' The great tragedy of it, is that it didn't have to happen. Not at all...we were warned. And yet, still, it has come to this. I don't know why I feel this overwhelming compulsion to go on and on about it. I could have done something. We all could have done something. Perhaps the final epitaph on the gravestone of Freedom will be, "Why didn't somebody ‘do’ something?" That seems to be the common battle-cry of the legions of humanity that have been sucked into the vortex of the New World Order. None of the imprisoned seem to know that the very phrase itself is reflective of the source of their imprisonment...that this desperate cry of anguish is in no way an antidote for the terrible disease that has afflicted 'Liberty and Justice', and that it is, rather, merely the final symptom of the cursed blight itself. I can hear the rumbling of the trucks as they come up the street, and soon I will be hearing the thumping of the jackboots storming up the staircase, as I have heard them so many times before. But I suspect that this time, the sound will be different, that it will have an ethereal quality about it, one which conveys greater personal meaning than it did when I heard it on previous occasions. This time, they are coming for ‘me.’ My only hope is that I can find the strength of character somewhere inside myself to ask the question which lies at the heart of why there is a 'they' to come for me at all...why, in the end, it has finally come to this for me, as for countless others. The question is, in retrospect, as simple and basic as it is essential for any who still espouse the concepts of freedom and liberty to ask themselves upon finding themselves marveling at the outrageousness being perpetrated upon their neighbors by 'them'...by 'others'...by 'Friends of the Destroyer.' The question is: "Why didn't ‘I’ do something?"

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Saddle Up...
by Carlos Hernandez 01 Jul '20

01 Jul '20

Jonathan reached for a bottle of Jim Beam and, in doing so, realized that he had subconsciously come to a decision. He would seek out Bubba Rom Dos. He would seek out the Circle of Eunuchs. -- Joe Strange "I Have A Master's Degree in BDSM"

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Lock & Load
by CJ Parker 01 Jul '20

01 Jul '20

Jonathan The room started to spin, and Jonathan put his hand on the edge of his desk, to steady himself. He realized that he had stopped breathing, and he inhaled mightily, causing the room to spin even more. After a few moments, the room stopped spinning, but Jonathan's mind continued to remain enmeshed in a conflicting whirl of old memories and new fears-all engendered by the receipt of a simple CyberPost. A CyberPost from the past. A hundred years in the past. A CyberPost which had shown up on his personal GraphiCube this morning, a century after being sent via an antiquated communications mode which the Masters of Antiquity called email. A CyberPost addressed to an anarchist organization that had been outlawed for over a hundred years-the CypherPunks. Jonathan had immediately, instinctively, hit the illegal kill-switch on his ground-connection and booted his Telsa Snarf Barrier. He had needed time to stop the room-and his mind-from spinning. But how long had he been sitting here, motionless? GlobeNet Security would be re-establishing his ground-connection in a matter of minutes and he would have to have an answer ready for his cutting of the ground-link to Headquarters. Jonathan hastily saved the CyberPost to a disposable HydroCube that he could swallow, if need be. He pulled an Insta-Log chip of his own making out from under his seat and placed it online, booting down the Telsa Snarf Barrier at the same time, just as the GraphiCube launched an overlay of the Day Monitor, Rabin. Rabin did not look happy. "Third time this week, Jonathan, what's going on?", Rabin's frown twitched with impatience. "If I have to put you on report, I can guarantee that you can kiss your HomeWork Privileges goodbye." "I'm still working on that InfoWar Scrambler Mechanism for GS-7, Rabin." Jonathan thought quickly, knowing that he was skirting the edge of disaster. "Those damn wanna-be programmers that you assholes keep hiring to keep your relatives happy don't know the difference between a Test-Boot and a Transmit-Boot." Jonathan paused, then added, "I don't need my head on a chopping block because Headquarters thinks that I'm launching my own Channel Revolution." "Then file for Offline Work Authorization." Rabin snapped. "Every goddamn time I work on this crap they feed me?" Jonathan snapped right back at him. "I'm not supposed to need to work off-line on this project. It's supposed to arrive at my station in Test mode, Rabin, not in Nuke Headquarters mode. Do you want me to run this shit from your HomeStation, instead?" Rabin laughed, for the first time, and glanced down at Jonathan's Log File once again, confirming that he had killed a transmission from the InfoWar Scrambler Mechanism. "OK, Jonathan, I'll kill the report, but try to work on that stuff during someone else's shift, pal. The brass is running us ragged on one of their interminable pet projects and we've got to account for every millisecond of CPU use. They've got a full-court press on this one, and we're having trouble keeping our GelMem from overheating." Jonathan paused for a second, his mind working swiftly, and then made a giant leap forward toward a destination that was only now beginning to take shape in his subconscious mind. "I could get you some spare cycles, Rabin, if you're really that desperate." Rabin began to speak, then stopped, obviously wondering what this generosity on Jonathan's part was going to 'cost' him, in the long run. "Look, Rabin," Jonathan continued, filling in the empty space, "I don't want to lose my HomeWork Privileges, and I know that you can't keep burying my ground-connection kills, so I might as well shut down for the day and spend some time at Headquarters getting this shit straight. That will free up eighteen GelMem units at GS-7 for you, and you can steal my HomeWork cycles until the end of your shift." Rabin looked thoughtfully at Jonathan, decided that Jonathan was working in his own self-interest and thus would not expect to extract future concessions for this gratuitous offering, and nodded agreement. "Done." said Jonathan as he shut down his Headquarters programs. "Besides," he said with a wink, "I need to restock my liquor cabinet and the Headquarters commissary is a damn-sight cheaper than what these local-yokels are gouging for a good bottle of booze around here." Toad.com Rabin's face faded from the screen, as Jonathan kicked in Privacy Mode and fell back into his chair with relief. He realized that he was shaking slightly, and his thoughts returned to the CyberPost which was now sitting in the HydroCube at the back of his desk. CypherPunks. Mere mention of the name in public came with a gold-plated guarantee of a visit from GlobeNet Security. Even when speaking of them in private conversation, it was advisable to do so only in historically proper context, referring to them as the villainous instigators of Channel War II. Jonathan avoided discussing the CypherPunks, even privately, because of the mixed emotions of fear, shame, and curiosity that the name aroused in him. His grandfather had been a CypherPunk, and had been executed at the close of Channel War II. Jonathan had vague memories of late-night visits by strangers whose spirited discussions were so curiously enlivening that he would often creep into his grandfather's study to listen, though he was far too young to understand exactly what it was that they were discussing. Then came the sound of jackboots on the door, and his grandfather handing him down to his father and mother in the cellar. The muffled shots that rang out as he was carried to the waiting RoboShuttle. The wetness of his mother's tears falling from her cheeks to his as she clutched him closely in their flight to obscurity. The graveled roughness of his father's voice as he prepared his family for the harsh changes ahead in a life where their heritage and their history must be hidden from one and all.=20 The CypherPunks had ruined Jonathan's life. Now, it looked like they might be about to do it again. Somehow, his past had caught up to him. Someone, somewhere, had targeted him for exposure as being genetically linked to one of the historical monsters of Channel War II. Jonathan threw the HydroCube on the InstaScanner and read the beginnings of the message header, once again. >From - Sat Feb 01 7:09:00 1997 Return-Path: <owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com> Received from toad.com([140.174.2.1]) by mercury.grill.sk.ca for <HumanGus-Peter(a)grill.sk.ca> Received (from majordomo@localhost) by toad.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA20555; Message-Id:<199702011555.IAA20555(a)toad.com> Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 08:40:04-800 To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com >From "Timothy C. May<tcmay(a)got.net> Subject: To Whom It 'May' Concern Reply-To: "Timothy C. May"<tcmay(a)got.net> Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com "We have met the enemy, and he is us." --Tim May Just say "No" to "Big Brother Inside" We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:-----= ----:---------:---------: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money tcmay(a)got.net | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:-----= ----:---------:---------: The 'Mark of the Toad'. That's what the Channel Government's news releases had called his grandfather's tattoo when they had displayed it in 3D color on GraphiCubes around the world. Jonathan's grandfather had the tattoo done in an era when there was little danger associated with being a member of the loosely-knit crypto-anarchists group known as the CypherPunks. Even after the beginning stages of InfoWar stirred its ugly head, Jonathan's grandfather refused to have his tattoo removed, as did most of the original CypherPunks list members. He considered it a badge of honor. For Jonathan, however, the Mark of the Toad had remained a mark of disgrace, forcing his family to flee for their lives and change their identities. Jonathan had managed to rise above all of this and put it behind him, becoming a normal, accepted member of the society around him. Now, however, his life of normality was being threatened. Toad.com. The original home of the CypherPunks mailing list. CJ Parker #05987-196 Proud To Be A Felon In AMERI A

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[MONEY] - central banks defending Western assets against Chinese takeover
by Zenaan Harkness 01 Jul '20

01 Jul '20

OK muffas, lotta folks missin the CB memo, from ZeroHedge to the JYT: Since the "Russia is the ultimate evil and Globalism is the greatest good ever" program has fallen with Trump (and Putin before and since) and the/his/our nationalist agenda (yeah, yeah, no doubt that was painful for the CBs - central bankers - of the world), at least they (the CBs) are defending Western assets against Chinese takeovers in the midst of all the fuss (this IS a fundamental global shift after all). So we can give them that credit point, and frankly, if they want to buy Amazon at $2,800 USD per share (!holy firetruck Batman!) and Tesla at circa $800 per share (damn cheap in comparison) then hey, a buy a day keeps the Chinks away, right? Here's an example of one soon to be enlightened: Breaking Bad - Valuations Are Screaming "Danger" Sven Henrich via NorthmanTrader.com, https://northmantrader.com/2020/06/03/breaking-bad-2/ https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/breaking-bad-valuations-are-screaming-dan… Well, they’ve done it again. The Fed has once again managed to erase the larger market pain. This time it was not the standard correction that was erased, this time they erased a market crash as $NDX is trading at all time human history highs. I, for one, have to say I am surprised how effective central banks have been in squeezing markets higher again. I thought after 10 years of this monetary nonsense they would finally lose effectiveness in their ability to manipulate markets. Clearly I was wrong. But then I also didn’t see $3 trillion in Fed balance sheet expansion coming in a matter of a few months. So one has to clearly acknowledge central banks continue to hold complete control over these markets. But it comes at a price that will remain ignored for now, but nevertheless I’m aiming to highlight some of the issues I see. In my view central banks, in their quest to conduct a successful rescue operation, are killing the patient in the process. And nobody holds them to account, except some perplexed voices like myself are trying to at least raise the issues. (See also Stock Market Straight Talk) .. Mohammed El-Erian: "By contributing to higher wealth inequality and dragging the Fed deeper into “quasi fiscal” funding operations, the central bank also risks its credibility and political autonomy" ... What El-Erian is missing above is that the West is absolutely in an existential crisis: having plundered much of our Western manufacturing capacity straight into China for decades, which was literally for the huge economic (and Chinese wage serfs) arbitrage opportunity for Western (and of course Eastern) oligarchs, destroying much of Western employment and real wealth in the process, our oligarchs are now facing the truth of China's utterly nationalist China-First policy and China's willingness to break contracts, implicit or otherwise, even with the king makers. And that this China-First principle is so ingrained, it's not even "China's principle" - it is inherent in every Chinese national, it is almost the definition of being Chinese - "China, first! We Chinese are the superior race, you are but White trash of Asia." (Search it if you don't believe it and take a moment to grok..) Welp, as some anon said somewhere, "you don't double cross the world bankers and expect to come out unscathed," and it sure looks like China is about to learn this lesson in an entirely empirical way... and please, let's have compassion here - we ought wish the Chinese people the very best, to achieve their highest, to live great principles and dreams - just not at the cost of our own civilization, not at the cost of our own enslavement to them (nor to anyone else for that matter!). If the CBs were a little more honest about this final round of QE to infinity and beyond, rather than say things like "Fed Policies ‘Absolutely’ Don’t Add to Inequality", they'd instead say something like "Our globalist agenda went to shirt, we're now nationalising and saving all that we consider to be prime assets, from the Red regime - please try and be thankful already." Well, in this case, "Thank you Central Banks." Some of us can see that this is indeed a rescue program for the West itself. For this, I really am grateful, and shudder to think of life under the regime that executes you outside your office block in broad daylight to set an example to your coworkers if it thinks you're a spy. We don't want that, and we don't want that ruling over us, not in any form whatsoever. So again, thank you Central Bankers for bringing us back from the brink - please do stay the course. Here's the thing - between the Rothschilds, and the Chinese, I choose the Rothschilds every day! Now, yes, I can hear that at some level this may be a false dichotomy, but right at this moment in history the West is at crisis point in respect of China (!), and we were at a very dangerous cross roads, so let's be glad that at least our oligarchs noticed the bigger problem here. They might be sociopathic oligarchs, but they're OUR sociopathic oligarchs :) :/ :) hmmm... Now if only our gutless Aussie 'leaders' can get with the fine program, we could speed up our 'down under' ship and set course ahoy! (Our Labour/Green party is roughly equivalent to Democrats, and our Liberal/National roughly eq. to Republicans, and Labour seems to be mostly in control at the moment, especially at the state level, and it sure looks like they're bemoaning the loss of Globalism, AND evidently actually compromised to Chinese funding - change is tough, I really do get that, but in this case, we gotta change!) [ Just ignore snide pre-millenian superior humilité in lé finé exposé abové :D You want the humble? You can't handle the humble =) ]

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