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[Breaking News] [2020] [Covid] President Trump Tests Positive for Covid-19
by Se7en 26 Oct '20

26 Oct '20

The President of the United States, Donald John Trump, has tested positive for COVID-19. This is not a joke. Despite your views on current affairs, and the man himself, realize that the entire Executive Branch is potentially compromised at this time. The President, and several staff from Air Force One, have the Coronavirus. Even if you do not believe in its severity, this is a major political shakeup that could lead to foregin aggression by hostile nations, the collapse of the standing army, the complete break of the chain of command. You /do/ get sick when you get CoVid, but you recover. What happens when the president is incapacitated for 3 months? This is not alarmist, this is fact I have no further news to report. <https://nitter.net/realDonaldTrump/status/1311892190680014849> -- |-----/ | Se7en / The One and Only! | se7en(a)cock.email / | 0x0F83F93882CF6116 / | https://se7en-site.neocities.org

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WikiLeaks: Snowden Given Permanent Resident Status by Russia
by grarpamp 25 Oct '20

25 Oct '20

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/world/europe/russia-putin-snowden-reside… https://www.facebook.com/akucherena/posts/734147903846713 https://twitter.com/snowden Edward Snowden, in Russia Since 2013, Is Granted Permanent Residency The former intelligence contractor still hopes to return to the United States. But the Russian authorities have given him the right to stay in Russia indefinitely. Edward J. Snowden speaking via video link at a conference in Berlin last year. Recent changes to Russian law helped him win permanent residency. Edward J. Snowden speaking via video link at a conference in Berlin last year. Recent changes to Russian law helped him win permanent residency.Credit...Jorg Carstensen/DPA, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Anton Troianovski By Anton Troianovski Oct. 23, 2020 MOSCOW — Edward J. Snowden, the former American intelligence contractor whose 2013 leaks of top-secret documents set off a worldwide debate about government surveillance, is now a permanent resident of Russia. Mr. Snowden, 37, has been living in exile in Moscow since 2013, when he fled to the Russian capital after giving journalists access to a trove of National Security Agency documents detailing the American intelligence service’s mass surveillance programs. On Thursday, the country’s immigration authorities granted Mr. Snowden permanent residency, his lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, wrote on Facebook. Mr. Kucherena posted a photograph of himself standing next to a smiling Mr. Snowden, in a dark red shirt and a black suit jacket, holding a blue, passport-style permanent residency document emblazoned with the Russian coat of arms. “People ask me if Edward is planning on getting Russian citizenship,” Mr. Kucherena wrote. “For now, he has not told me this. He describes his end goal as being a return to the United States, but only if he is guaranteed a fair trial.” There was no comment from Mr. Snowden himself on his newfound permanent residency. President Trump said in August that he would “take a very good look at” a pardon for the former intelligence contractor. Mr. Snowden told the German newspaper Die Zeit last month that he was encouraged by Mr. Trump’s comments, even if no pardon was imminent. “It’s a continued normalization of the conversation about this,” Mr. Snowden said, referring to a possible pardon in the United States. “Realistically, I think we are still early in the phase of that.” Changes last year to Russia’s immigration law that have made it easier for foreigners to get permanent residency cleared the path for Mr. Snowden to stay in the country for as long as he wanted. Several prominent Western supporters of President Vladimir V. Putin — including the American actor Steven Seagal and the French actor Gérard Depardieu — have already gone further and received Russian citizenship. But Mr. Snowden is a special case. He is both a living symbol of Mr. Putin’s relish in needling the United States and a hero to many who say he laid bare breathtaking abuse by American intelligence agencies of the power to monitor the online activity of people around the world. In Moscow, Mr. Snowden has led both a mysterious and active lifestyle. He keeps his specific location and movements a secret, but chimes in on online privacy issues on his Twitter account, published a memoir last year and, before the pandemic, often appeared at technology conferences via video link. He has married his American girlfriend, learned Russian and describes Moscow as a “beautiful city.” ImageMr. Snowden published a memoir last year. He has lived a private life in Moscow, but has also been active in debates on privacy issues. Mr. Snowden published a memoir last year. He has lived a private life in Moscow, but has also been active in debates on privacy issues.Credit...Justin Sullivan/Getty Images In the United States, intelligence officials and politicians from both parties have said Mr. Snowden was working with Russian intelligence agencies. Mr. Snowden has denied those accusations, and he has at times lobbed veiled criticism at Mr. Putin; after the poisoning of the Russian opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny in August, Mr. Snowden on Twitter called it a possible “crime against the whole of Russia.” “The sad reality is that even in the United States, targeted killings are happening frequently,” Mr. Snowden elaborated in the interview with Die Zeit. “It’s just the means that’s different.” Mr. Snowden was referring to targeted killings of terrorism suspects around the world by American drones. Of Mr. Navalny’s case, Mr. Snowden said: “There needs to be an investigation, and anyone involved needs to go to jail.” The pandemic delayed Mr. Snowden’s residency permit application, his lawyer said, and it appears to have made the exile’s life in Moscow even more cloistered than it already was. When Moscow was under lockdown in April and May, the city authorities required residents to obtain a digital permit for almost any trip outside. Mr. Snowden told Die Zeit he never once sought such a permit because he disagreed with the government’s brute-force approach to keeping people inside their homes. “The politics of the place are as troubled as ever but the people are fundamentally good people,” Mr. Snowden said of Russia. “As I would say in many countries, it is never the people you have to worry about, it’s always the government.” Mr. Kucherena, Mr. Snowden’s Russian lawyer, is also chairman of the Public Chamber of the Russian Interior Ministry, which plays an advisory role with the country’s top law-enforcement body. On Thursday, alongside his note on Facebook announcing Mr. Snowden’s permanent residency, Mr. Kucherena also posted a picture of a gift he had received from his client to commemorate the occasion. It was a photograph of Mr. Snowden and Mr. Kucherena exiting the transit area of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo after Russia granted him asylum in August 2013. The photograph is captioned in Russian: “With thanks for the years of freedom.”

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Internet censorship, including extorted by government, must cease.
by jim bell 24 Oct '20

24 Oct '20

This article https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzqniEaXwQg&feature=youtu.be has the headline: "Congressional Democrats Threaten Big Tech To Censor Americans Or Else" If this kind of government-threat can exist, then one solution is to declare that communications over the Internet within wires (and fibers) located within the United States are governed by the First Amendment of the US Constitution. Private companies are availing themselves of a system initiated by a relatively small amount of government research, and developed by other designers and manufacturers. If 'private companies' wish to communicate over systems OTHER THAN the "internet", they are free to design that system, implement it, and the First Amendment WON'T apply to them. I'm not sure that this would really qualify as a "libertarian solution", but it is dangerous that "government" is trying to extort organizations like Facebook and Twitter to engage in censorship. This possibility must cease. Jim Bell

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OpenBSD FreeBSD: Why and How
by grarpamp 24 Oct '20

24 Oct '20

https://sivers.org/openbsd https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21521774 https://openbsd.org/ https://freebsd.org/

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Never send your laptops in for repair, avoid centralized platforms...
by grarpamp 23 Oct '20

23 Oct '20

While thankfully this example case did not involve anyone who is working toward actual liberation (found only in Libertarian Voluntaryism Anarchism), and the shop was not a malactor inserting backdoor APT's in the product and delivery stream (hello nasty TLA's and GovCorp spies), the message for LVA's is the same, never send your laptops in for repair... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwKCn8VYgFw Giuliani interviewed on background re Biden Laptops https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/larry-c-johnsons-amazing-interview… https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-emails-computer-repair-store-… And of course massive censorship ensued performed by the heads of all the Centralised Biased Deep State GovCorp News and Social Media. Now we're gonna see some heads roll...

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worse than rabies: 'theybies' - “But, mommy, I saw Charley do pee pee and he's a boy!” - Mom: "How absolutely DARE you use such language!" - [ENJOY] [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 22 Oct '20

22 Oct '20

This one's for John Newman and his equality missions: Intersectionality for infants: Parents indoctrinating their kids in woke dogma while they're still in nappies need to calm down https://www.rt.com/op-ed/504143-woke-parents-kids-dogma/ Given how un-funny John is though, even Jimmy Kimmel is funny, in comparison: How Unfunny is Jimmy Kimmel? https://dailystormer.su/how-unfunny-is-jimmy-kimmel/ Jimmy Kimmel is not funny. He is so unfunny, that it is should in fact be some kind of a crime. Just watch some of this. Put it on 2x speed, and just understand that this is what our drugged-out moron culture is watching right now, and allegedly laughing at. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qlR9Y709ns “Grouchy at Fauci”? Rhymes. That’s the only thing left. Rhymes and poop jokes. This man is talking about poop. ... KatBoyCami: "We are better looking than them, we are more intelligent than them, and we are funnier than them." Grouch on JNN, grouch on... If you want a lift, here's something that's actually funny (especially as it does not involve poop), found at the TDS link above: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKbG8IZOyHk ~2mins

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Censorship: Instagram (Facebook) Bans Qanon, Lets ISIS Freepost
by grarpamp 22 Oct '20

22 Oct '20

https://summit.news/2020/10/07/instagram-bans-qanon-accounts-but-refuses-to… https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/instagram-bans-qanon-accounts-refuses-rem… Political censorship by entrenched partisan media... " Facebook-owned Instagram has announced that will ban all QAnon accounts, including ones that don’t promote violence, while refusing to remove ISIS propaganda accounts that celebrate 9/11 under the justification that “people may express themselves differently.” In an update to its policy announced yesterday, Facebook said that it was moving beyond a measure taken back in August that removed QAnon accounts which contained “discussions of potential violence.” “We’ve seen other QAnon content tied to different forms of real world harm, including recent claims that the west coast wildfires were started by certain groups, which diverted attention of local officials from fighting the fires,” said the social media giant. Facebook specified that it would “remove any Facebook Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts representing QAnon, even if they contain no violent content.” Many pointed out the hypocrisy of Antifa accounts still being allowed on the platform despite the movement’s involvement in numerous violent riots over the last six months. But not Antifa, even though they're literally a terrorist organization with cells in every major city, complete with uniforms and flags. https://t.co/mQAewCzGKW — Mark Dice (@MarkDice) October 6, 2020 While banning all QAnon content, Instagram has simultaneously refused to remove literal ISIS propaganda accounts that celebrate 9/11. As the Sun reveals, one such account posted an image of the World Trade Center being hit by a plane along with the caption, “One of the most beautiful scenes.” As recently as Sunday the Abogasm_1990 account posted an execution clip, and was followed by “20 other pro-IS accounts with more than 7,700 followers.” However, even after The Center for Countering Digital Hate reported the accounts to Instagram, the social media network refused to remove them, saying no breach of guidelines had occurred. Partially defending the content, Instagram explained that as “a global community we understand people may express themselves differently.” “It is unbelievably irresponsible, but sadly unsurprising,” said CCDH chief exec Imran Ahmed. So mere discussion of QAnon is completely banned, but actual glorification of terror attacks against the United States are just part of free speech, according to Instagram. "

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SOMEone has a standard day - the art of aggression - [ENJOY] [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 22 Oct '20

22 Oct '20

So SOMEone woke on the same side of the bed they always wake on, and expressed their anger and aggression for the camera - this is not actually that funny, as it's a performance, not real life, but we're greatful to Juan for his demonstration of how -not- to go about your day anyway... Direct: https://twitter.com/Not_the_Bee/status/1318979807888183299 Found here: Video: If people did everything aggressively https://notthebee.com/article/video-if-people-did-everything-aggressively

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Cpunks: Giuliani seeks for Wikileaks style processing and publishing help for Corruption Story
by grarpamp 21 Oct '20

21 Oct '20

https://mobile.twitter.com/rudygiuliani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coFx3ZDXWrg Giuliani seeks Wikileaks Help humanity break through this wall of censorship. Let the truth fall where it may. " > Do you want help Sure I want help I've got hard drives to go through. Iron curtain trying to censor everything that's coming out. > Wikileaks made the data available online so news orgs > could access it... put it all out there. Sure if I could find an independant news org that would deal with it honestly. " https://www.foxnews.com/media/hannity-biden-home-camera-hunter-email-scandal Hannity: "I know it's 9 p.m. Eastern, Joe, but if you are awake, we have a camera right outside of your house right now," Hannity said. "We will be more than happy to hear you out." https://www.foxnews.com/media/piers-morgan-blasts-media-silence-over-hunter… "The job of a newspaper, of a television network, of anybody, frankly, in the media, who believes in freedom of speech and believes in journalism is to go and investigate the allegations the New York Post has made." https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jim-jordan-special-counsel-investigation-h… "Let's get to the facts, let's figure out exactly how much Joe Biden knew about this," Jordan told "The Story" Tuesday, "because it sure looks like Joe Biden misled the American people when he said 'Oh, I didn't have any contact with Hunter Biden about what my son was involved in ...' It sure looks like he misled the entire country. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fbi-and-doj-do-not-believe-hunter-b… https://mobile.twitter.com/TheBelaaz/status/1318782410092367872 https://mobile.twitter.com/SenRonJohnson

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Re: shills - the ONE document
by coderman 20 Oct '20

20 Oct '20

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Saturday, October 17, 2020 1:10 AM, <jamesd(a)echeque.com> wrote: ... > What was the key and critical document that Snowden discovered, and why > was it key and critical, the document whose contents no mainstream > source will mention, the document he was not supposed to have access to. recall that one of the charges against Snowden was "hacking his superior's password". that of course sounded absurd, given the security controls in use at NSA. (E.g. smartcards and certificates) turns out the "hacking passwords" was removing interactive authentication from the encrypted certificate. this was done for "integration & automation" purposes, but had the side benefit of letting Snowden masquerade with higher privs as desired... (less fun than another conjecture: manipulating Windows smartcard sessions, e.g. setting scremoveoption to "No Action" instead of "Force Logoff"...) that's not the most significant fact, merely a trivia. so tell us james, what is this document? :) best regards, j. random cypherpunk

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