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Martyanov: "NO US serviceman even fought in defense of his country, town, family" - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 26 Sep '20

26 Sep '20

As the US empire declines and the danger of it's flailing whip tail is handled, let's hope that come November 4th, that the USA is finally permitted to actually talk and negotiate with Russia. There is a qualitative difference between the US and Russian militaries, which is firmly in the nature of the difference between fighting for empire vs. fighting for your family. There is a righteousness with Russians, inextricable in fact, which is cultural but more importantly a spiritual advantage which today sadly many Westerners struggle to even comprehend, though thanks to Soros' home grown "all American" color revolution now in full swing, there are signs, some peripheral flickers of hope that some folks are experiencing a dawning awareness of such things... continue to pray, muffas… Russia Steals Everything. Andrei Martyanov, Sunday, September 20, 2020 https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2020/09/russia-steals-everything.html ... US is desperate to stop advanced weapons' development in Russia, and, in his interview to Russia's ultra-liberal Kommersant (in Russian), Marshall Billingslea wasted 10 minutes of my valuable life time bloviating on the matters of START treaty extension, threatening Russia with new....whatever, and speaking in pseudo-strategic platitudes, which Russia, most likely, will ignore. Why shouldn't she, especially knowing that no discussion on serious matters is possible with the US. Non-agreement-capable, period. BTW, one of the funny features about Billingslea--his original Bachelor's Degree is in...History of Arts. Get it, boys and girls? His formative humanly and academically years he spent studying useless crap, which provides zero background for any productive activity. ... NO US serviceman even fought in defense of his country, town, family. This is the main, metaphysical, reason why US top brass, once a generation which saw serious war departed, could never grasp an essence of the warfare, because they have no grasp what would happen if they lose not just the war, the US has a great record of that, but what they treasure in life. This is the obstacle which cannot be overcome by inventing some new fighting doctrine or by regurgitating same ol' and beaten to death strategic and operational truisms. One has to start thinking differently but that is precisely what is lacking in the decision-making circles in the US today, where reality and fantasy long ago lost a clear demarcation line between the two. Well, it is inevitable in the country where one of the main voices in defining military policy include such people as a graduate of a History of Arts program or a comic and con-artist. I guess, in the world of fantasy and fakes those skills are sufficient.

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1984: Amazon Ring In-Home Cam Drone Pushes Spying
by grarpamp 26 Sep '20

26 Sep '20

On 9/25/20, jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > The Washington Post: Amazon’s new security drone pushes the boundaries of > surveillance, again. > https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/09/24/amazon-ring-security-d… https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/24/21453709/ring-always-home-cam-indoor-dro… https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/24/heres-everything-amazon-announced-at-its-… Worth noting that this is a closed source remotely controlled always on network connected cloud uploading datamining data partner sharing agency giving... flying camera and microphone... in your fucking home. People have to be BatShit fucking insane and retarded to buy this thing. Ring's latest home security camera is an autonomous drone, called the Always Home Cam, that can fly around inside your home to give you a perspective of any room you want when you're not home. "Once it's done flying, the Always Home Cam returns to its dock to charge its battery," reports The Verge. "It is expected to cost $249.99 when it starts shipping next year." From the report: Jamie Siminoff, Ring's founder and "chief inventor," says the idea behind the Always Home Cam is to provide multiple viewpoints throughout the home without requiring the use of multiple cameras. In an interview ahead of the announcement, he said the company has spent the past two years on focused development of the device, and that it is an "obvious product that is very hard to build." Thanks to advancements in drone technology, the company is able to make a product like this and have it work as desired. The Always Home Cam is fully autonomous, but owners can tell it what path it can take and where it can go. When you first get the device, you build a map of your home for it to follow, which allows you to ask it for specific viewpoints such as the kitchen or bedroom. The drone can be commanded to fly on demand or programmed to fly when a disturbance is detected by a linked Ring Alarm system. The charging dock blocks the camera's view, and the camera only records when it is in flight. Ring says the drone makes an audible noise when flying so it is obvious when footage is being recorded. Ring also rolled out new hardware for the automotive market with three different devices focused on car owners: Ring Car Alarm, Car Cam, and Car Connect. The company also said they've added opt-in end-to-end video encryption, as well as the option to completely disable the "Neighbors" feed, which allows users to view local crime in real time and discuss it with people nearby.

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Secure Phones: Samsung Galaxy S20 TacPhone, a Venezuela SatPhone CIA Op, Another Suicide
by grarpamp 26 Sep '20

26 Sep '20

https://www.samsung.com/us/business/solutions/industries/government/tactica… https://i.imgur.com/PLQbRFWh.jpg https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/14996 https://theintercept.com/2020/08/26/cia-national-intelligence-official-suic…

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FreeAssange.net action network: copy-paste action formats & supporters wanted!
by Hernâni Marques 25 Sep '20

25 Sep '20

Dear Cypherpunk folks From Switzerland, we created an action network to raise awareness about the Assange Case--and we demand Assange's immediate release! From the Press Release from Sep 7th; more to follow: * * * For 10 years now the USA has been chasing journalist and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. In doing so, they are not shy in violating the rule of law and human rights. The determination is clear. Every journalist should be discouraged from reporting facts that may not be convenient for the USA. That is why the trial, which started again today in London, is not only about the extradition of Julian Assange. Our free press, and therefore also our democracy, are in serious dangers, if the USA is not put in its place. The extradition of Assange is a dangerous precedent. Therefore we demand #FreeAssange! At this occasion, the FreeAssange.net action network organized today before the start of the session a flash mob on the “Bundesplatz” (the Federal Square) to draw attention to this process, which is highly dangerous for our democracy. We call on governments to clearly stand up for fundamental freedoms and to call for London and Washington to immediately end the hunt against Julian Assange. Pictures: https://www.freeassange.net/press * * * If you wanna copy-paste formats (see: https://www.freeassange.net/events/) just do so and tell us about them, by sending us pictures and the location: international(a)freeassange.net (Pubkey: https://freeassange.net/international@freeassange_net.asc) If you wanna join as a supporting orga / group, just tell us, too: https://www.freeassange.net/supporters/ For social media, check Twitter & Mastodon: https://twitter.com/FreeAssange_net https://chaos.social/@FreeAssange_net #FreeAssange NOW! Greets --hernani -- https://vecirex.net

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-This- is America - McCloskeys stalked, pleasantly troll-back in real time - "Protect your great 2nd Amenendment" - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 25 Sep '20

25 Sep '20

'Tis an amazing year. Here's to Americans - REAL Americans - courteous, confident, peaceful, "and a little bit trollish" :) Enjoy, Watch: St. Louis 2nd Amendment Couple Faces Down Stalking Protester Who's Screaming "Abolish the Suburbs!" https://notthebee.com/article/st-louis-2nd-amendment-couple-face-down-stalk…

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Cryptocurrency: OpenBazaar Will Shutdown ASAP
by grarpamp 25 Sep '20

25 Sep '20

https://mobile.twitter.com/openbazaar/status/1309494786320146433 https://medium.com/@therealopenbazaar/openbazaar-needs-your-support-75fe7e1… https://mobile.twitter.com/brianchoffman/status/1309495255839002626 https://openbazaar.com/ https://old.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/izkrif/future_of_openbazaar/ https://old.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/izkt6l/looks_like_openbazaar_is_going… https://github.com/cpacia/openbazaar3.0 https://old.reddit.com/user/Chris_Pacia

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NSA Tech Report on UEFI SecureBoot, TPM, Librem Key
by grarpamp 25 Sep '20

25 Sep '20

https://media.defense.gov/2020/Sep/15/2002497594/-1/-1/0/CTR-UEFI-SECURE-BO… https://safeboot.dev/ https://github.com/google/go-tpm-tools https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZTWjLTz4AE TPM hacking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS_140-2 https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/ https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5283799 https://github.com/Foxboron/sbctl https://github.com/Foxboron/goefi https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/35742.html tpm-totp https://github.com/mntmn https://puri.sm/products/librem-key/ https://puri.sm/posts/the-librem-key-makes-tamper-detection-easy/ https://docs.puri.sm/Librem_Key/Getting_Started/User_Manual.html

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cyberwar in argentina!
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 25 Sep '20

25 Sep '20

A friend of mine is (or was...) the owner of this channel https://www.youtube.com/losliberales The channel had a few million visits* in the last months. He's been methodically ranting against govcorp both local and the soros-gates-pentagon variety from an anarchist libertarian perspective for a few months. A few days ago the account was 'hacked', the two factor authentication somehow defeated, the content deleted and replaced with advertising for some kind of ethereum scam, and at that point the account was suspended by jewtube because of 'violation of terms of service'. He's talked to jewtube and he might get the account back. So at face value this was an ordinary hack, but it seems it's also possible that, say, the argie government got the channel closed by indirect means. *he had at least one video with +1 million visits and tens of videos with 100-200k views.

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'Straya, wtf? - arguable Soul cookies, just don't get nightmares - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 25 Sep '20

25 Sep '20

Austraya is the land of bronze goddesses and 8 foot tall mice colloquially known as Kangaroos, where the bushfire warning signs literally don't stop at extreme and the second lowest is "High" (the highest is Catastrophic btw), and to pick a random example of horrors, the Sydney Funnel Web Spider is definitely NOT "more afraid of you than you are of it", since it is known to literally charge and bite with no provocation. Such real life oddities are the stuff of legend in the land where everything is upside down, so tread carefully ... tread very, very carefully :) Thankfully KnowYourMeme.com has collected many of the mostly true memes that do the rounds. Enjoy, Australia - Just another day..... https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1037154-australia (Don't miss that shark-eating dingo, eh...)

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Cryptocurrency: Anarchism re Orania, Liberland, Galt's Gulch, Free State Project, Seasteading
by grarpamp 25 Sep '20

25 Sep '20

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/oct/24/an-indictment-of-south-afric… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dMYhLZb96Q Kill the Boere vs NAP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ora_(currency) https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/south-african-orania-town-launches-e-ora-c… Voluntary subscriptive free association self determination and contracting options, being valid under anarchism for any group, must necessarily present opportunities, choices, forms, and various basis for all NAP groups... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orania,_Northern_Cape " 'An indictment of South Africa': Whites-only town Orania is booming. "Note to all white journalists from Europe: Please leave your prejudice at the entrance." Twenty-five years after apartheid, black people cannot live and work in this small South African city. Photographs by Madelene Cronjé by Dennis Webster in Orania Thu 24 Oct 2019 15.17 BST Last modified on Mon 3 Feb 2020 12.45 GMT Children at the public swimming pool in Orania October in Orania can be charming. When the sun sets, long ribbons of burnt orange settle on the horizon. The flies and mosquitoes that come with the oppressive summer heat haven’t arrived yet. It is Magdalene Kleynhans’ favourite time of year. “You can sit outside until late into the night,” says the businesswoman, whose family spend much of their time outdoors. Her children fish from the banks of the Orange River whenever they choose. Kleynhans leaves the house unlocked. “It’s a good life. It’s a big privilege.” But there is much more to this small Northern Cape town than the bucolic ideal painted by Kleynhans. Incredibly, 25 years after the fall of apartheid, Orania is a place for white people only. Orania represents downright hostility to the idea of a single, united, non-racial country Tembeka Ngcukaitobi, author Kleynhans runs one of Orania’s biggest enterprises: a call centre whose business is recruiting and retaining members for Solidariteit, a trade union primarily for Afrikaner workers, and Afriforum, a self-styled “civil rights” movement. Afriforum recently met with US president Donald Trump’s administration and Tucker Carlson of Fox Nows to tell them that Afrikaners are facing a widely discredited genocide. Both have made extensive investments in Orania’s construction boom. Oranians claim the town is a cultural project, not a racial one. Only Afrikaners are allowed to live and work there to preserve Afrikaner culture, the argument goes. Magdalene Kleynhans owns a call centre that employs around 55 people in Orania The reality, however, is a disquieting and entirely white town, littered with old apartheid flags and monuments to the architects of segregation. While there are no rules preventing black people from visiting, those who live nearby fear they would be met with violence. The town has faced numerous calls for it to be broken up over the years, with prominent author and advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi arguing its existence violates South Africa’s successful dismantling of racial segregation. “Orania,” he says, “represents downright hostility to the idea of a single, united, non-racial country.” Large-scale eviction Orania was created in 1991, a year after Nelson Mandela’s release from Robben Island, and three years before the country’s first democratic election. Set among lush pecan nut orchards in the otherwise arid Karoo, it was set-up as an Afrikaner-only hamlet, not dissimilar from the ethnic Bantustans established under former prime minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, often dubbed the “architect of apartheid”. Monument Hill in Orania. Busts of former presidents of the town surround the statue of town mascot De Kleine Reus (The Little Giant), a young boy rolling up his sleeves Busts of former presidents of the town surround the statue of town mascot De Kleine Reus (The Little Giant), a young boy rolling up his sleeves, intended to symbolise the Oranians’ belief in self reliance HF Verwoerd museum in the house where his wife Betsie retired. Spokesperson of the Orania Beweging rests his hand on the town’s mascot “De Kleine Reus” (The Little Giant) that symbolises the Oranians’ belief in self reliance. By the end of the 1980s, the probability of losing control had already occurred to many Afrikaners, with some believing that impending democracy posed an existential threat to the white Afrikaans way of life. A few felt protecting that required becoming a demographic majority somewhere, rather than remaining a minority everywhere. So a small group of Afrikaners – Verwoerd’s daughter and son-in-law, Carel Boshoff, among them – purchased a strip of land on the southern banks of the Orange River, and went about setting up a volkstaat, or independent homeland, where Afrikaners would decide their own affairs. Orania’s founders did not settle on virgin territory, but on the remains of a half-realised 1960s project to build canals and dams along the Orange River. A community of 500 poor black and mixed-race squatters who had made their homes in the buildings left behind by the project stood between the new owners and their whites-only vision. Black people are restricted to using the petrol station on the edge of Orania. Black people are restricted to using the petrol station on the edge of Orania Speaking to the community after the purchase, Boshoff reportedly said he “did not buy a bus with passengers”. What followed, according to Cambridge historian Edward Cavanagh’s history of land rights on the Orange River, was one of the last large-scale evictions under apartheid. It was carried out by the future residents of Orania, with the assistance of beatings, pistol whippings and dogs. The population has doubled After three decades as a quiet backwater, Orania is booming. Its population – currently around 1,700 – has doubled over the last seven years. The most recent census estimates growth of more than 10% a year, outstripping most comparable rural towns and more, proportionally, than South Africa’s biggest cities. Population growth means a flourishing housing market and construction industry. Neat suburban homes have been joined by new apartment blocks and walkups which sell for as much as R1.5 million (£80,000), putting them on par with comparable homes in Johannesburg. There is an industrial zone of brick and aluminium factories which sell their products around South Africa. China buys most of the pecan nuts. They will hurt you. There is nothing we can do Benjamin Khumalo, The growth shows no signs of slowing. A sewage works meant to accommodate 10,000 future residents is in the pipeline. There are designs to transform the town’s humble technical training facility – where many of the skills driving the town’s new construction were taught – into a university. Not a single brick has been laid by a black worker. In a reverse of the usual situation in South Africa, all low-paying work in Orania – from keeping the town’s gardens to packing the shelves in its grocery stores – is performed by hard-up white Afrikaners. It is increasing numbers of poor labourers, whose tenancy is often less secure and who either rent or rely on subsidies from Orania’s cooperative bank, who are largely behind the town’s growing population. White Afrikaner Oranians build homes to house the hoped-for population boom. Aunty Bets has worked as a cashier in several shops since she was 16 and says she enjoys it because she loves interacting with the people of the town. Oranians use the “Ora” as currency. All low-paying work in Orania is performed by hard-up white Afrikaners. The town also has its own currency, the ‘Ora’. Orania is owned by the Vluytjeskraal Aandeleblok (Vluytjeskraal Share Block) company which, together with a series of internally elected bodies, is responsible for the town’s municipal decision making. People who want to live in Orania buy shares in the Vluytjeskraal Aandeleblok, instead of freehold. The screening of prospective shareholders allows for tight control. Buyers undergo extensive vetting, central to which is their fidelity to Afrikaans language and culture, a commitment to employing only white Afrikaners, and a string of conservative Christian undertakings. Unmarried couples, for instance, cannot live together. The town exists at the mercy of the South African constitution. In the early 2000s, a planned remapping of boundaries that would have brought Orania under the control of a democratically elected municipality appeared to spell the end, but the town successfully appealed to the high court using the constitutional rights of the country’s minority cultural groups. Pursued and harassed A quarter of a century after the end of apartheid, black people are restricted to using the filling station on the edge of Orania. Benjamin Khumalo* is one of them. The 55-year-old and his wife, who have lived on a small nearby plot since the 1980s, were once pursued and harassed by a pickup truck covered with Orania stickers when walking home after an evening with friends. “Now you must run,” he urged his wife, pushing her through a fence. “I’ll be behind you.” It’s like boere [white Afrikaners] Disneyland. Except you never have to go home Philip Nothnagel, town doctor Khumalo still remembers when Orania was a home for black families. The guns carried on the hips of many Oranians, however, have been enough to convince him never to enter the town again. “They will hurt you,” he says. “There is nothing we can do.” Unsurprisingly, Orania’s white residents have a different take. The town’s doctor, Philip Nothnagel, describes South African cities as “warzones”. He lived in the country’s administrative capital, Pretoria, before he moved to Orania. The 10 months since have been the best of his life, he says. “It’s the first time in history that a country has been established without a war,” he adds, sporting a Lincolnesque beard after he dressed up as Paul Kruger during recent celebrations of the Boer hero. “It’s like boere [white Afrikaners] Disneyland. Except you never have to go home.” Noticeboards at a local restaurant carry a warning to European journalists. Noticeboards at a local restaurant carry a warning to European journalists. The spectre of Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is difficult to escape. His portrait and bust seem to be around every corner. His wife, Betsie, is buried in the town, and her old home has been converted into a Verwoerd museum. His grandson Carel Boshoff junior is a former leader of the Orania Movement, which first proposed the idea of Orania in the 1980s. Boshoff junior is perhaps one of the more unlikely fans of the pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, whose music plays on a laptop in his office. Like his parents and grandparents, Boshoff fears white Afrikaners face a real threat of “being wiped out”, either through violence or what he calls “amalgamation”. He believes the recent expansion of Orania is just the start. Carel Boshoff junior, grandson of Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid. Verwoerd’s grandson, Carel Boshoff junior, worries white Afrikaners could be ‘wiped out’ “We are something like the phoenix in the ashes,” he says. “The questions to which Orania is the answer are so fundamental to the structure of South African society that you can’t express and affirm your Afrikaner identity without coming to the conclusion of a bigger Orania.” Offended by Orania Orania has continued largely uncontested since its victorious appeal to the high court in the early 2000s. The ANC government does not appear to be considering an appeal of the high court decision. Zamani Saul, head of the ANC-run Northern Cape government, has said an inquiry into Orania’s legal status is yet to be concluded. For Ngcukaitobi, the author, Orania “represents the reversal of the constitutional project of national building.” The rights that underpinned the town’s high court challenge against the remapping are not unlimited, he says. Anyone who cares about South Africa “would rightly be offended by what Orania represents, which is an enduring legacy of racial mobilisation”. Orapeleng Moraladi, Northern Cape secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, blames the town’s continued existence on the courts, an uncooperative Orania leadership, and a lack of political will from the ANC. “[The town] is like embracing an apartheid system within a democratic state,” he says. “Orania is an indictment of the government of South Africa.” *Indicated names have been changed "

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