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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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Onions: Bittorrent Clouds and ThePirateBay Still Flying High within OnionLand
by grarpamp 25 Sep '20

25 Sep '20

http://piratebayztemzmv.onion/ Irrelevant to recent news of various clearnet domains lost, The Pirate Bay, and many other clearnet torrent services that have adopted onions and other overlay networks, are still running free, fine, and uncensored within OnionLand for many years now. You can join, and create new, large torrent clouds operating entirely within v2 OnionLand (no exit ever) by using OnionCat, OpenTracker, Transmission-BT, and the firewall of your OS. https://www.onioncat.org/ https://github.com/rahra/onioncat https://erdgeist.org/arts/software/opentracker/ https://erdgeist.org/gitweb/opentracker/ https://transmissionbt.com/ https://github.com/transmission/transmission OnionCat also gives you IPv6 and UDP transport inside OnionLand, a layer 3 VPN switch of sorts, so you can use any IPv6 enabled application, including advanced distributed P2P mesh messaging, voice telephony, filestorage, cryptocurrency, etc... some apps that might otherwise not work at all over onions. "ping" also works :) Your use of Tor's onion network, regardless of application, even web browsing, consumes node bandwidth and other resources from tor totalling roughly equal to 7x your own bandwidth use of it. So for a net zero impact, you would like to run a non-exit relay to offer, give, and restore that much back to onionland, whether on average / idle / realtime. Use the rate limits of your OS, tor and BT clients together to set that up so that up to 7/8ths of the pipe setup is dynamically allotted priority to such externally driven tor throughput (other users of tor network) through your non-exit relay. Once up and running, you can fetch and seed your favorite datas with your peers entirely within OnionLand with no more risk of annoying ISP shutdowns, anti-freespeech GovCorp courts, fines, etc... than the overlay network itself being shutdown. Though with Tor and all of todays overlays, keep in mind the full quote context from '"Tor Stinks" -- NSA'. http://piratebayztemzmv.onion/search.php?q=privacy http://piratebayztemzmv.onion/search.php?q=censorship http://piratebayztemzmv.onion/search.php?q=human+rights http://piratebayztemzmv.onion/search.php?q=bitcoin+documentary http://piratebayztemzmv.onion/search.php?q=tor Defense Against the Dark Arts of Copyright Trolling https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2933200 https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-oldest-torrent-still-alive-after-15-years-1… https://torrentfreak.com/top-10-most-popular-torrent-sites-of-2020-200105/ https://torrentfreak.com/?s=onion https://avoidcensorship.org/ https://thepiratebay.org/static/dump/csv/ https://github.com/techtacoriginal/offlinebay https://gitlab.com/throwaway111111/offlinebay-bash "As a digital Librarian who is interested in preserving humanity's achievements and art, my job would be impossible without bittorrent tech." -- Megaohmz -- This message moderated and censored by Tor Project's "emergency" for your "protection".

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A self-erasing chip for security and anti-counterfeit tech
by jim bell 25 Sep '20

25 Sep '20

https://phys.org/news/2020-09-self-erasing-chip-anti-counterfeit-tech.html

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The Washington Post: Amazon’s new security drone pushes the boundaries of surveillance, again
by jim bell 25 Sep '20

25 Sep '20

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…

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[COVID] Anti-Lockdown Open Letter from Belgian Medical Community
by Se7en 24 Sep '20

24 Sep '20

<https://www.aier.org/article/open-letter-from-medical-doctors-and-health- professionals-to-all-belgian-authorities-and-all-belgian-media/> Reproduced in full, below: We, Belgian doctors and health professionals, wish to express our serious concern about the evolution of the situation in the recent months surrounding the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. We call on politicians to be independently and critically informed in the decision-making process and in the compulsory implementation of corona-measures. We ask for an open debate, where all experts are represented without any form of censorship. After the initial panic surrounding covid-19, the objective facts now show a completely different picture – there is no medical justification for any emergency policy anymore. The current crisis management has become totally disproportionate and causes more damage than it does any good. We call for an end to all measures and ask for an immediate restoration of our normal democratic governance and legal structures and of all our civil liberties. ‘A cure must not be worse than the problem’ is a thesis that is more relevant than ever in the current situation. We note, however, that the collateral damage now being caused to the population will have a greater impact in the short and long term on all sections of the population than the number of people now being safeguarded from corona. In our opinion, the current corona measures and the strict penalties for non-compliance with them are contrary to the values formulated by the Belgian Supreme Health Council, which, until recently, as the health authority, has always ensured quality medicine in our country: “Science – Expertise – Quality – Impartiality – Independence – Transparency”. 1 We believe that the policy has introduced mandatory measures that are not sufficiently scientifically based, unilaterally directed, and that there is not enough space in the media for an open debate in which different views and opinions are heard. In addition, each municipality and province now has the authorisation to add its own measures, whether well-founded or not. Moreover, the strict repressive policy on corona strongly contrasts with the government’s minimal policy when it comes to disease prevention, strengthening our own immune system through a healthy lifestyle, optimal care with attention for the individual and investment in care personnel.2 The concept of health In 1948, the WHO defined health as follows: ‘Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or other physical impairment’.3 Health, therefore, is a broad concept that goes beyond the physical and also relates to the emotional and social well-being of the individual. Belgium also has a duty, from the point of view of subscribing to fundamental human rights, to include these human rights in its decision-making when it comes to measures taken in the context of public health. 4 The current global measures taken to combat SARS-CoV-2 violate to a large extent this view of health and human rights. Measures include compulsory wearing of a mask (also in open air and during sporting activities, and in some municipalities even when there are no other people in the vicinity), physical distancing, social isolation, compulsory quarantine for some groups and hygiene measures. The predicted pandemic with millions of deaths At the beginning of the pandemic, the measures were understandable and widely supported, even if there were differences in implementation in the countries around us. The WHO originally predicted a pandemic that would claim 3.4% victims, in other words millions of deaths, and a highly contagious virus for which no treatment or vaccine was available. This would put unprecedented pressure on the intensive care units (ICUs) of our hospitals. This led to a global alarm situation, never seen in the history of mankind: “flatten the curve” was represented by a lockdown that shut down the entire society and economy and quarantined healthy people. Social distancing became the new normal in anticipation of a rescue vaccine. The facts about covid-19 Gradually, the alarm bell was sounded from many sources: the objective facts showed a completely different reality. 5 6 The course of covid-19 followed the course of a normal wave of infection similar to a flu season. As every year, we see a mix of flu viruses following the curve: first the rhinoviruses, then the influenza A and B viruses, followed by the coronaviruses. There is nothing different from what we normally see. The use of the non-specific PCR test, which produces many false positives, showed an exponential picture. This test was rushed through with an emergency procedure and was never seriously self-tested. The creator expressly warned that this test was intended for research and not for diagnostics.7 The PCR test works with cycles of amplification of genetic material – a piece of genome is amplified each time. Any contamination (e.g. other viruses, debris from old virus genomes) can possibly result in false positives.8 The test does not measure how many viruses are present in the sample. A real viral infection means a massive presence of viruses, the so-called virus load. If someone tests positive, this does not mean that that person is actually clinically infected, is ill or is going to become ill. Koch’s postulate was not fulfilled (“The pure agent found in a patient with complaints can provoke the same complaints in a healthy person”). Since a positive PCR test does not automatically indicate active infection or infectivity, this does not justify the social measures taken, which are based solely on these tests. 9 10 Lockdown. If we compare the waves of infection in countries with strict lockdown policies to countries that did not impose lockdowns (Sweden, Iceland …), we see similar curves. So there is no link between the imposed lockdown and the course of the infection. Lockdown has not led to a lower mortality rate. If we look at the date of application of the imposed lockdowns we see that the lockdowns were set after the peak was already over and the number of cases decreasing. The drop was therefore not the result of the taken measures. 11 As every year, it seems that climatic conditions (weather, temperature and humidity) and growing immunity are more likely to reduce the wave of infection. Our immune system For thousands of years, the human body has been exposed daily to moisture and droplets containing infectious microorganisms (viruses, bacteria and fungi). The penetration of these microorganisms is prevented by an advanced defence mechanism – the immune system. A strong immune system relies on normal daily exposure to these microbial influences. Overly hygienic measures have a detrimental effect on our immunity. 12 13 Only people with a weak or faulty immune system should be protected by extensive hygiene or social distancing. Influenza will re-emerge in the autumn (in combination with covid-19) and a possible decrease in natural resilience may lead to further casualties. Our immune system consists of two parts: a congenital, non-specific immune system and an adaptive immune system. The non-specific immune system forms a first barrier: skin, saliva, gastric juice, intestinal mucus, vibratory hair cells, commensal flora, … and prevents the attachment of micro-organisms to tissue. If they do attach, macrophages can cause the microorganisms to be encapsulated and destroyed. The adaptive immune system consists of mucosal immunity (IgA antibodies, mainly produced by cells in the intestines and lung epithelium), cellular immunity (T-cell activation), which can be generated in contact with foreign substances or microorganisms, and humoral immunity (IgM and IgG antibodies produced by the B cells). Recent research shows that both systems are highly entangled. It appears that most people already have a congenital or general immunity to e.g. influenza and other viruses. This is confirmed by the findings on the cruise ship Diamond Princess, which was quarantined because of a few passengers who died of Covid-19. Most of the passengers were elderly and were in an ideal situation of transmission on the ship. However, 75% did not appear to be infected. So even in this high-risk group, the majority are resistant to the virus. A study in the journal Cell shows that most people neutralise the coronavirus by mucosal (IgA) and cellular immunity (T-cells), while experiencing few or no symptoms 14. Researchers found up to 60% SARS-Cov-2 reactivity with CD4+T cells in a non-infected population, suggesting cross-reactivity with other cold (corona) viruses.15 Most people therefore already have a congenital or cross-immunity because they were already in contact with variants of the same virus. The antibody formation (IgM and IgG) by B-cells only occupies a relatively small part of our immune system. This may explain why, with an antibody percentage of 5-10%, there may be a group immunity anyway. The efficacy of vaccines is assessed precisely on the basis of whether or not we have these antibodies. This is a misrepresentation. Most people who test positive (PCR) have no complaints. Their immune system is strong enough. Strengthening natural immunity is a much more logical approach. Prevention is an important, insufficiently highlighted pillar: healthy, full-fledged nutrition, exercise in fresh air, without a mask, stress reduction and nourishing emotional and social contacts. Consequences of social isolation on physical and mental health Social isolation and economic damage led to an increase in depression, anxiety, suicides, intra-family violence and child abuse.16 Studies have shown that the more social and emotional commitments people have, the more resistant they are to viruses. It is much more likely that isolation and quarantine have fatal consequences. 17 The isolation measures have also led to physical inactivity in many older people due to their being forced to stay indoors. However, sufficient exercise has a positive effect on cognitive functioning, reducing depressive complaints and anxiety and improving physical health, energy levels, well-being and, in general, quality of life.18 Fear, persistent stress and loneliness induced by social distancing have a proven negative influence on psychological and general health. 19 A highly contagious virus with millions of deaths without any treatment? Mortality turned out to be many times lower than expected and close to that of a normal seasonal flu (0.2%). 20 The number of registered corona deaths therefore still seems to be overestimated. There is a difference between death by corona and death with corona. Humans are often carriers of multiple viruses and potentially pathogenic bacteria at the same time. Taking into account the fact that most people who developed serious symptoms suffered from additional pathology, one cannot simply conclude that the corona-infection was the cause of death. This was mostly not taken into account in the statistics. The most vulnerable groups can be clearly identified. The vast majority of deceased patients were 80 years of age or older. The majority (70%) of the deceased, younger than 70 years, had an underlying disorder, such as cardiovascular suffering, diabetes mellitus, chronic lung disease or obesity. The vast majority of infected persons (>98%) did not or hardly became ill or recovered spontaneously. Meanwhile, there is an affordable, safe and efficient therapy available for those who do show severe symptoms of disease in the form of HCQ (hydroxychloroquine), zinc and azithromycin. Rapidly applied this therapy leads to recovery and often prevents hospitalisation. Hardly anyone has to die now. This effective therapy has been confirmed by the clinical experience of colleagues in the field with impressive results. This contrasts sharply with the theoretical criticism (insufficient substantiation by double-blind studies) which in some countries (e.g. the Netherlands) has even led to a ban on this therapy. A meta-analysis in The Lancet, which could not demonstrate an effect of HCQ, was withdrawn. The primary data sources used proved to be unreliable and 2 out of 3 authors were in conflict of interest. However, most of the guidelines based on this study remained unchanged … 48 49 We have serious questions about this state of affairs. In the US, a group of doctors in the field, who see patients on a daily basis, united in “America’s Frontline Doctors” and gave a press conference which has been watched millions of times.21 51 French Prof Didier Raoult of the Institut d’Infectiologie de Marseille (IHU) also presented this promising combination therapy as early as April. Dutch GP Rob Elens, who cured many patients in his practice with HCQ and zinc, called on colleagues in a petition for freedom of therapy.22 The definitive evidence comes from the epidemiological follow-up in Switzerland: mortality rates compared with and without this therapy.23 From the distressing media images of ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome) where people were suffocating and given artificial respiration in agony, we now know that this was caused by an exaggerated immune response with intravascular coagulation in the pulmonary blood vessels. The administration of blood thinners and dexamethasone and the avoidance of artificial ventilation, which was found to cause additional damage to lung tissue, means that this dreaded complication, too, is virtually not fatal anymore. 47 It is therefore not a killer virus, but a well-treatable condition. Propagation Spreading occurs by drip infection (only for patients who cough or sneeze) and aerosols in closed, unventilated rooms. Contamination is therefore not possible in the open air. Contact tracing and epidemiological studies show that healthy people (or positively tested asymptomatic carriers) are virtually unable to transmit the virus. Healthy people therefore do not put each other at risk. 24 25 Transfer via objects (e.g. money, shopping or shopping trolleys) has not been scientifically proven.26 27 28 All this seriously calls into question the whole policy of social distancing and compulsory mouth masks for healthy people – there is no scientific basis for this. Masks Oral masks belong in contexts where contacts with proven at-risk groups or people with upper respiratory complaints take place, and in a medical context/hospital-retirement home setting. They reduce the risk of droplet infection by sneezing or coughing. Oral masks in healthy individuals are ineffective against the spread of viral infections. 29 30 31 Wearing a mask is not without side effects. 32 33 Oxygen deficiency (headache, nausea, fatigue, loss of concentration) occurs fairly quickly, an effect similar to altitude sickness. Every day we now see patients complaining of headaches, sinus problems, respiratory problems and hyperventilation due to wearing masks. In addition, the accumulated CO2 leads to a toxic acidification of the organism which affects our immunity. Some experts even warn of an increased transmission of the virus in case of inappropriate use of the mask.34 Our Labour Code (Codex 6) refers to a CO2 content (ventilation in workplaces) of 900 ppm, maximum 1200 ppm in special circumstances. After wearing a mask for one minute, this toxic limit is considerably exceeded to values that are three to four times higher than these maximum values. Anyone who wears a mask is therefore in an extreme poorly ventilated room. 35 Inappropriate use of masks without a comprehensive medical cardio-pulmonary test file is therefore not recommended by recognised safety specialists for workers. Hospitals have a sterile environment in their operating rooms where staff wear masks and there is precise regulation of humidity / temperature with appropriately monitored oxygen flow to compensate for this, thus meeting strict safety standards. 36 A second corona wave? A second wave is now being discussed in Belgium, with a further tightening of the measures as a result. However, closer examination of Sciensano’s figures37 shows that, although there has been an increase in the number of infections since mid-July, there was no increase in hospital admissions or deaths at that time. It is therefore not a second wave of corona, but a so-called “case chemistry” due to an increased number of tests. 50 The number of hospital admissions or deaths showed a shortlasting minimal increase in recent weeks, but in interpreting it, we must take into account the recent heatwave. In addition, the vast majority of the victims are still in the population group >75 years. This indicates that the proportion of the measures taken in relation to the working population and young people is disproportionate to the intended objectives. The vast majority of the positively tested “infected” persons are in the age group of the active population, which does not develop any or merely limited symptoms, due to a well-functioning immune system. So nothing has changed – the peak is over. Strengthening a prevention policy The corona measures form a striking contrast to the minimal policy pursued by the government until now, when it comes to well-founded measures with proven health benefits such as the sugar tax, the ban on (e-)cigarettes and making healthy food, exercise and social support networks financially attractive and widely accessible. It is a missed opportunity for a better prevention policy that could have brought about a change in mentality in all sections of the population with clear results in terms of public health. At present, only 3% of the health care budget goes to prevention. 2 The Hippocratic Oath As a doctor, we took the Hippocratic Oath: “I will above all care for my patients, promote their health and alleviate their suffering”. “I will inform my patients correctly.” “Even under pressure, I will not use my medical knowledge for practices that are against humanity.” The current measures force us to act against this oath. Other health professionals have a similar code. The ‘primum non nocere’, which every doctor and health professional assumes, is also undermined by the current measures and by the prospect of the possible introduction of a generalised vaccine, which is not subject to extensive prior testing. Vaccine Survey studies on influenza vaccinations show that in 10 years we have only succeeded three times in developing a vaccine with an efficiency rate of more than 50%. Vaccinating our elderly appears to be inefficient. Over 75 years of age, the efficacy is almost non-existent.38 Due to the continuous natural mutation of viruses, as we also see every year in the case of the influenza virus, a vaccine is at most a temporary solution, which requires new vaccines each time afterwards. An untested vaccine, which is implemented by emergency procedure and for which the manufacturers have already obtained legal immunity from possible harm, raises serious questions. 39 40 We do not wish to use our patients as guinea pigs. On a global scale, 700 000 cases of damage or death are expected as a result of the vaccine.41 If 95% of people experience Covid-19 virtually symptom-free, the risk of exposure to an untested vaccine is irresponsible. The role of the media and the official communication plan Over the past few months, newspaper, radio and TV makers seemed to stand almost uncritically behind the panel of experts and the government, there, where it is precisely the press that should be critical and prevent one-sided governmental communication. This has led to a public communication in our news media, that was more like propaganda than objective reporting. In our opinion, it is the task of journalism to bring news as objectively and neutrally as possible, aimed at finding the truth and critically controlling power, with dissenting experts also being given a forum in which to express themselves. This view is supported by the journalistic codes of ethics.42 The official story that a lockdown was necessary, that this was the only possible solution, and that everyone stood behind this lockdown, made it difficult for people with a different view, as well as experts, to express a different opinion. Alternative opinions were ignored or ridiculed. We have not seen open debates in the media, where different views could be expressed. We were also surprised by the many videos and articles by many scientific experts and authorities, which were and are still being removed from social media. We feel that this does not fit in with a free, democratic constitutional state, all the more so as it leads to tunnel vision. This policy also has a paralysing effect and feeds fear and concern in society. In this context, we reject the intention of censorship of dissidents in the European Union! 43 The way in which Covid-19 has been portrayed by politicians and the media has not done the situation any good either. War terms were popular and warlike language was not lacking. There has often been mention of a ‘war’ with an ‘invisible enemy’ who has to be ‘defeated’. The use in the media of phrases such as ‘care heroes in the front line’ and ‘corona victims’ has further fuelled fear, as has the idea that we are globally dealing with a ‘killer virus’. The relentless bombardment with figures, that were unleashed on the population day after day, hour after hour, without interpreting those figures, without comparing them to flu deaths in other years, without comparing them to deaths from other causes, has induced a real psychosis of fear in the population. This is not information, this is manipulation. We deplore the role of the WHO in this, which has called for the infodemic (i.e. all divergent opinions from the official discourse, including by experts with different views) to be silenced by an unprecedented media censorship.43 44 We urgently call on the media to take their responsibilities here! We demand an open debate in which all experts are heard. Emergency law versus Human Rights The general principle of good governance calls for the proportionality of government decisions to be weighed up in the light of the Higher Legal Standards: any interference by government must comply with the fundamental rights as protected in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Interference by public authorities is only permitted in crisis situations. In other words, discretionary decisions must be proportionate to an absolute necessity. The measures currently taken concern interference in the exercise of, among other things, the right to respect of private and family life, freedom of thought, conscience and religion, freedom of expression and freedom of assembly and association, the right to education, etc., and must therefore comply with fundamental rights as protected by the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). For example, in accordance with Article 8(2) of the ECHR, interference with the right to private and family life is permissible only if the measures are necessary in the interests of national security, public safety, the economic well-being of the country, the protection of public order and the prevention of criminal offences, the protection of health or the protection of the rights and freedoms of others, the regulatory text on which the interference is based must be sufficiently clear, foreseeable and proportionate to the objectives pursued.45 The predicted pandemic of millions of deaths seemed to respond to these crisis conditions, leading to the establishment of an emergency government. Now that the objective facts show something completely different, the condition of inability to act otherwise (no time to evaluate thoroughly if there is an emergency) is no longer in place. Covid-19 is not a cold virus, but a well treatable condition with a mortality rate comparable to the seasonal flu. In other words, there is no longer an insurmountable obstacle to public health. There is no state of emergency. Immense damage caused by the current policies An open discussion on corona measures means that, in addition to the years of life gained by corona patients, we must also take into account other factors affecting the health of the entire population. These include damage in the psychosocial domain (increase in depression, anxiety, suicides, intra-family violence and child abuse)16 and economic damage. If we take this collateral damage into account, the current policy is out of all proportion, the proverbial use of a sledgehammer to crack a nut. We find it shocking that the government is invoking health as a reason for the emergency law. As doctors and health professionals, in the face of a virus which, in terms of its harmfulness, mortality and transmissibility, approaches the seasonal influenza, we can only reject these extremely disproportionate measures. We therefore demand an immediate end to all measures. We are questioning the legitimacy of the current advisory experts, who meet behind closed doors. Following on from ACU 2020 46 https://acu2020.org/nederlandse-versie/ we call for an in-depth examination of the role of the WHO and the possible influence of conflicts of interest in this organisation. It was also at the heart of the fight against the “infodemic”, i.e. the systematic censorship of all dissenting opinions in the media. This is unacceptable for a democratic state governed by the rule of law.43 Distribution of this letter We would like to make a public appeal to our professional associations and fellow carers to give their opinion on the current measures. We draw attention to and call for an open discussion in which carers can and dare to speak out. With this open letter, we send out the signal that progress on the same footing does more harm than good, and call on politicians to inform themselves independently and critically about the available evidence – including that from experts with different views, as long as it is based on sound science – when rolling out a policy, with the aim of promoting optimum health. 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Re: [liberationtech] "San Antonio will leverage traffic lights to expand fiber network for students"
by grarpamp 23 Sep '20

23 Sep '20

On 7/30/20, Phil Shapiro <pshapiro(a)his.com> wrote: > https://www.expressnews.com/news/education/article/San-Antonio-will-leverag… > https://twitter.com/philshapiro/status/1288992161107775490 > > "San Antonio will leverage traffic lights to expand fiber network for > students" No, San Antonio is doing this to further entrench itself as faux Saviour unto you cheering dependent sheeple, a central State power over you, which has no real care for any human beings (see any docu the collateral murderous thieving State), most assuredly surveilling spying storing sharing and 1-up your good "activism" through its fiber taps CALEA and free secret feeds to TLA and commercial "contract partners". The real question is... Why are you human beings, here supposedly "liberators" woke to all such things, not out there with your shovels laying peer-to-peer multipath fiber copper RF meshes to unplug from and route around the fraudulent GovCorp State, each investing and digging virtual easements unto yourselfs upon your own (not really, wake up) lands, running mesh routing, full encryption overlays, uncensorable global end-to-end comms. A few weekends, a few hundred dollars each, a fun chat and labor amongst neighbors and get GigE down the row. Abode to abode, block to block, community to around globe. Real liberators seeking a state of liberation would. Oh right, better to "vote" selfs into power over, steal from people to build State fiber structures of control, surveillance, censorship, cameras, microphones, ALPR, facial recognition, jaywalk social credit scoring, GPS AppleRoid wifi bluetooth spy sensor fibers levered into every streetlight. Not at all liberating... especially not for your children the future "please think of the students", who with all that will have no options for independent homeschool learning will be banned and turned into central program Simpsons via "free (mandated)" worshipped, biometric ID to subscribe, "municipal" GovCorp fiber, a closed source backdoored OLPC "partner" provided "student webcam" "always on" in every home... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1FxfR3lg6Q Simpsons That's really sad trends being central built and cheered. Now get up and go learn how to use one of these... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shovel Build yourselves some real liberation :)

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179 Arrested in Massive Global Dark Web Takedown | WIRED
by jim bell 23 Sep '20

23 Sep '20

https://www.wired.com/story/operation-disruptor-179-arrested-global-dark-we…

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This Will Help Round Up The Jews... Re: 1984: Biometrics - USA Bill to Force Biometrics From Its Citizens, Privacy, Surveillance, Control
by CJ Parker 23 Sep '20

23 Sep '20

Find a cure for Cancer and the government will co-opt it For The Greater Good and announce that the Jews will be cured first. Of course they'll have to go to the Cancer Camps to be treated. And they will... Facial recognition for signing in is really handy. Nice of DARPA to make certain it is really me threatening to hold down BadBillyG and test my new Covid vaccine on him. Then there are the government intelligence agencies that have figured out how to make a profit invading everyone's privacy by having people voluntarily send in their DNA to sites like Ancestry.com so that they and their whole family can be identified if they spit on the floor of a federal building. Think about it. Your DNA now 'rat's out' your whole family at once. And when the government builds a database of those who have been vaccinated, they will also know who *hasn't* been vaccinated. This is already happening in Houston with Covid testing. They know *which* doors their 'health workers' and armed law enforcement officers need to knock on and who to intimidate into being tested. Facial recognition and Biometric technology is now advanced and pervasive enough to track everyone's movements, at all times, to a greater extent than cell phone towers. Government supervision combined with government grants now means that *every* development in Science is under the purview of the government and *will* be co-opted to provide government with more power and control over technology and the people using it. If a Covid vaccine is 'developed' before the elections I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes a 'requirement' to vote. Things are really moving that fast... sog

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Censorship: Facebook Pledges to Censor Election Downfall
by grarpamp 23 Sep '20

23 Sep '20

https://www.ft.com/content/82ead3c3-774f-4b12-b7ed-e1c0bbf70261 https://thehill.com/policy/technology/517515-facebook-to-restrict-the-circu… " Facebook has said it will take aggressive and exceptional measures to "restrict the circulation of content" on its platform if November's presidential election descends into chaos or violent civic unrest. In an interview with the Financial Times, Nick Clegg, the company's head of global affairs, said it had drawn up plans for how to handle a range of outcomes, including widespread civic unrest or "the political dilemmas" of having in-person votes counted more rapidly than mail-in ballots, which will play a larger role in this election due to the coronavirus pandemic. "There are some break-glass options available to us if there really is an extremely chaotic and, worse still, violent set of circumstances," Mr Clegg said, though he stopped short of elaborating further on what measures were on the table. The proposed actions, which would probably go further than any previously taken by a US platform, come as the social media group is under increasing pressure to lay out how it plans to combat election-related misinformation, voter suppression and the incitement of violence on the November 3 election day and during the post-election period. "

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