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The Wall Street Journal: NSA Warns Cellphone Location Data Could Pose National-Security Threat
by jim bell 05 Aug '20

05 Aug '20

The Wall Street Journal: NSA Warns Cellphone Location Data Could Pose National-Security Threat. https://www.wsj.com/articles/nsa-warns-cellphone-location-data-could-pose-n…

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Ron Unz: Mossad's assassinations of leading Americans - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 05 Aug '20

05 Aug '20

We know the CIA's public record of coup's and assassinations is a real threat to social sanity, and there's a somewhat public record of CIA + Mossad cooperation. Ron Unz lays out just some of the Mossad side of the equation (now we know why Unz was being denigrated/ un-personed a few weeks back - someone had inside knowledge of what was coming down the pipeline): Mossad's Bloody Trail of Assassinations of Leading Americans and Others Should Infuriate You - Another Ron Unz Bombshell Article https://russia-insider.com/en/history/mossads-bloody-trail-assassinations-l… It looks like the Soleimani murder is just part of a decades long pattern, as American statecraft blends indistinguishably with Israel's penchant for the underhanded and bloody. ... "The sheer quantity of such foreign assassinations was really quite remarkable, with the knowledgeable reviewer in the New York Times suggesting that the Israeli total over the last half-century or so seemed far greater than that of any other nation." "I might even go farther: if we excluded domestic killings, I wouldn’t be surprised if the body-count exceeded the combined total for that of all other major countries in the world. I think all the lurid revelations of lethal CIA or KGB Cold War assassination plots that I have seen discussed in newspaper articles might fit comfortably into just a chapter or two of Bergman’s extremely long book." "The extent to which the agents of the Jewish state and its Zionist predecessor organizations have engaged in the most rampant international crime and violations of the accepted rules of warfare is really quite extraordinary, perhaps having few parallels in modern world history." ...

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A problem with the ICC - Assange - Fw: Preliminary Investigation Request delivered to The Hague: The International Criminal Court
by Zenaan Harkness 05 Aug '20

05 Aug '20

There is a problem with "the Hague" ICC or International Criminal Court: The authority you go to, is the authority you give power to. It is evident that globalist institutions have failed us, and are part of the despotic globalist agenda. Of this dichotomy, Nationalism is a less chaotic solution for the world. Perhaps we could see the Brits stap up to the plate and build a little standing in the Crown - there is dignity in doing so, rationalism from a national sovereignty perspective, it is better than the globalist ICC authority for many reasons still. The people are another authority we can go to, but they are overly frouridated vaccinated schooled and "entertained", so generally asleep, and thus a hard haul to motivate into action... Trump did a little of that when he put out the somewhat successful call to "uphold your great second amendment" after which we saw a number of cases of "red necks" defending various local businesses, which was great to see. The authority you go to, is the authority you give power to. Choose wisely, ----- Forwarded message from "Phillip Adams via Change.org" <change(a)e.change.org> ----- From: "Phillip Adams via Change.org" <change(a)e.change.org> Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2020 22:53:18 +0000 Subject: Preliminary Investigation Request delivered to The Hague: The International Criminal Court List-Id: <spc.222165.2.sparkpostmail.com> Phillip Adams shared an update on <em>Free Julian Assange, before it's too late. Sign to STOP the USA Extradition</em> Check it out and leave a comment: Petition Update Preliminary Investigation Request delivered to The Hague: The International Criminal Court Hi All, This petition has now notified the the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court also known as the Hague, that we we request the initiation of what is termed "An initial Investigation" by the "Office of the Prosecutor". I have extensively investigated the procedure for taking the matter to The Hague and I believe we have a vase of a "Crime Against Humanity" as... https://click.e.change.org/f/a/-OVB2Pta1BzBGdgadfrigg~~/AANj1QA~/RgRhDGveP4… Discover petitions promoted by Change.org users Support Mark McGowan to keep the West Australian border closed Say “NO” to the proposed quarry at Rangiora Racecourse Air Hillary Clinton Testifying on LIVE TV Bring back johno's license Section 48 of the Australian Migration Act ----- End forwarded message -----

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Fw: legislative stupidity: Coitus Interruptus, now a legal requirement QLD Australia
by Zig the N.g 05 Aug '20

05 Aug '20

----- Forwarded message from Gil May <gilmay97(a)gmail.com> ----- From: Gil May <gilmay97(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 07:47:08 +1000 Subject: LEGISLATIVE STUPIDITY COITUS INTERRUPTUS A LEGAL REQUIREMENT IN QLD Editor Courier Mail Dear Editor LEGISLATIVE STUPIDITY COITUS INTERRUPTUS A LEGAL REQUIREMENT IN QLD People Can Withdraw Sexual Consent At Any Time During Sex (Courier Mail 1 August), just imaging two lovers jiggy-jogging along and one changes their mind, maybe their bell rang first, the other participant is then required to withdraw and retire seconds from the finishing line. Who wrote this rubbish, it just won’t work, it’s no different to buying a flight ticket to Sydney and just as you see the lights of Sydney — you tell the pilot you have changed your mind, you want to go back to Brisbane; think the pilot might tell you to enjoy the journey, could be fun when you get there. Sincerely ----- End forwarded message -----

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After years of hype, 5G making progress in the USA
by jim bell 04 Aug '20

04 Aug '20

After years of hype, 5G making progress in the USA https://a.msn.com/r/2/BB17qayt?m=en-us&referrerID=InAppShare

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The threat of privacy
by Bob Hettinga 04 Aug '20

04 Aug '20

http://www.kahnfrance.com/cmk/The%20threat%20of%20privacy%20distribution%20… The Threat of Privacy By Charles M. Kahn1 Like artists, we academics want to believe that if one of our works doesn’t get enough attention it’s because we’re ahead of our time. I’d like to pretend that everything I’ve written is pathbreaking, and will eventually be recognized for its true importance. But I have to admit that there are really only a couple of cases where I can say with hindsight that something I wrote has been ahead of its time. One of them2 is a paper written with Jamie McAndrews and Will Roberds, published in 2005, and titled “Money is Privacy.” We wrote it partly as a response to Narayana Kocherlakota’s famous paper “Money is Memory,” which could be taken as arguing that cash is essentially a record‐keeping device, tracking who was a net creditor and who a net debtor to society with respect to resources provided or consumed. The implication was that if it became easy to keep credit records directly, cash could wither away. In our paper we argued instead that a key role of cash was its ability to protect the purchaser’s identity. So we predicted that, even while the reductions in costs of record keeping and increases in the speed of data transmission were expanding the usage of credit‐ and deposit‐account‐ based payments arrangements, cash would survive. Because the desire for privacy would always generate demand for cash, it would be a mistake—and ultimately futile—to attempt to abolish it. At the time, people were attuned to many of the problems of privacy, but there had not yet been a clear recognized link between the value of privacy and the role of payments systems. (Remember, bitcoin was only released in 2009). [...] 1 Keynote address at “Financial Market Infrastructure Conference II: New Thinking in a New Era” at De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, 7‐8 June 2017. 2 The other was my dissertation, back in 1980. It was on liquidity and the pricing of illiquid assets. At that time, no one thought this was an important issue in finance: financial markets were liquid; everybody “knew” that. So the work went nowhere. Oh well.

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Trump has the right to debate Biden - or a proxy for Biden - [PEACE]
by Zig the N.g 04 Aug '20

04 Aug '20

Since the Demonrats are wanting to not put their cognitive disaster up on stage to debate Trump, this opens the door to Trump's right to debate a proxy for Biden, an actor who is at least a passing image of Biden. <clasps ears as Democrat screeching heard across continents> This is going to be, from a comedic perspective, absolutely EPIC :D And that is no matter whether the gauntlet of a Biden proxy for Trump to debate is enough to get the Dems to put actual Biden on the stage, or not. Just can't, just can't .. just can't get e-nou-ough ... life imitating comedy, and doing a better job <very cheesy Kek grin>. Here's the Dems admitting that they want to keep Biden away from Trump (may be to avoid any chance of Biden mistaking Trump's wavy golden Toupée): Former Clinton Press Secretary Urges Biden "Whatever You Do, Don't Debate Trump" https://www.zerohedge.com/political/former-clinton-press-secretary-urges-bi… https://summit.news/2020/08/03/former-clinton-press-secretary-urges-biden-w… Bill Clinton’s former press secretary has urged Joe Biden not to debate President Trump, claiming that “it’s a fool’s errand” because Trump will not ‘follow the rules’. And these are BabylonBee.com SATYRE pieces: https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-propose-new-debate-format-where-biden… https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-excited-to-find-out-who-he-picked-for-vp

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Ars Technica: SpaceX now plans for 5 million Starlink customers in US, up from 1 million
by jim bell 04 Aug '20

04 Aug '20

Ars Technica: SpaceX now plans for 5 million Starlink customers in US, up from 1 million. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/08/spacex-now-plans-for…

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Tracks: Surfer - Another Cypherpunks Oddysey Begins
by Zig the N.g 03 Aug '20

03 Aug '20

Tracks: Surfer, The Catalyst 2020 FC _Another Cypherpunks Oddysey_ [Scene 1] The dream haunted him. It did every night, chased him usually within one lonely and vicious time track. Lately he'd been noticing little things - he still died every night, but the fear was reducing, and the nightmares more often metaphors for reality. Wearily rubbing his eyes again, he noticed the sweat transferred to his fingers. "Again!" he mumbled to his elf, to nobody and to everybody, wondering how many thoughts he had to not finish the formation of, how many he could speak before the watchers would reset the night, as they so often did. That "childhood fancy" as had so often been dismissed had stood him well - that healthy, if excessive paranoia kept his mind alert, eyes open and "Life, secured!" as the weary joke ran. "Such a weak and emotional child" - the distant memory rang out to no one, from everyone, ancient black and white lorenzian swirls danced with the haunting sound track of Ye Olde Dr Who. Swinging his legs off the bed, The Catalyst wiped his damp hands on his dry nightshirt, picked up the pen and notepad, began to write the memories: A rotten hand reaches over the precipice. I knew when it touched my arm, that time track would be forever stuck. Damn, it got me again! ("Such a bloody trope!" he thought to himself, "powerful little fuckers". Yet those after effects - that knot in his stomach.) The next frame returned: he could see his idiotic brother, always bored as a young teenager and looking for mischief, grinning stupidly, but a bit evilly at him; "was that from life, or another time track" he wondered, unsure. Through the brush, had to get somewhere, out of here, time was running out, fear catching up, walking a track ("oh wow, that was a track" ... the writing had again caused his subconscious to give up an insight), following somone, he knew he should walk alone, or rather have the strength to walk alone instead of plainly, unthinkingly follow. ("I'm working on that" he realised.) Next, standing on a bridge, a solid cement and stone bridge, the old Knight's Pass, just one of hundreds of course. Ghouls looking particularly humanoid and bland, but sufficiently gray as to be "certainly" ghouls, slowly lifted their NPC arms, taking slow step towards me. ("So tropish man, this is getting ridiculous!" but it had already happened, his duty to write continued.) A great friend was next to him, the voice of friendship, handing him the usual silver rovolver with silver bullets ("YES! The tropes!" :D). He knew he could fire the gun, but that premonition extended to the slowness of the bullets (shut UP already) - he shot off one, two, three silver bullets and not only were they slow, they curved! Cheeky bullets! (Ahh, "faith", a long way to go young wanna be knight in training!) The closest ghoul was at least a big step closer, and barely a large step away. He took a step back. His "brother in spirit" stayed at his side. Bullets were returning now. Yes, cause and consequence - no matter the tool, action and reaction, thus the need to always surf. These did not curve, had a slight yellow tinge, but were only slightly quicker than slow, and oddly seemed to stop right in front of him. He double checked the time track; Yes, they stopped. And was just about to assert a complete faith failure for the night. "Well that's at least mildly edifying" he mumbled in his thoughts. Why did it stop? His hand had risen, a tiny shield, but a shield it was - ahh yes, a shield of faith. Hmm, a little disconcerting, more fear. Must need more faith (ya think?! "Yes boss!") Then there were two, three bullets in return, but they quickly stacked up in one spot, squashing each previous bullet in mid air. That was handy, the shield was useful. Fear finally crept over him and he woke. Lorenzian butterfly wings haunted him. He was compelled, "just wired this way" he thought to himself with a wry grin... Just as he began to pray for forgiveness and redemption again, to protect the DUMB warriors liberating the thousands of children, an instruction, a conjunction of real life snippets from the last two weeks, became evident or "presented itself" to his ever umble mind: "write" "it seems I share these dreams with you for a reason" "in faith" "it's for a reason" "sharing" "time track surfing" He yawned, donned some warmer layers and shuffled over to the keyboard from the Glory Realms. "Better get some work done" he muttered, confirming the ungodly hour of the morning as the screen came to life. Time Surfers, eh? Are we really surfing time tracks? "Yes" It wasn't even a whisper. Not even, barely a thought. A memory, forged on that bridge and from the voice of friendship. He shivered again, and not from the chill mid Winter air... "In faith" He stopped typing, trying to hold back the tears, never properly succeeding as his subconscious drew him deeper into service. "Just wired this way" he consoled himself. "Remember all" "all in this together" "the game, the consequences, are real, we live with the consequences" []

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MIT Technology Review: The quest for quantum-proof encryption just made a leap forward
by jim bell 03 Aug '20

03 Aug '20

MIT Technology Review: The quest for quantum-proof encryption just made a leap forward. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/03/1005891/search-for-quantum-proo…

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