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Michael Flynn discovers 1st in America: lawyers "betrayed" him (SHAWK!)
by Zig the N.g 28 May '20

28 May '20

>From the "Consequences for literally failing to lie for the USA public prosecution" dept. Imagine our SHAWK, SHAWK I tell ya! Flynn's Defense Files Motion Saying His Former Legal Team "Betrayed Him" https://www.zerohedge.com/political/flynns-defense-files-motion-saying-his-… Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn ... denied that he lied to the FBI during the White House meeting with then FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and FBI Special Agent Joe Pientka. The meeting was set up by now fired FBI Director James Comey and then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who was also fired for lying to Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s investigators. Strzok was fired by the FBI for his actions during the Russia investigation. “... nor do I remember if we discussed the details of a UN vote on Israel.” ... Powell said prosecutors reversed course on their decision to not push for jail time for Flynn in early January because she said, her client “refused to lie for the prosecution” in the Rafiekian case.

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Surveillance: US NSA Exploits Entire US and Most World Population Content and Metadata
by grarpamp 28 May '20

28 May '20

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-nsas-secret-tool-for-mapping-your-so… Inside the NSA’s Secret Tool for Mapping Your Social Network Barton Gellman 05.24.2020 07:00 AM Edward Snowden revealed the agency’s phone-record tracking program. But thanks to “precomputed contact chaining,” that database was much more powerful than anyone knew. An integrated map, presented graphically, would eventually allow the NSA to display nearly anyone’s movements and communications on a global scale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center https://www.google.com/maps/place/40°25'19.0"N 111°56'07.0"W https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bamford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_data_centers https://www.qwant.com/?q=amazon+data+centers https://www.qwant.com/?q=facebook+data+centers https://www.qwant.com/?q=microsoft+data+centers The data center is able to process "all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Internet searches, as well as all types of personal data trails — parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital 'pocket litter'." "What if a small group of citizens had secret access to the telephone logs and social networks of government officials? How might that privileged knowledge affect their power to shape events? How might their interactions change if they possessed the means to humiliate and destroy the careers of the persons in power? Capability matters." https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/preemption/nsa.html https://mil-embedded.com/4755-how-nsa-processes-all-that-intelligence-data/ https://wikimapia.org/680144/Tordella-Supercomputer-Facility https://www.google.com/maps/place/39°07'03.0"N+76°46'07.0"W https://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/secure-national-security-agency-nsa-si… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH8X8w8a4f4 https://web.archive.org/web/20091122112949/http://74.39.182.56/Portals/0/Fo… https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-public… https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-amazons-collaboration_b_4824854 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7TZ_CNBZD0 GovCorp

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China Issues Stay-At-Home Order To Hong Kong To Prevent Spread Of Democracy - [PEACE]
by Zig the N.g 27 May '20

27 May '20

For the n.ggers among us :D Black Man Votes Republican, Immediately Turns White https://babylonbee.com/news/black-man-votes-republican-immediately-turns-wh… .. There are now signs up at the voting location warning black voters that if they vote Republican they may also suddenly turn white. 'I Can't Believe Christians Think It's Safe To Go Back To Church,' Says Woman In Line At Walmart https://babylonbee.com/news/im-glad-were-closing-churches-for-public-safety… .. "Close proximity with all those people, singing and stuff? Man, those people are really anti-science," she said as she waited in line with 57 other people, pushing a cart that hadn't been cleaned in days. "It's like, read one of those sciency books, you know? Or watch that science guy on TV." China Issues Stay-At-Home Order To Hong Kong To Prevent Spread Of Democracy https://babylonbee.com/news/china-issues-stay-at-home-order-to-hong-kong-to… .. Reaction by the American media was swift. “Wow, China is so great! I wish we could be like China!” exclaimed numerous journalists. “Why can’t Trump be China?” American politicians also spoke up on the order. “Hopefully the people in Hong Kong will be more compliant than Americans,” said Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer. “We issued our stay-at-home order far too late to stop the spread of the idea that people have liberty and can do whatever they want.” Other Babylon Bee headlines found here: To Save Time, The Babylon Bee Will Now Just Republish Everything Biden Says Verbatim https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-offered-position-as-staff-writer-at-the-b… ... We're tired of trying to out-parody things like "I got hairy legs that turn blonde in the sun and the kids used to reach in the pool and rub my leg down and watch the hair come back up again" and "Corn Pop was a bad dude." Like, what do you do with that? Seriously. Go ahead. Try to satirize it. Anything you do just doesn't have that perfect mix of absurdity and reality that makes satire work so effective at communicating truth. So we're throwing in the towel. ... ... Finally, laugh at these hilarious Babylon Bee headlines from our new best satirist, Joe Biden: - Biden: 'Poor Kids Are Just As Bright As White Kids' - Joe Biden Says All Men And Women Are Created By You Know The Thing - Presidential Candidate Nibbles On His Wife's Fingers - Joe Biden: 'I'm Going To Beat Joe Biden' - 'Go To Joe 30330' Says Joe - Biden Tells Campaign Rally 'We Choose Truth Over Facts' - Joe Biden Calls Iowa Man 'Fat' And A '[FLOWERBED] Liar'

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While India begins to protect her own, Australian traitors jam the knife in - China Is Its Own Worst Enemy - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 27 May '20

27 May '20

India has a "new rule requiring prior government approval of any investment from China is the first of its kind": China Is Its Own Worst Enemy https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-its-own-worst-enemy https://www.bloombergquint.com/coronavirus-outbreak/coronavirus-response-ha… , Australian traitors like Victoria's premier the purportedly "honourable" Daniel Andrews, jam the knife in the back of our national sovereignty in fealty to China: Meet the glamorous Chinese businesswoman, 33, who played a key role in Victoria signing a controversial deal with Beijing - as she boasts about her 'influence' on top politicians 26 May 2020 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8355735/Glamorous-Chinese-business… - Daniel Andrews signed Victoria up to controversial Belt and Road Initiative - Chinese scheme gives infrastructure loans and investment as a soft power play - Jean Dong, 33, is emerging as a key player in the unfolding political stoush - She is the chief executive of Australia-China Belt and Road Initiative company Daniel Andrews signs new infrastructure, trade agreement with China https://www.9news.com.au/national/daniel-andrews-china-deal-ndrc-victoria-p… With "leaders" like Daniel Andrews, we have no need of enemies, since the clandestine column is within, right near the top!

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grounds for censorship - Morticians are never compromised, autopsies are always perfectly true
by Zig the N.g 27 May '20

27 May '20

[From the Streissand department of always ignoring what someone you don't like says.] So it's really, really important to know that morticians never ever compromise their ethics (I mean, dead people are the most important people in the world, so no one would EVER consider, let alone actually do, a dodgy autopsy report) and, so, absolutely ALL autopsies are bonafide, +1 thumbs up, absolutely correct in every detail! Do NOT forget this truth - autopsies are always always true and correct and are never ever faked or doctored. The motivation and money bribes available by the rich and powerful to bribe a mortician has simply never made in through the squeaky clean doors of simply ALL morticians ever, so do not even consider the possibility that such abominable practices could ever happen! Squeakity squeak ... Trump Doubles Down As Widower, Media Demand "Inhumane" Scarborough Murder Tweets Be Deleted https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-doubles-down-media-demands-inhuma… .. Klausutis's cause was taken up by Recode editor and New York Times opinion writer Kara Swisher, once considered "the dean of tech journalism". Swisher has long been a proponent of increasing censorship across social media platforms, and her latest piece urging twitter to finally 'do something' about its most 'problematic' user' reads like just another hypersensitive, overblown piece of clickbait trash, with Swisher describing Trump's tweets as "inhumane" - yes, she used that word - as if he had signed off on the napalming of a small village in Vietnam, instead of firing off a handful of tweets, which would have only been seen by a small fraction of his 80 million users if 'reporters' like Swisher hadn't chosen to write about it. Trump offered a defense of his tweets Tuesday morning. ....about whether or not Joe could have done such a horrible thing? Maybe or maybe not, but I find Joe to be a total Nut Job, and I knew him well, far better than most. So many unanswered & obvious questions, but I won’t bring them up now! Law enforcement eventually will? — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2020 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1265271286789558273?ref_src=twsr… .. Update (1120ET): Less than an hour after we posted our previous update to this post, Swisher popped up on CNBC, wearing her trademark dark sunglasses .. Then she launched into her argument, .. Twitter is a private, not a public, platform, therefore, it has an obligation to remove "offensive" content. Responding to the argument that Trump's tweets are inherently newsworthy, Swisher argued that there was nothing 'newsworthy' about Trump's tweets (they took one of Bolsonaro's tweets down, she protested). .. As a potential solution, Swisher said Twitter should consider adopting a "content board" to review controversial tweets.

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Re: Shame on trolls
by John Young 27 May '20

27 May '20

My comment was not aimed at you, a number of folks have posted requests to enlist supporters, researchers, funders, for their projects. A few have repeated the tequests for many months, became irate and accusatory at lack of response. Might wonder if the aim is/was to grab free work, or proselitize for an ideology, overcome loneliness and isolation, front for others, or to just fuck with somebody. All these have been happening on cpunks since its earliest days. Lack of moderation allows that abuse or promise. Promises have sometimes come true. Moderation never delivers on promises, usually suppresses them as off-topic or calling them trolls.. At 06:35 PM 5/26/2020, you wrote: >>Hey, >>It's notable that your software is closed source, and I really >>understand open source as what is expected to be supported on this list. >> >>But Punk-Stasi was "flaming" you and you don't need to listen to >>that. People aren't censored here. That means random criticism >>comes through. Do you need help setting up filters? >>K > >Nah, one thing is criticism and other is a guy calling you >repeatedly a scammer when you are showing up your work. That is not >precisely good taste. > >the source code is GPL, but I haven't published it yet, that's all. >Is in the roadmap. For reasons it will be released before 1.0 > > >>On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 10:06 AM other.arkitech >><<mailto:other.arkitech@protonmail.com>other.arkitech(a)protonmail.com> wrote: >>Dear readers, >>My intention is to respond to a public attack against my honesty >>and the legitimacy of my proposal. >> >>I am pretty annoyed for the behavior of this individual in the list >>towards the system I am presenting here. >> >>I don't know anything about him or her or whether they are a group >>of gansters operating the same moniker. >>The only thing I know is that they are pushing my project USPS is a >>SCAM and thus I am a SCAMMER, or the other way around. >> >>I call to everyone willing to read the landing page of my project, >>which I provide a pdf attached, >>and, from it and the ideas grasped in this list, manifest IF it >>could be deduced that this is a scam, or looks like. Please manifest. >> >>Otherwise, everyone undermining legitimate and respectable projects >>run by others, in any stage of development, on any stage in their >>roadmap, with counter positive and public undermining attitude. >>Those should be IMHO punished with public ashame until an apology >>is published by, in this case, PunkStasi. >> >>I leave it this way, >>Please, anyone, let me know reasons for which this email is WRONG >>or/and RIGHT. >>Thanks. >>-- >>Other Arkitech >> >>The project this subject airs as a scam: >><http://otheravu4v6pitvw.onion/>http://otheravu4v6pitvw.onion/ >>Ref: >><https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2020-May/080648.html>https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2020-May/080648.html >> >>

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NSA tracking program
by jim bell 27 May '20

27 May '20

NSA's tracking program is FAR more extensive than previously thought https://mol.im/a/8358769 via http://dailym.ai/android

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Shame on trolls
by other.arkitech 26 May '20

26 May '20

Dear readers, My intention is to respond to a public attack against my honesty and the legitimacy of my proposal. I am pretty annoyed for the behavior of this individual in the list towards the system I am presenting here. I don't know anything about him or her or whether they are a group of gansters operating the same moniker. The only thing I know is that they are pushing my project USPS is a SCAM and thus I am a SCAMMER, or the other way around. I call to everyone willing to read the landing page of my project, which I provide a pdf attached, and, from it and the ideas grasped in this list, manifest IF it could be deduced that this is a scam, or looks like. Please manifest. Otherwise, everyone undermining legitimate and respectable projects run by others, in any stage of development, on any stage in their roadmap, with counter positive and public undermining attitude. Those should be IMHO punished with public ashame until an apology is published by, in this case, PunkStasi. I leave it this way, Please, anyone, let me know reasons for which this email is WRONG or/and RIGHT. Thanks. -- Other Arkitech The project this subject airs as a scam: http://otheravu4v6pitvw.onion/ Ref: https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2020-May/080648.html

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AnarchoVegas needs a co-panelist on political prisoners on July 18, 2020
by jim bell 26 May '20

26 May '20

AnarchoVegas I have been invited to act as a co-panelist on Saturday, July 18, 2020, along with Lyn Ulbricht (mother of Ross Ulbricht), to speak about being a political prisoner in the Internet age, They have asked me to make a suggestion for another speaker, and I decided to put the question to you, the people of Cypherpunks. If anybody has an idea who would be good in this position, please speak up. Jim Bell

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Re: [Cryptography] Proposal for a PoS blockchain
by other.arkitech 26 May '20

26 May '20

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Tuesday, May 26, 2020 2:07 PM, <matbit(a)airmail.cc> wrote: > On 2020-05-24 11:31, other.arkitech wrote: > > > I am running an idea comparable you yours: > > http://otheravu4v6pitvw.onion/ > > Hi, Many thanks for your offer about your network. I would like to join > your network or maybe you help me in new network. Both are ok for me as > long as find our intentions are same. > I have a bunch of questions about your network’s features and structure > and software design (is it forked?) and consensus algorithm (is it PoW?) It is not forked. Built from scratch in C++. It is a Byzantine Fault Tolerant algorithm. In contrast to Po* variations of a competitive consensus mechanish. The one I invented is collaborative, allowing ALL nodes to get a payoff for the validation work done each consensus cycle (adaptable depending on the load, set to min 1 minute to save CPU/and bandwidthresources). The security of the network is based on the number of nodes, the biggest the best. Sybil attack is prevented with an invention based on IPv4 protocol. Allowing the homogeneous spread of the network across the surface. IPv4 are publicly discosed, but (with the collaboration of chaff traffic included in the development roadmap) this is not a concern to privacy assunming a huge number of nodes, because all you can see is whether or not a node is running behind a paricular IP. > and so on. I didn't find much documentation about those stuff. If you > already have documents, please send me. BTW I write some of more > important issues here. For the moment, while I am coding, I discipline myself to not focus on formal documentation. All my interest is to get people involved after informal conversations. That would progressively change while approaching a release date, when All possible docs should be ready to be read. > > What is “your motivation” of establish this network? Is it just a new > cryptocurrency or you meant for something else? I am involved in the crypto-movement as developer of BCH, until I went for my own ideas by the beginning of 2017. I have for many years or decades a thread running underneath about replacing governemnts by low cost machines changing the way society organizes, making everyone involved (I mean 3rd world) and rising their and our lifestyle. Which I think is very possible. when I realized the Satoshi paper I was immediately trapped and commited to align this tech with my ever goal. So I changed my work from Aeronautics to Crypto-Finance, where I got inmersed in bitcoin-core, then I went along the BCH fork because I was in agreement with rising the block size. > > > A multi-coin platform with enhanced trading capabilities. For the shake > > of privacy and self-managed societies. > > What do you mean for “multi-coin”? Is it the concept of “colored coin” Imagine you operate USPS. You can create a Coin (MatBitCoin) becoming the mint. You control everything about it included creation and destruction of volume. That coin could well represent your own value as a worker, so you could start using it in the same way central banks control the mint optimizing their economy. Same extended to millions would create a rich soup of value-exchanges. > of Bitcoin or something else? > Frankly speaking I like the idea of “privacy” and “self-managed > societies”. Can you explain it in details? Systems able to remove 3rd parties are threatening politics as well. Since politicians are simply your intermediaries towards public budgets decision making. This system models a flat society where every participant is using a node to fast interact P2P with other individuals, groups or companies > What types of privacy practices have you implemented or added to current > existing privacy tools, on your network? What do you intend for > “societies”? Just some online groups, or there are something in real > world that represent these societies? Which parameters form a society? The world society seen as 10Billion people, 10B different mindsets, that many 'centralized systems' (a node is a centralized system itself, with the only function to execute the owner's intent and will, without any discrimination). So the target is 10-100 Billion nodes. Then we can see on one side a human side composed of all humans, they cannot be traced to the node they run unless they leak it), and on the other side the interaction (half public/half private) among the participants. > Which parameters characterize a society comparing another society? What > type of “self-management” do you mean? Only management in coins > distributions? Or managing in consensus rules as well? whatever we need to live without the need to have a central ruling gov that steals our power and a good fraction of the money they say we earn. > > What kind of security practices have you done for network? Except > running a “semi-hidden” network between 49 computers that already > compromised their IPs list, and an adversary can easily seize physically This is my alpha deployment that doubles as testbench. It is the seed of the network. If intead of 49 they are 10 billion, you can consider the risk of being a target negligible. I mean if all IP addresses are public and all have a node there is no compromise at all. Obviously the network, when little, can be seen as a target. This is the risk of any birth. To complicate a physical adversary these IP's are anywhere in the world. > or stop them via cyberattacks (either providing greater hash power or > simply DoS attack or blocking the IPs, or vector attack), have you > alternate strong security guards? > Obviously the adversaries won't let you continue if they feel the > threat. Bitcoin succeeded, because no one paid attention to it at that > time, and it had enough time (at least 3 years) to outgo the > adversaries. > I don't want to offend you, but unless you do not have a strong defense > plan you have not chance to survive. The security strength is obviously > depends on your money and your network’s feature. That is, if your > network and your money is not a threat for state you won’t need that > much defense effort, BTW there will always be competitors who are happy > with your failure. I trust the GNU/Linux Operating System will do a good job here. > > There are many more questions, but for sake of brevity I stop here and > looking forward to your response. > > Regards > Hu Sincerely, Other Arkitech

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