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Facialized: GovtCorp "Struggle" to Force Humans Into ID Control and Slavery Systems, Wheat Parable
by grarpamp 09 Dec '19

09 Dec '19

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2019/12/05/african-countri… Always a wordtwisting "struggle", always for "benefits"... always needless, always a lie to fuck you. You are here... https://www.bedug.com/pics/Fun5/lfdjvhib4gx21.jpg The first thing that visitors to the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg see is a wall of identity cards-- the pieces of paper that determined where people could live and work and whom they could love. From the outset, the apartheid regime's ability to discriminate against "nie-blankes" (non-whites) depended on having a robust system of identifying people. The opposite problem confronts most other countries in Africa today. Governments have little idea who their citizens are [Editor's note: the link may be paywalled]. From a report: African countries struggle for several reasons. One is racial discrimination. Uganda, Liberia and Sierra Leone explicitly withhold nationality from children of certain races and ethnicities. Other countries do so informally by refusing to issue papers. Another reason is a failure by governments to explain to their citizens how they might benefit. Consider birth registration, the most basic form of official identity. South Asia more than doubled its rate of birth registration to 71% between 2000 and 2014. In sub-Saharan Africa the rate dropped by one point, to 41%, over the same period. For poor villagers, going to a government office to register a birth is time-consuming and expensive, especially when officials demand bribes. Some countries charge a fee, which is a disincentive. Others penalize late registrations. One way to encourage people is to link birth registration to benefits such as child-support grants -- something South Africa did with great success. But that approach may also have the perverse consequence of denying payments to the very poorest. Money is another reason many African countries have fallen behind their peers. Extending the state's reach to remote areas can be expensive. So, too, is paying for skilled labour of the sort required to fill in forms accurately and to operate biometric machines. The technology itself is costly, especially for small countries that do not have much buying power. The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. Past events, it is argued, have no objective existance, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. And since the Party is in full control of all records, and in equally full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it. There has been a concerted effort to erase what remains of the internet from 1992-2001. Nothing truly valuable or important can ever be safely entrusted to any Government. That's because Governments are abstract, psychopathic entities whose prime directive is to survive and to maximize itself. They are intrinsically incapable of caring about people, morality, religion or even their own "laws". domesticate n verb 1 tame (an animal) and keep it as a pet or for farm produce. Øhumorous accustom (someone) to home life and domestic tasks. 2 cultivate (a plant) for food. DERIVATIVES domesticable adjective domestication noun As Yuval Noah Harari points out in "Sapiens", “We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us. The word ‘domesticate’ comes from the Latin domus, which means ‘house’. Who’s the one living in a house? Not the wheat. It’s the Sapiens”. So, asks Harari, what did the wheat offer H Sapiens in return for being domesticated? Not better nutrition, nor security against violence, nor even safety from hunger and even starvation. Just the possibility of multiplying exponentially – the [perhaps rather foolish] definition of biological success. “With time, the ‘wheat bargain’ became more and more burdensome. Children died in droves, and adults ate bread by the sweat of their brows Paradoxically, a series of ‘improvements’, each of which was meant to make life easier, added up to a millstone around the necks of these farmers. “Why did people make such a fateful miscalculation? For the same reason that people throughout history have miscalculated. People were unable to fathom the full consequences of their decisions”. Every good harvest tempted people to have more children, but they failed to see the long-term implications. Eating grains weakened their immune systems while being crowded together with farm animals encouraged infectious diseases; and even when they had a surplus of food, that just attracted robbers and enemies so they had to build walls and lose workers to become soldiers. “The trap snapped shut”.

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Escobar launches a $349 foldable phone. Its killer feature? Confidence
by grarpamp 09 Dec '19

09 Dec '19

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/PRE-SALE-Newest-Foldable-Mobile-Phon… When you're forced to "launder" $Billion in legit business profits, you can afford to give 25% to the supplier, 25% to their govt, and still live large.

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Escobar launches a $349 foldable phone. Its killer feature? Confidence
by jim bell 09 Dec '19

09 Dec '19

https://thenextweb.com/plugged/2019/12/03/pablo-escobar-foldable-phone-andr… Jim Bell's comment:. Does it have a "cocaine-detector" feature built in?

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Strategic Culture Foundation outs themselves as pro-Federal Reserve anti-Trump shills - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 08 Dec '19

08 Dec '19

The Ministry strikes hard on this one - deep shills are deep propagandizing, hard and deep. Did I mention "deep"? Strategic Culture Foundation outs themselves as pro-Federal Reserve anti-Trump shills, whilst trying desperately to appear as pro-Trump anti-Chinese "patriots". Trump is effecting a divorce with China. The (((Federal Reserve banking system))) has over the last four or so decades, caused much of Western manufacturing capacity to be outsourced to China. This was done by removing all tarrifs and thereby causing Chinese wage costs to dominate manufacturing costs (i.e. savings for the mega corps), and as a bonus (for the Western mega corps) they got to escape fair whacks of corporation tax, keeping mucho profito offshore (again, we're talking corporations raping the markets with patents, copyrights, market dumping practices etc, not humans). So the West as a (necessary) result has largely turned into a bunch of dilapidated socialist welfare states. Sad, pathetic and undignified. But member the Fed, as it was the Fed that imposed all this and declared China a "Developing nation" (and still to this day get all these "status" benefits). Well, the destruction of Western nations by shipping our factories and production to China, thereby giving up a mojority of our jobs and destroying families in the process, has been, is and was the agenda of TPTB - the Fed. And so in the face of the divorce Trump is attempting, we get some incredible image montage attempts at counter propaganda, and this is some of the finest we've seen all year: Sociopaths On The Left & Sociopaths On The Right Work To Break Potential US-China Alliance https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/sociopaths-left-sociopaths-right-wor… https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/12/06/sociopaths-left-and-socio… Authored by Matthew Ehret via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Donald Trump is in a painful bind. The China-bashing traitors within his own party trying to pass themselves off as American patriots have done everything imaginable to destroy the one chance the President has to save America from the policies of economic and social decay which have mis-shaped the past 50 years of world history. ... Please! "Donald Trump's ONE chance to SAVE America, by striking a Trade Deal with China!" - Seriously? Yes, this is the level of double speak the Fed must go to in its vain attempt to keep the West focussed on infiniggimmigration, pozzed "culture" and anything, literally anything other than our right, collectively, to print our own money, to decide our own money. Want to "save America"? Then end the Fed - our most insidious parasite.

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[announce@announce.puri.sm: [Announce] Librem 5 Updates and Pre-order Discount till 31 July 2019]
by Zenaan Harkness 08 Dec '19

08 Dec '19

Librem5 getting close to launch. 5 year old excitement meter going off the scale :D Another step in the FLOSS full stack including hardware. Good luck fellow Souls and always, create your world :) ----- Forwarded message from Purism Announcements via Announce <announce(a)announce.puri.sm> ----- From: Purism Announcements via Announce <announce(a)announce.puri.sm> Reply-To: feedback(a)puri.sm, Purism Announcements <announce(a)announce.puri.sm> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 14:53:33 +0100 Subject: [Announce] Librem 5 Updates and Pre-order Discount till 31 July 2019 Pre-order Your Librem 5 before 31 July 2019 and save $50 <https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/> For a limited time pre-order a Librem 5 and save $50 on the final retail price. /Discount ends 31 July 2019./ Librem 5 Homescreen <https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/> *Specifications:* * Display : 5.5″ – 5.7″ HD display * Processor: iMX8M Quad CPU * Memory: To Be Unveiled Soon * Storage : 32 GB eMMC internal storage * Wireless : 802.11abgn 2.4 Ghz / 5Ghz + Bluetooth 4 * Baseband : Gemalto PLS8 3G/4G modem w/ single sim on replaceable M.2 card * GPS : TESEO LIV3F multiconstellation GNSS receiver * Smartcard: yes for 2FF format smart cards * Speaker : at least one * External Storage: microSD storage expansion * Accelerometer: 9-axis IMU (gyro, accel, magnetometer) * Front Camera: To Be Unveiled Soon * Back Camera w/LED flash: To Be Unveiled Soon * Vibration motor: yes * Charging: USB C connector for charging, USB client function, USB host function, power delivery * Battery: User replaceable – To Be Unveiled Soon Get your $50 Librem 5 discount <https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/> July 2019 Librem 5 Update <https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-july-update/> Since the last update the Librem 5 team made a number of UI and stability improvements to the core applications. Read the Librem 5 July update blog <https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-july-update/> post to find out more - here are some screenshots of the amazing results. Librem 5 Contacts App <https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-july-update/>Librem 5 Phone App <https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-july-update/> Video Series: Runs on Librem 5 <https://puri.sm/posts/runs-on-the-librem-5-smartphone-week-3/> 1 <https://puri.sm/posts/runs-on-the-librem-5-smartphone-week-3/>Runs on Librem 5 <https://puri.sm/posts/runs-on-the-librem-5-smartphone-week-3/>1 <https://puri.sm/posts/runs-on-the-librem-5-smartphone-week-3/> Our "Runs of Librem 5" video series has been growing in popularity. We've compiled a handy YouTube playlist <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBFRbOvZvxM&list=PLbi9Ij0Mdq2uxxeNKxHvu_ScZ…> and weekly summary posts on our blog (week1 <https://puri.sm/posts/runs-on-the-librem-5-smartphone-week-1/>, week2 <https://puri.sm/posts/runs-on-the-librem-5-smartphone-week-2/>, week3 <https://puri.sm/posts/runs-on-the-librem-5-smartphone-week-3/>) for you to get caught up with all the Linux desktop apps we're running on our devkits. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Purism <https://puri.sm/> Thanking you for your support, — the Purism team (feedback at puri.sm) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Note: contents of this email are CC-by-SA; feel free to forward it to friends! /To remove yourself from our announcements list, simply email announce-leave(a)announce.puri.sm <mailto:announce-leave@announce.puri.sm> and you will automatically be instructed how to unsubscribe./ _______________________________________________ Purism Announce mailing list http://announce.puri.sm/listinfo/announce ----- End forwarded message -----

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US - PUBLIC SYSTEM
by other.arkitech 08 Dec '19

08 Dec '19

Hello, I have updated iso-images and added more information and screenshots. from the feedback of previous post. This is a new multi crypto currency platform I've developed from scratch for the past ~3 years, it is run on raspberry pi. I am looking for more testers and/or expert opinion. Happy to answer questions. Please have a look at: http://otheravu4v6pitvw.onion/ Thank you. Other Arkitech Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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Sending short (?) messages but not initially on cell service.
by jim bell 08 Dec '19

08 Dec '19

A few days ago, there was a news item about a bank robber who was caught because he (stupidly) took his cell phone to the robbery. He was exposed by the technique called "geo-fencing". https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-used-google-location-data-find-… The legitimacy of the use of this technique is currently a subject of his appeal, but is not relevant to my comment, below. Maybe if he had been smart enough to know how to activate his phone's "airplane mode", which supposedly turns off all electronic transmissions, he wouldn't have quite as identifiable. But, as cypherpunks know, it isn't clear that a smartphone's promise that it won't transmit and thus reveal its location can be relied upon. Further, even if we can know, for sure, that a phone didn't TRANSMIT during that relevant period, that doesn't mean that it didn't record its path in space (by GPS) and time during such a period, later to be uploaded to Google servers. Perhaps wrapping that phone in a few layers of aluminum foil would have blocked the (already quite weak) GPS signals, so the phone wouldn't know where it was. However, it occurred to that there may one day be a need for a person to enter a geographic area that has cellular phone service, but not have his smartphone emit signals that would (immediately) identify that phone's presence there. Okay, "airplane mode". But, he could also want his presence to be unknown including later, by disabling Google location services. MAYBE that would 'work'. He might want to visit like this multiple times, leaving that area each time, not leaving an electronic trace. Yet, maybe he'd want to use that smartphone's camera (to record video and still frame) and audio (to record sound). Even more, maybe an event would occur, and he would have evidence of it in video and audio, and he might (later) want to document the fact by uploading video and audio evidence to a server somewhere, at that time or seconds later. But he might not want to record the video, still frames, or audio 'in the clear'. And, there would be no reason that he'd have to upload the entire (huge) video and audio files: He could subject the resulting data to a 'cryptographic hash', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function so that he could upload only 256 bits. That hash could itself be encrypted, and could actually be a hash of a table of hashes: A hash for each one second of video and/or audio, or even a smaller quantity of time, just for an example. Initially, he could upload just the overall hash. And if, later on, he wanted to prove that he had acquired some data at a specific time, or at least prior to some specific time (when it was uploaded), he could do so by releasing files which correspond to the segments of video and/or audio files, and show that their hashes match the hashes in the uploaded hash-files. How could he transmit that short hash back to his home base, or anywhere else? How about https://www.popularmechanics.com/promotions/a20777855/the-mesh/?src=syn&dom… His release of that hash would allow him to later prove, once the source files are released, that he had generated them, at or before a specific time (If you believe the system to which the transmission was initially sent, or your own computer if it's sent along quickly enough), and the video and audio would provide evidence of the event he chooses to claim. But he might not release the open, unhashed and unencrypted information, immediately: His claim might be challenged, and he could hold that in reserve as evidence he was correct. Jim Bell https://www.popularmechanics.com/promotions/a20777855/the-mesh/?src=syn&dom… Or: https://gotenna.com/pages/sdk Full technical specs:https://gotennapro.com/pages/spec-sheets#pro-pro-x-spec-sheet True, it would be better if this was an SDR, or "software defined radio". I just found this a couple of days ago.

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Trump: "[many Jews] don't love Israel enough" - Nat. Jewish Dem. Council: "anti-Semitic!" - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 08 Dec '19

08 Dec '19

Straight from The Ministry's "wait, what? Oh, yeah!" dept. of anti-Semitic facts and anything you can say, TPTB can say better department. Yes, "Jews don't love Israel enough" is now officially (because TPTB sayeth it is so), an "anti-Semitic trope" :D So the "Memes just write themselves" department has just self inaugurated :) We gotta say this tho - the Jews really need to speak up a little more on twitter and facebook about how anti-semitic Trump really is. All this mamsy pamsy holding back is just ... lame! Trump Sparks Outrage by Calling on American Jews to ‘Love Israel More’ https://sputniknews.com/us/201912081077513707-trump-calls-on-americans-to-l… ... “We have to get the people of our country, of this country, to love Israel more, I have to tell you that. We have to do it. We have to get them to love Israel more", Trump said. POTUS also suggested that there are some American Jews who do not “love Israel enough”. ... The US president said that Tel Aviv has never had a “better friend in the White House” than himself, claiming that unlike his predecessors, he has kept his promises to the Jewish people. His remarks have sparked outrage on social media, with many saying that the US president cannot tell Jewish people they "don't love Israel enough": ... The former head of the National Jewish Democratic Council, Aaron Keyak, has even slammed Trump's comments as "anti-Semitic". ... Rando: "I know, I know! How 'bout we try to impeach him?" SPLC: "Yeah! Great idea - let's do that, to boost the Democratic party's popularity as -well- as CNN's ratings." HA! CNN ratings plummet to lowest primetime viewership in almost three years https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-ratings-plummet-lowest-three-years CNN's 24/7 Trump-bashing strategy doesn't seem to be working. CNN Ratings Drop To Three-Year Low Amid Constant Impeachment Coverage https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cnn-ratings-drop-three-year-low-amid-im…

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Official Secrets - Katharine Gun (Documentary Adapt 2019)
by grarpamp 08 Dec '19

08 Dec '19

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9 months jail for "Pepe" website contempt of court - Smerff Electrical - [PEACE] [MINISTRY]
by Zenaan Harkness 08 Dec '19

08 Dec '19

The (((Powers That Be))) continue to rule: Australia: Smerff Electrical Chief Put in Jail for 9 Months for Failing to Take Down a Pepe Website! http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/australia-smerff-electric-services-chief-put-… You may remember that a couple of years ago we had ad banners up for an Australian electrical services company called “Smerff Electrical.” They were actually making good money while being an openly pro-white business, so the Occupation Government of Australia had to shut it down. Well, Simon Hickey, the head of Smerff Electrical, was a supporter of ours and on his own websites, he linked to us and had images of Pepe and other memes. He was sentenced to 9 months in jail for refusing to take down these websites. And the Australian and international media are completely failing to report on it. The Stormer has acquired a letter he wrote back in September, outlining his situation. I’m going to just go ahead and print most of the letter, so you can hear it straight from him. "Oi, Today 19 September I went to Supreme Court, charged with “contempt of court” for failing to remove my websites (which are now hosted elsewhere). The Judge gave me 9 (nine) months jail. I shit you not. I dunno whether that means 9 serve 9 or 9 serve 3 then parole but I’m still pissed off. I got one more court tomorrow that will finish my outstanding so I’ll have more accurate info then. I’m still charged with my private conversation that may have offended someone but didn’t, that’s in October 26. I think maybe 25 Oct. Brisbane magistrate court. This shit is insane. The court today would not accept that every statement I made in regards to the court conduct was true, in the public interests and therefore not subject to prosecution. I said at one stage that the conduct of the courts up to now was worthy of contempt. That didn’t help. LOL I will not let this minor setback deter me. I will never tire. Never slacken. Never give up." ... As usual, he is done for contempt of court, not the original crime. Careful what you say out there folks - stick to memes if you want the support of the courts, otherwise expect jail time.

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