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FOIA: OpenBSD FBI
by grarpamp 29 Jul '19

29 Jul '19

https://twitter.com/RooneyMcNibNug/status/1152327783055601664 https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/foia-fbi-openbsd-7… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20489904 https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=156371001712893&w=2 https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&w=2&r=1&s=fbi&q=b

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The U.S. Treasury Secretary Made A Dire Warning Over The Future Of Bitcoin
by jim bell 29 Jul '19

29 Jul '19

https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0MQmp98I?s=a3&pd=023dWHXg The U.S. Treasury Secretary Made A Dire Warning Over The Future Of Bitcoin Forbes Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies have been catapulted back into the public consciousness over recent months, not only because of the soaring bitcoin price but due to interest in bitcoin from some of the world's biggest technology companies, including social media giant Facebook—which is planning to launch its own cryptocurrency next year. Shared from News Break

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The Internal Revenue Service wants a piece of the crypto action
by jim bell 29 Jul '19

29 Jul '19

https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0MRBs2yi?s=a3&pd=023dWHXg The Internal Revenue Service wants a piece of the crypto action Yahoo! Donald Trump might not be a fan of cryptocurrencies, but the Internal Revenue Service still wants its cut of the profits. Shared from News Break _____________ Jim Bell's comment follows:As I understand it, in America buying and selling (foreign) currencies is tax-free. The IRS arbitrarily decided, maybe in 2013, that Bitcoin would be treated differently: presumably because they knew that it would dramatically appreciate, as it has, so that they would get a cut of the increase in value. Which, of course, is unfair. No actual value increase occurs.

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Russia Probe Twist: The FBI, A Convicted Russian Agent, & A Billionaire American CEO
by Zenaan Harkness 29 Jul '19

29 Jul '19

Intriguing relations between Russia and the USA - the FBI, very surprisingly, fails to uphold American statutory law. Another day, another exposure of Western brutishness and/ or hypocrisy and/ or outright evil. Russia Probe Twist: The FBI, A Convicted Russian Agent, & A Billionaire American CEO https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-28/russia-probe-twist-fbi-convicted-… The illegal UK seizure of an Iranian ship, and subsequent threatening of Iran with war for doing the exact same thing in response, is hypocrisy par uber: Tanker Seizures & The Threat To The Global Economy From Resurgent Imperialism https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-27/tanker-seizures-threat-global-eco… At the end of the day, it's so sad it's pathetic - partisan infighting dominates the consciousness week after week, year after year. The moral legitimacy of the West, the so called "liberal idea" etc, is in absolute tatters - or more realistically did not exist at least at the highest levels before the (((bankers))) repeatedly undermined our institutions for their personal, private gain to the detriment of all.

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Assassination Politics, Pro-Crypto Lobbying (re: Trump DOJ Sues BTC Exch for $100M)
by grarpamp 28 Jul '19

28 Jul '19

On 7/28/19, jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Yahoo Finance: Trump DOJ Sues Infamous Bitcoin Exchange for $100 Million. > https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-doj-sues-infamous-bitcoin-120414570.ht… BTC-e's Vinnik > Jim Bell's comment:Digital cash and Dark Market people must prepare to > protect themselves by forming, and using, an AP (Assassination Politics) > system (https://cryptome.org/ap.htm) One that doesn't target people by > name, but instead by function. Dark Markets would be impossible to take > down if all government personnel who would participate in such prosecutions > and lawsuits knew that they'd get a $250K bounty on their heads for > attempting that. A simple $250M staking across up to roughly 1000 smart contracts will let you influence the entire US congress, the top two in each Executive and Military department, plus a good number of Judges, Bankers, State Governors, big city Police Chiefs and Mayors, etc. Even just half that scope is within the reach of hundreds of crypto hodlers. Given most influencees will wisely desist and or leave their GovCorp jobs well before any stake is ever expended, and only a few stakes will ever end up being spent... that seems a very low cost and low risk way for some crypto OG to impart real change in their lifetime. Not only will their smart contracts rarely trip into a spent condition, they will 100x their entire holdings by creating the most pro-cryptocurrency (aka: explicitly nonregulated) naturally adoption ready geopolitical environment they could ever dream of. Alternatively, the same $250M could also finance 5000 $50k "lobbying efforts" in favor of commitments to pro-cryptocurrency, etc. There is so much win that cryptocurrency hodlers could have out there if they would just realise and spend a little.

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Yahoo Finance: Trump DOJ Sues Infamous Bitcoin Exchange for $100 Million
by jim bell 28 Jul '19

28 Jul '19

Yahoo Finance: Trump DOJ Sues Infamous Bitcoin Exchange for $100 Million. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-doj-sues-infamous-bitcoin-120414570.ht… Jim Bell's comment:Digital cash and Dark Market people must prepare to protect themselves by forming, and using, an AP (Assassination Politics) system (https://cryptome.org/ap.htm) One that doesn't target people by name, but instead by function. Dark Markets would be impossible to take down if all government personnel who would participate in such prosecutions and lawsuits knew that they'd get a $250K bounty on their heads for attempting that.

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US wants to 'make an example' of Assange in jail, UN expert claims
by jim bell 28 Jul '19

28 Jul '19

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/us-wants-to-make-an-example-of-assange-… --- SmartNews http://bit.ly/smartnews-app

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12 year old girls saving the Huwaite race - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 28 Jul '19

28 Jul '19

>From the "doing men's work" department staight outta Jew York - 12 year old girls (acshually just one) has been rabidly Nazi-fying her local church and other buildings. FTW ? Or may be she just wanted to get arrested? Because she did get arrested and faces criminal "hate crime" charges. Zerowedgie for the win yo: 12-Year-Old New York Girl Arrested For Spray-Painting Swastikas Around Town https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-27/12-year-old-new-york-girl-arreste… free speech aside, defacing buildings, and worse, physical attacks, actually are sanctionable behaviour by most folksey standards.

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Cryptocurrency: Crypto Wars (Dope Wars BBS)
by grarpamp 27 Jul '19

27 Jul '19

https://punchbagged.github.io/cryptowars/

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30 Years of Treason, Spooner
by grarpamp 27 Jul '19

27 Jul '19

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_2EFpfXUAIiu2h.jpg https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0047746AW "But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain --- that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist." - Lysander Spooner Lysander Spooner was a 19th century entreprenuer, scholar, radical abolitionist, and principled believer in natural law and liberty. Lysander Spooner came form the flinty farmland of rural New England. He was born January 19, 1808, on his father's farm near Athol, Massachusetts, the second child and second son in a family of six sons and three daughters. Before opening the American Mail Company, he sent a personal letter informing the Postmaster General (January 11, 1844), that he proposed "soon to establish a letter mail [company] from Boston to Baltimore. I shall myself remain in this city, where I shall be ready at any time to answer to any suit…" Accompanying the letter was a copy of Spooner's pamphlet, The Unconstitutionality of the Laws of Congress Prohibiting Private Mails. When his company began business on January 23, Spooner openly advertised in all the major newspapers, soliciting business. The American Letter Mail Company printed its own stamps, hired agents, and was soon conducting a busy trade. Hoping to drive Spooner out of business without raising any constitutional questions, the Postmaster General resorted to some extra-legal measures. Under a barrage of harassing legal actions, the company could not survive; for all practical purposes it had ceased to exist by July 1844. After his post office venture failed, Lysander Spooner returned to the family farm in Athol. Spooner had a clear notion of "the principles of natural equity." Although lacking formal ties before 1870 with other American anarchists, Spooner knew many of them well. The key question for an anarchist is how to combine complete individual freedom with some form of effective social co-operation. Spooner answered that community service and other social action could be realized voluntarily. He argued that "under the principle of individual consent, the little government that mankind need, is not only practicable, but natural and easy…" Spooner died “at one o'clock in the afternoon of Saturday, May 14, 1887... surrounded by trunks and chests bursting with the books, manuscripts, and pamphlets which he had gathered in his active pamphleteer's warfare over half a century long.

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