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blockchain startup
by dan＠geer.org 26 Apr '16

26 Apr '16

Shocard https://shocard.com/ Secure Public Data Layer BLOCKCHAIN 2.0 The ShoCard Identity Platform is built on a public blockchain data layer, so as a company we're not storing any data or keys that could be compromised. All identity data is encrypted and hashed then stored in the blockchain...

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Offtopic posts
by grarpamp 26 Apr '16

26 Apr '16

Recently there have been posts regarding offtopic posts. Speculating that at least one user here has prompted those... Zenaan got booted (or emigrated) from ubuntu fora to some dead google group, till finding this place to post his Rus-Aus etc stuff. This is not a personal swat at Zenaan (or anyone else), he (and they) are surely fine folks all around. And such posts are in fact interesting to interested readers. But instead is a note that there do need to be other places, and referrals to such, where such things are ontopic and uncensored, such that they may call them home. Unfortunately, unless such posts here make reference back to a somehow crypto, cpunk, c-tech, c-law context... they're offtopic. And frequently violating that should be expected to bring fire... to the point that the violating author will be silently killfiled, thus nullifying themselves. I'm no ontopic angel, send me to hell if you want.

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Re: Iceland recap - Revenge of the Vikings - Iceland Will Create Its Own Money
by Zenaan Harkness 25 Apr '16

25 Apr '16

Those plucky Icelandics - let's wish them better luck than JFK and others. Abundance is merely an engineering problem, and unfortunately is opposed by hegemony of the few, so good luck to Iceland. ---- http://russia-insider.com/en/revenge-vikings-iceland-will-create-its-own-mo… Revenge of the Vikings - Iceland Will Create Its Own Money Well, they were game enough to jail their bankers; let's see if they'll get away with this (Blacklisted News) The banking elite won't like this one bit Originally appeared at Blacklisted News http://www.blacklistednews.com/Revenge_of_the_Vikings_%E2%80%94_Iceland_Wil… Back in 1914, the Bradbury Pound ( http://www.ukcolumn.org/bring-back-the-bradbury ) was introduced by the UK government as an ’emergency measure’ to bolster a failing economy. It was a huge success. The banking elite were unhappy, however and panicked – before managing to wrestle control of the money supply afterwards. President John F. Kennedy also introduced a similar ‘Greenback’ in 1961, and again, the banking elite were very unhappy about being pushed out, and losing control of the issuance of money as debt. JFK did not survive past 1963. Then there was Muammar al-Gaddafi in Libya who, in 2009 announced a new gold-backed dinar, issued by Libya’s state-owned public central bank ( http://21stcenturywire.com/2011/03/28/globalist-target-the-central-bank-of-… ), and with further plans – negotiating with the other African nations for the creation of an all-African currency to compete with the Euro and the Dollar. Gaddafi did not survive past 2011. Who knew that the revolution would start with those radical Icelanders? One Frosti Sigurjonsson, a lawmaker from the ruling Progress Party, issued a report that suggests taking the power to create money away from commercial banks, and hand it to the central bank and, ultimately, Parliament. Can’t see commercial banks in the western world be too happy with this. They must be contemplating wiping the island nation off the map. If accepted in the Iceland parliament, the plan would change the game in a very radical way. It would be successful too, because there is no bigger scourge on our economies than commercial banks creating money and then securitizing and selling off the loans they just created the money (credit) with. Everyone, with the possible exception of Paul Krugman, understands why this is a very sound idea. Agence France Presse reports: Iceland’s government is considering a revolutionary monetary proposal – removing the power of commercial banks to create money and handing it to the central bank. The proposal, which would be a turnaround in the history of modern finance, was part of a report written by a lawmaker from the ruling centrist Progress Party, Frosti Sigurjonsson, entitled “A better monetary system for Iceland”. “The findings will be an important contribution to the upcoming discussion, here and elsewhere, on money creation and monetary policy,” Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson said. The report, commissioned by the premier, is aimed at putting an end to a monetary system in place through a slew of financial crises, including the latest one in 2008. According to a study by four central bankers, the country has had “over 20 instances of financial crises of different types” since 1875, with “six serious multiple financial crisis episodes occurring every 15 years on average.” Mr Sigurjonsson said the problem each time arose from ballooning credit during a strong economic cycle. He argued the central bank was unable to contain the credit boom, allowing inflation to rise and sparking exaggerated risk-taking and speculation, the threat of bank collapse and costly state interventions. In Iceland, as in other modern market economies, the central bank controls the creation of banknotes and coins but not the creation of all money, which occurs as soon as a commercial bank offers a line of credit. The central bank can only try to influence the money supply with its monetary policy tools. Under the so-called Sovereign Money proposal, the country’s central bank would become the only creator of money. “Crucially, the power to create money is kept separate from the power to decide how that new money is used,” Mr Sigurjonsson wrote in the proposal. “As with the state budget, the parliament will debate the government’s proposal for allocation of new money,” he wrote. Banks would continue to manage accounts and payments, and would serve as intermediaries between savers and lenders. Mr Sigurjonsson, a businessman and economist, was one of the masterminds behind Iceland’s household debt relief programme launched in May 2014 and aimed at helping the many Icelanders whose finances were strangled by inflation-indexed mortgages signed before the 2008 financial crisis.

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CryptoNote technical discussion and Chess Challenge
by grarpamp 25 Apr '16

25 Apr '16

CryptoNote technical discussion and Chess Challenge https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1190988 https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkFlarb/comments/3lwro6/chess_challenge/

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The Management of Dissent: How to Destroy an Activist
by Александр 25 Apr '16

25 Apr '16

The Management of Dissent: How to Destroy an Activist <http://journal-neo.org/2016/04/24/the-management-of-dissent-how-to-destroy-…> By Janet Phelan <http://journal-neo.org/author/janet-phelan/> While the West, and the United States in particular, has repeatedly voiced criticism over human rights abuses in other countries, the US’s own record in terms of detaining and incarcerating dissidents is now becoming conspicuous. In presenting a recent report on human rights issues, US Secretary of State John Kerry stated: *“Here is the truth, we believe: A government that fails to respect human rights, no matter how lofty its pretentions, has very little to boast about, to teach, and very little indeed in the way of reaching its full potential <http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2016/04/255799.htm>.” * This report itself is heavily weighted in terms of naming Asian and Middle Eastern countries as human rights abusers. Kerry reports that *“In every part of the world, we see an accelerating trend by both state and non-state actors to close the space for civil society, to stifle media and Internet freedom, to marginalize opposition voices, and in the most extreme cases, to kill people or drive them from their homes <http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/humanrightsreport/#wrapper>.” * The United States is not named in the report. However, the US is itself a major culpable actor in such abuses. Despite its continuing and increasingly strained efforts to self-promote as a defender of human rights, the US is now inhibiting media and internet freedom as well as regularly imprisoning activists–often without trial. The world is already aware of the use of the Espionage Act to imprison and otherwise intimidate whistleblowers. The cases of Bradley Manning <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Manning>, Jeffrey Sterline <http://www.ethiogrio.com/news/world-news/16718-ex-cia-officer-jeffrey-sterl…> , James Hitselberger <http://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2014/06/esp-act-overcharged/>, John Kiriakou <https://www.rt.com/usa/229103-john-kiriakou-released-prison/>, and others have hit the mainstream press <http://journal-neo.org/2016/04/24/the-management-of-dissent-how-to-destroy-…> . What the world may not be aware of is that non-CIA connected individuals, who are merely attempting to correct and/ or broadcast injustices, are now facing jail time. *You Mean I Forgot to Tell You About Your Trial?* Tim Lahrman is a name well known to disability rights activists. A trained paralegal, Tim has been volunteering his paralegal skills to a growing list of people who are engaged in legal battles against guardians and lawyers. For those unacquainted with the issues concerning adult guardianships, an overview reveals that these guardianships constitute a legal loophole through which an individual may be declared incompetent and then stripped of all his assets and the lion’s share of his rights. In fact, upon the initiation of such a guardianship, the alleged incapacitated person may not even be allowed to hire a lawyer to defend against the guardianship. The National Association to Stop Guardian Abuse’s website has a compelling summary of what rights are lost when one goes under a guardianship <http://stopguardianabuse.org/>. Robin Gibson, a Los Angeles woman, attributes Tim Lahrman’s legal expertise to the successful resolution of an ongoing legal conflict with the guardian for her mother. Recently, the mother was released from a guardianship which Gibson states was draining her mother’s estate and wherein the guardian, Frumeh Labow <http://articles.latimes.com/2005/nov/13/local/me-labow13%20>, had virtually sequestered the older woman from contact with the outside world. *“I owe this all to Tim,“* pronounced an exhilarated Robin Gibson in a recent interview. *“I have finally got my mother back.“* Gibson is only one of many who have benefited from Lahrman’s legal acumen and skills. And she may be one of the last. For Tim Lahrman now sits in an Indiana jail cell, held without bail on two seventeen year- old misdemeanor charges. Candice Schwager, an attorney from Texas, has this to say about Lahrman’s incarceration: *“There is an entirely different agenda behind this seventeen year old persecution. It’s not even reasonable to think that Goshen keeps misdemeanor cold case files and this was bad luck. This arrest was retribution because Tim has brought up the crimes of a clouted political figure.”* Tim Lahrman was himself placed under a guardianship in 1987. He was at that point in time in his twenties and an owner of a thriving automotive business which was subsequently ravaged through the guardianship proceedings. Lahrman’s guardianship was never legally terminated. After sacking his business, the guardian, Kenneth Scheibenberger, “just sort of wandered off,” according to Lahrman. This left Tim Lahrman in legal limbo. Neither his rights nor his property were ever restored to him. He was left, in essence, as a legal zero. As the law states, Lahrman thus could not have had the “legal capacity” to commit the two misdemeanors with which he was charged in 1999 —driving with a suspended license and possession of a small amount of marijuana. Tim filed legal notice in the misdemeanor case of his stated “lack of capacity.” The court took no notice and, after oddly failing in its legal mandate to summon him for his trial, held the trial without him present, found him guilty and sentenced him to two years. He was not present at the hearing and was not subsequently apprehended. Fast forward to 2016. Tim is not only assisting others in their guardianship cases but has now filed a number of lawsuits in his own matter <http://journal-neo.org/2016/04/24/the-management-of-dissent-how-to-destroy-…> . Filed on January 20, 2015 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, South Bend Division, Tim Lahrman also sued Elkhart County Superior Court No. 2 (Stephen R. Bowers, Judge), the Chief Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals, the State of Indiana, the Office of Indiana Attorney General and the Indiana Supreme Court Division of State Court Administration. Lahrman was picked up in March of this year on the seventeen year- old stale and expired warrant, and is being held in Elkhart County Jail without bail. His writ of Habeas Corpus, filed with the court this past week, was reportedly denied by Judge Bodie Stegelmann. According to reports, Judge Stegelmann has ordered Lahrman into a psychiatric evaluation. Attorney Schwager, who has filed notice in this case, states that Tim was put into “the hole”—solitary confinement—this past week after asking his public defender for her name and also requesting the court file. The request apparently frightened her. Schwager has more <http://elderlawadvocates.org/gotcha-state-of-indiana-caught-in-its-own-trap…> on the case. The public defender subsequently withdrew and the judge has ordered Tim to appear pro se—without legal counsel. *I Don’t Know You But I Am Sure You Are Incompetent* Another disability rights activist, Cary Andrew Crittenden, is now being held in Santa Clara County Jail, in Northern California, after being arrested on Christmas Eve on “secret charges.” We can only term the charges “secret” because the Santa Clara County Prosecutor’s office has consistently refused to honor its legal responsibility to release the records containing the factual circumstances surrounding Crittenden’s arrest. The California Public Records Act, clarified by the court case known as “Kusar” mandates the release of these records. Crittenden, who has launched an internet campaign against corruption in Santa Clara County was previously arrested in Santa Clara County for making online statements about public officials which were deemed to be “ *harassment*.” An internal affairs complaint was filed on February 11 with the Prosecutor’s office concerning the refusal of Assistant District Attorney David Angel to comply with the records disclosure law, which is in place in order to guard against “secret arrests.” This IA complaint appears to have gone the way of the public’s rights to know—into the garbage can. No action has been taken on the complaint. The recipient of the complaint, a Lt. Jorge Perez, who states he is an investigator with the DA’s office, has refused to even release the name of the individual who has been assigned to investigate the complaint concerning ADA David Angel’s refusal to comply with the law. Recently, there was an attempt to have Crittenden declared incompetent to stand trial. If an individual is so deemed, he may be incarcerated indefinitely without ever having his day in court. Sniffing this rat, Crittenden refused to attend the psychiatric evaluation which the court had set up for him. In a bizarre, Kafkaesque effort, a “doctor” –who never saw or evaluated Cary Andrew Crittenden–trotted himself into court. In a declaration that would have made any surrealist proud, Dr. Burke, the “doc-in the pocket” of the court, intoned that in his professional opinion, Crittenden, a man he had never seen, was “incompetent to stand trial.” The fact that Burke had never evaluated Crittenden did not escape the attention of the court, however. Crittenden was ordered into another evaluation, and the subsequent medical professional reportedly determined that Crittenden was indeed competent. The propensity for courts now to order activists and dissidents into psychiatric evaluation is something that deserves special attention. A person adjudicated incompetent by a court may, in fact, never get a trial. He can be locked up indefinitely on minor and potentially bogus charges and also be court- ordered to be forcibly medicated with anti- psychotics, which constitute a chemical strait jacket. If you think that the cases involving Lahrman and Crittenden are the exception, you may rest assured that, for cases involving guardianship activists, this is standard court operating procedure. Rosanna Miller, who was attempting to protect her father’s interests while he was under guardianship, was arrested in 2014 for failure to pay court costs. The Ohio Supreme Court, however, had issued a memo stating that an individual cannot be arrested for failure to pay court costs. Questions were raised about the possibility that the Bellafontaine judge, Ann Beck, was involved in a number of financial improprieties. Beck then quickly released Miller from custody. Barbara Stone, a NY attorney whose mother, Helen, was under a questionable guardianship in Florida, was arrested and charged with “custody interference”—which mandates a potential sentence of five years in prison—for allegedly taking her mother to lunch. *If I Can’t Get You, I’ll Get Your Kid* The psychiatric incarceration of John Rohrer raises further questions about motives to detain this young man, and detain him possibly indefinitely. Rohrer, who apparently wandered into the wrong house while under the influence of a hallucinogen, has now been detained over ten years, the last six and a half years as an in-patient in a state psychiatric facility. The case has been fraught with illegal maneuvers by the prosecutors and judge, including denying him his right multiple times to hearings to determine whether he meets the state’s definition of being “mentally ill.” In fact, Rohrer has never been deemed incompetent. Rohrer is now being held at Appalachian Behavioral Healthcare, a State psychiatric hospital, where he was forcibly drugged for years. It should be noted that the Ohio Supreme Court has determined that a judge may not order forced drugging unless he makes a finding that the individual lacks capacity to consent. The forced drugging must also be in the patient’s “best interests” and there must not be any alternatives deemed to be as effective as the drugging. In the Rohrer case, Judge Corzine made none of these findings, and in fact stated on the record that Rohrer appeared “pretty lucid today.” Nevertheless, Corzine ordered the forced drugging of John Rohrer. According to reports, during a brief 2007 exposure to Risperdal, Rohrer, who was at that time 27 years old, suffered a cardiac event, but this did not stop it from being chosen as the primary drug to forcibly inject. Medical and legal malpractice complaints were filed November 24, 2014 in the Ohio Court of Claims and November 28, 2014 in the Franklin County Common Pleas Court by the attorney for John Rohrer. The complaint states that Rohrer was forcibly injected with Risperdal for more than 3 ½ years although the drug is known to cause irreversible brain damage. In addition, the complaint states that Rohrer’s rights to a fair hearing have been repeatedly violated. The activist in the Rohrer case is actually his mother. Attorney and talk show host Katherine Hine founded the advocacy group Stop Child Abuse Now in Oklahoma and advised a group of foster mothers who were outraged at the involvement of judges and lawyers in the murder of 2 year old Ryan Luke in 1995. She is the Executive Director of the Ross County Network for Children in Ohio, an organization with a strong history of conflict with the Ross County Prosecutors, surrounding two child murderers that the County had not wanted prosecuted back in the 1990’s. Hine is now with WJLA radio hosting a two weekly broadcasts—one exposing illegalities of forced psychiatry and another exposing the consequences of the lack of judicial accountability. She also is a contributor to The Columbus Free Press. The Ross County Prosecutor’s office has made it clear that they despise her. Now, they are the ones making sure John Rohrer stays locked up. Hine has faced three disciplinary actions. She writes, “My first discipline was in Oklahoma in like 1981 or 1982 when my soon to be ex grabbed by children in violation of an Oklahoma custody order giving their temporary custody to me.” According to Hine, “He claimed he wasn’t served.” She reports that “I got a private reprimand – where you go into an office and they yell at you about 15 minutes. Told me what a disgrace to the profession I was and how ashamed they all were of being in the bar association with me.” She was subsequently reprimanded by the Oklahoma Bar in 1997 for communicating with a judge concerning a matter involving a suspected case of child abuse, in which she did not represent a party <http://law.justia.com/cases/oklahoma/supreme-court/1997/20438.html>. In fact, Hine had signed a letter along with seven other individuals who were concerned that the judge had authorized supervised visitation of a child with a sexual predator and that the supervision stipulation was being ignored. In other words, the child was allowed to be alone with the predator. There was another attempt at discipline when she was accused of ghost writing for a pro se litigant, but Hine invoked confidentiality and the complaint evaporated. Concerning the lengthy incarceration of her son, Katherine Hine has this to say: “These people are like the Cosa Nostra. They launch intergenerational vendettas and will go after your family.” According to Hine, John Rohrer is no longer allowed online. He had previously set up websites with his music and poetry but the public awareness of his situation had launched protests among his readers and as a result, he is now barred by the hospital from going onto the internet. Recent articles have discussed the increasing incidence of suspension and disciplinary actions taken against attorneys who are attempting to protect the rights of individuals <http://journal-neo.org/2014/03/28/us-moves-to-crush-internal-dissent/%20>. If the current trend continues, we may see anyone standing up for the rights of another individual escorted into jail and, from there, potentially into a rubber room. *Janet C. Phelan, investigative journalist and human rights defender that has traveled pretty extensively over the Asian region, an author of a tell-all book EXILE <http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStore/exile/a02d07e3-82ae-4dab-942b-bed32f2…>, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook <http://journal-neo.org/>” <http://journal-neo.org/>. <http://journal-neo.org/> <http://journal-neo.org/2016/04/24/the-management-of-dissent-how-to-destroy-…>*

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Re: "60 Minutes" hacks Congressman's phone
by Greg Moss 25 Apr '16

25 Apr '16

Please post link to script - thanks Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID grarpamp <grarpamp(a)gmail.com> wrote: >http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-hacking-your-phone/ >https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/12/18/german-researc… > >2016 Apr 17 Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi reports on how cellphones and >mobile phone networks are vulnerable to hacking > >The following script is from "Hacking Your Phone" which aired on April >17, 2016. Sharyn Alfonsi is the correspondent. Howard L. Rosenberg >and Julie Holstein, producers. > >A lot of modern life is interconnected through the Internet of things >-- a global empire of billions of devices and machines. Automobile >navigation systems. Smart TVs. Thermostats. Telephone networks. >Home security systems. Online banking. Almost everything you can >imagine is linked to the world wide web. And the emperor of it all is >the smartphone. You've probably been warned to be careful about what >you say and do on your phone, but after you see what we found, you >won't need to be warned again. > >We heard we could find some of the world's best hackers in Germany...

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"60 Minutes" hacks Congressman's phone
by grarpamp 25 Apr '16

25 Apr '16

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-hacking-your-phone/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/12/18/german-researc… 2016 Apr 17 Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi reports on how cellphones and mobile phone networks are vulnerable to hacking The following script is from "Hacking Your Phone" which aired on April 17, 2016. Sharyn Alfonsi is the correspondent. Howard L. Rosenberg and Julie Holstein, producers. A lot of modern life is interconnected through the Internet of things -- a global empire of billions of devices and machines. Automobile navigation systems. Smart TVs. Thermostats. Telephone networks. Home security systems. Online banking. Almost everything you can imagine is linked to the world wide web. And the emperor of it all is the smartphone. You've probably been warned to be careful about what you say and do on your phone, but after you see what we found, you won't need to be warned again. We heard we could find some of the world's best hackers in Germany...

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Clipper chip datasheet?
by mtal＠hushmail.com 24 Apr '16

24 Apr '16

I've taken an interest in this little guy recently and I've managed to find a fair bit of information in the form of retrospectives and a few academic papers, but nothing more technical. Considering it's been defunct for decades I'm surprised datasheets and manuals aren't easier to find online (or maybe it's just me?). Does anybody happen to know if/where any such material can be found? Thanks.

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Robert De Niro and Autism – a Tragic Drama of Intimidation
by Zenaan Harkness 23 Apr '16

23 Apr '16

Question - is it possible to have an open public discussion on the issue of vaccinations and their level of safety or otherwise? Apparently not, not even for a "public" figure such as American actor, Robert De Niro. Don your flameproof jackets... TRIGGER WARNING: This article may contain implications such as "there may be a link between modern vaccinations and autism" and "big pharma has a lot of lobbying money and US congress has only publicly heard one side". It may sound macabre, but I'm waiting for the 5 day gestation period contagious contaminated flu vaccine to hit - there's plenty of numbers and computer crunching of human pupulation activation thresholds for a would be Dr Save The World or his mini me. Forearmed is forewarned. And may the rest cower in submission to the "you're fucking up our herd mentality^B^B I mean herd immunity" intimidation. ---- http://journal-neo.org/2016/04/10/robert-de-niro-and-autism-a-tragic-drama-… 10.04.2016 Author: F. William Engdahl Robert De Niro and Autism – a Tragic Drama of Intimidation Column: Society Region: USA in the World Robert De Niro is a magnificent actor, one who has won countless awards in his profession over decades. Recently he involved himself in a drama that is costing millions of tragic lives to be condemned to a special world of autism. What has developed from that involvement is tragic. Not alone because his own son is autistic ( http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/26/health/vaccines-autism-robert-de-niro-tri… ). On March 25 the New York Times printed an article with the title, “Robert De Niro Defends Screening of Anti-Vaccine Film at Tribeca Festival.” It was a decision deeply personal for De Niro and his wife. De Niro, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, defended the festival’s controversial decision to screen an anti-vaccine documentary, Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe. De Niro explained, “Grace and I have a child with autism and we believe it is critical that all of the issues surrounding the causes of autism be openly discussed and examined. This is very personal to me and my family and I want there to be a discussion, which is why we will be screening Vaxxed. I am not personally endorsing the film, nor am I anti-vaccination; I am only providing the opportunity for a conversation around the issue ( http://journal-neo.org/2016/04/10/robert-de-niro-and-autism-a-tragic-drama-… ) .” Background That was a clear statement and a courageous act. De Niro made the decision not only to premier the Vaxxed film at his film festivan bust also to introduce the Director, Andrew Wakefield and the film personally. Before deciding, De Niro contacted US Congressman Bill Posey, the same Congressman who has spoken directly and at length with the Center for Disease Control (CDC) Whistleblower William Thompson ( http://celebritories.com/2016/03/vaxxed-filmmakers-accuse-de-niro-tribeca-f… ). In 2014 Thompson told Posey and others that the CDC, where he had been employed as a scientist, had documents that CDC officials deliberately suppressed tests that indicated links between the common MMR vaccine–Measles, Mumps and Rubella (whooping cough)– and child autism. After a one hour discussion with Posey on what he had been told by Thompson about the CDC autism coverup, De Niro made his personal decision to present the Wakefield film ( http://celebritories.com/2016/03/vaxxed-filmmakers-accuse-de-niro-tribeca-f… ). Forty eight hours and a firestorm of mainstream media attack on De Niro’s decision led to his reversal of the screening. In 2015 CDC whistleblower William Thompson, in an apparent act of conscience, told US Congressman Posey that while a senior scientist at CDC, he and his colleagues, after making a study of the link between vaccines and incidence of autism in small black boys, “scheduled a meeting to destroy documents related to the study. The remaining four co-authors all met and brought a big garbage can into the meeting room, and reviewed and went through all the hardcopy documents that we had thought we should discard, and put them into a huge garbage can.” The…co-authors…brought a big garbage can into the meeting room… [and put the documents]…into a huge garbage can. –CDC Senior Scientist Dr. William Thompson ( http://journal-neo.org/2016/04/10/robert-de-niro-and-autism-a-tragic-drama-… ). A cowered US Congress declined to even hold hearings on Thompson’s charges, charges that could have brought the global vaccine industry down if held honestly. The pharmaceutical industry makes enormous financial contributions to Congressional candidates in key committees. Autism Epidemic and Rise in Vaccinations Once De Niro announced he would premier the Vaxxed film at his film festival, a savage firestorm of attacks erupted from US mainstream media ranging from New York Times to forces to CNN. They all attacked Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the Director of Vaxxed, a British citizen, medical doctor and scientist who was literally crucified, stripped of his medical license in Britain and attacked as a scientific fraud for publishing a study in 1998 in the respected scientific journal, Lancet, on possible links between MMR vaccinations and an alarming rise in child autism. Only in 2010 after twelve years of relentless pressure and attacks on Wakefield and claims of faulty methodology did Lancet finally retract the article ( http://www.medicaldaily.com/history-autism-and-vaccines-how-one-man-unravel… ). I have personally met and talked at length with Andrew Wakefield and have respect for his refusal to be cowered by the pharmaceutical vaccine cartel. I have also met numerous children in clinics and rehabilitation centers who have been maimed, crippled or mentally turned into vegetables from vaccinations. Their stories are hushed up by the medical industry, a trillion dollar cartel that links countless medical professionals, scientists, pharmaceutical makers, the CDC and the WHO. What none of the mainstream, politically correct, media dares to report in the De Niro-Wakefield debate are the alarming facts of the epidemic rise in autism in the USA over the past two decades. Autism rates climbed nearly 30% between 2008 and 2010. Incidents of child autism have more than doubled since 2000 according to a new study from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The condition affects one of every 68 children who are 8-year-olds. That’s up from one in 88 just two years earlier. Thirty years ago autism in the USA was virtually unheard of ( http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/27/autism-rates-rise/6957… ). When it was first described in 1943 by Leo Kanner, it was believed to occur at a rate of 4–5 per 10,000 children. Today, 1 in 68 ( http://www.momsagainstmercury.autismoava.org/archivos/Theoretical-Aspects-o… )! The CDC claims not to know the cause. It is clearly not genetic change because such changes take many generations to manifest. Therefore it must be a significant change in the environment of the children. In 2011, Dr. Helen Ratajczak, herself a former senior scientist in the pharmaceutical industry published a groundbreaking article in the Journal of Immunotoxicology entitled “Theoretical aspects of autism: Causes–A review.” Ratajczak did what nobody else apparently has bothered to do: she reviewed the body of published science since autism was first described in 1943. Not just one theory suggested by research such as the role of MMR shots, or the mercury preservative thimerosal; but all of them. Ratajczak’s article states, in part, that “Documented causes of autism include genetic mutations and/or deletions, viral infections, and encephalitis [brain damage] following vaccination [emphasis added]. Therefore, autism is the result of genetic defects and/or inflammation of the brain.” The article goes on to discuss many potential vaccine-related culprits, including the increasing number of vaccines given in a short period of time. CBS award-winning journalist Sharyl Attkisson interviewed Ratajczak on her findings. “What I have published is highly concentrated on hypersensitivity, Ratajczak told Attkisson in an interview, “the body’s immune system being thrown out of balance.” No less a scientist than Dr. James R. Shannon, former Director, National Institute of Health, stated, “The only safe vaccine is one that is never used ( https://vactruth.com/2011/06/06/part-1-of-3-an-interview-about-vaccines-wit… ).” Robert De Niro is a magnificent actor. He let go of an opportunity to give mankind far more. F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook ( http://journal-neo.org/ )”.

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China's gold back story
by Zenaan Harkness 23 Apr '16

23 Apr '16

There appears to be a multi country effort to (re)build gold backed currencies, and there's every chance they will succeed, certainly even in the face of crypto currencies - the robustness and security levels of current computing facilities means hoarding physical gold is likely seen by most, and certainly by nations, as more secure and acceptable to the public psyche. <end personal prattle> ---- http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-16/china-embraces-gold-advance-post-d… China Embraces Gold In Advance Of Post-Dollar Era Tyler Durden's picture Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/16/2016 20:50 -0400 Submitted by Koos Jansen via AllChinaReview.com, http://www.allchinareview.com/china-embracing-gold-in-advance-of-post-dolla… To challenge the US dollar hegemony and increase its power in the global realm of finance, China has a potent gold strategy. Whilst the State Council is preparing itself for the inevitable decay of the current international monetary system, it has firmly embraced gold in its economy. With a staggering pace the government has developed the Chinese domestic gold market, stimulated private gold accumulation and increased its official gold reserves in order to ensure financial stability and support the internationalisation of the renminbi. “The outbreak of the crisis and its spillover to the entire world reflect the inherent vulnerabilities and systemic risks in the existing international monetary system…. The desirable goal of reforming the international monetary system, therefore, is to create an international reserve currency that is disconnected from individual nations and is able to remain stable in the long run…” Quote from Governor of the PBOC Zhou Xiaochuan 2009. In the present zeitgeist we find ourselves on the verge of a shift in the global monetary order. The shocks through the financial complex in 2008 that reaffirmed the innate fragility of the US dollar as the world reserve currency have sparked China to become a vocal proponent of de-Americanization, although its end goal is communicated less clearly. Being the second largest economy of the world but relatively in arrears regarding physical gold reserves, China has a strong motive to surreptitiously work on its gold program until completion. For, if it would be candid in its gold ambitions, the price would significantly run higher, potentially disturbing financial markets and narrowing its window of opportunity to prepare for the next phase. State Council Rapidly Developed Domestic Gold Market And Stimulated Private Hoarding China has been infatuated with gold for thousands of years. In the mainland, gold mining and use can be traced back to at least 4,000 years ago, and the metal has always represented economic strength and was regarded as the emperors’ symbol of power. Although the Communist Party of China captured the monopoly in gold trade and heavily restricted private gold possession since 1949, in lockstep with the gradual liberalisation and the ascend of the Chinese economy the state started to develop the domestic gold market in the late seventies, which accelerated in 2002. A new page was turned when the Gold Armed Police started operating in 1979, not coincidentally a few years after the US detached its dollar, the world reserve currency, from gold. This army division was initially assigned to gold mining exploration and has done so quite fruitfully. Since 1979, Chinese domestic mining output has grown 2,137 % from an annual 20 tonnes to an estimated 467 tonnes in 2015. In 1982, the first steps were taken in reviving China’s gold retail channels. For the first time since 1949 people were allowed to buy jewelry and the China Gold Coin Incorporation started issuing Panda coins. The Peoples Bank Of China (PBOC) continued to be the primary gold dealer that fixed the price and controlled all supply flows. The real reform of the Chinese gold market was implemented on 30 October 2002 by the launch of the Shanghai Gold Exchange, erected to serve the full liberalisation of the domestic gold market. From that date the fixing of the gold price in China was transmitted from the PBOC to the free market. In 2004, the State Council approved gold as an investment for individuals and the PBOC slowly repelled control over supply flows. The Chinese gold market fiercely rose from its ashes. By 2007 the market was functioning as intended when nearly all gold supply and demand was flowing through the SGE system6. A year later, in 2008, the Shanghai Futures Exchange launched a gold futures contract supplementing existing derivatives at the SGE. The Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE), which is a subsidiary of the PBOC, is the very core of the Chinese physical gold market. Its infrastructure provides a single liquid exchange overseen by the state, granting all participants a trusty venue that can be efficiently developed and monitored. The mechanics of the Chinese market incentivise nearly all supply and demand to connect within the SGE system. As a consequence, by the amount of gold withdrawn from the vaults of the SGE – data that was published up until December 2015 in the Chinese Market Data Weekly Reports – we could gauge Chinese wholesale gold demand. After the crisis in 2008, it became apparent in the higher echelons of the Chinese government that the development of the gold market and private accumulation had to accelerate to protect the Chinese economy from looming turmoil. Through state owned banks and media wires the citizenry were stimulated to diversify savings into physical gold. Currently, at Chinese banks, numerous gold saving programs can be entered into, or individuals can open an SGE account and purchase gold directly in the wholesale market. “Individual investment demand is an important component of China’s gold reserve system, …. Practice shows that gold possession by citizens is an effective supplement to official reserves and is essential for our national financial security.” Quote by the President of the China Gold Association 2012. When the gold price came down sharply in April 2013, Chinese gold demand literally exploded as in a once in a lifetime event. In between 22 and 26 April, 117 tonnes of physical gold were withdrawn from the vaults of the SGE. gold_graph China has been a gigantic gold buyer ever since. Withdrawals from the vaults of the SGE in 2015 accounted for 2,596 tonnes (90 % of global annual mine output), up from a mere 16 tonnes in 2002. SGE withdrawal data correlates with elevated gold import by China. Whilst clearly enjoying their bargain purchases, China has established a trend of increasingly obfuscating the true size of its gold demand. Not long ago several reports were released in the mainland that disclosed total gold demand to be the equivalent to SGE withdrawals. Since 2012 these reports have been hidden from public eyes and in January 2016 the SGE ceased publishing withdrawal data10. Although annual SGE withdrawals have exceeded 2,100 tonnes since 2013, what is generally publicised as gold demand is roughly half of this, merely the demand at jewelry shops and banks that excludes direct purchases from individual and institutional clients at the SGE. As a result, the global consensus is that Chinese gold demand is approximately 1,000 tonnes a year though in reality it’s twice this volume. PBOC Accumulating Gold To Support Renminbi Internationalisation To free itself from US dollar supremacy and force the sequent monetary system, China’s goal is to internationalise the renminbi. For achieving its target, gold is identified as the key. It is the absolute monetary asset to support the renminbi, the dollars’ Achilles heel and a hedge during monetary stress. Next to the swift progression in the Chinese private gold market we can observe the PBOC is covertly buying gold and has launched the Shanghai International Gold Exchange to prepare renminbi internationalisation. “For China the strategic mission of gold lies in the support of renminbi internationalization, and so let China become a world economic power…. Gold is both a very honest asset and forms the very material basis for modern fiat currencies…. Gold is the world’s only monetary asset that has no counter party risk, and is the only cross-nation, cross-language … and cross-culture globally recognized monetary asset. That is why in order for gold to fulfill its destined mission, we must raise our gold holdings a great deal, and do so with a solid plan. Step one should take us to the 4,000 tonnes mark, more than Germany and become number two in the world, next, we should increase step by step towards 8,500 tonnes, more than the US.” Quote by the President of the China Gold Association 2014. Not surprisingly, China’s strategy is everything but linear. Let us analyse the State Council’s most recent actions with respect to gold and the internationalisation of the renminbi. In addition to gold accumulation, the State Council has aimed to kick start renminbi internationalisation by having it included into the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) basket of currencies, the Special Drawing Rights (SDR), in 2015. For acceptance, the IMF required openness of China’s international reserves, of which the PBOC hadn’t updated its gold reserves since 2009. Here we found the PBOC stretched between opposing forces; it obviously preferred to hoard gold in concealment not to disturb financial markets, while at the same time it was requested to open its books. In July 2015 the PBOC decided to revise its official gold reserves by 604 tonnes to 1,658 tonnes, which was probably not the whole truth but served both means, as markets barely reacted to the increment – the gold price has not increased since then – and the IMF has granted annexation of the renminbi into the SDR. -How much gold does the PBOC truly hold-? Before we make an estimate we must first address the question, how and where does the PBOC buy gold? --Some analysts assume the PBOC buys gold in the domestic market at the SGE. According to my research this is not true. My sources in the bullion industry tell me first hand that the PBOC buys gold in the international OTC market using Chinese banks as proxies. And this intelligence fits into the wider analysis, as there are many reasons why the PBOC would not buy gold through the SGE.-- A rough estimate suggests the PBOC holds nearly 4,000 tonnes in gold reserves, more than twice the amount they officially disclose. In a quest for any clues we must visit the heart of the gold wholesale market. Data by the London Bullion Market Association points out there have been approximately 1,700 tonnes of monetary gold exported from London between 2011 and 2015. China’s central bank is the foremost suspect for these purchases, given its size and motives, and the tonnage exported from London is consistent with other sources that state the PBOC has bought roughly 500 tonnes a years since 2009. All clues together point to the PBOC holding roughly 4,000 tonnes currently. Although this remains speculation. --More of China’s gold strategy was revealed by the recent launch of the Shanghai International Gold Exchange (SGEI) that offers gold trading in renminbi for clients worldwide, in an attempt by China to strengthen the internationalisation of the renminbi.-- In itself the SGEI clearly underlines China’s gold ambitions16, but the punch line was added with the launch of the Silk Road Gold Fund in 201517. Led by the SGE(I), the $16 billion fund will boost the gold industry along the Silk Road and in turn “will facilitate gold purchases for the central banks of member states to increase their holdings of the precious metal”, according to the Chinese state press agency Xinhua18. Not only is China trying to persuade all mining and consumption of gold along the Silk Road economic project to be settled through the SGEI in renminbi, additionally the Chinese promote gold as an essential component of central banks’ international reserves going forward. --We must conclude that the State Council views gold as part of the coming international monetary system.-- Why else does it quickly develop the domestic gold market to be embedded in financial markets, surreptitiously accumulate vast gold reserves and establish a framework to boost gold business on the Eurasian continent around the SGEI? -In my view, China contributes significant value to its gold strategy in the shadow of the apparent failure of the current fiat monetary system. And if true, China’s central bank having nearly 4,000 tonnes of gold is well on its way to introduce the next phase.- Links from the comments: ----------- http://independenttrader.org/why-china-hides-their-gold-reserves.html 22.07.2015 Why China hides their gold reserves? Recommend this article: Comments: 1 » China’s main goal is to internationalise yuan (CNY) and add it to the currency basket of the International Monetary Fund. To succeed China needed to update both of their currency and gold reserves. Last update in 2009 put Chinese reserves at 1054 tons. Speculations about how much gold is held by the People’s Bank of China (PBC) seem to have no end. The newest update was quite a shock. It was stated that reserves amount to 1658 t and not to 3500 t as it was commonly perceived. Allegedly reserves were growing only by 100 t per year during last six years. Publication was pushed by the IMF, but in my opinion the official numbers are understated by a huge margin. Recently in one of my interviews I highlighted that it is more than possible that number given by authorities will be smaller than the true reserves but even I was surprised with 1600 t levels. Why Chinese did not publish their true level of reserves? a) The IMF negotiations. It has been several years since China and IMF are discussing adding the yuan to the currency basket. Special Drawing Rights (SDR) is a portfolio of dollar, euro, pound and yen. For years Americans having the right to veto blocked any negotiations and changes. It may be that in exchange for somewhat cosmetic change of the Chinese gold reserves the US government agreed to smoothly include second Asian currency to SDR. Still the US dollar is the biggest loser here and consequently the US. Around October the news may break that CNY after 5 long years of talks will be officially added to the currency basket. b) Currency reserves Substantial majority of Chinese currency reserves worth 3.7 trillion USD is held in short-term US government bonds. Informing the markets that government reserves equal 5000 t rather than 1050 t would raise question not only about the source of this plentiful stash of gold but also who doesn’t have it anymore. This second part is very important here. This uncertainty could push the price of this precious metal up and distort delicate balance in the foreign exchange markets. Chinese have big stake here equal to 98,4% of their currency reserves. c) Importing at Black Friday’s prices… to be continued Regarding gold reserves of the Peoples Republic, Roland Wand – chairman of Chinese World Gold Council branch – said that “gold amounts to 1,6% of Chinese reserves, while the ideal situation would 5%. If China announce today that 5% of currency reserves are in gold the result would be huge climb of global demand and the price of gold. This is not in the best interest of our citizens”. Last but not least, government actively encourage its citizens to invest their savings in gold. What are the goals of China? >From 20 years Chinese economy is the leader of fast growth. According to PPP China is the number one economy in the world. While in many aspects international arena still treats them as developing country. Chinese policy will eye several goals in near future: a) Internationalisation of yuan to change its stance from being transactional currency to reserve one. Thanks to that China will paint more trustworthy picture of itself on the global stage. b) Preparing ground for solid currency (loosely bound to gold) with simultaneous transformation of economy – from centrally planned to free market. c) Owning substantial currency reserves guarding against results of bursting speculative bubbles (stocks, real estate) in the local market. d) Diversification of dollar reserves into various assets e) Developing of alternative (not-western) market. New silk road and AAIB. f) Dethronement of the US as the global hegemony. Let’s now see how much gold PBC really has. a) Production. Source: Koos Janses, BullionStar.com >From 2009 to 2014 gold yearly production increased from 315 t to 450 t. Most of the mines are owned by the state and there is a ban for gold exports. Since the announcement of official reserves in 2009, approximately 2200 t of gold had been produced. Share of this amount went through Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE) to individual consumers. What was left probably resides in PBC’s vaults. Ratio is not yet known. b) Official imports Gold is imported to China through SGE and then to the market. Last six years SGE noted the sell of 7000 t of bullion. It is safe to say that majority ended up in Chinese hands as it is traditional medium of amassing wealth. Substantial share was snatched by various funds wholly owned by the state. c) Unofficial imports All gold passing from country A to B is recorded. Exception from the rule is gold coins bought by central banks and government agencies. As long as the gold is in coin form there is no available information about its volumes and flows from one country to another. China is able to import big volumes of aurum through government agencies and have this imports hidden from official reports. Similar situations were described by Jim Rickards in the second part of his book: “One of the high level G4S directors (global logistics company) shared that he himself transported gold to China through mountain massif. Transport was guarded by People’s Liberation Army supported by armored vehicles. Gold was in 400 oz “good delivery” ingots used by central banks”. It is very hard to estimate volume of China’s government reserves. One thing is for sure that 1660 t is too small of a number. According to different calculations Chinese already accumulated from 4-8 thousand tons. Some estimates talk about reserves being over 10 thousand tons but personally I think it is exaggeration. >From Chinese officials and also from central bank’s side we may have heard rumors that government is able to import around 500-600 tons of gold while still having stable gold market. Recent Dutsche Bank report seem to confirm this data. In general it is very unlikely that reserves are below 4.5 thousand tons. Summary The big problem of central bank reports is their lack of accountability. The bank can say one thing but average investor has no chances to verify it. The US claims sine ‘50s that they have 8500 tons of gold. There was no audit since then. Germany claims 3000 tons but majority is abroad. This makes it hard to distinguish whether they have the gold or its ‘paper promise of return’. China is no different. Central bank still holds only 1660 tons even if another 3000 tons are held by funds controlled by the very bank itself. Formally everything is square. China’s gold lets them play a very successful game with the US. Recently Uncle Sam had to accept the change to SDR basket. Next time it may be other area of Chinese interest which will be focused, time will show. On global scale this game is played not only for profit but rather for control. Control is the biggest prize here. --------- http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/item/18455-imf-may-move-from-dc-to-be… [Enormous number of links in this article, so just quoting the first paragraph without the hyperlinks; enjoy] " Wednesday, 11 June 2014 IMF May Move From D.C. to Beijing, Chief Says Written by Alex Newman IMF May Move From D.C. to Beijing, Chief Says Days after attending shadowy meetings with top globalists and a member of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee, International Monetary Fund boss Christine Lagarde (shown) shocked the world by saying IMF headquarters could someday move from Washington, D.C., to Beijing. The spectacular statement, which came after her attendance at the infamous Bilderberg summit and the Rothschild-organized “Inclusive Capitalism” conference, came amid an ongoing establishment effort to prepare the world for major economic and political changes in the coming years. " --------- Contary to the facile observations of "gold analysts" partial to playing up "East vs West," "BRICs vs. PRICS." type memes, the Lloyds and China LLC have been deep in conversation - through both pre & post Mao eras. Just like with Russia, the entire "Chinese Revolutionary" movement was a construction of WallSt/ThreadneedleSt; there have been no changes in ownership since that early phase - just shift in tactics ( https://storify.com/SuaveBel/from-giants-to-pygmies ). The so-called NWO has selected Sinoland as the next repository for their planetary ambitions. Since Deng Xiaoping, the leadership has been given a mandate - not exactly from "Heaven," but most certainly to do "God's Work." And thus, carefully schooled in adopting the most current western financial techniques, in order that they accumulate the necessary heft in the financial arena for this changeover to happen. They have also been intensely schooled in the limits to their autonomy of action - the current downturn in the economy being engineered with precision to demonstrate the perils of too much 'independent deviationism.' There is a degreee of rebelliousness to all of this - the Xi regime is composed of many layers of wily insiders, including some who are true Sino-nationalists, aware of who's been messing with them for the past century. That's what makes things interesting, watching what goes down in the Middle Kingdom. And totally screws up the "analysis" of faraway western-based writers who script their stories to silly comicbook scenarios like BRICS and "death of the dollar." Price suppression in gold and silver has been dictated by the policies of those in control of China's financial fortunes for the past 5 years - in conjunction with their agents of influence in western markets. When they decide its time to change direction, so to will the POS/POG. Until then, beware the revisionist dogma of consensus trance "gold experts" peddling the stories which the puppetmasters use to cover up their schemings.

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