lfb | Banking industry insiders are upset with Amex and Wal-Mart, that
also is offering prepaid cards, because these prepaid accounts would
amount to uninsured deposits, according to Andrew Kahr, who wrote a
scathing piece on the issue for American Banker.
Kahr rips into the idea with this analogy:
“To provide even lower ‘discount prices,’ should Wal-Mart
rent decaying buildings that don’t satisfy local fire laws and building
codes — and offer still better deals to consumers? And why should
Walmart have to honor the national minimum wage law, any more than Amex
honors state banking statutes? With Bluebird, Amex can already violate
both the Bank Holding Company Act and many state banking statues.”
Kahr is implying that regulated fractionalized banking is safe and
sound, while prepaid cards provided by huge companies like Amex and
Wal-Mart is a shady scheme set up to rip off consumers. The fact is, in
the case of IndyMac, panicked customers forced regulators to close the
S&L by withdrawing only 7% of the huge S&L’s deposits. It was
about the same for WaMu and Wachovia when regulators engineered sales of
those banks being run on. Bitcoin supporters, unlike the general
public, are well aware of fractionalized banking’s fragility.
Maybe what the banking industry is really afraid of is the Amexes and
Wal-Marts of the world creating their own currencies and banking
systems. Wal-Mart has tried to get approval to open a bank for years,
and bankers have successfully stopped the retail giant for competing
with them.
However, prepaid credit cards might be just the first step toward
Wal-Mart issuing their own currency — Marts — that might initially be
used only for purchases in Wal-Mart stores. But over time, it’s not hard
to imagine Marts being traded all over town and easily converted to
dollars, pesos, Yuan, or other currencies traded where Wal-Mart has
stores. Fist tap Dale.
whatbitcoindid |Matthew Pines is the Director of Intelligence at the Krebs Stamos Group and a Fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute specializing in national security. In this interview, we discuss the growing sense that the US government may imminently disclose the existence of craft of non-human origin and that it actually possesses intact and partially intact examples of such craft.
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On July 26th, next Wednesday, the Republican-led House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), a new term government agencies use for UFOs. Many believe that this change in nomenclature and the hearing is part of a process aimed at preparing the public for disclosure that the existence of non-human technology is real and that US government agencies and corporations may have retrieved craft of non-human origin.
Until recently, UAPs/UFOs were considered a fringe topic. Those in political circles and mainstream media organisations would publicly avoid the subject: it was officially ridiculed, and those who engaged in it risked career suicide. Now, it has suddenly become acceptable to seriously discuss the matter. On Monday (17th July), the White House itself stated UAPs are a "real issue" having "an impact" on the United States Air Force.
What changed?
Matthew Pines take us through the mechanisms of government bureaucracy in terms of official secrets: who gets clearances and the ‘need to know’. Matthew then takes us through the recent extraordinary whistleblower claims of a government coverup in relation to UAPs, why some within the government now feel enabled and compelled to come forward with extraordinary claims, and an effort to silence them.
It’s not hyperbolic to state that if such claims are publicly substantiated, it will be the biggest event in human history. It is telling that esteemed people who have close knowledge of this subject matter, including prominent politicians, high-ranking officials and qualified professionals, give credence to the UAP phenomenon. We wait with bated breath to see if these extraordinary claims are backed with extraordinary evidence.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00:00: Introductions 00:07:02: Matthew's background 00:14:13: Government structure of secrecy 00:24:41: Whistleblowing and potential scenarios 00:46:15: Credible explanations for ETs 00:54:52: Linking ETs to nuclear sites 01:04:04: Technological developments, and AI 01:10:10: Evidence and trusted reports 01:24:36: Normalising aliens 01:33:04: Implications for financial and political stability 01:45:01: Tangent to all things quantum 02:06:08: Interspecies communication 02:14:54: Timeline to truth 02:25:32: Final comments
ibankcoin | Crypto currency Bitconnect (BCC) plunged from $321 to a tad over $35
today, a drop of more than 86% after regulators from state authorities
issued cease and desist letters for unauthorized sale of securities.
That’s right. Just because your shit is on the blockchain, that doesn’t
mean you get to solicit your fucking Ponzi scheme to people in America.
State regulators will have something to say about that.
Via the company’s website, as per the reasons for shutting down.
The reason for halt of lending and exchange platform has many reasons as follow:
The continuous bad press has made community members uneasy and created a lack of confidence in the platform.
We have received two Cease and Desist letters, one from the Texas State
Securities Board, and one from the North Carolina Secretary of State
Securities Division. These actions have become a hindrance for the legal
continuation of the platform.
Outside forces have performed DDos attacks on platform several times
and have made it clear that these will continue. These interruptions in
service have made the platform unstable and have created more panic
inside the community.
Price action.
What did Bitconnect do? They quite literally ran a Ponzi scheme. Look
at one of their brochures, promising investors 40% returns, PER MONTH.
Via Tech Crunch:
Many in the cryptocurrency community have openly accused
Bitconnnect of running a Ponzi scheme, including Ethereum founder
Vitalik Buterin.
The platform was powered by a token called BCC (not to be confused
with BCH, or Bitcoin Cash), which is essentially useless now that the
trading platform has shut down. In the last The token has plummeted more
than 80% to about $37, down from over $200 just a few hours ago.
If you aren’t familiar with the platform, Bitconnect was an
anonymously-run site where users could loan their cryptocurrency to the
company in exchange for outsized returns depending on how long the loan
was for. For example, a $10,000 loan for 180 days would purportedly give
you ~40% returns each month, with a .20% daily bonus.
Bitconnect also had a thriving multi-level referral feature, which
also made it somewhat akin to a pyramid scheme with thousands of social
media users trying to drive signups using their referral code.
The platform said it generated returns for users using Bitconnnect’s
trading bot and “volatility trading software”, which usually averaged
around 1% per day.
Of course profiting from market fluctuations and volatility is a
legitimate trading strategy, and one used by many hedge funds and
institutional traders. But Bitconnect’s promise (and payment) of
outsized and guaranteed returns led many to believe it was a ponzi
scheme that was paying out existing loan interest with newly pledged
loans.
The requirement of having BCC to participate in the lending program
led to a natural spike in demand (and price) of BCC. In less than a year
the currency went from being worth less than a dollar (with a market
cap in the millions) to a all-time high of ~$430.00 with a market cap
above $2.6B.
Lenders into the Bitconnect Exchange have revealed the company is
closing out accounts, issuing BCC in exchange for their dollars — which
is causing the price to plummet.
Bitconnect is officially closing up. They sent me
33 BCC for my $11k+ in loans. Worth $6600 and dropping by the second.
Their exchange is down so the only option is to send the BCC to an
external exchange.
outpost-of-freedom | I've been following the concepts of digital cash and encryption since I read the article in the August 1992 issue of Scientific American on "encrypted signatures." While I've only followed the Digitaliberty area for a few weeks, I can already see a number of points that do (and should!) strongly concern the average savvy individual:
1. How can we translate the freedom afforded by the Internet to ordinary life?
2. How can we keep the government from banning encryption, digital cash, and other systems that will improve our freedom?
A few months ago, I had a truly and quite literally "revolutionary" idea, and I jokingly called it "Assassination Politics": I speculated on the question of whether an organization could be set up to legally announce that it would be awarding a cash prize to somebody who correctly "predicted" the death of one of a list of violators of rights, usually either government employees, officeholders, or appointees. It could ask for anonymous contributions from the public, and individuals would be able send those contributions using digital cash.
I also speculated that using modern methods of public-key encryption and anonymous "digital cash," it would be possible to make such awards in such a way so that nobody knows who is getting awarded the money, only that the award is being given. Even the organization itself would have no information that could help the authorities find the person responsible for the prediction, let alone the one who caused the death.
It was not my intention to provide such a "tough nut to crack" by arguing the general case, claiming that a person who hires a hit man is not guilty of murder under libertarian principles. Obviously, the problem with the general case is that the victim may be totally innocent under libertarian principles, which would make the killing a crime, leading to the question of whether the person offering the money was himself guilty.
On the contrary; my speculation assumed that the "victim" is a government employee, presumably one who is not merely taking a paycheck of stolen tax dollars, but also is guilty of extra violations of rights beyond this. (Government agents responsible for the Ruby Ridge incident and Waco come to mind.) In receiving such money and in his various acts, he violates the "Non-aggression Principle" (NAP) and thus, presumably, any acts against him are not the initiation of force under libertarian principles.
The organization set up to manage such a system could, presumably, make up a list of people who had seriously violated the NAP, but who would not see justice in our courts due to the fact that their actions were done at the behest of the government. Associated with each name would be a dollar figure, the total amount of money the organization has received as a contribution, which is the amount they would give for correctly "predicting" the person's death, presumably naming the exact date. "Guessers" would formulate their "guess" into a file, encrypt it with the organization's public key, then transmit it to the organization, possibly using methods as untraceable as putting a floppy disk in an envelope and tossing it into a mailbox, but more likely either a cascade of encrypted anonymous remailers, or possibly public-access Internet locations, such as terminals at a local library, etc.
In order to prevent such a system from becoming simply a random unpaid lottery, in which people can randomly guess a name and date (hoping that lightning would strike, as it occasionally does), it would be necessary to deter such random guessing by requiring the "guessers" to include with their "guess" encrypted and untraceable "digital cash," in an amount sufficiently high to make random guessing impractical.
For example, if the target was, say, 50 years old and had a life expectancy of 30 years, or about 10,000 days, the amount of money required to register a guess must be at least 1/10,000th of the amount of the award. In practice, the amount required should be far higher, perhaps as much as 1/1000 of the amount, since you can assume that anybody making a guess would feel sufficiently confident of that guess to risk 1/1000th of his potential reward.
The digital cash would be placed inside the outer "encryption envelope," and could be decrypted using the organization's public key. The prediction itself (including name and date) would be itself in another encryption envelope inside the first one, but it would be encrypted using a key that is only known to the predictor himself. In this way, the organization could decrypt the outer envelope and find the digital cash, but they would have no idea what is being predicted in the innermost envelope, either the name or the date.
If, later, the "prediction" came true, the predictor would presumably send yet another encrypted "envelope" to the organization, containing the decryption key for the previous "prediction" envelope, plus a public key (despite its name, to be used only once!) to be used for encryption of digital cash used as payment for the award. The organization would apply the decryption key to the prediction envelope, discover that it works, then notice that the prediction included was fulfilled on the date stated. The predictor would be, therefore, entitled to the award. Nevertheless, even then nobody would actually know WHO he is!
It doesn't even know if the predictor had anything to do with the outcome of the prediction. If it received these files in the mail, in physical envelopes, which had no return address, it would have burned the envelopes before it studied their contents. The result is that even the active cooperation of the organization could not possibly help anyone, including the police, to locate the predictor.
Also included within this "prediction-fulfilled" encryption envelope would be unsigned (not-yet-valid) "digital cash," which would then be blindly signed by the organization's bank and subsequently encrypted using the public key included. (The public key could also be publicized, to allow members of the public to securely send their comments and, possibly, further grateful remuneration to the predictor, securely.) The resulting encrypted file could be published openly on the Internet, and it could then be decrypted by only one entity: The person who had made that original, accurate prediction. The result is that the recipient would be absolutely untraceable.
The digital cash is then processed by the recipient by "unbinding" it, a principle which is explained in far greater detail by the article in the August 1992 issue of Scientific American. The resulting digital cash is absolutely untraceable to its source.Fist tap Dale.
newsweek | In June 2011, Julian Assange received an unusual visitor: the
chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, arrived from America at Ellingham
Hall, the country house in Norfolk, England where Assange was living
under house arrest.
For several hours the besieged leader of the world’s most famous
insurgent publishing organization and the billionaire head of the
world’s largest information empire locked horns. The two men debated the
political problems faced by society, and the technological solutions
engendered by the global network—from the Arab Spring to Bitcoin.
They outlined radically opposing perspectives: for Assange, the
liberating power of the Internet is based on its freedom and
statelessness. For Schmidt, emancipation is at one with U.S. foreign
policy objectives and is driven by connecting non-Western countries to
Western companies and markets. These differences embodied a tug-of-war
over the Internet’s future that has only gathered force subsequently.
In this extract from When Google Met WikiLeaks Assange describes his encounter with Schmidt and how he came to conclude that it was far from an innocent exchange of views.
The more employees of large media corporations attack Joe Rogan, the more his audience grows. The two individuals with the largest audiences happen to be the two people most hated by corporate media because they can't be controlled or ordered around:https://t.co/kjgUQRwWIs
zerohedge | When the last hour of the podcast was coming to its conclusion as I
was finishing an 8 mile run, a thought dawned on me: this interview with
Malone is now officially out there and, no matter how much anyone tries to censor it, it can’t be taken back.
As we all know, nowadays when you make it on JRE, you’ve officially “made it”.
Putting
aside the obvious irony of Twitter attempting to ban somebody and the
person in question going viral as a result, I also thought about how,
despite the fact that Malone’s opinions put him at odds with the
mainstream media (who would never dare to have him on), Joe Rogan
launched him past the usual media suspects and into the real “mainstream”.
I then thought to myself that in 2022, the mainstream media as we know it today (CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, etc.) is going to be forced to change its narrative on Covid.
“It’ll never happen,” you’re thinking to yourself, right? Let me explain.
* * *
The idea of the media being forced to change its tune on Covid is something I touched upon a couple of days ago when I wrote about the Omicron variant and how the media is creating a mass hysteria mountain out of a mole hill.
But
after listening to Dr. Robert Malone‘s well reasoned arguments,
delivered for three straight hours, concisely and calmly, it became
clear to me that the entire mainstream media machine could wind up
falling at the hands of content creators like Joe Rogan.
It’s an interesting little piece of game theory, when you think about it.
Rogan generates so many views and has grown so quickly - strictly because he
allows open dialogue, civil discourse and approaches things with honest
intent – that there is no financial incentive to de-platform him. Ever
notice how YouTube apparently had no problem taking down Rogan’s interview with Malone, but hasn’t banned Rogan’s channel from the site yet?
WaPo | Sam Bankman-Fried, the 30-year-old wunderkind of cryptocurrency, spent
tens of millions of dollars over the past year trying to reshape how
Washington and the world think about finance.
The
crypto exchange he founded, FTX, had become an industry-dominating
business in just three years, valued at $32 billion as recently as
January. He amassed political clout in an even bigger hurry, emerging
from obscurity to become the second-biggest Democratic donor in the midterm elections.
By Friday, the money and the clout had disappeared: Bankman-Fried resigned from FTX, which then filed
for bankruptcy. And Bankman-Fried was left facing harrowing questions
about his role in the most catastrophic collapse the notoriously
volatile crypto industry has so far seen.
When
Bankman-Fried was just 28, he built a platform that offered investors
easy access to buying, selling and stashing bitcoin and other
cryptocurrencies. The offshore exchange allowed investors to place risky
bets not allowed in the United States, though it was easy enough
for American users to find workarounds; a U.S. affiliate offered
limited services. With a massive marketing push — including a flashy
Super Bowl ad and naming rights to the Miami Heat arena — he sought to
make crypto trading a mainstream pastime.
Meanwhile,
he was using his newfound political clout to sell Washington on a
regulatory regime that promised to work to his advantage. The contrasts
were glaring and never easily reconciled: As crypto’s self-appointed
ambassador to Washington, Bankman-Fried was pressing for federal
regulation even as he dodged U.S. oversight from his corporate
headquarters in the Bahamas.
The
executive acknowledged that FTX’s aggressive lobbying made him an
outlier in crypto. “Outside of us, there weren’t many people engaging,”
Bankman-Fried said in an interview last month with The Washington Post.
“I think that means we have to do a better job as an industry more
generally engaging.”
In March, he appeared at the House Democratic retreat in Philadelphia with his arm around House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters (D-Calif.). In April, he turned up
in the office of Caroline Pham, a Republican member of the Commodity
Futures Trading Commission, less than a week after she assumed the post,
along with Mark Wetjen, the former acting chair of the agency and now
Bankman-Fried’s top Washington adviser. Hill staffers say they regularly
spotted him around the Capitol, shuttling between meetings flanked by
Wetjen and Eliora Katz, who joined FTX this summer from the staff of the
Senate Banking Committee’s top Republican, Patrick J. Toomey (Pa.)
journal-neo |Sadly, the Fed and
other central bankers lie. Raising interest rates is not to cure
inflation. It is to force a global reset in control over the world’s
assets, it’s wealth, whether real estate, farmland, commodity
production, industry, even water. The Fed knows very well that Inflation
is only beginning to rip across the global economy. What is unique is
that now Green Energy mandates across the industrial world are driving
this inflation crisis for the first time, something deliberately ignored
by Washington or Brussels or Berlin.
The global shortages
of fertilizers, soaring prices of natural gas, and grain supply losses
from global draught or exploding costs of fertilizers and fuel or the
war in Ukraine, guarantee that, at latest this September-October harvest
time, we will undergo a global additional food and energy price
explosion. Those shortages all are a result of deliberate policies.
Moreover, far worse
inflation is certain, due to the pathological insistence of the world’s
leading industrial economies led by the Biden Administration’s
anti-hydrocarbon agenda. That agenda is typified by the astonishing
nonsense of the US Energy Secretary stating, “buy E-autos instead” as
the answer to exploding gasoline prices.
Similarly, the
European Union has decided to phase out Russian oil and gas with no
viable substitute as its leading economy, Germany, moves to shut its
last nuclear reactor and close more coal plants. Germany and other EU
economies as a result will see power blackouts this winter and natural
gas prices will continue to soar. In the second week of June in Germany
gas prices rose another 60% alone. Both the Green-controlled German
government and the Green Agenda “Fit for 55” by the EU Commission
continue to push unreliable and costly wind and solar at the expense of
far cheaper and reliable hydrocarbons, insuring an unprecedented
energy-led inflation.
Fed has pulled the plug
With the 0.75% Fed
rate hike, largest in almost 30 years, and promise of more to come, the
US central bank has now guaranteed a collapse of not merely the US debt
bubble, but also much of the post-2008 global debt of $303 trillion.
Rising interest rates after almost 15 years mean collapsing bond values.
Bonds, not stocks, are the heart of the global financial system.
US mortgage rates
have now doubled in just 5 months to above 6%, and home sales were
already plunging before the latest rate hike. US corporations took on
record debt owing to the years of ultra-low rates. Some 70% of that debt
is rated just above “junk” status. That corporate non-financial debt
totaled $9 trillion in 2006. Today it exceeds $18 trillion. Now a large
number of those marginal companies will not be able to rollover the old
debt with new, and bankruptcies will follow in coming months. The
cosmetics giant Revlon just declared bankruptcy.
The
highly-speculative, unregulated Crypto market, led by Bitcoin, is
collapsing as investors realize there is no bailout there. Last November
the Crypto world had a $3 trillion valuation. Today it is less than
half, and with more collapse underway. Even before the latest Fed rate
hike the stock value of the US megabanks had lost some $300 billion. Now
with stock market further panic selling guaranteed as a global economic
collapse grows, those banks are pre-programmed for a new severe bank
crisis over the coming months.
As US economist Doug
Noland recently noted, “Today, there’s a massive “periphery” loaded with
“subprime” junk bonds, leveraged loans, buy-now-pay-later, auto, credit
card, housing, and solar securitizations, franchise loans, private
Credit, crypto Credit, DeFi, and on and on. A massive infrastructure has
evolved over this long cycle to spur consumption for tens of millions,
while financing thousands of uneconomic enterprises. The “periphery” has
become systemic like never before. And things have started to Break.”
The Federal
Government will now find its interest cost of carrying a record $30
trillion in Federal debt far more costly. Unlike the 1930s Great
Depression when Federal debt was near nothing, today the Government,
especially since the Biden budget measures, is at the limits. The US is
becoming a Third World economy. If the Fed no longer buys trillions of
US debt, who will? China? Japan? Not likely.
On Friday of last week, the
Juneteenth holiday, a leak-focused activist group known as Distributed
Denial of Secrets published a 269-gigabyte collection of police data
that includes emails, audio, video, and intelligence documents, with
more than a million files in total. DDOSecrets founder Emma Best tells
WIRED that the hacked files came from Anonymous—or at least a source
self-representing as part of that group, given that under Anonymous'
loose, leaderless structure anyone can declare themselves a member. Over
the weekend, supporters of DDOSecrets, Anonymous, and protesters
worldwide began digging through the files to pull out frank internal
memos about police efforts to track the activities of protesters. The
documents also reveal how law enforcement has described groups like the
antifascist movement Antifa.
"It's the largest published hack of
American law enforcement agencies," Emma Best, cofounder of DDOSecrets,
wrote in a series of text messages. "It provides the closest inside look
at the state, local, and federal agencies tasked with protecting the
public, including [the] government response to COVID and the BLM
protests."
The Hack
The
massive internal data trove that DDOSecrets published was originally
taken from a web development firm called Netsential, according to a law
enforcement memo obtained by Kreb On Security.
That memo, issued by the National Fusion Center Association, says that
much of the data belonged to law enforcement "fusion centers" across the
US that act as information-sharing hubs for federal, state, and local
agencies. Netsential did not immediately respond to a request for
comment.
Best declined to comment on whether the information was
taken from Netsential, but noted that "some Twitter users accurately
pointed out that a lot of the data corresponded to Netsential systems."
As for their source, Best would say only that the person
self-represented as "capital A Anonymous," but added cryptically that
"people may wind up seeing a familiar name down the line."
DDOSecrets
has published the files in a searchable format on its website, and
supporters quickly created the #blueleaks hashtag to collect their
findings from the hacked files on social media. Some of the initial
discoveries among the documents showed, for instance, that the FBI
monitored the social accounts of protesters and sent alerts to local law
enforcement about anti-police messages. Other documents detail the FBI
tracking bitcoin donations to protest groups, and internal memos warning
that white supremacist groups have posed as Antifa to incite violence.
ibankcoin | Crypto currency Bitconnect (BCC) plunged from $321 to a tad over $35
today, a drop of more than 86% after regulators from state authorities
issued cease and desist letters for unauthorized sale of securities.
That’s right. Just because your shit is on the blockchain, that doesn’t
mean you get to solicit your fucking Ponzi scheme to people in America.
State regulators will have something to say about that.
Via the company’s website, as per the reasons for shutting down.
The reason for halt of lending and exchange platform has many reasons as follow:
The continuous bad press has made community members uneasy and created a lack of confidence in the platform.
We have received two Cease and Desist letters, one from the Texas State
Securities Board, and one from the North Carolina Secretary of State
Securities Division. These actions have become a hindrance for the legal
continuation of the platform.
Outside forces have performed DDos attacks on platform several times
and have made it clear that these will continue. These interruptions in
service have made the platform unstable and have created more panic
inside the community.
Price action.
What did Bitconnect do? They quite literally ran a Ponzi scheme. Look
at one of their brochures, promising investors 40% returns, PER MONTH.
Via Tech Crunch:
Many in the cryptocurrency community have openly accused
Bitconnnect of running a Ponzi scheme, including Ethereum founder
Vitalik Buterin.
The platform was powered by a token called BCC (not to be confused
with BCH, or Bitcoin Cash), which is essentially useless now that the
trading platform has shut down. In the last The token has plummeted more
than 80% to about $37, down from over $200 just a few hours ago.
If you aren’t familiar with the platform, Bitconnect was an
anonymously-run site where users could loan their cryptocurrency to the
company in exchange for outsized returns depending on how long the loan
was for. For example, a $10,000 loan for 180 days would purportedly give
you ~40% returns each month, with a .20% daily bonus.
Bitconnect also had a thriving multi-level referral feature, which
also made it somewhat akin to a pyramid scheme with thousands of social
media users trying to drive signups using their referral code.
The platform said it generated returns for users using Bitconnnect’s
trading bot and “volatility trading software”, which usually averaged
around 1% per day.
Of course profiting from market fluctuations and volatility is a
legitimate trading strategy, and one used by many hedge funds and
institutional traders. But Bitconnect’s promise (and payment) of
outsized and guaranteed returns led many to believe it was a ponzi
scheme that was paying out existing loan interest with newly pledged
loans.
The requirement of having BCC to participate in the lending program
led to a natural spike in demand (and price) of BCC. In less than a year
the currency went from being worth less than a dollar (with a market
cap in the millions) to a all-time high of ~$430.00 with a market cap
above $2.6B.
Lenders into the Bitconnect Exchange have revealed the company is
closing out accounts, issuing BCC in exchange for their dollars — which
is causing the price to plummet.
Bitconnect is officially closing up. They sent me
33 BCC for my $11k+ in loans. Worth $6600 and dropping by the second.
Their exchange is down so the only option is to send the BCC to an
external exchange.
twitlonger | The founder of Freedom Hosting has been arrested in Ireland and is awaiting extradition to USA.
In a crackdown that FBI claims to be about hunting down pedophiles, half
of the onion sites in the TOR network has been compromised, including
the e-mail counterpart of TOR deep web, TORmail.
This is undoubtedly a big blow to the TOR community, Crypto Anarchists,
and more generally, to Internet anonymity. All of this happening during
DEFCON.
If you happen to use and account name and or password combinations that you have re used in the TOR deep web, change them NOW.
Eric Eoin Marques who was arrested runs a company called Host Ultra Limited.
"Down for Maintenance
Sorry, This server is currently offline for maintenance. Please try again in a few hours."
If you saw this while browsing Tor you went to an onion hosted by
Freedom Hosting. The javascript exploit was injected into your browser
if you had javascript enabled. Fist tap Arnach.
Logical outcomes from this?
1. FBI/NSA just shut down the #1 biggest hosting site and #1 most wanted person on Tor
2. Silkroad is next on their list, being the #2 most wanted (#1 was Child Porn, #2 is drugs)
3. Bitcoin and all crypto currenecies set to absolutely CRASH as a
result since the feds can not completely control this currency as they
please.
I don't always call the Feds agenda transparent, but when i do, I say they can be trying harder.
globeandmail | The Ontario government
says it has successfully petitioned a court to freeze access to millions
of dollars donated through online fundraising platform GiveSendGo to
the convoy protesting COVID-19 restrictions in Ottawa and at several border crossings.
The
province obtained an order from the Superior Court of Justice that
prohibits anyone from distributing donations made through the website’s
“Freedom Convoy 2022″ and “Adopt-a-Trucker” campaign pages, said a
spokeswoman for Premier Doug Ford.
Ivana
Yelich said the order binding “any and all parties with possession or
control over these donations” was issued Thursday afternoon. She cited a
section of the Criminal Code that allows the attorney general to apply
for a restraint order against any “offence-related property.”
Donors
initially raised more than $10-million through GoFundMe, which
announced last Friday it was pulling the plug on the campaign and that
the money would be refunded. The site said it initially believed the
demonstration was going to be peaceful, but withdrew its support after
police and local leaders raised concerns it had become an “occupation.”
Convoy
organizers quickly set up new campaigns on Christian fundraising site
GiveSendGo. As of Thursday, “Freedom Convoy 2022″ had raised
$US8.4-million and “Adopt-a-Trucker” had amassed more than $686,000.
GiveSendGo posted a statement on Twitter Thursday night about its “Freedom Convoy” campaign.
“Know this! Canada has absolutely ZERO jurisdiction over how we manage our funds here at GiveSendGo,” it said.
“All
funds for EVERY campaign on GiveSendGo flow directly to the recipients
of those campaigns, not least of which is The Freedom Convoy campaign.”
Organizers
have also touted the cryptocurrency Bitcoin as another way to generate
funds for protesters and avoid other potential fundraising shutdowns,
including during a news conference that was livestreamed to supporters
on Wednesday.
Ontario’s
move to freeze access to the donations comes the same day as an
all-party House of Commons committee of MPs heard testimony from deputy
directors of Canada’s financial intelligence hub about how it doesn’t
cover crowdfunding sites like GoFundMe.
A Foundation of Joy
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Two years and I've lost count of how many times my eye has been operated
on, either beating the fuck out of the tumor, or reattaching that slippery
eel ...
April Three
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4/3
43
When 1 = A and 26 = Z
March = 43
What day?
4 to the power of 3 is 64
64th day is March 5
My birthday
March also has 5 letters.
4 x 3 = 12
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Return of the Magi
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Lately, the Holy Spirit is in the air. Emotional energy is swirling out of
the earth.I can feel it bubbling up, effervescing and evaporating around
us, s...
New Travels
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Haven’t published on the Blog in quite a while. I at least part have been
immersed in the area of writing books. My focus is on Science Fiction an
Historic...
Covid-19 Preys Upon The Elderly And The Obese
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sciencemag | This spring, after days of flulike symptoms and fever, a man
arrived at the emergency room at the University of Vermont Medical Center.
He ...
