January 2019 - cypherpunks@lists.ogf.org

Money: Russkies => - $101B USD + $44B EUR + $44B CNY = RU buys 1/4 of world's Yuan reserves - [WOW!!]
by Zenaan Harkness 12 Jan '19

12 Jan '19

Russia down to "relatively, pocket change" in their USD holdings, stonking it up in gold and 'rebalancing' their foreign currency holdings with fiats other than USD. In non-Soviet Russia, money impress you! ** Russia Buys Quarter of World Yuan Reserves in Shift From Dollar https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-09/russia-boosted-yuan-euro… Russian Central Bank buying Gold on the International market? https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/ronan-manly/russian-central-bank-buying-g… Central banks around the world are increasing their gold reserves at an incredible pace. https://sputniknews.com/business/201811031069477784-russia-turkey-china-gol… Gold reserves by country as of August 2018 (in metric tons) (requires JS) https://www.statista.com/statistics/267998/countries-with-the-largest-gold-… A change is gonna come folks. Whenua Patuai, original XFactor NZ audition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl6qLuGnVJw ("This video is unavailable" gone for good? can upload, but it's an upload/ ban war - we really need some new darknet 'tube share torrent thingy...) Different version, which I failed to dl before ban/block: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVnuUi_USqU ("blocked", at least in Australia - need that darknet thingy again)

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[ANARCHY] Town posts armed guards to stop contraband entry
by Zenaan Harkness 12 Jan '19

12 Jan '19

A Mexican Town Overthrew Their Local Government And Things Are Going Great https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-02/mexican-town-overthrew-their-loca… The town of Cherán, Mexico was once plagued… Cherán is now run by autonomous groups of armed individuals… members of an autonomous militia — guard every entrance to the town, looking for strangers with contraband… “Contraband” would be considered political propaganda posters of those who claim the right to rule other human beings. …Cherán has achieved something unthinkable in Michoacán: a dramatic drop in murder rates, with rates for other serious crimes hovering at nearly zero. For those in Mexico, especially in an election year marred by wanton political murders, Cherán stands as proof that, in the country’s entrenched cycle of violence, the key ingredient to that violence is the state. In other news: Nevada Traffic Deaths Plunge 10% Following Marijuana Legalization https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-02/nevada-traffic-deaths-plunge-10-f…

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Re: Where is Coderman's keys?
by coderman 12 Jan '19

12 Jan '19

... > Use GPG and sign your messages :P le sigh; years ago i protested encrypted email on usability grounds, fail catastrophic grounds. today usability still abysmal; despite keybase.io, despite fancy cipher suites. i do like other less meta-data leaky and fragile end to end encrypted comms, however. :) > I tied my GPG key into <keyserver> which gives you some options of tying your key to various other services, e.g. a <list of horrible authentication authorities here...> > > But, really, just having a posting history with a certain key seems to me the easiest & most reliable way of establishing legitimacy. let me save you the trouble: i am most illegitimate! :O best regards,

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Re: IBM unveils its first commercial quantum computer
by Punk 12 Jan '19

12 Jan '19

On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 15:29:52 -0500 John Newman <jnn(a)synfin.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 12:26:53AM -0300, Punk wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 00:26:36 +0000 (UTC) > > jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > TechCrunch: IBM unveils its first commercial quantum computer. > > > https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/08/ibm-unveils-its-first-commercial-quantum-… > > > > > > > is it a scam like the dwave machines? > > > Almost certainly - but it looks cooler :) Hehe =P Here's some related and entertaining info "Nuclear qubits were appealing for several reasons. First, you can make a perfectly fine qubit out of any nuclear isotope that has a spin-as many do. Second, says Gershenfeld, “this is the most coherent system in the universe.” Every nucleus is protected from outside disturbances by its dense cloud of electrons. That means that once you get its spin lined up, it will stay that way for hours or days-an eon in computer time. Third, nuclear qubits are incredibly easy to assemble. “Instead of trying to nanofabricate nanostructures,” says Gershenfeld, “we can just use the ones nature gave us: molecules.”" "Finally, says Gershenfeld, the technology for manipulating these nuclear spins is already very mature. It’s called nuclear magnetic resonance" Ohh! It looks like 'quantum commputing' is finally sorted out! ... https://www.technologyreview.com/s/400732/quantum-computing/ ...except, that article is 20 years old. But I guess that after billions of dollars in subsidies some technician may eventually get one of these things to work. At which point quantum computing would be used to further increase the power of the political-technocratic oligarchy that rules the world.

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Re: Where is Coderman?
by grarpamp 12 Jan '19

12 Jan '19

On 1/12/19, grarpamp <grarpamp(a)gmail.com> wrote: > "cpunks(a)cpunks.org" Delete that, meant this one... "cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org"

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Political Correctness is communist propaganda writ small.
by Zenaan Harkness 11 Jan '19

11 Jan '19

** Political Correctness Is Much More Harmful Than People Realize Amalric de Droevig https://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413… ------------------------------------------------------------ by Amalric de Droevig[field_author_has_account_] (393 views) on Fri, Jan 11, 2019 A recent poll found that Political Correctness is extremely unpopular in America, even amongst moderates and independents, which got me thinking on the subject. There exists an old quote from a famed British psychiatrist by the name of Anthony Daniels regarding Political Correctness. It is the best quote I know of on the subject, and I have been mulling it over for some time, considering its meaning and its implications. The quote reads: Political Correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine Political Correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to. In this way, Political Correctness can be seen not only as a form of narrative control and truth suppression, but as a type of relentless bullying. Speech codes and persistent propaganda no one is even allowed to object to (like diversity worship or the fictions we constantly hear about human equality), reinforce society’s sense of powerlessness. If you can get people to assent to obvious lies, or better yet to repeat them, or better still to absorb them, which is to say to lie to themselves, there is virtually nothing you can’t make them do. You have broken the seal, as drinkers say. It is as if you have forced a man to murder an innocent, or to rape his own sister. You have destroyed a bit of his soul, you have forced him to surrender, to submit, to choose pragmatism over rectitude, to abandon his reason for the sake of social or professional survival. Once a man has lost his sense of shame, of pride, of agency, of integrity, once he must abandon his own conscience and put on a performance for all the world to see just so that he’ll be socially accepted, he’s a sheep being led to slaughter at that point. He has been subjugated completely. His heart is a gaping wound. He has been warped and debased to his core, to his essence. We must see Political Correctness then as a very intense form of psychological and spiritual warfare. The goal of it is not just to censor ideas and words and keep people in the dark. The ultimate goal is to destroy the subject’s sense of right, and the subject’s sense of shame, and most importantly, the subject’s will to resist, to live a life of authenticity, of honor, of virtue. Once these dams are broken, vice flows effortlessly downhill for the individual, and for societies living in the shadow of these dams, known colloquially as principle, conscience, probity, integrity, honor and civic virtue--- the things that uphold human civilization. If people aren’t even willing to stand up and rebuff the most glaring of falsehoods, what will they stand up to? They will go along with most anything at that point. People conditioned to wear a mask every day of their lives, to present to the world a perfectly false self, to celebrate things no decent or sensible person could or would celebrate, have already assented to the intolerable. When the most unthinkable atrocities arrive, they will be more than ready to tolerate them. They have had ample practice tolerating the unthinkable already. They have already assented many times to denying the reality right before their very eyes, and to countenancing what they know in their hearts to be pure evil. If we understand Political Correctness this way, we must understand Political Correctness to not only be an assault on the truth, which it is of course, but as the main front of a war on human liberty itself, on free minds, on free peoples, on free nations. Political Correctness paves the way for the army of horribles behind it, by turning madness into gospel, meekness into fashion, and surrender into habit. Vanquished, demoralized peoples do not fight back, they do not rise up and deliver themselves from Marxist tyranny. They applaud rather than cringe (as all people of sound mind would do) when their overlords trot out, on national television, an 11 year old drag queen dressed up in the attire of a street hooker. They do nothing when told that 9 year old boys are perfectly capable of deciding to start physically transitioning into girls via powerful, permanently mind-altering and body-altering pharmaceuticals. They play along when Cultural Marxist oligarchs and media personalities tell us that flooding the country with criminals and imbeciles from the third world will lead to moral and social progress. They remain silent when they are told that East Asians and whites are the real racists for not wanting to be systematically racially discriminated against in hiring and university admissions countrywide. Because who would assent to absurdity is half-way to atrocity already. He has sacrificed a piece of his soul for security, but will not receive it. The universe never has and never will reward such a bargain.

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TechCrunch: IBM unveils its first commercial quantum computer
by jim bell 10 Jan '19

10 Jan '19

TechCrunch: IBM unveils its first commercial quantum computer. https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/08/ibm-unveils-its-first-commercial-quantum-…

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The Verge: IBM’s new quantum computer is a symbol, not a breakthrough
by jim bell 08 Jan '19

08 Jan '19

The Verge: IBM’s new quantum computer is a symbol, not a breakthrough. https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/8/18171732/ibm-quantum-computer-20-qubit-q-…

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Spy porn - From Russia with Love - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 08 Jan '19

08 Jan '19

** Russia's Top Spy Gives Rare Tour of HQ, Lethal Training, Putin's Dorm Room - Like a Bond Film https://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413… ------------------------------------------------------------ by Michael Quinn[field_author_has_account_] (807 views) on Wed, Dec 19, 2018 A very exciting tour of Russian spy headquarters outside of Moscow, a location so secretive you can’t even find the address on a map. 'tube direct: youtube-dl sNORaBxtTQo ~35MiB https://www.google.com/search?q=sexy+russian+spy Frozen Alina - Sexy Russian spy swap: https://thefranklakereport.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/anna-fermanova-another-…

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How Feminism, aka worthless feminazi scum is funded
by Punk 08 Jan '19

08 Jan '19

feminazi scum (aka feminists) got a 200 millions loan from the americunt government. Notice how feminist scum in a banana republic is 'financed' by the supreme scum of the planet, the americunt government. Though of course, the loan will be repaid with money stolen from argie taxpayers. So americunt scum will actually get back their 'capital' PLUS usury. https://www.iadb.org/es/noticias/el-bid-acompana-medidas-para-impulsar-la-i…

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