February 2022 - cypherpunks@lists.ogf.org

#FreeMartyG: Exposing America's Secret Prisons
by coderman 02 Feb '22

02 Feb '22

(ED note: never thought i'd share a Malkin story, but hey, strange bedfellows... :) https://www.creators.com/read/michelle-malkin #FreeMartyG: Exposing America's Secret Prisons By [Michelle Malkin](https://www.creators.com/author/michelle-malkin) [January 25, 2022](https://www.creators.com/read/michelle-malkin#) 6 min read Marty Gottesfeld, 37, is an American political prisoner. There's just no other way to describe the self-taught, nonviolent techie/medical freedom activist now locked away in solitary confinement at a secret federal detention facility in Marion, Illinois — after being transferred this month from a different secret center in Terre Haute, Indiana. Both are known as "communications management units" (CMUs) in prison industrial complex bureaucrat-ese. Or you could just call them un-American penitentiary black holes. Twice — last June and this week — I've asked the federal Bureau of Prisons to explain why Marty is being held in solitary confinement, how long he has been squirreled away and on what grounds he was transferred. "For privacy, safety, and security reasons," I was told, "the BOP does not discuss any individual inmate's conditions of confinement to include housing quarters or reasons for transfer." This past Sunday marked four full months that Marty has been in solitary and blocked from communicating with loved ones or the media. I first learned of Marty's plight — and his heroism — five years ago from his loyal and vigilant wife, Dana, whose words in defense of the dissident action he took that earned him a 10-year federal sentence have never left me: "It was the right thing to do." A quick recap for those who have never heard of, or have forgotten, the "Free Marty G" nightmare. In 2013, a young girl named Justina Pelletier was ripped from her parents' custody by Boston Children's Hospital. The teen, who has mitochondrial disease and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, had gone to BCH after coming down with a severe case of the flu. Instead of receiving top-notch care and attention at BCH, however, Justina was medically kidnapped and recklessly re-diagnosed with a psychological condition, "somatoform disorder." Justina was dragged from BCH's neurology department to its infamous psych ward, where she was reprimanded for being unable to move her bowels or walk unassisted in her weakened state. At the Wayside Youth and Family Support Network residential treatment center where she was confined, she and her family recounted to me in my 2018 documentary on the case, she was harassed by a staffer while taking a shower. The physical and mental torture lasted 16 months. Enter Marty G. In April 2014, he helped lead a social media army that implemented distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Boston Children's Hospital and the nearby Wayside Youth and Family Support Network residential treatment. Marty had organized a social media army to knock the computer networks of both institutions offline to protest Pelletier's medical kidnapping. Hackers from the loose-knit collective, Anonymous, allegedly participated in the campaign. Marty was charged and convicted of cybercrimes and sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. He had already spent more than a year behind bars without bail at the time of his sentencing (including about 80 days in solitary confinement and a stint in the same detention center as Mexico's notorious drug cartel kingpin "El Chapo"). He has no regrets about stepping up in Pelletier's defense and continued his whistle-blowing investigative journalism after his imprisonment with Dana's help — until the feds tried to shut him up and shut him down after reporting on the plight of other CMU inmates. The last time Dana spoke to Marty was last September. The last time she was able to see him in person was at his sentencing three years ago — yes, years — this month. Last summer, BOP officials had recommended that Marty be removed from the Terre Haute CMU. Instead, he was hauled from one American Gitmo to another. "We were devastated to find out that the placement of Marty in the CMU will continue," Dana told me this week. "There was never any good — or even comprehensible — reason to place him in that ultra-restrictive unit that was created in the 9/11 era. The BOP's decision to continue placing Marty in the CMU shows that the pattern of harassment and retaliation that Marty faced when he began speaking publicly about conditions in BOP facilities continues." Dana added that "less than two-tenths of 1% of federal inmates are held in the CMUs. Many of them are members of radical Islamist terror organizations. The BOP has never given a reasonable explanation for why it has chosen to hold Marty, a nonviolent person never previously convicted of a crime, in these specialized prison units. I believe the BOP is continuing to retaliate against Marty for his decision to speak publicly about conditions in BOP facilities, ranging from damp and freezing cells, nonpotable water, to misconduct by a BOP unit manager." The Justice Department's inspector general passed the buck on Marty's case to the BOP Office of Internal Affairs. Marty's complaint has fallen into yet another black hole. If you're outraged that this is happening in America and want to help, visit https://www.freemartyg.com/ for more information. Fighting human rights abuses starts here at home, inside our borders, for our fellow citizens.

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Duh!!!!
by jim bell 02 Feb '22

02 Feb '22

"Mark Zuckerberg warns against taking screenshots of Facebook Messenger chats" : To read it on the web, tap here: https://share.smartnews.com/uAGPe Jim Bell's comment: As if nobody is smart enough to take a photo of his screen with a smartphone...

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Marxist biowarfare and neo-Nazi lies create a pincer-attack on democracy
by professor rat 02 Feb '22

02 Feb '22

And a pincer attack on public health https://groups.io/g/marxmail/topic/death_by_disinformation/88852859?p=,,,20…

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[ot][spam][random][crazy][personal] about considering relating with police again
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 02 Feb '22

02 Feb '22

some people in law enforcement are very helpful. e.g. human trafficking rescuers generally have contacts in law enforcement. i hear (and have experienced) that it can also be very dangerous to work with law enforcement. here is quote from notes thought slightly on: re support workers ignoring concern for example, amazon was hiding products from us we took a screenshot, but screenshot would not reach support worker when problem described they said could not help but could "leave window open for somebody else to find". stuff like that is all around us but we get terrified and amnesiatic. very hard to collect. have also experienced ssl certificates that have changed, and websites that look different from different machines.

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Man high on Ivermectin cuts off own penis
by professor rat 02 Feb '22

02 Feb '22

Sorry - Man high on cannabis cuts off own penis A man suffering a cannabis-fuelled psychotic episode ‘completely amputated’ his own penis with a pair of scissors, doctors say. Nothing to do with Cluckin' Bell

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Re: Video: Funding Offshore Litigation Message
by Gunnar Larson 02 Feb '22

02 Feb '22

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FBI urging Olympic athletes to keep personal phones at home
by jim bell 02 Feb '22

02 Feb '22

"FBI urging Olympic athletes to keep personal phones at home" https://share.smartnews.com/BxMFS https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-60034013 The Beijing Winter Olympics app that all Games attendees must use contains security weaknesses that leave users exposed to data breaches, analysts say. The My2022 app will be used by athletes, audience members and media for daily Covid monitoring. The app will also offer voice chats, file transfers and Olympic news. But cybersecurity group Citizen Lab says the app fails to provide encryption on many of its files. China has dismissed the concerns. Questions about the app come amid a rise in warnings about visitors' tech security ahead of the Games, which begin on 4 February. People attending the Beijing Olympics should bring burner phones and create email accounts for their time in China, cyber security firm Internet 2.0 said on Tuesday. Several countries have also reportedly told athletes to leave their main devices at home. Censorship concerns The Citizen Lab report said it had found a "censorship keywords" list built into the app, and a feature that allows people to flag other "politically sensitive" expressions. The list of words included the names of Chinese leaders and government agencies, as well as references to the 1989 killing of pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square, and the religious group Falun Gong, which is banned in China. The analysts noted that these features and security flaws are not uncommon for apps in China but posed a risk to users nonetheless. Analysts said the "illegal words" file appeared currently to be inactive, but it was unclear. All visitors to the Games are required to download the app 14 days prior to their departure for China, and use it to record daily their Covid status.

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Fedbook ordered to pay 5 billion fine for privacy violations
by professor rat 02 Feb '22

02 Feb '22

Facebook was ordered to pay a mind-boggling $5-billion fine by the United States Federal Trade Commission for improperly acquiring private data of up to 87 million of its users. https://cointelegraph.com/news/blockchain-based-decentralized-messengers-a-… Why is Mark Zuckface still breathing? https://stiffs.com/celebrity/markzuckerberg

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Stochastic terror is surprisingly reliable
by professor rat 02 Feb '22

02 Feb '22

Its like a shocking sex-crime that keeps crap-media in business year-after-year. At this point Donald Dumbfuck’s speeches increasingly resemble the videos that Osama Bin Laden would periodically release after 9/11, in which he kept vowing to carry out bigger and bigger attacks, even as it became more obvious that he couldn’t pull off any such thing. 9/11 was Bin Laden’s one big shot. It cost him his home base, his ability to freely communicate, and so on. January 6th was Trump’s one big shot, and it cost him in roughly the same way. But both these criminals could still inspire ' Lone Wolf " terror attacks. So called stochastic terrorism.

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Large, peer-reviewed research study proves ivermectin works
by jim bell 02 Feb '22

02 Feb '22

February 8, 2020, I informed the Cypherpunks list about chloroquine. Later, 4/3/2020, I mentioned ivermectin. Within another month, I mentioned Famotidine. (Pepcid). The following is further confirmation of Ivermectin's effectiveness. https://flccc.substack.com/p/large-peer-reviewed-research-study In those early COVID-19 times, nobody knew when, or if, there would be any any effective vaccine. Later, insanely bigoted pro-vaccine people began acting as if being 'pro-drug' automatically meant you were 'anti-vax'. I've always been open to the concept of using old drugs, whose safety had already been proven in other applications. In fact, that's the big advantage of such drugs: their safety is already well-known. Viruses can't read the label on the bottle that contain these drugs. So, they don't know that Ivermectin is supposed to be an 'anti-parasitic', nor that famotidine is supposed to an 'antacid'. They don't know that Fluvoxamine is supposed to be a an SSRI (https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-fluvoxamine-the-covid-miracle-drug-we-have-…) And they also don't know that diphenhydramine (an antihistamine) and lactoferrin were thought to be entirely unrelated to viruses. https://m.ufhealth.org/news/2021/two-common-compounds-show-effectiveness-ag… Jim Bell

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