May 2022 - cypherpunks@lists.ogf.org

Turks have a proverb for genocide: Old friends don't become enemies
by professor rat 03 May '22

03 May '22

Hitler and the Armenian Genocide https://genocideeducation.org › background › hitler-an... “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians? MORE TALK OF INFERIOR RACES Marx, "British Politics" (April 7, 1853), Collected Works, Vol. 112, p.7: " . . .The real point at issue always is, Turkey in Europe--the great peninsula to the south of the Save and Danube. This splendid territory has the misfortune to be inhabited by a conglomerate of different races and nationalities, of which it is hard to say which is the least fit for progress and civilization... "

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No one here quotes Das Kapital type crap like Nazi-Punk
by professor rat 03 May '22

03 May '22

Karl Marx, Capital, Volume One, Part II: The Transformation of Money and Capital CHAPTER FOUR: THE GENERAL FORMULA FOR CAPITAL: "The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews . . . " And so as James A. Donald rots down Nazi-Punk lurches up.

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How are Police Using Drones?
by Revevilgod God 03 May '22

03 May '22

How are Police Using Drones? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/01/how-are-police-using-drones Across the country, police departments are using myriad means and resources at their disposal to stock up on drones. According to the most recent tally on the Atlas of Surveillance (a project of EFF and the University of Nevada), at least 1,172 police departments nationwide are using drones. And over time, we can expect more law enforcement agencies to deploy them. A flood of COVID relief money, civil asset forfeiture money, federal grants, or military surplus transfers enable more departments to acquire these flying spies. But how are police departments using them? A new law in Minnesota mandates the yearly release of information related to police use of drones, and gives us a partial window into how law enforcement use them on a daily basis. The 2021 report released by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension documents use of drones in the state during the year 2020. According to the report, 93 law enforcement agencies from across the state deployed drones 1,171 times in 2020—with an accumulative price tag of almost $1 million. The report shows that the vast majority of the drone deployments are not used for the public safety disasters that so many departments use to justify drone use. Rather, almost half (506) were just for the purpose of “training officers.” Other uses included information collection based on reasonable suspicion of unspecified crimes (185), requests from other government agencies unrelated to law enforcement (41), road crash investigation (39), and preparation for and monitoring of public events (6 and 12, respectively). There were zero deployments to counter the risk of terrorism. Police deployed drones 352 times in the aftermath of an “emergency” and 27 times for “disaster” response. This data isn’t terribly surprising. After all, we’ve spent years seeing police drones being deployed in more and more mundane policing situations and in punitive ways. After the New York City Police Department accused one racial justice activist, Derrick Ingram, of injuring an officer’s ears by speaking too loudly through his megaphone at a protest, police flew drones by his apartment window—a clear act of intimidation. The government also flew surveillance drones over multiple protests against police racism and violence during the summer of 2020. When police fly drones over a crowd of protestors, they chill free speech and political expression through fear of reprisal and retribution from police. Police could easily apply face surveillance technology to footage collected by a surveillance drone that passed over a crowd, creating a preliminary list of everyone that attended that day’s protest. As we argued back in May 2020, drones don’t disappear once the initial justification for purchasing them no longer seems applicable. Police will invent ways to use their invasive toys–which means that drone deployment finds its way into situations where they are not needed, including everyday policing and the surveillance of First Amendment-protected activities. In the case of Minnesota’s drone deployment, police can try to hide behind their use of drones as a glorified training tool, but the potential for their invasive use will always hang over the heads (literally) of state residents.

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Lawyer Monthly Explores Mediation Funding Vehicles
by Gunnar Larson 02 May '22

02 May '22

Check out my new article: https://litigationfinancejournal.com/lawyer-monthly-explores-mediation-fund… Lawyer Monthly Explores Mediation Funding Vehicles Lawyer Monthly recently analyzed the pros and cons associated with litigation funding vs. mediation funding in terms of effectiveness and efficiency. Noting the growing marketplace popularity of litigation finance, Frances Sim (general counsel, Restitution Ltd.) argues that third party funding holds physiological value in financing mediation. When evaluating if a dispute can be settled via alternative means, Mr. Sim claims that third party funders can help facilitate access to justice through funding mediation costs. Lawyer Monthly <https://www.lawyer-monthly.com/2022/04/is-there-another-option-to-fund-medi…> explains that courts in the United Kingdom have encouraged mediation as a worthwhile approach to dispute resolution. Furthermore, successful or unsuccessful mediation can be a primer to court decisions. According to Mr. Sim, third party funders and their clients stand to potentially benefit with imaginative organization of mediation investment agreements. While mediation does not fit every dispute resolution scenario, third party investment in mediation is a handy tool for those seeking access to justice. -- *Gunnar Larson - xNY.io <http://www.xNY.io> | Bank.org <http://Bank.org>* MSc <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&u…> - Digital Currency MBA <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovat…> - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-646-454-9107 New York, New York 10001

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Re: Cypherpunks Mailing List Info
by John Young 02 May '22

02 May '22

There have been quite a few branches of cpunks by those who want a particular version rather than the whole thing. A few have lasted, like the cryptography list,but most peter out after a while. Subscribers come and go, some come back, some stay for the same old shit, adding to the pile, and watch newbies trash and bash the list, try to make it into something they want and usually fail due to nobody wanting to do whatever the meddler wants to do. Commonplace are subscribers who keep their identity private, use pseudos, vary their monikers, provoke and condemn, try to get the host to fix whatever rubs them wrongly. Go away frustrated to try their pukefest elsewhere. Some subscribers die, sign up to be an undercover TLA informer, accuse others of being rat finks, dispense rumors and disinfo and misinfo and hatred and prejudice and condescension and stupidity. Same bullshit happens on all social media, nowhere to find the perfect place to be the king of fuck-ups so only bots can do the cult of magic, for a fee of course. -----Original Message----- From: Greg Newby Sent: May 2, 2022 6:08 PM To: cypherpunks Subject: Re: Cypherpunks Mailing List Info I missed the earlier note yesterday: On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 03:45:49PM -0400, Karl Semich wrote: > On Sun, May 1, 2022, 9:49 PM punk wrote: > > > > > > > https://lists.cpunks.org/mailman/listinfo/cypherpunks > > > > "the list is frequented...by spooks, trolls, and other sources of > > negative influence, surveillance or disruption. Sabotage, COINTELPRO and > > other forms of subversion or attack are often observed." > > > > > > I think that whoever wrote that, Greg? should also publish the > > list of government agents who engage in sabotage, COINTELPRO, etc. I didn't write that, someone else did. I don't know anything about who are the subscribers to the list. It's an open list, so there is no reason for government or whomever to approach me if they want to monitor the list. > > Whoever wrote that obviously knows who these 'actors' are, and > > there's no reason for him to protect them. > > > > > > I'll be waiting, as I think any other honest poster will. > > > > Reminds of before I forgot everything, seeing that quote. > > Things seemed much simpler on only one side. > > Would you like we started a list? Maybe we could start with properties of > behavior, see if any cross-correlate with properties of spy orgs. Maybe > scrape archives for helpful experience logs or something, if they're still > there by the time they're downloaded. Raw data to facilitate analysis of writings by people who have posted to cypherpunks is easy enough - the full archive is freely available, and even the archive from before the list was in its current home. https://lists.cpunks.org Of course, that doesn't help with (a) lurkers, (b) remailers/redistributors, (c) people who don't subscribe, but watch the archives, and (d) any other surveillance to individual or collective list members. ~ Greg > I could use my behavior properties being labeled and timestamped pretty > badly. > > >

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This list is frequented by racist Marxists like John Young
by professor rat 02 May '22

02 May '22

"the list is frequented...by spooks, trolls, and other sources of > > negative influence, surveillance or disruption. Sabotage, COINTELPRO and > > other forms of subversion or attack are often observed." All Marxists are racist Capital, vol. 3, chapter 47: “ The possibility is here presented for definite economic development taking place, depending, of course, upon favourable circumstances, inborn racial characteristics, etc...” Engels: (Marx and Engels, Selected Works, Vol. 3, p. 502.): “We regard economic conditions as the factor which ultimately determines historical development. But race is itself an economic factor ... ”.

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Russian troops stole $5M worth of farm vehicles from a John Deere dealership, which remotely locked the thieves out of the equipment
by jim bell 02 May '22

02 May '22

https://news.yahoo.com/russian-troops-stole-5m-worth-054540072.html "When the invaders drove the stolen harvesters to Chechnya, they realized that they could not even turn them on, because the harvesters were locked remotely," ... - Russian troops stole nearly $5 million worth of farm equipment from a John Deere dealership in Melitopol. - The stolen equipment was located by remote GPS and locked, preventing it from being used. - "When the invaders drove the stolen harvesters to Chechnya, they realized that they could not even turn them on," a source told CNN. Russian troops occupying the Ukrainian city of Melitopol stole nearly $5 million of farm vehicles from a John Deere dealership and shipped some of them more than 700 miles to Chechnya, CNN reported, only to find they had been rendered useless by a remote-locking system that prevented the thieves from turning the equipment on. Two compound harvesters, valued at $300,000 each, as well as 27 other tractors, seeders, and additional pieces of equipment were stolen from the dealership. But the remote access technology of the equipment, which allows for GPS tracking and some of the vehicles to be remotely operated, prevented them from being used. "When the invaders drove the stolen harvesters to Chechnya, they realized that they could not even turn them on, because the harvesters were locked remotely," a source familiar with the incident told CNN.

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Israel demands apology
by professor rat 02 May '22

02 May '22

Israel demands apology after Julian said he wouldn't say publicly that Mein Kampf was written in prison, sorry after Russia says Hitler had Jewish roots. https://www.unz.com/ishamir/the-long-captivity-of-julian-assange/

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Protecting Against Third and Fourth Party Portfolio Risks
by Gunnar Larson 02 May '22

02 May '22

The state of third and fourth party risk(s) are high, according to a new whitepaper. Vinminder has released their “State of Third Party Risk 2022 Whitepaper” describing cutting edge third party and fourth party strategies. As an added bonus, Litigation Finance Journal has collated 40 highlights to the research. According to the whitepaper <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U67qX9RXVwQswxk0vikSAYKtWwFmCPMV/view?usp=…>, managing third party risk is frustrating. When adding on assessment of fourth party risk hinged to third party relationships prudent planning is necessary. This can come in the form of third party loans to bad ESG borrowers <https://litigationfinancejournal.com/directors-who-manipulate-esg/>. Litigation investors seem to agree on the nature of third and fourth party risk, but the jury is out on overall responsibility to such claims. The first party is responsible for these matters according to Vinminder’s whitepaper. See our 40 highlights <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U67qX9RXVwQswxk0vikSAYKtWwFmCPMV/view?usp=…> of the research. -- *Gunnar Larson - xNY.io <http://www.xNY.io> | Bank.org <http://Bank.org>* MSc <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&u…> - Digital Currency MBA <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovat…> - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-646-454-9107 New York, New York 10001

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LAVROLL channels Nazi-Punk
by professor rat 02 May '22

02 May '22

Israel furious at Russian FM’s ‘unforgivable’ claim Hitler ‘had Jewish blood’ The Times of Israel 2 hours ago Israeli foreign minister condemns Russia’s Lavrov for ‘unforgivable’ Holocaust remarks Fox News 6 hours ago https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/05/10/gettyimages-681529300_wide-0242…

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