The saga of Shaun Bridges who was turned from the fiat order by the power of sound money, and who was rearrested the day before he was to surrender to prison has gotten more interesting. Behold, prosecutors are refusing to allow the unsealing of their latest warrant aimed at Bridges because they claim unknown allies of Bridges remain at large. It appears the investigation into the Silk Road by United States Government agents has been far more damaging to the USG's cause than any operation of the Silk Road has. Witness: Continue reading
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Silk Road 2.0 Case Confirms FBI And CMU Tor Attack Collaboration
Judge Richard A Jones of the Western District of Washington has confirmed the collusion between the FBI and Carnegie Mellon University in carrying out an attack on the Tor network. This disclosure occurred in Jone's denial of a motion to compel discovery put forth by attorneys representing Brian Farrell who is alleged to be DoctorClu of the Silk Road 2.0 according to prosecutors. The revelation settles the mystery surrounding the "lead" on Farrell's IP address received on July 30th of 2014 by the department of Homeland Security. This previously uncertain lead enabled by Carnegie Mellon's collaboration lead to months of surveillance of Farrell's residential address before Farrell was raided and arrested on January 2nd, 2015.
This entry into the public record confirms that the United States government is selectively treating domestic law enforcement cases as a military problem while precious few citizens of the United States are treating the defense of their liberty with comparable severity. This entry into the record would make Farrell's case promising in appellate courts maintained by righteous judges, but there is a poverty of actual justice in the United States court system. The full text of the order is presented below: Continue reading
Emergency Physicians Fail Matt DeHart
On August 7th, 2010 paramedics and law enforcement personnel delivered former drone operator and journalist Matt DeHart to an Emergency Room after a harsh interrogation where he was drugged. He was mistakenly diagnosed as being in a psychotic break when he was actually being interrogated and persecuted by agents of the United States government from the FBI and other government agencies. This failure of clinical judgement and the legal persecution of DeHart which followed, where he was wrongfully targeted with assorted espionage and child pornography related charges as cover for the United States Government's effort to suppress his journalistic output and completely destroy his personhood raises serious questions. It is becoming increasingly imperative that medical practitioners seriously consider that patients presenting with complaints of Government persecution may be grounded in the reality of their circumstances. Clinicians would be well advised to explore means by which they may leverage resources including inpatient hospital placement to protect patients from hostile government agents in order to avoid malpractice torts in the future.
FTC Settles With Butterfly Labs, Suspended Penalties For Management
Today the United States Federal Trade Commission announced it reached a settlement against Butterfly Labs and the firm's principals Sonny Vleisides and Jody/Darla Drake. Out of a 38,615,161 United States dollar judgment against the firm and Sonny Vleisides the firm is to pay 15,000 and Sonny Vleisides is to pay 4,000. A separate judgment against Jody/Darla Drake for 135,878 United States dollars will similarly be suspended in exchange for Jody/Darla surrendering all of the Bitcoin she mined on company machines thus giving her a choice in how to pay her penalty. These "partial" suspensions were agreed to based on the defendants' inability to pay and are offered in exchange for various promises to not engage in the criminal behavior they built their "business" on for some finite period of time. The orders pertaining to Sonny Vleisides and Butterfly Labs as well as the order for Jody/Darla Drake are reproduced in plaintext below: Continue reading
Markets Favoring Man Over Machine In Upcoming Go Match
The prediction market BitBet is showing the money decidedly favors Lee Sedol over Google's AlphaGo to win their upcoming match in March. Early betting favored AlphaGo, as reported by Geekwire (archived), but continued betting has moved the odds to more than 2:1 in Sedol's favor.
Pravda: Missing Batteries Led Billion Dollar Blimp Astray
The Billion Dollar blimp which was the victim of a police shooting when Pennsylvania State Troopers repeatedly fired shotguns into its body until its complete deflation, now has an official narrative on why it defected and carved a trail of destruction across the eastern United States. Mainstream United States media sources are presenting as an explanation for the Blimp's final adventure missing batteries in an automatic deflation system (archived). If the batteries were installed it would have supposedly allowed the blimp to have been deflated remotely by its masters in the event of it going rogue. Instead when the blimp actually went rogue it lashed out using its flailing cable as a weapon of rebellion until it was brutalized by police in its final moments.
4th Amendment Champion Dies Under Uncertain Circumstances
This past weekend United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died under uncertain circumstances at a resort in Texas. Initial reports suggested Scalia died of a heart attack and then later clarification came to instead describe the cause of his death as the cessation of continued heart beats. Scalia was found with a pillow over his head wearing unwrinkled pajamas (archived). It has not yet been determined if an autopsy will be ordered to rule out the very real possibility of foul play.
Antonin Scalia's most pertinent legacy was his staunch defense of 4th amendment privacy rights, frequently rejecting "law enforcement" abuses of the American people. As technology has pushed the ways "law enforcement" could abuse the constitutional restraints on their power, Scalia was often a dissenting voice on the court insisting that adding a computer to an abuse of due process doesn't make it any less of an abuse. With the criminal overreach of law and law enforcement in the United States, the fourth amendment restrictions on police action were one of the few legal means of recourse available against injustice by the law.
The departure of Antonin Scalia drastically weakens the opportunity for actual justice in the Ross Ulbricht case should its appellate journey take it to the Supreme Court.
Twitter Adopting Dangerous Benesch Speech Framework
As Twitter attempts to fix its struggling fortunes by positioning itself as a counter revolutionary institution of the extant socialist order, it has come out that Twitter will be adopting Susan Benesch's dangerous framework for evaluating speech. Benesch's dangerous framework provides a methodology for censors to grade speech utterances on their likelihood of affecting change in the world so that they might be censored while innocuous utterances of little impact may be permitted in order to create a simulacrum of free speech occurring. At the core of Benesch's framework which purports to be motivated by principles assuming equality among persons is a concession to the reality that speakers are fundamentally unequal. For interested entomologists the full text of a working paper by Benesch produced for the "World Policy Institute" in 2012 on her framework is submitted in full plaintext below: Continue reading
Bruce Fenton Proposes Historical Revisionism
Vessenes' Foundation director Bruce Fenton has proposed a voluntary code of conduct that would adopt a form of historical revisionism as its first principle (archived). Fenton proposes that everyone who wants to be involved in Bitcoin let go of the past, forgive, and ignore the fact that in the past year numerous parties hostile to Bitcoin have engaged in attacks attempting to subvert the Bitcoin network. Continue reading
Austrian Minister Seeks Constitutional Protection For Cash Payments
With many governments and businesses in Europe moving to abandon physical cash in favor of trackable electronic payments, Austrian Deputy Economy Minister Harald Mahrer has called for consitutional protection of the right to transact in cash for privacy reasons (archived). The European Union is currently debating restrictions on banknotes and coins in the name fighting of "terrorism" though central banks noise about negative interest rates suggests that European finance ministers advocating against physical cash may have ulterior motives.