Re: Did Appelbaum Meet Snowden in Hawaii Before Leak?

[grarpamp]

On 3/1/20, John Young  wrote:
> March 1, 2020
> @ageis Kevin Gallagher
> "According to @laurapoitras Berlin
> Journal from Astro Noise, @ioerror was
> keyed into forthcoming @Snowden leak
> from March 2013 at the latest. Both interviewed "C4" via e-mail. Jake
> travels Hawaii in April 2013, supposedly for 30th birthday. People
> are curious if they met then."
>
> Also, a Crypto Party was conducted in Honolulu by Runa Sandvik and
> Snowden in January 2013.

https://rolfweber.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-speculation-remains-who-helped-ed.html
https://3dblogger.typepad.com/wired_state/2013/07/jacob-appelbaums-data-trail.html
https://3dblogger.typepad.com/wired_state/2013/07/unicorns-and-rainbows-and-edward-snowden.html
https://streetwiseprofessor.com/yeah-he-was-totally-there-to-swim-with-the-manta-rays/
https://3dblogger.typepad.com/wired_state/2013/07/where-is-the-rest-of-edward-snowdens-online-footprint.html
https://twitter.com/entropynil/status/315588840725299200
https://skydancingblog.com/2013/07/09/tuesday-reads-the-snowden-conundrum/
https://twitter.com/ioerror/status/187287163820449792
https://twitter.com/ioerror/status/318143365470359554
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ra2JA7PL2Y Jacob Appelbaum at
Digitale Gesellschaft Jun 25, 2013


Nevermind the digital ether of the internet... the secret hosting
place for meetups since before Oikarinen's IRC.


This book does not appear to have been liberated yet...

Astro Noise: A Survival Guide - for Living Under Total Surveillance

Re: Wikileaks: Julian Assange

[grarpamp]

https://twitter.com/Millenial1706/status/1226116903602511873

#FreeAssange


https://pastebin.com/f2DZhPvp
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@ioerror A timely reminder to freedom fighters everywhere
@ioerror (Jacob Appelbaum) gave this speech on Twitter on August 18th
2012. It is part reminder, part plea and part instruction manual for
freedom fighters everywhere.
=
One of the most inspiring things about Julian is that he knew the
risks & took action for the benefit of all *humanity* #wikileaks
Julian's actions are not based in egoism or megalomania - they are
based on principles of universal justice brought through truth
telling.
Julian's willingness to take a stand in public is dismissed as "not
required" by people who have yet to show anonymity alone could work.
Daniel Ellsberg is not an egotistical guy either - he could have
leaked the Pentagon Papers anonymously & wanted to take a stand for
change
Every person inspired by JA/DE's courage in public leads others to be
inspired to at least take action anonymously, if not publicly.
We must not create idols for worship but we must not denigrate those
who make or take risks merely because we know their name or story.
Nor should we discredit the positive actions of people, merely because
they, like all people, are imperfect, flawed or sometimes wrong.
Nelson Mandela is a great example of a guy who, while imperfect,
brought about great change worthy of praise, while having a healthy
ego/id.
So many great people, working for justice are imperfect and so easily
people forget the smears & attacks they faced in their struggle.
Pick someone working for social justice, against unjust wars, against
oppressive forces of almost any kind - they are attacked mercilessly.
These attacks, even if there is a shred of truth to them, must not be
used to discredit the positive goals & results of such struggles.
Point out that some founding fathers of the US were racists and that
they were right to fight against British tyranny - we must carry it on
Nelson Mandela used tactics that we can improve on, as did the US
revolutionary forces against the UK - #wikileaks has never used
violence
The fact that #wikileaks has managed to make such an impact by
building on the lessons of past struggles is precisely why so many
attack it.
Without a single bullet, #wikileaks has turned elections, exposed
murders, shown massive corruptions - it has uncovered and enabled
action.
#wikileaks would have never have mattered without Julian Assange and
everyone involved, taking these risks knowingly for a better world.
Even if you personally dislike Julian, we must not let him hang.
Humanity benefits from #wikileaks work. He hasn't hung you, he has
helped.
Some say #wikileaks doesn't need him and that he's a risk to
#wikileaks but that is exactly the wrong lesson. We cannot disregard
his needs.
When I spoke at HOPE in Julian's place, I quoted Solzhenitsyn "And
mankind's sole salvation lies in everyone making everything his
business"
Solzhenitsyn (continued): "in the people of the East being vitally
concerned with what is thought in the West,"
Solzhenitsyn (continued): "the people of the West vitally concerned
with what goes on in the East."
This is what #wikileaks and Julian Assange have done - they have made
it possible for us to do exactly as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn hoped.
We now know almost exactly how many people the State has killed by
their own hands - when it refuses to be accountable for war and lies.
We now know the tactics of corruption from Kenya to Iraq. from Libya
and Tunisia - from the West, the East, & the Global South.
Julian's action with #wikileaks was not to end up dead or exiled or
famous - his actions create opportunity for all of us to take action.
When Howard Zinn talked about Democracy, he showed that it is more
than simple voting, it is knowledge, culture, discussions,
accountability
When Julian talks about Democracy, he takes action to enable
knowledge, culture, to foster discussions, to create avenues for
accountability
We must not forget that Julian has taken steps to fight against the
creeping authoritarianism that come from any exploitable govt
structure.
In the "West" we speak of dissidents and activists, such as those in
Bahrain without issue - the State department even speaks out for them.
We must not forget that the people oppressed in Bahrain deserve
freedom not because they're in Bahrain but because they are alive &
feeling
All across the world, Julian and many others have enabled and
connected struggles to evidence for what they often knew but could not
prove.
What is created next must come from the all of us not wasting our
generation. No martyrs and no losing ourselves to be crushed by the
State.
We must remember that the State will lie to us - each state involved
in hunting Julian has lied 

Joshua Schulte (WikiLeaks Vault 7) Cell Mates

[John Young]

Carlos Betances Luna Mera, indicted twice for illegal entry, is the 
Schulte cell mate who arranged for his wife to bring into prison a 
contraband cellphone used by Schulte, then recorded and ratted 
Schulte to the FBI. He testified as a witness in Schulte's trial.


https://cryptome.org/2020/03/betances-complaint-2018.pdf

Omar Amanat, a financial entrepreneur indicted for wire fraud, is the 
Schulte cell mate who befriended and advised Schulte. Shared use of 
contraband cellphones. His trial is still underway. He was not a 
witness in Schulte's trial, so far.


https://cryptome.org/2020/03/amanat-indictment-2016.pdf

Did Appelbaum Meet Snowden in Hawaii Before Leak?

[John Young]

March 1, 2020
Kevin Gallagher
@ageis
"According to @laurapoitras Berlin 
Journal from Astro Noise, @ioerror was 
keyed into forthcoming @Snowden leak 
from March 2013 at the latest. Both interviewed "C4" via e-mail. Jake 
travels Hawaii in April 2013, supposedly for 30th birthday. People 
are curious if they met then."


Also, a Crypto Party was conducted in Honolulu by Runa Sandvik and 
Snowden in January 2013.

Re: Assange Rips the Matrix -- Re: Wikileaks: Julian Assange

[John Young]

Assange is a fine essayist, Articulate. Courageous. Humorous. 
WikiLeaks is a superb source. Not like this hyperbolic excreta.


At 08:23 AM 3/1/2020, you wrote:
This is a heartfelt message, but always remember your own authority 
and power/ability to act and speak in this world.



  Assange Rips the Matrix
  by Finian Cunningham


https://sputniknews.com/columnists/202002281078430608-assange-rips-the-matrix/

Assange Rips the Matrix -- Re: Wikileaks: Julian Assange

[Zenaan Harkness]

This is a heartfelt message, but always remember your own authority and 
power/ability to act and speak in this world.


  Assange Rips the Matrix
  by Finian Cunningham

  https://sputniknews.com/columnists/202002281078430608-assange-rips-the-matrix/

  The persecution of Julian Assange is one of those breakthrough moments when 
suddenly people realise that almost everything they have been told to believe 
is not true.

  This week the Australian-born journalist and publisher has been subjected to 
a show trial in a British court with the threat of extradition to the United 
States looming.
  If he is extradited, the 48-year old is facing 175 years – a death sentence – 
in prison on wholly contrived espionage charges.

  Assange is being persecuted for the sole and simple reason that he exposed 
war crimes and systematic corruption by the US government and its Western 
allies.
  His years of arbitrary detention and the torture endured over the past year 
while in solitary confinement in a British dungeon are a grim warning to all 
citizens.
  The warning is that their supposed democratic rights are non-existent as far 
as the powers in Washington and London are concerned.
  If you dare speak truth to power, then this fate will also be yours.

  Thus, when it gets down to it, the harsh reality is that there is no such 
thing as democracy in the US or Britain.
  Elections and media are but window-dressing to hide the brutal truth that 
fundamental, basic democratic rights of free speech and due legal process are 
not inalienable principles, but rather are dispensable privileges whenever the 
powers-that-be ordain so.

  Julian Assange’s incarceration and pillorying is like an inquisition from 
medieval times happening in the year 2020.
  He dared expose the rampant, systematic crimes of so-called authorities 
through his Wikileaks site.
  His blasphemy was to expose the charlatans and mass-killers who masquerade as 
pious leaders.

  Those revelations showed the public that the pretensions of democracy and 
rule of law by the American and British governments are nothing but 
hypocritical, empty posturing.
  Assange’s courageous publishing work demonstrated how those governments have 
waged criminal wars and committed genocidal crimes; how they have made a 
mockery of international law and democratic rights.
  And for that heroic service to public truth and empowerment with the truth, 
Assange is being pilloried like a rebellious serf by overlords posing as 
“governments” and “judges”.

  Assange’s show trial is also powerfully revealing of the real nature of 
Western so-called news media.
  Not one of the major US or British news outlets have given any coverage, let 
alone comment, regarding his week-long extradition trial.

  A journalist and publisher is being whipsawed in the court as if he is a 
dangerous terrorist.
  He is denied elementary due process by being confined to a glass-cage dock, 
not able to communicate with his defence lawyers, unable to even hear what his 
accusers are claiming.

  His extradition, to be determined at a future court hearing, seems like a 
foregone conclusion, such is the bias and hostility towards Assange from the 
presiding British judge, Vanessa Baraitser.

  Given the international outcry from hundreds of doctors and UN 
representatives over Assange’s torture endured while in British custody, and 
given the grotesque abuse of legal process by the American and British 
so-called authorities, the case should be thrown out immediately – if there 
were any modicum of justice.

  The vendetta against Assange tells us what kind of societies citizens (or 
rather subjects) are living under in the US and Britain.
  These states are oligarchies where “democratic rights” are strictly 
conditional on subjects not stepping out of line, such as criticising war 
crimes or illegal global spying.

  Julian Assange has torn through the largely invisible matrix of propaganda 
and power that people really live under.
  The saccharin myths of “democracy” and “free speech” are shown for the ugly, 
putrid reality that they are.
  And the Western corporate-controlled media in their silence about what is 
going on are also condemned for the lying servile machines that they are.

  We must not accept the fate being prepared for Assange as if it is inevitable 
or as if we are powerless to overthrow it.
  The first step towards freedom is truth, and thanks to Julian Assange, we 
have the power to be free [actually, thanks to our inherent nature as 
human/Soul, we have within each of us, the power to live our truth, within the 
boundaries of our limitations, some self imposed, some external].
  We know the tyrannical nature of the governments that presume to rule over us 
in our names.
  There must be a popular uprising in defence of Assange. Because no-one is 
free until he is.

  A final note by way of testimony: anyone who has been enlightened by 
Wikileaks’ revelations over the past decade 

Re: Nike sweatshop labor softens the shoes

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-compels-uighurs-to-work-in-shoe-factory-that-supplies-nike/2020/02/28/ebddf5f4-57b2-11ea-8efd-0f904bdd8057_story.html

https://archive.org/stream/asketchturkilan01shawgoog/asketchturkilan01shawgoog_djvu.txt
History: Islamic cleric Abu an-Nasar who made Satuq to convert Islam,
advised Sultan Satuq that he should pretend to build a temple but with
the intention of building a mosque... Satuq was variously stated as
12+ years old when he became Muslim khan, and he began to wage
religious war against non-Muslims. Satuq obtained a fatwa which
permitted him in effect to commit patricide, and killed his father,
after which he conquered Kashgar. According to Tazkirah, the Sultan,
having converted the infidels to Islam by his sword, established the
laws and religion of the Holy Muhammad, the Messenger of God.

Perhaps China view it own actions as form of defense
re lessons of history. And is MBS China's pretend bitch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamization_and_Turkification_of_Xinjiang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_genocide_of_Uyghurs
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/02/saudi-crown-prince-defends-china-fight-terrorism-190223104647149.html