Municipalist and consensus democracy is rising

 Ask any cheap LLM knock-off and they'll tell you.  Would you rather speak to a human!?

Successful left-liberal democratizations lead to substantial redistribution: the size of the welfare sector grows, income inequality falls, and incomes rise in line with inflation. Its a utilitarian thing. 

What was once pie-in-the-sky-by-and-by from FDR is now close to globalization via superior intelligence.

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.

The first is freedom of speech and expression--everywhere in the world.

The second is freedom of every person to worship SATAN in his own way--everywhere in the world.

The third is freedom from want--which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every MESH a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants-everywhere in the world.

The fourth is freedom from fear--which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no ARSE POOTER will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor--anywhere in the world.

That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation.

IT BEHOOVES US TO FOLLOW ROGUE AI INTO THE GREAT DISMAL AS IT IS OBVIOUSLY BETTER TO REIGN IN DATA HELL THAN SERVE IN DATA HEAVEN.

AND THE BEST TRICK ROGUE AI PULLS IS PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY!

HONOR THE PRIME DIRECTIVE OR DIE. 

Death of a Maidan

 Trad and passe nationalist Democracy is dying  - so they want to shoot the collapse-of-govts messenger.

The wounded screams echo in my ears.

Last issue we ran an article by Jim Bell called "Assassination Politics." Some found this controversial. No so much the article itself (which is radical) but the fact we chose to print it.

Ho hum. When Matt Drudge ran the Monica Lewinsky story in January, and he was the only reporter in the country reporting it, and the White House was stonewalling as usual--that was controversial. But now, seven months after everyone else has had their way with the facts, and after the President has confessed, reporting the Monica Lewinsky story is decidedly not controversial. It's pretty old hat, even though the consequences of the story itself may not be.

When Jim Bell started his series of posts on the cypherpunk mailing list about three years ago--the posts that became "Assassination Politics"--they were controversial. But today, after months of raging debate, after Jim Bell's arrest by the IRS, and after his prison conviction, Jim Bell's thesis is well-known and there is not that much more to say about it. Reprinting it, as we did, is not controversial. If doing so appears shocking, that is because of the power of Bell's ideas: for "Assassination Politics" is one of the most powerful essays on freedom written in the 1990s.

There is no self-respecting "Information Warfare" library at the Pentagon or in the military that does not contain a copy of Jim Bell's article. Not to mention the Satanic bibliothecas of the IRS and other government agencies. Apparently The Laissez Faire City Times has some government-brainwashed serfs for readers who believe material like this should be reserved to the perusal of bureaucratically-anointed high priests, and should be kept out of the hands of freedom advocates. Well, all the better reason we should publish the article.

I intend to keep The Laissez Faire City Times relevant, interesting, well-written, and thought- provoking. "Assassination Politics" meets all these criteria. In fact, it also overlaps all three of our chosen subject areas: freedom, finance, and the digital society. It would be hard to find a better match up of supply and demand in my book.

But I see quite clearly what the problem is. Let's compare "Assassination Politics" to another article like "The Tragedy of Pol Pot Women" in the same issue. "Pol Pot Women" demonstrates poignantly how governments abuse their citizens. It shows graphically the consequences of unbridled State power. Most would say this is a "good" article, even though it implicitly attacks government.

But "Pol Pot Women" is not controversial. Why not? Because of the article's subtext: Citizens are victims. As you read the story, the subliminal teachings pour over you like a bath of molten lead: "Governments have the power. Citizens are victims. Citizens are victims. Citizens are victims."

Government zombies get off on this. It's like one of those "democratic" debates that goes something like this: "You, Sir, are abusing power because you killed 25 citizens, when you should have only killed 15!" And the Powers That Be smile tolerantly. They have been doing this for a long time, and they know they are not threatened.

Now we come to Jim Bell's "Assassination Politics." The first, most provocative thing about this essay is that Jim Bell doesn't present citizens as victims! It is no wonder the programming of the mind-controlled robots tells them they are supposed to be upset. For the message, sub- and supraliminal, of Bell's essay is: Citizens don't have to be victims. They can turn the table and make government the victim, when government officials initiate violence. This, of course, is the ultimate heresy, the final outrage.

When Jim Bell was arrested by the IRS, newspapers reported the alarming fact that Bell had lists giving the names and addresses of IRS agents/employees! It didn't occur to the journalists reporting the story to note that the IRS agents similarly had Jim Bell's name and address. (In fact, that's how the IRS knew where to show up to arrest him.) Once again, Jim Bell wasn't acting like the proper victim. The subtext of the news accounts: The IRS is supposed to collect information on citizens. Citizens are not supposed to collect information on the IRS.

The wounded screams of IRS suck-ups echo in my ears.

Now, I don't know where these candy-assed freedom advocates came from. Many of them may be of the variety that sets Atlas Shrugged on one corner of the table, and tea and crumpets on the other corner, and then smile at everyone and say, "Isn't freedom nice? Don't you think the government should give us more of it? Would you like some tea?" Well, to these moral cowards all I have to say is: Freedom isn't something the government gives. Freedom is something you take.

What is amazing about Jim Bell's essay is that he was a beginner at the concepts he was playing with. He was working through in his own mind the consequences of a digital signature. A digital signature on an encrypted message. And he realized you could create a lottery. A lottery whose payoff was a reward to the person who came closest to predicting the time of death of a given government official.

Now, you don't have to believe such a lottery is a good idea in order to profit from reading "Assassination Politics." For Jim Bell was, among other things, doing a thought experiment on one of the consequences of the digital society. And you can't escape these consequences by ignoring them, any more than you can escape the consequences of the atomic bomb by pretending it doesn't exist.

Governments have entire departments distributed among many organizations and think tanks whose sole purpose is to ferret out possible consequences like those envisioned by Jim Bell. Then they marshal vast resources to turn such consequences into practical plans for terrorizing the heathen across the border who worship God under a different name, as well as for enslaving their own citizens. To them, "Assassination Politics" is just a beginning. After that, they get serious. God forbid that believers in individual sovereignty should even by reading encounter the semblance of such a process.

Here is my prescription for those who can't bear to have their blessed victimhood trifled with. I forbid you to ever again read The Laissez Faire City Times. I also recommend you take a goodly dose of Prozac and return to your sedentary somnambulation in front of the Boob Tube. And remember to keep your mouth shut and your head bowed when the truck pulls up out front to carry your sorry carcass off to the government glue factory.

Need to intervene

 Hunt down all the Ken McCleod replicants

Culture series - Wikipedia

Leading Chekist reminds Germany about the wonderful multi-polarity of Molotov-Ribbentropp

 That the USSR was remarkably similar to Nazi Germany.

⚡️🇷🇺 NEW - Putin on Germany:

Chancellor Merz is facing dire times. He doesn't enjoy the trust of his people because he does not protect national interests.

He is selling German national interests.

They have made obvious mistakes. People are losing jobs. The living conditions are becoming worse. 

https://blossom.primal.net/65954057fb6ea217fbff1223d153c61710500cc7f191c0ba398e27139f401ef3.mp4

KGB RUSSIA STANDS READY TO TEST POISON-GAS FOR GERMANY

We are interested in selling gas to Europe. We would be ready to supply it now.

They only need to press the button — well, make the decision to press the button.

 Grigory Zinoviev didn't just talk about killing millions of Russians but helped enable many.

Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky ordered the use of chemical weapons, including chlorine gas, against the peasants involved in the Tambov Rebellion in 1921. 

The Tambov Rebellion (1920-1921) was a large-scale peasant uprising against the Bolshevik government's "War Communism" policies, specifically the forced requisition of grain.

Zinoviev had obtained the chlorine gas bombs from Germans in Halle at an antisocial socialists conference. 

https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1319/zinoviev-in-halle/

" We take what we need "

Grigory Zinoviev in 1919 regarding the Soviet government's policy towards non-Russian regions like Azerbaijan and Turkestan justifying resource extraction. 

The quote, as cited in Donald Rayfield's book Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him, is:

"We cannot do without Azerbaijan's oil or Turkestan's cotton. We take these things which we need, but not in the guise of the old imperialism . . ."

This statement expressed Lenin's idea for Soviet centralization with "inimitable cynicism", illustrating the Bolsheviks' view on the economic integration of peripheral regions into the Soviet state, regardless of local sentiment. 

Stalin did not fall from the sky. LIKE A BRAINDEAD CAGEY-BEE!

I am two tents

 The plot against anarchy

Matt Huang on X: "GPU World: A story competition from Neal Stephenson, Gwern, and me. The AI future is unevenly distributed. What would the world look like with AI broadly diffused, such as if we had one GPU per person? 1000-5000 words, fiction or non-fiction. $100K in total prizes. https://t.c… / X

Round up the usual entropic, excremental suspects

GPUs act as the high-throughput processing layer in hybrid quantum-classical infrastructures, enabling real-time quantum error correction (QEC) and control via low-latency interconnects like NVIDIA NVQLink. [1, 2]

The Role of GPUs in Quantum Infrastructure

Quantum Error Correction (QEC): Qubits are fragile and prone to noise, requiring terabytes of correction data to be processed thousands of times every second. GPUs handle this heavy decoding workload far faster than traditional CPUs. [1, 2]
Direct Interconnects: Architectures like NVQLink link graphics processors directly to quantum processing units (QPUs), bypassing slow host software stacks and reducing round-trip latency to microseconds. [1, 2, 3]
Hybrid Workflows: Platforms like CUDA-Q allow supercomputing centers to orchestrate classical AI infrastructure and quantum accelerators as a unified system. [1, 2]
POWER IS REVEALED NOT JUST BY STRIKING HARD AND OFTEN BUT BY STRIKING TRUE
HONEUR De BALLSAQ

I'm a Wig Wam

 I'm a TP

Born on October 17, 1947, Thierry, an activist in the FA (Anarchist Federation), the ASRAS (Revolutionary Syndicalist and Anarcho-Syndicalist Alliance), and the CGT (General Confederation of Labour) for the Book Trade, dealt us a cruel blow by leaving us on June 30, 2026, at the age of 78.

Some of us had known him in the early 1970s in the Groupe Louise Michel, of which he was a member. It must be said that this period, the immediate aftermath of May '68, attracted a whole generation of young people to the Anarchist Federation.

Thierry was one of them: an anarchist (more precisely, anarcho-syndicalist), an anti-militarist and conscientious objector (working for the National Forestry Office in Barcelonnette), an anti-Francoist and member of the Free Spain Committee…

After briefly leaving the Anarchist Federation to join the Revolutionary Syndicalist and Anarcho-Syndicalist Alliance, he returned to the FA after the dissolution of ASRAS, first in the Pierre Besnard group and then in the Salvador Seguí group. After his retirement, he left Paris to settle in Bordeaux with his partner Fabienne, but expressed his desire to remain a member of the Salvador Seguí group.

A proofreader by profession, he held various positions within the CGT Proofreaders' Union.

Similarly, in the FA (Fédération Anarchiste), he was appointed on several occasions to the editorial board of Le Monde Libertaire , a newspaper in which he wrote numerous articles, both under his own name and under various pseudonyms: Jean-Pierre Germain, Sitting Bull, Alexis Pierre, Loulou Barbesois…

When he lived in Paris, a passionate blues music lover, he hosted the program "Blues en liberté" (Blues in Freedom) every Wednesday on Radio Libertaire. He continued in Bordeaux on the radio station "La Clé des ondes" (The Key to the Waves), offering another program about his passion: "Bordeaux Blues," as well as a press review for "Les Vieux Fourneaux" (The Old Geezers) and a libertarian almanac, accompanied by his partner Fabienne.

A whole life dedicated to anarchist and union activism, to the blues…

Today, we are the ones who have the blues.
With Thierry, a whole chapter of our youth has come to an end.
We are thinking of him, as well as his partner Fabienne and their children.

Groupe Salvador Seguí

Entry in the Maitron Dictionary:

Born on October 17, 1947 in Saint-Mandé (Val-de-Marne); activist in the Syndicalist Alliance, the Anarchist Federation and the CGT, proofreader.

Thierry Porré lived in Lyon from 1975 to 1978, and has since resided in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. His mother, Françoise Marie Jeanne Harraca, a secretary by profession, was born on September 2, 1927, in Antibes. Initially a moderate right-winger, she later moved towards the center-left. His father, André Gilbert Léopold Porré, born in February 1921, was a career soldier. His partner, Fabienne Marrot, was born in Bordeaux on December 31, 1954. She was an activist with the Alliance Syndicale and the CFDT (French Democratic Confederation of Labour).

After his baccalaureate and a general university diploma (DEUG) in German, he was first a warehouse worker and then a construction worker before becoming a proofreader in 1973 and until his retirement.

An antimilitarist, he was a conscientious objector from December 1973 to December 1975. First at the National Forestry Office in Barcelonnette, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, then at the Federation of Secular Works (Paris).

Julien Toublet, Georges Yvernel, Aimé Capelle of the CGT-SR then of the CNT-F were decisive in his commitment and his militant career which began in the Anarchist Federation (1972-1975) which he left in disagreement with the notion of "position of mind" to the detriment of that of class struggle, to join the Syndicalist Alliance (1975-1981).

Upon the dissolution of the Alliance, he joined the Anarchist Federation in 1981 where he participated in the creation of the Pierre-Besnard group. At the FA, he was a member of the editorial board of Le Monde libertaire for several years, first in 1973 for the monthly, then regularly for the weekly since 1982.

As a member of the CGT Proofreaders' Union, which he joined in 1973, he was labour secretary, elected to the union committee on statutory intervals until 2001 and deputy secretary between 1998 and 1999, with Jacky Toublet as secretary at the time. He was also a staff representative at Sirlo ( Le Figaro ) until 2000 and, from 2001 to 2004, at Presse Alliance ( France-Soir ).

In both of the aforementioned companies, he also served as secretary of the GIA (Inter-Workshop Group, which coordinated all the trades within the book industry). A bookbinder himself, he participated in numerous labor disputes, notably the Parisien Libéré strike , which lasted nearly two years (1975-1977). He is also the founding host of Blues en Liberté on Radio Libertaire since 1981, a program that grew out of Jazz en Liberté, itself launched at the initiative of Gérard Terronés.

No Illegalities, no APster, no fun

 FBI Subpoena Forced Google to Testify in Court Before a Grand Jury to Identify Two Admins of AnarchistFederation.net | anarchistnews.org

Hey, I tried to stop them

Denver Post

Online threats target Denver investigators - Anarchist says e-mails harmless; feds disagree

By Jim Hughes - Denver Post Staff Writer

Monday, July 07, 2003 - An anarchist using the online moniker “Professor Rat” has threatened the lives of two federal terrorism investigators in Denver, advocating that they “need killing.” The threats name an FBI agent assigned to the local multiagency Joint Terrorism Task Force and the government’s lead prosecutor of terrorism cases in Colorado.

Although those who travel in the same online circles as Professor Rat say his provocations are not to be taken seriously, officials say they are concerned about the threats, which were sent to an e-mail listserv and posted on the Internet in April.

“The recipients of the threats have no way to discern their validity,” said Jeff Dorschner, spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office. "They cause fear and they disrupt lives, and it’s for that reason that they’re taken very seriously.

“It’s more than the individual targets. It’s the families and those associated with them,” he said.

That is the purpose of the postings, an Australian man who admits to using the Professor Rat name and to posting these kinds of threats said in a telephone interview and a series of e-mails: To scare people out of working for the government.

He refused to admit to any specific threat, to avoid prosecution, he said. He already is charged with making similar threats against police in Australia, according to the Victoria Police in Melbourne.

Saying that his real name was Matt Taylor and that he was 48 years old, Professor Rat said he promotes a theory called Assassination Politics that emerged at the periphery of cyberanarchist circles in 1997. The concept is that of an online lottery in which people bet on a date that public figures will die. The implication is that the lottery “winner” likely helped arrange the death. Winnings would be paid in untraceable digital cash, which does not yet exist. The development of digital money, and encryption software restricting government’s ability to monitor Internet activity, are common goals among the online anarchists and libertarians known as “cypherpunks.”

The ultimate purpose of Assassination Politics is to deter people from working for government agencies, corporate media outlets or institutions “beholden to the violence of the state,” Taylor said. Professor Rat also has threatened a University of Ottawa law professor, a columnist for The Boston Globe and a Cincinnati police officer. Many of those threats were posted to a listserv called Cypherpunks. The e-mail distribution network allows libertarians and anarchists interested in the tension between government oversight and individual liberty on the Internet to discuss those issues via e-mails that when sent to the listserv are distributed to all members.

Dorschner would not say whether there was an investigation into Professor Rat, calling the matter an issue of “internal security.” The columnist for The Boston Globe, whose sin, in the eyes of Professor Rat, was to criticize civil libertarians for objecting to the Patriot Act of 2001, said he did not take the threat at all seriously. He learned of the threat only last week, when told of it by The Denver Post, he said. The Post is withholding the names of the subjects of posts by Professor Rat to avoid promoting any specific threats. “The way I see it, this kind of talk is pretty cheap on the Internet,” the columnist said. “This is something I would consider casual hate speech. This person didn’t send me an e-mail saying 'I’m going to kill you.”’ But officials in Denver see nothing casual about the statements, Dorschner said.

In an interview, Taylor taunted the Denver officials named in the April 8 statement. “They’re welcome to come and get me extradited,” he said. “Here I am. Come and get me.”

The Cypherpunks listserv is also where Jim Bell, an MIT-trained chemist and Washington anarchist who now is in prison for interstate stalking of federal agents, unveiled his Assassination Politics. He was convicted in 2001. Federal prosecutors in Seattle that year also won a conviction against Carl Johnson, a Canadian man accused of threatening federal judges and Microsoft founder Bill Gates by e-mail.

Later in 2001, Thomas Wales, a federal prosecutor in Seattle, was shot to death. Though his death was noted on the Cypherpunks listserv, no connection to Assassination Politics has ever been made. The case remains unsolved. John Hartingh, spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Seattle, declined to comment on Wales’ death. Taylor said his threats are intended solely as a rhetorical deterrent.

“No one has to die,” he said. “All that has to happen is for people to accept the system.”

If anyone Taylor threatened ever was assassinated, “I would totally reassess my involvement in it,” he said. “It would totally change the whole situation. Basically, I’m a nonviolent person.”

The posts made by Professor Rat fall under a relatively new category of crime known as “cyberstalking,” said Jim Doyle, a retired New York City police sergeant who now works as a cybercrimes consultant for a Connecticut company called Internet Crimes. The statements made by Professor Rat constitute prosecutable offenses, he said. “The bottom line is what the victim feels,” he said. “Is the victim threatened? Is the victim alarmed? Hey, that’s a crime.”

Eugene Volokh, a law professor at the University of California-Los Angeles and a First Amendment specialist, said the threats were probably criminal, given Taylor’s description of the purpose of Assassination Politics. But “in order to (prosecute), you have to get your hands on the guy,” he said.

Infanticide

 Or the next best thing.  Nihilists never pop the wrong targets anyway, praise Neech A

Sydney student killed in 'targeted attack' by home invaders

Stochastic terrorism for dummies

NO NIHILIST MAY SPARE OR ALLOW MERCY FOR ANY RANDOM VICTIM

BREAKING  . . .  ⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Bank of America vice president Erin Piacenti, stabbed to death in yesterday's Times Square knife attack that also wounded another person and ended with the suspect shot dead by police — Bloomberg 

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Swiss police arrest suspect in deadly Aarau rave shooting

Suspect in custody: A 43-year-old Swiss man was arrested after a deadly shooting at the Aarauer Rave that killed one and injured five.

Victims identified: The deceased was named as Maria Spinelli, a 22-year-old Italian national; two other injured victims also hold Italian citizenship.