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2021-06-08 at 6:58 AM UTCAnyone remember when protesters tried to obstruct proceedings for Kavanaugh becoming a Supreme and got $50 fines?
Most of them didn't even pay them.
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2021-06-08 at 9:52 AM UTCBTW I just cratered the bitcoin price to give you plebs a chance to buy in and stop being filthy no-coiners. You're welcome.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-06-08 at 1:09 PM UTCThere's been no evidence offered whatsoever that Douglas Jensen isn't a Democrat.
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2021-06-08 at 1:29 PM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-06-08 at 2:43 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 Making
America
Glad they elected Biden
Again
POLITICO
U.S. seizes most of Colonial Pipeline's $4.4M ransom payment
By Eric Geller
Federal investigators were able to recover more than half of the $4.4 million ransom payment that Colonial Pipeline made to the hackers who froze its computers and forced the shutdown of its massive fuel distribution system, the Biden administration announced on Monday.
“The sophisticated use of technology to hold businesses and even whole cities hostage for profit is decidedly a 21st-century challenge, but the old adage ‘follow the money’ still applies,” Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said during a news conference.
By tracing the payment across the ostensibly anonymous cryptocurrency ecosystem, the government was able to locate and seize $2.27 million from a virtual currency account used by the hackers.
“The sophisticated use of technology to hold businesses and even whole cities hostage for profit is decidedly a 21st-century challenge, but the old adage ‘follow the money’ still applies,” Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said during a news conference.
The announcement represents a rare bit of good news for the Biden administration as it rushes to fix digital weaknesses in the United States’ critical infrastructure, most of which is run by companies that have scant cyber expertise and are subject to little, if any, regulation.
It also bolsters federal officials’ argument that companies can help fight back against a rising tide of ransomware attacks if they cooperate with government investigations.
May's five-day shutdown of Colonial’s pipeline — one of the East Coast’s biggest fuel suppliers — led to gasoline hoarding that produced widespread, albeit short-term, shortages and helped drive up the price at the pump. The incident refocused attention on the threat of ransomware, prompting new cyber rules for pipeline operators, a bipartisan congressional push for a hack notification law and a parade of hearings, including two this week.
The Colonial hack, and a subsequent attack last week on the world’s largest meat supplier, forced the steadily growing threat of ransomware onto the front-burner for the Biden administration.
The DarkSide ransomware used to hack Colonial is one of more than 100 variants that the FBI is tracking, Deputy Director Paul Abbate said Monday. DarkSide, which is developed by a Russian criminal group that licenses it out to less sophisticated hackers, has struck more than 90 U.S. critical infrastructure companies in sectors ranging from manufacturing and health care to energy and insurance, Abbate said.
DOJ has created a task force on ransomware attacks, and the department recently announced that it was elevating the issue to the same severity level as terrorism, creating greater coordination between U.S. attorneys’ offices and prosecutors in Washington about which cases to charge. FBI Director Christopher Wray described the ransomware epidemic as a modern version of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Wray’s analogy, which was about the importance of public-private cooperation, underscored why ransomware has continued to plague society. For years, U.S. officials have urged companies to be more forthcoming when they are hacked, both so the government can help them recover and so federal experts can analyze the attacks and warn other potential victims. But many companies still refuse to disclose their breaches, fearing the legal, financial and reputational consequences of doing so.
Monaco used Monday’s announcement as an opportunity to hammer home the government’s message about preparing for and reporting breaches. “We are all in this together,” she said.
President Joe Biden recently signed an executive order that requires federal contractors to report cyber incidents to the government, and bipartisan draft legislation would extend that obligation to critical infrastructure operators and major IT service providers.
Colonial faced criticism for its initial reluctance to share information with the federal government. It alerted the FBI to the breach, but it did not notify DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the government’s primary cyber defender. It took several days for Colonial to share breach data with CISA so the agency could prepare guidance for other potential targets, and even then, CISA’s acting director said he was in the dark about Colonial’s ransom payment.
That Colonial even paid the ransom was another source of controversy, as U.S. officials routinely warn against doing so, saying it fuels more attacks. “You are encouraging the bad actors,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
Asked on Monday whether companies could feel better about paying ransoms given the possibility of their recovery, Monaco said doing so always entailed a risk.
“We may not be able to do this in every instance,” she said.
I am a more 31337 hax0r3 than that L4m3r Biden. I would have hacked the bitcoin mainframe and downloaded the cyber in half the time. -
2021-06-08 at 2:47 PM UTCThe last I read, you never even had an e-mail account.
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2021-06-08 at 3 PM UTCAugust motherfucker.
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2021-06-08 at 3:12 PM UTCSure.
I believe you.
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2021-06-08 at 3:52 PM UTCThe Daily Beast
What if This Is Just the Tip of Trumpworld’s Iceberg of Crazy?
The Daily Beast
It was unhinged, even by Trumpworld standards.
In the dying days of the Donald’s administration, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows asked the Justice Department to investigate a bizarre conspiracy theory that an Italian defense contractor somehow swung the election to Joe Biden.
Emails between Meadows and the DOJ were uncovered over the weekend. And there’s likely to be more to come. This is only “tip of the iceberg of all the crazy stuff that went on this winter,” George Conway tells Molly Jong-Fast on the latest episode of The New Abnormal. “These guys were doing some wild, wild stuff. And it wasn’t just the campaign and the kooky campaign hangers-on, and the lawyers who were working on the campaign, like Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell. This stuff was going on in the White House.”
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Crazier than the stuff Meadows was pushing? Is that even possible? The conspiracy—thoroughly debunked—posited that Barack Obama took “one of the pallets of cash that was sent to the Iranians as part of the Iranian nuclear deal and gave it to some Italians,” Conway says. “And the Italians used the money to create some software that they downloaded into American voting systems by satellite, that switched votes from Trump to Biden. This is the chief of staff of the White House pushing his theory on the Justice Department.”
And Conway—who was a leading Republican lawyer for decades—wonders “whether there weren’t some illegalities in all of this” conspiracy-peddling.
“You’re running close to sedition here, trying to get government officials to act in support of a conspiracy theory to overturn the results of an election. I mean, there could be a criminal conspiracy involved there. That’s not protected by free speech,” he says.
Conway adds, “Maybe the Justice Department will move on up from the people, the 500-600 people who were at the Capitol [on Jan. 6] to other things. Like who organized the rally, and who at the White House was communicating with those people, and what else those people were doing at the White House to try to keep Trump in office. And I think all of these things relate at a certain level and ought to be fully investigated.” -
2021-06-08 at 3:57 PM UTC
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2021-06-08 at 4:04 PM UTCMake
America
Go Q-less
Again
The Daily Beast
QAnon at a Crossroads: Leaders Try to Rein In the Crazy
Will Sommer
QAnon’s anonymous leader has been silent for more than six months. Now QAnon is in upheaval over what’s next.
When pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell took the stage at a QAnon convention in Dallas late last month, she was wearing a biker vest with a “Q” patch sewn on the back. And yet, when Powell began speaking, she did the unexpected: she trashed some of QAnon’s most cherished ideas.
According to the worldview held by many QAnon believers, Powell will actually lead the military tribunals at the heart of QAnon lore, imprisoning pedophile-cannibal Democrats in Guantanamo Bay and restoring Donald Trump to power. But at the conference, Powell broke some hard news to the QAnon faithful.
“There are no military tribunals that’s magically going to solve this problem for us,” Powell said, to scattered applause.
Powell even went against one of QAnon’s central pillars—the idea that believers should “trust the plan,” putting their faith in the idea that Trump and the military are carrying out a secret agenda to depose Democrats and bring back the Trump administration.
"I don't have any evidence that there's some grand underlying plan, pursuant to which all this is going to be made right,” Powell said. “I don't want to give anybody false hope that this is happening."
The crowd didn’t mind Powell’s off-message remark too much; that night, a picture of Powell riding a kraken sold at an auction at the conference for thousands of dollars. And Powell didn’t do much else to dissuade QAnon supporters of their bizarre beliefs. She claimed the election was stolen and raised the prospect that Trump would retake the presidency later this year.
But she did break it to the disappointed crowd that Trump wouldn’t get his second term extended to account for Joe Biden’s time in office. And Powell’s attempt to debunk the military tribunals and “plan” aspects of QAnon orthodoxy marks a new phase in QAnon’s tumultuous post-Trump era.
QAnon now finds itself without a central figure: Trump is out of office; And the anonymous “Q,” whose clues make up the conspiracy theory movement’s basis, has been silent since last December.
Followers of the nonsensical collection of conspiracy theories are now looking for guidance from a diffuse group of leaders in the QAnon movement. And the leaders—some pure hucksters and some pure screwballs—have very different visions for where the coalition should go.
For some leaders, it’s about reining in the most madcap beliefs. For others, it’s about using the momentum that QAnon has built in the GOP world to take over local offices and school boards.
A poll released in late May found that roughly 15 percent of people buy into the core QAnon idea that the world is controlled by a cabal of pedophilic elites. And QAnon has carved out ties with GOP officials. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and former Rep. Allen West (R-FL)—who resigned as the Texas GOP chairman just days ago to explore a statewide run—both appeared at the QAnon convention in Dallas.
QAnon has seen internal turmoil before, but in the past, “Q” was able to step in and settle disputes. One splinter group of followers, for example, believes that John F. Kennedy Jr. faked his death in a 1999 plane crash to team up with Trump and take on the Deep State. In a QAnon clue, though, “Q” claimed that JFK Jr. was dead. (That Q “drop” seemed aimed at putting down the breakoff faction that had begun to draw increasingly negative attention to QAnon.)
With Q gone, however, no one may have more power in the QAnon mythos than Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser. Flynn openly embraced QAnon in the final months of Trump’s presidency, selling QAnon merchandise and taking a “QAnon oath” with family members on the Fourth of July.
But in mid-May, Flynn pushed back on some QAnon beliefs in an interview with podcaster Doug Billings. He explicitly dismissed the idea that the military secretly controls the country or that Trump somehow invalidated the election through the Insurrection Act.
“I’m just going to ask you some questions, and I just want you to tell me whether it’s nonsense,” Billings said. “Did President Trump ever sign the Insurrection Act?”
“No, nonsense,” Flynn said.
“Is the United States military running the country, is that nonsense as well?” Billings said.
“More nonsense,” Flynn said. “There’s no plan.”
After the interview, Flynn spoke multiple times at the Dallas QAnon conference, and helped auction off a quilt bearing a giant “Q” image. On the conference’s second day, he called for a Myanmar-style military coup to take place in the United States—a popular notion in QAnon-world.
The fight over QAnon’s direction has spilled over into QAnon’s social media channels. In the wake of Twitter and Facebook crackdowns after the U.S. Capitol riot in January, tens of thousands of QAnon believers ended up on Telegram, a messaging app and social media platform popular with the far right.
On Telegram, a virulently antisemitic QAnon promoter impersonating former Trump intelligence official Ezra Cohen-Watnick has amassed more than 300,000 followers, coming from nowhere to challenge some of QAnon’s most established promoters. The account has attempted to push QAnon, which has always held antisemitic overtones, into a far more anti-jedi direction, posting crude caricatures of jedi people and pushing discredited antisemitic conspiracy theories.
At the same time, Telegram has become a haven for QAnon promoters posting outlandish financial promises, claiming, for example, that QAnon believers will become wealthy if they buy a specific cryptocurrency or near-valueless currency like the Iraqi dinar. Others have claimed that the world economy will soon be radically restructured in a “global financial reset” that will abolish debts, meaning QAnon believers should feel free to take on huge debts and not worry about paying them back.
As QAnon’s Telegram channels have become a haven for even more obvious hucksterism than usual, prominent QAnon booster Jordan Sather has slammed his QAnon rivals in an attempt to push QAnon away from both the antisemitic “Ezra” account and the predictions of a financial utopia. As often happens in internal QAnon wars, various sides have accused one another of being deep-state plants meant to sow discord within QAnon.
“What do we see now with the Q movement and the patriot truth movement that’s out there on social media?” Sather said in a speech at the Dallas convention. “Just a lot of dumb clickbait, ugh! I am sorry but there is just so much disinformation that is out there, it’s really targeting the platforms that we’ve all been funneled into.”
Sather’s feud with his QAnon rivals has hardly made him QAnon’s voice of reason. During his speech at the convention, Sather promoted the nonexistent medical benefits of chlorine dioxide—a substance the FDA says is equivalent to consuming bleach.
Other QAnon promoters at the convention urged supporters to fact-check their ideas before posting them online to QAnon channels—an odd idea for a movement based on amateur sleuths investigating the idea that, say, Hillary Clinton eats children in a Washington pizzeria and Tom Hanks drinks blood to keep his youthful appearance. -
2021-06-08 at 4:05 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 Make
America
Go Q-less
Again
The Daily Beast
QAnon at a Crossroads: Leaders Try to Rein In the Crazy
Will Sommer
QAnon’s anonymous leader has been silent for more than six months. Now QAnon is in upheaval over what’s next.
When pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell took the stage at a QAnon convention in Dallas late last month, she was wearing a biker vest with a “Q” patch sewn on the back. And yet, when Powell began speaking, she did the unexpected: she trashed some of QAnon’s most cherished ideas.
According to the worldview held by many QAnon believers, Powell will actually lead the military tribunals at the heart of QAnon lore, imprisoning pedophile-cannibal Democrats in Guantanamo Bay and restoring Donald Trump to power. But at the conference, Powell broke some hard news to the QAnon faithful.
“There are no military tribunals that’s magically going to solve this problem for us,” Powell said, to scattered applause.
Powell even went against one of QAnon’s central pillars—the idea that believers should “trust the plan,” putting their faith in the idea that Trump and the military are carrying out a secret agenda to depose Democrats and bring back the Trump administration.
"I don't have any evidence that there's some grand underlying plan, pursuant to which all this is going to be made right,” Powell said. “I don't want to give anybody false hope that this is happening."
The crowd didn’t mind Powell’s off-message remark too much; that night, a picture of Powell riding a kraken sold at an auction at the conference for thousands of dollars. And Powell didn’t do much else to dissuade QAnon supporters of their bizarre beliefs. She claimed the election was stolen and raised the prospect that Trump would retake the presidency later this year.
But she did break it to the disappointed crowd that Trump wouldn’t get his second term extended to account for Joe Biden’s time in office. And Powell’s attempt to debunk the military tribunals and “plan” aspects of QAnon orthodoxy marks a new phase in QAnon’s tumultuous post-Trump era.
QAnon now finds itself without a central figure: Trump is out of office; And the anonymous “Q,” whose clues make up the conspiracy theory movement’s basis, has been silent since last December.
Followers of the nonsensical collection of conspiracy theories are now looking for guidance from a diffuse group of leaders in the QAnon movement. And the leaders—some pure hucksters and some pure screwballs—have very different visions for where the coalition should go.
For some leaders, it’s about reining in the most madcap beliefs. For others, it’s about using the momentum that QAnon has built in the GOP world to take over local offices and school boards.
A poll released in late May found that roughly 15 percent of people buy into the core QAnon idea that the world is controlled by a cabal of pedophilic elites. And QAnon has carved out ties with GOP officials. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and former Rep. Allen West (R-FL)—who resigned as the Texas GOP chairman just days ago to explore a statewide run—both appeared at the QAnon convention in Dallas.
QAnon has seen internal turmoil before, but in the past, “Q” was able to step in and settle disputes. One splinter group of followers, for example, believes that John F. Kennedy Jr. faked his death in a 1999 plane crash to team up with Trump and take on the Deep State. In a QAnon clue, though, “Q” claimed that JFK Jr. was dead. (That Q “drop” seemed aimed at putting down the breakoff faction that had begun to draw increasingly negative attention to QAnon.)
With Q gone, however, no one may have more power in the QAnon mythos than Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser. Flynn openly embraced QAnon in the final months of Trump’s presidency, selling QAnon merchandise and taking a “QAnon oath” with family members on the Fourth of July.
But in mid-May, Flynn pushed back on some QAnon beliefs in an interview with podcaster Doug Billings. He explicitly dismissed the idea that the military secretly controls the country or that Trump somehow invalidated the election through the Insurrection Act.
“I’m just going to ask you some questions, and I just want you to tell me whether it’s nonsense,” Billings said. “Did President Trump ever sign the Insurrection Act?”
“No, nonsense,” Flynn said.
“Is the United States military running the country, is that nonsense as well?” Billings said.
“More nonsense,” Flynn said. “There’s no plan.”
After the interview, Flynn spoke multiple times at the Dallas QAnon conference, and helped auction off a quilt bearing a giant “Q” image. On the conference’s second day, he called for a Myanmar-style military coup to take place in the United States—a popular notion in QAnon-world.
The fight over QAnon’s direction has spilled over into QAnon’s social media channels. In the wake of Twitter and Facebook crackdowns after the U.S. Capitol riot in January, tens of thousands of QAnon believers ended up on Telegram, a messaging app and social media platform popular with the far right.
On Telegram, a virulently antisemitic QAnon promoter impersonating former Trump intelligence official Ezra Cohen-Watnick has amassed more than 300,000 followers, coming from nowhere to challenge some of QAnon’s most established promoters. The account has attempted to push QAnon, which has always held antisemitic overtones, into a far more anti-jedi direction, posting crude caricatures of jedi people and pushing discredited antisemitic conspiracy theories.
At the same time, Telegram has become a haven for QAnon promoters posting outlandish financial promises, claiming, for example, that QAnon believers will become wealthy if they buy a specific cryptocurrency or near-valueless currency like the Iraqi dinar. Others have claimed that the world economy will soon be radically restructured in a “global financial reset” that will abolish debts, meaning QAnon believers should feel free to take on huge debts and not worry about paying them back.
As QAnon’s Telegram channels have become a haven for even more obvious hucksterism than usual, prominent QAnon booster Jordan Sather has slammed his QAnon rivals in an attempt to push QAnon away from both the antisemitic “Ezra” account and the predictions of a financial utopia. As often happens in internal QAnon wars, various sides have accused one another of being deep-state plants meant to sow discord within QAnon.
“What do we see now with the Q movement and the patriot truth movement that’s out there on social media?” Sather said in a speech at the Dallas convention. “Just a lot of dumb clickbait, ugh! I am sorry but there is just so much disinformation that is out there, it’s really targeting the platforms that we’ve all been funneled into.”
Sather’s feud with his QAnon rivals has hardly made him QAnon’s voice of reason. During his speech at the convention, Sather promoted the nonexistent medical benefits of chlorine dioxide—a substance the FDA says is equivalent to consuming bleach.
Other QAnon promoters at the convention urged supporters to fact-check their ideas before posting them online to QAnon channels—an odd idea for a movement based on amateur sleuths investigating the idea that, say, Hillary Clinton eats children in a Washington pizzeria and Tom Hanks drinks blood to keep his youthful appearance.
That Q-Anon was a psy-op is obvious now.
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2021-06-08 at 4:24 PM UTC
Originally posted by Donald Trump I am a more 31337 hax0r3 than that L4m3r Biden. I would have hacked the bitcoin mainframe and downloaded the cyber in half the time.
there is no way that isn't a false flag.
1. you don't ask for a $4m ransom in BTC when something like XMR is available
2. you don't store it in an online wallet
3. the FBI is fake and gay and has only been able to retrieve data from networks they've already pre-compromisedThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-06-08 at 4:34 PM UTC
Originally posted by aldra there is no way that isn't a false flag.
1. you don't ask for a $4m ransom in BTC when something like XMR is available
2. you don't store it in an online wallet
3. the FBI is fake and gay and has only been able to retrieve data from networks they've already pre-compromised
i look forward to the day the US government confiscate all its citizens crypto assets. -
2021-06-08 at 6:52 PM UTCAUGUST MOTHERFUCKERThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
