May 17, 2026

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US Treasury to Prosecute Crypto Exchanges that Allow Ransomware Hackers to Get Paid

It seems the US Treasury Department is about to put its own government agencies between a rock and a hard place as they vow to attempt to shut off the methods by with ransomware hackers get paid.  These hackers break into computer networks, taking them hostage, until the agency targeted pays them, throughy cryptocurrency exchanges.  They mostly target governmment agencies because these groups have magic sources  to money and the agencies simply must pay because they need that data fundamentally to perform their duties.

Now, with Treasury cutting off the method of payment, will this end the ransomware attacks or will it create a black market for government agencies to continue to pay the ransomware hackers as they have little choice but to do so?  If so, will Treasury find itself prosecuting municipal managers for finding a way to pay the hackers through exchanges that might not be under US Treasury jurisdiction?  I am betting that the latter will happen and the people in government who find themselves targeted will most likely choose expediency over cost, as governments are most often wont to do.

Treasury Department will sanction crypto exchanges that help channel payments to hackers

From www.washingtonpost.com
2021-09-21 17:06:06
Gerrit De Vynck
Excerpt:

The U.S. government is stepping up its efforts to disrupt the infrastructure hackers use to make money from breaking into and holding hostage computer networks, announcing sanctions against one virtual currency exchange and warning U.S. companies it could be legally risky for them to pay off hackers that hit their systems.

The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions Tuesday against Suex, an exchange that lets people buy and sell virtual currencies with regular credit cards, according to its website. The government said as much as 40 percent of known transactions run by Suex were criminal. Other exchanges could be hit with sanctions, too.

“We are going to continue to look at the ecosystem and look for actors that are taking similar actions,” Anne Neuberger, the White House’s deputy national security adviser on cybersecurity, said during a call with reporters.

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The Left Are Being Played Fools By The Authoritarian Right

Leftists who are willing to use authoritarianism, beware! The ruling class playing you and pushing your buttons to make you feel so hateful toward all non-leftists aren’t actually on your side. You are just a battering ram meant to clear the decks and pave the way for totalitarianism. When this is acheived, all your alt-gendered rainbow wokism and social justice hyperbole will be tossed and you will find the new Caesar you ushered in is actually quite right-wing.

Caesar knows that all this unnatural behavior and the destruction of the birth rate caused when most young people in their prime are identifying as some form of alt-gendered experimental, theoretical, fantasy of human sexuality and gender will eventually lead to a collapse even they cannot escape the consequences of.

Basically, the ruling class are right-wing authoritarians using your wokism and cancel culture authoritarianism to distrupt society and pave the way for Caesar. You are focused on things that are non-essential to the survival of a civilization and even if you temporarily acheive your goals, you will find that Caesar will toss you like garbage into the dumpster fire that is the history of a dying civilization.

You can choose, and you should choose, your own sociocultural norms and reality in free association with fellow travelers. In a free and pluralistic society, you don’t need anyone’s approval to live as you choose, but neither are you owed their approval.

Your own desire to be free and to not be treated as “less than” is admirable and we support it. But your insistence that we be canceled because we find your choices to be unhealthy, which only means we won’t make them or applaud them, is immoral because it is authoritarian. What is more, you are setting up an authoritarian framework that, once built, will betray you even though you and your cancel culture screeching made it possible.

US, 14 Others Conduct Military Drills in Ukraine

In a show of force and solidarity directed at Russia in support of Ukraine, 15 nations, including the United States, are conducting drills in the Ukraine, with Ukrainian troops, in an operation called Rapid Trident 21.

Multinational military exercise Rapid Trident 21 begins in Ukraine

From www.army-technology.com
2021-09-21 15:18:53
Aninda Chakraborty
Excerpt:

A multinational military exercise called Rapid Trident 21 has commenced in Ukraine with an opening ceremony at Central City Stadium near the city of Yavoriv.

Around 6,000 troops from 15 nations, including 4,000 soldiers from Ukraine, will participate in this annual training exercise.

The military drill will primarily seek to boost combat readiness, defence capabilities and interoperability among the forces.

 

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63 African Penguins Killed by Cape Honeybees

A swarm of Cape honeybees in South Africa attacked a colony of penguins, stinging them in their eyes.  The assault left over 60 penguine dead.  The penguins in question are African penguins.

Dozens of endangered penguins killed after being stung in the eyes by swarming honeybees

From www.livescience.com
2021-09-21 13:02:12

Excerpt

In a bizarre incident, 64 endangered African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) have been killed in South Africa after being stung in and around their eyes by Cape honeybees (Apis mellifera capensis).

Rangers from the South African National Parks organization (SANParks) discovered 63 of the 64 dead penguins among a colony near Cape Town in Table Mountain National Park on Friday, Sept. 17. African penguins are a protected species in South Africa and are currently listed as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List, with around 42,000 mature individuals globally.

“The deaths occurred suddenly sometime between Thursday afternoon and Friday morning,” SANParks said in a Facebook post. “No external physical injuries were observed on any of the birds.”

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Digital Communication Revolution Through New Optical Amplifier

The backbone of internet communication is built on the power of optical communication.  From Wikipedia:

Optical communication, also known as optical telecommunication, is communication at a distance using light to carry information. It can be performed visually or by using electronic devices.

Scientists at the Photonics Laboratory at Chalmers University, Sweden, have developed a new type of optical amplifier that could dramatically increase the capacity, while decreasing the energy demand and noise distortion, of the best that optical commication currently has to offer.

Additionallly, this breakthrough could reduce the size of these amplifiers to millimeters in size.

A new optical amplifier could revolutionize optical communication

From www.techexplorist.com
2021-09-21 12:38:50
Amit Malewar
Excerpt:

….Along with offering high performance, this new amplifier is compact enough to integrate into a chip just millimeters in size. Most importantly, it does not generate excess noise.

Ping Zhao, Postdoc at the Photonics Laboratory at Chalmers, said, “We have developed the world’s first optical amplifier that significantly enhances the range, sensitivity, and performance of optical communication, that does not generate any excess noise – and is also compact enough to be of practical use.”

“The light amplification in the project is based on a principle known as the Kerr effect, which so far is the only known approach that amplifies light without causing significant excess noise. The principle has been demonstrated before, but never in such a compact format– previous versions were too bulky to be useful.”

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Republican Governors From 26 States Demand Meeting With Biden Over Border Crisis

From legalinsurrection.com
2021-09-21 13:00:26
Mike LaChance
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When you look at the border now, particularly the situation in Del Rio, Texas, the word crisis doesn’t even do it justice. What was once an immigration crisis is now a full blown humanitarian disaster.

Biden and Harris are completely missing in action, and Democrats who shrieked about ‘kids in cages’ under Trump are curiously silent.

Now a group of 26 Republican governors are demanding a meeting with Biden. They want answers and a plan of action. So do millions of Americans.

Jessica Chasmar reports at FOX News:

26 governors demand Biden meeting over border crisis

More than two dozen Republican governors are demanding a meeting with President Biden to address securing America’s borders, saying the illegal immigration surge under the current administration has created an “international humanitarian crisis.”

A letter released Monday signed by 26 Republican governors, including Doug Ducey of Arizona, Ron DeSantis of Florida, and Greg Abbott of Texas, asks Biden to…

 

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Perm State University Shooting Leaves at Least Eight Dead

From www.thedailybeast.com
2021-09-21 16:34:14

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A gunman who killed at least eight people on a university campus in Russia Monday morning has reportedly been identified as a student. According to AP, the gunman was injured when he was detained at Perm State University, and Russia’s TASS news agency reported that he’s enrolled as a student at the school. The university said in a statement that the unidentified gunman used a non-lethal weapon that appeared to have been modified to fire live ammunition. TASS reported that some students and staff were seen leaping from windows to escape the gunfire, and there are between six to 14 wounded people. Perm is about 700 miles east of Moscow and the university is home to 12,000 students.

Read it at AP

 

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General Milley Open to Future Taliban Alliance with US

In the near future, in the name of fighting Terrorism, America could find herself working as an ally with the Taliban on some operations that target the type of Islamo-Fascist groups that this particular Islamo-Fascist group might not like.  This isn’t a speculation, this is something offered as a possibility by none other than General Milley himself, the current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Working with the Devil? The Potential for U.S.-Taliban Cooperation Against the Islamic State in Afghanistan

From warontherocks.com
2021-09-16 07:55:13
Jonathan Schroden
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…. Should the United States cooperate with the Taliban in order to counter the Islamic State in Afghanistan? When asked about prospects for that during a Sept. 1 press conference, Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, responded, “It’s possible.” Given the 20-year U.S. war against the Taliban, Milley’s remarks made news and came as a shock to some observers.

In fact, the United States has already worked with the Taliban on several occasions in pursuit of common interests, and Milley’s comment makes clear U.S. officials are seriously thinking through the possibility of doing so again. A review of the pros and cons of future U.S.-Taliban cooperation against the Islamic State in Afghanistan shows that while there may be operational advantages for both sides,

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China’s Campaign Against Misinformation is Leaving Investors Without Information

In the name of protecting people from misinformation, China is targeting financial bloggers and shutting them down, allowing only the bloggers that reflect the official state financial positition.  The move is now leaving investors with too little information to make any informed decision on what to invest it.  The dangers of protecting people from misinformation is you end up  promoting solely misinformation, that of the state.

Financial Blogger Crackdown Leaves China Investors Scrabbling For Data

From todayuknews.com
2021-09-16 03:19:09

Excerpt:

 

China has launched a crackdown on financial blogs and social media, a move that risks exacerbating the difficulty of obtaining reliable data about the world’s second-biggest economy.

The restrictions were implemented as fissures widened in the top echelons of Wall Street over whether investing in China was a smart bet.

A snowballing policy overhaul has caught seasoned China investors off guard, spooked markets and sparked questions over which sector would be targeted by Beijing next.

Last month the Cyberspace Administration of China embarked on a “special rectification” campaign. The internet regulator is clamping down on market sceptics and those who voice pessimistic opinions about the Chinese economy — as well as misinformation and malfeasance radiating from financial news services and social media accounts.

China-focused economists, analysts and academics acknowledged the problems caused by uninformed online commentary and rampant fraudulent activity. But they warned that over-reach from the campaign would also silence valuable voices that diverged from the official narratives promulgated by Beijing.

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A Pandemic of Lies and Authoritarian Oppression

America’s latest aspirant to Caesar’s crown, one Joseph Biden, loves to talk about a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” But the real pandemic is a pandemic of lies and authoritarian oppression, as witnessed in part in this undercover video. In this video, it becomes clear that, in this Federal hospital that allegedly serves the Native American community, all efforts bend toward concealing any and all connections between the jab and negative side effects, including death.

This doesn’t prove that, statistically speaking, the side effects don’t outweigh the benefits, but it calls into question whether due diligence is being used in sussing out the ACTUAL side effects. What is more, the entire regimen of lockdowns, censorship, criminalization, mandates, and masks, and all the other things, all tend to feature two key things: they aren’t slowing the virus appreciably as the goalposts keep being moved and they only tend to make the ruling class wealthier and more powerful than the working class who produce the wealth.

If this video of this hospital is anything approaching the norm, that’s bad news for the entire population who, based on the claims in the video, may be being forced to use a medical treatment that is ineffective and whose potential side-effects are not truthfully reported. At the very least, in this community of Native Americans in this hospital, the people are not being served with honesty and integrity. Perhaps the fact this is a Native American community has made this careless and dishonest approach acceptable to the Feds.

Fauci funded the pandemic genesis, even if unintentionally, and he should be investigated and, if reasonable cause is found, tried for mass manslaughter. See Sky News Australia’s news report on the true origins of this virus. From the beginning we were lied to.

Whether or not you get the jab is up to you, but that doesn’t change the fact we are facing a pandemic of authoritarianism as opposed to a pandemic of the unvaccinated as one of our more divisive and shrill presidents has claimed. The vaccine isn’t living up to its promise and every goalpost so far, every promise, has turned into a new goalpost and a broken promise.

Perhaps we are being lied to, perhaps we are facing uncertainty due to an evolving threat that emerged thanks to US funding of forbidden research in a Chinese lab, or perhaps we are simply dealing with widespread incompetence by the Federal Government. Whatever the case, human dignity and human rights are being eroded and, like the Patriot Act which was allegedly aimed at Islamists abroad and which has now been aimed at domestic opponents of the ruling class, nobody expects these newly minted authoritarian powers to be relinquished.

It is argued, and perhaps not without merit, this pandemic was a crime of gross negligence by the very people who now want total control as a “solution” to their crime and as a means of covering it up.

Fear truly is, as said in Dune, “the mind killer”, and fear of this virus is driving people mad. This virus should be taken seriously, it’s no joke, and yet it isn’t in any way a justification for an authoritarian overreach that isn’t even working. It is probable that the benefits of the vaccine outweigh the cost, but coercion, shaming, and not being perfectly transparent will continue to make any desire to see more than, say, 80% of the population become vaccinated unlikely.

On the other hand, if it is achieved at the expense of the Bill of Rights and if such precedence stands and if these authoritarian powers remain in place like the Patriot Act, then what good has been achieved? You have survived a virus only to become a slave. Many would prefer to take their chance with the virus and death than to be reduced to a cog in a machine they cannot control.

Is this video typical or an outlier? We don’t know. But we do know that incompetence and broken promises by the Federal Government is severe and that these draconian measures aren’t working. We do know our government has a long history of suppressing truth and conducting gross crimes against humanity or simply covering up horrible mistakes.

If we want people to be vaccinated we have to have transparency and honesty at every level and we have to always, carefully, weigh our reactions to do the least harm possible to human dignity, human flourishing, and human rights. If indeed this virus is unpredictable and frustrating in its evolution, we should avoid sounding certain and making threats and promises based on that certainty. To claim certainty and use fear and promises to gain compliance and then to say “my bad, but, hey, it’s impossible to predict this thing’s course” is totally unacceptable.

The people, all people, even the doubters and squeamish, deserve to be treated with honor, respect, and honesty. Villainizing them and possibly criminalizing them and gathering authoritarian powers you will never surrender even after this ends is a wholly inhumane and unethical response that warrants the very fear and resistance the ruling class and their phony press are so upset about.

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