Wikileaks gagne contre VISA en Islande
http://neosting.net/actualite/wikileaks-gagne-contre-visa-en-islande.html
C’est quand même une très bonne nouvelle pour la presse indépendante, et pour la liberté d’expression. Wikileaks vient de gagner un procès devant la court suprême d’Islande. Celle-ci vient de statuer en faveur du rétablissement des dons que VISA (Valitor) avait interrompus ... #islande #visa #wikileaks
C’est quand même un sacré problème que toutes les #cartes_de_paiement du monde soient États-uniennes. Moi, si j’étais ministre du #redressement_productif, la deuxième chose que je ferai (après m’être rebaptisé ministre de production qui dure et qui sait se faire plaisir) : je créerai une carte bleu cocorico, faite à partir de #logiciels_libres et néanmoins sécurisés.
J’ai plein d’idée pour #Montebourg : Créer une industrie de l’ampoule qui dure des siècles, du téléphone portable à la durée de vie aussi longue que le minitel, etc.
Allez un petit hashtag pour ça : #la_production_qui_dure
Ahahah, bien oui, vas-y, lance-toi :) Il faudrait quand même que nos députés arrivent à voter un loi qui oblige les fabricants à garantir 3 ans les produits en France, au lieu de 1 an. Y’a eu une tentative échouée à ce propos, cette semaine.
#Espagne : #Franco presionó al Estado francés con el contraterrorismo
Los cables del Departamento de Estado de los EEUU publicados por #Wikileaks hablan largo y tendido sobre las tensas relaciones entre los Estados español y francés durante los últimos años del franquismo. El conflicto vasco, la negativa francesa a extraditar a activistas vascos y el contraterrorismo alentado por Franco fueron los principales ingredientes de esta difícil relación.
Julian Assange and Eric Schmit on Bitcoin, June 2011
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.internet.nettime/7378
On the 23 of June, 2011 a secret five hour meeting took place between #WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, who was under house arrest in rural UK at the time, and #Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
Et c’est super intéressant... même s’il va falloir que je lise plusieurs fois pour comprendre. ^^
Le transcript complet (pour plus de contexte) : http://wikileaks.org/Transcript-Meeting-Assange-Schmidt
Oui moi aussi je l’ai lu là (enfin commencé, faut le temps...), ça fait moins mal aux yeux.
Wikileaks : 5 heures de conversation secrète entre Eric Schmidt et Julian Assange | Slate
http://www.slate.fr/lien/71265/wikileaks-conversation-secrete-julian-assange-eric-schmidt-google
#Sénégal : #KarimWade #accusé d’ #enrichissement #illicite
http://www.argotheme.com/organecyberpresse/spip.php?article1723
#Arrestation d’un #nabab #africa in aux #affaires louches
C’est dans les #câbles de #Wikileaks que le surnom « Monsieur 15 % » donné par les diplomates américains à Karim #Wade, fils de l’ancien #président sénégalais, a été révélé. Tellement son enrichissement est pressenti aussi rapide qu’illicite. Les #propriétés immobilières, entre autres une bonne dizaine de véhicules aux prix impressionnants, qu’il reconnait sont estimés à 23 #millions d’ #€
WikiLeaks cables confirm collusion between Vatican and dictators - World Socialist Web Site
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/15/vati-a15.html
WikiLeaks cables confirm collusion between Vatican and dictators
By Marc Wells
15 April 2013
Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks released a new archive of 1.3 million diplomatic cables and intelligence records last Monday encompassing the years 1973 through 1976, dubbed “The Kissinger Cables.”
The database includes documents revealing the ruthless operations led by the US worldwide, at a time when the international working class was on the offensive and the bourgeoisie was waging a ruthless counterattack.
Ta goule l’aigri !
http://reflets.info/ta-goule-laigri
Vouloir expliquer qu’un livre généraliste sur le coeur de la résistance numérique que seraient les #Hackers est un peu superficiel me vaut une tripotée de commentaires tendus. Le plus joli d’entre eux étant celui de Pierre Alonso : Une petite discussion hier soir sur Twitter amenait un lecteur, ex d’#Owni également, à expliquer à l’aigri [...]
Puisque le nom de Tammam Salam circule pour être le prochain Premier ministre libanais, j’ai effectué une recherche dans les #cablegate de #Wikileaks. A priori, rien de bien intéressant.
05BEIRUT654, Lebanon Biographies of Potential Prime Ministers, 3 mars 2005
http://wikileaks.org/cable/2005/03/05BEIRUT654.html
Tammam Salam, former Member of Parliament
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¶7. Salam was born in Beirut in 1945. The Salam family is one of the prominent traditional Sunni political families of Beirut. His late father was one of the heroes of Lebanon’s independence in 1943. Hariri’s political and financial powers undermined the role of the Salam family in Beirut. He is the son of former Prime Minister Saeb Salam.
Salam was elected a Member of Parliament in 1996. He lost his seat in 2000 because of the late Prime Minister Hariri’s efforts against him. Salam was trying to mend fences with the Hariri camp in early 2005, ahead of the Spring Parliamentary elections. When Speaker Berri launched his response to the Bristol opposition group meetings, Salam participated in Berri’s counterpart conclave known as “Ain Tineh.” Salam abstained from attending the subsequent meeting “Ain Tineh II” after Hariri’s assassination.
08BEIRUT1699, Lebanon: Jumblatt peased with his U.S. visit, 28 novembre 2008
http://wikileaks.org/cable/2008/11/08BEIRUT1699.html
¶13. (C) Jumblatt worried that the recent wave of Lebanese officials visiting Syria would continue indefinitely. Hamadeh noted that President Sleiman asked Defense Minister Elias Murr to visit his counterpart in Damascus, but wondered why Culture Minister Tammam Salam needed to go now as well. “We should not send too many at one time,” said Hamadeh.
09BEIRUT495, Lebanon: UNRWA director says Nahr al-Barid reconstruction must begin now, 30 avril 2009
http://wikileaks.org/cable/2009/04/09BEIRUT495.html
HISTORY HOLDS UP CONSTRUCTION
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¶7. (C) Another issue that has come up recently is the discovery of an archaeological site on the grounds of the Nahr al-Barid camp. Two, 3,000 year-old sarcophagi were discovered on the camp site. According to Lebanese law, the GOL is responsible for preserving the site. There exists a number of options on how to do this. However, UNRWA favors leaving the site as is and building around/above the archaeological find (known as back-filling), as it is the quickest and easiest option. Minister of Culture, Tammam Salam’s recommendation on how to preserve the site is needed before construction can begin. Lombardo asked the Ambassador to speak with Salam to urge him to support this option.
09BEIRUT967, Legal challenge adds delays to Nahr al-Barid reconstruction, 27 août 2009 http://wikileaks.org/cable/2009/08/09BEIRUT967.html
LATE-BREAKING LEGAL CHALLENGE FROM AOUN
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¶2. (C) In mid-August, Michel Aoun filed a lawsuit with the Shura court requesting an injunction against the backfilling of recently discovered Roman ruins underneath areas of the Nahr al-Barid (NAB) Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli. The basis for the suit is how to best preserve the remains of the Roman village discovered during rubble and UXO removal. The Directorate General of Antiquities (DGA) earlier in the year carried out a extensive survey at the site and, with cabinet approval, agreed that construction could continue if the ruins were “backfilled” with compressed soil at least one meter above the tallest portion of the ruins after UXO and rubble removal. Caretaker Culture Minister Tammam Salam told us on August 25 that Aoun was demanding the GOL relocate the camp to new land, an option already studied and rejected due to the cost and procedural delays in appropriating the land. Salam described Aoun’s demand as disingenuous since, were the GOL to appropriate new land, Aoun would accuse the GOL of instituting a permanent resettlement plan or “tawteen” for the refugees, a policy universally rejected across the Lebanese political spectrum. One of the issues being considered by the court is whether Aoun has legal standing for the suit, either as a private citizen or an MP.
¶3. (C) The GOL filed an appeal to Aoun’s lawsuit, caretaker Justice Minister Ibrahim Najjar confirmed to Ambassador on August 14. Najjar said that both Aoun and the GOL had one month to prepare their cases. Meanwhile, on August 25 caretaker PM Siniora met with Salam, the DGA, the secretary general of the cabinet and a Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) representative to “consolidate” the government’s position before presenting their appeal to the court later in September. Salam, who underscored earlier acceptance by some members of the opposition of the DGA’s proposal, noted that two of the three judges on the State Council, which must rule on the appeal, are Aoun supporters. On August 26 UNRWA’s Deputy Director for Lebanon Roger Davies told the Ambassador the court had ordered the previously agreed-upon work on backfilling to cease while the case is adjudicated. Only archeological surveying, rubble and UXO removal will continue. Davies said that Siniora had advised UNRWA on August 26 to obey the instruction, which asserting that the GOL was “100 percent behind” the NAB reconstruction project. Davies told us August 27 that UNRWA planned to order its contractor to cease backfilling operations on August 31. According to Regional UNRWA Director Filipo Grandi, the end of October was previously the projected date to complete the clearance work and begin constructing building foundations.
09BEIRUT973, With cabinet negotiations stalled, Hariri hints at brinkmanship, 28 août 2009
http://wikileaks.org/cable/2009/08/09BEIRUT973.html
AOUN THE PROBLEM?
OR HARIRI?
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¶4. (C) The General does not fold easily, however, and underscored that his demands are firm and he will not “visit” anyone, adding cheekily that if “someone” wants to negotiate, he can visit the broad terrace of Aoun’s house. Caretaker Minister of Culture and Future Party stalwart Tammam Salam told the Ambassador August 25 that despite being “unstable,” Aoun is extremely intelligent, a political animal who does his homework and commits himself to a plan. “Even his allies can’t reel him in,” said Salam. “With or without the blessing of Syria, he will do what he wants.” Alain Aoun explained to PolChief August 26 that the General’s obstinacy was the result of Hariri’s marginalizing him (reftel) and insisted Hariri will need to find a way to meet with the General in order to move forward.
¶5. (C) Hariri has remained stoic in his responses to Aoun’s recent rants, winning praise from his allies, including Salam, who assessed that his performance has been “perfect” to date. Nonetheless, Hariri’s attempts to isolate Aoun have brought criticism from the opposition (reftel). Opposition MP Yassine Jaber, who is closely allied to Nabih Berri’s Amal party, suggested Hariri should have started negotiating with Aoun from the beginning instead of expecting Hizballah to push him. Indeed, Raad has insisted consistently in his public comments that Hizballah is Aoun’s ally, but not his mediator.
[…]
OUTSIDE FORCES
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¶9. (C) Many contacts still contend that the Hariri-Aoun spat cannot be the only thing holding up the government and that outside pressures are the real source of stalemate. Salam suggested that Syria, working from a strengthened regional and international position, must be working to freeze the process. Jaber assessed that the Egyptians had been interfering in Lebanon’s cabinet formation to serve its own regional interests. Numerous Embassy interlocutors insist that nothing can move forward in Lebanon until the Saudis and Syrians return to the negotiating table. The mood of many is summed up by Jumblatt’s comment to the Ambassador that Lebanon cannot form a government “while Saudi Arabia and Iran are fighting from Yemen to Iraq.”
09BEIRUT1214, New lebanese cabinet announced, 10 novembre 2009
http://wikileaks.org/cable/2009/11/09BEIRUT1214.html
¶7. (U) The following ministers were not returned in the new cabinet: Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, Deputy Prime Minister Issam Abou Jamra, Finance Minister Mohammad Chatah, Social Affairs Minister Mario Aoun, Industry Minister Ghazi Zoayter, Tourism Minister Elie Marouni, Culture Minister Tammam Salam, Environment Minister Antoine Karam, Minister of the Displaced Raymond Audi, Administrative Reform Minister Ibrahim Shamseddine, Youth and Sports Minister Talal Arslan, Education Minister Bahia Hariri, Foreign Affairs Minister Fawzi Salloukh, Energy and Water Minister Alain Tabourian, Agriculture Minister Elie Skaff, State Minister Ali Qanso, State Minister Khaled Qabbani, and State Minister Nassib Lahoud.
Déclaration du Pfc. Bradley E. Manning devant la Commission d’enquête préparatoire
http://reflets.info/declaration-du-pfc-bradley-e-manning-devant-la-commission-denquete-prepara
Reflets a joué au traducteur. La presse française est silencieuse sur le procès de #Bradley_Manning alors qu’il a des répercussions insoupçonnables. Voici donc sa déclaration devant la commission d’enquête préparatoire visant à déterminer si un accord sur la base du plaider coupable est possible. Il ressort principalement trois choses de ce témoignage. 1) Bradley [...]
#A_la_Une #Revue_de_Web #Technos #Cour_Martiale #featured #Julian_Assange #Justice #SIPRNet #USA #Wikileaks
Julian Assange, cyber-terroriste ?
http://www.la-bas.org/article.php3?id_article=2719
Pour toute une génération aujourd’hui dans le monde, Julian Assange est le héros qui invente Wikileaks, qui dévoile les crimes de guerre des Etats-Unis en Irak, qui diffuse des milliers de pages de documents officiels, qui fait trembler Etats et services de renseignement.
Le fondateur de #WikiLeaks Julian #Assange vient de s’alarmer des pressions exercées par les autorités américaines sur certains réseaux sociaux, dont #Twitter et #Facebook. D’après lui, il y a même eu un inquiétant glissement, ce qui l’amène à affirmer que ces derniers « sont aux ordres de #Washington ».
Providence — a short #film featuring ’s voice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L79wWAFUqg
Leaked audio recording of Bradley Manning describing his response to the July 12, 2007 Baghdad Apache airstrike video that documented the killing of two Reuters journalists.
Liban-TSL : Un procès politique sous habillage juridique
http://www.renenaba.com/liban-tsl-un-proces-politique-sous-habillage-juridique
L’acte d’accusation ne mentionne pas de preuves irréfutables et irréfragables, se bornant à retenir des « preuves circonstancielles » fondées sur le relevé des données des réseaux libanais des télécommunications, longtemps entièrement infiltrés par Israël, particulièrement du temps où l’un des protagonistes de cette affaire, le pro haririen Marwane Hamadé, était ministre des télécommunications.
Ces relevés avaient été communiqués à la justice internationale par le « département du renseignement » relevant du Colonel Wissam Hassan, gravitant dans l’orbite direct de Saad Hariri, hors de tout contrôle hiérarchique de l’autorité de l’état, l’homme clé du soutien politico-militaire saoudo libanais à l’opposition djihadiste en Syrie. Ainsi donc, pendant six ans, à raison d’un budget annuel de cinquante millions de dollars, le TSL et sa commission d’enquête, se sont bornés à avaliser sans recoupement, des données communiquées par une partie prenante au contentieux.
La première mise en cause du Hezbollah est intervenue, via le journal Le Figaro, le 15 août 2006, au lendemain du cessez le feu israélo-libanais et visait à criminaliser le mouvement chiite pour compenser les revers militaires israéliens au terme d’une guerre de destruction israélienne du Liban de 33 jours. Une telle coïncidence pose le problème de la fonction de la Justice pénale de son éventuelle instrumentalisation à des fins politiques, la satisfaction des desseins stratégiques des grandes puissances occidentales.
The New York Times’ Bill Keller smears Bradley Manning - World Socialist Web Site
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/03/18/mann-m18.html
The New York Times’ Bill Keller smears Bradley Manning
By Naomi Spencer
18 March 2013
On February 28, at his pretrial hearing at Fort Meade, Maryland, Private Bradley Manning revealed that before releasing government files to WikiLeaks, he contacted major newspapers, including the New York Times, in an effort to pass on the documents in his possession. Manning did so, he explained, because the files contained “some of the most significant documents of our time, removing the fog of war and revealing the true nature of 21st century asymmetric warfare.” These files exposed government crimes and atrocities, including the deliberate murder of civilians by the US military.
Manning called contact numbers listed on the Times web site and left a message explaining the nature of the material along with his phone number and Skype information. He never received a response.
The Impact of the Bradley Manning Case - NYTimes.com
Death to Whistle-Blowers?
By FLOYD ABRAMS and YOCHAI BENKLER
Published: March 13, 2013
LAST month Pfc. Bradley Manning pleaded guilty to several offenses related to leaking hundreds of thousands of documents to WikiLeaks in 2010, a plea that could land him in jail for 20 years. But Private Manning still faces trial on the most serious charges, including the potential capital offense of “aiding the enemy” — though the prosecution is not seeking the death penalty in this case, “only” a life sentence.
Private Manning’s Confidant - Bill Keller - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/11/opinion/keller-private-mannings-confidant.html
But if Manning had been our direct source, the consequences might have been slightly mitigated. Although as a matter of law I believe #WikiLeaks and The New York Times are equally protected by the First Amendment, it’s possible the court’s judgment of the leaker might be colored by the fact that he delivered the goods to a group of former hackers with an outlaw sensibility and an antipathy toward American interests.
#presse #cablegate #défends_tes_sources_en_les_enfonçant
mais aussi :
The Impact of the #Bradley_Manning Case
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/14/opinion/the-impact-of-the-bradley-manning-case.html
If successful, the prosecution will establish a chilling precedent: national security leaks may subject the leakers to a capital prosecution or at least life imprisonment. Anyone who holds freedom of the press dear should shudder at the threat that the prosecution’s theory presents to journalists, their sources and the public that relies on them.
Daniel Ellsberg : In Hearing Bradley Manning Act Out of Conscience, Secret Tape Refutes Media Slander | Democracy Now !
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/3/12/daniel_ellsberg_in_hearing_bradley_manning
To discuss Bradley Manning’s recorded court statement that was recently leaked to the press, we’re joined by perhaps the country’s most famous whistleblower, Daniel Ellsberg. Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, the secret history of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. “What we’ve heard are people like The New York Times who have consistently slandered him ... that he was vague and couldn’t think of specific instances that had led him to inform the American people of injustices,” Ellsberg says. “The American people can now, for the first time, hear Bradley in his own words, emotionally and in the greatest specific detail, tell what it was that he felt that needed revelation.”
Media and US Government True Betrayers in #Bradley_Manning Case (The 99.99998271%)
http://99998271.blogspot.de/2013/03/media-and-us-government-true-betrayers.html
“Is this embarrassing? Yes. Is this awkward? Yes. Consequences for U.S. foreign policy? I think fairly modest” — Robert Gates, former United States Secretary of Defense
In a prepared statement Bradley Manning this week pleaded guilty to ten of the charges against him and revealed that before sending 251,287 US diplomatic cables to #Wikileaks he had first approached and been rebuffed by The New York Times and The Washington Post, an unexpected twist in a saga that has polarized opinion on the young former intelligence analyst.
une liste de résultats engrangés grâce au #cablegate (et pas grâce à la #presse)
After two years, #Amnesty explains why #Bradley_Manning has not been named a Prisoner of Conscience, by Joe Emersberger
http://www.zcommunications.org/after-two-years-amnesty-explains-why-bradley-manning-has-not-been-n
Today, I was finally told by an Amnesty USA employee (after she consulted with their “expert” on the case) that they have still not named Manning a Prisoner of Conscience (POC) but that Amnesty is “still investigating” if he qualifies. She added that Amnesty is not yet certain of two criteria that must be met
1) That Manning released information in a “responsible manner”
2) That the government has been punishing him in order to prevent
public knowledge of human rights abuses.
#wikileaks #cablegate #droits_humains #prisonniers_politiques
#Bradley #Manning justifie son #acte avec #Wikileaks
http://www.argotheme.com/organecyberpresse/spip.php?article1656
Les #bavures que l’ #armée des Etats-Unis commet toujours
Alors que se tient le #procès de Bradley Manning, depuis début mars, #JulianAssange a qualifié l’accusé en #prisonnier #politique . Il a encore une fois désigné les #USA de chercher à punir les #critiques de sa politique #militaire et étrangère. L’intéressé plaide coupable, pour 10 charges, espérant d’être passible d’une peine maximum de 20 ans.
Hacking and whistleblowing: the new crack cocaine of activism - Le Monde diplomatique - English edition
http://mondediplo.com/blogs/hacking-and-whistleblowing-the-new-crack-cocaine
The irony is, were Manning a Chinese, Iranian or Cuban soldier who had exposed potential war crimes committed by his government, his solitary confinement and impending life sentence would be held up as evidence of the barbarity and anti-democratic tendencies of the “regimes” in question, and calls would be made for his release on “humanitarian” grounds. As it is, Manning (like Swartz) is being given the 1986 crack cocaine treatment by the US government: the threat of a wildly excessive prison sentence, at odds with both logic and law, for the purpose of crushing the individual in question.
If the message of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 was that the poor and minorities needed learn their place in an America ruled by white elites, then what is the message being sent in relation to Manning, Swartz and the two Anonymous hackers in the UK? Much the same as in the case of crack versus powder, actually. While the US and UK make geopolitical hay out of their commitment to free speech and democracy, dissenters and activists must learn their place. They are useful to the neoliberal project in that they show that moderate dissent is tolerated; but once that dissent crosses the line and trespasses upon the sacred turf of corporate profits and military power, then action must be taken. If that means sending a man to prison for life for exposing potential war crimes, or driving a man to suicide for downloading academic articles, so be it.
#Julian #Assange #candidat #sénatorial .
http://www.argotheme.com/organecyberpresse/spip.php?article1631
#Webjournaliste, avide et épris de #vérité, sur la voie #politique
#WikiLeaks est une #organisation de #Web #Journalistes et son travail est connu dans le #monde entier. Son fondateur, #JulianAssange a déposé son #dossier pour briguer un siège au #Senat #australie n, son pays. L’ #information a été rapportée par le site d’ #informations « #THEAGE » qui précise que cette #candidature est faite sous les couleurs d’un nouveau parti ayant aussi le nom de « Wikileaks ».
TPB AFK - 2012
http://watch.tpbafk.tv
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2f/TPB_AFK.jpg/220px-TPB_AFK.jpg
#film #documentaire sur le procès de The Pirate Bay, avec le copain de @reka
Dont la présentation à Bergen (du susdit copain) en 2012 reste encore aujourd’hui un moment d’émerveillement : il a tout compris, avec 10 ou 20 ans d’avance.
@thibnton C’était en mars 2012, il y avait une rencontre à Bergen (« Data is political ») Peter avait fait une présentation de son approche. La chan ce c’est que ça aété filmé (en mauvaise qualité, mais c’est suffisant pour comprendre) et c’est visible là
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/data-is-political
Peter Sunde, c’est un festival génial de la minute 4:00 à la minute 50:00. Plein d’idées sur lesquelles rebondir, et quelques abecdotes croustillantes, certains à mourir de rire.
« Data is Political » est un projet initié par Amber
Frid-Jimenez et Ben Dalton, qui se poursuivra très certainement cette année ou l’année prochaine
Three critiques of #hacktivism : #wikileaks, #bitcoin, #copyleft
http://antinational.org/sites/default/files/furball-00.pdf
dommage, l’article sur #wikileaks semble méconnaître les motivations originellement exprimées par Assange (sur l’asymétrie dans la circulation de l’information), pour ne retenir que le discours compassé (et de façade) sur le rôle du journalisme dans la démocratie…
sur #bitcoin par contre c’est très intéressant :
[Alice and Bob] produce their products not to fulfil their own or somebody else’s need, but to sell their products such that they can buy what they need. When alice buys shoes off Bob, she uses her money as a leverage to make Bob give her his shoes; in other words, she uses his dependency on money to get his shoes. Vice versa, Bob uses alice’s dependence on shoes to make her give him money.12 Hence, it only makes sense for each to want more of the other’s for less of their own, which means deprive the other of her means: what I do not need immediately is still good for future trades. (...) the logic of exchange is that one wants to keep as much of one’s own means as possible: buy cheep, sell dear. In other words, they are not expressing this harmonious division of labour for the mutual benefit at all, but seeking to gain an advantage in exchange, because they have to. (...) This relation they have with each other produces an incentive to cheat, rob, steal. (...) This systemic production of circumstances where one party’s advantage is the other party’s disadvantage also produces the need for a monopoly on violence of the state. (...) The libertarians behind Bitcoin might detest state intervention, but a market economy presupposes it. (...) The fact that ‘unbreakable’ digital signatures—or law enforced by the #police—are needed to secure such simple transactions as goods being transferred from the producer to the consumer implies a fundamental #enmity_of_interest of the involved parties. (...) Money is power one can carry in one’s pockets; it expresses how much control over land, people, machines, products I have. (...) Money is an expression of social conditions where private property separates means and need.
(...)
libertarian Bitcoin adherents and developers claim that by ‘printing money’ states—via their central banks—devalue currencies and hence deprive their subjects of their assets.25 They claim that the state’s (and sometimes the banks’) ability of creating money ‘out of thin air’ would violate the principles of free market because they are based on monopoly instead of competition. (...) They do not ask why modern currencies do not have a limit built in, how credit money came about, if and how it is adequate for the capitalist economy and why the gold standard was departed from in the first place. They are not interested in explaining why the world is set the way it is but instead to confront it with their ideal version.
(...) the value of modern #credit money is backed by its ability to bring about capitalist growth
[et en conclusion : ] Systematic enmity of interests, exclusion from social wealth, subjection of everything to capitalist growth—that is what an economy looks like where exchange, money and private property determine production and consumption. This also does not change if the substance of money is gold or Bitcoin. This society produces poverty not because there is credit money but because this society is based on exchange, money and economic growth. The libertarians might not mind this poverty, but those on the left who discovered Bitcoin as a new alternative to the status quo perhaps should.
#propriété_privée #idéologie #libertariens #monnaie
Sur le copyleft ça me semble moins indispensable
#communs #biens_publics #domaine_public
mais la critique n’est pas inintéressante :
squatted houses get evicted to stand empty again, pieces of woodland are fenced in by their owners who live elsewhere or supermarkets lock their bins to prevent people from dumpster diving. The question whether someone could make use of something is subordinate to ownership, not the other way around.
Petraeus: the Plot Thickens - WhoWhatWhy
http://whowhatwhy.com/2013/02/05/petraeus-the-plot-thickens-1
By bringing to such a gathering a younger woman who aroused such suspicion, Petraeus was already exhibiting the kind of recklessness not uncommon to highly ambitious people on the rapid ascent. This was especially true given the stakes involved—and Petraeus’s own formidable enemies within the US government.
