OzMedia https://ozmedia.com.au News | Communications | Media Mon, 31 Jul 2023 13:46:17 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.24 Why President Trump Should Pardon General Mike Flynn, Without any Further Delay https://ozmedia.com.au/news/president-trump-pardon-general-mike-flynn-without-delay/ Mon, 10 Aug 2020 05:43:00 +0000 https://ozmedia.com.au/?p=826 Imagine being stopped by the police and asked how many times you spoke to your brother-in-law last month. You say five. Sounds innocent enough, but unknown to you, the police had been wiretapping your brother-in-law and they knew you had…

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More Damning Information Released in the Case of General ...Imagine being stopped by the police and asked how many times you spoke to your brother-in-law last month. You say five. Sounds innocent enough, but unknown to you, the police had been wiretapping your brother-in-law and they knew you had spoken six times. You are now guilty of lying to the police, and could face up to 10 years in prison. Your lawyers tell you to plead guilty. The police also intimidate you to plead guilty or they will drag your kids into your mess. Combine that with a deep-felt obligation to protect your country and president from embarrassment. You would just fall on your sword. As Flynn did. But now imagine that things just get worse. The press relentlessly parade you on TV and the internet as a traitor. Your entire family have their lives upended.  Then you discover that the entire thing was a set-up planned from the very outset.

The Michael Flynn case is quite exceptional, because he was was accused of making false statements to the FBI. Although technically this is a crime, it’s one of those things that they really have to be out to “get you” to stoop to this level. Additionally Flynn was not even aware that he was being investigated, and he was under the impression that he was helping law enforcement.Flynn’s legal agony has dragged on since the Trump administration took office more than 3 years ago, racked up millions of dollars in legal fees, lost his family home has continued to be the subject of  blatant politicisation by the media while his prosecution has continued relentlessly.

Other people familiar with Flynn’s situation have also confirmed that prosecutors had even threatened Flynn’s son, who also works with his father at Flynn Intel Group, the security firm Flynn founded, and was additionally persuaded by his previous counsel to plead guilty to lying to FBI investigators. Combine that with the fact that the FBI and Justice Department opened criminal investigations into former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn, knowing that there was no basis even ‘open’ an investigation, should alarm everyone.

Federal Judge Emmet Sullivan continues to rain down legal torture on Mike Flynn by referring the case to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, which had previously ordered the dismissal of charges against the former Obama era national security adviser. 

As of now, two powerful branches of the executive have been brought into total disrepute, and Judge Sullivan’s bizarre vendetta against a good man threatens to do the same with the judiciary. Just look at the court appearance when Judge Sullivan, from out of nowhere, outrageously accused Flynn of treasonJudge Sullivan even hinted that he could charge Flynn with perjury if he changed his plea after new evidence was discovered that had been hidden by the prosecution and even ‘lost’ evidence. There is no doubt about flagrant Brady violations. Sullivan also appointed a former judge who had previously made his own controversial remarks about the Trump, demonstrating that partisan politics was in play.

Federal judge hands watchdog a victory over Clinton’s ...Judge Sullivan knows that if the court hears the case en banc, the panel’s opinion could be overturned. That means written dismissal orders disappear and the final decision is reviewed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. This begs the questions – do powerful people have something on Sullivan? Who is pulling the strings?

Flynn’s sentencing, originally scheduled early 2020 in federal court in D.C., is now in its final stages, after an additional motion has been filed to withdraw his guilty plea. The change came after Powell made the decision to withdraw his plea after the grand jury dropped the charges, some of which called for six months in prison.

Had the Flynn case not been so political, this would have been over long ago. But these are exceptional times and the enemies of the current administration are desperate and hell bent on leaving carnage in their wake.

One thing is clear. You don’t expend this much ammunition unless you have something truly heinous to hide.

It’s time for President Trump to put an end to this mess, Pardon General Flynn, then shine a light of biblical proportions on the people behind one of the biggest scandals in U.S. History.

Please consider donating to the Mike Flynn Defense fund  – If we don’t stand up for the good men and hero’s, who will be left to fight for us.

As revelations regarding Sally Yates false testimony continue to come to light, and more details of the orchestrated targeting of this great American become public, this is sure to be a very HOT summer.

 

General Michael Flynn is a retired US Army lieutenant general under investigation for his forced resignation as the president’s national security adviser – President-elect Donald Trump. Flynn’s military career included shaping the US counter-terrorism strategy and dismantling insurgent networks during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He was the 18th Director of Defense Intelligence after leaving the military in August 2014 and received the Medal of Freedom, the highest military award in the United States, as well as the Bronze Star and Purple Heart.

Sidney Powell is widely respected and has practiced for decades, especially in the Fifth District. She was former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s top adviser in the presidential campaign and a key figure in her successful 2008 re-election campaign.

Sergey Kislyak is a top Russian diplomat and politician and was Russia’s ambassador to the United States from 2008 to 2017. From 2003 to 2008 he was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Kislyak became so influential that he received significant media coverage after denying that Russia was behind the hacking of the Democratic National Committee, and he has been its top representative in the US since amid growing political tensions between Russia and the Trump administration.

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Newly Declassified Document : FBI Misled Congress On Reliability Of Steel Dossier https://ozmedia.com.au/news/newly-declassified-document-fbi-misled-congress-reliability-steel-dossier/ Mon, 10 Aug 2020 02:28:13 +0000 https://ozmedia.com.au/?p=823 “The FBI did to the Senate Intelligence Committee what the Justice Department and FBI have done to the FISA courts before: deceive them.” Says  Lindsey Graham The chairman of the committee, today released newly declassified FBI documents that suggest the bureau…

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“The FBI did to the Senate Intelligence Committee what the Justice Department and FBI have done to the FISA courts before: deceive them.” Says  Lindsey Graham

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The chairman of the committee, today released newly declassified FBI documents that suggest the bureau misled them about the reliability of the dossier of former National Security Agency contractor Christopher Steele.

The documents clearly show that the FBI continued to mislead them about the credibility of Steele and his dossier during the investigation into President Donald Trump’s possible ties to Russia.

A Russian sub-source who actually told the FBI that the characterisation of the dossier was “completely out of touch with reality” lied to the Senate Intelligence Committee and the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.   “I don’t know what to do about it, but I will ask FBI Director Wray to provide more information about how the briefing was organized and conducted.” The briefing document was found by Inspector General Horowitz’s team, and he deserves great credit for revealing the truth about the FBI’s mishandling of the Steele dossier and other classified information.

There is also an FBI document that was leaked to the Senate Intelligence Committee detailing the information in the Steele dossier. The FBI briefing to members of Congress came after the FBI learned that Steele’s 2017 dossier was unreliable. This document contains information on the intelligence services’ assessment of the reliability and credibility of the dossier.

A document released by the Senate Judiciary Committee shows that the main source told the FBI that he had no idea where the language attributed to him came from and that his contact had not mentioned any other information attributed to him or their contact. The primary source also said that Steele used a false source name in one of his contacts. He told the FBI that he did not know where the language or any of the “other information” he was alleged to have provided came from, and did not remember information attributed to him and / or the contact with which the information was attributed.

The source told the FBI that his information came from a conversation with a friend over beer and that there was no evidence that the statement was made as a joke. In addition, the main source tells the FBI that Steele presented the information in the dossier as if the facts reported by partial sources were facts. As the Senate Judiciary Committee’s investigation into the Steele dossier and the Clinton campaign’s ties to Russia and Russia’s collusion with the Trump campaign revealed, he also told them that the dossier’s “confirmation” was “zero,” and that he was taking “with a grain of salt” what one source had told him about it.

The top source told the FBI that his contacts did not have enough information to report Steele’s contacts or their relationship with the Trump campaign. Instead, he told them the information was from someone else who may have had access. The FBI’s interviews with the primary subdivision could include multiple layers of hearsay, but the source said there was “no evidence” that any of the people cited in the report had been contacted by Steele.

Today’s publication is the latest in a series of declassified documents and other related materials that can be accessed in judicial, Senate and Treasury investigations.

This declassified document and other related material may be accessed at the following link: http://judiciary.senate.gov/fisa-investigation

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Legalisation Of Cannabis In Australia https://ozmedia.com.au/medical/australia-cannabis-legalisation-best-bongs-laws/ Wed, 06 May 2020 02:47:46 +0000 https://ozmedia.com.au/?p=810 Last year the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) became the first jurisdiction in Australia to legalise possession of small amounts of cannabis for personal use by adults over 18. The Australian legislature is responding to the growing call to tear up…

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Last year the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) became the first jurisdiction in Australia to legalise possession of small amounts of cannabis for personal use by adults over 18. The Australian legislature is responding to the growing call to tear up existing drug laws and replace them with a health regulatory system, and we are seeing progress. It is inevitable that laws around the use and possession of cannabis in Australia will need to change.

Under Amendment Law 2019, which takes effect on 31 January 2020, adults are allowed to grow a maximum of two cannabis plants and possess up to 50 grams of cannabis per person. A law passed this week, expected to take effect on 31 January 2020, would explicitly allow adults to grow two cannabis plants for themselves. 

In addition, the new law would allow adults to possess up to 50 grams of marijuana for themselves or another person. Marijuana is Australia’s most popular illegal drug, and although it is still illegal at the federal level, states, territories and nations treat it differently.

The law amends existing ACT criminal offences so they no longer include possession or cultivation of small amounts of cannabis. Under current ACT law, possession of 50 grams or more could be fined at $8,000 and up to two years in jail, and would land you with a possible AU $160 fine.

Despite the law change in the ACT, the federal law will continue to criminalise cannabis in the nation’s capital. The ACT is now the only state in Australia with legalised cannabis for recreational use, but regulations can vary from state to state. Laws to legalise medical marijuana across Australia have been in place for several years, and despite changes to ACT law it is still not legal. 

The global legal cannabis market is expected to double in the next five years and reach a value of about 146.4 billion dollars by 2025. 

Jamaican style glass bong with multi-coloured glass

The Jamaican King Bong (Photo courtesy www.cloudychoices.com.au)

Sales growth is largely driven by the increasing use of cannabis – based medicines such as cannabis oil and cannabis extracts. Australia appears poised to follow the trend of increasing legalisation in countries that have legalised marijuana when medical marijuana becomes legal in Australia in 2016. The cannabis industry is currently gaining traction in an increasing number of countries around the world, particularly in the United States, Canada, Australia and Japan.

Marijuana has been illegal in Australia since 1928 and has remained largely the same since, with the exception of a small number of offences where offenders face fines and penalties for possession. There are no legal restrictions on the use of cannabis oil or cannabis extracts for medicinal purposes, and there is no prohibition on their use for recreational purposes. 

With the passing of the Cannabis Regulation and the Cannabis Act 1996 (ACT) Canberra became the first city in Australia to legalise cannabis for personal use. The use and distribution of cannabis is prohibited under the Australian Criminal Code and the Australian Criminal Law Act 1998 (ACLA). 

Canberra under-18’s will be allowed to possess 50g of cannabis and grow up to two plants, but households will only be allowed to have four plants in total and hydrogen cultivation will remain illegal, ABC reports. Australians are now able to possess up to fifty grams of cannabis and grow between two and two-and-a-half plants.

The new law, which was passed in the Australian Capital Territory in September, now comes into force in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia.

Australia’s capital is the first part of the country to legalise cannabis for both personal and recreational use. Under the new law, which came into force on 31 January, adults in Canberra can take up to one gram of dried cannabis and grow two cannabis plants. The Australian capital territory allows people to possess fifty grams of cannabis and grow up to two plants at home for personal use and medicinal purposes.

On Wednesday, the Australian Capital Territory’s Legislative Assembly voted to legalise possession of the drug for personal use for the first time in the country’s history, according to The Canberra Times.

The opposition voted against the law, arguing that the change would encourage more people to use marijuana and lead to more drug use – induced psychosis.

In the 1920s and early 1930s cannabis was a legalised drug, but it was dangerous, so much so that the US government came up with the idea of banning the drug as a reason for doing so. Today, cannabis is one of the most illegal drugs used around the world, both illegal and legal. It is now legal in certain parts of Canada, where there is a “cannabis park” where people can smoke and relax with friends, and it has reduced the amount of cannabis smuggled in from other countries and states.

If legalised in Australia, will it stop people from smoking it illegally or being paranoid? Despite the fears, the sale of Australia cannabis smoking devices, and the hunt for the best Australian bongs, still remain a popular past-time for Australian  recreational users.

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Update : Change to our Service and Structure re: COVID-19 for Medical Organisations https://ozmedia.com.au/news/update-change-service-structure-re-covid-19-medical-organisations/ Sun, 29 Mar 2020 04:47:34 +0000 https://ozmedia.com.au/?p=805 We are continually monitoring upstream communications channels to ensure that critical SMS, FAX and VOICE transmissions are given top priority on our systems and where communication disruption occurs with any given provider, we are continually ready to re-route traffic so…

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We are continually monitoring upstream communications channels to ensure that critical SMS, FAX and VOICE transmissions are given top priority on our systems and where communication disruption occurs with any given provider, we are continually ready to re-route traffic so that your messages get delivered on-time. There is significant additional load being placed on Australia’s internet and communications infrastructure as more people begin to work from home.

We anticipate the situation to get worse in the coming weeks and we all have a duty to minimize network load, therefore OzMedia have taken the following steps :

  • Medical organisations will receive HIGH priority placement on our message queues for faster delivery of SMS, FAX and Text-to-Speech messages.
  • ALL Marketing and non-essential messages, for the foreseeable future, have been given low priority, and may be blocked on our systems entirely.
  • Marketing material to medical organisations, unless specifically Medical B2B, are no longer allowed on our systems until further notice.
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Intercontinental Exchange Announces Bakkt, a Global Platform and Ecosystem for Digital Assets https://ozmedia.com.au/announcements/intercontinental-exchange-announces-bakkt-global-platform-ecosystem-digital-assets/ Tue, 07 Aug 2018 00:11:42 +0000 https://ozmedia.com.au/?p=772 Launch of regulated, physical Bitcoin futures contract and warehouse planned for November 2018 Bakkt to draw on expertise from leading companies across regulated markets, risk management, technology and consumer experience including BCG, Intercontinental Exchange, Microsoft and Starbucks August 03, 2018…

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Launch of regulated, physical Bitcoin futures contract and warehouse planned for November 2018

Image result for bakktBakkt to draw on expertise from leading companies across regulated markets, risk management, technology and consumer experience including BCG, Intercontinental Exchange, Microsoft and Starbucks

ATLANTA & NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE), a leading operator of global exchanges, clearing houses, data and listings services, announced today that it plans to form a new company, Bakkt, which intends to leverage Microsoft cloud solutions to create an open and regulated, global ecosystem for digital assets. The new company is working with a marquee group of organizations including BCG, Microsoft, Starbucks, and others, to create an integrated platform that enables consumers and institutions to buy, sell, store and spend digital assets on a seamless global network.

“Bakkt is designed to serve as a scalable on-ramp for institutional, merchant and consumer participation in digital assets by promoting greater efficiency, security and utility”

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The Bakkt ecosystem is expected to include federally regulated markets and warehousing along with merchant and consumer

applications. Its first use cases will be for trading and conversion of Bitcoin versus fiat currencies, as Bitcoin is today the most liquid digital currency. The effort is designed to address evolving needs in the estimated $270 billion digital asset marketplace.

Applications for digital currencies continue to develop alongside regulatory frameworks and rising investment in blockchain technology which, halfway through 2018, has already exceeded all of 2017, according to KPMG. By leveraging trusted market infrastructure, Bakkt is being engineered to help the digital asset markets evolve securely and efficiently while supporting transaction flows.

“In bringing regulated, connected infrastructure together with institutional and consumer applications for digital assets, we aim to build confidence in the asset class on a global scale, consistent with our track record of bringing transparency and trust to previously unregulated markets,” said Jeffrey C. Sprecher, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Intercontinental Exchange.

As an initial component of the Bakkt offering, Intercontinental Exchange’s U.S.-based futures exchange and clearing house plan to launch a 1-day physically delivered Bitcoin contract along with physical warehousing in November 2018, subject to CFTC review and approval. These regulated venues will establish new protocols for managing the specific security and settlement requirements of digital currencies. In addition, the clearing house plans to create a separate guarantee fund that will be funded by Bakkt.

“Bakkt is designed to serve as a scalable on-ramp for institutional, merchant and consumer participation in digital assets by promoting

“Blockchain technology holds tremendous potential to enable new business models and trusted ecosystems,” said Sean Collins, Senior Partner, BCG. “By leveraging and developing fundamental market infrastructure, the Bakkt platform will enable firms across industries to accelerate a range of innovation.” greater efficiency, security and utility,” said Kelly Loeffler, CEO of Bakkt. “We are collaborating to build an open platform that helps unlock the transformative potential of digital assets across global markets and commerce.”

“As the flagship retailer, Starbucks will play a pivotal role in developing practical, trusted and regulated applications for consumers to convert their digital assets into US dollars for use at Starbucks,” said Maria Smith, Vice President, Partnerships and Payments for Starbucks. “As a leader in Mobile Pay to our more than 15 million Starbucks Rewards members, Starbucks is committed to innovation for expanding payment options for our customers.”

In addition to Intercontinental Exchange and M12, Microsoft’s venture capital arm, investors in Bakkt are expected to include, among others, an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group, Eagle Seven, Galaxy Digital, Horizons Ventures, Alan Howard, Pantera Capital, Protocol Ventures, and Susquehanna International Group, LLP.

Bakkt is currently in preparation for launch and further operational details will be announced in the coming weeks. To sign up to receive alerts and information, please visit Bakkt.com.

About Bakkt

Bakkt is designed to enable consumers and institutions to seamlessly buy, sell, store and spend digital assets. Formed with the purpose of bringing trust, efficiency and commerce to digital assets, Bakkt seeks to develop open technology to connect existing market and merchant infrastructure to the blockchain.

About Intercontinental Exchange

Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE) is a Fortune 500 and Fortune Future 50 company formed in the year 2000 to modernize markets. ICE serves customers by operating the exchanges, clearing houses and information services they rely upon to invest, trade and manage risk across global financial and commodity markets. A leader in market data, ICE Data Services serves the information and connectivity needs across virtually all asset classes. ICE is the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, which has helped companies raise more capital than any other exchange in the world, driving economic growth and transforming markets.

Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995

Statements in this press release regarding ICE’s plans to launch Bakkt and a regulated, physical Bitcoin futures contract and warehousing, as well as statements regarding Bakkt’s business objectives, opportunities and investors are not historical facts and are “forward-looking statements” that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of additional risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see ICE’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, including, but not limited to, the risk factors in Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017, as filed with the SEC on February 7, 2018. We caution you not to place undue reliance on these forward looking statements. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which such statement is made, and we undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement or statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which such statement is made or to reflect the occurrence of an unanticipated event. New factors emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for management to predict all factors that may affect our business and prospects. Further, management cannot assess the impact of each factor on the business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements.

ICE-CORP

(reproduced with permission)

Contacts

Intercontinental Exchange Media Contacts:
Josh King
josh.king@theice.com
Phone: 212.656.2490
or
Damon Leavell
damon.leavell@theice.com
Phone: 212.323.8587
or
Intercontinental Exchange Investor Contact:
Warren Gardiner
warren.gardiner@theice.com
Phone: 770.835.0114
or
Boston Consulting Group Media Contact:
Nidhi Sinha
sinha.nidhi@bcg.com
Phone: 646.455.4615
or
Starbucks Media Contact:
Sanja Gould
press@starbucks.com
Phone: 206.318.7100

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Can you Trust Crypto Journalists do to Their Due Diligence? The PoC Consortium Uncovers A Serious Problem https://ozmedia.com.au/crypto-currency/can-trust-crypto-journalists-due-diligence-poc-consortium-interesting-take/ Fri, 29 Jun 2018 00:54:35 +0000 https://ozmedia.com.au/?p=760 On Crypto “Experts” Crypto currencies (in short: cryptos) are not an entirely new phenomenon — we’re almost a decade in — but they are still not as ubiquitous as e.g. bread and butter and so there is a plethora of one-eyed in the kingdom…

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On Crypto “Experts”

Crypto currencies (in short: cryptos) are not an entirely new phenomenon — we’re almost a decade in — but they are still not as ubiquitous as e.g. bread and butter and so there is a plethora of one-eyed in the kingdom of the blind who make a living of informing “the masses” about the marvelous unknown land of crypto. Snake oil is pouring by the gallons and forming a very slippery slope.

We, the PoC Consortium, are a group of computer scientists, mathematicians, engineers and executives. Many of us are past their 30s or 40s, so we can add a little experience to our formal education.

Last August we decided to invest our knowledge, experience and time to further develop a crypto named Burstcoin into what we believe a global, and future-proof crypto should look like. Burstcoin was at the time in a bad shape and long story short, 10 months later Burstcoin is in an excellent shape and we’re working now towards its perfection.

There are of course other — formidable — development teams we highly respect and who we consider both skilled and versed. Other than that the crypto world as whole is full of young, enthusiastic and ultimately naïve people. No worries, we know we were naïve too. In the 90s, when e.g. Linux was a hype as crypto is today. Naivety passes in time and often the older ones help you to overcome it.

So let’s get to the topic of this post. The so called Crypto “Experts”. The one-eyed in the kingdom of the blind. It gets problematic when these people have aspirations to become influencers. There are way too many of them to name, you can find them on YouTube, Hackernoon, LinkedIn and of course even here on Medium.

One such guy is Josh Constine (and sorry Josh, but you asked for it) a young “technology journalist” with a Master’s degree in Cybersociology, examining the influence of technology on social interaction. Ok.

The PoC Consortium’s social interaction with Josh, Editor-at-Large at Techcrunch happened when we read up his article “Chia versus Bitcoin” — the usual pre-fabricated text how the vaporware Chia will save the world from the energy requirements of Bitcoin. While the topic of energy efficiency is a valid one, the claims of Chia aren’t. Also, for any respectable writer, one would assume him to do some research first and when it comes to Proof-of-Space (better: Proof-of-Capacity PoC, as PoS is taken by Proof-of-Stake already) and to find out there is already a PoC coin since 2014: Burstcoin

We tweeted Josh about being puzzled how he managed to write about Chia and its marvelous all-new Proof-of-Capacity proposal without mentioning Burstcoin.

And with this, the matter should have been put ad acta, Josh should have thought about his quality standards and we all would have enjoyed future more-quality articles. Unfortunately this is not what seems to have happened. It seems, Cybersociology went sideways, maybe writers vanity struck. So Josh formally accepted our suggestion and edited the text.

Now the fellow reader may excuse our overly use of screenshots, but it seems necessary to preserve content in this highly volatile and easy-to-delete digital world. Joshs modification was

And now it got really interesting, because what Josh did was not only an omission of facts, now he was right out spreading false facts a.k.a. FUD

The link leading to http://cryptoverse.wikia.com/wiki/Proof-of-capacitywhich mentions several cryptos allegedly using Proof of Capacity (among them the still nonexistent Chia) and mentions in the “Cons” to Proof-of-Capacity

And this is important to know, it’s mentioned there as a con to the whole “Proof-of-Capacity” concept, not specifically Burst. The rabbit hole goes deeper. As you can see [3][4] there are two links. These unfold to

showing a Bram Cohen (guy behind Chia) speaking. And (after some redirections)

The readers still with us, may observe “Proof of Stake FAQ” there. Nothing to do with Proof of Capacity.

Short break and recapitulation. Josh, Editor-at-large is pointed to the fact of having omitted mention of the Proof-of-Capacity coin — Burstcoin — and in some understandable, but still low, reaction of his “I’ll show you”, he adds that mention with “some developers [sic: plural] consider it [specifically] sustainable to grinding attacks”

Very low Josh and it will cost you a little of your reputation.

If anyone takes their time to actually look through that Video and even if one leaves aside the fact that theres “The Chia guy” speaking, one may find out he actually speaks of so-called nothing at stake problems. An inherent problem to Proof-Of-Stake.

If one was even deeper into the matter, which Josh clearly isn’t, one would have found the SpaceMint research paper which is one of the conceptual forefathers of Chia and which explicitly mentions Burstcoin not being susceptible to grinding attacks.

If one was even deeper into the matter, one would see a so-called “time-memory trade off” susceptibility of Burstcoin mentioned, which — hallelujah — has been taken care of in the last hard fork.

Executive Summary: Beware the one-eyed ones pissing snake oil in your eyes to keep you blind.

Reproduced with permission of the PoC Consortium. Originally published at www.medium.com

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The YouTuber’s Who May Have Made the Greatest Physics Breakthrough Ever https://ozmedia.com.au/science/youtubers-may-made-greatest-physics-breakthrough-ever/ Tue, 13 Mar 2018 17:21:40 +0000 https://ozmedia.com.au/?p=755 Back in December of 2015 renowned mathematician and computer scientist Stephen Wolfram Published an article on his blog titled “What is space time, really?” http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/what-is-spacetime-really/ In this article he masterfully outlines a new computational framework for looking at our Universe…

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Back in December of 2015 renowned mathematician and computer scientist Stephen Wolfram Published an article on his blog titled “What is space time, really?”
http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/what-is-spacetime-really/

In this article he masterfully outlines a new computational framework for looking at our Universe as if it were a massive computer algorithm and a path which he believes could lead to a complete theory of physics, unifying quantum physics and relativity, through finding the most simplistic discrete building blocks and rules for the known universe, much like the simple generating functions used to produce fractals or the mathematical framework he wrote about in “A New Kind of Science”, his fascinating 1,000+ page tome on how highly complex patterns could emerge from simple 1 dimensional, 2 bit systems using basic iteration algorithms.

In this recent “What is Space time?” article, he proposed that a new model of unified physics might be generated by using simple computational algorithms, only in 3D instead of 1. He also talks about some of the key mathematical tools for constructing networks: things like knots, nodes, and graph theory.
Though a lot of people in physics have thumbed their nose at this work or simply aren’t aware of it, I for one, trust that Stephen and others like him, are on to something here.


A recent article was published in Quanta magazine that talked about how changes in the phases of matter were actually linked to symmetry breaking by condensed matter physicists, for example liquid water turns to solid ice when the molecules lose rotational symmetry, and become locked into a lattice. In addition to this, are these weird effects which show up as matter is cooled near absolute zero, which can’t be accurately described by a symmetry breaking, particles which normally act like tiny spheres, suddenly grow legs. Electrons begin to demonstrate fractional charges and experiments have begun to reveal more exotic phases, which symmetry breaking alone cannot explain. What is needed, according to the scientists in the article, is a new topological order. Which is BTW exactly what we are now claiming to have with PhOENIX theory, in case you missed it.

To quote from the article:

“The topological phases only show up near absolute zero, because only at such low temperatures can systems of particles settle into their lowest-energy quantum “ground state.” In the ground state, the delicate interactions that correlate particles’ identities — effects that are destroyed at higher temperatures — link up particles in global patterns of quantum entanglement. Instead of having individual mathematical descriptions, particles become components of a more complicated function that describes all of them at once, often with entirely new particles emerging as the excitations of the global phase. The long-range entanglement patterns that arise are topological, or impervious to local changes, like the number of holes in a manifold.”

https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-aim-to-classify-all-possible-phases-of-matter-20180103/
And this article was just published 10 days after we released our first publication of PhOENIX Theory, which we claim is that topological ordering, and the bottom-up restructuring of physics. Although we only showed an elementary introduction to the core of PhOENIX theory, we will be revealing more as things progress with our experimental research.

PhOENIX is the Physics of Entanglements, Networks, and Information eXchanges. The theory was developed by Ken Griggs, a friend of mine and fellow physicist who I met by doing podcasts talking about theories of everything with open call-in lines. He has been a recurring guest on other AlienScientist videos, and I value his opinions and insights highly. This 20 year endeavor by Ken and a few other colleagues is rooted in decades of topology and combinatorics work by our friends in the math world, using tools that didn’t exist 40 years ago (for reference):

TOPOLOGICAL QUANTUM INFORMATION AND THE JONES POLYNOMIAL – Louis H. Kauffman
https://web.wpi.edu/Images/CMS/Mathematics/KhoQuanta-talk.pdf
http://teaching.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/CITS7209/lecture08.pdf
Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe – Erik Verlinde
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.02269.pdf
Analytic Combinatorics – by Flajolet & Sedgewick
http://algo.inria.fr/flajolet/Publications/book.pdf
Modern Graph Theory – by Bela Bollobas
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9780387984889

PhOENIX treats all of elementary particle physics as a series of entangled vertices connected by simple matching rules. And these vertices with entanglements connecting them are, in fact, just another way of visually representing particles and their respective matrices; we call them graphs. This is why matrix mechanics works so well for describing quantum theory, and the higher order graphs also explain away dark matter as the inert matrix formations which don’t interact with normal matter but still gravitate. There are even bigger cosmological implications, but we’ll save that for another time.

Let’s begin with a fundamental question: What is a Measurement?

PhOENIX says that, when a physicist goes out into nature and performs a measurement, what he is essentially doing is counting structures. And his tools of the trade (his mathematics and laboratory instruments) are simply: methods that work for counting those structures.
What the ancient Greek philosophers were speaking to when they talked about the “atomos”, was the idea of the most basic, indivisible structures in nature.
As it turns out there was something smaller than ‘atoms’, those atoms are composed of protons and neutrons which are in turn composed of quarks which one would assume are composed of something much more basic and purely mathematical. And that line of thinking lead US to vertices, a vertex is the essence of the atomos. Vertices ARE the most basic building blocks of the universe and what we should now be calling ‘atoms’ in place of atomic nuclei. In order to begin building networks and graphs we need to first understand some rules for how these vertices can be connected or entangled with one another.


So let’s start with a single vertex with 3 degrees of freedom, we’ll call each leg x, y, and z for visualization purposes. and say that in each of these degrees of freedom, our vertex is either connected back to itself positively (a loop), entangled with another vertex (an edge), or connected to itself negatively (designated by an arrow). From this we can come up with a map of all the different combinations of possible sing vertex connections, and we find that there are ten possibilities or ten single-vertex building blocks or atoms.

If you begin to play around with this new set of building blocks, observing some basic rules, you’ll discover a system of interactions which looks exactly like particle physics with electrons and positrons, up and down quarks, and the W+ and W- particles associated with weak nuclear interactions. On the Top Row we have electroweak unification, and with the up and down quarks entangled on edge we can show strong nuclear force unification (in addition to what happens when you put protons and neutrons in the same matrix together).

Most physicists can tell you that two up quarks combine with a down quark to form the proton, and a neutron is formed by two down quarks plus an up quark. But PhOENIX, goes a step beyond this to show what these quarks actually are, in terms of information flow on a network. This traditional picture of quarks as spheres connected by gluons, can now be replaced with the entangled vertices of PhOENIX. Which show us that the neutron actually looks like this.

These are not some silly pictures pretending to be physics, this is actually real math. It’s called graph theory, and you can rewrite the graph as a matrix by first labeling each vertex, and then labeling the rows and columns in your matrix accordingly. For example: a graph with 3 vertices will produce a 3×3 matrix, a graph with 4 vertices will produce a 4X4 matrix. And so on. The vertices we just labelled, correspond to the rows and columns for your matrix which you can then populate by asking: how is vertex 1 connected to 1? How is 1 connected to 2? How is 1 connected to 3? And so on.

You can then plot out the matrix for the Neutron, or any other particle you can theorize, find the eigenvalues and the eigenvectors, and see that the solutions are, in fact, the very particles that this thing breaks down into, during particle decay experiments. It works in reverse as well to produce the other particles in nature.
In this way, graph theory connects linear algebra to topology, and shows us how the matrix forms a network. Graph Theory is real math, not just pictures, and with PhOENIX theory we have shown for the first time ever, how to use this math to describe the most basic interactions in particle physics, and combined with our First paper on combinatorial relativity theory, we show the basics for how the space time network is constructed.

http://www.hoverbrothers.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/11-19-17-Phoenix-CRT-Paper-FINAL.pdf

In our second paper, we will show quantum scattering theory, how to derive chemistry, nuclear theory, and the electroweak theory which includes electromagnetism. And in our third paper, we will derive the Holy Grail of Physics: quantum gravity.

At the fundamental core of physics, all particles in the known universe are simply bound information flows (or energy). These bundles of spatially-entangled vertices known as particles communicate and interact through a massive web of iterating information exchanges mediated by a temporally-entangled network. Like a giant entangled tapestry which threads all the universe together in time.


There is an emerging trend in physics toward the idea that quantum entanglement is intimately responsible for gravitation. And there is also a lot of attention being given to new theories of entropic gravity. PhOENIX connects these two emerging viewpoints and says that the Force of Gravity or quantum gravity is a residual effect of quantum entanglement over very large scale networks. Gravity is a sort of entropy which evolves out of quantum entanglement in higher order systems.

So case in point: If quantum entanglement holds the key to quantum gravity, the best way to test that theory is to shut off quantum entanglement and see what happens to gravity. And PhOENIX theory has now given us a working theoretical basis on which to build and achieve just that.

Scientists still don’t even know what antimatter really is or how it works. But according to PhOENIX, Antimatter is not quite what we thought it was. Antimatter is built upon the same vertex structure as matter, but it differs in the way that it entangles outwardly to the rest of the universe, (this is that ‘second notion of time’ or quantum arrow of time that all these theorists are still struggling to explain). Antimatter terminates itself in time reverse to ordinary matter. It has the same entangled structure as ordinary matter except that the loops are replaced with arrows in our graphs. In the matrix form, the numbers become negative.

This theory not only shows us what antimatter is, it also makes new predictions on what it can be used for, Antimatter according to PhOENIX actually breaks the entanglement between ordinary matter across that boundary and terminates the ends of the thread so to speak. It isolates you inside of a negative block on the matrix. So by exploiting this quantum disentangling property of antimatter, surrounding the surface of an object with a veil of antimatter, we can theoretically disentangle regions of space-time, thereby reducing, negating, or reversing the effects of gravity locally within that bubble.

We now know how the Dirac Holes, or Negative Energy States create the conditions necessary for the Alcubierre Warp Drive Theory to work at much lower energy states than previously predicted, and now we want your help to actually build one. We can actually derive Alcubierre’s warp drive from more basic quantum principals using PhOENIX theory. The Dirac Sea is nothing more than a nest of entangled vertices. These are not infinities Ladies and Gentlemen, so grab your surf boards because we’re gonna ride some new waves… This type of technology is coming very soon, so prepare yourselves. We live in one of the most important and opportune times in all of human history.
This is what physical science has been trying to achieve since its first unified formalism by Sir Isaac Newton. This is the Zephram Cochrane moment from Star Trek. Science

Fiction is about to become science FACT.

We are closer than ever to cracking the code.
It’s happening. Wake up, and be a part of it.
http://www.HoverBrothers.com

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US Navy to Christen Expeditionary Fast Transport Burlington https://ozmedia.com.au/usa/750/ Thu, 22 Feb 2018 23:42:01 +0000 https://ozmedia.com.au/?p=750 The Navy will christen its newest Expeditionary Fast Transport, the future USNS Burlington (T-EPF 10), during a 10 a.m. CST ceremony Saturday, Feb. 24, at the Austal USA shipyard in Mobile, Alabama. The future USNS Burlington, designated T-EPF 10, will…

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The Navy will christen its newest Expeditionary Fast Transport, the future USNS Burlington (T-EPF 10), during a 10 a.m. CST ceremony Saturday, Feb. 24, at the Austal USA shipyard in Mobile, Alabama.

The future USNS Burlington, designated T-EPF 10, will be the first ship in naval service to honor Burlington, Vermont’s largest city. The first Navy ship Burlington (PF-51) was named for Burlington, Iowa and served during WWII.

The principal speaker is U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont. Mrs. Marcelle Pomerleau Leahy, Senator Leahy’s wife of 55 years, will serve as the ship’s sponsor. In a time-honored Navy tradition, she will christen the ship by breaking a bottle of sparkling wine across the bow.

“This ship honors Burlington, Vermont, a city that embodies American values and its patriotic, hardworking citizens for their support and contributions to our Navy,” said Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer. “Burlington, like the other ships in the EPF program, will provide our commanders high-speed sealift mobility and agility. I am thankful for this ship and her crew who will serve our nation for decades to come, and I am thankful for our industrial force teammates whose service makes this great ship possible.”

With an all-aluminum shallow-draft hull, the EPF is a commercial-based catamaran capable of intra-theater personnel and cargo lift providing combatant commanders high-speed sealift mobility with inherent cargo handling capability and agility to achieve positional advantage over operational distances.

EPF class ships are designed to transport 600 short tons of military cargo 1,200 nautical miles at an average speed of 35 knots. The ship is capable of operating in shallow-draft ports and waterways, interfacing with roll-on/roll-off discharge facilities, and on/off-loading a combat-loaded Abrams main battle tank (M1A2).

The EPF includes a flight deck for helicopter operations and an off-load ramp that will allow vehicles to quickly drive off the ship. EPF’s shallow draft (under 15 feet) further enhances littoral operations and port access. This makes the EPF an extremely flexible asset for support of a wide range of operations including maneuver and sustainment, relief operations in small or damaged ports, flexible logistics support, or as the key enabler for rapid transport.

The EPF program delivered its ninth ship late last year, USNS City of Bismarck (T-EPF 9). Puerto Rico (EPF 11) and Newport (EPF 12) are currently under construction at Austal’s shipyard.

Media may direct queries to the Navy Office of Information at (703) 697-5342. For more information about the Littoral Combat Ship class: http://www.navy.mil/navydata/fact_display.asp?cid=4200&tid=1100&ct=4

Additional information about the future USNS Burlington (T-EPF 10) can be found online at: https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/b/burlington-ii–t-epf-10-.html

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Ransomware – One IT Company’s Unique Perspective https://ozmedia.com.au/it-security/ransomware-one-companys-unique-perspective/ Wed, 26 Jul 2017 10:46:17 +0000 https://ozmedia.com.au/?p=736 My name is Mike Kemp, CEO of Logix IT Services in the UK. Not so long ago, my team and I here at Logix have spent more than 300 hours tirelessly clearing up a Ransomware Cyber Attack on one of our clients…

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My name is Mike Kemp, CEO of Logix IT Services in the UK. Not so long ago, my team and I here at Logix have spent more than 300 hours tirelessly clearing up a Ransomware Cyber Attack on one of our clients networks.

The cost of this attack to the client has been huge. Without my team working through the night after the attack, the business would’ve been devastated without question.

We have been absolutely amazed how dangerous these sorts of attacks are and how unbelievably fast they spread. At the time of attack, there were no direct ways to stop these types of attacks without the diligence of the end user NOT clicking on a link or visiting a nasty website. Standard Anti Virus just can’t deal with them, especially when they are new. The Wannacry Ransomware Virus was a case in point with the Petya Ransomware Virus following hot on its heels.

One of the things that scared us the most was the high levels of expertise used in writing the Ransomware viruses and the sheer ferocity of their techniques to spread. The one we have been working on is very new and is currently on its way to being the most prevalent virus ever. It has the ability to spread from a single computer, any computer, to everything on your network.

Wannacry Ransomware. If you see this, it might be too late

Wannacry Ransomware. If you see this, it might be too late

 This and many other viruses are available to buy on the internet. This means that anyone with a small amount of knowledge can rewrite certain parts, change the key and voila – a brand new variant is born. One that is not detectable by standard Anti Virus programs until someone gets it!
The most worrying aspect of this to us is that the infected machine looks like it wasn’t even owned by the company attacked. It looks like it could have even been a phone or tablet that was attached to one of their many networks.
The device was connected to the network out of hours and took just 34 minutes to spread through 20 servers and damage 38,000 files.

The virus uses hacking techniques to spread to servers interconnected with your network. Once a machine is infected, it spreads to other computers but also encrypts every single file it can reach. The files are unusable without a key you subsequently need to purchase from the attacker.

For more information on preventing ransomware attacks contact Logix IT Services

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Disabled Man Fined for Parking in a Disabled Car Park is Heading to Court this Friday https://ozmedia.com.au/victoria/disabled-man-fined-parking-disabled-car-park-heading-court-friday/ Tue, 18 Apr 2017 03:49:21 +0000 https://ozmedia.com.au/?p=723 Mr Ben Williams was injured in a car accident at the age 13 months, some 49 years ago, leaving him a paraplegic.  He has been residing in the Monash Council for over 20 years, was fined for parking in a…

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Disabled man fined for parking in a Disabled Car Park is heading to court this Friday

Victorian disabled man fined for parking in a “Disabled Car Parking Space” – Image Courtesy Wikipedia

Mr Ben Williams was injured in a car accident at the age 13 months, some 49 years ago, leaving him a paraplegic.  He has been residing in the Monash Council for over 20 years, was fined for parking in a disabled car park over four years ago, claiming no disabled permit was displayed.

After repeated attempts to resolve the issue, the Victorian Police who issued the fine, have refused to accept copies of his disabled permit, which they claimed was not displayed.  He has had a Disabled Permit from the Monash Council since the time he arrived in Mulgrave to study at Swinburne University almost 25 years ago. Mr Williams Car Licence has a condition of ‘must have hand controls’, which the Department of Justice has also refused to take into consideration, which Mr Williams has also explained to them despite the fact that the hand controls are visible through the windscreen.

The Disabled Permit has evolved over the years, as there has been many problem of the permit not sticking on the window.  Some of the more progressive councils have move to a permit where it hangs on the mirror, reducing the likely hood of it falling.  Mr Williams has refused to pay the fine, this Friday will head to court in a hope that justice will prevail.  Mr Williams askes “Does this ‘pass the pub test’ or the ‘sniff test’, I don’t think so he claims”.  He believes this is nothing more than greed.  The Department seems to have a policy of no common sense at the moment with no respect for the people who they serve.

Mr Williams has been gainfully employed with Telstra for 22 years and a valued member of the community.  On his arrival to the area he was on the State Executive of the Victorian Young Farmers after serving 2 years as the State President.  More recently he has organised 3 family reunions, 2 in Waaia where his family has lived for more than 160 years and Kyneton were his material family settled.

In 2008, Mr Williams took his long service leave from Telstra, and spent 5 months in Europe travelling alone, throughout England, France, Portugal and Spain.

To compound Mr Williams plight, 2 years ago he snapped his bicep getting into his car.  Years of pushing his wheelchair around has taken its toll on his shoulder.  While the initial pain has gone, he has lost a lot of strength in his arm and the muscle will not heal without surgery, taking him out of action for 3 months.  His doctor’s advice was to get a new vehicle where he can drive from his wheelchair, taking a bit of strain of his shoulders.

Example Modified Vehicle Mr Williams hopes to raise money for via his GoFundMe page – (Image gofundme.com)

Since then, Mr Williams has done a lot of research into what vehicles are available and the costs.

The best option he has come across is a Volkswagen Transport from  Capital Special Vehicles in Dandenong.  They completely modify the van to his needs.  This vehicle has a lot of safety features, which others fail to deliver, however they come with a cost – the van all up would cost over $150,000.

Mr Williams has set up a GoFundMe page to assist with the cost – https://www.gofundme.com/benwillywheels.

Google Ben Willys Wheels to find more information.

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