PNN #190 Show Notes http://bit.ly/149I8CI
EGifter Competes with Gyft
http://www.egifter.com/bitcoin/
Police Raid Burning Man
Bitcoin Anonymity
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/6630/trustless-bitcoin-anonymity-here-at-last/
Former NSA Employee Asks Fellow Retirees to Speak Out
Repentant Informant Stacy Litz
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20130826_The_repentant_informant.html
Thursday, August 29th 2013. 1 ounce of silver is 25 dollars. 1 Bitcoin is 125 dollars. Peace News Now is brought to you in part by friends of http://WeUseCoins.com. Learn about bitcoin at http://WeUseCoins.com
Speaking of bitcoin, a new competitor has jumped into the gift-cards-for-bitcoins market. EGifter. http://Egifter.com boasts a gift-card app for your Android or iPhone. Similar to GYFT, which PNN has reported on several times in the past. The difference here is that EGifter allows iphone users to purchase gift cards with bitcoins right in the app. Another important difference is that EGifter knows its place as a competitor and just offered users a free $10 eGifter Gift Card to use instantly toward the purchase of any gift card valued $100 or more when you pay with bitcoin. Is this the beginning of a trend where those who pay in bitcoin receive more than those who pay in fiat?
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Darryl W Perry reported that a large cartoon appeared in this week’s Monadnock shopper, a coupon magazine which is delivered to every home in the region. The cartoon featured a man walking with a bag of groceries past a large advertisement which reads, quote, “Join us! Become a Free Stater! Move up here to New Hampshire so you can Live Free & Overreact to everything!” Although the cartoon is negative, all press is good press.
JG Vibes reported this week that Burning Man, a legendary and beloved example of the non-aggression principle and spontaneous order, is adapting to the Police State. Burning Man and other similar art and music festivals generally have very peaceful and safe endings, but the most common dangers with any of these events is the fact that police like to target the people who attend them.
In recent years as the drug war police state has escalated, they have become more aggressive with these events, setting up illegal checkpoints, illegally entering onto private property without permission and senselessly using violence or threats of violence against nonviolent people. Last week at a conscious music and arts gathering in Ohio called “Rootwire” police invaded the property and arrested or fined 80 people for so-called crimes involving no victims.
A Burning Man regular posted online, quote:
“The pigs are here. And uncommonly badge heavy. Don’t give them any excuses. Be extremely cautious, and MAKE SURE TO TELL YOUR FRIENDS. Things are changing.”
In response to this unprecedented show of force, volunteers and workers nearby are calling for a general strike, with some of them organizing and refusing to set up the festival until the police promise to keep off the property and let the Burning Man crew handle security inside the event. quote,
“Our demands are simple: We want law enforcement excluded….. The problem is a huge growth in outside law enforcement officers invading the [property]. We would really appreciate them if they stayed outside. If the cops would leave their badges and guns at home and just be burners like everyone else in BRC, we’d welcome them just like we welcome anyone else. We’d even build them a Donut Camp! We just don’t want outsiders doing law enforcement in our city. We have everything we need to take care of it ourselves without any outside help!
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Also in the news: Vitalik Buterin writes in Bitcoin Magazine that trustless bitcoin anonymity is finally here, thanks to two clever programmers in Spain. A former NSA employee wrote an op-ed in Slate asking fellow retirees of the agency to speak out against the injustices they helped to perpetrate. Philly.com writes this week about the important example of Stacy Litz: She mistakenly sold LSD to an undercover cop in college. Then she decided to rat out her friends and suppliers in an effort to save herself. Now she has no friends and is rejected by her community. Don’t be Stacy Litz.
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