There's some misinformation going around about Bitcoin, about how it's anonymous and good for money laundering, but it's not. This article is a basic explanation of how Bitcon works.

The basis of Bitcoin is the Block Chain. The block chain is basically like a ledger book, where transactions between parties is recorded. The bitcoin system is based on all (or most) participants in the system running a piece of software that replicates the block chain onto the user's computer. (If you've used Bittorrent, you'll understand how the chain is copied from multiple peers, and spread to multiple peers.)

The integrity of the system is based on replicating the entire block chain for every user. It's not “anonymous” - every single bitcoin transaction is logged in the block chain.

What is a block?

If the block chain is like a ledger, then a block is like a page in the ledger. Numerous transactions are recorded within a block.

How do you prevent forging the chain? Like how people do with ledgers.

Well, that's complex, but the basic idea is to use cryptography math to guarantee the sequence of blocks, and the integrity of any single block. All transactions recorded into a block are via unique strings that look like this: 16Xjne85i97UK9zMfhk5qpZfSYABZ2P2W6.

Feel free to send money to that address. It's mine.

To get your transaction recorded into a block, you may have to pay a transaction fee. That fee goes to the person who discovered the block.

What do you mean “discovered”? Isn't a block created by some central authority wh owns the ledger?

No, blocks are not created centrally. This gets into a different feature of Bitcoin, which is “proof of work”. One of the goals of Bitcoin is to make a virtual “gold standard” of currency that has a limited quantity, that cannot be created “by fiat” or at will based on political or economic justifications.

Instead, to create a bitcoin, it must be “mined,” or discovered. A bitcoin is not actually what's found. What is found is a special kind of number, and that number confers to the finder the right to create a block and have it accepted by the network for addition onto the block chain... and within that block there are some bitcoins, a reward to the finder.

In fact, “mining” is a bad analogy. It's more like finding four-leaf clovers in a field full of three-leaf clovers. The four-leaf clover is a common genetic variation that is rare.

Likewise, what you're looking for is a number that is less than a number called the difficulty level. The number must be discovered using what's called a “hash function”, which is a kind of formula that takes a number and calculates, from that, another number which is almost unique. Small changes in the input lead to wildly different changes in the result.

To generate a new block, you start with the last block, and then add to it a value called a “nonce”, then hash it. If the result is below the difficulty level, you have found the next block. Typically, it won't be a low number, so you try another nonce then hash it. Repeat billions of times until you find the next block. You get to choose the nonce (really, it's just a random number), so that's where the competition sets in.

It's easily verifiable. Hash( hash(Old Block) + Nonce ) = a number that's lower than difficulty.

Money Laundering?

So, can bitcoin be used for money laundering? Sure. Bitcoin allows you to create many identities. You need an external service that will accept your bitcoins, and then send them back to you via different addresses.

Drugs?

Drug purchases are not anonymous, if your dealer fails to launder their money, or you fail to run your money through a laundering service, you can be traced. Imagine if you and your drug dealer both have Mt.Gox accounts, and then transact drugs using your regular bitcoin addresses. The transaction might be recorded for posterity.

So be careful out there, or be like me and don't transact anything illegal online.

I made an error about the nonce - an error through omission, but one based on my assumption that the nonce was picked at random (for the first one). The nonce starts at zero and you increment it until you find a hash with enough zeros at the left side. While this might seem to create a "race" for the identical "next block," it doesn't, because when you calculate the hash, you include the first transaction, which is a transfer of 25 btc to your own address. So everyone is racing to make their "own" block the next block by finding the right nonce.

There's no point in randomizing, because randomizing takes time.

People are generating their own bitcoins using CUDA GPU software. It comes down to the cost of electricity used to generate the bitcoin vs the value of the coin.

Since bitcoins have greatly increased in value lately while also GPUs keep getting faster, theres a underground bitcoin generating market that the promoters of bitcoin don't want you to know about.

- much like counterfit money printing except this is electronic.

Consider it bitcoins 'dirty little secret'.

I'm not understanding.

The mining process finds the next block, which is then added to the chain. A block can be added only if the prior block's hash + nonce, when hashed, has enough zeros at the front. It takes CPU time to find that nonce.

The one challenge is that mining is in the hands of the users.

ASICs may do what GPUs did a while back, to drastically increase the hashrate, and for a short time create many more coins. The tendency back then was to centralize mining, and with ASICs it'll happen again. Coin hoarding ends up being the default behavior.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timothylee/2013/04/07/four-reasons-bitcoin-is-worth-studying/

This is a good explanation, and it is not coming from a "gold bug". The hard currency folks tend to fixate on the gold standard and consider btc to be like gold, and thus good. They like it's deflationary aspects.

Meanwhile, they tend to ignore how the blockchain works. IMNSHO, the blockchain is the genius of bitcoin. It's a transparent ledger of all transactions, and every user can have a copy of it.

It's also difficult if not impossible to forge, because a block is added only through computationally intensiving "mining". Then, beyond that, the block needs to be accepted by the community as legit.

One risk is that a block won't be accepted and dropped. That's tricky, and a likely security problem. Transactions in that block would be lost (that is, reversed).

Not only does it take CPU/GPU time but that translates directly into ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION.

Bitcoins take huge amounts of electricity to generate ( or mine as they call it) and more electricity to operate the P2P network, each transaction takes even more electricity, every aspect of bitcoins consumes electricity.

Physical coin only takes electricity ONCE to stamp, then people exchange them without electricity, computers, or networks.

Bitcoins are a HUGE ENERGY SINK that never stop wasting energy.

Bitcoins are not 'eco-friendly', not sustainable, and HAVE NO FUTURE.

-not to mention the counterfit aspect of people generating their own coins which dilutes the value of existing coins - its basicly cheating, and steals from other bitcoin users.

In the context of a sustainable power-down future and social equality bitcoins are a scam.

This is somewhat OT, but I have a personal example of choosing a lower energy path.

I have 3 radio stations. I was tempted in this year of our lord 2013 to convert them to digital radio - you know, to keep up with the times. Digital offers several advantages, clean hiss-free sound, full dynamic range, multible audio services on one transmitter, multimedia, pictures, virtual web sites, etc.

But theres an 800.lb gorilla in the room - whos name is _power consumption_

It's very CPU intensive to generate the digital signal, and most importantly of all, CPU intensive to receive.

Every listener would go from consuming a few hundred milliwatts to receive an old-style analog FM signal, to tens of watts to receive a digital one - this is two orders of magnitude more power consumption PER LISTENER.

This huge waste of power is multiplied by every listener.

Take an average situation of one low power transmitter with a few dozen listeners in the present market (where I compete with high power stations and listeners that have many other media choices) and the amount of electricity consumed goes from ~ 100 watts analog to ~ 3,000 watts digital.

Now in the future with (hopefully) more listeners, say a few hundred, even into the thousands, the power consumed on my end is tripled for digital but which is a fixed amount of usage, however a thousand listeners each drawing ~ 50 watts (this assumes mostly laptops with some desktop PCs) and the total power involved easily goes over 50,000 watts or more.

Solar powered and hand-crank style radios draw very little to no power (some take batteries, some can be plugged in too but they are all very low power designs)

Its the listeners that count, because the power used is multiplied by each listener.

Bitcoins are like digital radio - they take alot of power to make, and each participant also takes alot of power, and all this power adds up really fast.

Therefore I made only one station digital, and kept the other two analog. And that one station will only stay digital until things start to fall apart, then it will go back to analog as well. Its just too wasteful to invest in any scheme or plan that increases power cunsumption, because power is increasingly becoming more expensive, and almost all sources of power are harmful to the environment and therefore harmful to us.

And new scheme or plan that expects to last, needs to REDUCE power consumption, not increase it.

Bitcoins are so power intensive the power costs are a big percentage of their 'value', and this power cost is not being accounted for - its being externalized, onto the participants, the environment and wildlife.

And when the lights go out, bitcoins value is lost.

Lost, and all the electricity wasted, the only contribution was to accelerate the destruction of the environment, and part people from their money in the process.

Eventually, like all pyramid schemes, bitcoins will collapse - while people will still have real coins in their pockets. The only question is how much energy how much pollution and how many people will lose, before it happens.

You could say that paper money is the bankster's best friend, then bitcoins are the fossil fuel company's best friend.

Yes, I totally agree.

The fact is, the "work" done to mine coins is not doing anything useful. It isn't analyzing genes, protein folding, radio signals, text, or anything of real value. It's just computing hashes.

It would be more useful to humanity if useful computations were performed, and then certificates of completion were issued by the organization coordinating the work. The certificates could then be bought by someone and converted to some kind of cryptocurrency to be used like bitcoin.

It would also be useful if there were a non-anonymous bitcoin network that could use this cryptocurrency. If neighborhoods would use the cryptocurrency, more regular merchants would accept them. The local economy would basically subsidize the computations carried out for the common good.

Now, unrelated, but here's a description of flaws in the system. The emergence of ASIC mining can be used to do a block chain takeover. It won't, most likeley, but it's possible. If an assembly company and fab in china were to build many mining rigs, they could take over the chain.

http://www.bitcoinmoney.com/post/47048259653/bitcoin-lied-confirmed-transactions-died

Bitcoin is designed to be deflationary. That's the agreement of the network.

Of course, it's possible that the agreement will be violated or rejected when people realize that a deflationary currency suffers more depressions than a slightly inflationary one.

Also, the part about the electricity being wasted, while true, is somewhat offset by the value of a redundant ledger distributed over multiple computers. It would be interesting to see if the idea of transparent, realtime bookkeeping makes it out to local organizations.

Its been explained twice now how bitcoins use huge amounts of electricity, while other currencies don't.

The smart thing to do would be to collect nickels, and/or convert paper money to coins, and try to save electricity.

People obsessed with technology often seem blind to the environment and act like they live in some fairyland where the laws of nature don't apply.

Nothing makes up for wasting electricity, you can't buy away global warming. Theres no magic technological fix for the future we're facing. Pretending it doesn't matter while promoting wasting electricity is something the likes of forbes does - NOT the independent media network.

- and the dirty secret aspect stands, I've seen the software and seen the discussions. without addressing this fatal flaw bitcoins are nothing but a scam - an electricity wasting scam.

"Are you sick of how pathetically slow and insufficient mining is? Personally, I was absolutely sick and tired of how much time it took me to mine bitcoins, both through solo mining and pool mining, there was just not enough power in solo mining no matter how much I spent on drivers, and there was barely anything to get from pool mining, so I took things into my own hands and started working on a mining program of my own, and those last five months have finally paid off.

Pool mining can generate a pretty steady income, at the cost of interruptions from power outages from pool providers and smaller income (If any) due to fees in mining and transaction fees not being cashed out, not to mention being at risk from attack from both the DOS and sometimes even the pool itself, potentially voiding any currency in your bitcoin wallet. Solo mining doesn't incur any fees, and for each discovered block, 25 BTC and the transaction fees are paid to the miner, however, due to the lack of hashing power, solo mining tends to obtain less blocks and what you get is essentially based on luck alone.

But with my program, you can have the benefits of both sides, and keep all the profit for yourself. I've already generated over 10 blocks within the last month of beta testing it. By using 10% of the combined efforts of each mining pool in the underground and migrating the resources to an anonymous server (to ensure computers of any type wouldn't melt from all the power it was using beforehand), this program can single-handedly destroy the competition and make you a estimated 1500 BTC year."

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As you can see bitcoin is causing people to consume huge amounts of electricity to try to game the system.

And as the bitcoin bubble inflates, this is only getting worse. The entire effort behind bitcoin is money grubbing - people who don't care how much mostly coal powered electricity they use if they can profit off it.

There are other such posts but this one popped up just now while I was doing something and caught my eye..

Nobody should be solo mining with a CPU. Even solo with a GPU is pointless. Pooled mining tends to reduce duplication.

To maximize efficiency, you have only one pool, and one coordinated effort to find the next block. Of course, then you negate the purpose of the race for the next block. You might as well change the system to use a central authority to generate the blocks.

When you can do that, there's no "difficulty level" but you need policy to limit the creation of coins.

1 day after I said above that bitcions are a unsustainable pyramid scheme ^

I cashed out most of the 3 bitcoins I had in time, and had a programmed trade to buy on the dip (and bought a little bit).

The main thing propping up the value of bitcoins is media hype. The hype creates purchases, which drives up the price.

It's really still too difficult to buy anything with bitcoins. They're worse than a discount store gift card. (People keep mentioning drugs, but I think it's riskier than buying with cash dollars. If either party to the transaction fails to launder their money before and after the transaction, there's risk of exposure.)

Until there's an actual economy around bitcoins, it won't stabilize. It's a chicken and egg problem - until bitcoins stabilize, there won't be many businesses interested in accepting bitcoins.

However, the block chain is still an interesting thing. I can see it being repurposed for "fiat" money, or to account for transactions of local alternative currencies like time dollars. It has a high degree of transparency, and could process transactions pretty quickly.

Check it out. The DEA has busted an online drug dealer who used Silk Road.

If you're bullish on bitcoin, it might be a buying opportunity. On the other hand, it could be the beginning of the end.

Blockchain.info, which tracks Bitcoin-related data, estimates that miners are using 1,005.59 megawatt hours of electrical consumption each day in their pursuit of new blocks of Bitcoins.



You can simply set a machine aside and have it run the algorithms endlessly, but the energy cost and equipment deprecation

will eventually cost more than the actual Bitcoins are worth.

That’s been confirmed by my colleague Matt Burns, who wrote in our internal message board that

“after mining for a few days, the energy required to run my computer at full tilt was far greater than the Bitcoins I mined.”



It’s a pyramid scheme with libertarian vomit on top.

when I posted this they tried to censor it :

As a long-term fan and follower of Sibel Edmonds, I want to here share some of my frustrations with my similar attempt to expose government secrets, and see if Sibel can offer some suggestion drawing from her own experience.

What has most impressed me about Sibel is how happy she is when she relates the facts she knows in all her interviews. Well, it is a fundamental human need to have your experience shared with, and recognized and validated by, your fellow human beings.

This is why, I suppose, whenever anyone has had an extraordinary experience, whether as an insider in government operations, or as a victim of government operations, she or he writes a book about the experience after coming out of it.

This is also why friends like to gather together in coffee houses to talk about their days and significant others. In the case of these ordinary people, however, sharing and validation are a given, since the details in interpersonal relationships are fairly universal; nobody will have problem understanding anything or believing anything.

In the cases of government insiders, on the other hand, validation from others is not a given.

In the case of Sibel, working inside the government has caused her to transcend the fictional fantasy which ordinary people take to be reality and see the truth that the US government is the mastermind behind all these Islamic terrorists. This has become her reality, which is the exact opposite of ordinary people’s reality, that the US is a victim of Islamic terrorism (the “official story”).

Now I’m sure she has many reasons why she wants to share her reality with her fellow citizens, like: to promote democracy in this country… But she must have experienced an urge to share her extraordinary vision of reality – extraordinary because it is a kind of disillusionment with the fictions with which the government’s PR machine has been feeding the ordinary citizens – simply as a matter of being human: she wants to correct the falsehoods which have dominated the world view of her fellow human beings, make her reality something shared, and in the process feel recognized and validated.



But she experiences a problem: she is gagged. It must be utterly frustrating when a human being is denied the fulfillment of a natural human need. She seeks out help organizations, but is ignored by all of them, because it turns out that these help organizations are not here to help people at all, but are only interested in fictional issues which can allow them to advance themselves.





Ten years later, Sibel can finally talk. But there are more problems.

She can’t get on mainstream media, because mainstream media’s task is to present government fiction as reality, and her reality is the opposite of this fiction. Lucky for her, she finds a corner in the margin of society, in alternative media and consumers of conspiracy theories… Now she finds her audience, she shines with happiness in all her interviews… And she founds her own help organizations with other people of similar interests. She is at last validated: her different version of reality has been recognized by her fellow human beings as true.

Of course people will usually ask how she has helped people with her revelation, rather than what benefit she has brought to herself. The benefit she has brought to her audience is enormous: it is equivalent to leading the victims of government deception out of their state of delusion, out of bondage, like Moses leading the Israelites out of slavery. I suppose this is why there is always the flavor of religious redemption at work in the world of alternative media and conspiracy theories. The consumers in this domain frequently refer to themselves as “awake”.



A victim of human rights abuse or political oppression in China or Iran, like the recent Chen Guangcheng, not allowed to speak in his home country, can turn to the US. He even goes on discussion forum at Council of Foreign Relations. The US government accepts those silenced people from “kingdoms of darkness” because it has an interest in making its competitor nations like China and Iran look bad while making itself look like a beacon of democracy and human rights in the international arena. It’s a strategy in building up soft power, and there is no substance to the humanitarianism supposedly manifested in the rescue. But at least the victim can use the opportunity to get his experience and victimization validated. The process however does not work in the reverse direction. Rarely can victims of US censorship or human rights abuse turn to North Korea or Iran or Russia to get their experience and victimization validated.

Whistleblowers, along with geopolitical analysts who refuse to be duped by “official stories”, although not victims of human rights abuse, encounter the problem of validation in that they can never get on mainstream communication channels to get their experience validated by their fellow citizens – insofar as their experience of the government is at odds with that of the official version. But they are able to discover alternative news and conspiracy theories forums in the counter culture domain. These channels and audience on the margin of their society are however nothing like the official validation and confirmation which the US government and mainstream media offer to the foreign political victims who have sought refuge in American society. The closest foreign resemblance to US official validation of human rights abuse victims from “evil kingdoms” is Russia Today, as when it invites alternative media guru to its discussion forums. This is about the extent to which the “evil kingdoms” reciprocate US tactics.

Access to mainstream communication channels, and the validation obtained through broadcasting on them, are more advantageous because the ordinary consumers of conspiracy theories and alternative stories are not always the ideal audience for the kind of information which whistleblower like Sibel is bringing out.



Most of them work full time and have not the time to educate themselves on the background information about politics and government operations, while many still live in the fantasy world of Israeli hasbara. I don’t know how many have fully grasped the significance of Sibel’s revelation. I would like to see Sibel’s revelations, along with those of other whistleblowers, becoming studying materials of professors in international relations and national security studies,

"for only specialists possess the background information and the complexity of mind to incorporate into context the tremendous light which whistleblowers shed on the true nature of our government against the deception accumulated in 'official stories'."

Not true. There's only 2 things required :

1.) ignore the corporate media and all it's legitimizers.

2.) focus only on maintaining a consistent worldview and connecting the dots - don't become distracted by corporate media

Ignoring corporate media is key to the whole thing - the only people who become confused and lose context are those who expose themselves to the corporate media.



But university professors invariably toe the official lines in political issues. In order to recruit their precious mind to the study of truth, in other words, the truth has to be validated by mainstream communication channels.

The victims of human rights abuse in Western democracies are in much worse shape than the whistleblowers and alternative political analysts. The problems with the human rights abuses committed by Western democracies are;

1) the Western democracies have well mastered the art of hypocrisy and built up a deceptive reputation that they do not systematically abuse human rights and;

2) the abuses they commit against their citizens are so deviant as to be unbelievable and incapable of arousing sympathy for the victims. In the circle of conspiracy theories people are well aware of these typical US government crimes: staging 911 attacks _with israel_ to kill its own people; arming terrorists around the world and using them to attack other nations and to kill Americans themselves; intercepting and cataloguing every single action which Americans and people around the world perform and every single word Americans and people around the world have spoken and written, to build up the most massive and technologically sophisticated surveillance state history has ever seen.

The more bizarre ones include: planting fake stories about engineering the weather and all natural phenomena so that even the air and food we breathe and eat can be controlled by the government (and its corporate partners) which like all propaganda is psychologically confortimg since it relieves the consumer of any guilt for destroying our environment; creating a fake reality about what it and other governments around the world are doing so that all people on the planet will have no idea what their governments are really doing… What even the conspiracy theorists couldn’t imagine is the US plan to cram propaganda down the throat of every single human being on the planet, in order to eliminate free will from planet earth and make the entire humanity into half robot and half human that is interfaced with giant computers that runs the entire network.



Our Uncle Sam has been living a double life; outwardly he presents himself as a champion of freedom, human rights and democracy, while behind people’s back he is secretly aiming for the exact opposite. His real goal is to become the dominant power in every corner of the planet and space, and control every inch of reality.

He is a domination and control freak.

For this he needs to completely eradicate freedom as a very possibility from our world. Knowledge of this fact has caused me to feel enormous aversion toward the usual cries over the injustice of Guantanomo and other CIA secret prisons. Those “ordinary” critics of the US government have hardly captured the essence of Uncle Sam’s criminality – as if Uncle Sam were merely a rudimentary tyrant like blair or thatcher, knowing only how to lock people up and beat them up. It’s like criticizing the quakers for sending agents to steal people’s bread while being oblivious of their extermination of 100 million native American Indians.

In focusing on the lesser crimes of Uncle Sam as if these were all he is capable of, the critics are actually contributing to covering up the man’s true criminal nature. The cases that I deal with daily are the worst and most deviant which Uncle Sam has ever done: victims of those mind-control experiments and operations which are Uncle Sam’s preparatory steps toward the total elimination of free will from planet earth. These victims daily complain about how, via the TV, distractions which have been implanted into their brain and with their full consent, thoughts and emotions which are not their own are transmitted into their consciousness by their controllers.

Conspiracy theorists might suspect this terrorist bombing here and that mass shooting over there to be false flag events orchestrated by the US government itself, but they never wonder if the bombers and the gunmen might be a product of the ziowood culture of drugs, sex and violence as solutions for every problem, not even requiring a handler or instruction or anything like that. In the case of those victims whose mind is possessed through implanted propaganda, you can never help them complain to court or human rights organization, unlike the cases of those who came out of the secret prisons and so on. Nobody will believe it, and their suffering is too strange for people to sympathize with them and cry injustice on their behalf.

In every age there is a kind of victimization where people will condemn the victims rather than the victimizers. In ancient India and China, for example, if a woman reveals that she has been raped, her family members will kill her rather than sympathize with her. Gradually I have discovered that, in Western “democracies”, these mind-control victims are it. Even the most vocal and enthusiastic denouncers of Uncle Sam will not want to hear about his criminal attempts to invade people’s mind and replace their free will with its propaganda; victims of US propaganda operations are universally shunned.







Although typical consumers of alternative media who are somewhat interested in seeing through the facades of official stories and getting to the truth of government operations, due to pervasive propaganda and the psychological aspect of it which has a undertow of [i]making you feel good[/i] and framing issues that matter as uncomfortable, people often confuse how they are made to feel whith being informed, so they fall into the trap of equating emotion with knowledge.

If a 'news story' makes you feel good, it's accepted and internalized. But cold, hard, ugly, unpleasant reality is emotionally distressing and since people are conditioned all their lives to only want to feel good, they willfully actively ignore reality.



The insider data of Sibel’s, and other whistleblowers, all have a fairly simple structure.

She performed a task within or for an agency, blew the whistle, and was mistreated and silenced, and she brings to the public one, or a set of, stories of discrete events within the boundary of a single nation’s political machine. This makes possible their story’s communication to, and comprehension by, audience who have not taken the time or directed their attention to tracking these events. For example listening to Sibel’s entire 4-hour deposition, and how what she's revealed relates to the israel spying scandal which was at the time called 'the biggest spy ring ever caught on american soil".

And not just Sibel, the attorneys there asking questions and most especially the attorneys objections and what issues they tried to suppress during her deposition. I already knew most of what she was saying from reading her earlyer reports, what was really revealing was the _reactions_ of the other people defending turkey, israel and the US.

The turkish attorney was desperate to deflect attention, scrutiny and blame from not so much the facts of the case (because he couldn't refute them) but the revelations of how closely turkey works with israel in the nuclear arms blackmarket trade.

And the attorneys representing israel/US interests were equally desperate to stifle and silence Sibel's data, by trying to enforce the gag order beyond it's actual jurisdiction and scope. They were essentially trying to intimidate her by a combination of veiled threats bringing up the gag order repeatedly whenever the subject veered toward israel, and by intentionally trying to trip her up - to trick her into violating the gag order so they could use it to persecute her further.

They repeatedly raised petty objections to try to use up as much time as possible whenever the subject of israel and their spies in the US military and AIPAC came up. They tried to prevent and disrupt as much as possible, any mention of the nuclear arms blackmarket pipeline between israel and their extensive _ongoing_ networks of spies here.

The deposition was practically a 'show trial' due to the amount of courtroom antics and stalling the israeli/US attorneys engaged in.



But a careful listen reveals much despite their efforts. The specific issues they objected to combined with Sibel’s prior statements, show clearly just what they were trying to protect and hide :

Israel has massive numbers of spies in the U S, stealing military nuclear and other secrets, which they place on the black market for sale to the highest bidder, with no concern at all about who buys it.

In fact they _prefer_ to sell to their 'enemies' list, because it provides the illusion there's a nuclear threat which the U.S. must go bankrupt to pay for invading, occupying and bombing said enemies.

What Sibel’s data shows is the whole issue of nuclear non-proliferation is a complete sham, that the key player in the blackmarket sale of nuclear secrets is israel - the very shitty little country we're going bankrupt fighting their wars for.

This is what the gag order is about - keeping her from naming names in the U.S. of the actual people involved in this scandal. It goes (went) up to the highest levels of government right up to bush's handlers, that our entire political establishment is infested with israeli 'dual citizen' spies, that they have the goods on all our leaders, which they use to blackmail them, they control the election process, determine who wins & loses, that the U.S. is israeli occupied territory.



You'll see people bring this up from time to time, usually by saying our media is under their control, and many people dismiss even that. What Sibel’s _data shows_ is not only the media, not only the political establishment, but our entire society is infested with them.

It's one thing to have suspicions (which can be dismissed as 'conspiracy theory') but quite another to have the actual data proving it.

This is why she's been gagged, because she has the actual goods on them.