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John Lavender's avatar

Re: Donations...

Greetings Naomi,

Well done for your extensive work promoting privacy.

I tried to donate a few GBP from the UK, but only the US was available as a country to select. Is it something I'm getting wrong or a known restriction?

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Oh no I’m sorry to hear that! I have updated our donation page to make it clear which methods will work for international supporters, but please let me know if you continue to have issues! And thank you so much for your support!

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Jim Davidson's avatar

Hi, Naomi. At the end of 2022 my Twitter account for planetaryjim was stifled. I started SpacePrivé News here and on Twitter. The account here became difficult to use because Substack is not interested in Android phone users. The Twitter account was nuked by friends of Peter Hotez. I am again on Twitter as HolyOrder3WhiteRoses where I follow you. My new and still not ruined Substack is L5 News where I recently wrote an essay inspired by your call for privacy essays in commemoration of this sad anniversary.

Some days I am sad about the ten thousand followers account but then I reflect that the people who want and need to read my words will find them or be led to them. I don't have any way of helping the rest.

I began to notice that the government was making war against the American people in 1993. They burned 7 dozen Texans to death in a church to announce their intentions. There was some response from Americans. I bought a rifle and spent over a decade looking for a free country in person on four continents. There are none.

A reckoning comes. Many Americans are now very angry. Maybe not in New Jack City but definitely out here in flyover country where we cling "bitterly" as Obama said in 2008 to our guns and Bibles.

God is also very angry. I would encourage you not to be in the big cities on "the day of destruction when the towers fall" as God tells us in Isaiah 30.

God bless you. I would be happy to write another essay or chat on Signal video if you wish. Kudos on the Al Jazeera interview.

If you feel like you are speaking into an abyss and no one cares or listens, I have felt that way for over thirty years. You are heard by many people. Change is coming.

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Jim Davidson's avatar

This is that anniversary of USAPATRIOT act essay:

https://l5news.substack.com/p/data-security and you might read my earlier essay "Reject" which discusses how I came to be interested in anonymous remailers as a survivor of childhood violence. Or not.

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