Dmytri Kleiner/ Friends.

Tomorow: Saturday 27 // BREAKTHROUGH BERLIN :: an experimental 12 hour event distributed across Berlin locations

2009-06-26T22:00:15Z

Hello, I will be participating at this event tomorrow:

http://www.1010.co.uk/org/breakthrough.html

Please come by if you can.

--snip--

Breakthrough is created as an experimental 12 hour event distributed across Berlin locations, inter-network and radio space from 12 to 24h. Self-organising nodes construct an event occupied with the dislocation of representation [language, software], time and space, and maintained with a strict scheduling and interrupt system backbone (micro-FM and Internet).

The term breakthrough describes a sudden shift in understanding or technologies, and, finally, a clearing (Lichtung), an entry into unknown and unmapped territories. An enclosure is breached allowing access to another, totally unforeseen state or space. Communication is thus implied, a new form of exchange, perhaps between two otherwise unconnected domains, between the living and the dead, between many worlds. What does the sheer possibility of a breakthrough imply for communication between the past and the future?

Breakthrough, as event, signals a change in direction, a pointing towards new ways of actively describing and creating the world. Within a complex mise en scene of workshops, lectures and performances, diverse artists, theorists, researchers, and hackers collaborate in the creation of a breakthrough which can rupture the enclosure of scientific rationalism and enlightenment without recourse to named magic.

--snip--

--
Dmytri Kleiner
+49 163 286 6163
http://dmytri.info

deadSwap reminder, erzatz stammtisch, an introduction, and my secret twitbook accounts revealed!

2009-05-20T17:17:26Z

== deadSwap ==

Hello, just a reminder that there will be a deadSwap presentation at the Musuem
of American Art this Sunday (may 24th), come down and get your secret agent
training, as the Pirate Bay trial has shown, it's never too early to start
preparing for a more clandestine future.

http://www.museum-of-american-art.org/Talk.html
http://www.deadswap.net/Statement

== erzatz stammtisch ==

I will be in Berlin this Thursday, so in compensation for all the Stammtiche
I've missed, I will be at Cafe Buchhandlung tomorrow, please come if you can, I
wont get too many chances over the next few months.

== Michelle Izmaylov ==

Also I would like to Introduce Michelle Izmaylov, a US-based teen author who
will be working with Telekommunisten helping us improve the quality of the text
on our various websites, only 17 years old, but she has already published 3
sci-fi/fantasy books, we are quite happy to have her help.

http://www.michelleizmaylov.com

== be my "friend" ==

The primary feature of "Social Media" is the ability to exclude, public
communication does not require social graphs, restricted communications do.
Media is social when it is anti-social, when you can exclude those not on the
graph. In order to communicate with those of you who use social media, we need
to connect/friend/follow each other, etc, so to keep these links in one place and
not have them sprawl across our websites, I have set up kleiner.tel to keep contact
information and social media links. Anybody that want to "friend me," "follow me,"
etc, please do so and help me figure out how to subvert these mediums.

http://www.kleiner.tel

== turkish speakers? ==

Franziska is looking for a native turkish speaker to help her with a project,
please contact me if you can help.

Kind Regards,
Dmytri Kleiner

http://www.telekommunisten.net

Venture Communism in Austria with Slum-TV

2009-04-30T20:23:39Z

As the crowds are gathering in Berlin, I'm getting on a train to Austria, for a series of workshops, and interventions with Slum-TV, Richard Barbrook, Reverend Billy and Others.

Follow along at http://df.slum-tv.org/

For AntisocialMediaNetWeb Links, etc, see: http://kleiner.tel

The Revoltion Is Calling!

-- fwd --

On Venture Communism and Collective Ownership

SLUM-TV proudly invites
1. May 2009. start +/-20:00 CET
midingo island @ donaufestival 09, krems, (A).

as it is about strategies of survival - practicing for emergencies…

intro / talk with dmitry kleiner, dr. richard barbrook

society we live in, as societys everywhere and always, are composed of social relationships. relationships of productions, in particular, form the economic capacities required to impose social and political structures. the relation of productions constitutes the economic structure of society on which arise the legal and political structures which define it. new kinds of relations, if they create new productive relations, can possibly constitute a new political and economic structure which is able to give rise to a new kind of society.

assuming that political change can only follow a change in the mode of production, venture communism is such an attempt to create a mode of production that will expand socialism by reducing the labour available to be exploited by property. a form of revolutionary workers struggle, a mode of production that is designed to shift the balance of power from property to labour, so in the final endgame, the workers are allowed, eventually, to buy back the entire world from capitalists.

talks on 1.of may will cover differing and crucial aspects of these concepts as practics, paralells and results so far, especially analysing and referring to associations as SLUM-TV is one, as telekommunisten is one and as many others, still to come…

Berlin: deadSwap at Museum of American Art (and a plea for tomorrow's Stammtisch)

2009-04-20T21:24:05Z

Hello, there will be a presentation of deadSwap at the Museum of American Art on Sunday, May 24th, we will discuss deadSwap and set up a berlin deadSwap network to test the new deadSwap Live server, wich will then also be sent up to Aarhus (at last) and made available for the world to use. deadSwap live is a dsitribution of of deadSwap's SMS Gateway on a bootable USB memory stick, which makes it very easy to start a new deadSwap network.

24. Mai 2009, 21 Uhr

Museum of American Art Berlin
Frankfurter Allee 91

http://museum-of-american-art.org/Talk.html

deadSwap is a clandestine offline file sharing system, for insructions see:

http://deadswap.net/HandBook

Also, I will be working in Munich for the next 3 months, so Tomorrow's stammtisch will be my last for a while, please come if you can.

deadSwap: An urban game of Cloak and Data in Aarhus

2009-02-07T18:46:54Z

This is the artistic statement for the upcoming Telekommunisten intervention at
the Souseveillance conference in Aarhus, announcing the launch of deadSwap,
the clandestine offline file sharing system.

Please forward and repost, comments welcome!

----

deadSwap: The Internet is dead, long live the sneakernet.

Dmytri Kleiner

A major impact of the commercialization of the Internet has been the undermining
of its peer to peer architecture. As Capital must always control the circulation
of value in order to appropriate surplus, its champions view peer networks as
a threat. The Web, although it sits on top of the Internet, is not a peer to peer
technology, but rather a client-server system where the interactions of the users
are controlled and mediated by that site's operators.

With such centralization and control the operators are in the position of capturing
the value created by the user's of these sites by way of selling this audience of
users as a commodity to publishers of marketing and propaganda.

More importantly, the Capitalist financed operators of such sites, can sell the
data of the users, which often includes significant personal and demographic
details, raw data for biometrics and detailed relationship graphs, to those that want to
use this data to study, manipulate or control these users. These private, centralized
services can also silence and lock out any user from participating or act
to prevent any type of usage that is contrary to their own interests.

The new "Social Web" has fundamentally replaced the peer to peer Internet, and
remaining peer communications technology has become marginal or even contraband as
participants on peer networks face ever increasing legal attack and active sabotage
from groups representing the interests of Capital.

The Internet is dead. In order to evade the flying monkeys of capitalist control,
peer communication can only abandon the Internet for the dark alleys of
covert operations. Peer to peer is now driven offline and can only survive in
clandestine cells.

deadSwap is an offline file sharing system, where participants covertly pass a USB
stick from one to another. The route of the USB memory stick and the identity of the
other participants is not known by the users, but controlled by local
independently operated SMS gateways that are kept as a carefully shared secret by
their users.

The system was developed for Sousveillance and the first version of the system will
be launched during the event (Sunday February 8, 12.30-17.00), creating the world's
first deadSwap network in Aarhus. The deadSwap workshop by Dmytri Kleiner
starts at 12.30, lunch room Wiener building, Information and Media Studies
Department, Helsingforsgade 14, 8200 Aarhus

Information regarding setting up and participating in deadSwap networks can be found on
deadSwap.net

~# DARC - Digital Aesthetics Research Center // deadSwap in Aarhus:
~# http://darc.imv.au.dk/?p=81

deadSwap is a miscommunication technology by telekommunisten

Democracy Diner

2008-10-22T20:09:38Z

Here are few thoughts about the upcoming US election.

Regards,
Dmytri Kleiner

http://www.telekommunisten.net

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DEMOCRACY DINER

Dmytri Kleiner

The US election is dominating the press and airwaves worldwide, but what is
the real relevance of this spectacle?

Neither McCain nor Obama nor Palin nor Biden will have any more control of
America Inc than the Revlon Spokesmodel has over Revlon Inc, or the
Playmate of the Month has over Playboy Inc, or Ronald McDonald has
over McDonald's Inc.

The candidates are competing for the job of representing government policy
to the public, not the job of deciding it. The job of deciding policy is
not an elected position, but rather is a ruthless, cut-throat, back alley,
no-holds-barred cage match of raw power. Any candidate who is not already
vetted as being willing and able, nay, eager, to serve the powerful never
raises above school trustee, if they make it that far.

The candidates are selling themselves to the power elite, what they are
selling is an ability to gain compliance from the American people. What
they will gain compliance for, exactly, is not up to them, but rather
decided by full-contact conflicts among the rivalrous, and internationally
involved, power elite. And whatever campaign platforms they take or
promises they make in selling themselves, including policy promises, are
not binding, but rather a screen-test of their ability to represent a
certain policy, and a market research project to help the elite understand
exactly what sort of masses they need compliance from.

The candidates are competing for the job of legitimizing the interests of
the elite, not for representing the people. A head of state is no more
chosen by the people than a Pope or a King is chosen by god, the public
spectacle of the choice is only needed as a means of creating legitimacy.
Each time a new leader is chosen, the crimes and failings of the nation's
elite are washed away. No matter how much legitimacy was squandered during
the last administration, a brand new celebrity spokesmodel is an
absolution, the very act of the previous administration's end of term
is celebrated as a victory for it's victims and discontents. The Holly King
kills the Oak King, yet the two are one and the same.

The individual presidential candidates and their parties fight just as
bitterly for the job as the mothers of juvenile beauty queens fight for
their daughter's crown, but that the job is quite important to those that
seek it should not lead anyone to conclude that it makes a difference to
anybody not involved in the contest.

Democracy is like going to a restaurant with only one thing on the menu and
being given the choice of which waiter of the two waiters on staff serves it.

---
copyfarleft 2008 telekommunisten. reproduce at will, with or without
attribution. independent or collective commercial usage encouraged.

Dmytri Kleiner/ Friends. There Can Be No Bailout

2008-09-30T18:46:23Z

Hello, here is a quick rant about the Bailout. Feel free to forward/blog, etc. Comments welcome, as always.

Cheers.

---

THERE CAN BE NO BAILOUT
Dmytri Kleiner

The housing bubble caused housing prices to rise by making money cheap.

The boom in demand for housing attracted developers who wanted to cash in
on high housing prices and the heavily government subsidized system of
highways and big box retailers that is the life-support system of ever
more remote satellite suburbs.

The increase in housing prices is the byproduct of money created by the
banking system and government subsidized development, neither the banks nor
the government have the economic basis to continue for ever. Driving up
location rents by increasing money supply and subsidizing irresponsible
development has no end-benefit, like any pyramid scheme, money just flows
up the chain, or up the "property ladder," until no more suckers can be
found to build up the downline. In the end, prices must fall. Deflation
is inevitable. There can be no bailout, a pyramid scheme can not be
rescued, not even if public funds are used to add one more, one final,
level to the pyramid. Of course, a new publicly funded level, thereby
forcibly roping-in the many who did not choose to get in on the Ponzi
scheme in the first place.

In every somber corner, from parliament to board room to coffee shop, the
debate over a false dilemma rages on. Bail out the home owners not the
lenders! First of all: AS IF! As if, a political class dripping wet with
financial industry campaign contributions will really be interested in
doing anything but soaking the small mortgage-holders further. This crisis,
like any financial crisis is an opportunity for wealth to concentrate even
more, and those who are in favorable political and economic proximities
will happily take any public funds they can get to reduce the costs of all
the juicy acquisitions while leaving the public holding assets no willing
buyer would buy at any price.

Even so, bailout the Home owners? I'm sorry, it may be pointless to
reject something that is never going to happen in any case, but fuck that
too. How many people lack adequate housing or pay an unreasonable portion
of their income for housing? If we're throwing trillions around, shouldn't
that be the fundamental issue? In the same way that the farm subsidy lobby
uses the myth of the independent rustic farmer to justify subsidies of
massive corporate conglomerates, no doubt the hard working family
will be used as the poster child for the "bailout" lobby. In truth, many of
the "Home owners" are as driven by greed and delusions of the "property
ladder" as the lenders, why should they be rewarded over renters and
residents of co-operative and public housing? There is a lot of
profit-motive speculation in the housing market among "home owners" and
this is just as much money-for-nothing greed as that which motivates the
money lenders. Private home ownership in ever-expanding satellite suburbs
is neither socially, economically nor environmentally desirable and has
been far over-subsidized already.

Bailout people with sustainable housing in livable communities
with effective social benefits. Create a society where people do not
require life-long wage-slavery to pay life-long debt for the privilege of
having a place to live.

-
Copyfarleft 2008 Telekommunisten. Reproduce at will, with or without
attribution. Independent or collective commercial usage encouraged.

Dmytri Kleiner/ Friends. Multiply And Share Forth, Dialstation Notes, Call for labour investment and some pr0n.

2008-09-25T17:02:05Z

~# Multiply And Share Forth!

Our friends at EXGAE & Conservas are putting together a massive free culture event in Barcelona, THE OXCARS, billed as "The Greatest Cultural Extravaganza of All Time," the event promises "12 hours of free culture, non-stop" including contributions from MattBlack of ColdCut, Wu Ming Foundation, Platoniq and many others.

For more information check out:

http://exgae.net/exgae-multiply-and-share-forth/theoxcars

~# Reach out and touch someone!

If you haven't tried Dialstation recently, there is no better time than now to make a call, improving call quality has been one of our recent aims, and so far it seems like some significant progress has been made, but only you can tell us what your experience is. Please help us by making calls and letting us know about the quality and reliability of the service. If you're setting up you account for the first time, make sure to email us and ask form some free trial credit. If you have any questions, please ask us.

http://www.dialstation.com

~# Invest in Telekommunisten! (only labour investment accepted).

Telekommunisten are looking for labour investment, particularly for copywriters, people that can translate from english to other languages and graphic artists/designers. If you want to help us develop and promote our projects and support the ideal of worker's self-organisation of production as a form of struggle against capitalism and corporate rule, contact us at contribute@telekommunisten.net

~# Download pr0n!

Unfortunately it seems there will not be a Cum2Cut in Berlin this year, however videos from the last two Independent Pornography File Festivals are now online, you can find them here:

Cum2Cut 2006: http://media.telekommunisten.net/index.php?fpp=10&did=0-0
Cum2Cut 2007: http://media.telekommunisten.net/index.php?fpp=10&did=0-1

All videos are under a copyleft-non-commercial license.

For more info see:

http://www.cum2cut.net

Telekommunisten: The Revolution Is Calling.

2008-06-07T19:50:04Z

Venture Communism and Telekommunisten are both projects that have come a long way over the past two years, however it would be kind of hard to put it all together from the various bits and pieces on our websites, which are always quite far behind the actual ideas and practices that develop in our day to day activities. This article is meant to express some these and to explain a little more about what it is we are working on and why.

Please forward or post anywhere where interested may be found.

Hope to see some of you at the New Life Festival this Sunday!

Cheers,
Dmytri Kleiner
dk@telekommunisten.net ~ call long distance with Dialstation! --> http://www.dialstation.com

= Telekommunisten: The Revolution Is Calling. =

Telekommunsiten is German/Canadian Worker's Collective based in Berlin. The collective is involved in the art, hacker/free-software and activist communities, our work focuses on promoting the ideal of worker's self-organization of production as a form of class struggle. Telekommunisten was formed as a part of the Venture Communism project and is an experiment in the development of Venture Communism.

= Telekommunisten, Venture Communism and Dialstation =

Venture Communism is a form of worker's self organization which provides a model of sharing property and forming mutual capital that is compatible with anti-capitalist ideals. However, venture communism does not provide a means of acquiring such property in the first place. Telekommunisten is intended to realize possibilities in forming the privative mutual property required to initiate venture communism.

The lack of any initial financing, most forms of which would be incompatible with the venture communist principal of ownership as a reward for labour not wealth, present twin challenges for a proto-venture-communist enterprise to overcome: Forming capital and finding customers. The first challenge in essence requires breaking the Iron Law of Wages, the implications of which are that worker's can never form capital because they can never earn any more than their subsistence cost from wages alone.

The primitive accumulation theory of Telekommunisten proposes to break the Iron Law by exploiting it's boundary conditions, namely that some labour is scarce, and therefore captures a form of scarcity rent in addition to wages and that some forms of capital are themselves commodities, and therefore can not even capture interest, more to the point, often these forms of capital are common inputs to production and are subsidized by private and public funds and are available on the market for below their own reproduction costs. Therefore, the Iron Law can be broken if you are able to invest scarce labour and employ commodity capital in production.

An obvious example of such commodity capital is basic telephone and internet infrastructure, which connects the farthest reaches of the globe together, built almost entirely with public money and available to be exploited for far less than it's real cost.

And likewise, an obvious example of the needed scarce labour investment is the IT and media skills required to derive new products from basic internet and telephone service.

Thus, Telekommunisten propose to form the primitive mutual property required to initiate venture communism by collective investment in the form of IT and media labour using only commonly available internet resources to derive marketable products.

The first of these products is Dialstation, which allow any land line or mobile telephone to make very inexensive international phonecalls.

The second challenge, finding customers without any initial financing for marketing, is addresses by linking the artistic and political nature of the project very closely with our products, therefore we promote products such as Dialstation as a matter of course in our artistic production and our participation in the activist and hacker communities.

Our basic premise is that people will use and promote our products if they identify with our artistic and political practices, and in turn the economy generated can support and expand these practices.

= For Miss Information Call =

"For Miss Information, Call" is the first artwork expressly presented as being a Telekommunisten creation, and is appropriately self-reflective focusing on miscommunication, rather than glamorizing technology.

Communications technologies are often described in terms of signal and noise, in other words parts of the message are either sent or not sent, received or not received. Yet communication is not composed of discrete message chunks, but rather a multitude of interdependent signifiers each of which modifies the meaning of the each of the others.

Communication on a natural scale, in physical proximity, by natural means, voice, body, smell, site, touch, delivers these signifier in a dense, interactive flow. Communication technologies abstract that flow, and with every signifier lost, not only are parts of the message lost, but other parts, whose meaning is influenced by the missing signals, is transformed, its meaning not lost, but rather changed, corrupted, miscommunicated.

The more technical and abstract our communication channels become, the more mis-communicative they become.

Miscommunication is neither signal nor noise, not the original message, nor a lost message, but, in fact, a new message, unintended by the original communicator, but none the less perceived by the recipient.

"For Miss Information Call" examines the message arising from miscommunication, capturing samples of miscommunication for analysis and exhibit with a playful and interactive city-scale experiment.

The character of "Miss Information" is a double entendre, being a homophone of "misinformation" it reveals a little of it's game up front, counting on curiosity or perhaps simply a lack of attention to prevent disbelief.

"Miss Information" presents herself as an Information Service, affixing stickers out of context to other media, posters, signs, walls, anywhere where information may be sought, creating the impression in callers that if they call her, she will inform them about the item of their interest.

These stickers present a telephone number and an invitation to call "for Miss Information."

Instead, the callers are welcomed into our experiment in miscommunication, the first callers are played a recording from Miss Information she tells them a simple message, including such details as the name, location and dates of the Hack.Fem.East exhibition, they are also asked to pass on this information should anybody ask them.

After that, when the next callers call Miss Information, they are connected directly to the last callers, and then are called themselves when the following callers call, and so on. The information, naturally, being transformed as it passes from person to person.

In the exhibition the recordings of these calls will be played, in a cycle, starting with the original message from Miss Information, and continuing exhibiting the message throughout the various transformations. What it becomes at the end, being unknown at the beginning, but constructed by a network of accidental communicators engaging in unintended collaborative miscommunication.

= The Revolution Is Calling =

Beyond the artistic and economic possibilities and challenges presented by telecommunications, Telekommunisten is founded on the broad revolutionary possibilities introduced by the ability of individuals to instantly interact on a global scale.

On it's own, neither venture communism nor the primitive accumulation theory of Telekommunisten is remarkably novel or revolutionary, these just address basic economic facts that any collective enterprise must address, and indeed history is full of related ideas, practices and attempts. Any revolutionary theory must be founded on revolutionary conditions, not simply interesting ideas.

The emergence of peer networks such as the Internet creates such conditions.

The society we live in, and societies everywhere and always, are composed of social relationships, the relationships of production, in particular, form the economic capacities required to impose social and cultural structures. The relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society,on which arises the legal and political structures that define it.

New kinds of relationships, if they can can create new productive relations, can thus constitute a new economic structure which is able to give rise to a new kind of society.

Capitalism, the current dominant form of society, depends on the extraction of interest and rent for it's subsistence and growth. Capturing interest and rent by way of the theft of surplus value depends on State granted title and State enforced privilege. Communications based on global peer networks have a chance to resist and evade such title and privilege.

Examples of this include the fact that Free Software, whose production depends on peer networks, does not capture rent or interest, and popular attacks on the rents captured by the Recording and Movie Industries by users of file sharing technologies, show us the difficulties faced by those whose incomes depends on controlling reproduction.

It is clear we now have new forms of relationships that have never existed before, and therefor communicating in these new ways, especially when this communication becomes a component of production, is the making of the new society. The Revolution is sending email. The Revolution is chatting, The Revolution is posting articles. The Revolution is file sharing. The Revolution is calling.

Sunday, June 8: Art & Economics Group Quarterly Forum 2008, Q2 @ New Life Festival

2008-06-06T15:06:56Z

Please note that the Art & Economics Group will have our quarterly
discussion this Sunday, this will a special installment as a
part of the New Life Festival, and will be at the Wooloo/New Life
studio at Choriner Str. 85 / Mitte.

Details follow:

Cheers,
Dmytri Kleiner
dk@telekommunisten.net ~ call long distance with Dialstation! --> http://www.dialstation.com

---------------------

Art & Economics Group Quarterly Forum 2008, Q2 @ New Life Festival

Presented by Tanja Ostojic / David Rych / Dmytri Kleiner
on behalf of the Art & Economics Group

Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 17h

New Life Festival
Choriner Str. 85 / Mitte
5 PM
^^^ please note special Q2 location!
// we return to Galarie 35 again for Q3 <<<

Program:

- Introduction & overview of the Arts & Economics Group
- Special edition of Art-bonds
- Dmytri Kleiner will lead a discussion on the Iron Law of Copyright Earnings.

The Quarterly Workshop of the Art & Economics group will be on Sunday,
June 8th, 2008 at 17h at New Life Festival..

For more information regarding the New Life Festival, please see:

~#: http://www.wooloo.org/festival/

The Art & Economics Group investigates the intersection of art and
political economy. Topics include political economy as a theme in
art, the economics of art production and economic activity as an
art practice. Discussions are held Quarterly, each one with a
particular topic is discussed and a new edition of the
Art & Economics Group Bonds are released.

The discussion of the evening focuses will present a brief
overview of the Art & Economics Group for the New Life Festival,
and a discussion of the economics of intellectual property
from the point of view of art production as presented in the
article "Copyfarleft, Copyjustright and the Iron Law of
Copyright Earnings" by Dmytri Kleiner.

~#: http://www.telekommunisten.net/CopyjustrightCopyfarleft

Links to German and Portuguese translations can be found here:

~#: http://www.telekommunisten.net/venture-communism

Please join us if you can.

Yours,
Art & Economics Group

contact: tostojic@web.de

The Art & Economics Group is presented in co-operation with Galerie 35.

TODAY, May 8th:: Sieges ueber den Fascismus ! TOMORROW: May 9th:: HACK.Fem.EAST ! And some Dialstation notes...

2008-05-08T14:22:52Z

TODAY, May 8th:: Tag Der Sieges ueber den Fascismus

Hello, I hope everyone here in Berlin can join us today at Cafe Buchhandlung, 32 Tucholskystr, this
is the first of the now-on-Thursday Stammtische, and it will be a special occasion, Johannes Wilms
will read a selected anti-fascist text, the first to guess the author earns a free drink!

TOMORROW, May 9th:: HACK.Fem.EAST!

Miss Information and her Telekommunisten will be one of the participants in HACK.Fem.EAST,
with the "For Miss Information, Call" Street Art/Phone Art project.

HACK.Fem.EAST presents Women, Technology and Networks in Eastern Europe.
Exhibition, performances, meetings.
Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien Berlin. Opening: 9 May, from 19.00.

For Miss Information, Call
+49 30 2000 9039
Call Now!

//~~_ http://www.hackfemeast.org _~~\\

For those outside of Germany, call with Dialstation:
[[--> http://www.dialstation.com/CallMissInfo

And speaking of Dialstation...

As expected, we have some rough spots in the launch of the new Dialstation and there
has been some downtime in different parts, all is up now, so please check it out and
spread the word.

Also, PLEASE NOTE, that as a result of certain treacherous counterrevolutionaries
attempting to compromise Dialstation, we have had to suspend the automatic
provisioning of free credit for new accounts, for instant access you will now need to
make a payment.

HOWEVER, we still are more than happy to give you and your comrades some free
credit to try it out, but you will need to send an email at support@dialstation.com
or use the feedback box first.