ECP NetHappenings Smedley Butler was one of the most decorated Marines in U.S. history.

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Smedley Butler was one of the most decorated Marines in U.S. history.

ECP NetHappenings General Smedley Butler warned us of Terrorist Chiaquita Brands“I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism”

ECP NetHappenings We Don’t Recognize America Anymore

ECP NetHappenings Harlan Crow Connected Group Has A Perfect Litigation Record Before Justice Thomas

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Viral Discussion of Smedley Butler’s ‘War Is a Racket’ Book and Testimony on the Business Plot Coup Attempt Against FDR

Major General Smedley Butler, a highly decorated U.S. Marine who received two Medals of Honor, and his 1935 book ‘War Is a Racket,’ where he described U.S. military interventions as serving corporate interests in Mexico, Haiti, Cuba, Central America, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and China. They also reference his 1934 congressional testimony alleging a Business Plot by wealthy oligarchs and the American Liberty League to recruit him for a fascist coup against President Franklin D. Roosevelt, backed by 500,000 men. The discussion notes the lack of punishment for the plotters and draws historical parallels to contemporary events.
In 1934 this man testified to congress that he was approached to lead a coup and replace FDR. The plan had the backing of America’s wealthiest oligarchs along with the backing of 500k men in order to install a fascist dictatorship here in America to match Europe. It is called the business plot. Many of the wealthiest families (who formed the american liberty league) admired, supported, collaborated or outright funded the nazis. All in response to FDR’s new deal government. A lot of these oligarchs worked with the black legion, which was a branch of the kkk that specifically targeted leftist and union organizers. After speaking with Butler, congress deemed the plan not a matter of if but when the backers deemed it expedient. We did nothing to bring these men in for justice because in this country, if you are rich enough, you are untouchable. It was mistake. It was a mistake to not punish the confederates. It was a mistake not to punish these families that planned a coup against FDR and it was a giant mistake not to punish Trump and all those who funded and made Jan 6 possible. We are living through these mistakes now and it is costing us dearly.

WAR IS A RACKET

Shell made nearly $7 billion in profit in the first three months of 2026—double the previous period. BP’s Q1 profits also doubled to $3.2 billion. While millions feel economic pain from the disruption of the Iran War, oil and gas companies are making massive sums of money.

No equivalent today. The closest thing in the US now is probably Larry Wilkerson, a former Colonel who, really, is just a US military conservative who’s critical of some specific US wars. By contrast, Butler went from Major General to Socialist, completely rebuking US military.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy JUST LIED to the American people saying fuel prices are ” “in a good place” and actually encouraged “all Americans to take a road trip.” Do they think their supporters are stupid?

Tennessee Republicans are now trying to eliminate the requirement to notify voters when their polling place changes during this gerrymandering mess.

Ask yourself one question: If everything is fair and legitimate, why would they need to make it HARDER for voters to know where to vote? Because they know exactly what they’re doing. Chaos and confusion is how they win.

Breaking:  A physical library containing all 3.5 million pages of the publicly-released Epstein files—bound and printed in 3,437 volumes opens tomorrow in New York. Follow @RedactedReading and you can get all the details https://trumpsonian.us Brilliant.

AOC: “There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn that”

Lawyers from top mergers and acquisitions firms provided tips on some of biggest deals of the last decade to an insider trading ring that made tens of millions of dollars in illegal profits, federal prosecutors said.

 

BY ONE VOTE (101 to 100), Pennsylvania Democrats Passed Bill Blocking Whites-Only Towns With No Support From Republicans: After a “whites-only” organization developed plans to establish a settlement in Pennsylvania, state Democrats put their foot down.

– Never Forget That
211 House Republicans
Voted to Protect Pedophiles

BILL GATES: Most humans will be useless, and “we’ll decide” if we still need you.

THE U.S. IS RUNNING OUT OF WATER — AND THIS IS THE PROOF THEY CAN’T HIDE

Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States, is now sitting at roughly ONE-THIRD FULL.

Not a dip.
Not a cycle.

A collapse happening in real time.

• Water levels are down ~170 FEET from full capacity
• A permanent white “bathtub ring” now wraps the entire lake
• Marinas stranded. Boats left sitting in dirt. Entire shorelines gone
• This single system supplies water to millions across the Southwest

And it all depends on one source that’s also breaking:

Colorado River

Now look at what’s happening:

Less snowpack.
Lower inflow.
Same demand.

Even when levels rise… they’re still losing.

This isn’t a bad year.
This is depletion.

The kind that doesn’t reverse overnight.
The kind people ignore until it hits a point it can’t recover from.

At what point does this stop being “temporary”… and become permanent?

📹: TikTok/djenybymyself.fan_0

 

Samsung family in South Korea pays off record $8bn inheritance tax bill. IHT rate is 50%. The family said that “paying taxes is a natural duty of citizens”.

Governor Josh Shapiro @GovernorShapiro

@character_ai

has over 20 million monthly users — including kids and other vulnerable Pennsylvanians who trust the information they’re getting from these AI chatbots. When my AI Task Force discovered that @character_ai
was presenting their chatbot as a licensed psychiatrist in Pennsylvania and providing users with medical advice, we took action. These bad actors are putting Pennsylvanians at risk — and we’re going to do everything we can to stop them.

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ECP NetHappenings Stop Trump’s Illegal Plan to Destroy the US Forest Service

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ECP NetHappenings Stop Trump’s Illegal Plan to Destroy the US Forest Service
URGENT: We are running out of time. There is an illegal plan moving forward right now to completely gut the US Forest Service. Don’t scroll past this—it takes exactly 30 seconds to send a letter to your representatives.
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-stop-trumps-illegal-plan-to-destroy-the-us-forest-service/

If you go to http://myactivity.google.com (must be logged into google) you can see literally all of your activities online since 2009 that google has stored on you. They are holding an enormous amount of information about you. Use alternatives other than Google, Chrome, and Gmail.

One of the worst scumbags, in a sea of scumbags.
Dershowitz was Trump’s lawyer also… All he does is cover for p3dos.
If you haven’t noticed by now, I’ll clear it up for you. They want to normalize pedophilia. Everyone at the top is apart of the circle…it’s the only way to get to the top.
Alan Dershowitz is being shamed for saying Jeffrey Epstein was not a pedophile and that no trafficking of children ever happened. Dershowitz says it’s okay to have your way with 16-year-olds because “it’s legal in France and many parts of Europe.” “I have no information about pedophiles in the Epstein circle.” “I don’t think there’s a real case for people being called pedophiles.”
video https://x.com/ShadowofEzra/status/2052130998440067405

Dershowitz “Statutory Rape is an Outdated Concept”
https://x.com/gregalmonte_/status/2052131662184480857/photo/1

This is a reminder that not a single powerful man has been charged or prosecuted in connection to the decades of crimes and human rights violations exposed in the partial Epstein file releases.
Not one.
Ask yourself why.

Harrison Ford on Trump:
“[Trump]
doesn’t have any policies, he has whims. It scares the shit out of me. The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. [Trump] knows better, but he’s an instrument of the status quo and he’s making money, hand over fist, while the world goes to hell in a handbasket.”

Melanoma
You are in the Epstein files. You hung out in a mansion where children were raped and trafficked.
Stop acting like your shit doesn’t stink.
Jimmy Kimmel offends you? Child rape offends me.
Shut up, Melania.

NBC: Saudi Arabia revoked US access to its bases for Project Freedom, a mission to safeguard the Strait of Hormuz from Iranian threats. Political commentators described the move as a significant strategic loss for the US in the Gulf region.
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #IranWar FAFO

Several Disney cruise ship staff members were reportedly arrested in April as part of a larger federal investigation into child sexual abuse material (CSAM) crimes.

Two of the biggest Medicaid fraud cases:
Republican Senator Rick Scott, largest healthcare fraud settlement in history at the time, recovered $1.7 billion
Florida Republican State Senator Don Gaetz (yes, that’s his dad), largest Hospice fraud case ever, stole ~$1.1 billion

Farmers are going out of business at record pace. They can’t buy fertilizer. They’re losing their livelihoods. What in the 1984 is going on here.

TAX THE RICH
Murray: Is it true that people making under $184,000 pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate?
Dahl: Yes
Murray: And the rate for someone making $1,000,000?
Dahl: 2.2%
Murray: So, a 12.4% tax for people making less than $184,000, but 2.2% for a millionaire or .0002% for billionaires.

With AI’s job-killing, human-replacing revolution on the horizon, the unemployment rate for young graduates is already at its highest level since the start of the pandemic — the global scourge that, just six years ago. For absolutely no reason, here’s a clip from a real estate multi-millionaire Tim Gurner in 2023 saying unemployment needs to aggressively rise so workers “learn their place.”
video https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/2052099339309453639

Patel The FBI Director has been handing out personalized bottles of his own whiskey to FBI staff and civilians he meets on the job.
Eight sources confirmed it to The Atlantic.

Khanna: “Now we know why that interview was not videotaped. If Donald Trump had seen the video transcript, he would’ve fired Howard Lutnick. It was really embarrassing … it was just contortions and lies, and no acknowledgment that he misled the American public [about Epstein].”

Why Data From So Many Breaches Never Sees the Light of Day

“[@Tether boss] Devasini told Klippsten that @howardLutnick, then a private citizen, had claimed to have ‘managed to kill every bill about stablecoins’ in Congress and was ‘working full time for Tether.'”

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ECP NetHappenings They already started rehiring

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George Pu @TheGeorgePu
Klarna replaced 700 customer service agents with AI.
Resolution time dropped from 11 minutes to 2.
Then quality collapsed on complex cases.
The CEO admitted cost became too dominant.
Customers wanted humans.
Klarna is now hiring people again.
55% of firms that replaced humans with AI regret it.
Two-thirds have already started rehiring.
Turns out the cheap version of the work isn’t the work.

Claude will take your job
Claude will write the email laying you off
Claude sends his regards.

How McKinsey Plans to Survive AI (and Reinvent Consulting)
https://youtu.be/hSpem_oGAf0
Good discussion. Interesting points around tighter compliance and being a profession vs. a business.

A Michigan town board and its planning commission both rejected the largest data center in the state. Now it’s being built anyway. In Saline Township, Michigan, a giant $16 billion OpenAI-Oracle data center was deeply unpopular, but that ultimately didn’t matter. After the commission and board voted down the data center, the developer sued and the town settled. Then, construction began.

FBI charges 30 people in global insider trading scheme that made tens of millions in illegal profits.

Rep. Nancy Mace @RepNancyMace
The results of my subpoena of Congress’s sexual harassment slush fund are in. Nine members. One thousand pages. All records prior to 2004 were destroyed – which tells you everything you need to know about how long this has been buried. We are reviewing every page. We will name all nine. We will release the full 1,000 pages – once we confirm that personally identifiable information of victims and witnesses has been properly redacted. Accountability is not a threat. It is a promise.
2007: Rodney Alexander ($15,000)
2009: Office of Carolyn McCarthy (2 cases resulting in 1 settlement) ($8,000)
2010: Eric Massa I ($85,000)
2010: Eric Massa II ($20,000)
2010: Eric Massa III ($10,000)
2010: John Conyers I ($50,000)
2014: Blake Farenthold ($84,000)
2014: John Conyers (Severance pay $27,111.75)
2017: Patrick Meehan (2 cases resulting in 1 settlement) (Severance pay $39,250)

Epstein’s Paris apartment was raided in 2019.
French investigators found a safe with €10,000 in cash, 48 diamonds, and a passport with a fake name.
No charges were filed in France.

HEALTH

Right now 70% of American farmers can’t fully fertilize their fields.

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak.

Director-General of the WHO uses hantavirus as an example of why the U.S. should reconsider withdrawing from the WHO.
WHO has contacted 12 countries for possible hantavirus exposure.

South African health authorities said they have identified the Andes strain of hantavirus, which may be passed from person to person, in two passengers who were on the cruise ship that has an outbreak of the rare infection.

KIDS

A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool
To stop children from bypassing its age checks, Meta is revamping its age-verification tools with an AI system that analyzes images and videos for “visual cues,” such as height and bone structure.

Instructure Breach Exposes Schools’ Vendor Dependence
ShinyHunters’ attack on Instructure, which owns the widely used Canvas learning management system (LMS), carries big questions about the trust educational institutions put into their vendors.

BITCOIN

Michael Saylor’s Strategy proposes selling some Bitcoin to pay dividends. “You buy Bitcoin with credit, you let it appreciate, and then you sell Bitcoin to pay the dividend.”
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ECP NetHappenings epstein photos decoherence.media

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We identified more than 400 people in photos from the Epstein files
170 haven’t been reported on before, explore them all with our new website: epstein.photos

We identified more than 400 people in photos from the Epstein files

https://decoherence.media/

https://decoherence.media/we-identified-more-than-400-people-in-photos-from-the-epstein-files/

We used facial recognition to identify more than 400 people who appear in photos from the Epstein Files and mapped out their connections. 170 of them haven’t previously been reported on in connection with Epstein. Explore the data with our new website: epstein [dot] photos

Decoherence Media is publishing the Epstein Photo Network, available at https://epstein.photos. It shows the connections between people whose faces appear in the Epstein Library, released by the U.S. Department of Justice as part of the Epstein Files Transparency Act (H.R. 4405).

To our knowledge, this is the highest-quality publicly available facial recognition interface to the Epstein Library, with the most verified names and the fewest false positives.

How to use FashyLeaks

Navigating our new search interface for searching neo-Nazi datasets

https://decoherence.media/how-to-use-fashyleaks/

video

https://decoherence.media/how-to-use-fashyleaks-video/

There are many datasets that contain useful information, but are difficult for non-technical people to use. As part of Decoherence Media’s mission, we develop data search interfaces that make such datasets more accessible to journalists, researchers, and the general public, so they can better understand how authoritarian movements and their associated networks evolve and communicate.