NetHappenings Newsletter 6-26-23

Donald Trump has been arrested for espionage and stealing nuclear secrets and is facing over 500 years in prison. Jack Smith has flipped someone who was at the Willard Hotel for January 6th.

US intelligence agencies briefed senior officials on Wednesday of last week that Yevgeny Prigozhin was preparing to take action against senior Russian defense officials, per Bloomberg.

The Wagner Group’s Warning for America
“Eventually, autocratic types unmoor nations by disconnecting from truth. To avoid such a fate here, America’s center must hold — and citizens who believe in the Constitution need to ensure that the wrong kind of leader never again ascends to power.”

Live Video Majority 2023 “So, if you don’t control education, you cannot control the future. And Stalin knew that, Mao knew that, Hitler knew that. We have to get that back for conservative values.”

We need to undo the billionaire capture of the Supreme Court.
Mr. Chief Justice: When it comes to ethics, this is a s— show.

WP Alito’s lame effort to turn an airplane into a “facility” to jam it into an exempt-gift category (“It doesn’t pass the laugh test,” Whitehouse said); Alito’s plea that he couldn’t possibly have known Singer had a financial stake ($2 billion) in the outcome of a case before the court (although it was widely reported in the media); and the insistence that yet another billionaire was a “friend,” which somehow absolved him from his obligation to report gifts of “hospitality.” And, Whitehouse argued, it strains credulity that Alito (like Justice Clarence Thomas) could be confused about reporting requirements when there is a Financial Disclosure Committee expressly set up to help judges navigate these issues.
The hedge fund of Justice Samuel Alito’s billionaire benefactor has been using a recent Alito-backed Supreme Court ruling to try to pressure federal regulators to back off new financial rules designed to fight fraud.

Laurence Tribe
Trump’s two impeachments can’t be “expunged” any more than his term as president can be. Erasing the past isn’t a thing; it’s a fantasy, like erasing reality or making yesterday disappear. Alternative “facts” aren’t facts at all. It’s not about Congress’s power; it’s about truth.
The Willard Hotel war room was the bridge between the Trump Oval Office and the violent insurrection at the Capitol — and between the fake electors coup attempt and the armed backup mob that stormed the Capitol when the coup failed.
Special Counsel Jack Smith has a cooperating witness who was at the Willard Hotel. Owen Shroyer pleaded guilty to his involvement in the Jan 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol. As part of his plea agreement, prosecutors dropped 3 misdemeanor charges in exchange for his cooperation.

A Minnesota jury has found GOP strategist, donor & founder of Big Tent Republicans, Anton Lazzaro, guilty of sex trafficking children.

Oh hello,  @Jim_Jordan The Supreme Court left in place a decision that allows more than 230 men to sue Ohio State University over decades-old sexual abuse by a university doctor, the late Richard Strauss.

No guns allowed during Trump’s speech at the Republican Lincoln Day Dinner. No guns were allowed at his NRA speech or at his rallies. No guns were allowed at DeSantis’s election party or his speech at the Utah GOP convention.

George Custer was notorious for attacking encampments of unarmed women and children. So, it’s only befitting that a Cheyenne, Buffalo Calf Road Woman, is credited with killing him at the Battle of Little Bighorn, June 25th, 1876.

Sen. Tuberville has held up hundreds of military promotions over his extreme anti-abortion stance. He is preventing positions like the Chief of Staff of the Army from being filled and is a threat to our military’s readiness. Military appointments are BLOCKED & the Marines face no confirmed commandant for the 1st time in 164 yrs.
JD Vance DOJ appointments are BLOCKED because of Ted Cruz ambassadors were BLOCKED.

How a Billionaire’s “Attack Philanthropy” Secretly Funded Climate Denialism and Right-Wing Causes Emails and interviews reveal privacy-obsessed electronics magnate Barre Seid’s long history of backing efforts to attack climate science, fight Medicaid expansion, and remake the higher education system in a conservative mold.

Newt 2012 still owes $4.6 million on the loans it took out for a failed presidential campaign more than a decade ago, and the total goes up a couple thousand dollars every quarter. Neither Newt nor anyone else is trying to pay it back or even keep up with the interest.

Student loan debt in the US totals nearly $1.8 trillion, per CNBC. At some point this week the Supreme Court will rule on student debt relief. You should know that Justice Alito took unreported luxury fishing trips paid for by billionaire Paul Singer—the same billionaire funding the lawsuits against student debt relief.

Starbucks, $SBUX, baristas plan to strike after alleged LGBTQ Pride decoration ban, per Bloomberg.

JPMorgan, the largest bank in America, permanently deleted 47 million emails and the SEC fined them only $4 million for it. Many of the deleted emails were needed for at least a dozen investigations. Barely a slap on the wrist for a very serious record-keeping violation.

FEDWIRE IS USED BY THE FEDNOW SERVICE TO TRANSFER FUNDS TO A MASTER ACCOUNT. FEDWIRE = $1 QUADRILLION
The upcoming launch of #FedNow is likely to be the initial spark for #ISO20022 in the US market. At launch, FedNow will introduce ISO20022 messages to instruct customer credit transfers, requests for payment and interbank liquidity transfers, as well as FedNow system and…
RIPPLE PARTNER ECS FIN WORKING DIRECTLY WITH THE FEDERAL RESERVE ON FEDNOW AND FEDWIRE

The FDIC “mistakenly” releases complete version of a document showing U.S. government spent $12,700,000,000 to bail out 10 wealthy depositors amid banking crisis in March.
10 depositors had $13.3B in SVB, that’s why the FDIC bailed them out. (Spoiler alert: They were Chinese accounts) This wasn’t about systemic risk, it was about bailing out the billionaires who were caught.

US Dollars are so scarce in Argentina that Yuan use is at a record, per Bloomberg.

Hong Kong’s BIGGEST bank, HSBC, to offer #Bitcoin ETF to customers – the first bank in Hong Kong to do this.

$META appears well-prepared to meet Europe’s new strict content moderation rules, European Commissioner Thierry Breton said after a meeting with CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Will Prime Trust be “Exhibit A” that finally causes the regulators of trust companies to ban the dangerous practice of #rehypothecation of customer assets held in trust?

Rick Scott’s time as CEO of Columbia/HCA, included over $840 million in criminal fines and damages over unlawful billing practices in 2000 and $881 million for a separate fine in 2002. Scott reportedly took the Fifth 75 separate times during a deposition linked to the company.

Sinclair has far far more viewers to whom they spread Right Wing disinformation constantly. People underestimate the effect Sinclair Media has on its markets.

All of the best scoring respirators are trifold/boat shaped with headbands. Earloops, bifolds, and the extra flimsy duckbill offer inferior protection.

Here’s what people miss about #bitcoin
– Bitcoin is Digital Property.
– The internet is not a platform for content. It’s the democratization of information.
– Bitcoin is not a platform for payments. It’s the democratization of value.
We have never had this before and it is bigger than we can imagine.
– Landfill gas powered Bitcoin mining can abate 45x more emissions than installing more solar on the grid.
– Bitcoin’s market cap is 591.294 billion USD, a tiny insignificant little spot in all of the World’s Money and Markets. It’s still soooo early, unbelievable.

Video Will Quantum Computing Break Bitcoin?