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#Labor Day
“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country… and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level. I mean the wages of decent living.” ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
FDR’s Warning of Monopolies and Fascism in 1938
He warned, “Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing.”
https://brewminate.com/fdrs-warning-of-monopolies-and-fascism-in-1938/
Three multibillionaires now own more wealth than the bottom 90% of America – 291 million Americans. This is what oligarchy looks like. America’s billionaires are buying up property at a frenzy. Many of the super rich own more than ten homes.
Larry Ellison: 24 homes
Ken Griffin: 13
Eric Schmidt: 13
Ron Burkle: 11
Mike Bloomberg: 10
Jeff Bezos: 9
Meanwhile, the majority of Americans can’t even buy one home.
Oct. 23, 1940, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938’s mandate of a 40-hour workweek with time-and-a-half overtime pay for hours of work beyond
that goes into effect. The legislation was passed to eliminate “labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard of
living necessary for health, efficiency, and the general well-being of workers.” How’s that working out these days?
#POLITICS
America doesn’t work like it used to.
~ Sign up to Phonebank with “Sister District” and Help Virginia keep Republicans from winning a “Trifecta” ~ Virginia Democrats are warning of the consequences of neglecting their legislative elections ~ #Politics
Biden is an Eisenhower Republican see 1956 Republican Platform
BREAKING: a push to strip Fox’s broadcast license over election lies gains new momentum.
Media reform activists have petitioned the FCC to revoke Fox News’ local broadcast license in Philadelphia.
More specifically, the group argued that Fox News’ rampant election fraud propaganda technically violated the “character clause” embedded in the Communications Act the FCC is supposed to use to determine whether an organization should hold a broadcast license.
If successful, the move might be replicated in other markets. Even if not, it serves ad a great example of activism and gaining media exposure for the need for regulatory reform. Fox News should ose its FCC license!
Kushner’s phone call to Erdogan the night before Khashoggi’s brutal butchering. Our abrupt withdrawal from Syria, giving airbase & Kurds’ oil shale to Putin, & hapless Kurds to Erdogan. Then Kush gets $2 billion.
People seem to ignore what Khashoggi was investigating when murdered. He was writing about Kushner allegedly turning over classified info to MBS, who then used that to hunt down, arrest, and murder his opponents in Saudi Arabia. MBS has a financial relationship with Trump AND AMI
The Texas attorney general pressured his staff to help a friend under investigation. Then he fired the whistleblowers. Then he asked taxpayers to pay the settlement. All while his friend gave his mistress a job in Austin so they could see each other. Ken Paxton evaded scandal—criminal indictments, a staff revolt, a whistleblower lawsuit—for years. But his impeachment trial starts in the Texas Senate on Tuesday. https://boltsmag.org/ken-paxton-faces-trial-texas-senate/
@tribelaw Explaining with his unique precision & clarity the legal view he & I have taken, @judgeluttig lays out the case for fully and faithfully enforcing the Disqualification Clause of the 14th Amendment — and letting the political chips fall wherever they may.
https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/judge-luttig-supreme-court-will-determine-if-trump-is-eligible-to-run-for-president-sooner-rather-than-later-192195141854
#CLIMATE CORRUPTION
The Most Detailed Map of Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution in the U.S.
https://projects.propublica.org/toxmap/
The United States is quickly depleting groundwater to supply industrial agriculture and sprawling cities. “It can take millions of years to fill an aquifer, but they can be depleted in 50 years,” says water management expert Warigia Bowman.
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/8/31/aquifer_depletion
Brazilian authorities issued 35 warrants against crime groups linked to the deforestation of almost 600 hectares of the Amazon rainforest for illegal cattle raising and money laundering. If found guilty of all charges, the suspects face sentences that could exceed 20 years in prison.
https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/17978-brazil-arrests-those-linked-to-deforesting-598-hectares-of-amazon-rainforest
#PRIVACY
Under the Online Safety Bill, U.K. law enforcement could read the private chats and photos of web users around the world—without judicial oversight, and with few safeguards.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/uk-government-very-close-eroding-encryption-worldwide
Meta Cripples China’s Signature ‘Spamouflage’ Influence Op… The social media giant is taking on Dragonbridge, the “largest known cross-platform covert influence operation in the world.”
Spamouflage is a disinformation outfit in operation since at least 2019, which promotes content in alignment with the political interests of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)
It targets English- and Chinese-speaking audiences worldwide — in particular, populations based in Taiwan, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Japan.
https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/meta-vs-china-social-giant-cripples-chinese-disinformation-apt
Meredith Whittaker
Apple’s statement is the death knell for the idea that it’s possible to scan everyone’s comms AND preserve privacy.
Apple has many of the best cryptographers + software eng on earth + infinite $.
If they can’t, no one can. (They can’t. No one can.)
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-csam-scanning-heat-initiative-letter/
#Health Care
MUST READ GREAT STORY
The Hidden Fee Costing Doctors Millions Every Year
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-hidden-fee-costing-doctors-millions-every-year
A powerful lobbyist convinced a federal agency that doctors can be forced to pay fees on money that health insurers owe them. Big companies rake in profits while doctors are saddled with yet another cost in a burdensome health care system.
In August 2017, a federal agency with sweeping powers over the health care industry posted a notice informing insurance companies that they weren’t allowed to charge physicians a fee when the companies paid the doctors for their work. Six months later, that statement disappeared without explanation. The insurers’ invisible victory has tightened the financial vise on doctors and hospitals, nurtured a thriving industry of middlemen and allowed health insurers to do something no other industry does: Take one last cut even as it pays its bills.
MORE https://armandalegshow.com/
A show about the cost of health care that’s more entertaining, empowering, and occasionally useful than enraging, and terrifying and depressing.
Implantable Artificial Kidney That Frees Patients From Dialysis On Horizon After Successful Trial
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/implantable-artificial-kidney-may-free-patients-from-dialysis-and-transplants/
BITCOIN
Watch @saylor explaining the differences between #Bitcoin and real estate, and why Bitcoin is a superior form of investment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01vEes4b8pM
How would it make you feel to learn about a Digital Bank being the ones behind the #2 sh1tcoin, and the alts Ryoshi and Shytoshi?
$SHIB = SBIH = SBI Holdings, Japans largest Digital Bank Conglomerate
The truth behind ETH, XRP’s #1 institutional investor
https://twitter.com/BoringSleuth/status/1698210954515742856
Did you know that Amber Group setup and originally funded both
@blur_io’s Deployers and $BLUR token, as well as
@arbitrum’s Deployers and the Arbitrum Multisig wallet?
https://twitter.com/BoringSleuth/status/1696370061236154674
@WuBlockchain
The Vitalik address sold 500 MKR for 350 ETH through CoWswap three hours ago. This is also the first time the address has sold MKR after two years. Then Vitalik address transferred 350 ETH to the address: 0x3F…2aEB, which currently has assets of 1.09 million USD including 415.76 ETH.
https://platform.arkhamintelligence.com/explorer/entity/vitalik-buterin
@BoringSleuth
Think about this scenario:
https://twitter.com/BoringSleuth/status/1698203302792417294
10,000 Customers deposit $1K into bank. (Bank currently owns $0, Customers own $10M collectively)
Bank creates $SHIBBY token & uses 10% of their customers funds, in this case $1M to back the liquidity of their $SHIBBY token. (Bank borrows $1M from Customers w/o them knowing, Customers still own $10M)
Bank then uses another $1M to wash trade $SHIBBY and create a buzz! (Bank has now borrowed $2M from Customers w/o them knowing, Customers still own $10M, but have $2M loaned out unknowingly)
10,000 Bank’s Customers each withdraw $200 from Bank, to buy $SHIBBY token from a CEX/DEX. ((Bank now owns $2M, has $2M loaned from customers w/o their knowledge, and customers now only own $8M, but also $SHIBBY tokens too)
Over time, bank grows Ponzi $SHIBBY, also pays back Customer loans, and now, instead of the Bank holding $10M in Customer funds like it did in the beginning, it holds just $5M. But instead of the bank owning $0 like in the beginning, they now own $5M.
Do you see how this is working? Do you see what they have been doing?
In this scenario, the bank is using your wealth, to steal your wealth. Its the Digital version. But you at least own $SHIBBY… Its cool right?
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