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POLITICS
George Soros bought 227 radio stations across the country today. He is the democrat’s secret weapon, and the Republicans are freaking out. You may know one of the stations “I heart radio” He owns all of them now. Right before the election.
Two Individuals Plead Guilty To Insider Trading Scheme Based On SPAC Merger With Trump Media & Technology Group
Michael and Gerald Shvartsman made over $22 million in illegal profits by trading in advance of DWAC Trump Media merger announcement
Today’s story adds new information: Russian-American under investigation loaned Trump Media $8 million in 2022
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/03/trump-media-es-family-trust-2022-loans
Last year @hugolowell reported on 2 loans to Trump Media from ES Family Trust run by Anton Postolnikov, nephew of Putin ally Aleksandr Smirnov
Cleaning all the scum out of Florida’s Law Enforcement is something that needs to have a lot more immediacy. Good to see that the Sheriff responded to the gang violence from his deputies by firing and disciplining them.
Lawsuit filed against Lee County Sheriff, ex-sergeant claims excessive use of force
The 14-page lawsuit lists two counts — one against Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno and one against ex-Sgt. Christopher Meyers.
https://www.news-press.com/story/news/local/2024/04/02/lee-county-sheriff-ex-deputy-sued-after-man-claims-arrest-brutality-cory-samek/73170768007/
Federal judge rules New Mexico officials violated National Voter Registration Act
Voter Reference Foundation created a searchable database that includes the voter’s full name, residential address, voting precinct number, date registration, political party affiliation, voting history & year of birth.
♦ Judge Cannon REFUSES to set a trial date for Trump
♦ SCOTUS REFUSES to remove Trump from the ballot
♦ McConnell REFUSES to condemn Trump
♦ Republicans REFUSE to uphold their oath to our Constitution
♦ Secret Service REFUSES to tell the truth
♦ Wake up—J6 coup never ended.
♦ It’s ONGOING All thanks to Merrick Garland.
A Judge appointed by the criminal defendant is a CONFLICT of interest.
Jack Smith needs to petition a higher court to have her removed from the case. Federalist Society’s Judge Loose Cannon was rammed through the nomination process after Trump had already lost expressly to protect him.
Trump almost certainly won’t go to trial in July in the classified docs case — as the Special Counsel requested — with Judge Cannon declining to set a trial schedule a month after she was presented with potential options.
McConnell and Trump’s Machiavellian investment is bearing fruit
Multinational corporations have been blocking effective global regulation for decades, but negotiations underway at the #UN can finally change that. Read @alexcobham’s article in the newly-launched @DiarmidOS on the 100-year journey to a #UNtaxCovention.
https://www.criticaltakes.org/tax-and-profits/the-un-tax-convention-is-a-big-deal/
Trump Posts $175 Million Bond Thanks To Billionaire Don Hankey
A California billionaire whose company helped Trump post his $175 million bond has also helped Trump out financially in the past: in 2022, a firm he partly owns refinanced Trump Tower’s mortgage, bailing Trump out as his previous mortgage was coming due.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2024/04/01/trump-posts-175-million-bond-new-york-civil-fraud-lawsuit/
SECURITY
AI, Encryption, and the Sins of the 90s
https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/ndss-keynote.pdf
■ Meredith Whittaker
Keynote address delivered to the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS)
Symposium, San Diego, California Feb 27, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA2fRRO4qug
“…a Biden admin-appointed review board issued a report Tuesday
saying “a cascade of errors” by Microsoft let state-backed Chinese cyber operators break into email accounts of senior U.S. officials including Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.”
HEALTH
The main plank of the wet market theory recently suffered a devastating takedown in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society.
So devastating in fact that the author appears to be backing off the claim that early COVID cases centered on the wet market — the claim implied by the title of his paper.
https://academic.oup.com/jrsssa/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jrsssa/qnad139/7557954
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.05859.pdf
Stoyan & Chiu write: “We are pleased to have published our critique. However, we are astonished that no other colleagues have reported similar findings. This situation raises doubts about the current state of the system of modern science and the general understanding of basic principles of statistics in modern society, not to speak about the reviewing process of Science.”
Indeed! It shows there is not financial support for scientists looking in an honest way into origins, so what information and analysis we do get will be done out of the charity and pure scientific interest of those doing the work.
https://imstat.org/2024/02/15/challenging-the-misuse-of-statistics-in-the-question-of-the-origin-of-covid-19/
CRYPTO
This is a very big deal. Monopolizing crypto at the hands of the government and big institutions.
#Blackrock has issued a token (Blackrock Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund, “BUIDL”) that functions as a money market fund, which is a security trading onchain.
While BUIDL is restricted to qualified institutions right now, it is important as a proof of concept for securitization of all sorts of other asset classes.
@BlackRock’s $10T Bet on Ethereum
The largest institutions in the world are here, and they’re tokenizing their assets
We knew this was big…but after recording this episode we realized this is an even bigger deal than we thought. You can tokenise quicker and cheaper on Solana.
@SECGov is a tactical unit of the establishment.
Courts are an effective weapon as time alone often defeats the target entity and freezes the market while other parts of the government work to co-opt the industry. Ultimately, this isn’t a war against crypto.
Crypto is the prize.…