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Bitcoin Price Prediction: Why Bitcoin Could Rocket To $400,000 In 2021
https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2021/04/08/bitcoin-price-prediction-why-bitcoin-could-rocket-to-400000-in-2021/

“Less Illicit Activity on Bitcoin Than Traditional Banking System”- Former CIA Director
Michael Morrell,  the former acting director of CIA published an independent paper commissioned by Crypto Council for Innovation refuting the long told narrative about bitcoin and crypto use in illicit activities. Morrell in his research found that the fear-mongering around crypto propagated by government officials like Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen does not hold any ground when put to test.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell Goes on 60 Minutes to Present a False Narrative on
Mega Banks He Supervises Loaning Out their Balance Sheets to Hedge Funds
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2021/04/fed-chair-jerome-powell-goes-on-60-minutes-to-present-a-false-narrative-on-mega-banks-he-supervises-loaning-out-their-balance-sheets-to-hedge-funds/

Janet Yellen should release Trump’s tax returns to Congress, since Mnuchin’s defiance of the subpoena for them was illegal. What’s taking so long?

Trump and family are hiding in plain sight. Yellen, and NY lawyers all know what they were doing, but no legal entity has the balls to go after him/them. They are afraid. What are the reasons they are afraid? Put you answers in the comments below.

RIGHT WING #GQP #GOP WATCH

Patronizing Trump’s businesses is saying you’re ok with a violent insurrection. It’s saying you’re fine with lying about our election. It’s signaling that you’re on board with efforts to attack our democracy. It’s that simple.

Retired and disgraced president Trump has officially lost his security clearance, but still gets Secret Service protection! President Biden stopped Donald Trump in March from receiving any intelligence briefings. While Carter, Clinton, Bush and Obama still get theirs incase advice is asked from them by the President.

QAnon busted Jim Watkins held prominent positions with Credit Suisse and Citigroup

Republican Jesus GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy; Over the weekend, the Supreme Court ruled once again to uphold Californians’ religious freedoms. 21st century and religion still means more than science. That way people can blame Jesus for spreading the Covid 19!
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/547493-supreme-court-says-california-must-allow-in-home-prayer-meetings

The discrimination of at-home religious gatherings in California, while other services and entities congregate with less restrictions, is unacceptable.

Mike Lindell announces that his new “free speech” social media platform will ban swearing and taking the Lord’s name in vain because it’s a “Judeo-Christian platform.”  Fox News is white nationalist TV. If you advertise with them, that’s what you are sponsoring.

Ron DeSantis is actively trying to subvert the decision of cruise lines to impose vaccine mandates for travelers. His attempt not only impedes corporate governance, but also make Florida an extension of countries where Governments dictate the actions of private companies.

#FACEBOOK WATCH

Facebook approved Jim Watkins’ QAnon super PAC’s Facebook page to run political ads. it might also be a good time to reflect on how someone like Jim Watkins can just set up a super PAC and launch political ads. I mean by all means drag Facebook and shoot Facebook ads into the sun, but feels like there’s a bigger, structural problem here.
https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/C00740209/summary/2020

Revealed: the Facebook loophole that lets world leaders deceive and harass their citizens “There is a lot of harm being done on Facebook that is not being responded to because it is not considered enough of a PR risk to Facebook,” said Sophie Zhang, a former data scientist at Facebook who worked within the company’s “integrity” organization to combat inauthentic behavior. “The cost isn’t borne by Facebook. It’s borne by the broader world as a whole.” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/12/facebook-loophole-state-backed-manipulation

Sophie Zhang(张学菲)@szhang_ds Apr 12
Facebook has many slogans. Employees were taught to #BeOpen, to #FocusOnImpact and #BuildSocialValue. We were told that #NothingAtFacebookIsSomeoneElsesProblem and asked #WhatWouldYouDoIfYouWerentAfraid.
I finally put all these into practice today. (1/8)

SECURITY

ParkMobile Breach Exposes License Plate Data, Mobile Numbers of 21M Users
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/04/parkmobile-breach-exposes-license-plate-data-mobile-numbers-of-21m-users/
Someone is selling account information for 21 million customers of ParkMobile, a mobile parking app that’s popular in North America. The stolen data includes customer email addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, license plate numbers, hashed passwords and mailing addresses.
KrebsOnSecurity first heard about the breach from Gemini Advisory, a New York City based threat intelligence firm that keeps a close eye on the cybercrime forums. Gemini shared a new sales thread on a Russian-language crime forum that included my ParkMobile account information in the accompanying screenshot of the stolen data.
Included in the data were my email address and phone number, as well as license plate numbers for four different vehicles we have used over the past decade. Asked about the sales thread, Atlanta-based ParkMobile said the company published a notification on Mar. 26 about “a cybersecurity incident linked to a vulnerability in a third-party software that we use.”

Critical Zoom vulnerability triggers remote code execution without user input
https://www.zdnet.com/article/critical-zoom-vulnerability-triggers-remote-code-execution-without-user-input/

Federal regulators are probing an effort to funnel $75 million through state Republican parties to the national GOP effort to reelect Donald Trump.
Add this to the list of shady financial things related to the Trump political apparatus.
https://www.axios.com/republicans-state-gop-trump-campaign-cd16bae3-ebf9-4ed5-94de-98a85d23e06c.html

Biden DOJ refuses to release key Trump documents about family separations. Among the unreleased documents is the agenda from a May 2018 meeting that included a show of hands vote by Trump officials on whether to separate families. With @JuliaEAinsley
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/biden-doj-refuses-release-key-trump-admin-documents-about-zero-n1263829

Manhattan Trump investigation expands to salary and benefits paid to son of Trump Org exec: report
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-org-crimes/

Endorsed by Trump Allies, Disgraced Former Missouri Governor Will Run for Senate
https://truthout.org/articles/endorsed-by-trump-allies-disgraced-former-missouri-governor-will-run-for-senate/

Traitor Trump’s Delusional Rant Angers GOP Donors
https://crooksandliars.com/2021/04/traitor-trumps-delusional-rant

Trump Rails Against How ‘Dumb Son of a B**ch’ McConnell Handled the 2020 Election in Unhinged Speech
https://secondnexus.com/trump-mcconnell-dumb-son-speech

Remember this? “Qatari officials gathered evidence of illicit influence by the UAE on Kushner and other Trump associates, but decided not to give the information to Mueller for fear of harming relations with Trump.” Maybe someone could circle back now.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/qataris-opted-not-give-info-kushner-secret-meetings-mueller-n855326

That treasonous asshat trump continues with the Big Lie. He is narrowing his targets to McConnell (and, of course, his Asian wife) and Pence. Why the hell don’t those two cowards speak out. McConnell is too old to run again and Pence too stupid. ~amvetsupport

Asshat Sylvester Stallone joins Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club
The ‘Rocky’ star has previously been a guest at the Florida club

#TuckFrump @realTuckFrumper Arrests of Capitol attackers prove Trump’s ‘white working class’ narrative was all a lie: columnist
https://www.rawstory.com/capitol-attackers-data-trump-truth/

COVID

BREAKING: CDC and FDA recommend US pause use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine over blood clot concerns