ECP NetHappenings Headlines Tell The Truth

ECP NetHappenings Headlines 7-27-23

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Netflix’s Reed Hastings got paid $51 million in 2022

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO got $39M

Paramount’s CEO, $32M

Disney’s CEO, $24M

Meanwhile, writers’ pay has fallen by 23% over the last decade.

And 87% of actors earn under $26k — the cutoff to qualify for health insurance.

 

PSA An IMPORTANT Public Service Announcement for ALL VETERANS .
Please, please, please friends post this far and wide.
The deadline is looming August 9th.
https://twitter.com/politicsusa46/status/1684305291809112069

Chris Christie RIPS Tim Scott for saying Trump isn’t responsible for the Jan. 6 insurrection: “That’s what people are tired of in this race is all these folks…who are afraid to tell the truth about Trump”

-Murdoch admitted that Fox News hosts endorsed false and stolen-election claims under oath.
– Sean Hannity claimed under oath, that he knew all along that Trump lost the election.
– Tucker Carlson admitted under oath that he never believed that the election was stolen.
– Laura Ingraham texted Tucker Carlson “No serious lawyer could believe what they were saying”.
– Rudy Giuliani recently admitted only after being sued for making defamatory statements against 2 poll election staffers, that he made false statements about them and was lying. #VoteBlue2024

Trump admitted that he had classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
He asserts it was his right to have classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
The ex-president is being indicted for trying to overthrow the government of the United States of America. Among the reasons for holding up all these military appointments is that if Trump wins there will be enough open positions that he can simply take over the military.

Trump tried to have ‘sex’ with female staffers when he was in the white house.

Jared Kushner deliberately sabotaged the initial covid response in 2020 as well as accepted $2B from the Saudis in exchange for Intel as well as his role in the brutal vicious murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

Stephanie Lambert has been INDICTED in Michigan for tampering with voting machines in 2020 on behalf of Donald trump

A random bank in San Diego refinanced Trump’s properties.
Trump represents 1% of the bank’s assets under management. The CEO is making more than JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon.
Trump needed $225 million. A little-known bank came to the rescue.
Gregory Garrabrants, a GOP donor and CEO of online Axos Bank, approved the loans after the former president’s main lender had cut ties.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/27/trump-loans-axos-bank-gregory-garrabrants/

US Banks Banning Dissenters (Why We Bitcoin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjnJtR8rdTM

U.S. GDP growth accelerated to 2.4%, far exceeding expectations.
-Growth is up.
-Consumer confidence is up.
-Inflation is down.
-This is #Bidenomics in action.

Wyden Introduces Bills Revoking PGA Tour’s Tax Exemption, Saudi Public Investment Fund’s Special Tax Break
Finance Chairman: “An organization that betrays its own word and agrees to become a profit generator for Saudi Arabia’s brutal regime has disqualified itself for a tax exemption.”

Pope: Being gay “must” be made legal worldwide.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AZKSnKRvgBM

Term Limits

New law should be, once retirement age is reached, you may no longer hold public office or run for office. That way Maxine Waters, Brad Sherman etc  would also be forced to retire and their close-minded opinions discarded and replaced with fresh thinking.

Feinstein, McConnell, Waters,  Sherman need to get out.
Feinstein 89, McConnell 81, Waters 82, Sherman 71
They have one foot in DC, the other in hospice care.

Feinstein’s primary caregiver: Pelosi’s daughter
A quiet caretaking arrangement has raised questions about whether Nancy Pelosi has the ailing senator’s personal interests at heart.

We need to set an age limit for all of government, across the board with no exceptions. This is just ridiculous

Why do they hold on to the end? Power, influence and corruption.

These people are voting on blockchain, AI and everything else.

Where are the next generation leaders that are taking politics forward? How hypocritical has the world become to retire your workforce at 65 etc. but politicians don’t have to.

It’s embarrassing to think that the USA, the world super power, is run by a ignorant or senile geriatrics. Americans can do better!!
Mitch McConnell has cognitive malfunction at podium. He looks like he had a stroke and has to be escorted away by fellow Senators. This man has clear cognitive impairments after sustaining serious head trauma from his fall a few months ago. It is clear that he should resign. Why won’t the Boomer generation leave the stage ?

Clarence Thomas’s Citizens United stance is even more extreme than other justices: He claims that having to disclose political donations violates donors’ First Amendment rights. What about voters’ rights to hold elected officials to account? Why  isn’t he impeached and forced to resign?

America sees impotent limp dicks and overwhelming corruption where justice is postponed so far into the future that no one even remembers or cares anymore. Imagine postponing Trumps conviction  into years from now.

SBF

Rules are only for the Poor

US Department of Justice has dropped all campaign finance charges against Sam Bankman-Fried
Charges are getting dropped for money laundering ponzi bro SBF. If you still think the DOJ isn’t a two tier enforcement arm of the national security mafia that actually runs the US, you believe in a fairy tale and it’s time to grow up. Laws for thee, not for me if you can buy (donate to) the right Democrate and Republican politicians. You can do anything you want as long as you pay the right people.

CORRUPT US POLITICIANS drop the political campaign finance criminal charge against Sam Bankman-Fried.
https://watcher.guru/news/prosecutors-drop-campaign-finance-charge-against-bankman-fried

How much money did Sam Bankman-Fried/FTX give to POLITICIANS for their campaigns that persuaded Damien Williams, US Attorney for NY, to drop the campaign finance contribution charges?

NAMES ON THE LIST 
SBF donated at least ~$90M dollars, https://twitter.com/NativeIndianDog/status/1647296218035376136

SBF essentially got off on a technicality.
SBF was extradited in December from the Bahamas to the US to face a set of specific charges.
The Feds believed that included campaign finance charges. SBF challenged that, and the Bahamas just agreed with him — so the Feds dropped it.

The Politician Protection Act.
SSDNY is beyond corrupt! Just goes to show that if you illegally contribute to the right people, it all goes away.

— Gabe Bankman-Fried, who led SBF’s political operation and now seems unlikely to face charges
— Ryan Salame, the GOP donor prosecutors have been encircling
— Maybe Nishad Singh, but he already pled guilty to campaign-finance violations

The Southern District of New York is dropping its federal prosecution of Sam Bankman-Fried on campaign-finance charges, per new letter from prosecutors.
“The Government does not intend to proceed to trial on the campaign contributions count.”…
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.590940/gov.uscourts.nysd.590940.181.0.pdf
SBF stole billions of customers money, has now had his campaign finance charged dropped, and is getting away with it.
Ross Ulbricht created a website and is still serving 2 life sentences in prison.
Injustice at its finest.
Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX having a federal campaign contribution charge dropped by the DOJ because it would incriminate too many of their preferred politicians going into the 2024 election is pretty insane. Sam really was on the road to being too big to fail/jail.

The Bahamas is dependent on U.S. trade & tourism for its survival.
It would take one phone call from AG Garland to get the Bahamas to consent to prosecute @SBF_FTX on the campaign finance charge.
Wonder why that didn’t happen…
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/27/prosecutors-drop-another-charge-against-ftxs-sam-bankman-fried.html

AI

OpenAI discontinues its AI writing detector due to “low rate of accuracy”
Research shows that any AI writing detector can be defeated—and false positives abound.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/07/openai-discontinues-its-ai-writing-detector-due-to-low-rate-of-accuracy/

CRYPTO

This is a historic day for crypto policy.

US House Financial Services Committee passes bill to establish regulatory framework for #crypto.

The bill passed by the House Financial Services Committee would define when a cryptocurrency is a security or a commodity and expand the (CFTC) oversight #crypto, while clarifying the #SECs jurisdiction, as many crypto advocates complain of the agency’s perceived overreach.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-congressional-committee-set-weigh-crypto-bills-2023-07-26/

It’s important not to think crypto is fully partisan.
If you are on the D side of the aisle, support all of these Representatives for doing the right thing.

@FinancialCmtejust advanced the FIT for the 21st Century Act by a vote of 35 to 15, including significant support from Democratic members.
This sends a strong bipartisan message in favor of reasonable regulation for digital assets.

The status quo of crypto regulation by enforcement has failed retail customers.

This sends a strong bipartisan message in favor of reasonable regulation for digital assets.

Democrats
@jahimes @RepRitchie @RepJoshG @RepHorsford @RepWileyNickel @pettersen4co
Ages of the six Democrats that voted for the bill: 35, 41, 47, 48, 50, 57 (average: 46)

DEMOCRATS ELILZABETH WARREN, GARY GENSLER, MAXINE WATTERS, SHEROD BROWN HATE IT
Average age of the rest of the BIDEN Administration HFSC Democrats: 61

Einstein once said: “If we do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result, that’s the definition of insanity.”

It’s time for Congress to bring sanity to crypto regulation.

NOTHING BEATS MONEY PRINTING

US Congressman Brad Sherman says “yes, it is true the United States makes money by printing money.”

Hey @Marc_Fagel – these are the experts who support the SEC.
Dear @BradSherman,
Are you stupid? You say there is not a single securities regulation that says something can be a security at one time and not at another. Have you ever heard of Howey’s orange groves? I hope you have been already signed you up for dementia care. Good seats are rare. I guess he hasn’t read anything regarding the Howey test before this statement. The oranges themselves are NOT a security.
Given that a digital asset itself is not a security under Howey, and decades of federal case law supports that, Congress is moving to codify this into legislation. That the @SECGov would lift a finger to fight proves it has no allegiance to the law.

SHERMAN Campaign Committee Fundraising, 2021 – 2022
This is exactly how low IQ stupid Brad Sherman is he says US Congressman says #Bitcoin creator “Saratoshi Nagamoto” was not innovative. https://twitter.com/JohnEDeaton1/status/1684293653043314691

JUST IN: “Digital assets that are not inherently securities maybe offered as a part of an investment contract but that does not make them necessarily securities.” – Chairman McHenry
DECENTRALIZTION AND FUNCTION ARE THE ISSUE.

CNBC is mentioning the #Bitcoin halving and it’s not even 2024 yet

@HRF announces the Bitcoin Bounty Challenge
20 BTC up for grabs for 10 UX improvements to Bitcoin (mainly focused on mobile wallets) requested by dissidents and human rights groups from across the world

The new Lightning-capable #BlockstreamGreen works flawlessly (even in beta), receiving sats from @walletofsatoshi and zapping a friend on #nostr.

#Bitcoin, Liquid and Lightning in one, non-custodial, privacy-focused wallet. Open beta coming soon.
Lev Parnas just came clean about how the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop were acquired by Russian FSB agents and compromised and manipulated by Russian intelligence. Parnas is asking James Comer to allow him to testify before Congress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eUq2cb7sGo

75% of homes in the US housing market are beyond the reach for middle-class buyers, per the National Realtor Association.

 

RIP Sinéad O’Connor, an Irish singer and musician, has passed away at the age of 56.
I watched this live in my living room and stood up and cheered at the end. I didn’t understand the silence that met her until much later – a sobering reminder of the power of evil men. She was a visionary – brave and undeterred. A role model for us all. By the time Sinéad O’Connor sang this (1992) some 70,000 children had been sexually abused by Catholic priests & brothers in Ireland. The state, media, bishops, cardinals & pope had covered it up. She was scorned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LcmJErI8IQ

OCTOBER 7, 2013
Of Sinead, Miley and Amanda
BY SINEAD O’CONNOR
https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/07/of-sinead-miley-and-amanda/