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HEALTH INSURANCE

In case y’all don’t know, AARP is a scam non-profit who shills for one of the worst health insurance companies in America, United Healthcare.
Walgreens is reportedly in talks to sell to Sycamore Partners — a private equity firm with a track record of pushing the companies into bankruptcy.

Insurers’ denial rates are a critical measure of how reliably they pay for customers’ care. But they remain mostly secret to the public.
Federal and state regulators have done little to change that.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-often-do-health-insurers-deny-patients-claims

Corrupt Health Care System
A group of protesters in NYC gathered earlier today outside the Hilton Hotel where UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot & marched along the route the shooter used to escape. Protesters chanted “Deny, defend, depose! Fuck the CEOs!” & “Free Luigi!” along the way.
United Healthcare is doubling down on the cruel and sadistic policies. These inhumane shitstains have learned absolutely nothing. The United States spends $4.6 TRILLION on healthcare—more accurately, sick care—four times what we allocate to our military. This has become a true national security issue.
Most Americans believe health insurance profits and coverage denials share responsibility for the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO — but not as much as the person who pulled the trigger, according to a survey from NORC at the University of Chicago.

The US proposes rules to make healthcare data more secure
Proposed Health and Human Services rules call for encryption, multifactor authentication, and more to protect patient data.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/28/24330878/the-us-proposes-rules-to-make-healthcare-data-more-secure

What is the CPI Health Insurance Index
Introduction to the CPI Health Insurance Index:
The CPI Health Insurance Index is a component of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) that measures the change in prices of health insurance over time. It is designed to track the movement of health insurance premiums and provide insight into the inflation rate of health insurance costs.
Improvements to the CPI Health Insurance Index
Introduction
https://www.bls.gov/cpi/additional-resources/improvements-cpi-health-insurance-index.htm

“New building codes” again what’s worse some new building codes or just not having a hospital. So if you won’t give up your land we will take your infrastructure and health.
#BREAKING: The only long-term acute care hospital in #WNC has announced it will be DEMOLISHED. Asheville Speciality Hospital: it provided treatment for traumatic brain injuries, strokes and spinal cord injuries, as well as respiratory, cardiac and wound care.
A hospital spokesperson cited the, “new building codes” combined with “deterioration from Hurricane Helene” has left them no choice but to demolish the building.
“Patients who would have previously been admitted to the now-shuttered hospital will instead go to other long-term acute care, skilled nursing or inpatient rehabilitation facilities…”
State & Fed won’t help & want to buy or condemn the land. Within a few years Pentagon, Blackrock Sen Thom Tillis & a new corrupt Dem Gov will say they REVITALIZED the area & it will be owned by them not the people. Sen Thom Tillis only shows up for photo ops
https://x.com/matt_vanswol/status/1870843302771413089/photo/1

Important wake up call:
#H5N1 BirdFlu just sequenced by @CDCgov from severe Louisiana patient
Most important, the H5 virus mutated inside the single patient to gain an ability to bind human receptors in the upper respiratory tract
It takes just one…
https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/spotlights/h5n1-response-12232024.html

Whooping cough cases in the US are the highest they’ve been in a decade
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/25/health/whooping-cough-cases-surging-united-states/index.html

Federal Judge Sharon Prost and the Federal Appeals Court just stopped pharmaceutical companies from being able to block generic drug companies and keep their prices high through a monopoly.

FTC Chair Lina Khan shows Lesley Stahl an asthma inhaler that costs dollars in Europe but hundreds in the U.S. She says drugmakers register patents on inhaler parts like the cap-strap to keep low-cost generics off the market. https://cbsn.ws/3zuONT2

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ECP NetHappenings Elon wants H1B Visas will underpay his workers

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ECP NetHappenings Elon wants H1B Visas so he can underpay his workers

Listen kids, it’s not that Elon can’t find American workers to do high tech jobs, it’s that he can’t find American workers to do high tech jobs for pennies on the dollar.

Elon won’t invest in Americans because it costs too much.
He won’t move his businesses out of America because he gets too much in tax cuts and subsidies.
Elon was never about America First.
It was always Elon first.
Elon Musk promised to pay $47 to swing state voters who signed his America PAC petition. They are still waiting for the payment. This is just the beginning.

There’s no shortage of talent in the United States, there’s a shortage of developing/employing talent in the United States by greedy cheapskates.
There isn’t a single labor “shortage” in this country that can’t be remedied by better wages and better public education. The root of the problem is that a certain very small percentage of the country enjoys hoarding more wealth than they can spend in several lifetimes over the welfare of their fellow citizens. ~ Wesley Clark https://wesclarkjr.com/

MAGA was never about America first.

The CEO of Google is Indian
The CEO of Microsoft is Indian
The CEO of Adobe is Indian
The CEO of IBM is Indian
The CEO of Chanel is Indian
The CEO of FedEx is Indian
The CEO of Palo Alto Networks is Indian
The CEO of Perplexity is Indian
So yes. Indians are “high skilled immigrants”.

@truth_in_sv
The United States isn’t a top down, caste based society. Bragging about the number of Indian CEOs, many of whom rose the ranks by laying off Americans, might resonate with the Indian top-down, authoritarian mindset but it is not going to gain you any friends with the bottom up mainstream American society.
The Caste system and the Class system are the same systems. There are owners and workers. You were born in the wrong class/caste
Check the Caste and /or the Family Background of these CEO’s
These people are the direct beneficiaries of centuries of exploitation of “Low” Castes.
Brahmins had centuries of exclusive Caste Right over Education— & kept 90% Hindus deliberately illiterate to prevent competition.

Space X and Elon’s alarming ties to the Darkest Money in the East
SpaceX is sending Satofishi (Chun Wang) to Space, a Chinese Born, early Chinese Mining Pool founder, Maltese citizen who has some of the darkest Crypto ties to money, and money laundering, that I’ve ever seen.
SpaceX, and Elon’s ties to Dark crypto money don’t start, nor stop there.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1829373052737478719.html

Elon Musk 1:54PM 12/26/24 “My tolerance for Ketamine is unlimited.”
Elmo pumped $250 million into Drumpfs campaign.

Elmo paid to get rid of DEI and mass deport Black and brown immigrants who work in agriculture, service industries, and construction, and to get his H1B special visas to Indian immigrants who work in the tech industry because that’s the industry that lines their pockets.
The MAGA base is slowly realizing that Trump and Musk don’t need them now that the election is over.
Musk and Ramaswamy out here playing 4D chess while MAGA’s still reading the rulebook upside down. They don’t care about patriotism—they care about profit. And yeah, Vivek really did call Americans dumb while trying to sell himself as the savior of our “broken system.”
Here is the issue foreign born workers represent over 50% of the wokforce in engineering at the highest, doctoral level, so do weight your hires to US born doctoral levels engineers? If you believe in DEI
https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb20243/figure/9

Elon the illegal immigrant and Vivek are saying native born Americans are not good enough or smart enough to hire for tech companies, and Donald Trump is silent. Because he agrees with them.

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
I’ll say this however many times people need to hear it: Elon Musk doesn’t support H-1B visas because it gets him the best employees, or because he has no other options, or because he can’t find qualified U.S. workers.
He needs workers who are visa-insecure so he can abuse them.

Other states banned forced prison labor. Why didn’t California?
The liberal state voted to keep prison slavery in its constitution, but the national movement to ban it isn’t deterred.
https://truthout.org/articles/other-states-banned-forced-prison-labor-why-didnt-california/

Elon Musk may be an unelected plutocrat, but in six weeks he’ll become co-President of the United States.
https://sethabramson.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-musk-from-his-biographer
Errol Musk says his son is named after a sci-fi book written in 1948 by Nazi rocket scientist Werner Von Braun called “Marsprojekt” where he describes in technical detail how people get to Mars & describes the Martian government as a technocracy with “the Elon” in charge.
Von Braun was brought to America during Operation Paperclip which brought Nazi scientists to America, and wrote “Mars Project” at Ft. Bliss — in German. Hermann Oberth, who Errol Musk also mentions, was another Nazi rocket scientist who came to America in 1955 to work for Von Braun.
President-elect Musk’s parents.
His mom is mad that people call them “billionaires.”
His dad says his mom is a literal Nazi.

Trump sent young girls from Mar A Lago to Epstein Island.
Elon will try to make this disappear.

What’s the difference between atheists and evangelicals?

Atheists are honest about not following the teachings of Christ.

If Senator Menendez and his wife can be charged and convicted of bribery and corruption, Justice Thomas and his wife can be charged and convicted of bribery and corruption.

You only need 1 million dollars for access to trump
The $1,000,000 inaugural donation allows for access to Trump, his cabinet, and JD Vance. The flyer also indicates Trump will be holding an inauguration rally on Saturday, January 18th.

Just one lifetime ago in the United States, our grandfathers were able to buy a home, buy a car, have 3-4 children, keep their wife at home, take annual vacations, and then retire… all on one middle-class salary.
What happened in 1971?
Hint: World went off the gold standard.

Warren Buffett has said:
“I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that any time there’s a deficit of more than three percent of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.”

US homelessness hit record high in 2024

“Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.” ~Mark Twain

“Chinese hackers that gained access to U.S. #telecommunications networks in a sweeping #cybersecurity breach were able to use their positioning to geolocate millions of individuals and record phone calls at will”: https://politico.com/news/2024/12/27/chinese-hackers-telco-access-00196082 #ethics #internet #privacy #gov #business

Florida Democratic lawmaker switches to Republican Party.
Hillary Cassel becomes second House Democrat to swap parties ahead of 2025 Session. The Boynton Beach turncoat thinks the party of felons, rapists, Nazis and assorted racists and bigots is the way to go.
Democrat State Rep. Hillary Cassel @RepCassel proud Jewish Woman changed parties. She should resign and then a special election held with her running as the Republican candidate…the ppl of her district elected a Democrat. She cannot be recalled! Therefore she shall be a traitor to every person that voted for her. Switching parties from liberal democrat to nazi fascist she should Just admit that you got paid off. This why folks don’t trust politicians or trust the voting process. You have deceived the voter who participated in the voting process. 80% of American Jews voted for VP Harris but Rep Cassel wants you to believe that the Democrats are anti-Semitic. In reality the GOP is headed by a white supremacist who defended anti-Semites at Charlottesville.

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ECP NetHappenings Netflix Codes

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Netflix’s secret codes are like keys to a hidden treasure chest of content. These shortcuts classify movies and series into specific categories, enabling users to access hidden genres and discover your new Netflix movies favorites with ease. Imagine being able to instantly find a collection of the best action-adventure flicks or the most heartwarming family films through the netflix app without any hassle using netflix cheat codes.

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ECP NetHappenings Final Broker Rule from the IRS and Prometheum

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Final Broker Rule,   Prometheum, Tether

Final “Broker” Rule from IRS

Final “Broker” Rule from IRS delivered this past friday 12/27/24 on a Christmas / New Year holiday as the democrats are thrown out and the Trump people take over. This is the last salvo from Warren’s Choke point hold over the Crypto industry, meant to kill the industry and starts in 2027. However it is lousy law written by obviously ignorant staff people who don’t know what they are doing, and will get over turned in court.

Treasury Department, IRS Issue Final Regulations and Transitional Guidance for Digital Asset Brokers
https://www.cooley.com/news/insight/2024/2024-07-11-treasury-department-irs-issue-final-regulations-and-transitional-guidance-for-digital-asset-brokers
On June 28, 2024, the US Department of the Treasury and IRS issued final regulations providing guidance on tax reporting requirements applicable to certain “brokers” of digital assets.
IRS uploads finalized ‘broker rule’ for digital assets to the Federal Register for publishing on Dec. 30, 2024 as part of a friday dump this rule is extremely burdensome and i’d guess this will be put to a Congressional Review Act (CRA) process in the next Congress

The abrupt emergence of a previously-unknown broker dealer that happened to specifically agree with the totality of S.E.C. Chair Gensler’s views on the securities status of digital assets raised eyebrows in 2023, particularly when the unknown firm was granted the first of a new class of broker dealer licenses. The CEO was berated before Congress by Republican members of the House Financial Services Committee, and according to FINRA records, Prometheum’s alternative trading system (ATS) has yet to conduct any trades. Republicans have called on the DOJ and SEC to investigate Prometheum for “ties to China,” while others have noted irregularities in their fundraising and reporting. Whether or not Prometheum is investigated, it’s likely that the special-purpose broker-dealer license is abolished in 2025. – @intangiblecoins

INDUSTRY GROUPS SUE

Industry groups sue to stop IRS from collecting user info from DeFi front-ends
https://www.theblock.co/post/332523/industry-groups-sue-to-stop-irs-from-collecting-user-info-from-defi-front-ends
The controversial rule’s finalization was met with widespread criticism from crypto industry experts, who argue that the rule would create an undue burden on certain DeFi protocols to collect, protect, and report sensitive personal information on users, even when it’s unclear which entity would perform those functions.

Industry Fights Back on Final “Broker” Rule from IRS

In order to protect DeFi and the digital asset industry more broadly, we sued Treasury and IRS today challenging their doomed rulemaking, which would essentially serve as a DeFi ban.
Along with @BlockchainAssn & @TXblockchain_, we asserted claims that the rulemaking is in excess of the agencies’ statutory authority, is a violation of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and is unconstitutional. https://www.defieducationfund.org/_files/ugd/84ba66_b6af3a8d9414462d8a34897cfec39c5e.pdf

The IRS’ midnight broker rule still targets software providers with unfit and unconstitutional KYC requirements
What it means and what happens next. The whole rule is ill considered and should be overturned by Congress

REVENGE: THE INDUSTRY FINALLY INVESTIGATES PROETHEUM

“Republicans have called on the DOJ and SEC to investigate Prometheum for “ties to China,” while others have noted irregularities in their fundraising and reporting. Whether or not Prometheum is investigated, it’s likely that the special-purpose broker-dealer license is abolished in 2025.”

22 – The S.E.C. will open an investigation into Prometheum, the first so-called “special purpose broker dealer.”

MORE ABOUT PROMETHEUM
and it’s known ties to China

Prometheum Inc regulatory status

ECP NetHappenings @BoringSleuth vs. Prometheum Inc.

ECP NetHappenings BoringSleuth comments on Prometheum EthGate

Prometheum

ECP NetHappenings Historic Moments, Security, and Liars

ANOTHER PLAYER
Tether’s USDT Stablecoin

@martypartymusic
https://x.com/martypartymusic/status/1873078398429360264
The facts.

The non-compliance of Tether with the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation by December 30, 2024, has implications for Tether’s USDT stablecoin in the European Union:

Regulatory Compliance: MiCA introduces a comprehensive regulatory framework for crypto assets in the EU, specifically addressing stablecoins like USDT. By December 30, 2024, issuers of stablecoins are required to comply with MiCA’s rules, which include obtaining necessary licenses like an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license, maintaining transparent reserves, and adhering to strict governance and risk management protocols. Tether has not obtained these licenses, thus facing potential exclusion from the EU market.

Delisting from Exchanges: Several crypto exchanges within the EU have already taken or are considering actions to delist USDT to comply with MiCA.
@coinbase, for instance, has preemptively delisted USDT from its platform for EU users, citing compliance with MiCA. This trend suggests that other exchanges might follow suit, potentially leading to a significant reduction in USDT’s liquidity and availability within the EU.

Market Impact: The potential delisting of USDT from EU exchanges could lead to a shift towards MiCA-compliant stablecoins like @circle’s $USDC and $EURC, which have already secured the necessary licenses. This shift might disrupt market dynamics, affecting trading pairs, liquidity, and overall market efficiency for EU traders.

Tether’s Response:
@Tether_to has been investing in and supporting initiatives that align with MiCA, such as through @Quantoz and @StablREuro, to introduce MiCA-compliant stablecoins like EURQ and USDQ. This indicates a strategic pivot towards compliance through partnerships rather than direct confrontation with the EU regulations. However, the immediate future of USDT in the EU remains uncertain as these new ventures are not yet fully operational or widely adopted.

Uncertainty and Speculation: There’s considerable speculation and uncertainty about how this will unfold. While some sources claim that all EU exchanges must delist USDT by December 30, official guidance from EU regulators on this matter has been somewhat ambiguous, contributing to a “wait-and-see” approach by some exchanges.

In summary, Tether’s non-compliance with MiCA by the December 30 deadline could lead to a temporary or permanent exclusion of USDT from the EU market, affecting its trading volume, liquidity, and the overall market structure for stablecoins in the region. However, Tether’s moves to support MiCA-compliant alternatives suggest an attempt to navigate these regulatory challenges.

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