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BITCOIN

BREAKING: Rational thinkers more likely to buy and own #Bitcoin.
*INTJ: intellectually curious individuals with a deep-seated thirst for knowledge.
INTJ Myers Briggs Type https://www.16personalities.com/intj-personality

“I don’t “invest” in Bitcoin, I “save” in Bitcoin.”

MICHAEL SAYLOR: The first nation to print their own currency to buy #Bitcoin wins. Look what MicroStrategy did. We basically issue our own currency (our stock), and we buy #BTC. What happened? We went from a billion to a hundred billion dollar market cap is what happened!

Menger
Last Christmas 2023 #Bitcoin was at $43k.
Today it’s at $100k and next year it will be at $350k.
I don’t make the rules.

Fred Krueger
Last Christmas 2023 Bitcoin was at 43K
Today its 98K
Next year it will be above 200K
I don’t make the rules.

“When it becomes serious, you have to lie”
— Jean Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, 2011.
“This is what you can expect of our politicians, regarding the debt crisis.”
“Oil prices were stable under the gold standard.
Not so much since 1971.”
— @LawrenceLepard in his upcoming book “The Big Print”.

Christmukkah

You have a bought and paid for Supreme Court.
That’s not a democracy, republic, or any other “for the people” crap. America has become a cess pool of corruption. You elected a felon & are okay with that. That’s just embarrassing. Then they formed a mutant J6 committee breaking established norms that let any hint of legitimacy fly out the window. Cue the clowns…..
And what the hell was Eric Garland doing for 4yrs??
#MerrickGarland
@TheJusticeDept
NOTHING! It will be judged *the* greatest failure & possibly one fatal to our democracy itself. From Cannon to Garland to SCOTUS.
What an epic failure. Judges allowed him to constantly delay and appeal everything to keep his sorry ass out of jail/court. Now he’s going back into the WH. Again if this was ANYONE else, they’d be in jail.

The inability of the entire legal system — prosecutors, judges, justices, lawyers — to hold Trump accountable will be judged one of the
greatest failures of American democracy.

The Supreme Court was the biggest failure here. If they had accepted the decision of the Appellate Court which basically affirmed that no man is above the law, Donald Trump would have been convicted of espionage in the documents case. The corruption of John Roberts is on display!
We now know for a FACT that Trump paid for the Rioters on 1/6/21. Therefore he is disqualified from holding office!!!!!!!
Do NOT let him back in!!!!!!
Article 3 of the 14th amendment could NOT be clearer!!!!!!!!

“Garland” should become a verb to describe failing in the way that “Google” is used to describe web searching.

Until we figure out a way to prevent the wealthy from using their resources to gum up the court system and run out the clock, our two-tiered criminal justice system will continue to convict and incarcerate poor criminals at a fast clip while letting the rich ones skate via money.

The bombastic failure of the legal system is the absolute reason why people and I included, are cheering and sympathizing with Luigi Mangione. If the official system can’t punish evil, then the citizens must take it up to themselves.

The fact that so much of becoming president has just been on the honor system this whole time kinda blows my mind. There are all these rules that have zero consequences I’d they aren’t followed because no one imagined a president would just say no to them.

So Trump was planning to use Gaetz’s prostitution and heavy drug use as kompromat so he could control him as Attorney General and ensure his total loyalty and obedience? Got it.

Elon Musk wants to ‘delete’ Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. But the agency has returned more than $19 billion in cash to people who have been scammed by financial institutions.

Erik Prince, the founder of the military contractor Blackwater and younger brother of Betsy DeVos, invited around 650 of his contacts to join a secret, private group chat. And now it has leaked.
Off Leash: Inside the Secret, Global, Far-Right Group Chat
Military contractor Erik Prince started a private WhatsApp group for his close associates that includes a menagerie of right-wing government officials, intelligence operatives, arms traffickers, and journalists. We got their messages.
Published May 30, 2024: https://newrepublic.com/article/182008/erik-prince-secret-global-group-chat-off-leash

The committee found that the sexual encounters were often organized by Gaetz buddy, Joel Greenberg, via http://SeekingArrangement.com. “Mr. Greenberg told the Committee that Gaetz was aware that the women they had sex with and paid had met Greenberg via the ‘sugar dating’ website.”

Last week, it emerged that health insurance leaders pressured the DOJ to bring federal charges against Luigi Mangione. This week, I discovered the top 3 officials at DOJ all collected paychecks from healthcare companies before serving in government:
https://danboguslaw.substack.com/p/health-insurance-leaders-pressured
Justice isn’t blind if you pay her enough?

-Luigi Mangione Judge Married to Former Healthcare Executive
Pretrial judge in case involving murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson married to former Pfizer exec
Magistrate Judge Katharine H. Parker, who is overseeing pre-trial hearings for Luigi Mangione, is married to a former Pfizer executive and holds hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock, including in healthcare companies and pharmaceutical companies, according to her 2023 financial disclosures.
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigi-mangione-judge-married-to-former

WSJ: The Hidden Autopilot Data That Reveals Why Teslas Crash
Note that it’s reported that Trump is likely to block further reporting
of these crashes to regulators, as a favor to President Musk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPUGh0qAqWA

In 1991, scientists discovered something extraordinary:

Your heart possesses its own independent brain—a neural network that “thinks, remembers, and feels.”

This discovery is transforming how we deal with (and understand) chronic stress

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ECP NetHappenings Trump is Disqualified from Holding Office

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2025 A guide to the 124th Philadelphia Mummers Parade
https://www.inquirer.com/things-to-do/mummers-parade-2025-philadelphia-parade-route-road-closures-parking-weather-tv-streaming-20241226.html

Special counsel Jack Smith plans to release his final report on the federal investigations into former President Donald Trump before Inauguration Day on January 20, according to a CNN and it could possibly include information about the Florida top secret document case.

Trump is Disqualified from Holding Office

Fourteenth Amendment
Section 3
No Person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of PRESIDEN and Vice-President, or hold any OFFICE, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer
of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or
comfort to the enemies thereof But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

THE TRUMP DISQUALIFICATION TRACKER
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-series/the-trump-trials/section-3-litigation-tracker

In Trump’s America, There’s Democracy Only When He Wins
Congress does not have to accept Trump’s electoral votes.
Congress has the power to block Trump from taking office, but lawmakers must act now
https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/5055171-constitution-insurrection-trump-disqualification/

Democrats will not object to the election results on Jan 6 and have “no plans to stand in the way” of Trump’s victory.
Although Dems are doing what’s right for democracy, their decision to certify Trump’s win without objections might backfire politically
https://www.thegenzperspective.com/p/why-giving-trump-a-smooth-transfer

“Disqualification is based on insurrection against the Constitution and not the government. The evidence of Donald Trump’s engaging in such insurrection is overwhelming. The matter has been decided in three separate forums” #UpholdTheOath
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1872329785093071266.html

The leader of North Carolina’s chapter of the Election Integrity Network, a group involved in challenging elections, described the theory that became the basis of Griffin’s challenge as “voter suppression,” according to a recording. https://www.propublica.org/article/jefferson-griffin-north-carolina-supreme-court-challenge-election-integrity-network

William Webster, the only person to lead both the FBI and CIA, is raising objections over whether Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s picks to be directors of the FBI and national intelligence, are qualified to serve in the Cabinet.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/12/26/congress/tulsi-gabbard-kash-patel-fbi-cia-trump-00196055

A new federal rule aims to close a loophole that allows #coal companies to walk away from their obligations to pay #Disability benefits and health insurance to miners who worked for them and contracted black lung disease.
https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2024-12-26/health/new-rule-cracks-down-on-companies-abandonment-of-black-lung-liabilities/a94290-1

#FTC orders #Marriott and #Starwood to implement strict data security #fail #dataprivacy #cybersecurity
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ftc-orders-marriott-and-starwood-to-implement-strict-data-security/

Former FTX executive Ryan Salame has had over a year reduced from his prison sentence and is now scheduled for release on March 1, 2031.

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ECP NetHappenings Give U.S. Citizens the Jobs

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GQP Wants to Privatize K12 EDUCATION

President-Elect Elon Musk and his sidekick Vivek Ramaswamy

want to eliminate the Department of Education and severely restrict immigration are lamenting the fact that America doesn’t have enough skilled workers to do tech jobs.

They want to bring in immigrants from India here as slaves who will work for minimum wage, know their place, and obey their threats/ commands.

MAGA: We need to educate more Americans for these tech jobs.

Also MAGA: We need to shut down the department of education!

Big tech is flooding the market with mid-skill foreign labor while they’re laying off American workers!

Democracy is rule by public opinion.
Public opinion is shaped by the most powerful minorities: oligarchs.
Democracy and oligarchy go hand in hand.
America was not supposed to morph into a democracy. Now we see why.

H-1B visas and prevailing wage levels
A majority of H-1B employers—including major U.S. tech firms—use the program to pay migrant workers well below market wages
https://www.epi.org/publication/h-1b-visas-and-prevailing-wage-levels/

2001 until the present H-1B Visa The Scams and the Problems

https://edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/H1B.html
The US does NOT have a shortage of skilled engineers, they would rather pay to import workers at slave wages.
Killing The Middle Class

STOP IMPORTING SLAVE LABOR
GIVE U.S. CITIZENS THE JOBS

And now that the dot.com industry has crashed isn’t the need for High-Tech workers moot? Thousands upon thousand of high-tech workers have lost there jobs as we continue in a recession. But why do we continue to bring in even more foreign works all the while American are still out of work?
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/H1B2.html

ECP NetHappenings The Real Story of Who Pays Federal Taxes

ECP NetHappenings President-elect Elon Musk

Illegal Immigrant Elon Musk SEND HIM BACK – DEPORT HIM

Remember the Lahaina Fire, when feds sealed off the area for months? Every quack here said that a billionaire with an outsized presence on the island was behind it. Well…turns out they were right. But it wasn’t Oprah’s fault.
It was Elon Musk’s fault…
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1872293800745586791.html
It’s sad because these manufacturers know lithium-ion are extremely dangerous, they could use lithium-polymer which will not catch on fire providing they don’t care if they kill people.

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ECP NetHappenings The Real Story of Who Pays Federal Taxes

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The Real Story of Who Pays Federal Taxes

The claim that “the top 1% pay 40% of all taxes” is deeply misleading. It cherry-picks income tax data while ignoring payroll taxes, which make up a huge share of federal revenue and disproportionately burden low- and middle-income earners. Let’s break this down with the actual numbers.

Federal Tax Breakdown
The federal government collects $2.2 trillion in income taxes and $1.63 trillion in payroll taxes each year.
While employers nominally pay half of payroll taxes, economists widely agree that this cost is passed on to workers in the form of lower wages. This means workers effectively pay the full $1.63 trillion in payroll taxes, which must be included in any honest discussion of tax burdens.

Who Pays What?
Bottom 50% (Under $50K):
Income tax: $22 billion (largely offset by credits like the EITC).
Payroll tax: $652 billion (including both employee and employer shares).
Total: $674 billion, or 18.6% of all federal taxes.

Middle Income ($50K-$200K):
Income tax: $650 billion.
Payroll tax: $815 billion.
Total: $1.465 trillion, or 40.4% of all federal taxes.

Top 1% (Over ~$540K):
Income tax: $880 billion (a significant share of income tax revenue).
Payroll tax: $33 billion (due to the Social Security cap and reliance on investment income).
Total: $912 billion, or 25.2% of all federal taxes.

The Truth About Tax Burdens
The full picture shows that low- and middle-income earners bear the brunt of federal taxes, while the wealthiest pay far less as a percentage of their income and total federal tax revenue. Here’s why the “40% of all taxes” claim is flawed:

Payroll Taxes Are Excluded: Payroll taxes bring in $1.63 trillion—nearly as much as income taxes—yet they’re completely left out of the “40%” narrative.
Payroll taxes are flat taxes that hit wages up to $160,200, meaning middle- and low-income workers pay the same rate on every dollar they earn. High earners, however, stop paying Social Security taxes once they exceed the cap.

Middle-Class Americans Pay the Most:
The $50K-$200K brackets contribute 40.4% of total federal taxes, far more than any other group. They pay heavily into both income and payroll taxes, carrying the system on their backs.

The Bottom 50% Contributes More Than It Seems:
While often dismissed as “not paying taxes,” this group contributes $674 billion annually through payroll taxes, even if their net income tax liability is small or negative due to credits.

The Top 1% Is Not Overburdened:
The top 1% contributes 25.2% of total taxes—far less than the commonly cited “40%” figure. This is because they pay little in payroll taxes, with much of their income coming from investments (capital gains, dividends) taxed at lower rates.

The Big Picture

When you include payroll taxes, the federal tax system looks very different:

The middle class ($50K-$200K) pays the largest share of federal taxes, contributing over 40% of the total.

The bottom 50% still pays nearly 19% of all federal taxes, driven by regressive payroll taxes.

The top 1%, while significant income tax contributors, pay far less in payroll taxes and only account for 25% of total federal taxes.

Why This Matters

The “40% of all taxes” myth is a convenient tool to push back against reforms that would make the tax system more equitable. It obscures the reality that the federal tax system is regressive for the working class, who pay a significant portion of their income in payroll taxes, while the wealthiest benefit from wage caps and lower tax rates on investment income.

It’s time to stop cherry-picking statistics.
When we look at the full tax system—income taxes, payroll taxes, and beyond—it’s clear that the middle class and working Americans are carrying the heaviest burden, while the wealthiest pay far less relative to their income and economic power.
11:24 PM · Dec 26, 2024

@SenSanders
Our country is rapidly evolving into two Americas.
One, where the vast majority live, consists of millions of working class families struggling to get by. The other: less than a thousand billionaires who have never had it so good.
That is not democracy. That is oligarchy.

Elon Musk’s charitable foundation ballooned to $9.5 billion in assets last year while handing out $237 million in gifts — most of which went to other entities,… controlled by him
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-13/musk-s-foundation-sent-most-of-its-millions-to-his-own-entities

What Is Charity Washing And How Can We Spot It?
Charity washing, broadly, involves companies hiding their less-than-savory investments and practices underneath their charitable donations.

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