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SECURITY

“did you know that Trump has his own “shadow secretary of state” who’s been flying around the world, cooking up secret deals with right-wing regimes? Meet Richard Grenell, vocal tribune of Trump’s America First credo on the international stage and the man hotly tipped to become secretary of state if the presumed Republican nominee beats Joe Biden in November’s presidential election.
The Logan Act was intended to prohibit United States citizens without authority from interfering in relations between the United States and foreign governments.” why the fuck is an 88-count indicted criminal being allowed to sabotage US foreign policy, by Jeff Tiedrich

U.N. climate chief says two years to save the planet

Pfizer’s Massive Tax Dodge
https://www.levernews.com/pfizers-massive-tax-dodge/

Corporate Tax Avoidance in the First Five Years of the Trump Tax Law https://itep.org/corporate-tax-avoidance-trump-tax-law/

Trump Media director accused of ‘hacking’ files in attempted corporate ‘coup’: Lawsuit

Former Obama adviser: Kushner engaged in ‘level of corruption that we’ve just never seen’ with foreign relations

US Drones Are Expensive and Error Prone so Ukraine Turns to China
There’s are solid reasons why DJI is so far ahead in this tech.

House intelligence chair says Republicans are ‘absolutely’ repeating Russian propaganda

AI

Is ChatGPT corrupting peer review? Telltale words hint at AI use

Habsburg AI
Ed Zitron @edzitron
This is the beginning of the true habsburg AI/model collapse situation for Grok, which is already training on tweets. Now Premium users (who already spam the platform) will be able to generate tweets in seconds, which will in turn be fed back into Grok.
Bit of a Friday scoop… Elon Musk wants to make Grok AI an option for X premium users to compose tweets. Musk told engineers do it a few months ago, and according to a source, the team is stalling.

FirstEnergy gave $1M donation through dark money group to back Jon Husted, records show
Now we have confirmation that an electric utility company directed millions in political donations through a dark money group to shore up support to bail out two nuclear plants.
We’ve been raising the alarm about this dark money network for years now.

Former U.S. Ambassador and National Security Council Official Admits to Secretly Acting as Agent of the Cuban Government and Receives 15-Year Sentence

Kentucky GOP lawmakers remove Democratic governor’s role in filling US Senate vacancies Aides said McConnell’s announcement was unrelated to his health.

OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos to train its LLMs, Google engaged in same practice

BANKS

For the First Time in History, the Fed Is Reporting Billions in Losses Weekly; It’s Still Paying High Interest Income to the Mega Banks on Wall Street
As of April 3 of this year, the Federal Reserve (Fed) has racked up $161 billion in accumulated losses. We’re not talking about unrealized losses on the underwater debt securities the Fed holds on its balance sheet, which it does not mark to market.
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2024/04/for-the-first-time-in-history-the-fed-is-reporting-billions-in-losses-weekly-its-still-paying-high-interest-income-to-the-mega-banks-on-wall-street/

New York Fed Will Not Confirm or Deny that 5-Count Felon JPMorgan Chase Is Custodian of $2.4 Trillion of Its Securities
As the financial crisis of 2008 was ravaging century-old financial institutions on Wall Street and collapsing the U.S. economy, the central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve, launched an effort to restore market liquidity by becoming the buyer of the toxic sludge flooding Wall Street in the form of Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS).
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2024/04/new-york-fed-will-not-confirm-or-deny-that-5-count-felon-jpmorgan-chase-is-custodian-of-2-4-trillion-of-its-securities/

The Black Swan Rears Its Head: The Fed Has Negative Capital Using GAAP
Accounting
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2024/04/the-black-swan-rears-its-head-the-fed-has-negative-capital-using-gaap-accounting/
The Fed’s unprecedented experiments with years of ZIRP (Zero Interest Rate Policy) and QE (Quantitative Easing), where it bought up trillions of dollars of low-yielding U.S. Treasuries and agency Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS) and quietly parked them on its balance sheet, are now posing a threat to the Fed’s flexibility in conducting monetary policy. (Since 2008, the Fed’s concept of conducting monetary policy has come to enshrine serial Wall Street mega bank bailouts as a regular part of its monetary policy. Large and growing cash losses at the Fed may seriously crimp such future bailouts.)

Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/08/republican-mike-turner-russia-propagandaTurned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank. To put that into perspective, here’s how much the average Roth was worth at the end of 2018: $39,108.
And here’s how much $5 billion is: If every one of the 2.3 million people in Houston, Texas, were to deposit $2,000 into a bank today, those accounts still wouldn’t equal what Thiel has in his Roth IRA.
Yet, from the start, a small number of entrepreneurs, like Thiel, made an end run around the rules: Open a Roth with $2,000 or less. Get a sweetheart deal to buy a stake in a startup that has a good chance of one day exploding in value. Pay just fractions of a penny per share, a price low enough to buy huge numbers of shares. Watch as all the gains on that stock — no matter how giant — are shielded from taxes forever, as long as the IRA remains untouched until age 59 and a half. Then use the proceeds, still inside the Roth, to make other investments.
About a decade after the creation of the Roth, Congress made it even easier to turn the accounts into mammoth tax shelters. It allowed everyone — including the very richest Americans — to take money they’d stowed in less favorable traditional retirement accounts and, after paying a one-time tax, shift them to a Roth where their money could grow unchecked by Uncle Sam — a Bermuda-style tax haven right here in the U.S.

PRIVACY

FISA in the U.S. House.
The bill should be stopped because it lacks warrant protection for Americans – thanks to 86 Republicans & 126 Democrats who killed the warrant. #GetAWarrant
If you were mad about your House rep voting to let the government spy on you without a warrant (“FISA 702″ – fy-za seven-oh-two), we may have one last shot. CALL YOUR REP @ (202) 224-3121 and say
” , .”

BITCOIN

Why #bitcoin isn’t going to zero…
The internet (TCP/IP) protocol was invented in the ’70s (50 years ago) and still going strong.
Email (SMTP) protocol was invented in the ’80s (40 years ago) and still going strong.
#bitcoin (BTC) protocol was invented 15 years ago and is still going strong.
Protocols are not just a single piece of software. Protocols persist because of network effect and the ability to sequentially improve on them over time.

Also TCP/IP is a layered stack, but it did not start there. Near its inception some groups wanted to change TCP to provide the functionality of the emerging adjacent standards… This would have potentially degraded the reliability and robustness of the protocol…
You can think of #Bitcoin as the base layer protocol. Instead of trying to change the base layer “big blocks ect” most agree that building a stack is less harmful to the reliability of the base layer protocol…

ECP NetHappenings Election Integrity Buying Our Justices

Hillary Clinton won the election. tRUmp won the Electoral College & it should never be said otherwise. It’s beyond time that the EC be abolished. It’s an undemocratic anachronism.

Election Integrity – Buying Justices

Our judicial system becomes compromised.

Leo’s political group has received an astonishing $1.6B donation to push conservative causes, including election manipulation. The money, said to be one of the largest single contributions to a political pressure group, arrived from Barre Seid.

Federalist Society “godfather” Leonard Leo is defying a congressional subpoena in order to protect corrupt Republican SCOTUS judges like Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
Leonard Leo just defied the Senate’s subpoena about bribes to Supreme Court Justices.
Peter Navarro is in prison for that conduct tonight.
Following through on months of threats, Senate Democrats on Thursday served conservative megadonor Leonard Leo with a congressional subpoena compelling him to turn over information about his relationships with Supreme Court justices.
https://www.courthousenews.com/senate-dems-step-up-supreme-court-ethics-probe-with-subpoena-to-leonard-leo/

Conservative activist Leonard Leo said on Thursday that he will not comply with a subpoena from the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is investigating undisclosed travel and gifts to Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.

In addition to his meddling with the courts, he now has a group whose goal is to infiltrate society-arts, education, politics-with his conservative religious beliefs. As he did this, he became insanely wealthy, also. And now he thinks he’s above the law.

GOP commissioners have single-handedly blocked FEC action against Trump 29 times
Not once has a Republican FEC commissioner voted to investigate Trump or his committees’ potential violations of campaign finance law.
Not a single time, even when the FEC’s own lawyers recommend further investigative action.

STORMY

The media needs to stop calling this a Hush Money case and call it what it is, an Election Interference case! Justice delayed is Justice denied. Voters did their job in 2020. Now its time for congress and justice to do theirs.

Ex-Manhattan DA Vance said that Trump DOJ intervened in Stormy Daniels probe…
“They asked us to stand down”
Legal expert says it was an “odd request” because DOJ “did not indict Trump or anyone else after that point” https://www.salon.com/2023/04/03/they-asked-us-to-stand-down-ex-manhattan-da-says-doj-intervened-in-stormy-daniels-probe/

You should know who Madeleine Westerhout is ahead of Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial next week. Note two other people allegedly involved in these arrangements — the Trump Org. controller, Jeff McConney, & the accounts payable supervisor, Deborah Tarasoff — are also among the DA’s potential witnesses, according to @NBCNews reporting. Trump allegedly personally signed 9 checks to Michael Cohen during the first year of his presidency. And who in the WH might have been charged with ensuring he signed and sending them back to the Trump Org.? This woman, Madeleine Westerhout.

BRAZILIAN  INTERFERENCE

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
https://twitter.com/kelly2277/status/1778561461926678704
As PROOF exclusively reported 3+ years ago—leading to a Brazilian congressional inquiry—Eduardo Bolsonaro was in a Trump war room before January 6, apparently taking notes for the coup his father was planning. Elon Musk just met with an enemy of the United States.
1/ Please understand that the people Elon Musk is meeting with are some of the worst people in the world. They were behind the 2023 coup attempt in Brazil that attempted to destroy its democracy and install a far-right authoritarian government. They modeled their coup on Trump’s.
There is no free speech crisis happening in Brazil right now. That country is simply dealing with the harrowing aftermath of a coup attempt orchestrated by friends of Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
Trump and Musk said absolutely nothing as Brazil’s democracy almost fell in 2023.
Just as Eduardo Bolsonaro was in the U.S. observing the Trump coup attempt in 2021, even going to the White House to meet with Trump *immediately* after the January 6 coup failed, Trump and Musk are now using the Bolsonaros’ continued treachery as a model for 2024 in America.
A significant percentage of the United States does not understand how dangerous Donald Trump and Elon Musk are to our democracy. Perhaps understanding that they are openly meeting with and supporting coup plotters in another country that almost ended its democracy will help.
What Musk and Trump’s Brazilian allies are doing now is exactly what Trump tried to do after 2021: treat any attempt at law enforcement in the aftermath of a failed coup as an attempt to install a far-left authoritarian regime. It’s a sick but fortunately transparent playbook.

🚨WHOA‼️$DWAC ( TRUTHsocial ) CFO, Luis Orleans-Braganza, is a member of Brazil’s National Congress – a member of Jair Bolsonaro’s party. His son Eduardo Bolsonaro participated in war council meetings related to Jan 6th insurrection and invited @CPAC to Brazil

RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN 2016 U.S. ELECTIONS

CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT AN OFFENSE AGAINST THE UNITED STATES; FALSE REGISTRATION OF A DOMAIN NAME; AGGRAVATED IDENTITY THEFT; CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MONEY LAUNDERING
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyber/russian-interference-in-2016-u-s-elections
On July 13, 2018, a federal grand jury sitting in the District of Columbia returned an indictment against 12 Russian military intelligence officers for their alleged roles in interfering with the 2016 United States (U.S.) elections.

He stole it. Yes, it was election rigging. DT rigged the election in 2016.

The REAL election fraud in 2020 happened in Florida where Republicans used fake candidates to steal FL Senate elections.
For the first time, the lead consultant to Florida Senate Republicans has admitted to hiring a disgraced ex-senator and approving a dirty trick to recruit a third-party candidate to siphon votes from a South Florida Democrat.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article287575310.html

Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt “Jones was one of 16 state Republicans who signed a certificate stating that Trump had won Georgia and declaring themselves the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors.
Prosecutor to decide if Georgia lieutenant governor should be charged in election meddling case
https://apnews.com/article/burt-jones-election-indictment-trump-willis-f72be30e211559495e0cb7842050fa9c
@tribelaw “Another reason why this case is as important as the others is that, unlike his D.C. and Georgia election interference indictments, in 2016 he actually won the election! In other words, his election interference actually worked!
And think about the damage that ensued thereafter: winning the 2016 election allowed Trump to appoint Supreme Court Justices who overturned Roe v. Wade; he caused the January 6th, 2021 insurrection where law enforcement lost their lives; he has sown hate, division, racism, and misogyny in this country; he has destabilized our democracy; he has called into question the legitimacy of law enforcement and intelligence communities; he often uses WWII Nazi rhetoric and normalizes white supremacy; he has sown fake news, misinformation and has actually put this country on a path towards becoming a nationalistic and fascistic state.”

“OpenAI and Meta are on the brink of releasing new artificial intelligence models that they say will be capable of reasoning and planning…”
https://www.ft.com/content/78834fd4-c4d1-4bab-bc40-a64ad9d65e0d

Ron Wyden @RonWyden
I’ve been hearing all over Oregon how Postmaster General DeJoy’s consolidation scheme is hurting seniors and rural communities. If you want to weigh in with @USPS, there’s an audit on these changes where you can comment about its impact on you: https://www.uspsoig.gov/reports/upcoming-audit-work

Nicole Minet @mouvement33


I’ve been waiting 29 years to tell this story about OJ and his days at USC. Now that he’s dead (may he burn in hell) I have a story that I signed an NDA for that is no longer valid. I was a junior at USC working in Topping Student Center on campus in 1995. I was an administrative assistant to the President of Student Affairs that semester in the work/study program.

In early 1995, Robert Shapiro and Robert Kardashian (USC Alumni) walked up to my desk and said they had an appt with my boss. I was studying to be a criminal defense lawyer with a dual major in PoliSci and International Relations so I knew who they were. The meeting lasted about 30 mins.

After they left I looked at my boss like wtf was that all about!? He walked me outside and we sat by the old sprawling big tree outside Topping and my boss lit a cigarette for the first time in years and told me I had to sign an NDA because I could confirm OJ’s lawyers were there for a meeting. Then he told me what the meeting was about.

Before OJ could graduate from USC, the university paid off two families of two blonde white girls that he had dated and battered. They had both gone to the LAPD to report it. One claimed he also sexually assaulted her in their relationship. The school had a vested interest in OJ going far in football and protected him at all costs. OJ had been in custody for 6 months and lawyers were in the discovery process for the trial and OJ’s friend Robert Kardashian, who knew OJ from also being a student at USC, thought it would be best if those stories never saw the light of day. So a large check was written, given to my boss, and they left. I’ll never forget holding that check.

Now, did you hear about this before now? Nope. That’s how much power money enables.

After he was acquitted I changed my major to Philosophy/Psychology double major. I understood that I could harm society more than not if I pursued law. This is also why I abhor the Kardashians. They’re rich thugs. Nothing more. #OJISDEAD

ECP NetHappeings Monday is going to be lit on here!

THIS FEELS GOOD
World War II Rosies given recognition at event in Washington D.C., awarded Congressional Gold Medals
Bucks County’s own ‘Rosie the Riveter’ gives advice while receiving Congressional Gold Medal
REMEMBER THESE 4 LITTLE WORDS
WE CAN DO IT.

Monday is going to be lit on here!

Back to 1864, the days of bloodletting and blistering!
The AZ ruling is shocking. But also horribly symbolic.
The GOP wants to take women back to an age of near-zero freedom.
In 2024, in Arizona, we can enshrine reproductive freedom into the Constitution.
We can bring Arizona law back to modern-day notions of freedom and equality.
And we can do the same in other states where reproductive freedom will be on the ballot, like Florida. And Missouri. Just like we did in Ohio, Kansas and Michigan in 2022 and 2023.

Trump is as much of a Christian as Jeffrey Dahmer was a vegetarian…

Rob Reiner @robreiner
In 7 states a woman’s right to choose and our desire to remain a Democracy will determine whether a good man who has devoted his life to public service or a racist criminal will occupy the White House.

Mamaleh Trump@MamalehTrumpOG
Oh, my poor Donaleh…literally. Donald Trump Media stock is going down faster than a well-compensated Stormy Daniels on a mushroom-shaped schmeckle.

You can shalack a turd a thousand times but after all it’s still a turd.

Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal are scheduled to be called as witnesses when Trump’s criminal trial begins next week for falsifying business records to conceal his hush money payments to hide his adulterous affair. Now get your $60 Bible.

Trump looked us in the eye on Air Force One, swore he never had an affair with Stormy Daniels, knew nothing about the money to keep her quiet or where it came from. So why is he so afraid of a trial? You don’t think he was lying do you?

Prosecution Witness List : ‘Hush Money’ Trial 👇🏼
Michael Cohen
Stormy Daniels
Karen McDougal
David Pecker
Dylan Howard
Deborah Tarasoff
Jeff McConney
Madeleine Westerhout
Keith Davidson
Hope Hicks
Rhona Graff

@Timodc: “That asshole Trump has gotten good luck a couple of times… it’s nice when he gets some bad luck. And the timing for Trump on this was just a nightmare… He essentially now owns this 1864 law in Arizona. Just a total catastrophe and a self-own that was unnecessary for him.”

The Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) is a political organization that helps attorneys general in red states to push extreme policies. RAGA AGs use their state’s legal power to end abortion access, assail LGBTQ+ rights, attack social justice, destroy our environment, assault our democracy, and so much more.
RAGA AGs are in 27 states. These AGs shape our country’s legal agenda by determining which cases to initiate, which to elevate, and where to pursue their ideological capture of our court system based on which courts have sympathetic MAGA judges.
RAGA is a 527 political organization, meaning it can accept unlimited donations and pay no taxes on those revenues, while spending money to aid candidates for AG offices. Leonard Leo, the architect of the MAGA hijacking of the Supreme Court that overturned Roe v. Wade, has been RAGA’s biggest funder for years. Alongside Leo are Big Oil & Gas, Big Tobacco, Big Pharma, the Gun lobby, and more.
Advocates Urge Top Brands to End Funding for Extremist GOP Attorney General Group

Kevin McCarthy just now: “I’ll give you the truth about why I’m not Speaker. It’s because one person wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17-year-old.” –>Gaetz

Newt Gingrich’s ex wife says he lacks moral character and wanted an open marriage… It’s time to remind everyone about Newt Gingrich ties to Russian organized crime‼️Gingrich and other @GOP candidates received money from Vadim Trincher a felon that of course lived in TRUMP TOWER. Remember when Gingrich said that Trump could pardon EVERYONE regardless of their crimes⁉️Why would he be thinking about that so early unless they discussed using that option in the future
https://www.politico.com/blogs/donald-trump-administration/2016/12/newt-gingrich-trump-ethics-laws-congress-232828

Senator Robert Menendez’s bribery trial will go forward as scheduled on May 6.
Senator Menendez was indicted for accepting gold bars, a luxury car, ans thousands of dollars to help Egypt. BUT THIS ISN’T HIS FIRST INDICTMENT!!! He stayed in power after the Supreme Court narrowed the definition of public corruption. The Supreme Court, many years later, is also embroiled in its own corruption and bribery cases.

ECP NetHappenings April 20 2024

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ON 4/20/2024 Educational CyberPlayGround Inc. ® Celebrates

THE 54TH ANNIVERSARY OF 😊EARTH DAY
1970 BELMONT PLATEAU, PHILADELPHIA

AND THE 4TH BTC HALVENING 🌻🔥🌈🌊🎯

Quite the coinkydink dontcha think?

I was on Belmont Plateau in Philly and seen all the halvenings.

US #Bitcoin ETFs took the price from $45K to 70K.
That’s an 80% increase within just 3 months.
• Hong Kong approving spot $BTC ETF next week
• 4th halving in 8 days
– In total, a staggering $16 billion has left $GBTC, either exiting the market, or moving to other more competitive ETF products.
-everyone hates @GRAYSCALE CEO

@dotkrueger