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VIDEO The Breakdown of America You’ve Never Heard – Richard Miniter
Accountability vs. Unaccountable just scratches the surface.
Mitner An American investigative journalist and author, known for his work on national security and foreign policy.
Miniter is wrong about abortion: Abortion in Louisiana is illegal as of August 1, 2022. In 2022, Governor John Bel Edwards signed a law criminalizing abortion providers.

NOW LEARN ABOUT Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America is a 1989 book by David Hackett Fischer that details the folkways of four groups of people who moved from distinct regions of Great Britain
British Folkways in America, 1989 laid all of this out. The author David Hackett Fischer deserves some credit.

Albion’s Seed argues, “The legacy of four British folkways in early America remains the most powerful determinant of a voluntary society in the United States.”
The term “folkways” was originally coined by William Graham Sumner, a 19th-century American sociologist.

VIDEO QUESTIONS FOR FISCHER
https://www.c-span.org/clip/in-depth/user-clip-david-hackett-fischer-on-albions-seed/4869318

David Hackett Fischer detailed the origins and earlyevolution of four of these nations—the ones that Colin Woodard calls Yankeedom, the Midlands, Tidewater, andGreater Appalachia—in his 1989 classic Albion’s Seed, and added New France in Champlain’s Dream, published twenty years later. Russell Shorto described the salientcharacteristics of New Netherland in The Island at the Center of the World in 2004.Virginia senator Jim Webb’s Born Fighting (2005) is, in effect, a plea to his fellowBorderlanders for a national self-awakening, while Michael Lind of the New AmericaFoundation has called on his fellow Texans to unseat autocratic Deep Southern rule in favorof the progressive Appalachian strain of the Hill Country. Awareness of these Americannations has been slowly gestating for the past several decades. This book aims to see themfinally delivered into the popular consciousness

For more on the topic read
https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=%22Albion%27s+Seed%22&acc=on&wc=on&so=rel

Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America is a 1989 book by David Hackett Fischer that details the folkways of four groups of people who moved from distinct regions of Great Britain (Albion) to the United States. Fischer’s argument is that the culture of each of the groups persisted, to provide the basis for the political culture of the modern United States.^[2] Fischer explains “the origins and stability of a social system which for two centuries has remained stubbornly democratic in its politics, capitalist in its economy, libertarian in its laws and individualist in its society and pluralistic in its culture.”^[3]

Folkways: A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals posits:

The folkways are habits of the individual and customs of the society which arise from efforts to satisfy needs; they are intertwined with goblinism and demonism and primitive notions of luck (sec. 6), and so they win traditional authority. Then they become regulative for succeeding generations and take on the character of a social force. They arise no one knows whence or how. They grow as if by the play of internal life energy. They can be modified, but only to a limited extent, by the purposeful efforts of men. In time they lose power, decline, and die, or are transformed. While they are in vigor they very largely control individual and social undertakings, and they produce and nourish ideas of world philosophy and life policy. Yet they are not organic or material. They belong to a superorganic system of relations, conventions, and institutional arrangements.

If you only read 2 things today read this

SURVEILLANCE

!!!!! The U.S. just funded AI that can ID you from ½ mile away just by the way you walk. !!!!!

IARPA’s BRIAR program integrates your face, body, https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1961524161773441308.html

The whole purpose of DOGE was a data mining operation to obtain all the data on all Americans. Had nothing to do with cost-cutting.
Social Security’s chief data officer, Charles Borges, has resigned, three days after submitting a whistle-blower complaint that alleged members of DOGE had uploaded the confidential personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to an insecure cloud server.A hacker used AI to automate an ‘unprecedented’ cybercrime spree, Anthropic says
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/hacker-used-ai-automate-unprecedented-cybercrime-spree-anthropic-says-rcna227309

KEEP READING THESE HEADLINES

A Quant’s Perspective on the 2008 Financial Crisis
Interesting to know that this is actually taught as part of a course.
https://youtu.be/VlOjcOp9a5U?si=ofpsYvTCZVp0yAfg

America’s Most Terrifying Investor
Paul Singer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4ID_IzGWSQ

Congress wants to cut the smartest investment taxpayers ever made
“ Virtually every smartphone on the planet runs on a chip paid for by American taxpayers — a chip that I helped invent. Now Congress is moving to cut funding for the National Science Foundation that could lead to future breakthroughs.

Investing in innovation is not wasteful spending. It is one of the smartest investments Washington makes, creating new jobs, stronger businesses and higher tax revenue in every corner of the country. Cutting the level of government funding for scientific research now would rip those future returns out”

The End of Holy Shit Science
Power, not truth, has always been the primary aim of human knowledge-acquisition. Almost all ancient societies accumulated knowledge for practical reasons: because it helps us heal, feed and house ourselves, plan ahead, travel and communicate, kill our enemies and so on.

Local Restaurant Exhausted as Google AI Keeps Telling Customers About Daily Specials That Don’t Exist
“We will not honor the Google AI specials.”
https://futurism.com/local-restaurant-exhausted-google-ai

Stalin would have creamed himself.
People Are Furious That OpenAI Is Reporting ChatGPT Conversations to Law Enforcement
https://futurism.com/people-furious-openai-reporting-police

Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence — Stanford Digital Economy Lab
https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/publications/canaries-in-the-coal-mine/

Epstein, Donald Trump and Sexual Blackmail Networks (w/ Nick Bryant) | The Chris Hedges Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GK114NGCM8

REMEMBER

This announcement was made in May 2021.
People were cheering Pfizer’s export from Kalamazoo (KZoo). However, the context does mention that the White House supported Pfizer’s decision to begin exporting U.S.-made doses of its coronavirus vaccine to other countries, with the company ahead of schedule in fulfilling its supply commitments to the United States.

People cheering Pfizer’s export from KZoo
People cheer as trucks carrying the first shipment of the Covid-19 vaccine, which is being escorted by the US Marshals Service, leaves Pfizer’s Global Supply facility in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on Sunday.

Super Spreaders: Kakistocracy White House staff members will be among the first to be vaccinated. So it isn’t a hoax anymore? They should get the hoax vaccine. Class warfare works in mysterious ways. They should get the placebo, or back of the line since they think this a joke/Democratic hoax

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ECP NetHappenings Origin of the words Ku Klux Klan, Cracker, and Jim Crow

HEADLINES

Jeff Tiedrich @itsJeffTiedrich
Here’s today’s post: “sex-offender sleazeball did nothing wrong, claims sex-trafficking sleazeball.”
Ghislaine Maxwell’s absurd claim that she never saw Donny do anything ‘concerning’ —
“let me go out on a limb here and posit that if you see nothing wrong
with befriending teenage girls so your ex-boyfriend can rape them,
you might have a different definition of ‘concerning’ than most people.”
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/sex-offender-sleazeball-did-nothing

@allenanalysis
BREAKING: Jeff Bezos–backed Wildtype just got FDA approval to sell lab-grown salmon, after the agency skipped independent testing and animal trials, rubber-stamping it as “safe” based solely on the company’s own data.
Corporate science just wrote its own permission slip.

Carl B. Menger
I’ll buy #Bitcoin weekly for the rest of my life, simply as a silent protest against our crazy fucked up fiat bullshit world.
So much absolutely totalitarian shit going on right now. Go and stick your paper notes up your fucking asses.
I am buyer of last resort. FOREVER.

1985: Real Genius was released – the greatest geek movie ever. 15-year-old genius Mitch Taylor enrolls at Pacific Tech, where senior Chris Knight takes him under his wing. Hacking aplenty. Lasers. Revenge. And popcorn. Lots of popcorn. Loosely inspired by events at CalTech.

The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller
NPR: “Less than five years after urging rioters to “kill” police at the Capitol, former Jan. 6 defendant Jared Wise is working as a senior adviser for Trump’s Department of Justice…”
But ‘Back the Blue’, right?
More: https://npr.org/2025/08/07/nx-s1-5493197/doj-trump-jan-6-defendant-jared-wise-capitol-riot

China fights mosquito-borne chikungunya virus with drones, fines and nets as thousands fall ill
Workers sprayed some places before entering office buildings, a throwback to China’s controversial hardline tactics used to battle the Covid-19 virus.https://www.courthousenews.com/china-fights-mosquito-borne-chikungunya-virus-with-drones-fines-and-nets-as-thousands-fall-ill/

American Oversight Challenges IRS’s “Ridiculous” Attempt to Dismiss Lawsuit Over Its Targeting of Harvard University
The IRS claims all documents — phone logs, calendar invites, etc. — would reveal confidential tax return information.

Educational CyberPlayGround Stories

Citations, References, and Resources for the Sanas of Irish American Vernacular.

The “Doodah Man”:
The character ( The Doodah Man) in the song Grateful Dead Song “Truckin” … according to Google was :
The song references the “Doodah Man,” a figure representing drug dealers, highlighting the band’s association with the counterculture scene.
https://youtu.be/3_1rprcHG3Q https://youtu.be/3_1rprcHG3Q

and Al Jolson singing Camptown Races
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tuu5YtkPIo&list=RD_tuu5YtkPIo&start_radio=1

The “Doodah Man”: and Camptown Races
Stephen foster “gwine to run all night” a white man’s imitation spelling of AAVE African American Vernacular English dialect word “going” which isn’t regarded as racist then or now.

“Jim Crow” became part of the language, becoming the name for racist laws and attitudes used to oppress blacks in the Southern United States in the 19th and 20th Centuries.

DO YOU KNOW YOUR STATE SONG?

Do you know Florida’s state song?
Way Down Upon the Swannee Ribber
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Music/statesong.html

Find the origin of Jim Crow and the KKK from Dan Cassidy
Gaelic up to 1919. Jump Jim Crow By T.D. “Daddy” Rice Jump
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Music/statesongJumpJim.html

2024 – 2nd South Carolina String Band
CAMPTOWN LADIES (1850) ~ Words and music by Stephen Foster
“Camptown Races” earned Foster royalties of only $101.25 in its first seven years (representing a total sales of 5,000 copies at two cents apiece). Debuted by the ubiquitous Christy Minstrels in 1850

Educational CyberPlayGround: Classroom Music, The State Song:
Klan ~ Dan Cassidy Jim Crow – Jump Jim Crow Scottish roots of
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Music/statesong.html

1800-2011 Why would anyone want to know these folksongs?
Music Sacred Harp JIM CROW SONGS Roots of Rap 1861 Wassail
https://edu-cyberpg.com/NCFR/folksongs-1800-2011.html

Learn about Louisiana, Code Noir, the Tales of Br’er …
Jim Crow laws, but were enacted in 1865 directly after the
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/armynavycodenoir.html

Internet Hate Sites and Recruiting Tools on the net.
MORE ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF JIM CROW Learn about the whole concept
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/hate.html

Citations, References, and Resources for the Sanas of Irish American Vernacular…
Hoodo, Honky Tonk, Jim Crow, Kid, Kiddo, Cracker, KKK, Baloney
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/irish3.html

Origin of the words KU KLUX KLAN, CRACKER, and JIM CROW
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/dresscode.html

ECP NetHappenings Useful Information and Release the Epstein Files

AHOLE Merrick Garland is to blame for how we got here, and we are wondering what he’s doing today.

Release the Epstein Files

USEFUL INFORMATION

Heeding Benjamin Franklin’s prescient proposal for “promoting useful knowledge,” the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication seeks to share useful innovations, both in thought and in practice, with the aim of encouraging scholarly exchange and the subsequent benefits that are borne of scrutiny, experimentation and debate. As modes of scholarly communication, the technologies and economics of publishing, and the roles of libraries evolve, it is our hope that the work shared in this journal will inform practices that strengthen librarianship and that increase access to the “common Stock of Knowledge.”
JLSC has updated our policy on Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC). First adopted in February 2024, this update includes more expansive definitions and guidelines around generative AI in terms of data privacy & AI training models, authors, peer reviewers, and editors. The full, updated policy can be found HERE

WOOOO HOOOOO
Engineer restores pay phones for free public use

THE MEDIA

The media are largely to blame that Trump always got away with it.

BillKristol
“Trump is at 18% approval, 70% disapproval on his handling of the Epstein matter. He’s also at 31% approval, 63% disapproval, on the issue of tariffs and on that of inflation—our old friend from the Biden presidency which may well bedevil Trump, too.”

Medicare for All would save $650 billion and 68,000 lives a year, per CBO and Yale. Trump’s budget bill increases the deficit by over $4 trillion, makes the largest cut to Medicaid in history and will cause 51,000 Americans to die unnecessarily each year-per CBO, Yale & Penn.

When this constituent asks GOP Rep. Mike Flood is he’d support Medicare For All, the Congressman says “We can’t afford that.”
The crowd at the town hall immediately starts booing.

“The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying but they keep lying anyway, and we keep pretending to believe them.”
– Elena Gorokhova, A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir

The rumors about how trump treated his first wife, were no secret.
Remember that trump’s first wife Ivana testified that trump had raped her.
The resurfaced 1992 clip of Trump blaming a rape victim is not just a blast from the past; it’s a stark reminder of his troubling views on women. With Ivana Trump’s accusations and the recent $83.3 million defamation ruling, the pattern is clear. We can’t ignore this. Trump claims that any teenage girl out after midnight “is asking for it.” Tyson was convicted by a court of law. Trump’s implication that wealthy men believe they can coerce women into sexual situations without facing consequences. Someone has to stop him. Maybe one of those thousand FBI agents who knows what he did in the Epstein files.
When it takes 1000 FBI agents to scrub your name from the Epstein Files….
You’re a pedophile.

Bloomberg journalist Jason Leopold reported this morning that the president’s name has been redacted from more than 100,000 documents the FBI has on child-sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

@RichardAngwin
Trump’s victim-blaming in that 1987 interview exposes his long history of misogyny, from defending rapists like Tyson to his own Access Hollywood boasts, proving he’s always been unfit for any position of power.

@KremlinTrolls KT “Special MI6 Operation
Looks like Epstein’s Russian girlfriend of over a decade has been spying for Russian intelligence services.
Karyna Shuliak from Belarus was Epstein’s girlfriend around 2015. So we have a Russian connection to Epstein.
https://x.com/KremlinTrolls/status/1952147023244988519
Shuliak aka ‘the inspector’ met Epstein in 2009 and was the last person to talk to Epstein before his suicide on Aug 10, 2019. She is believed to be a major beneficiary of the Epstein estate, which is managed anonymously by the so-called ‘1953 trust’ Epstein created 2-days before his death. She was known as ‘the inspector’ for her obsessive snooping on Epstein during their relationship, and would seem if anyone had a dossier on Epstein, Shuliak does. I’m quite sure the Russians have all the information, and I’d be wanting to talk to her in any investigation into Epstein.

Bondi in 2024: There’s no legal basis for people to redact their name unless they’re “a child, a victim, or a cooperating defendant.”
Bondi’s FBI in 2025: Redacts Trump’s name from the Epstein Files.

In normal America, Republicans covering up the fact that Trump is a pedophile named in the Epstein files, would be a scandal.
In Trump’s America, we call it Monday.

“I’ve known Jeff [Epstein] for 15 years. Terrific guy, He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
Trump told New York magazine in 2002.

NEW: It’s barely audible, but a reporter asks Trump why he waited 7 YEARS after Epstein “stole” Giuffre to cancel his Mar-a-Lago membership.
Trump pretends not to understand.
This is his pressure point: what he knew, and when. He shuts down every time.
HE KNEW. KEEP ASKING.

Republicans change their minds on releasing the Epstein files more frequently than Trump changes his diapers, in addition to the leg braces, the Catheter and bag, the toe lifts that keep him from falling forward, the girdle, the Moob bra…

Demented Trump repeated his mystifying claim that he is reducing drug prices by “1500%.”
Trump just fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics,… because their NUMBERS supposedly WEREN’T ACCURATE. And right after that,… Trump claimed he,… “LOWERED drug prices in America BY 1,500%!”

Donald Trump has just signed an executive order,… placing a 50% tariff on “Fjords,”… because he believes they’re,… Scandinavian-manufactured automobiles.

GERRYMANDERED ELECTIONS

Rep. Greg Casar just exposed Trump’s NATIONAL gerrymander plot – starting in Texas, then spreading to Missouri, Ohio, and Alabama.
“This fight is much bigger than Texas… Trump knows he can’t win, so he wants to rig the elections.”
This is a five-alarm fire.

“Texas Brags To Court That It Drew District Lines To ‘Increase GOP’s Electoral Prospects…

Governor JB Pritzker just slammed Donald Trump and Greg Abbott for trying to cheat their way to electoral victory. They know they are going to lose, and now they are trying to cheat. Good on Pritzker for calling out their BS.

A new threat to free and fair elections has emerged: the federal government. We chronicle the executive branch’s concerted strategy to push its way into election infrastructure where it doesn’t belong.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/trump-administrations-campaign-undermine-next-election

@briantylercohen
Yes, we know Illinois and Maryland are Dem gerrymanders. And WI, PA, NC, OH, FL, TX, UT are Republican gerrymanders. The Democrats support a nationwide ban on gerrymanders.

@BernieSanders
As we speak, Trump is pressuring the state of Texas to rig its Congressional maps to put more Republicans in office.
This is a significant uptick in Trump’s attacks on democracy. If you can’t win an election, then you rig it.
If he can do it in Texas, he can do it anywhere.

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63
Lost elections are rigged, won elections are fair.
Good job numbers are real, bad ones are fake.
Sex trafficking is bad, unless the traffickers will blame
your enemies.
Crime is bad, unless the criminals are pro-Trump.
This isn’t 4D chess, or even tic-tac-toe, just Autocracy 101.

Just your daily reminder that foreign governments have still paid ZERO dollars toward Trump-imposed tariffs.

FOOD

Trump on Undocumented Workers: ‘These People’ Do Farm Labor ‘Naturally’ The president claims he wants to help farmers keep migrants because they are built to withstand back-breaking work.

RFK Jr announces new waivers banning soda, candy & other junk food from food stamp eligibility. “SNAP is a supplemental nutrition program meant to provide health food benefits to low income families.”

Jamie Raskin:
“It started when they threw 17 million people off of their medicaid healthcare and 10’s of millions of people off of nutrition. Why? To cut the deficit, To cut the debt? No. They’re increasing the debt by 4 trillion dollars.”

The vast majority of US adults are stressed about grocery costs, an AP-NORC poll finds AP

Pesticide companies want immunity from lawsuits brought by people their toxic products harm. But a new bill would ensure they can be held accountable. Join @CFSTrueFood & tell your Senators to co-sponsor the Pesticide Injury Accountability Act now!
https://nation.centerforfoodsafety.org/piaabill25

Bill Gates has been given approval to spray synthetic RNA on crops through his company, Terrana Biosciences. The gene-silencing tech bypasses DNA and rewires plants at the RNA level.
This means your food, soil, and gut could now be controlled by biotech—with no labels, no consent, and no long-term safety studies.
The RNA can linger in soil, spread via pollen, and possibly affect human microbiomes—all under emergency-use laws that protect corporate liability.

BITCOIN

The Largest Bitcoin Holders in 2024.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsccmbOT6FU

Current LBE rankings Top 10 by BTC holdings:

1. Strategy @saylor
2. CEP / XXI @jackmallers
3. CEPO / BSTR @adam3us
4. Metaplanet @DylanLeClair_
5. Semler @SemlerEric
6. CCCM @dgt10011
7. Empery / Volcon @Ryanmatthewlane
8. Sequans @BenWerkman
9. Capital B @AlexandreLaizet
10. SWC @asjwebley

THE FED

Sen. Lummis slams the Fed, accusing it of blocking crypto innovation and “putting solvent banks out of business” – calls a US CBDC a “terrible idea.” Trump says he’ll name a new Fed governor next week – following Adriana Kugler’s resignation.

@federalreserve The Federal Reserve is actually not federal at all!
It’s a separate, individual agency that answers to no one. The board itself for the Federal Reserve is not federal per this judge.
The board itself for the Federal Reserve is not federal per this judge. A U.S. District Court judge on Monday rejected a legal bid by an investment fund to force the Federal Reserve to open to the public a meeting on setting interest rates this week.
The ruling found that the Federal Open Market Committee is not a government agency subject to the federal “Sunshine Act” requiring open
meetings, despite claims to the contrary in a lawsuit filed by Azoria Capital.
A private company should not be controlling the economy of a sovereign Constitutional Republic.

Congress Drops The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, unveiled May 29, 2025, is set to shake up crypto regulation big time!
It splits oversight: #Bitcoin and digital commodities fall under the CFTC, while securities stay with the SEC.
https://financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2025-05-29_-_sbs_-_clarity_act_of_2025_-_final.pdf

White House Prepares Order to Penalize Banks Discriminating Against Conservatives
The president is expected to sign an executive order this week targeting the debanking of businesses, including crypto companies.

Paolo Ardoino @paoloardoino
40% of all blockchain fees are paid to send USDt
That’s across 9 chains: ETH, Tron, TON, Solana, BSC, Avalanche, Arbitrum, Polygon & Optimism
Hundreds of millions of people in emerging markets use Tether’s digital dollar USDt daily, to protect their families from local inflation and devaluation of their national currencies.
Blockchains that will focus on lower gas fees, allowing paying these in USDt will take over the world.

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ECP NetHappenings Taxi Dancers, Nickel Hoppers and Fish

Epstein’s crypto network

Wendy Siegelman @WendySiegelman
Great overview of Epstein’s crypto network (Howard Lutnick, Brock Pierce, Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, etc) with acknowledgement to @NFTethics for a lot of the research Article nicely summarizes some of the shadiest folks in crypto today, by @Cryptadamist https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/crypto-epstein

NFT Ethics @NFTethics
May 9, 2024
1/ This is a thread about the largest money-laundering casino on US soil that ever existed and its deep connections to Bitfinex/Tether, FTX, Donald Trump, US elections, Russia, Wirecard, intelligence agencies & the most powerful/dangerous gangster in the world: Semion Mogilevich.

https://x.com/NFTethics/status/1806425045712965985

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1806425045712965985.html

TAXI DANCEERS

Why Men in the 1920s Paid Women for Spins Around the Dance Hall
For 10 cents, male patrons could hire taxi-dancers and try out the upper-class hobby of ballroom dancing.

Book on the Taxi Dancer

The Lost Lingo of Depression-Era Taxi Dancers
In the 1920s and ’30s, ticket-a-dance halls were full of “nickel-hoppers” and “fish.”
Cressey describes the clientele of taxi-dance halls as a “motley crowd.” The types of men found in these establishments ranged in age, race, and respectability.

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