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Idaho and Oregon redrawing their borders

Keri Kukral @kerikukral Must read thread

https://www.kerikukral.com/blog

Do you know who writes about Idaho and Oregon redrawing their borders, a plan that is really about precious metals and ocean access? USA Today.

Who owns USA Today?
SoftBank and Fortress Investment Group, $100M investor in Theranos and almost bailed out Harvey Weinstein.

Ironically, Fortress is in bed with Wachovia which laundered tens of billions of drug cartel money (my aunt coincidentally is a Whachovia whistleblower).

Who Owns the Gannett Company?

USA Today is a veritable disaster in their state breakup coverage, and it’s no wonder. Those aligned with Tim Draper fund it.

Rural Oregon’s movement to join Idaho has momentum but little hope of success.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/06/20/rural-oregon-would-join-idaho-under-long-shot-greater-idaho-movement/7626820002/

Sounds patriotic, though, doesn’t it? But in reality not at all: “It’s the people saying how they want to be governed, and that was one of the founding principles of the American Revolution: that we wanted a choice to say how our government represents us.”

They are giving lots of airtime to this initiative, much of it uncritically. This is likely because the funders of the newspaper are aligned with Theranos and Harvey Weinstein which means Tim Draper and Trump.

Secession in the Pacific Northwest? Some Oregon residents petition to join Idaho
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/02/17/oregon-idaho-border-petition-secede/4789936002/

Elon Musk + Tim Draper + CA State Breakup
This is a network map to help visualize some of the connections between Elon Musk, his early backer Tim Draper (and the firm DFJ he co-founded with Steve Jurveston which closed after I spoke out about them), and some of the initiatives related to breaking up US state borders. These activities would weaken the US. Some such state secession plans are backed by Russian sources. There is also an interesting crossover between Russian/Israeli mafia (casinos and gambling) as well as the Epstein-Maxwell network.
https://www.kerikukral.com/post/elon-musk-tim-draper-ca-state-breakup

There is a complex web of deep, long-held connections. This should be studied, especially after Elon Musk amplified ex-Russian President Medvedev’s Twitter thread suggesting that there could be a US Civil War in 2023 after which Elon Musk would become US President.

This would be potentially less interesting if Musk’s early backer Tim Draper hadn’t in fact funded and led campaigns to breakup US state borders such as California.

Recently, he suggested breaking up California and Nevada borders to align Silicon Valley with Las Vegas casino money in the spirit of Sheldon Adelson, Trump’s biggest donor.

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Note: the network map is detailed and best viewed on a computer outside of Twitter which does not have high resolution.

 

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#Politics

Today Is Friday Jan 13th, 2023 and Joe R Biden has been in Office for 723 Days. Since then he has passed more legislation and Added more jobs than any other president in the last 50 yrs.

NY AG James @NewYorkStateAG
Today, the Trump Organization has been sentenced for committing years of tax fraud and must pay $1.6 million, the maximum penalty.
@ManhattanDA and I will always work to ensure any individual or organization that cheats New Yorkers is brought to justice.

I’d call this the illusion of accountability.

#Garland ‘s inaction single handedly is responsible for the misery Democracy has become.
11 Republicans who supported overturning the 2020 election results are now committee chairs.

Trump loses bid to dismiss rape accuser’s second defamation lawsuit

Evangelical SOBs GQP
GOP to evangelicals : “You guys want Roe overturned? We can do that but yout take the whole enchilada of conservative agenda. Essentially making a deal with the devil. I watched my colleagues as they nodded that they w do it regardless if they had conscious conflict w some policies”
Everyone needs to see this. The dark, putrid underbelly of our Republican Party. Rev. Robert Schenck describes when the conservatives in the Supreme Court made a deal with the evangelicals.
Operation Higher Court’: Inside the religious right’s efforts to wine and dine Supreme Court justices
A former evangelical leader details his group’s extensive program to influence Justices Thomas, Alito and Scalia through meals and entertainment.

George Santos Took Donation From Migrant-Smuggler
Don’t praise the NYS & Nassau GQP for calling for Santos to resign. Know the reason they want him gone is to discourage looking at where Santos got the $. His campaign treasurer has worked for virtually every R in the state.

McCarthy made an agreement to release all J6 security cam footage to win the Speaker vote: Matt Gaetz
Great!! Release it all MAGA McCarthy, Release the Videos of Trumps Attack Mob Urinating, Defecating, Destroying Gov’t Property, assaulting our Capital Police, MAGA GQP giving them Recon Tours, MTG, Boebert Snickering… that should help clear things up…

ARCHIVE When egg prices rose in the 60s, page 96 of Robert Samuelson’s The Great Inflation and its Aftermath: the @Surgeon_General issued fake warnings about cholesterol to reduce demand.
Peter Atwater points us to this 1960s relic from US president Lyndon B Johnson’s own battle with inflation.

SEC Gary Gensler

Seems weird for a company’s General Counsel to have so much influence in the FTX case until you see this


Gensler never doing anything about protecting anyone before the disaster occurs and never making rules to follow about anything. He works for Wall Street Bankers and wants Janet Yellen’s job. He is a loser, who only went after Kardashian! what a joke.

FTX – Aaaand it’s gone!

Crypto firms Genesis and Gemini charged by SEC with selling unregistered securities
Gemini, founded by the Winklevoss twins, and Genesis, owned by Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group, have been in a battle over the fate of $900 million worth of customer funds.
Gemini’s Earn program, supported by Genesis’ lending activities, met the SEC’s definition by including both an investment contract and a note, SEC officials said. Those two features are part of how the SEC assesses whether an offering is a security.
The SEC says the Earn program netted the companies billions of dollars in crypto assets. The agency is seeking permanent injunctive relief, disgorgement, and civil penalties against both Genesis and Gemini, and noted that “investigations into other securities law violations and into other entities and persons relating to the alleged misconduct are ongoing.”

#Bitcoin vs. #Fiat

That thing they ask about Bitcoin:
“What’s the intrinsic Value”?

1. Define “intrinsic” –
No!  intrinsic means anything you want  it to mean!

2. Define “Value”
“it can actually save your life”

Visualizing $65 Trillion in Hidden Dollar Debt

Andrew M. Bailey @resistancemoney
In a recent letter to Congress, 21 human rights advocates from 20 countries gave evidence about how bitcoin is actually used. Their report is concrete testimony, not speculation: pure signal, in a world of noise.

1 – 13 RIZZO @pete_rizzo_ thread
1/ What is the Genesis Block? It’s the very first block on the #Bitcoin blockchain, and by mining it, Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin.
It’s accurate to say the Genesis Block created all the 21 million BTC that will ever be.
2/ The #Bitcoin Genesis Block was mined on January 3, 2009 at 6:15:05pm UTC. Or 1:15pm EST.
We know this because the Genesis block contains a special timestamp from the operating system (unix) Satoshi ran on his computer at the time.
3/ Every block on the #Bitcoin blockchain gives a reward to the miner, except the Genesis Block.
Satoshi made this reward unspendable, and the 50 BTC it created are not counted in the blockchain

@aantonop The arc of history is long, but it bends toward decentralization.

HISTORY OF BITCOIN DEVELOPMENT FROM WHEN THE BITCOIN
((( OPEN SOURCE CODE ))) WAS DROPPED.
Graphical visualisation of the Bitcoin Github repository from 2009 to 2018.

Aaron Swartz explains why DMCA and copyright more generally is designed by corporations to stifle creativity and censor, undermining the very functioning of the internet

#Bitcoin surpasses Mastercard and $META (Facebook) in market value.
The most popular digital asset on the planet is proving its worth, as Bitcoin has surpassed both Meta Platforms Inc., and Mastercard, in Market capitalization. The prominent digital asset has seen a resurgence to start the new year, with a price surpassing $19,000 yesterday.

El Salvador passes law establishing legal framework for all #cryptocurrencies.

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Friend of mine bass player Micky Metts had a band called “The Futures” mentioned in a new book Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the USA, 1975-1983
The women of Hit Girls are now rightfully exalted to cult status where their collective achievement is recognized and inspiring to new generations of women rockers. Included are interviews with: Texacala Jones, Stoney Rivera, Mish Bondaj, Alice Bag, Nikki Corvette, Penelope Houston, and many more formidable and infamous women who made their voices heard over the screaming guitars. These pioneering women were more than novelty acts or pretty faces–they were fully contributing members and leaders of mixed-gender and all-female bands long before the call for “girls to the front.”

Federal Trade Commission Proposes Historic Ban On Noncompete Agreements
The agency said banning use of the clauses would raise wages for workers across the country.
The Federal Trade Commission issued a major proposal Thursday that would bar employers from using noncompete agreements to lock workers into their jobs and keep wages down. Employees who sign noncompetes are forbidden from taking a job at a competing company for a certain period of time. The FTC said the agreements create an “unfair method of competition” for workers and therefore violate federal law. Lina M. Khan, the commission’s chair, said in a statement that the freedom to jump ship to a different employer was at the “core” of economic liberty. “Noncompetes block workers from freely switching jobs, depriving them of higher wages and better working conditions, and depriving businesses of a talent pool that they need to build and expand,” Khan said. The agency estimates that a ban could increase wages for U.S. workers by as much as $296 billion per year.

 

The Nassau County GOP calls on George Santos to RESIGN.
Meanwhile, House Republican leadership remains SILENT about the fraudulence of George Santos, claiming that the matter should be “handled internally.” “Handling it internally” is code for not handling it at all.

Common Dreams @commondreams
“House Republicans are openly plotting to hold the full faith and credit of the United States hostage—threatening to blow up our entire economy—because they want to force cuts to Social Security and Medicare,” said one House Democrat.

As NYC’s Food Stamp Crisis Worsens, State Agency Withholds Relief
Over half of New York City food stamp applicants are forced to wait for their benefits to arrive as staff at the understaffed Human Resources Administration fail to keep pace with demand. The state’s Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance has declined to issue a waiver that would relieve the backlog.

 

Jan 3 2023 #Bitcoin was launched on this day 14 years ago.

On the 3rd of January, 2009 Satoshi Nakamoto mined the genesis block…and so here we are today! 🙌
Happy 14th birthday Bitcoin!

Willy Woo @woonomic Jan 5
Income taxes and fiat was born of war and to this very day the two are used to fund ongoing wars.
Very few people understand #Bitcoin is a solution to human ethnics.

Cassandra B.C. @michaeljburry Jan 1
Inflation peaked. But it is not the last peak of this cycle. We are likely to see CPI lower, possibly negative in 2H 2023, and the US in recession by any definition. Fed will cut and government will stimulate. And we will have another inflation spike. It’s not hard.

Historical #Bitcoin prices on Christmas:
2013 – $682
2014 – $319
2015 – $456
2016 – $896
2017 – $14,027
2018 – $3,815
2019 – $7,275
2020 – $24,665
2021 – $50,430
2022 – $16,831

In a world of uncertainty you need something that actually works.
In a world of full of empty promises you need something that you can rely on. #Bitcoin

Visualizing $65 Trillion in Hidden Dollar Debt