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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.
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.