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No Justice No Peace
When Corrupt Politicians Start Going To Jail, Then We Can Start Trusting The Government Again.

LINKGOOD TO KNOW
Linus Torvalds created Linux at 21 without Claude or any other AI.

– He didn’t have a co-founder.
– No VC funding. No office.
– No team.
– Just a personal project

He posted to a mailing list: “I’m doing a free OS.”
33 years later, it runs 97% of the world’s servers, all smartphones, and the International Space Station.
The most important software in history started as someone’s side project.
Absolute legend.

LINKJane Street + JP Morgan, BlackRock, Citadel Securities

2/26/26 @AltCryptoGems https://x.com/AltCryptoGems
JANE STREET IS THE MOST PROTECTED FIRM IN CRYPTO AND NOBODY HAS THE GUTS TO SAY IT
Everyone keeps treating Jane Street like some mystery to uncover. It’s not a mystery. It’s right there in front of you.
A firm with no CEO making $6.9 billion in profit per quarter.
More than most banks pull in a year. And somehow their fingerprints are on every single major crypto disaster and they keep walking away clean.
Let’s talk about it.
SBF. Caroline Ellison. Brett Harrison. All Jane Street alumni.
One built FTX. One ran Alameda. One ran FTX US.
The biggest fraud in crypto history. $8 billion stolen. 25 years in prison.
Three people from the same firm built the whole thing from scratch.
But sure, Jane Street had nothing to do with the culture that produced them.
Total coincidence that three people from one trading floor all ended up running the same fraud operation.
Right.
Now Terra is suing them claiming they front-ran the LUNA collapse.
Alleging Jane Street understood exactly how the UST depeg would play out and positioned themselves to profit while $60 billion got wiped in 72 hours.
Alleged? Yes. But explain this.
Bitcoin was getting dumped at 10AM EST every single day for 6 months. Every day.
Good news bad news didn’t matter. Same time same pattern.
Two days after the Jane Street lawsuit gets filed that pattern just vanishes. BTC rips from $62.5K to $69K.
You can say correlation isn’t causation. Sure. But you can’t say that with a straight face and not at least ask the question.
India didn’t just ask questions. India acted.
SEBI accused Jane Street of using multiple entities to manipulate the Bank Nifty index.
One entity pumps stocks at open. Another holds derivatives that profit from the dump. First one sells. Second one collects.
Jane Street said it was normal arbitrage. SEBI banned them anyway.
And Jane Street’s response? They put $560 million into escrow just to ask for permission to come back.

Half a billion dollars. To request the right to trade. That’s not what innocent firms do. That’s what firms do when a market is too profitable to lose access to.

They also pay Robinhood over $60 million a month for order flow. Which means they see your trades before they go through. Every single one. Across one of the biggest retail platforms in the world.
And everyone’s fine with this because it’s “legal.”
Legal doesn’t mean fair. Legal just means nobody with enough power has decided to stop it yet.
The wildest part?
Co-founder Robert Granieri got connected to allegations about funding a coup in South Sudan. No charges.
Obviously.
Because people at this level don’t get charges.
They get “matters resolved.”
Here’s what bothers me.
The crypto space will spend weeks dragging some influencer for a bad call but won’t say a word about a firm that trained the FTX team, is being sued for front-running the biggest collapse in crypto history, got banned from an entire country’s market, and literally pays to see your trades before you make them.
We pick the fights that are safe and ignore the ones that actually matter.
Some of this is proven. Some is alleged. Some is speculation.
But if even half of it holds up, the conversation we should be having isn’t about whether Jane Street broke any rules.
It’s about why the rules were written to let firms like this operate this way in the first place.
Crypto was supposed to be the exit. Instead we rebuilt the same casino and let the same house run it.
Stop pretending the game is fair. It never was.

EXPOSED: The Four Firms Controlling & Rigging Modern Markets
JP Morgan, BlackRock, Citadel Securities, Jane Street

1. BlackRock – The $14 Trillion Shadow Owner Weaponizing Common Ownership
BlackRock now manages a record $14 trillion in assets (Q4 2025 earnings, Jan 2026). It is the largest shareholder in the majority of S&P 500 companies through passive index funds.

Together with Vanguard and State Street, it controls stakes that have triggered multiple antitrust lawsuits. In 2024–2025, 12 Republican state attorneys general sued BlackRock (and the others) for allegedly conspiring via common ownership to suppress U.S. coal production by 18–19%, driving up energy prices 21–25% while pushing ESG “Net Zero” agendas. A federal judge in Texas allowed the case to proceed in August 2025. The FTC and DOJ filed a statement of interest backing the states, rejecting BlackRock’s attempts to dismiss.

2. JP Morgan – JP Morgan has repeatedly been caught manipulating markets for profit:

– 2020: Record $920 million CFTC settlement (largest ever for spoofing at the time). Traders placed hundreds of thousands of fake orders in precious metals and Treasury futures (2008–2016) to move prices, then canceled them. JP Morgan admitted wrongdoing and paid restitution + disgorgement.
– 2024: Another $200 million CFTC fine for failing to surveil billions of client orders over eight years, allowing potential spoofing and high frequency manipulation to go unchecked.

This is the same bank BlackRock lists as a core Authorized Participant for its trillion-dollar ETFs.

3. Citadel Securities – The Retail Front Runner That Owns Your Order Flow
Citadel Securities dominates U.S. retail trading: it has handled up to 40% of all retail equity volume and paid out hundreds of millions in Payment for Order Flow (PFOF) to brokers like Robinhood. In just nine months of 2024 it paid $943 million for retail order flow.

During the 2021 GameStop event, Citadel was the largest PFOF provider to platforms that suddenly restricted buying conveniently protecting its positions. It continues to profit from seeing your Robinhood orders before they hit the market. In 2026, Citadel Securities is still listed as an Authorized Participant for BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF, creating and redeeming shares in the very products it helps price.

4. Jane Street – The “Basic Arbitrage” Manipulator Banned & Sued on Two Continents
Jane Street’s mask slipped in 2025–2026:

– July 2025: India’s SEBI banned Jane Street from the entire securities market, accusing it of a “sinister scheme” to manipulate the Bank Nifty index over 18 expiry days (2023–2025). The firm allegedly bought underlying stocks/futures early to artificially prop up the index, then profited from massive options positions. SEBI froze ~$566 million in alleged unlawful gains. Jane Street deposited the money but is fighting the ban, claiming “basic index arbitrage.”
– February 2026: Terraform Labs’ bankruptcy administrator sued Jane Street (plus co-founder and employees) in Manhattan federal court. The suit accuses the firm of using insider non-public information to front-run trades during the 2022 TerraUSD collapse including a wallet that pulled 85 million UST from Curve within 10 minutes of Terraform’s secret withdrawal. This allegedly accelerated the $40 billion wipeout.

Jane Street is also a top Authorized Participant for BlackRock’s ETFs.

@sungleeiq March 12, 2026
Nobody is telling you how FUCKED your retirement savings actually are right now.
Everyone is watching the war. The missiles. The oil price.
Nobody is talking about what’s happening to YOUR money. Right now. Today.
A $33,000,000,000 private credit fund just told investors: “You can’t have your money back.”
Cliffwater capped redemptions at 7%. Investors wanted 14%. They got HALF.

Morgan Stanley — restricting redemptions.
JPMorgan — restricting private credit lending.

You know what private credit is? It’s where YOUR pension fund parks billions. YOUR 401k. YOUR retirement.

→ BlackRock manages $10 TRILLION. A massive chunk is in private credit.
→ Your state pension? Exposed to private credit.
→ Your company’s retirement plan? Exposed to private credit.
→ That “safe” target-date fund you picked? It holds private credit.

Here’s what nobody is explaining to you:

Private credit is NOT like stocks. You can’t just sell and walk away. There is no “sell” button. The fund decides IF and WHEN you get your money back.

And right now they’re saying: NO.

2008 started EXACTLY like this.

→ Step 1: Private funds quietly restrict withdrawals ← WE ARE HERE
→ Step 2: Investors panic, everyone rushes for the exit
→ Step 3: Funds forced to dump assets at fire-sale prices
→ Step 4: Asset values collapse
→ Step 5: Banks tighten lending, credit freezes
→ Step 6: Stock market crashes 40-60%
→ Step 7: Millions lose their retirement

The S&P dropped 57% last time this happened. People who were 2 years from retirement had to work another decade.

And this time? It’s happening DURING a war. With oil at $100. With inflation coming back. With the Fed trapped.

Nobody is warning you because the people who should be warning you are the ones locking the exits.

Bookmark this. https://x.com/sungleeiq/status/2031940368988598706

 

LINKHEALTH

Decline in Independent Activity as a Cause of Decline in Children’s Mental Well-being: Summary of the Evidence – The Journal of Pediatrics
https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(23)00111-7/abstract

LINKEpstein

“They must think that Americans are really, really stupid.”
Bryant on the Epstein “pimps” named by the New York Times.
https://archive.ph/vvQDS

“You charge them…they’d roll over on the perps in a heartbeat.”
https://x.com/RudyHavenstein/status/1945909564844474585

Christine Maxwell, Ghislaine’s sister, co-founded Chiliad – a data mining company with two people – Paul McOwen and Alan Wade. Wade was a top CIA official who also worked with PALANTIR.
CHILIAD became PALANTIR. My original thread here

Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw
I hope this is one of the most consequential pieces I will have ever written.
Epstein and His Co-Conspirators’ New York Crimes: What NY officials can now do
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2032070197872369730.html

@OhRick4
Is anyone going to question Epsteins lottery win in New Mexico ?
It may sound like a random coincidence, however, the New Mexico Governor at the time was Democrat Bill Richardson who IS named in the Epstein Files and who remained in contact until the year Epstein was arrested.

In 2008 (under Bush), Jeffrey Epstein’s planes were listed as “Signatory VWP (Visa Waiver Program) Carries”. Meaning, through a legal agreement with the U.S. government, he was allowed to transport citizens from designated countries without them having to obtain a visa for up to 90 days.  2001-2009.state.gov/documents/orga

Jeffery Epstein had Melania first then she was passed on “sold” to Trump
https://x.com/ImBreckWorsham/status/2032106396997591503/photo/1

Ketamine, Prostitution and Money: Here Are The Details of a Secret DEA Probe of Jeffrey Epstein
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2029923761710146010.html
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-03-06/epstein-investigated-in-dea-probe-for-ketamine-money-laundering

@JamesTate121
It’s crazy how no one in the media brought up the fact that Donald Trump won all 7 swing states by a margin just below recount levels which is mathematically on the level of winning the lottery.
The voting machines were rigged for Trump in 2016, 2020 and 2024. The only thing that saved us in 2020 was the massive and overwhelming mail-in vote due to Covid. Trump and Musk couldn’t
overcome that, hadn’t accounted for it in advance, and that’s why Trump immediately melted down & installed DeJoy at USPS to halt vote by mail. It also is why Trump was wholly consumed by calling 2020 a “stolen election.” He knew he’d rigged it. He probably lost by 10-15 million votes in all 3 elections.

A Trumpworld Events Company Is Raking In Millions in Federal Contracts
The Trump administration has awarded Event Strategies several contracts—including one that could be worth up to $100 million—with little competition, according to federal filings.
An events company whose associates helped stage the January 6, 2021, rally has signed contracts worth over $26 million with the United States government, according to documents reviewed by WIRED. Since President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, Event Strategies, a Virginia-based firm with deep ties to Trumpworld, has negotiated a contract with the General Services Administration that could be worth up to $100 million over the next 15 years.

Democratic Party according to @Polymarket are the favorites to take control of the House and Senate. Democrats have won 95% of special elections with 27% switching from Red to Blue.

Andy Thomson wins his election to be the first Democratic mayor of Boca Raton in over 30 years. After a recount he extended his win from 1 vote to 5 votes.

LINKBITCOIN

You don’t need as much Bitcoin as you might think

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ECP NetHappenings The Longest Post in 2023

ECP NetHappenings

When Life Gives You Lemons You’re Dyslexic.
Took off a few days…. but still looking out for the best info. This is the longest post published in 2023, and maybe one of the best.

#BITCOIN #TRUMP, #BLACKROCK, #SEC, #TETHER,#VOTE,#POLLS,#PRIVACY,#HEALTH,#HUMAN RIGHTS, #BILLIONAIRS,#HIGHER EDUCATION,

#BITCOIN

OPINION
There is no fever like bitcoin fever. Once the bull market gets going again, the price moves will make your heart race and your pupils dilate. Moon boys Sentiment is bullishness. Remember Retracement is inevitable.

SEC MAY ALLOW ETF’s  in January 2024
*Fair Value Accounting will be allowed and is coming later in the year then the Catalyst 1% then 2% then 5% will come in from corporations.
The irony is the new accounting treatment for Bitcoin doesn’t take effect until 2025, SO, don’t expect corporate treasuries to start in size until LATE 2024 (after a new ATH imho)

BTC Facts:

There’s no such thing as “physical Bitcoin.” That’s the point.
#Bitcoin isn’t located anywhere and it exists everywhere.
You don’t “keep Bitcoin in cold storage” — you keep the key in cold storage.
The lack of physicality is what makes it unconfiscatable.

– #Bitcoin is now up 150% this year 2023 from 15,000 to now 43,000.

– #Bitcoin Market Cap is now higher than Tesla and Berkshire Hathaway.

– The stock market has had positive returns in 83% of election years.
1940, 2000 and 2008 were the only three times that the trend was broken.
The Fed will lower rates before the summer.

– It is an election year and the administration in power will NOT allow 8% mortgage rates and higher gas prices, etc. Why? It’s ALL about the economy.
As soon as Biden’s people realize Elizabeth Warren and Gary Gensler are the liability they truly are, they will throw them under the bus.

-CNBC discussing the #Bitcoin halving: “For the first time in history, you have an asset that is more scarce than gold.”

-12/6/23 JUST IN: Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy #Bitcoin investment is now at a $2,300,000,000 unrealized profit.
What to buy … gold? art? real estate? then you realize it’s BITCOIN
One day we will all brag about buying five-figure #bitcoin.

-JUST IN: There are now less than 20,000 blocks until the #Bitcoin halving HODL
The first time RSI crosses 70 on the 2-week chart marked the start of the Bull Market in the last 3 cycles.
This just happened for the 4th time in Bitcoin history.

–Bitcoin going to $100,000 BEFORE the April 17, 2024 Halving?
“Why You NEED To Own Just 0.1 Bitcoin (BTC)” | Michael Saylor 2024 Prediction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-cByPZuq9o

…… And then, you know, those miners are dumping their Bitcoin more or less on the market. And so you’ve got this constant flow. Next year 2024, it’s going to be 450 Bitcoin a day right after the halving. And so bitcoins hovering around gold’s market cap, I mean that’s a pretty significant amount of Bitcoin the market needs to absorb. But if you start thinking about it for gold as well, right? I mean if if the monetary inflation rate is 1 1/2% for gold, that’s over $500 million Of gold. mined a day.

Fun to watch. He Bought 55000 Bitcoin In 2010 When 1 BTC Price 6 Rs
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YMIZ5mHRO4E

Historical Returns through All the years
https://youtube.com/shorts/YWtYPqBBv9M

How much do you need?
https://youtube.com/shorts/YWtYPqBBv9M

-Did you know that roughly 40% to 50% of millennials are currently non-compliant in reporting their #cryptocurrency taxes?
Why don’t millennials understand their #crypto tax liabilities?
https://www.cryptotaxaudit.com/blog/the-crypto-tax-solution-for-non-compliant-millennials

Dr. Jeff Ross @VailshireCap
The next time a normie or degen crypto trader asks you when you will take profits on your #bitcoin holdings, ask them when they will take profits on their bank savings account trade. It’s an illogical question once you understand money.

#BLACKROCK

-BlackRock has been buying Bitcoin throughout the whole bear market using their private trust. This private trust was launched in 2022 with coinbase as custodian.

-Why Bitcoin’s Price Pumps Matter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4myC0i7BPk

-BlackRock says a seed investor bought $100,000 worth of its #Bitcoin ETF shares this October. Just the beginning.
BlackRock receives 💵 $100K as “seed capital” for its spot #Bitcoin ETF, selling 4K shares at a per-share price of $25.00 👀
https://twitter.com/BitcoinNewsCom/status/1732027853049405766/photo/1

– Interesting update to BlackRock / IShares S-1 filing BlackRock filed an updated version of its spot #Bitcoin ETF application with the SEC.  Thinking there will never be a CRYPTO security ETF approved by the SEC
“If a digital asset is … asserted to be a security, it is likely to become difficult or impossible for the digital asset to be traded, cleared, or custodied in the USA … .”

Samson Mow @Excellion
-The run up this time is different from last time.
Last time there was a ton of easy QE money sloshing around.
This time, money is still tight and interest rates high, but everyone is allocating to #Bitcoin.
Pay attention.

#Corruption As A Service

-US Judge threatens to sanction SEC lawyers for convincing a court to freeze a crypto firms assets under false & misleading claims. Judge scolds SEC for apparent deception in crypto case, threatens to sanction agency
@leomschwartz
-The SEC is facing a rare rebuke—and sanctions—from a federal judge for misrepresenting facts in a crypto case. The judge accused the agency of “materially false and misleading representations.”
W/ Fortune’s resident legal scholar @jeffjohnroberts
https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/12/01/federal-judge-sec-crypto-debt-box-rebuke-restraining-order-gensler/
The key words in this post are “our long-term strategy.”
#Bitcoin allows nation-states to once again have long-term strategies where there previously was only low time preference tactics between election cycles.

– JUST IN: Disgusting Elizabeth Warren who will kill bitcoin if she could asks JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says he would “close down” #Bitcoin & crypto if he were the government.
He helps Warren out and says “The only true use case for it is criminals, drug traffickers, money laundering, tax avoidance.”
https://twitter.com/YahooFinance/status/1732445529777271268
Among the most embarrassing and obscene pay packages was the 2022 compensation to Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, which came in at $34.9 million. The ratio of Dimon’s pay to the pay of the median worker at JPMorgan Chase was 393 to 1, the highest among the eight CEOs at the hearing. (For more on the zombie Board at JPMorgan Chase that keeps rewarding Dimon for the bank’s serial criminal behavior
Jamie Dimon to Testify at Senate Banking Hearing; Don’t Expect His Bank’s Financing of Sex Trafficking or 5 Felony Counts to Come Up
Warren doesn’t do anything about this. The U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crisis Warning Bell Didn’t Ring Before the Repo Crisis of 2019 or This Year’s Bank Runs

– JPMorgan Chase, a serial recidivist when it comes to crime, had paid $1.085 billion in legal expenses in just the last six months. A nice chunk of that money went to the Big Law firm, WilmerHale, which has been representing JPMorgan Chase this year in multiple lawsuits involving the bank’s dark history of financial dealings with child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

– What’s Warren doing about this? Bank Regulator Who Approved the Riskiest U.S. Bank Getting Bigger in May, Wants to Do a Survey on Why Trust in U.S. Banks Is Tanking

F*ck JPMorgan Is Controlling Fossil Fuels Empire, Which Just Spilled a Million Gallons of Oil in Gulf of Mexico

CHERRY ON TOP

#TETHER

MUST READ Imperial Pacific Casino operators with ties to Tether, Wirecard busted for money laundering
https://protos.com/imperial-pacific-casino-operators-with-ties-to-tether-wirecard-busted-for-money-laundering/
These efforts were aided in part by its “President of Global Capital Markets,” Shen Yan, a former Managing Director at Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong, Eugene Sullivan, a Ronald Reagan nominee to the United States appellate courts, was a director for Imperial Pacific, and after resigning that role, he was on the Advisory Board for the firm. Louis Freeh, the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, was also on the advisory board for Imperial Pacific. Imperial Pacific’s Board also included James Woolsey, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Sullivan also briefly served on the Board of Advisors to Noble Bank, an International Finance Entity based in Puerto Rico. Noble Bank was founded by Brock Pierce, a founder of Tether, and John Betts. Betts and Pierce had previously worked together at Sunlot Holdings in their bid to revitalize Mt. Gox. Sunlot Holdings was advised by Louis Freeh, a former Federal Bureau of Investigations director. Sullivan and Freeh are both partners in Freeh Sporkin & Sullivan.

Lubin held 95% of the Gnosis ICO and the remaining 5% was sold within 15 minutes. Another epitome of SEC compliance.
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2017/12/31/most-influential-in-blockchain-2017-5-joe-lubin/

#TRUMP

How American Librarians Helped Defeat the Nazis
Recruited to the war effort thanks to their deft research skills and technological know-how, in WWII librarians used microforms to gather and share intelligence with Allied forces.
https://daily.jstor.org/how-american-librarians-helped-defeat-the-nazis/
Florida says school libraries have right to remove LGBTQ books: That’s authoritarianism’: Florida argues school libraries are for government messaging.

Floyd Abram’s legal rockstar free speech documentary from pbs
Developed this area of law cause NIXON loss to NYT printing stories re Vietnam and other stuff!!!
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/floyd-abrams-speaking-freely-about-the-documentary/28370/

Donald Trump should already be in prison.
Problem is that Merrick Garland did not really start investigating Trump and his co-conspirators until the January 6th Committee forced his hand.
We lost two years. If Garland had started from Day One, Trump would already be in prison.

Matt Klapper: He’s Merrick Garland’s chief of staff and the bridge to a viral moment about the AG’s grandparents fleeing anti-Semitic persecution in Russia
https://www.businessinsider.com/merrick-garland-doj-justice-department-matt-klapper-chief-of-staff-2021-3

@tribelaw
This is why we can confidently expect Judge Chutkan to reject Mr. Trump’s immunity defense in his DC trial for criminally trying to overturn the election and seize power, a trial in which I fully expect him to be convicted, thereby losing much of his current support in the polls.
Trump is now headed directly to conviction in DC for corruptly plotting to upend the Constitution’s system for transferring the executive power to the winner of the quadrennial presidential election

The Chutkan opinion rejecting Trump’s extravagant claim to absolute immunity “is meticulously crafted with the Supreme Court in mind.” As
@DennisAftergut carefully shows, her ruling is totally bulletproof.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/12/trump-march-trial-delay-ruling-chutkan.html

“By refusing repeatedly to adjudicate the factual claims of politicians, the media trained Americans to view all political rhetoric as equally suspicious,” writes @AmandaMarcotte
https://www.salon.com/2023/12/06/is-hiding-his-fascist-plans-in-plain-sight/

Trump’s “service as Commander in Chief did not bestow on him the divine right of kings to evade the criminal accountability that governs his fellow citizens,” Judge Chutkan ruled in a powerful 48-page opinion shredding Trump’s claim to be above the law.

Inside the mind of Trump’s ‘ruthless’ early lawyer, Roy Cohn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-L1FKjpxOs
Katy Tur spoke to former Assistant Special Prosecutor on the Watergate team, Jon Sale, about Donald Trump’s infamous former lawyer Roy Cohn, and how his legal playbook is in play in Trump’s modern-day legal troubles.

The Trump Dynasty – Roger Stone On The First Time He Met Donald Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urgbbTOoLgI
Roger Stone recalls his first impressions of Donald Trump in this bonus clip from Episode 2, High Roller.

Nixon The IMPERIL PRESIDENCY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33lnMpTPB3U

“Get Me Roger Stone”
https://www.netflix.com/title/80114666
is a 2017 American documentary film written and directed by Dylan Bank, Daniel DiMauro, and Morgan Pehme. The film explores the life and career of Roger Stone, a longtime advisor to Donald Trump, a notorious Republican political strategist and lobbyist.2 Stone helped create the real estate mogul’s political career and is known as the “sinister Forrest Gump of American politics.” The film examines Stone’s rise, fall, and rebirth as a political operative.1 The film was released on Netflix on May 12, 2017

Normal Lears’ groundbreaking contribution to television, includes founding People for the American Way. An organization founded to protect the separation of church and state and fight Christian Nationalism. *Still* needed.

VOTE / POLLS

Dow Jones posts best month in over 100 years
Unemployment lowest in 50 years – US Economy booming
The GOP loves blaming the deficit on Social Security and Medicare. But the real culprit is giveaways to the rich. If not for the regressive tax cuts under Bush and Trump, we would have a stable debt-to-GDP ratio.
That’s one thing the GOP and its donors will never tell you.

Joe Biden leads Donald Trump by *24 POINTS* among likely young voters according to the latest Harvard Youth Poll, the most accurate poll of young people out there. Ignore the other polls. Young voters will turnout in 2024 & re-elect Joe Biden.

– Older Americans are more likely to vote and, when they do, they vote Republican. That’s how the conventional wisdom goes, anyway.
The reality is a little more complex.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2016/sep/23/older-americans-vote-republican-fact-check-election-2016
In the last presidential election, 72% of Americans age 65 and over voted, compared to just 41% of those age 18 to 24. Though that gap in turnout is huge, the fact that it exists is hardly surprising – it’s a pretty well-known fact that the older an American is, the more likely they are to vote.
But that wasn’t always the case – as recently as 1990, Americans age 45 to 64 were as likely to vote as those age 65 and over. And in the elections of 1964 and 1968, Americans who were 25 to 44 years old were slightly more likely to cast a ballot than the oldest voters.
Voters age 65 and over are the group most likely to vote for Republican nominee Donald Trump; those age 18 to 34 are the least likely to vote for him.
Older Americans are more likely to be white and they’re also more likely to be religious (Protestant or Catholic in particular) – and both of those demographic groups also tend to vote Republican for reasons that are quite separate from pension plans.
Research from Pew Research Center has found that baby boomers (those age 50 to 68) are less likely to identify with the label Republican than the uncomfortably titled silent generation (who are age 69 to 86).

TAX THE BILLIONAIRS

@RBReich
Remember: Most billionaires are not “self-made.”
They’re made via a combination of inherited wealth, government subsidies, tax loopholes, labor exploitation, and policy failures.
The myth of the self-made billionaire is just that, a myth.

Swiss Private Bank, Banque Pictet, Admits To Conspiring With U.S. Taxpayers To Hide Assets And Income In Offshore Accounts
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/swiss-private-bank-banque-pictet-admits-conspiring-us-taxpayers-hide-assets-and-income

A first-of-its-kind review confirming the following:
Unraveling how judicial activists seek to influence the Supreme Court
https://www.politico.com/video/2023/11/22/politico-review-how-a-medieval-jurist-appeared-in-the-dobbs-decision-1145799

Revealed: King Charles secretly profiting from the assets of dead citizens
Exclusive: Assets of thousands of people in north-west England used to upgrade king’s property empire via archaic custom
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/23/revealed-king-charles-secretly-profiting-from-the-assets-of-dead-citizens
‘He would turn in his grave’: the dead whose assets went to King Charles’s estate
How bona vacantia is used to collect money from dead people.

Four of the gold bars Sen. Bob Menendez stashed at his home were previously stolen from the businessman accused of bribing the New Jersey Democrat, according to a report.
The serial numbers on some of the gold found by the FBI during a June 2022 raid on Menendez’s Englewood Cliffs, NJ, home match identifiers that Fred Daibes reported to police after a 2013 armed robbery, according to NBC News.
https://nypost.com/2023/12/04/news/gold-bars-found-in-sen-bob-menendezs-home-linked-to-2013-robbery-report/

US senators own up to $1.2 million in Big Oil stocks.
The vast majority—up to $1.1 million—of the Big Oil stock is held by Republicans, all of whom opposed President Biden’s climate bill.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/senators-own-up-to-1-2-million-in-big-oil-stocks/

PRIVACY / HEALTH / HUMAN RIGHTS

A Women hasn’t been allowed in Athos for more than a 1000 Years.
Mount Athos is a mountain on the Athos peninsula in northeastern Greece. It is an important center of Eastern Orthodox monasticism.

Regulate artificial intelligence now!
New huge AI story from 404 Media: leaked docs show Civitai, hot AI startup funded by VC firm a16z, generated images that could be child pornography. Even after this discovery, OctoML, the engine that powers the startup, decided to keep working w/ Civitai
https://www.404media.co/a16z-funded-ai-platform-generated-images-that-could-be-categorized-as-child-pornography-leaked-documents-show/

NEW: 23andMe initially said its data breach hit 0.1% of customers (~14k).
23andMe now reveals that — actually — there were 6.9 million victims.
Number is so high because by hacking those ~14k accounts hackers then were able to get data from relatives.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/04/23andme-confirms-hackers-stole-ancestry-data-on-6-9-million-users/
Goldmines of information reside in the insurance industry & the determination of threat actors from Asia are amongst the most aggressive in seeking to breach insurance organizations in the United States.
23andMe confirms criminals stole ancestry data on millions of people.
It’s interesting to ponder the type of damage that will occur in the future as dna data is weaponized from these attack scenarios.

Elon Musk’s X platform fueled far-right riots in Ireland, experts say
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-ireland-x-twitter-far-right-dublin-immigration/

David Sirota @davidsirota
The head of the world’s climate conference being a monarchy’s oil CEO has me thinking back to two years ago when critics said Don’t Look Up was too overstated and unrealistic.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/03/back-into-caves-cop28-president-dismisses-phase-out-of-fossil-fuels

IVY LEAGUE CORRUPTION AS A SERVICE

One of the world’s leading experts on misinformation says she was fired by Harvard University for criticising Meta at a time that the school was being pledged $500m from Mark Zuckerberg’s charity.
Joan Donovan says her funding was cut off, she could not hire assistants and she was made the target of a smear campaign by Harvard employees. In a legal filing with the US education department and the Massachusetts attorney general first published by the Washington Post, she said her right to free speech had been abrogated.
The controversial claims stem in part from Donovan’s publication of the Facebook papers, a bombshell leak of 22,000 pages of Facebook’s internal documents by the whistleblower Frances Haugen, who used to work at the company. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/04/facebook-harvard-joan-donovan

Watch This Please note CNN shared Facebook/Meta/Insta had “no comment” on the allegations the half billion donation won out over Dr Donavan’s academic freedom. Not unexpected when they can hide behind Harvard and its denial – sorta the point of $500MM.
https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1731894453202247684

Some parents paid $1.2 Million to get their kid into YALE???
George W. Bush went to Yale. Krugman, Fareed Zakaria, John Bolton and Dick Cheney too.

“Yale College’s mean GPA was 3.70 for the 2022-23 academic year, and 78.97 percent of grades given to students were A’s or A-’s.” Hell, Yellen got her Ph.D. in economics from Yale – how good could the school be?

The Ivy League, the Lake Wobegon of higher education.
Faculty report reveals average Yale College GPA, grade distributions by subject
Seventy-nine percent of Yale College grades were in the A range for 2022-23 — nearly identical to figures released by Harvard College in October.
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2023/11/30/faculty-report-reveals-average-yale-college-gpa-grade-distributions-by-subject/

What is the purpose of a school library?
To cultivate a love of reading?
To expose students to new ideas and perspectives?

FLORIDA has a different definition. The DeSantis administration says the purpose of a school library is to “CONVEY THE GOVERNMENT’S MESSAGE” Florida @AGAshleyMoody took this position in an extraordinary legal filing arguing that the Escambia County School Board was free to remove any book from the school library, EVEN IF THE REASON IS THE BOARD’S DISCRIMINATORY POLITICAL VIEWS https://popular.info/p/florida-says-the-purpose-of-school

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@ProfFeynman
The stupider you are, the smarter you think you are, and vice versa. The ultimate test of your knowledge is your ability to convey it to another.Teach your children how to think, not what to think. If the purpose of education is to score well on a test, we’ve lost sight of the real reason for learning.

#CRYPTO

“fix the money, fix the world”

“Fiat is the Ponzi, #Bitcoin is the solution. If you love somebody tell them to buy bitcoin”. #forthekids #fortheBOOMERS @FossGregfoss @BitcoinConfEUR
#bitcoin insurance on the fiat collapse “profit free risk” @FossGregfoss

BCB077_GREG FOSS & JOE CARLASARE: The Bond Debate

They gave Bernanke a Nobel Prize for fixing the paper jam at the Fed’s printing press?? For fuk’s sake!! This is twisted. He started the QE death spiral that we cannot get ourselves out of. Should be in prison…

Just 7% of retirees reported retiring because their savings were sufficient to fund their retirement, according to Goldman Sachs, $GS, Asset Management.

“If you automate a shitty process, you get faster shit” – @JeffBooth
CBDCs are faster Fiat.

ECB also stands for: Everyone Cooks the Books
#btc is the only true ledger.

No. of Americans holding Bitcoin or crypto has more than doubled since 2020 –
Statista Global Consumer Survey

If you’re not pro bitcoin, you have no shot at being the most popular Senator in the country. All northern states with relatively small populations.
Cynthia Lummis (R-WY): 68%
John Barrasso (R-WY): 65%
Bernie Sanders (I-VT): 65%
John Hoeven (R-ND): 63%
John Thune (R-SD): 62%
*Approval among registered voters in each state. Surveys conducted July 1- Sept. 30, 2022

This is the #SeditionCaucus – the 8 Senators who voted tonight to throw-out the will of the American People.
@tedcruz
@HawleyMO
@SenHydeSmith
@SenatorMarshall
@SenJohnKennedy
@TTuberville
@SenRickScott
@CynthiaMLummis

A conspiracy at the Federal Reserve

America’s Oldest Bank, BNY Mellon, Will Hold That Crypto Now
Founded by Alexander Hamilton, BNY Mellon is the first large U.S. bank to safeguard digital assets alongside traditional investments. The bank will store private keys and provide bookkeeping services equivalent to those offered to fund managers in traditional assets.
BNY Mellon is 238 years old, possesses over $43 trillion in assets under custody or administration worldwide and, in 2021, formed an enterprise Digital Assets Unit to develop digital assets solutions and a platform to bridge digital and traditional asset custody. The bank was granted approval for crypto custody earlier this fall from the New York financial’s authority.
“With Digital Asset Custody, we continue our journey of trust and innovation into the evolving digital assets space, while embracing leading technology and collaborating with fintechs,” said Roman Regelman, CEO of securities services and digital at BNY Mellon.

Did Caitlin Long  just hint at a conspiracy at the Federal Reserve?

Watch what they do not what they say. #Bitcoin

Billionaire banking heir Matthew Mellon died at 54 in 2018 Mellon comes from the Mellon and Drexel families of Bank of New York Mellon and Drexel Burnham Lambert.
According to Mellon’s Linked In account and documents of the SEC, he attended the Wharton School and later worked in fashion, telecommunications and finance, most recently as an adviser for the digital currency company Ripple Labs.
The Fed has been intentionally dubious, while simultaneously securing their footing. Clarity comes once they’re positioned to take the lion’s share. Table scraps for Caitlin and the real innovators.

Bitcoin custody services for me but not for thee!

A SPOT ETF WOULD ALLOW CITIZENS TO BUY AND SELL BITCOIN AS AN ACTUAL MARKET
GARY GENSLER WON’T ALLOW IT
BECAUSE A FUTURES MARKET ETF ALLOWS EVERY BUSINESS AND THE GOVERNMENT TO PERVERT AND MANIPULATE AND RIG THE BTC PRICE INTO OBLIVION.

Grayscale filed a proposal to convert the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust into a spot Bitcoin ETF.

SEC is harming investors, says Grayscale.
The SEC denied Grayscale’s application for a spot Bitcoin ETF.
Grayscale filed its opening legal brief on October 11 at the US Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia Circuit. “The Commission has violated the APA’s most basic requirements by failing to justify its vastly different treatment of Bitcoin Futures ETPs and spot Bitcoin ETPs,” Grayscale added.

Excited to share “Validity Rollups on Bitcoin”, a report I wrote during my participation in @HRF’s ZK-Rollup Research Fellowship. You can find the full report here: https://bitcoinrollups.org
It has been over a decade since bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto first considered how zero knowledge (zk) proof technology could be used to improve upon the electronic cash protocol he invented.

Sequoia Capital, Binance Stand By Equity Funding for Musk’s Twitter Takeover
Makes sense that the VCs & crypto players are still all in on the Elon-Twitter deal, they have that capital on hand. The looming question has always been the banks’ debt financing & their increased cost to finance the deal.

Long-term UK Gilt bonds have posted a total return of -52.3% since Dec 2021. An entire decade of gains wiped out.

A group of Democrats led by @SenWarren want to know how bitcoin mining is affecting the Texas grid and its energy consumers.

Vented Methane Bitcoin Mining

#BLACKROCK

Boston Dynamics is pledging that their designs won’t be used for war.
Airdropped armed robot dog tested in China
The future has arrived and it doesn’t look fun. You don’t shoot an armoured robot dog with bullets, use expanding foam or glue grenades.

Meanwhile, China is perfectly copying their designs and… using them for war.
Blackrock is beholden to China. When the money is bullshit, it is only a matter of time before the mainstream media is flooded with bullshit narratives designed to defend the entrenched interests of “the authorities” Clip from (YouTube banned!) episode WiM210 with former Blackrock portfolio manager Ed Dowd

ESG And GOP Don’t Mix https://globaleconomicreport.com/esg-and-gop-dont-mix/
US Republican Treasurers withdraw $1 Billion from BlackRock Funds in opposition to its position on prioritizing environmental, social, and governance (#ESG) in investment decisions. #KochNetwork’s #ALEC is leading the boycott. After lobbying Congress for pro-China policies, Blackrock became the first foreign company to be preliminarily approved to sell mutual funds in China. That’s not a coincidence.
https://twitter.com/Julija9j/status/1577012374674214912

#NFTs

Wait Look  It’s Captain Hindsight: Selling pet rocks is ok. But not with promise of riches.

RIP $APE YUGA labs Bored-Ape Creator Faces Sec Probe Over Unregistered Offerings
He didn’t register monkey jpgs with the SEC
Next up, years of Congressional hearings where the Bored Ape founders slow walk explain to geriatrics in futility what an NFT is. The sooner the ape floor hits 0 the sooner the bear market ends. In other unrelated news Opensea CFO just literally sold his ape and quit his job 2 days ago.

I am not concerned by anything I see in the markets – Janet Yellen, US Treasury Secretary

PRESIDENT BIDEN:  I don’t think there will be a recession.
ECB President says Europe is not in recession. Delusion is a powerful force…

#COVID

#LongCovid Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78
The cardiovascular and thrombotic events, as well as the sudden deaths, which happen after SARS-CoV-2 infection, don’t come from the outer space. We’ve known it since 2020 and 2021: covid comes with prolonged endothelial, vascular, coagulation etc. abnormalities

White House COVID Coordinator @AshishKJha46 is now discussing COVID—highlighting there are new strains popping up, he says, including those that can “evade” existing treatments. ➡️Anyone paying attention knows the looming crisis. Please get the new bivalent #Booster!
The majority of the population, unquestionably accepting comforting lies about COVID being no big deal. 🙊🙉🙈 Now they’re plague rats. ☣️ But soon they’ll have #LongCovid brain, heart, immune damage. 😵🤕♿ This would’ve been way easier: 😷
Scientists pan analysis Florida’s surgeon general posted on COVID-19 vaccines

#POLITICS

Stream the federal district court hearing that could decide whether @MOHELA‘s lawyer, right-wing @AGEricSchmitt, can block 40 million people from receiving student debt relief. #cancelstudentdebt #cancelMOHELA

“Israel literally owned Congress.”
“Most US Jews don’t love Israel.”
“Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.”
––Trump

A former Oath Keeper, Terry Cummings, is testifying. He’s a retired member of the Air National Guard. He went to DC on Jan 6. He brought his AR-15 assault rifle and left it in the Virginia hotel, together with “more weapons/firearms than I had ever seen in one place since being in the military.”

In addition to mandating the release of the last 10 years of tax returns, we must require all future candidates for President (and Congress) to be eligible to obtain a security clearance. The fact that people are subjected to more rigorous background checks at McDonalds is absurd.

Almost immediately after Musk’s pro-Russia tweets (&Musk’s alleged chat w/Putin),
– Ukrainian troops reported that the Starlink devices from Musk’s company started experiencing “glitches”
– Congress MUST investigate whether these glitches
-were sabotage
-cost Ukrainians their lives

@democracynow A hacker group called Guacamaya leaked millions of documents that show the collusion of high-level Mexican military officials with drug cartels. The leak “reveals something that we really suspected was happening,” says journalist Luis Chaparro (@LuisKuryaki).

Joe Biden @JoeBiden
United States government official
158 House Republicans have signed on to a Republican budget that would cut Social Security and Medicare.
I have a different idea: I’ll protect Social Security and Medicare and make them stronger.

President Biden scores a MAJOR win and announces that Honda and LG Energy Solution of South Korea will build a $3.5 billion battery factory in Ohio that will provide 2,200 new good-paying jobs.

When @POTUS took office, Hispanic unemployment was 8.6%.
Today, it is 3.8%, the lowest ever on record.

US Warns Hong Kong over Harbouring Russian Superyacht
How Sanctioned Russian Billionaires Are Trying To Loosen Europe’s Grip On Their Superyachts
Seems Forbes are watching the channel, everything in this article was reported by us, some of it as long ago as August.