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The Blockchain is Science. It is native to the internet therefore the next level of finance happening now and in the future, that will prove to provide less risk from the Boodle Boys, Boston Brahmins, and Pirates.

MIT OpenCourseWare 1 – 23 Full Play List
This course is for students wishing to explore blockchain technology’s potential use – by entrepreneurs & incumbents – to change the world of money and finance.
Instructor: Prof. Gary Gensler View the complete course

Today Bitcoin may reach $60,000. 00 per coin.
No need to buy a whole coin when you can stack Satoshis.

BitWage – Payroll and HR services

Hacker Sold a Zero-Day Exploit As an NFT

 The Growing Challenges for Monetary Policy in the current International Monetary and Financial System Speech given by Mark Carney Governor of the Bank of England

Inside Story Special: £830,000,000 – Nick Leeson and the Fall of the House of Barings

PDF: When banking giant Barings collapsed in 1995, it shook the financial world to its core. How could a bank that survived the American Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars with France, and both great wars collapse so quickly? Sir Francis Baring, lst Baronet (1740–1810), founded the family banking firm, originally named John & Francis Baring & Company, in London in 1763. By the time of Sir Francis’ death in 1810, his company had become the leading banking house in Europe. Leadership of the firm passed to his second son, Alexander Baring, afterward 1st Baron Ashburton (1774–1848), who married Anne Bingham, a member of one of the wealthiest families in Pennsylvania, and who secured for Baring Brothers the leadership (until the American Civil War, 1861–65) in financing U.S. foreign trade and selling U.S. bonds. As ambassador to the United States, Lord Ashburton. Francis Baring became a director of the East India Company and was a staunch supporter and financial advisor of Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, who made him a baronet in 1793.

Thomas Nelson Perkins, a descendant of the opium-and-slaves shipping magnate who founded Russell and Company, became the Morgan Bank’s chief Boston agent, through Perkins’s First National Bank of Boston. Morgan and Perkins, among other things, provided the major endowments for Harvard University.

John Kerry’s maternal grandfather, James Grant Forbes, was born in Shanghai, China, where the Forbes family of China and Boston accumulated a fortune in the opium and China trade.

Early Notables of the Matheson family (pre 1700) Notable amongst the Clan from early times was Margaret Matson, one of two women tried in Philadelphia for witchcraft in 1683; Sir James Nicolas Sutherland Matheson (1796-1878), born in Shiness, Lairg, who made a great fortune in the opium trade, and was created the 1st Baronet of Lewis in 1851.

BOODLE BOYS HARVARD, BOSTON BHAMINS HARVARD, HARVARD BLUE BLOOD, HARVARD ENDOWMENT, Jr, THOMAS HANDASYD PERKINS, Warren Delano

2021 The New Deal
The economy’s going to turn around, we’re going to do an infrastructure bill.

MARCH WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH
Fannie Coralie Perkins, FRANCIS PERKINS
Frances Perkins grew up in Worcester, MA. She changed her name from Fannie to Frances when she married. Although she kept her maiden name, refusing to take his name. Actually defending her right to do so in court. She was the first female United States Cabinet member, serving as Secretary of Labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1945. She is buried in Newcastle Cemetery on River Road, in Newcastle, Lincoln County, Maine with some of her ancestors.
Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1929, New York State Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Frances Perkins as the Industrial Commissioner of the State of New York. FDR recognized her intelligence, wit, and no-nonsense attitude and knew she was right for the job. She took full advantage of her new position to help the impoverished. Though the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt didn’t begin pushing through the slate of wide-ranging progressive reforms and programs known as the New Deal until the 1930s, Frances Perkins later said that March 25, 1911 was “the day the New Deal was born.”
Warren Delano, Jr., the grandfather of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was chief of operations for Russell & Co., another Boston trading firm which did big business in the China opium trade in Canton.

Definition of Boodle, Boodle Boys and the Good Ole’ Boy Network
Boodle is borrowed word from the Dutch word boedel which means all one’s possessions, from Old Frisian bōdel movable goods, inheritance; also see Kit and Caboodle.
American Vice President then President Lyndon Johnson in 1954 was the head of the good ol’ boys network and controlled all the boodle – all the things that were given to people.
“Power To The People” #PowerToThePeople.
Fed Chair Powell Is a Member of a Private Club with a History of Racism and Sexism.

American Merchants and the China Opium Trade, 1800-1840
Opium Trade aboard the Bingham in the spring of 1805,12 and in January of the following year, Stephen Girard seems to have become excited by the possibilities of the trade. He wrote two of his supercargoes 8 Thomas H. Perkins to John P. Cushing, January 15, 1825, Samuel Cabot Collection, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston. <more>

The Boodle Boys Perkins & Co. found that illegality both in nature and operation discouraged competition and used sporadic attempts by the Chinese Government to enforce their opium prohibition, “to [build] the machinery that allowed it to control the Canton market for Turkish opium.” Perkins & Company became the first American firm to operate a “storeship” at …

Enjoy The Routes of Racism Queen Elizabeth’s family and Firm

Resetting our clocks twice a year worked for Americans a century ago, but it’s time for a change. Instead of regularly disrupting our lives, we can make Daylight Savings Time permanent and give families more sunlight to enjoy after work and school.

Here’s How Much Time Americans Have Saved By Not Commuting Over the Last Year (by City)

As Cases Spread Across U.S. Last Year, Pattern Emerged Suggesting Link Between Governors’ Party Affiliation and COVID-19 Case and Death Numbers – 2021

No Republican in Congress voted for Biden stimulus package

Zero Republicans Vote for Stimulus Projected to Raise 16 Million Out of Poverty

New theoretical warp drive design clears “negative energy” barrier

Associations of Fish Consumption With Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality Among Individuals With or Without Vascular Disease From 58 Countries

Cybersecurity Agency Takes Over Management of .Gov Domain
The official domain for .gov websites shifted from the government’s landlord to the government’s central cybersecurity shop.

Allan McDonald dies at 83; tried to stop the Challenger launch
Allan J. McDonald, an engineer who on a chilly January morning in 1986 tried to stop the launch of the Challenger space shuttle, citing the possible effect of the cold on its booster rockets, and who, after it broke apart on liftoff, blew the whistle when government officials tried to cover up his dissent, died Saturday in Ogden. He was 83.

Gab: hack gives unprecedented look into platform used by far right

License-Plate Scans Aid Crime-Solving but Spur Little Privacy Debate
License-plate readers are feeding immense databases with details on Americans’ driving habits, helping solve crimes despite little public awareness about the breadth of the data collected or how it is used.
The vast network of automated license-plate scanners, which has been growing for decades, makes it nearly impossible to drive anywhere in the U.S. without being observed. The scanners first appeared on telephone poles and police cars, then on toll plazas and bridges, and in parking lots. Today, scanners are routinely placed on tow trucks and municipal garbage trucks, gathering images of plates on cars they pass while making their rounds.

Comcast upgrade backfired, reducing uploads from 20 to 16Mbps until it was fixed.
Jon Brodkin – 3/10/2021, 2:10 PM
Some Comcast customers received an unwelcome surprise yesterday morning when their upload speeds were suddenly lowered from 20Mbps to 16Mbps. Comcast was raising download speeds on its “Extreme Pro” tier from 600Mbps to 800Mbps—good news, to be sure—but the plan’s relatively paltry 20Mbps upload speeds received a simultaneous 20 percent cut.
Customers affected by the change complained to Comcast, and two of them emailed Ars yesterday. When we passed these complaints on to Comcast public relations, a spokesperson initially told us that “there was no change to the upstream speed.” But after we pointed out that customers were in fact getting reduced upload speeds, Comcast investigated further and discovered it made a mistake while rolling out download-speed upgrades for some of its plans.
“The customers who received the [download] speed increase last night should now be seeing the correct upload speeds in their usage meter,” Comcast told Ars last night. “When we pushed the speed increase overnight, there was an issue with how the upload speeds were provisioned, which is why the meter and our internal tools that our care agents use were showing the upload speed of 16Mbps. Once you notified us, we quickly looked into it and everything should be correct now.”
The fix is rolling out automatically so customers don’t have to do anything, Comcast said. “For a period of less than 24 hours, customers would have seen slightly slower upload speeds,” Comcast told us. “This issue only impacted customers in our Central markets who received this [download] speed increase from 600Mbps to 800Mbps.”
Comcast overprovisions speeds so that customers often get a bit more than their advertised plan states. This strategy can reduce user complaints in general, and it means that customers’ uploads weren’t necessarily cut all the way down to 16Mbps when yesterday’s bug hit.
Comcast told us that the problem affected users in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Comcast often makes network changes one region at a time, so we assume customers in other states will get the download-speed increases later on if they haven’t already.

Half of U.S. States looking to give Americans the Right to Repair

Republicans’ new favorite study trashes Biden’s climate plans – but who’s behind it? | Wyoming |

Aggressive voters tolerate uncivil candidates — unless those candidates are women

Engineers propose solar-powered lunar ark as ‘modern global insurance policy

Cannabis: it’s a climate gas : Research Highlights

Israelis create cancer drug without animal tests, by using human-simulating chip

 

Mad as hell and not taking it anymore
Stop Talking About Dr. Seuss!!! – Tim Ryan Explodes At Republicans

 

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► ► @Jack owner of Twitter, Square Space and a Bank has finally had enough of Trump’s lies and now fact checks TRUMP’S tweets, his family’s tweets, his staff tweet’s and his bot tweets. Trump can’t do anything about it. Not a god damn thing. FINALLY!

Social Media Bots Fake Twitter / Instagram Followers are the business model that @Jack relies on for his advertising money. 
American company named Devumi that has collected millions of dollars in a shadowy global marketplace for social media fraud. Devumi sells Twitter followers and retweets to celebrities, businesses and anyone who wants to appear more popular or exert influence online. Drawing on an estimated stock of at least 3.5 million automated accounts, each sold many times over, the company has provided customers with more than 200 million Twitter followers, a New York Times investigation found.
Of course Twitter policy doesn’t allow fake accounts but his company doesn’t get rid of fake bot accounts to keep his advertising money. It isn’t a code flaw it is a feature.
Court records showing that Devumi has more than 200,000 customers, including reality television stars, professional athletes, comedians, TED speakers, pastors and models.
For just pennies each — sometimes even less — Devumi offers Twitter followers, views on YouTube, plays on SoundCloud, the music-hosting site, and endorsements on LinkedIn, the professional-networking site.

Mark Zuckerberg created a website to rank his female classmates by their appearance and it ended up destroying democracy, in case you’re wondering about the consequences of toxic masculinity.

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► Tape and glasses are all you need to break Apple’s FaceID – alongside a sleeping person. But you need to know where your glasses are first.

CIA issued Rectal Work Kit issued for Spys

EDUCATION

► Some Universities Are About to Be “Walking Dead”

ACADEMIC THUGGERY

Best description: Yale / Harvard (9 schools) is a Exclusive Brand Finishing School only for the Elites that reinforces the caste system and costs $350,000 a year making 90% profit when NOTHING in the world gets those margins. WHAT A RACKET!! This is mandatory viewing! <► more>

► MILITARY AND THE UNIVERSITY COMPLEX

Google, Apple and 13 other companies NO LONGER REQUIRE EMPLOYEES to have a college degree

► Higher Education University Inc. Campus Commercialization and The CEO Salary. The Commodification of the University As Product leaves them without Moral Authority.

HEALTH

► A philosopher argues that an AI can’t be an artist
Creativity is, and always will be, a human endeavor. A community has to accept ideas as good for them to count as creative. Philosophers and mathematicians defer work on fundamental questions to “superintelligent” successors, which he defines as having “intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance of humans in virtually all domains of interest.”

The Far Out History Of How Hippie Food Spread Across America

► The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes
A female police officer had to have breast-reduction surgery because of the health effects of wearing her body armor

America’s wholesome square dancing tradition is a tool of white supremacy

Computer program that could bypass patents to produce synthetic drugs

https://www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com/news/83106/intellectual-property-patent/

►”Covington Catholic is a perfect fit for a NYT Feature on how Trump’s message has resonated in this hardscrabble rural Kentucky high school riven with economic anxiety, except for its being located in a well-to-do suburb of Cincinnati and charging ten grand a year in tuition.”
Covington Catholic Teen Sues Washington Post for a Reasonable $250 Million

► “Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey alleges eight Sackler family members and nine Purdue board members or executives played key roles in the nation’s deadly opioid epidemic.

► NPR Busts Myths About Menstruation Spread By Public Health Groups

Deep space radio waves baffle astronomers; aliens not ruled out

Chinese Baby Formula Brands Fail Domestic Food Safety Inspections
A woman feeds a baby with a bottle in a residential area in Beijing on August 8, 2013. China has repeatedly been rocked by scandals involving domestic baby formula brands tainted with unsafe materials. The most serious occurred in 2008 when scores of infants fell sick or died from baby formula tainted with melamine, a toxic compound. Nearly a decade later, there are still food safety concerns at many major brands. For several days, the China Food and Drug Administration published notices

GOVERNANCE

► “When they substitute their knowledge for ours, we grow angry because they have robbed us of our agency.”

@weeklystandard @smarick Trends in governing have eroded the beliefs, norms and processes by which we learn to be accommodating citizens in a pluralistic, deliberative democracy. By manufacturing rights that limit democratic decision-making, centralizing power in Washington far from citizens’…

Amy Klobuchar didn’t prosecute officer at center of George Floyd’s death
In 2006 Amy Klobuchar, then a district attorney, declined to bring charges against a cop who had shot and killed a Native American man. Two days ago that cop, Derek Chauvin, murdered George Floyd. Amy Klobuchar needs to resign.

Ajit Pai Refuses to Brief Congress
About Why Bounty Hunters Can Buy Cell Phone Location Data 

Ex-RNC Chair Puts Trump-Supporting Senators On Notice: ‘It’s All Collusion’

Former Trump Tax Attorney Ed Burke’s Office Raided by Feds
It was reported in 2016 that Ald. Ed Burke’s firm helped Donald Trump trim $11.7M off his property taxes
https://news.wttw.com/2016/05/03/ald-burkes-law-firm-helps-trump-trim-117m-property-taxes

Here’s What I’m Telling US Congress about Data Breaches

► “Your regular reminder that Equifax still exists. Everyone who was running the company when 148 million Americans’ data was stolen is still rich, and now their former lawyer is running the office at the Federal Trade Commission that’s supposed to investigate them.”

Montgomery County PA Announces Purchase of New Voting Machines

Songwriters Score Win Over Streaming Services With Pay Hike

National Music Publishers’ Association
The Copyright Royalty Board ruled that songwriters will get at least a 15.1% share of streaming revenues over the next five years, from a previous 10.5%. The CRB’s decision will require streaming services to pay 15.1 percent of revenue to songwriters and publishers, up from 10.5 percent. The court also issued a ruling regarding a late fee, which will force digital music services to pay songwriters faster, or be subject to a significant penalty.
Amazon, Apple, Google, Pandora and Spotify compelled to pay more for the use of music.
Pryor Cashman who represented NMPA and NSAI in the litigation that resulted in the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) being ruled to increase royalty payments to songwriters and music publishers from music streaming companies.
This was a hearing pitting songwriters and music publishers against five technology companies, including three of the largest companies in the world (Apple, Amazon and Google), which sought to reduce the already low rate of royalties that they pay to songwriters for the use of their music on their streaming services.

Federal Judge Asks Spotify: ‘How Many Songs Have You Infringed, Anyway?’

Monopolies

Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple, are all MONOPOLIES with the SAME power of the British East India Company.

Amazon Is Becoming More Powerful Than You Realize

Devices with microphones that can be turned on with a software auto-update need to be disclosed to consumers. Future device makers will make this mistake unless there are consequences. Google admits it messed up by not disclosing built-in mic on Nest Secure 

► CyberStalking Justice.gov
“I’m gonna tell you a secret about “logless VPNs” — they don’t exist. No one is going to risk jail for your $5/mo ~ anon

Google Demanded That T-Mobile, Sprint Not Sell Google Fi Customers’ Location Data

This Is Your Brain Off Facebook – The New York Times

Senators ask Facebook why it tricked kids into spending parents’ money

Facebook just hired a handful of its toughest privacy critics

Researchers Create Algorithm to Protect Kids from Disturbing YouTube Videos

FAKE

TRUMP’S TWEETS NOW FACT CHECKED ON TWITTER

►”Covington Catholic is a perfect fit for a NYT Feature on how Trump’s message has resonated in this hardscrabble rural Kentucky high school riven with economic anxiety, except for its being located in a well-to-do suburb of Cincinnati and charging ten grand a year in tuition.”
Covington Catholic Teen Sues Washington Post for a Reasonable $250 Million

Crooks Created 28 Fake Ad Agencies to Disguise Massive Malvertising Campaign

The U.S. derivatives regulator is set to announce it has fined European lenders UBS, HSBC and Deutsche Bank millions of dollars each for so-called “spoofing” and manipulation in the U.S. futures market, three people with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

Deadly Tech

Ethical hackers can earn 16 times a software engineers’ salary, report

The US firm behind the deadly tech, Francisco Partners, wouldn’t answer questions. It’s backed by money from Goldman Sachs & Blackstone.
New details of how deadly Israeli technology—used to spy on Khashogi associates & other dissidents—made its way to Saudi. Note: the US firm behind the tech, Francisco Partners, wouldn’t answer questions.

Hacking Team Used a U.S. Partner To Sell Spyware to the UAE

SPECIAL REPORT: Inside UAE’s unit of ex-US spies

How to Find Hidden Cameras and Spy Bugs (The Professional Way)

A decade after Russia hacked the Pentagon, Trump unshackles Cyber Command

Paul Mozur China is in the midst of one of the nastiest social media crackdowns I can recall. Over the past few months 100s – maybe 1000s – have been called in by police for the crime of being on Twitter and expressing opinions about China.

Gerry Shih Fascinating look inside the “Tiger’s Cage” where China’s elite prisoners are held. Wang Lijun the police chief who fled to the US consulate in the BXL scandal now “spends his time studying English.” BXL walks around in a business suit instead of uniform

Australia’s Defence department was badly exposed to China’s hackers

After a Hiatus, China Accelerates Cyberspying Efforts to Obtain U.S. Technology

►  VTzilla: Mozilla Firefox Browser Extension
VTzilla is a Mozilla Firefox browser plugin that simplifies the process of scanning Internet resources with VirusTotal. It allows you to download files directly with VirusTotal’s web application prior to storing them in your PC. Moreover, it will not only scan files, but also URLs.

Deadly Tech

Ethical hackers can earn 16 times a software engineers’ salary, report

The US firm behind the deadly tech, Francisco Partners, wouldn’t answer questions. It’s backed by money from Goldman Sachs & Blackstone.
New details of how deadly Israeli technology—used to spy on Khashogi associates & other dissidents—made its way to Saudi. Note: the US firm behind the tech, Francisco Partners, wouldn’t answer questions.

Hacking Team Used a U.S. Partner To Sell Spyware to the UAE

SPECIAL REPORT: Inside UAE’s unit of ex-US spies

How to Find Hidden Cameras and Spy Bugs (The Professional Way)

A decade after Russia hacked the Pentagon, Trump unshackles Cyber Command

Paul Mozur China is in the midst of one of the nastiest social media crackdowns I can recall. Over the past few months 100s – maybe 1000s – have been called in by police for the crime of being on Twitter and expressing opinions about China.

Gerry Shih Fascinating look inside the “Tiger’s Cage” where China’s elite prisoners are held. Wang Lijun the police chief who fled to the US consulate in the BXL scandal now “spends his time studying English.” BXL walks around in a business suit instead of uniform

Australia’s Defence department was badly exposed to China’s hackers

After a Hiatus, China Accelerates Cyberspying Efforts to Obtain U.S. Technology

►  VTzilla: Mozilla Firefox Browser Extension
VTzilla is a Mozilla Firefox browser plugin that simplifies the process of scanning Internet resources with VirusTotal. It allows you to download files directly with VirusTotal’s web application prior to storing them in your PC. Moreover, it will not only scan files, but also URLs.

COPYLEFT / OPEN SOURCE

Nicholas C. Zakas on Twitter:
“Mom: Dad said you invented a thing? ESLint?
Me: Yes.
Mom: What is it?
Me: It finds and fixes problems in JavaScript.
Mom: Huh. Do people use it?
Me: Basically everyone writing JS.
Mom: How much did you make on it?
Me: Nothing.
Mom: I don’t understand your industry.
Me: Me either.”

► Open Collective @opencollect
Organizing the Internet generation, one community at a time.

Elsevier journal editors resign, start rival open-access journal

Bryce Weiner “The true financial power of cryptocurrencies aren’t in the limited supplies which drive market volatility, but in the ability to mint your own money. That’s what “being your own bank” really means.”

Hacker Fantastic “2,982 bitcoin miners exposed to the Internet, have factory default credentials of “root/root” and an insecure unsigned firmware update process… this is going to end in tears

Wikipedia’s Larry Sanger Joins Blockchain Startup to Disrupt His Own Creation

World War II’s Best Codebreaker Was a Woman Elizebeth Smith Friedman

SEARCH ENGINES

Shodan is the world’s first search engine for Internet-connected device  Antminer

►  Tim Bray · Google Memory Loss is ongoing – google isn’t coughing it up anymore / they don’t waste their effort going back to get what you are looking for – this has become the worst search engine to use.

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