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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

 

Fed Chair Powell Is a Member of a Private Club with a History of Racism and Sexism

Definition of Boodle, Boodle Boys and the Good Ole’ Boy Network

Alfalfa Club is the Definition of #Boodle, Boodle Boys and the Good Ole’ Boy Network #BoodleBoys #OleBoyNetwork “Power To The People” #PowerToThePeople

Fed Chair Powell Is a Member of a Private Club with a History of Racism and Sexism
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: February 14, 2020 ~
<https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/02/fed-chair-powell-is-a-member-of-a-private-club-with-a-history-of-racism-and-sexism/>
Congresswoman Katie Porter opened a hornet’s nest on Tuesday during a House Financial Services Committee hearing where Fed Chair Jerome Powell answered questions. As we reported, Porter held up a photo of Powell in black tie attending a lavish party for billionaires and politicians at the Washington D.C. home of one of the richest men in the world, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. As it turns out, that wasn’t even the worst part of the story. The real jaw dropper is that the Bezos party was the after-party for a secretive private club’s annual dinner.  The so-called Alfalfa Club is a 107-year old, invitation-only club that bars the press from attendance and banned membership of blacks and women for the bulk of its existence. Fed Chair Powell is a member of that club. More on that shortly, but first some background.

US President Donald Trump hugs his daughter and senior advisor Ivanka Trump, who attended a party at billionaire Jeff Bezos’ home in January where Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell was also present

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Tuesday had to fend off accusations he may be feeling undue influence from billionaire Jeff Bezos and Ivanka Trump.

Good Sunday morning. JOHN KERRY’S BEST LINES LAST NIGHT AT THE ALFALFA CLUB DINNER:

“Thank you for your kind words, President Bloomberg. Mike, usually when I’m next to someone as rich as you, I propose. … Here I am — President John Kerry! I knew this day would come. Although given the Alfalfa average income, thank GOD I didn’t get Swift Yachted. … I’m proud to serve as your new club president. And don’t worry, this doesn’t mean you’re also getting John Edwards. … #SwiftYachted

new members:

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook
  • Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.)
  • Lazard chairman and CEO Ken Jacobs
  • Secretary of Defense James Mattis
  • James Murdoch, CEO of 21st Century Fox
  • Sen. Rob Portman (R- Ohio)
  • Jerome Powell, incoming Federal Reserve chair
  • Ginni Rometty, chairman, president and CEO of IBM
  • Anthony Welters, executive chairman, BlackIvy Group

POLITICO Playbook: Best lines from the Alfalfa Club dinner

ABOUT LAST NIGHT … HE’S GOT JOKES! — ALFALFA CLUB PRESIDENT JOHN KERRY gave his farewell address last night at the Capitol Hilton: “This is the only speech in Washington that hasn’t been canceled by Nancy Pelosi. I got to tell you, you all look incredibly dapper tonight in your ball gowns, your tuxedos, your bow ties, and your cummerbunds — or as we call it at our house, workout gear. Or as we call it at our other house, pajamas. Or as we call it at our other house, swimming costumes. But tonight it looks like I’ve done something Donald Trump can only dream of: finishing my term. …

“I’ve learned so much over the past year as your President: I learned that I’m at an awkward age, too old to run a marathon, too young to be in the House Democratic leadership. And I learned that at an average Alfalfa dinner, this crowd goes through 70 cases of beer, 300 bottles of wine and over 2,600 mixed drinks. Or as Brett Kavanaugh calls that — a quiet weekend. …

“Roger Stone isn’t here. He’s always been controversial. I remember when he got caught advertising for sex in bondage and swingers magazines. So, [Friday] morning probably wasn’t the first time he started his day in handcuffs.

Alfalfa Club: The ‘Other’ America for the Rich and Famous

I have no idea why four tweet threads concerning the Alfalfa Club were deemed “unavailable” by Twitter when we checked on Sunday. On Saturday, the club held its famous dinner in Washington, DC.
But those silenced tweets seem like a good metaphor for the ultimate insider event. The Alfalfa Club’s sole purpose is to hold one glitzy dinner once a year, to celebrate, so the story goes, the birthday of Confederate general Robert E. Lee.
The club, founded in 1913, got around to admitting African Americans in 1974. It didn’t admit women until 1994. Legend has it that the club was named after the alfalfa plant because of the plant’s thirst. The name implies that its members, like alfalfa, will do “anything for a drink.”

Between February 15, 2020 and May 29, 2023 are 3 events dated January 30, 2021 and later. Click in the Event column for details on any event.

List of Alfalfa Club members

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alfalfa_Club_members

 

Emily Heil (29 January 2015). “What’s the deal with the Alfalfa Club?”. The Washington Post.

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