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#NetHappenings 1/18/2022
#Courts #Cleptofascism #China #Bitcoin #Money #Bitcoin #Banks #Health and #Women Love Tech!
#COURTS
January 6th Committee has subpoenaed @RudyGiuliani, Sidney Powell, Boris Epshteyn & @JennaEllisEsq
It’s been one year and 12 days since the insurrection, and we’re still waiting on the Senate to expel Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley for their role in spreading misinformation about the 2020 election and inciting the Capitol attack. Expel them now.
There are no Civil Rights without Voting Rights.
If Clarence Thomas doesn’t recuse himself from any inevitable hearings over Jan. 6th, there’s no reason to have a Supreme Court. Ginni Thomas, the wife of sitting Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, needs to be subpoenaed to answer questions about her role in helping to fund and promote the Jan. 6 insurrection. Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, just signed a letter that says that the January 6 insurrectionists “did nothing wrong.” Last year, she was posting her support of the insurrection as it happened and then deleted her Facebook account.
Let me get this straight: we only need 51 votes to pass tax cuts for the wealthy, but 60 to protect voting rights and save our democracy?
End the filibuster and ACT.
The Senate has an opportunity to protect the freedom to vote—let’s take it.
“Filibuster” comes from the Dutch word “vribuyter” — which meant “robber,” “pirate,” or “plundered.” ~@RBReich
An important endorsement of Court expansion at this crucial moment
Congressional Progressive Caucus Endorses Judiciary Act to Expand the Supreme Court
https://progressives.house.gov/press-releases?ID=DFBBB9E9-637B-46DD-A449-98A695339F60
John Roberts asked all three justices to mask up in order to protect Sotomayor who has diabetes, and Gorsuch refused.
“While review under state law is ongoing, we have referred this matter to the appropriate federal law-enforcement authorities and will provide any assistance they deem necessary.”
The question nobody seems to be asking: Why didn’t Chief Justice Roberts make the maskless Neil Gorsuch work from home, so that Sotomayor didn’t have to?
Insurrectionist Jeremy Baouche is a DOD contractor with a secret security clearance. He used his work computer to search “Capitol building layout, guns, rifle scopes, lasers, Trump protests, FBI Capitol,” feds say. Here he is with Roger Stone On Jan 5.
https://twitter.com/clearing_fog/status/1459631332242251777
More than a month since the House sent criminal referral to DOJ for Mark Meadows’ contempt. WTF is going on? Mark Meadows belongs in prison with the rest of his accomplices.
Representative Matt Gaetz’s ex-girlfriend granted immunity in sex trafficking probe
Jan. 6 committee may only subpoena GOP members of Congress if it can overcome one major recurring worry raised in conversations: fear of Republican retaliation in the future. @GuardianUS
They are 1000000% bad faith. Stop pretending otherwise. America depends on it. They’re going to retaliate regardless of a subpoena. So you might as well subpoena and go for the arrest before they take power. Republicans will abuse their power in the future regardless of what the committee does. This is why @TheJusticeDept should have appointed a special prosecutor from the start. Republicans will subpoena them if they take control whether dems do it now or not. Holy hell, why do these people not get it?
“Instituted in the hope of avoiding war, appeasement was the name given to Britain’s policy in the 1930s of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked. Most closely associated with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, widely discredited as a policy of weakness.”
Rachel Maddow just revealed that GOP officials also sent forged election documents — claiming to be electors — to New Mexico as well. The New Mexico Attorney General has referred the case for Federal Prosecution. We need prosecutions!
Michigan’s Attorney General announces that the fake Republican electors who tried to help Trump steal Biden’s win by forging documents are now facing at least 19 years in prison.
https://twitter.com/ReportsDaNews/status/1483260543058255874
GOP will end the filibuster in 5 minutes.
GOP will move forward to impeach Biden
GOP really has nothing BUT revenge.
Don’t let any of these items cloud what needs to be done now.
ALL norms are gone.
Future retaliation should not be a concern. Keeping our democracy should be. The GQP are going to continue to retaliate no matter what.
This is Why Democrats lose. The Republicans are already promising a regime of investigations, impeachment, and extraordinary measures. That is coming regardless of what Democrats do on the 1/6 commission.
The Republicans are already promising a regime of investigations, impeachment, and extraordinary measures. That is coming regardless of what Democrats do on the 1/6 commission.
One of the fake Republican electors who tried to help Trump steal Biden’s win by forging documents reveals that he was ordered to do so by “an attorney working on behalf of Trump in Washington, D.C.”
@tribelaw
In one Supreme Court argument, Justice Alito complained that the statute being reviewed was so complex that whoever wrote it must be “somebody who takes pleasure tearing the wings off flies.” That bizarre image says more about Sam Alito than it does about the statute’s authors.
It’s been reported that, if Chief Justice Rehnquist had died a month later, with John Roberts already confirmed to replace Justice O’Connor in the interim, Samuel Alito probably would have been nominated as Chief Justice. The Court and country dodged quite a bullet on that one.
The Flemish Scrollers, 2021-2022
Automatically tagging Belgian politician when they use their phone on the daily livestreams. With the help of AI
https://driesdepoorter.be/theflemishscrollers/
Modern criminal law treatises begin with homicide offenses. But in 1682, Hale began with the *really* serious stuff: Heresy and witchcraft. And after that, Treason. One of those doctrinal distinctions that 1L Criminal Law courses often overlook: What exactly is the difference between Witchcraft in the First Degree and Witchcraft in the Second Degree? (From Hale’s Pleas of the Crown, 1682).
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=9NxIAQAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PA6&hl=en
Voting machine company Smartmatic has filed a defamation lawsuit against MyPillow & Mike Lindell for spreading false conspiracy theories about election fraud involving the company’s machines.
Anybody else wondering why Louis DeJoy is still working at the USPS?
He needs to lose DeJob.
#Cleptofascism
Koch and Mercer are behind Steve Bannon’s right-wing group
We still don’t have a name for the force attacking democracy. It is international. It has taken over the Tories and US Republicans. It is backed by billionaires like Koch, Mercer, Murdoch and Thiel. It links sociopathic greed with nationalism, fascism, racism & bigotry.
And when democracy fell, it did so with the help of the mainstream media normalizing domestic terrorist leaders like Donald Trump.
https://twitter.com/nickreeves9876/status/1482757279002902536
Oxfam: 10 richest men in the world doubled wealth amid COVID pandemic
Increasing inequalities are “are tearing our world apart,” according to the anti-poverty charity. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates are among the world’s richest.
https://www.dw.com/en/oxfam-10-richest-men-in-the-world-doubled-wealth-amid-covid-pandemic/a-60443448
Student debt cancellation is politically popular, good for the economy, and the moral thing to do. @POTUS, #CancelStudentDebt.
If people working fulltime jobs still need food stamps to get by, they’re not the ones leeching off the government. THEIR EMPLOYERS ARE!
The MLK quote that most politicians ignore: “it is a crime for people to live in this rich nation and receive starvation wages…Do you know that most of the poor people in our country are working every day? And they are making wages so low that they cannot begin to function…”
Mike Pompeo changed the rules about State Department appointees participating in partisan politics. The State Department should reinstate the original policy limiting many partisan activities.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action/legal-complaints/crew-to-state-department-reinstate-policy-preventing-partisan-politics/
#CHINA WILL NOT CONTINUE TO DOMINATE
China’s birthrate falls to 61-year low despite moves to stave off demographic crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/17/chinas-birthrate-falls-to-61-year-low-despite-moves-to-stave-off-demographic-crisis
#MONEY
What is Money? – Canadian Politician Pierre Poilievre Schools Justin Trudeau
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1RxWJFFFMg
Bloomberg finds that 85% of hedge funds are actively tracking retail-trading message boards and social media.
#BITCOIN
me: “back in my day, you could buy 2,000 sats for a dollar”
my kids: “what’s a dollar?”
Bitcoin consumes a minuscule fraction of the worlds energy.
Heating and cooling the average household makes up 46% of its yearly energy consumption yet #Bitcoin PoW critics will try to convince you that the world doesn’t need to use any energy to protect sound money.
2010: “A bitcoin?”
Laszlo Hanyecz spent 10,000 #Bitcoin and bought 2 pizzas
2011: “No one uses it”
2012: “Only nerds use it”
2013: “Only drug dealers use it”
2014: “Only libertarians and nazi’s use it”
2017: “Only gamblers uise it”
2019: “Only a small % of the world uses it”
2020: “Only small companies use it”
2021: “Only small countries use it”
2022: Now 2 Bitcoin buys roughly 10,000 pizzas.
2050: “Only small planets use it”
Countries that don’t adopt #Bitcoin will not exist in 100 years.
Turkish officials to meet with crypto exchange Binance to discuss #Bitcoin regulation.
President of El Salvador @nayibbukele to meet with Erdoğan The President of Turkey in the midst of incoming #Bitcoin regulation.
@LordFusitua Chairman, @GOPAC_Eng (Oceania), Chairman, @CommonwealthSec Pacific Parliamentary Group On Human Rights, Former Member of Parliament Tonga,Flag of Tonga #Bitcoin Advocate
Bitcoin legal tender by end of 2022…
BANKS
It’s official. Crypto exchanges have begun buying banks.
The end is near.
Crypto Exchange BitMEX to Buy 268-Year-Old German Bank to Deliver ‘Banking 2.0’
The CEO and CFO of the BitMEX cryptocurrency derivatives exchange announced in a Tuesday (Jan. 18) blog post that they have reached an agreement to buy a 268-year-old German bank in order to establish “a one-stop shop for regulated crypto products in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.” The purchase of Munich-based Bankhaus von der Heydt, established in 1754, is a vital step in BitMEX’s goal of creating “a regulated crypto products powerhouse in the heart of Europe,” said BitMEX Group CEO Alexander Höptner in the post. The deal will give BitMEX a base in Germany, Austria and Switzerland that is at once eminently respectable and deeply involved in the crypto financial world, which it calls Banking 2.0.
Nomura, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs Received a Cumulative $8 Trillion from the Fed’s Emergency Repo Loans in Fourth Quarter of 2019
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/01/nomura-jpmorgan-and-goldman-sachs-received-a-cumulative-8-trillion-from-the-feds-emergency-repo-loans-in-fourth-quarter-of-2019/
The Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation of 2010 ordered the Government Accountability Office (GAO), an investigative body for Congress, to audit the Fed’s alphabet soup of emergency lending programs conducted during and after the 2008 financial crisis. The GAO found that a cumulative $16.1 trillion had been pumped …
After Its President Created the Biggest Trading Scandal in Fed History, Dallas Fed Chair Calls Robert Kaplan’s Tenure “Great Leadership”
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/01/after-its-president-created-the-biggest-trading-scandal-in-fed-history-dallas-fed-chair-calls-robert-kaplans-tenure-great-leadership/
Thomas J. Falk, New Chair of the Dallas Fed Board of Directors
Last Thursday evening, at 5:00 p.m. Dallas time and 6:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, when millions of folks on the East Coast are sitting down for dinner, the Dallas Fed held a virtual Town Hall.
Fidelity: ‘Countries That Secure Some Bitcoin Today Will Be Better Off Than Their Peers’ Even if a country doesn’t agree with the fundamentals of bitcoin, it will be forced to acquire some as a form of insurance, Fidelity wrote in a recent report.
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/01/17/fidelity-countries-that-secure-some-bitcoin-today-will-be-better-off-than-their-peers/
D&C Legal Services – Bitcoin; an economic revolution faced with BDL rules
https://www.dc-ls.com/news.aspx?id=1036&group_key=article
*There are 17 Democrats and 18 Republicans in the House Caucus that supports and defends #Bitcoin. Bitcoin brings both sides together.
Bitcoin is the most powerful weapon for the US to remain in control in a world that has been eaten away by China. The answer is simple. There is no center with POW. No one to arrest. No way to stop it. With proof of stake there are specific people in control of the network and, therefore, subject to the laws of the state. I should add, for the people who will say “but they can shut down mining companies.” Yes. They can. And then bitcoin will be mined on every graphics card in the world again. POW adapts.
Len Sassaman and Satoshi: a Cypherpunk History
https://evanlhatch.medium.com/len-sassaman-and-satoshi-e483c85c2b10
Len was a true Cypherpunk— equal parts brilliant, irreverent, and idealistic. He devoted his life to defending personal freedoms through cryptography, working as a developer on PGP encryption and open-source privacy technology, as well as an academic cryptographer researching P2P networks under blockchain inventor David Chaum.
Bitcoin tax loophole: How HIFO accounting reduces IRS bill
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/15/bitcoin-tax-loophole-how-hifo-accounting-reduces-irs-bill.html
To Make An Extra $95k A Year Tax FREE With Bitcoin | Michael Saylor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTHFd5t9SDE
“For Everyone Who Want To Keep Their Money FOREVER” | Michael Saylor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ_0ngdNMKk
Ryan Serhant: The evolution of cryptocurrency, blockchain and the Metaverse in real estate
https://eliteagent.com/crypto-tokens-welcome-all-global-property-investors/
and
https://media.perchwell.com/client_website_documents/docs/000/000/287/2bf4aefe130158f3a743fcc970689c37ebe44858/original/Ryan_Serhant__The_evolution_of_cryptocurrency__blockchain_and_the_Metaverse_in_real_estate.pdf
US returns $154 Million in bitcoins stolen by Sony employee
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-returns-154-million-in-bitcoins-stolen-by-sony-employee/
HEALTH
ORDER MASKS
American politics really are making people feel sick, study reveals
https://www.studyfinds.org/american-politics-feel-sick/
Order your free COVID Home Tests | USPS
https://special.usps.com/testkits
https://www.covidtests.gov/
If you need a COVID-19 test now, please see other testing resources for free testing locations in your area.
https://www.covidtests.gov/#resources
If you give your email when ordering free COVID tests via USPS, later you’ll get an email from a marketing firm w/o context, telling you your order (which order???) is being prepared. You wonder if it’s a scam of some sort. But the clue is “Endicia” – a USPS shipping app.
Wirecutter: 12 Signs You Have a Fake N95, KN95, or KF94 Mask
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/12-signs-you-have-a-fake-n95-kn95-or-kf94-mask/
Where to Buy N95s, KN95s, and Surgical-Style Masks in 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/where-to-buy-n95-kn95-masks-online/
COVID Texas scientists’ new Covid-19 vaccine is cheaper, easier to make and patent-free
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/15/corbevax-covid-vaccine-texas-scientists
Chemical pollution has passed safe limit for humanity, say scientists
Study calls for cap on production and release as pollution threatens global ecosystems upon which life depends
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/18/chemical-pollution-has-passed-safe-limit-for-humanity-say-scientists
2015 Dementia ‘linked’ to common over-the-counter drugs
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-30988643
– TOXIC PLASTIC NUMBERS
2013 Toxic Plastic Numbers #3,4,5,6,7
https://cyberplayground.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/toxic-plastic-numbers-34567/
2015 https://cyberplayground.wordpress.com/2015/11/17/toxic-plastic-numbers-3-4-5-6-7/
2016 Toxic chemicals tied to $340 billion in U.S. health costs and lost wages
https://cyberplayground.wordpress.com/2016/10/20/toxic-chemicals-tied-to-340-billion-in-u-s-health-costs-and-lost-wages/
2016 How an obscure nonprofit in Washington protects tax havens for the rich → EWG Database Finds BPA in 16,000 Food and Beverage Products
https://cyberplayground.wordpress.com/2016/06/20/ewg-database-finds-bpa-in-16000-food-and-beverage-products/
WOMEN LOVE TECH
1. Ada Lovelace – the world’s 1st computer programmer
2. Grace Hopper – recorded the world’s 1st ever real computer bug
3. Hedy Lamarr – inventor of wifi
4. Mary Wilkes – the first home computer user
5. Radia Perlman – invented the algorithm behind STP
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Bipolar disorder doesn’t restructure your fundamental values this ugly untalented “entertainer” is a bigot. What I do you give a f*ck about is that the media is still incapable of covering racism or antisemitism without making it seem like it’s something somebody made up.
CHINA
British Jews Board of Deputies Compares China’s Treatment of Uighur Muslims to Nazi Germany