ECP NetHappenings A Conspiracy at the Federal Reserve

*Educational CyberPlayGround® ©1998
https://edu-cyberpg.com
ECP Blog  NetHappenings
* https://cyberplayground.org
CyberPlayGround ₿ ∞/21M 109K Tweets
* https://twitter.com/cyberplayground
©1993 https://k12playground.com
© https://RichAsHell.com

@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.

Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings Headlines 9-7-2022

NETHAPPENINGS  HEADLINES
©1998*Educational CyberPlayGround®
https://edu-cyberpg.com
* NetHappenings ∞/21M
Daily read
* https://cyberplayground.org
* https://twitter.com/cyberplayground
 https://k12playground.com
https://RichAsHell.com

Resist Fascists

Justice has been hijacked by a handful of elite republican big money corrupt a-holes.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Miles Taylor ~ “In a monumental irony, both Julian Assange… and Edward Snowden… stand charged with the very same crimes that are likely to be brought against Mr. Trump. On both Mr. Assange and Mr. Snowden, Mr. Trump argued that they should be executed.”

FANG

Big Tech’s $95 Million Spending Spree Leaves Antitrust Bill on Brink of Defeat

Top Recipients of Contributions from Lobbyists, 2022 Cycle

FCC has obtained detailed broadband maps from ISPs for the first time ever

4,000 Google cafeteria workers quietly unionized

zuckerberg  JAG Ferguson: Judge rules Facebook parent Meta intentionally violated campaign finance laws

GOOGLE YOUTUBE More Likely to Direct Election-Fraud Videos to Users Already Skeptical about 2020 Election’s Legitimacy

GOOGLE YouTube pushed Trump supporters toward voter fraud videos, study finds

ZUCKERBERG OWNED Ireland fines Instagram a record $400 mln over children’s data

How deranged anti-Obama conspiracy theories led America to Donald Trump Folklorist Patricia Turner on how unhinged right-wing paranoia about the first Black president tore America apart

 What’s Life Like for the Content Moderator? How untenable is our current social media system  “If the torture of its workers is an intrinsic part of the system, then it’s Facebook that has to die (or TikTok or YouTube—kill ’em all).

The T-Mobile / Sprint merger hasn’t created jobs — it’s cut thousands

T-Mobile Misleads Home Internet Customers, Employees Say (Update)

Ahead of iPhone 14 event, Brazil suspends iPhone sales without power brick and fines Apple

TV PRIME TIME NETWORKS

How Roy Cohn Helped Rupert Murdoch

Trump says Fox News pushing ‘Democrat agenda,’ offers to help CNN go ‘Conservative’

Broadcast Networks Pass On Carrying Joe Biden’s Primetime Speech — Update: ABC ran Press Your Luck, CBS went with a Young Sheldon rerun and NBC with a Law & Order replay. CNN and MSNBC carried the address, as did news division streaming channels, but Fox News stuck with Tucker Carlson and his critique of the speech as it was happening.

“And this is why the media is such a failed state. The president is supposed to be political. It’s the job.”

“Democracy cannot survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election — either they win, or they were cheated,” Biden said.
“Either they win, or they were cheated, and that’s where the MAGA Republicans are today.”

“Why Ken Burns Is Exposing America’s Evils During the Holocaust”

PRIVACY

2nd largest U.S. school district hit by ransomware attack

Cops wanted to keep mass surveillance app secret; privacy advocates refused “Tracked,” that investigates the power and consequences of decisions driven by algorithms on people’s everyday lives. Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’ “U.S. police departments have used the “Fog Reveal” database to follow people’s movements based on hundreds of billions of records from 250 million devices. The data originates from common apps such as Starbucks and Waze, @AP’s reporting shows. Federal, state and local police agencies around the U.S. continue to use Fog with very little public accountability EFF RELEASE FOG MANUAL
“U.S. police departments have used the “Fog Reveal” database to follow people’s movements based on hundreds of billions of records from 250 million devices. The data originates from common apps such as Starbucks and Waze, @AP’s reporting shows.

Encrypted app Signal just hired one of Big Tech’s sharpest critics. Meredith Whittaker, the former Google manager, is Signal’s first president. She is out to convince users to pay for the free app.
Signal hypothetical use case becomes practical since cellular providers have started censoring private text messages.
Re Signal:
If only Signal wasn’t actually recording all our contacts permanently in their servers (under their mandatory PIN requirement), then Signal might be a useful tool for encrypted messaging. But somebody apparently got to them to undermine their users’ privacy.
Normally this would not be a problem with free software — users could just rip out the offending code. But Signal’s interpretation is that the license doesn’t allow you to rip out the spyware part of the code, while still using their back-end servers to let your improved version talk to any other Signal users.

The Pentagon’s Push to Program Soldiers’ Brains
The military wants future super-soldiers to control robots with their thoughts.

HEALTH

Pandemic Roundup

Blood abnormalities found in people with Long Covid

How long the coronavirus survives in air depends on relative humidity, infectivity can drop by 90% in 20 minutes depending on environmental conditions.

Interacting brains sync without physical presence

Blue Zones Lessons From the World’s Longest Lived

Bill would eliminate federal taxes on Social Security benefits: ‘You Earned It, You Keep It’

New Mexico governor commits $10 million to building new abortion clinic near Texas border

Study raises red flags about corporatization of health care, OHSU investigator says

Study raises red flags about corporatization of health care, OHSU investigator says

Researchers discover new way fat cells talk directly with the brain

Dundee researchers hail Parkinson’s breakthrough

Court Says Tipped Wage Initiative Can Be On November Ballot

MUSIC

Kids Yell “Poop” At Alexa, And These Musicians Profit “Alexa, play ‘Poopy Stupid Butt’ again.”

CRYPTO

IMF Says Crypto Has Greater Potential as a Payment Method Over Weak Currencies

Crypto Dev Enters Wrong Command, Destroys Entire Company

Metaverse Scammers Have a Bridge to Sell You. The Alabama Securities Commission Is Fighting Back

CFTC and SEC open comments for proposal to amend crypto reporting rules for large hedge funds

Who is BitBoy Crypto and why does everybody hate him?

CORRUPT AS HELL

“Unacceptable”: Trump-appointed inspector general stonewalls Jan. 6 probe and blocks witnesses
DHS watchdog Joseph Cuffari has a “fundamental misunderstanding” of his duties as IG, lawmakers say

Atlanta federal pen nearly vacant amid corruption investigation

Leonard Leo: the secretive rightwinger using billions to reshape America

Oath Keepers lawyer Kellye SoRelle charged in Jan. 6 conspiracy case

Georgia election server wiped after suit filed
A computer server crucial to a lawsuit against Georgia election officials was quietly wiped clean by its custodians just after the suit was filed, T

“Masked White Supremacists Crash New Jersey Labor Day Parade”

New FBI documents link Saudi spy in California to 9/11 attacks

More Than 1 In 2 Americans Will Have An Election Denier On The Ballot This Fall

Opinion Leaked audio of a billionaire GOP donor hands Democrats a weapon

“Dark Money Group in Alleged Bannon Scam Dinged by IRS”

Opinion It’s time for Democrats to act on a dark money ban in primaries

Trump Went Judge Shopping and It Paid Off in Mar-a-Lago Case

Why Trump’s FBI investigation could now be delayed for months or even years

Senate Filibuster Stopped Most Pro-Democracy Bills From Becoming Law

Dr. Oz Campaign Hires Actors To Play Convicted Felons Supporting Fetterman

Trump judge’s ruling in Mar-a-Lago case proves Biden was right: MAGA is fascism

Bill Barr: Judge’s Ruling Was ‘Wrong’ in Mar-a-Lago Investigation

Police investigating how Michigan voting machine wound up for sale online
Authorities in Michigan are investigating how a missing voting machine from the state wound up for sale on eBay last month for $1,200.

‘Corrupt as Hell’: Demands for Clarence Thomas to Resign Follow New Details of Wife’s Election Scheming

Jan. 6 panel alleges Gingrich involvement with Trump efforts, seeks interview

Oxford Physicist Unloads on Quantum Computing Industry, Says It’s Basically a Scam

In NCLA Win Against IRS, First Circuit Rules Taxpayers Can Indeed Take the Agency to Court – New Civil Liberties Alliance

McCarthy’s “Commitment to America” rollout

RELIGION

Politico’s New Owner Invited Colleagues to ‘Pray’ for Trump’s Re-Election

Pope dissolves Knights of Malta leadership, issues new constitution
Pope Francis dissolved the leadership of the Knights of Malta, the global Catholic religious order, and installed a provisional government ahead of the election of a new Grand Master.

Kansas constitutional amendment on abortion is a bailout for the Catholic Church

Neo-Nazi head of Goyim Defense League arrested in Poland
Jon Minadeo was arrested while he was protesting against Jews outside of Auschwitz concentration camp.

Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings of Interest

Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings ∞/21M
https://edu-cyberpg.com
https://cyberplayground.org
https://k12playground.com
https://RichAsHell.com
daily read https://twitter.com/cyberplayground

May Be Of Interest

“The internet is not a good idea” -Newspapers
“Email is not a good idea” -Post Office
“Television is not a good idea” -Radio stations
“Streaming is not a good idea” -Blockbuster
“#Bitcoin is not a good idea” -Central banks

#TECH

GhostTouch: Targeted Attacks on Touchscreens without Physical Touch
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity22/presentation/wang-kai

Google to pay Illinois residents $100M in privacy lawsuit settlement
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2022/06/03/google-pay-illinois-settlement-photo-privacy/7495827001/

Record Labels Dig Their Own Grave. And the Shovel is Called TikTok.
It’s not just the music biz—legacy media outlets everywhere are playing the same dangerous game
https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/record-labels-dig-their-own-grave

#HEALTH

4 companies control 90% of the US #babyformula market
4 companies control 85% of US beef
4 companies control 80% of US soy
3 companies control 72% of US cereal
Greed and price gouging are the problem, oversight and competition the answer.
Ban the Filibuster NOW!

Hey, Hey, NRA, how many kids did you kill today?
In the 1960s all the Dixiecrats & other racists became Republicans.
The people for civil rights became Democrats.

‘It’s going to be an army’: Tapes reveal GOP plan to contest elections
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/01/gop-contest-elections-tapes-00035758

Legal Director @DavidColeACLU thoroughly rebuts the argument that @ACLU has “lost its way.” Even a cursory review of the docket of the ACLU and its affiliates demonstrates that the organization remains an indispensable guardian of the First Amendment.
https://www.theatlantic.com/letters/archive/2022/05/aclu-amber-heard-title-ix-kavanaugh/629959/

The Federal Reserve is looking into creating a centralized digital currency — aka digital cash — and how it could provide privacy to consumers without complete anonymity or facilitating illicit activity.

Ron Wyden @RonWyden May 19
I wrote Aaron’s law nearly a decade ago to protect researchers from misguided, overzealous prosecutions. Glad to see DOJ is finally recognizing good-faith security research isn’t a crime, it actually makes us all safer.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-announces-new-policy-charging-cases-under-computer-fraud-and-abuse-act

Today, we and our partners let them know: Anonymity is non-negotiable.

The world cannot adapt its way out of the climate crisis, and counting on adaptation to limit damage is no substitute for urgently cutting greenhouse gases, a leading climate scientist has warned. Katharine Hayhoe, chief scientist for the Nature

Top Scientist: We Can’t Adapt Our Way Out of This Climate Crisis

Portland doctors ‘first in world’ to apply new cancer therapy
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/health/portland-doctors-new-cancer-therapy-tumor-reduction/283-549b1b8f-ced6-4bc9-af50-10a6516e44a6

EPA moves to give states, tribes more power to protect water
https://apnews.com/article/environment-climate-and-water-quality-government-politics-9057b0dbb146b6d45d364720665a67dd

Bees Are Fish, California Court Rules
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dgnn8/bees-are-fish-california-court-rules

Glyphosate weedkiller damages wild bee colonies, study reveals
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/02/glyphosate-weedkiller-damages-wild-bumblebee-colonies

Pharmaceutical contaminants discovered in South Florida bonefish
https://news.fiu.edu/2022/pharmaceutical-contaminants-discovered-in-south-florida-bonefish

#BITCOIN

New Bill Would Force Congress to Disclose Crypto Holdings

New Bill Would Force Congress to Disclose Crypto Holdings

Why should I run a bitcoin node? — 7 reasons

7 reasons to run your own bitcoin node

Bitcoin Legality by Country Map
https://www.bitrawr.com/terminal/legality-map

Oil Companies In The Middle East To Use Excess Gas For Bitcoin Mining
https://cryptonews.net/news/mining/7502583/

Kenya’s largest electricity producer to offer its surplus power to Bitcoin miners

Kenya’s largest electricity producer to offer its surplus power to Bitcoin miners

Give some bitcoin
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/guides/five-ways-to-gift-bitcoin

#CRYPTO

Vitalik tweets he is conflicted after watching Luna burn to the ground. He realises he gave birth to a gorgon that is eating everything in sight and maybe he should have just played around with #bitcoin instead of wasting the last 9 yrs on a monster that will haunt him forever.

Jesse Berger @jayberjay
When Vitalik tells you that #ethereum is unstable, centrally controlled, fragile, elitist, ideologically deficient, overly-complicated, and willing to bend the knee to evil… believe him.

Labor Department Sued for Opposing Crypto in Retirement Accounts
https://cryptopotato.com/labor-department-sued-for-opposing-crypto-in-retirement-accounts/

Do Kwon’s Terraform Labs accused of laundering $4.8 million via a Korean shell company

Do Kwon’s Terraform Labs accused of laundering $4.8 million via a Korean shell company

OpenSea’s Former Head of Product Arrested by the FBI

OpenSea’s Former Head of Product Arrested by the FBI

Aaron Wise: “I hear a lot of people speak fawningly about Arthur Hayes, the “genius” who they think still owns thousands of bitcoin. Few recall that in response to months of investigation, Hayes finally admitted (on April 30, 2018) that BitMEX traded for-profit AGAINST its own customers.