ECP NetHappenings #Politics
#DEATH PENALTY
Donald Trump is no longer in business in New York State.
A judge canceled all of his business certificates and appointed a judge to monitor the assets.
Barring an unlikely reversal by an appeal court, the assets will be sold and Trump, Don Jr., & Eric are barred from business.
What will Trump Tower in NYC be called in ten years?
P01135809 Tower
I marvel at people who don’t realize Donald is, and always has been, a con man who lies, cheats, steals, and got away with it using threats of ruinous legal action, etc. My piece on the Trump Org getting the corporate death penalty he so richly deserves:
Judge Gives Trump Organization the Corporate Death Penalty
https://www.dcreport.org/2023/09/26/donald-trump-liable-for-fraud/
Former Melanie aide Stephanie Winston Wolkoff alleged that Trump’s 2018 govt. shutdown was to hide a separate scandal frm the public. She claimed the Trump WH coordinated their nefarious activities using govt. resources & shutdowns to the detriment of the American people.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-shutdown-financial-coverup/
‘Like the start of the Bolshevik Revolution’: Don Trump Jr. unspools after being found liable for fraud
Lynnes note *** What the hell is he talking about?
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-jr-fraud/
‘Fraudster’ Trump given the ‘corporate death penalty’ in New York suit: Lawyer George Conway
It’s called the Martin Act, which was enacted 102 years ago. And it is extremely powerful, a weapon the state can use against fraudsters. It’s powerful for a number of reasons. One is, it doesn’t require proof of fraudulent intent by the business or its CEO or any of its officers.” https://www.rawstory.com/trump-new-york-fraudster/
BIG DEAL CAUSE SAUDI ARABIA
Judge Engoron calls out – in a *footnote* – that Trump may have been suggesting he could just take bribes from Saudi Arabia.
https://twitter.com/clearing_fog/status/1706805284117864478/photo/1
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs a first of its kind law to double the taxes on firearms and ammunition in the state and use the money to pay for public school security and violence prevention programs.
Illinois Congressmember @RepChuyGarcia of Chicago reminds Americans that U.S. foreign policy in countries like Venezuela is the root cause of migration — and urges an end to interventionism and sanctions to address the refugee crisis.
Illegitimate Supreme Court
Alito wasn’t bluffing: He believes the Supreme Court is above the law
A good first step would be for the full court to begin ruling on recusal decisions, rather than leaving them to the discretion of each individual. After all, the Constitution creates “one Supreme Court,” not nine supreme justices.
Our system of checks and balances should not be subject to an Alito veto.
Documents show Justice Roberts & Justice Alito own shares in 19 companies that could get $30 BILLION in tax relief if the Supreme Court issues a broad ruling in favor of those companies in the upcoming term’s landmark tax case.
https://www.levernews.com/justices-have-financial-interest-in-major-tax-case/
California politicians float removing Trump from 2024 ballot
We Have Two Medias in This Country, and They’re Going to Elect Donald Trump
If the press doesn’t get involved in the civic health of the nation, there may not be a nation in which a free press might reside.
Findings in Trump fraud trial reignite questions about why Bill Barr’s DOJ dropped the case
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-org-sdny-federal-case/
This is another reason why we need the great Katie Porter as a Senator, not Adam Schiff.
The earmarks Adam Schiff delivered for donors.
#Election #Integrity
Just a reminder the owner of this site (Twitter a.k.a. X) is virulently anti-union and builds his sh*tty cars in non-UAW plants. Musk will be thought of like Trump one day, a fascist fraudster, a freakish footnote in a long line of anti-worker exploiters of labor for his own grift. @elonmusk
Twitter scraps feature letting users report misleading information.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/27/xtwitter-scraps-function-letting-users-report-misleading-information
Elon is getting ready to use X to pull a fast one for republicans. This platform is being converted to an information warfare platform and there is no longer any doubt Elon Musk and his investors plan to use it to disrupt the 2024 election
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1707147926789554422
Elon Musk has fired the entire Election Integrity Team at X, the unit created to identify threats from foreign and domestic sources manipulating our elections.
https://www.meidastouch.com/news/breaking-musk-fires-entire-election-integrity-team-at-x
X @elonmusk just fired his entire “Election Integrity” Team for undermining the US Elections.
In December of 2022, I showed the world, the blockchain evidence that Twitter gambled on US Elections from 2018 through 2020.
He’s getting everything in place for the 2024 elections.
Musk’s X disabled feature for reporting electoral misinformation.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/musks-x-disabled-feature-reporting-electoral-misinformation-researcher-2023-09-27/
EU warns Musk…
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/26/eu-warns-elon-musk-that-twitter-x-must-comply-with-fake-news-laws
Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew
Secret Service agents were in such close contact with Oath Keepers’ founder Stewart Rhodes that they had a “unofficial liaison to the Oath Keepers (inching towards official).”
Why isn’t this the big scandal?
https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/emails-reveal-secret-service-contacts-with-oath-keepers/
Amazon Is the Apex Predator of Our Platform Era
Amazon is precisely the kind of company that Congress had in mind in enacting America’s many antitrust laws,
@doctorow writes for the @nytimes
@tedlieuWant to know what crazy amendments the GOP made us vote on today?
1. Defund Director of Division of Risk Management at FDA.
2. Defund Director of Office of Compliance at FDA.
3. Defund Director of Office of New Drugs at FDA.
MAGA GOP wants zero regulation of risky new drugs.
#HEALTH
Study finds link between autism in boys and maternal diet soda and aspartame consumption
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2023/09/study-finds-link-between-autism-in-boys-and-maternal-diet-soda-and-aspartame-consumption/
Philips Kept Complaints About Dangerous Breathing Machines Secret While Company Profits Soared
Tainted CPAP machines and ventilators went to children, the elderly and at least 700,000 veterans despite internal warnings. Company insiders said the devices posed an “unacceptable” risk.Philips knew about a dangerous breakdown inside its widely used ventilators and sleep apnea machines but waited years before recalling the devices
https://www.propublica.org/article/philips-kept-warnings-about-dangerous-cpaps-secret-profits-soared
Scent Police? Oh yes. It’s here.
#science #news
Your Body Odor Could Be Used to Track Your Movements or Health
Our research team’s 2017 study of 105 participants found that specific combinations of 15 volatile organic compounds collected from people’s hands could distinguish between race and ethnicity with an accuracy of 72% for whites, 82% for East Asians and 67% for Hispanics. Based on a combination of 13 compounds, participants could be distinguished as male or female with an overall 80% accuracy. Canines have also been trained to detect COVID-19 infections at a 90% accuracy rate.
https://theconversation.com/dogs-can-be-trained-to-sniff-out-covid-19-a-team-of-forensic-researchers-explain-the-science-169012
#Stand With Unions
@SenSanders
Today, for the first time in American history, a President stood on a picket line defending American workers. That’s a big deal. In taking on the corporate greed of the auto industry, the UAW is fighting for every American worker. They’re fighting for us. Let’s stand with them.
Wendy’s CEO made $8 MILLION in compensation — 402x more than the average worker.
Meanwhile, Wendy’s is spending money to let AI take your order at their drive-thru.
The CEO claims that we won’t be able to tell the difference.
Corporate greed is annihilating the working class.
AI should not be created to act like human beings to maximize the profits of CEOs.
https://www.citizen.org/article/chatbots-are-not-people-dangerous-human-like-anthropomorphic-ai-report/
#EDUCATION Keep the citizens stupid
!!!! Letter to editor: Pennsylvania is at a public education crossroads
https://www.thereporteronline.com/2023/09/25/letter-to-editor-pennsylvania-is-at-a-public-education-crossroads/
“I urge the BEFC to do its job by prioritizing these tasks and ensuring that every student in the state has access to a comprehensive, effective, and modern public education system.” – Susan Spicka, Executive director, Education Voters of Pennsylvania
#TECH #SECURITY
Google slips their homework under the door
Google has quietly resubmitted a disclosure of a critical code-execution vulnerability affecting thousands of individual apps and software frameworks after its previous submission left readers with the mistaken impression that the threat affected only the Chrome browser.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/google-quietly-corrects-previously-submitted-disclosure-for-critical-webp-0-day/
U.S. Counterintel Buys Access to the Backbone of the Internet to Hunt Foreign Hackers
Getting information from the NSA would take too long, according to internal documents from a counterintelligence agency. So it turned to Team Cymru to buy netflow data that can allow analysts to track activity through virtual private networks
https://www.404media.co/us-counterintel-buys-netflow-data-team-cymru-track-vpns/
Buys Access to the Backbone of the Internet to Hunt Foreign Hackers
https://www.404media.co/us-counterintel-buys-netflow-data-team-cymru-track-vpns/
Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith Where’s the lie?
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally ‘a surveillance technology’
Why is it that so many companies that rely on monetizing the data of their users seem to be extremely hot on AI? If you ask Signal president Meredith Whittaker (and I did), she’ll tell you it’s simply because “AI is a surveillance technology.”
Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, Whittaker explained her perspective that AI is largely inseparable from the big data and targeting industry perpetuated by the likes of Google and Meta, as well as less consumer-focused but equally prominent enterprise and defense companies.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/25/signals-meredith-whittaker-ai-is-fundamentally-a-surveillance-technology/
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#BANKSTERS
JPMorgan says it will pay $75 million to settle a lawsuit by the U.S. Virgin Islands alleging that the bank facilitated and benefited from sex trafficking of young women by its longtime customer Jeffrey Epstein. @EamonJavers reports.
* JPMorgan also said it had reached a settlement with Jes Staley, a former executive at the bank who had been friends with Epstein, to resolve claims by JPMorgan that he was responsible for any civil damages and costs associated with Epstein-related litigation. Epstein had been friends with Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew of Britain. The terms of the agreement with Jes Staley, former CEO of Barclays, are confidential , JPMorgan said it “deeply regrets” its association with Epstein, who was a client between 1998 and 2013.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/26/jpmorgan-to-settle-jeffrey-epstein-suit-by-virgin-islands.html
SEC Today we announced charges against 6 officers, directors, and major shareholders for failing to timely report information about their holdings and transactions in company stock.
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-201
#CRYPTO
Santander notes the role of bitcoin tourism to El Salvador’s booming GDP
“How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Cryptoanarchy”
Financial Regulation:
– Erodes privacy ✅
– Eliminates human rights ✅
– Makes us less safe ✅
– Harms national security ✅
– Promotes financial exclusion ✅
AnchorWatch Secures $3 Million Funding To Popularize Multisig Bitcoin Insurance
https://www.btctimes.com/news/anchorwatch-secures-3-million-funding-to-popularize-multisig-bitcoin-insurance
SEC Chair Gary Gensler said that bitcoin isn’t a security, but also called crypto a field that’s “rife with fraud and manipulation” during a Congressional hearing. The comment came during an appearance before the U.S. House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday.
https://unchainedcrypto.com/sec-chair-gensler-says-bitcoin-isnt-a-security/
VIDEO: The full exchange today between @PatrickMcHenry and @GaryGensler on #Bitcoin and the @SECGov’s refusal to comply with document disclosure requests from Congress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI-UQX0hQ14
Xbox Goes Crypto? Leaked Microsoft Roadmap Includes Wallet Plans
Illegal gold miners have just discovered the largest #Gold nugget in the history of Ghana.
And your #Gold in your high security vaults became just a bit less scarce.
(re:Menendez) Congressman Matt Gaetz: “We are devaluing American money so rapidly that in America today, you can’t even bribe Democrat Senators with cash alone! You need to bring gold bars to get the job done, just so that the bribes hold value!”
New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez hires Hunter Biden lawyer for bribery case
#Bitcoin
BlackRock Manipulating Bitcoin?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KptqizfM0Sg
Could BlackRock Destroy Bitcoin?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KloXHKxmoiA