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Educational CyberPlayGround Nethappenings 4-21-2022

Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings
https://edu-cyberpg.com

Rich As Hell
https://RichAsHell.com

daily read https:twitter.com/cyberplayground

EARTH DAY

#EarthDay Celebrate Earth Day 4/22/1970
GO PLANT A TREE
The theme of this year’s celebration is ‘ Invest in your planet” which is a call for everyone to create a secure and moderate environment conducive for all.

Biden to issue Earth Day order to safeguard old-growth forests.

#RingoStarr @ringostarrmusic
Peace and love and remember Friday is earth day peace and love
https://twitter.com/ringostarrmusic/status/1517142193143566340

How to observe the Lyrid meteor shower in Western Pa., which should appear starting just after midnight tonight and run through dawn Friday morning
https://triblive.com/local/regional/how-when-to-observe-the-lyrid-meteor-shower-in-western-pa/

The Midwest has lost 57 billion metric tons of topsoil over the last 160 years, new study finds
https://www.iowapublicradio.org/environment/2022-04-08/the-midwest-has-lost-57-billion-metric-tons-of-topsoil-over-the-last-160-years-new-study-finds

WATCH OUT

“I have no faith we will remain a democracy if Republicans win power.” — Max Boot

Robert Reich “Perhaps there’s something wrong with a system that allows a 35-year-old, unelected, Trump-nominated judge — whom the American Bar Association deemed unqualified — to strike down the travel mask mandate for the entire country?”

Garlands fault: The Big Lie is here to stay: Republicans plot to overturn elections on every level
https://www.salon.com/2022/04/20/the-big-lie-is-here-to-stay-plot-to-overturn-on-every-level/

Biden Canceling Student Debt Could Help Party Avoid ‘Disaster’ Midterms
https://www.newsweek.com/biden-cancelling-student-debt-help-democrats-avoid-disaster-1699385

Amazon Europe Unit Paid No Taxes on $55 Billion Sales in 2021
https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report-international/amazon-europe-unit-paid-no-taxes-on-55-billion-sales-in-2021

Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian asset.

“Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin’s Wrath”
https://www.amazon.com/Freezing-Order-Laundering-Surviving-Vladimir-ebook/dp/B09JPH6CW3/

It’s illegal for your boss to tell you can’t discuss wages. If your boss ever tells you not to discuss your salary with your co-workers, immediately start looking for another job. That’s a toxic place to work. When it’s safe, report them to the National Labor Relations Board because that’s also illegal.

MEDIA

CNN+ shutting down April 30th.
Reminder, they put 250 million into developing it. The CFO resigned.

Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D: “These articles were all published by Reuters since they claimed to have cut ties with Russian news agency TASS. Every single one of these articles is just repackaged TASS content under the Reuters brand name — so basically, it’s Russian propaganda dressed up to look credible. https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1516920620705005569

WHAT NO FU-KING MEDIA is talking about
China Is Nearly Done Building a Taiwan Invasion Fleet
Western democracies need to address the exigent threat
https://www.theepochtimes.com/china-is-nearly-done-building-a-taiwan-invasion-fleet_4414077.html

@micahflee I don’t think people fully appreciate just how much, after invading Ukraine, people are hacking Russia. There are multiple hacks a week and it’s only increasing. For first time in internet history Russia is fair game for cyber attacks, and this is what it looks like
https://mobile.twitter.com/micahflee/status/1516521193808875527

LEGACY MEDIA LIKE NYT keep using euphemisms like “concerned about electoral issues” to describe widespread Republican rejection of democracy. They are failing their readers when they don’t use words like fascist or fascism. They are Lying to everyone! STOP LYING

SHUTTING DOWN SHANGHAI  1 good thing happened:
Analyst #Ming-ChiKuo says that Apple’s previous desire to reduce its reliance on China has become “an action plan” since the country’s recent lockdowns.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/04/21/apple-looks-to-move-away-from-china-for-its-new-products-says-kuo

Gizmodo: We’re Publishing the Facebook Papers
We’re Publishing the Facebook Papers. Here’s What They Say About Donald Trump, the 2020 Election, and Jan. 6.
Gizmodo has reviewed, redacted, and published more than two dozen leaked Facebook documents, the first of hundreds to come.
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2022/04/were-publishing-the-facebook-papers-heres-what-they-say-about-donald-trump-the-2020-election-and-jan-6/
As part of an ongoing project to make these once-confidential records accessible to the general public, Gizmodo is today—for the first time—publishing 28 of the documents previously exclusively shared with Congress and the media. Meta declined to comment on the release.
We have undertaken this project to help better inform the public about Facebook’s role in a wide range of controversies, as well as to provide researchers with access to materials that we hope will advance general knowledge of social media’s role in modern history’s most troubling crises. Less than two weeks after Donald Trump’s mob attacked the Capitol, the results of a poll commissioned by Facebook itself showed what already felt anecdotally true to many: That a majority of Americans believed Facebook at least partly responsible for the events of Jan. 6.
The documents will reveal to you, for instance, an internal analysis of the many groups that Facebook knew to be prolific sources of both voter suppression efforts and hate speech targeting its most marginalized users. The records show the company was privately aware of the growing fears among users of being exposed to election-related falsehoods. The papers show that Meta’s own data pinpointed the account of then-President Trump as being principally responsible for a surge in reports concerning violations of its violence and incitement rules.
Today’s release is the first of a series of posts from Gizmodo to be published in tandem with legal and academic partners. Our goal is to minimize any costs to individuals’ privacy and any furtherance of other harms while ensuring the responsible disclosure of the greatest amount of information in the public interest possible. You can read more about our methodology and what we have redacted here.

Judge rules Donald Trump can keep running Bronx golf
https://therealdeal.com/2022/04/09/judge-rules-donald-trump-can-keep-running-bronx-golf-course/

Scott Dworkin  “Here’s video of Marjorie Taylor Greene at the White House in late December 2020 saying she had a “great planning session for our January 6th objection. We aren’t going to let this election be stolen by Joe Biden and the Democrats.” Expel and arrest Greene.
https://twitter.com/funder/status/1354919728888881158

FLORIDA

@TristanSnell: Richard Nixon lost the 1960 election by sweating on camera — and Trump’s sweat game on Piers Morgan looks to be at least 5 Nixons.

Stephen Colbert talks about the DeSantis-Mouse feud, and points out that not only is Disney the largest private employer in the state but also “Disney is also they only reason anyone goes to Florida.”

What we really need is the denazification of Florida. The repubs are a shrinking minority of theofascists. They are intent on destroying America because they failed to become the majority.

Florida House Democrats have taken over floor during informal recess now.
So far, no push from Republicans to get session going again
Does not seem like House Democrats plan on ending sit in anytime soon.
Announcing demands on floor.
Currently occupying the Florida House Chambers Floor. This is #ThePeoplesHouse we will not stand by and allow #DeSantis to eliminate Black districts. #StopTheBlackAttacks #FairDistricts

TECH

“Bitcoin changes everything. I don’t think there’s anything more important in my lifetime to work on.”
Jack Dorsey revolutionized media and payments.
Now he’s tackling his THIRD paradigm shift… the future of money.
How did we get here? A quick THREAD
https://twitter.com/cryptojobguy/status/1514698553788149764

Three-way digital currency taxonomy, with cryptocurrencies in a “hybrid” category.
https://kiffmeister.com/the-account-versus-token-based-digital-currency-taxonomy/

@AaronWi38550500
Wences Casares, of Argentinian aristocratic descent who later became a self-made decamillionaire founding a South American E*Trade-type company, spent $250,000 trying to hack bitcoin’s protocol as due diligence before buying at least $2M of bitcoin himself in 2012.

The Future of Bitcoin: What Lightning Could Look Like
Bitcoin’s overlay payment network is projected to improve over the next few years in areas ranging from network architecture to security and usability, and more. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/future-bitcoin-what-lightning-could-look

Lightning liquidity providers automate submarine swaps to fire whenever on-chain fees drop below a certain threshold.The Blockchain and the Lightning Network are not at odds, they are complementary systems. For the most part a payment channel’s strengths are the chain’s weaknesses and this is also true in the reverse.
https://medium.com/muunwallet/a-closer-look-at-submarine-swaps-in-the-lightning-network-4417a2e8f93c
For more technical breakdown of submarine swaps and HTLCs read this article: https://blog.muun.com/a-closer-look-at-submarine-swaps-in-the-lightning-network/

Nice overview of how one might start with KYC Bitcoin but then achieve pretty good forward privacy using mobile submarine swaps and Lightning
https://www.suresats.com/post/enhance-privacy-to-kyc-d-bitcoin-with-mobile-wallet-submarine-swaps

For the first time there’s a non-custodial Lightning wallet on iOS.
Uses Neutrino, Submarine swaps, and does all of the (IMO) right tradeoffs to deliver a seamless experience with the minimal levels of trust currently possible.

Crypto Exchange’s New Emoji Looks Like a Swastika and People Are Losing It
Binance launched an emoji apparently inspired by the ancient religious symbol on Hitler’s birthday, and Twitter users had a field day. April 20, is also Adolf Hitler’s birthday. After receiving criticism on social media, Binance changed the logo and admitted that it made a mistake.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvn4q3/crypto-exchanges-new-emoji-looks-like-a-swastika-and-people-are-losing-it

Smart contracts are incredibly dangerous. The risk from farming is almost never worth the APY unless you’re being very careful spreading out funds across protocols.

Marcus Hutchins on Twitter: “Fun fact: if you enable iCloud backup and don’t use backup encryption with a different password, someone can phish your iCloud login and basically clone your entire phone.”

BANKING

Israel Adds Yuan to $206 Billion Reserves in ‘Philosophy’ Change
The central bank of Israel just announced an investing philosophy change.
They’re dropping the US Dollar for Chinese Yuan.
Are you paying attention yet?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-20/israel-adds-yuan-to-206-billion-reserves-in-philosophy-change

@MorganStanley report released today focuses on the prospects of using the Lightning Network for retail purchases and on “the long-term transition towards payments and settlements using digital and cryptocurrencies instead of fiat currencies like the US dollar”. The report was sparked by the @jackmallers Miami announcement—MS points out that “one in six point of sale devices globally use software provided by NCR, so this announcement is significant even if only a small proportion of retail shops choose to add the crypto functionality”

Biden Has Nominated a Man from the Sandy Weill/Robert Rubin/Tim Geithner
School of Wall Street Hubris to Head Regulation at the Fed
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: April 20, 2022 ~
In addition to being a law professor at the University of Michigan, Michael Barr also holds the title as the “Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.” The Ford School sits in a […]
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/04/biden-has-nominated-a-man-from-the-sandy-weill-robert-rubin-tim-geithner-school-of-wall-street-hubris-to-head-regulation-at-the-fed/

Why Didn’t Vanguard, the Largest Mutual Fund Family in the U.S., Need to Borrow from the Fed while the Wall Street Titans Did?
For the past week, Wall Street On Parade has been crunching the cryptic data released by the Federal Reserve on March 31 that named the mutual funds that couldn’t meet redemption requests in their money market funds in March and April of 2020 without tapping loans from […]
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/04/why-didnt-vanguard-the-largest-mutual-fund-family-in-the-u-s-need-to-borrow-from-the-fed-while-the-wall-street-titans-did/

It’s Been More than Seven Months and Still No Investigative Findings on the Fed’s Trading Scandal
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: April 21, 2022
Robert Kaplan, Former President of the Dallas Fed
On September 7 of last year, Wall Street Journal reporter Mike Derby broke the story that “Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert Kaplan made multiple million-dollar-plus stock trades in 2020, according to a financial
disclosure form provided by his bank….” […]
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/04/its-been-more-than-seven-months-and-still-no-investigative-findings-on-the-feds-trading-scandal/

HEALTH

“Not having to wear a mask on the plane but still having to take your shoes off at the TSA checkpoint is peak failure to assess risk.”

@k8_lister talking about Mediaeval sex on a podcast, talking to @GoingMedieval about Mediaeval sex.
https://pod.link/1612090432/episode/3e6bdfc553e682ffa6488d2fb0ae1322

The fertility paradox – poverty vs prosperity
https://spectator.com.au/2022/04/the-fertility-paradox-poverty-vs-prosperity/

Urine bugs may be a sign of aggressive prostate cancer
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-61150771

The Florida Department of Health just issued guidelines telling doctors to medically de-transition all transgender youth and banned them from social transition treatment, including “name, pronoun, and clothing changes.”
https://www.floridahealth.gov/_documents/newsroom/press-releases/2022/04/20220420-gender-dysphoria-guidance.pdf

Emotional abuse during childhood is linked to alcohol-related problems in later life through increased insomnia
https://www.psypost.org/2022/04/emotional-abuse-during-childhood-is-linked-to-alcohol-related-problems-in-later-life-through-increased-insomnia-62959

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday to exclude residents of Puerto Rico from U.S. disability benefits programs.

Puerto Ricans seeking federal disability benefits strike out at Supreme Court

GEEKY TOPICS

Software Defined Radio (“Radio nerditry”)
http://websdr.org/
A WebSDR is a Software-Defined Radio receiver connected to the internet, allowing many listeners to listen and tune it simultaneously. SDR technology makes it possible that all listeners tune independently, and thus listen to different signals; this is in contrast to the many classical receivers that are already available via the internet.
International shortwave radio broadcasting is definitely a dying medium, and the number of countries with stations decreases every year. So if you want to experience this medium, the clock is ticking.
https://mobile.twitter.com/mattblaze/status/1516995086487334914

President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Farewell Address (1961) | National Archives
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-dwight-d-eisenhowers-farewell-address

NetHappenings Courts, Cleptofascism, China, Bitcoin, Money, Bitcoin, Banks, Health 1/18/2022

Educational CyberPlayGround, Inc.

#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/

2020 “We’re 15 years too late”: Endocrine-disrupting plastic additive BPA is still in everything
https://www.salon.com/2022/01/16/bpa-plastics-harmful/

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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HOW IT STARTED | HOW’S IT GOING

HOW IT STARTED
“A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C 

HOW IT’S GOING
The Modern World Has Finally Become Too Complex for Any of Us to Understand | by Tim Maughan

Election

Russian State-Sponsored Actors Exploiting Vulnerability in VMware® Workspace ONE Access Using Compromised Credentials

How a suspected Chinese spy gained access to California politics https://www.axios.com/china-spy-california-politicians-9d2dfb99-f839-4e00-8bd8-59dec0daf589.html

When we lose an election Republicans tell us to “get over it”. When they lose an election they accuse everyone of cheating, call for investigations, beheadings, martial law, civil war, whine about it on Fox News, bring law suits, & take it all the way to the supreme court.

#IMPOTUS a quadrillion to the fourth power is the Biggest incumbent Loser of the Presidency.

Russian Media Wants Moscow to Grant Asylum to Trump 

Russian media and lawmakers are concerned about the future of the Kremlin’s favorite U.S. president.

Unsanitized: The Dealmakers Don’t Want to Make a Deal

Mitch McConnell keeps dodging and obfuscating. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for December 9, 2020.
https://prospect.org/coronavirus/unsanitized-dealmakers-dont-want-to-make-deal-stimulus-liability/

GOP lawyer resigns over treatment of Florida data analyst
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2020/12/08/gop-lawyer-resigns-over-treatment-of-florida-data-analyst/

Fired Data Scientist Rebekah Jones Raises $100K After FDLE Raid https://www.wlrn.org/news/2020-12-08/fired-data-scientist-rebekah-jones-raises-100k-after-fdle-raid

HEALTH

@guelphgirlchris
So my Proud Boys brother refuses to take the COVID vaccine because “Bill Gates is funding it and he is having micro chips put in the vaccine so he could track our movements.”

Small Data, Big Implications
What we can learn from the latest indoor dining study

Anti-Coronavirus Vaccine Movement Grows, Fueled By Online Misinformation, Conspiracies
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/12/08/anti-vaccine-misinformation

Twitter billionaire Jack Dorsey gives U.S. mayors $15M to fund basic income
https://thehill.com/changing-america/resilience/smart-cities/529316-twitter-billionaire-jack-dorsey-gives-us-mayors-15

Instead of a colonoscopy, a new screen tests poop for colorectal cancer-related bacteria https://massivesci.com/articles/microbes-test-colorectal-cancer-fit-p-micra-poop/

Mellissa Carone says she will not quarantine, despite sitting next to Giuliani for 30 minutes without masks, and despite health officials in Ingham County calling on anyone in contact with Giuliani in close range for more than 15 minutes to do so.

MONEY

Feds, states sue Facebook over alleged antitrust violations, laying groundwork for possible breakup

The antitrust lawsuits were announced by the Federal Trade Commission and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
“It’s really critically important that we block this predatory acquisition of companies and that we restore confidence to the market,” James said during a press conference announcing the lawsuit.
https://tucson.com/news/national/feds-states-sue-facebook-over-alleged-antitrust-violations-laying-groundwork-for-possible-breakup/article_1c00c9c3-2c04-5e72-91d2-078bdd89247e.html

Congress should offer all WFH workers home-office deduction on their taxes

Sorry, but It’s Just Easier and Cheaper to Audit the Poor
CAUSE they defund the IRS and the layers that go after the 1%

Tom Malinowski @Malinowski
Diplomat, father, former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. Congressman representing New Jersey’s 7th district.
“Tonight we passed a defense bill, by a veto-proof margin, that bans the registration of anonymous shell companies in the U.S., so criminals and kleptocrats can’t hide their illicit cash here, and to give President-elect Biden a potent tool to fight corruption at home and abroad.”

 

BITCOIN

Even the mainstream economists at the Fed Phily & their collaborators recognise central bank digital currency – accounts at the central bank for the public, competing directly with banks who have been providing digital currency so far – will kill the banks
https://www.philadelphiafed.org/consumer-finance/payment-systems/central-bank-digital-currency

From Bankless to Launching Our Own Banks – The Evolution of Crypto Regulations with Hailey Lennon
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/from-bankless-to-launching-our-own-banks-evolution/id1535260461

Kraken Becomes First Crypto Exchange to Charter a US Bank
On Wednesday, the Wyoming Banking Board voted to approve the San Francisco-based crypto exchange’s application for a special purpose depository institution (SPDI) charter.

NOW You can have a bitcoin bank account.

Our mission is to bring crypto to everyone. Kraken CEO Jesse Powell explains it all in our video series: Crypto 101
https://www.kraken.com/
Kraken is now the first SPDI bank in Wyoming. According to the Wyoming Division of Banking’s general counsel, Chris Land, Kraken will also be the first newly chartered (de novo) bank in the state since 2006.
“By becoming a bank we get direct access to federal payments infrastructure, and we can more seamlessly integrate banking and funding options for customers,” said David Kinitsky, a managing director at Kraken and the CEO of the newly formed Kraken Financial. (Kinitsky has run Grayscale Investments, was the first digital assets hire at Fidelity and was most recently head of business development at payments startup Circle.)
https://www.coindesk.com/kraken-crypto-exchange-secures-bank-charter-under-wyoming-law

Why it’s still very difficult for an institution to own bitcoin.
If you don’t have firsthand experience with how traditional financial
institutions (pensions, corporate treasuries etc) administratively permission the …