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“CNN is in the pocket of the ruling elite!!!” —Sean Hannity & Laura Ingraham, who routinely texted their friend, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and his Chief of Staff with chatty policy recommendations.

“I want to thank Sean Hannity,” Oz said last night. “Sean’s like a brother to me.” Hannity gave advice “in late-night conversations”
https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1526886715364884481
As Dr. Oz speech thanks Hannity, I’m reminded of @brianstelter’s book Hoax on the #Fox / #GOP symbiosis.
“Clear and present danger”: Trump urges Dr. Oz to “declare victory” while votes still being counted

The Senate passes the $40 billion aid package to Ukraine 86–11. Biden, who described this assistance package as a “vital war effort,” is now expected to sign it.

Congress Defies GOP Sabotage & Passes Domestic Terrorism Bill

House Democrats have a passed a bill which would allow the FTC to go after price gouging on gasoline. Next stop is the Senate where action seems unlikely.

@JoshShapiroPA
My opponent, Doug Mastriano, has pledged to sign an abortion ban into law — with no exceptions. Even when the life of the mother is at risk. Even when delivering could lead to the mother’s death. That’s not pro-life.

PA update: Oz leads McCormick by 1,241 votes (0.1%). It is inevitable that this will land in mandatory recount territory – a process that won’t begin until next week and could stretch into June. But it’s not clear who will be leading and by how much when the recount begins.

More men need to defend abortion rights because ‘the bullies are preparing to go after the entire schoolyard’

‘Last Line of Defense’: Meet the Woman Organizing Nearly 70 AGs and DAs Who Won’t Prosecute Abortion Cases if Roe Is Overturned

Former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis argued on Thursday that the United States is a “Judeo-Christian nation” and should abide by the “limits” God puts on women by banning federal abortion rights. “Women shall stand be their man and sniff his farts if that’s what he wishes for her. That’s what it means to be a Judeo-Christian nation.”
Tell @JennaEllisEsq that the Judeo (Jewish) part of the equation says it’s against the teachings to prohibit abortions. They don’t think life begins at conception.

Illinois has become the first state in the Midwest to pass legislation banning untraceable ‘ghost guns’.
Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings NY Gun Laws

FED NOMINEE BARR: I FOLLOW NORMAL, MODERN RULES OF MACROECONOMICS INCLUDING TEACHING OF KEYNES
Printing $9 trillion in 24 months and then being confused as to why inflation isn’t transitory is “normal”

Biden Administration Wants Crypto Exchanges to Separate Customer and Corporate Funds
Federal officials saw Coinbase’s admission about customers’ vulnerability in a bankruptcy and will call for congressional action to segregate clients’ funds, source says. “Federal officials saw Coinbase’s admission about customers’ vulnerability in a bankruptcy and will call for congressional action to segregate clients’ funds, source says.”

DOJ has announced it won’t charge security research under the country’s hacking law. Might end years of uncertainty about security research and the law. see https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/19/justice-department-good-fatih-hackers-cfaa/

Justice Department pledges not to charge security researchers with hacking crimes
https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/19/23130910/justice-department-cfaa-hacking-law-guideline-limits-security-research

The US Department of Justice says it won’t subject “good-faith security research” to charges under anti-hacking laws, acknowledging long-standing concerns around the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). Prosecutors must also avoid charging people for simply violating a website’s terms of service — including minor rule-breaking like embellishing a dating profile — or using a work-related computer for personal tasks.

Senators push to break up Google, Facebook ads businesses in new bill

FDA head: Baby formula factory could reopen by next week
The 192 Republicans who voted against solving the baby formula crisis care more about unborn fetuses than they do about living babies that need formula. The White House asks Congress for more pandemic support and a House committee hears testimony on #abortion access. listen

Fusion GPS’ intimate professional relationship with Slate pushed the fraudulent Alfa-Bank story that Hillary Clinton tweeted on Oct 31, 2016 – and the same day, the NY Times’ Eric Lichtblau pushed this piece of historic-level, shameful propaganda. With the FBI’s help.
https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/1527327299133005834

New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced an investigation on Wednesday into social media platforms used by the Buffalo shooting suspect.

Podcast Bill Browder is the author of “Red Notice” and “Freezing Order,” which delineate his investments in Russia and the ultimate death of his attorney Sergei Magnitsky after he refuses to back down on his accusation that Russian government officials fraudulently claimed a $230 million tax refund for Browder’s company, Hermitage Capital. We cover Browder’s history and ultimate investments in Russia as well as Putin’s personal vendetta against him and the status of Russia today.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bill-browder/id1316200737
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5rx5iBBpYrdI5aaeFjW7nD

Trump Crony Traded His Influence for Investment Cash From the United Arab Emirates
When the Justice Department last year accused Tom Barrack, a friend and adviser of former President Donald Trump, with conspiring to “illegally advance and promote the interests of the United Arab Emirates,” they did not explain why they believed Barrack had secretly lobbied for the UAE. But on Tuesday, in a so-called superseding indictment of […]

Robert Reich explains how ‘shady investors’ in private equity are ‘rigging the economy’ and jacking up costs

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Get the Ring Camera out of your house now!

24/7 surveillance ring camera

Your Police want to GIVE you the Ring Camera so they can practice total surveillance over everybody, just like China!

If you don’t take the camera from them you’ll get put on the list of people who aren’t cooperating with the police! Your Social Credit Score is going to go down Just Like Happened In China!

Get Ready America! get used to 24/7 surveillance and giving up your privacy rights.

Your Police Department is being used to shill for Amazon and get you to allow them to defeat your privacy. Ring has essentially enlisted police departments as salespeople for its video doorbells.

police surveillance with ring camera give away

Neighbors Data Let Us Map Amazon’s Home Surveillance Network
https://gizmodo.com/ring-s-hidden-data-let-us-map-amazons-sprawling-home-su-1840312279

Ring also launched Neighbors, which is essentially a neighborhood watch app that allows residents to post doorbell footage and interact with each other.

  1. Ring, the doorbell-camera firm, has partnered with 400 police forces
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/28/doorbell-camera-firm-ring-has-partnered-with-police-forces-extending-surveillance-reach/
    Aug 28, 2019 … “If the police demanded every citizen put a camera at their door and give … has partnered with 400 police forces, extending surveillance concerns …… The company said it began phasing out the giveaway program for new …
  2. Amazon’s helping police build a surveillance network with Ring …
    https://www.cnet.com/features/amazons-helping-police-build-a-surveillance-network-with-ring-doorbells/
    Jun 5, 2019 … Your Ring camera could be a part of a police surveillance network …. While police need to ask for permission to get footage, a giveaway …
  3. Cops Are Offering Ring Doorbell Cameras in Exchange for Info –
    https://www.wired.com/story/cops-offering-ring-doorbell-cameras-for-information/
    Aug 2, 2019 … Some departments have given out free or discounted Ring devices to the …. by lobbying for Community Control Over Police Surveillance laws.
  4. Report Says Ring, Police Signed Secret Agreement to Give Away …
    https://www.securitysales.com/news/ring-police-secret-agreement-video-doorbells/
    Jul 30, 2019 … While an increased number of surveillance cameras and a larger data pool for police to dig through —as well as the ability for residents to …

NOT GETTING HACKED IS RING’S IT JOB!!!
NOT THE CITIZENS JOB.

RING CAMERA HACKED AGAIN AND AGAIN

‘We Don’t Feel Safe:’ Waterbury Family’s Ring Cameras Hacked …
https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/we-dont-feel-safe-waterbury-familys-ring-cameras-hacked/2194752/

Staten Island man hacked into Ring camera to spy on teenager
https://nypost.com/2019/12/13/staten-island-creep-hacks-into-ring-security-camera-to-spy-on-teenager/

Hacker Accesses Ring Camera In Little Girl’s Bedroom to Tell Her …
https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/hacker-accesses-ring-camera-in-little-girls-bedroom-to-tell-her-hes-santa/

Ring security cameras keep getting hacked:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90442618/ring-security-cameras-keep-getting-hacked-heres-how-to-protect-yourself

 

This Is How Elon Musk Can Fix The Damage His Starlink Satellites Are Causing To Astronomy

This Is How Elon Musk Can Fix The Damage His Starlink Satellites Are Causing To Astronomy (Forbes)

The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it.
On November 18, 2019, approximately 19 Starlink satellites passed over Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, disrupting astronomical observations and hindering the science being undertaken in a real, measurable way.

EXCERPT:
In any field of business or industry, the prevailing rule has always been that if there isn’t a law against it, you are free to do it. If there are no rules protecting a resource, you are free to use or take as much of it as you want to further your own ends. Until regulatory measures are put into place, disruptors and innovators are free to regulate themselves, often to the extraordinary detriment of those who depended on those now-scarce resources.

In astronomy, the greatest resource of all is a dark, clear night sky: humanity’s window to the Universe. Traditionally, its enemies have been turbulent air, cloud cover, and artificial light pollution. But very recently, a new type of pollutant has begun to pose an existential threat to astronomy itself: mega-constellations of satellites. If Elon Musk’s Starlink project continues as it has begun, it will likely end ground-based astronomy as we know it.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying 60 Starlink satellites on November 11, 2019 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Starlink constellation will eventually consist of thousands of satellites designed to provide world wide high-speed internet service, but the cost to the science of astronomy is already substantial, and is poised to rise significantly over the coming years.

Launching satellites to provide services to those of us living on the ground is an essential part of modern-day living. GPS and telecommunications satellites enable our cellular signals and support our mobile internet today. With the coming upgrade to 5G services, a new set of infrastructure will be required, and that necessarily means an upgraded set of satellites equipped to provide that service must be launched.

One of the first companies to attempt to serve this market is SpaceX, under the guidance of Elon Musk, which plans to initially deploy 12,000 satellites in a mega-constellation known as Starlink. Ultimately, the constellation hopes to extend to a total of 42,000 satellites. As of November 20, 2019, only 122 of these satellites have been deployed, and they’ve already had a detrimental impact on astronomy on a global scale.

If we hope to mitigate this, either regulators or SpaceX executives themselves will need to mandate a change…
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/11/20/this-is-how-elon-musk-can-fix-the-damage-his-starlink-satellites-are-causing-to-astronomy/

Betsy Devos found in Contempt fined $100,000 for hurting kids.

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos in contempt of court

STILL Enforcing Loans On Defrauded College Students.

The government will pay the $100,000, and DeVos will not be personally responsible for the sum.

Ten third-party contractors were involved in collecting the loans, and the judge’s opinion notes that the Education Department didn’t do much to make sure it followed the orders, beyond sending a few emails.

It’s rare for a judge to find a Cabinet secretary in contempt of court. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a presidential candidate, has called for DeVos to resign over this issue.

the Education Department was supposed to simply refund all the money borrowed by students who attended Corinthian during the time it was making false claims.

DeVos Won’t stop  collecting loans from former students of a now-defunct chain of for-profit colleges.

$100,000 will go toward various remedies and legal expenses for students who are owed debt relief from the Education Department after Corinthian Colleges collapsed in 2014, according to the ruling.

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Toby Merrill, the Harvard University lawyer and director of the Project on Predatory Student Lending who brought about the class action suit on behalf of 80,000 affected students against the Education Department. Harvard Law School
https://www.newsweek.com/education-secretary-betsy-devos-contempt-court-student-loan-scandal-1467672

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/25/773334681/devos-held-in-contempt-of-court-ed-department-fined-100-000-in-student-loan-case

The Project on Predatory Student Lending represents the students in the lawsuit.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/judge-fines-devos-100000-contempt-court-91521

Top Betsy DeVos appointee abruptly quits, calls for canceling $925 billion in student loan debt

Trump’s top student loan official resigns — and immediately calls for ditching “fundamentally broken” loan system.

A. Wayne Johnson was appointed by DeVos in 2017 as chief operating officer of the Office of Federal Student Aid, which oversees the more than $1.5 trillion in student debt accrued by millions of Americans. He later moved into a different position, leading an effort to overhaul how the agency handles borrowers and lenders.

A. Wayne Johnson appointed by Secretary Betsy DeVos abruptly announced his resignation on Thursday and called for the cancellation of more than $900 billion in student loan debt.

Johnson told the outlet that repayment trends suggest that much of the outstanding debt will never be repaid and called for an overhaul of the entire student lending system.

Johnson  hopes to be appointed to the Senate seat in Georgia  by Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, but will run for the seat in the next election if he is not selected.

Johnson’s plan would forgive more debt than the plan proposed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., which would cancel all debt up to $50,000 for families earning under $100,000 per year. Johnson’s plan, which has no income cap, would fall short of the plan proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who has called for the cancellation of all student debt.

Rep. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (D-Va.), chairman of the House Education Committee, is threatening to subpoena Education Secretary Betsy DeVos for more documents related to the department’s role in Dream Center’s actions. Scott says the agency has obstructed the committee’s investigation and refused to answer questions, as emails and letters paint a picture of a federal agency complicit in an effort to place profits before students

Trump administration let nearly $11 million in student aid go to unaccredited for-profit colleges

Mounting evidence shows the Trump administration took extraordinary steps to keep two Art Institute campuses accredited after both lost the designation and access to federal student aid. Now one former student is suing the Education Department for violating its own rules.

https://www.educationdive.com/news/facing-insolvency-dream-center-is-unloading-art-institutes/546114/

Turmoil at Dream Center Colleges Spills Open With Seattle “At-Risk” Designation