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ECP NetHappenings Happy ThanksGiving 2025

HAPPY THANKSGIVING 2025

Oct/3/1863 President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation:
Americans, “set apart & observe the last Thursday of November as a day of Thanksgiving & Praise to heal the wounds of the nation & restore it to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility & Union.”

THE TOP 1%

→ The top 1% increased their wealth to $52 trillion.
You cannot have a functioning economy when so few people at the top hold so much of the nation’s wealth. It’s not sustainable.

→BlackRock CEO Larry Fink on stage at a major conference just dropped the mask:

Watch the Video
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1993541958631899136/vid/avc1/320×568/YeknUR_fEwxfOQn5.mp4

Camus @newstart_2024
He called both gold and Bitcoin “assets of fear” – things you only buy when you’re scared of currency debasement, financial instability, or even “physical insecurities.”

Then, in the same breath, he got visibly excited about the real future: tokenizing BlackRock’s entire $5.3 trillion ETF empire (and eventually all financial assets) onto blockchain.

His exact vision:
– Every stock, bond, and fund sitting on “a singularity of a blockchain”
– You hold everything in a digital wallet
– Swap instantly from stablecoins <-> bonds <-> stocks <-> cash with virtually no fees and no middlemen
– “This is going to happen sooner, not later.”

Watch him say it himself https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1993541958631899136/vid/avc1/320×568/YeknUR_fEwxfOQn5.mp4

Critical reality check:
The same Larry Fink who dismissed Bitcoin as an “index of money laundering” a few years ago, whose firm owns massive stakes in nearly every S&P 500 company, sits at the heart of the WEF’s corporate network, and manages $11.5+ trillion, now wants to control the rails of the tokenized financial system.

Decentralization in theory, BlackRock custody in practice?

The biggest asset manager on earth becoming the plumbing owner of the next financial era isn’t exactly the “trustless” future many early crypto believers had in mind.

You tell me – revolution or the most elegant power grab ever dressed up as innovation?

(No investment advice, just verbatim quotes from a public conference appearance)

Crypto Corruption

→ Tether, “The Stable Company” just saw S&P cut its assessment rating from 4 to 5 – the lowest rating possible – citing persistent gaps in disclosure and high risk assets being held in its reserves.

Only in crypto would the bedrock stablecoin of crypto trading be viewed as so fundamentally risky. S&P notes

– high risk reserve assets
– persistent gaps in disclosure
– lack of robust regulatory framework
– no asset segregation
– limitations on primary redeemability

→ Calvin Ayre, a prominent financier of BSV,
a fork of bitcoin (BTC) that has lost 99% of its BTC value, is the subject of a new investigation by Tagesschau, a TV program of Germany’s largest public broadcasting network.

→ Trump, Crypto and a New Age of Corruption
Report on how Trump profits from crypto deals (World Liberty Financial, memecoins, Trump Media etc) and $ from foreign actors & corp interests, while regulations scale back, from @HouseJudiciary
https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2025-11-24.hjc-dem-staff-report-trump-crypto-corruption-small_0.pdf

HEALTH

Medicare for All is the answer.

→ Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 – for the first time since records began in 1982. This is what happens when a country commits to HPV vaccination and screening. We protect our girls and save lives.

→ @RobertKennedyJr has unilaterally brought back both measles and whooping cough, killing at least 5 children since January. Every senator who voted to confirm this lunatic should resign.
MEANWHILE THIS ASSHOLE is TOTALLY okay with forever chemicals being sprayed on our food.

RFK Jr on WiFi “I think it degrades your mitochondria. And it opens your blood brain barrier.” Just gibberish He just makes stuff up to sound scientific But it’s absolute horseSHIT

→ Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham promoted discredited treatments like ivermectin and, as Louisiana’s surgeon general, halted the state’s vaccination campaign. He’s just been quietly promoted to second in command at the CDC.

→ Daryl Fairweather, PhD | Chief Economist @FairweatherPhD
The expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies have me worried about more than just healthcare—I’m concerned about the housing market.

Before becoming Redfin’s chief economist, my first job in economics was at the Boston Fed in 2009, at the height of the foreclosure crisis. My task was to call homeowners facing foreclosure and ask survey questions about how they ended up in that situation.

The answer I heard most often was they had an unexpected medical expense.

Without affordable insurance, a sudden illness forced families to choose between their health and their mortgage. Harvard researchers backed this up, finding that nearly half of foreclosures at the time were linked to medical issues.

If ACA subsidies expire, we risk returning to that reality. Families could face skyrocketing premiums or go uninsured entirely. When a medical emergency strikes, the out-of-pocket costs can be devastating—draining the funds needed to keep a roof over their heads.

When healthcare isn’t affordable, people have less money left over for other necessary expenses, like housing.

Let’s hope we find a way to keep healthcare affordable for Americans.

LAW

OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide — OH YEAH, sure thing, doesn’t that kid know to read the terms and conditions? geeze…..
Facing five lawsuits alleging wrongful deaths, OpenAI lobbed its first defense Tuesday, denying in a court filing that ChatGPT caused a teen’s suicide and instead arguing the teen violated terms that prohibit discussing suicide or self-harm with the chatbot.

I mean really if the fucking president can’t be bothered to read the constitution then why should a kid read the TOS !@!!!

→ Blow for Trump as Supreme Court reinstates fired copyright chief

→ Nick Szabo @NickSzabo4 Nov 16
Anarcho-capitalism is a wonderfully abstract ideal that can inspire innovation. It helped inspire me to help invent cryptocurrency.
But real-world cryptocurrencies are not trustless — they are trust-minimized. Each cryptocurrency has a legal attack surface, representing the kinds of ways governments and/or private entities can practically use law to disrupt their operations. The layer 1 of a good trust-minimized cryptocurrency like Bitcoin can withstand much more interference than centralized technologies could or can, but the technology still has its limits.
The kinds of attacks that come from financial law have largely proven to be manageable, due to a combination of the trust-minimized (not trustless) technology, which requires diligent attention from developers motivated to keep it a trust-minimized form of money, and a large army of cryptocurrency industry lawyers who specialize in financial law.
The legal attack surface from arbitrary data is far larger and far less predictable. The crypto industry does not have the legal expertise to deal with it.
Thinking that Bitcoin, or any other cryptocurrency or blockchain protocol, is a magical anarcho-capitalist Swiss army knife that can withstand any kind of governmental attack in any legal area is insanity.

→ Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has started serving his 27-year prison sentence.
FUCKING ASSHOLE Merrick Garland says, “Perhaps Brazilian authorities rushed things. They needed to be more deliberate. “

→ The Epstein emails call Trump the “dog that hasn’t barked.” He’s silent because he knows what’s inside. It’s time to release the files.

→ Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein
BREAKING: 11th Cir. upholds $1M penalty on Trump & Habba for frivolous suit v. Hillary Clinton, Comey, DNC, etc. over Russia claims. ‘Trump & his attorneys committed sanctionable conduct,’ per Judge W. Pryor (GWB) w/Brasher (Trump) Kidd (Biden) Doc: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca11.80225/gov.uscourts.ca11.80225.251.1.pdf

→ DOJ said tonight that it was DHS Secretary Kristi Noem who made the call to proceed with the deportation of more than 100 Venezuelan men to El Salvador, despite a judge’s order seeking to block the transfer.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/25/kristi-noem-made-call-to-hand-over-deported-men-to-el-salvador-doj-says-00669461

→ Sen. Elissa Slotkin @SenatorSlotkin
This idea of illegal orders is not hypothetical.

→ Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance
Unavoidable conclusion: SCOTUS has put 1 man in America above the law & created a king. Not the first time a case has been decided wrong. The fix for democracy lies, as it did in Dred Scott, with fixing a broken decision. Hopefully this one won’t require a civil war.

The prosecutor appointed to replace Fani Willis in Georgia moved to dismiss the election fraud conspiracy case against Trump & others. Judge McAfee just granted that motion. Case over.

→ The DOJ is seeking sensitive voter data which it has no authority to collect, including driver’s license and partial Social Security numbers. This is part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to undermine Americans’ trust in our elections.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/tracker-justice-department-requests-voter-information

→  Smart meter data can reveal intimate details inside your home. A court just ruled police can’t run dragnet surveillance on that data.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/victory-court-end-dragnet-electricity-surveillance-program-sacramento

→  Donald Trump should be in Prison for the rest of his life.

ECP NetHappenings Bitcoin hits 95000 today

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Bitcoin hits 95000 today

#Bitcoin is repricing theworld!
BITCOIN PUMP IT UP ↑

11/20/24 TODAY #BITCOIN BREAKS $95,000 FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY!!!
It’s going to be hard for new adopters to buy the all-time high in #bitcoin. But they will. Yep. Once Gresham’s Law kicks in no price will seem too high. What is the value of making it thru the door in a burning theatre?

YESTERDAY #Bitcoin hits $94,000 for the first time!
BlackRock’s #Bitcoin ETF options traded $1.9 billion in notional exposure after launching yesterday

Imagine not being bullish when we’re on the brink of the greatest #bitcoin bull market of ANY generation.

Tom Lee says #Bitcoin is a Treasury reserve asset, and it’s going to $150,000 this year.

Max Keiser @maxkeiser
A break above $100,000 will trigger buy-stops and we’ll see $115,000 very quickly. Then all Hell breaks loose.

Bitcoin Policy Institute @btcpolicyorg
Research and advocacy to better our understanding of Bitcoin and monetary networks. Our mission is more important than ever, so we’re growing our team. Apply to work full-time with us in Washington, D.C.
https://www.btcpolicy.org/articles/were-hiring-at-bpi

 #Bitcoin ETF options trading on Day 1 (YESTERDAY 11/19/24) indicates the price of $BTC will double in the next month – Bloomberg’s @EricBalchunas just to clarify, there’s one contract that has people betting on double. Overall tho 83% of the betting was on the price higher in future. Thats the more reasonable, yet still optimistic, takeaway I think. A few hundred million so far in options volume on $IBIT (a ton for Day One).. here’s a rank of the contracts by volume, it’s almost all calls. Seems very bullish, esp the Dec20th C100, which is basically betting price of btc will double in the next month.
https://x.com/EricBalchunas/status/1858916477384225005

MSTR Updates @MSTRUpdates
Michael Saylor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ7fjpqzUS4
“When I found bitcoin, I was in despair. I had worked for a decade. I had spent 20,000 man years attempting to do everything under the sun. I could not get ahead. And I was the same me. I wasn’t stupid, right? You look at me and say well this is Michael Saylor worked as hard as he could for a decade and could not get ahead, right? And the most pernicious thing you can do to someone is you make them think that they’re just not smart enough and the reason they’re failing is because they’re not smart and they don’t work hard enough. And then you realize, no the system is rigged against you.”
Saylor is all of us on a bigger scale.
A misfit among peers who finally found an edge against the rigged system with bitcoin and has been thriving ever since.

“Watching people’s retirement funds shrink while banks got bailed out in 2008 pushed me into Bitcoin, and Saylor just validates what many learned the hard way.”

#BitcoinReserve

$90 BILLION VanEck is now endorsing Strategic #Bitcoin Reserve.
HERE WE GO

$11 TRILLION BlackRock is now endorsing Strategic #Bitcoin Reserve.
IT’S HAPPENING

Rumors that President Donald Trump is considering an Executive Order for Strategic #Bitcoin Reserve ASAP.
HERE WE GO

Explained: The Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
Breaking down the BITCOIN act — the bill introduced by Senator
@CynthiaMLummis
– Buy 1m BTC over five years
– HODL for 20 years
– Proof of Reserves
– Protect Bitcoin property rights

Shareholder activists have secured Saylor a 3-minute slot to present to the Microsoft board on adding Bitcoin to their treasury.
The big story here is how a single small shareholder managed to get the board of one of the largest public companies to consider a Bitcoin strategy—simply by submitting a proposal.
I get the sense that the cyberhornets are about to take shareholder activism to a whole new level. @Microsoft board is opening the company up to significant liability and shareholder lawsuits by recommending shareholders vote against adding #bitcoin.

MicroStrategy just smashed $100 BILLION market cap is now valued at $108B
MicroStrategy Announces Pricing of Convertible Senior Notes Offering
https://www.microstrategy.com/press/microstrategy-announces-pricing-of-convertible-senior-notes-11-20-2024

MetaLawMan @MetaLawMan
FTX Wang Gets NO JAIL TIME!
According to the criminal complaint, “Wang created the software code that allowed Alameda to divert FTX customer funds.” He was the most critical player (next to SBF) in one of the biggest frauds in U.S. history.
He walks out of court a free man.

John E Deaton @JohnEDeaton1
We need an SEC & DOJ that protects consumers and retail investors. We do that by implementing a ZERO TOLERANCE for fraudsters, thieves and criminals. We should throw the book at them and prosecute them to the maximum, while fostering innovation and rewarding the good guys.

Little known FACT:
#Microsoft $MSFT was deeply researching THE SOLUTION WHICH BITCOIN SOLVED28 YEARS before the #Bitcoin White Paper was released and THEY COULD NOT FIGURE IT OUT!
#BitcoinNetwork & $BTC = miracle!
THE OFFICIAL BITCOIN WHITE PAPER READ IT PEOPLE
https://bitcoinwallets.com/bitcoin_white_paper.pdf

JUST IN: MicroStrategy is now in the top 100 US publically traded companies. The #Bitcoin effect
https://www.microstrategy.com/press/microstrategy-announces-pricing-of-convertible-senior-notes-11-20-2024

MicroStrategy has increased the size of their latest raise from $1.75B to $2.6B.
$MSTR has also entered the top 100 stocks by market cap as it passed $100B for the first time.
$BTC is also making yet another all time high today.
Saylor can’t stop winning.

Why Bitcoin Will Rise to $420,000: It’s not a prediction. It’s simple arithmetic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fv6Lpa6FhY

Episode 84: Bitcoin Retirement Planning We look at
@BitcoinHornet’s FIRE Calculator http://bitcoincompounding.com
Different CAGR Models, Power Law
Retire after a certain amount of years
Try it with 10BTC, held for 10 Years
1 BTC held for 20 Years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koptwRLk23c
And … 34 BTC in 2034 will give you “private jet lifestyle”

@apsk32 Apr 17
I did a little retirement exercise assuming 4% rule and a person looking to replace the median US family income. Used power law to estimate future bitcoin value. Found that you could retire with 3.4 BTC in 2034!

Felix @maradiaga is a leading advocate for Bitcoin as a tool for protecting human rights and a past Bitcoin Policy Summit speaker.
His recent essay in the Journal of Democracy shows why the U.S. should embrace Bitcoin as a tool for spreading freedom:
How Dictators Use Financial Repression Against Their Opponents
https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclusive/how-dictators-use-financial-repression-against-their-opponents/

The Journal of Democracy: The smartest analysis on democracy and authoritarianism around the world. RT ≠ endorsement.
https://x.com/JoDemocracy

BITCOIN STRATEGIC RESERVE

Adam Back @adam3us Nov 18
if the US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve happens prepare for 7 figure bitcoin. this cycle. the market is skeptical on meaningful follow through for now, so that is not at all priced in.

Dennis Porter @Dennis_Porter_
Step 1: Trump appoints pro-Bitcoin Treasury Secretary.
Step 2: Trump signs an executive order (EO) to create a ‘Strategic Bitcoin Reserve’ also ending the auction of the Bitcoin held by the U.S. Marshall’s.
Step 3: The Treasury absorbs the Bitcoin held by the US Marshall’s & places it into the Exchange Stabilization Fund at the Treasury.
Step 4: Treasury continues to add Bitcoin to the SBR.
Step 5: Because an EO can be wiped out the stroke of a pen, Congress acts and passes the SBR bill by Senator Lummis.
This is how we win.
When he says “this is how WE win”, he’s talking about everyone on the planet, now, and in the future.
Adding #Bitcoin as a strategic reserve would be a decisive win for America and for #Bitcoin, but some wonder “how it can be done”.
The most obvious way forward: Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF) at the U.S. Treasury.
>> How can #Bitcoin be added as a strategic reserve in the USA via an ESF?
For starters, let’s talk about the Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF).
This fund is a special fund operated by the United States Treasury Department. It was established by the Gold Reserve Act of 1934, with the primary objective of stabilizing the value of the U.S. dollar.
The ESF provides the Treasury with a tool to engage in currency and gold operations to influence exchange rates and promote stability in the foreign exchange markets.
https://x.com/Dennis_Porter_/status/1814063064142250229

POLITICS

Danish Navy Detains Chinese Ship Over Baltic Cable Incident
Last updated
The Chinese bulk carrier Yi Peng 3 was intercepted and detained by the Danish Navy in the Baltic Sea, suspected of deliberately damaging two undersea telecom cables. This incident has led to investigations by Sweden, Finland, Germany, and Lithuania, with the cables involved connecting Finland to Germany and Sweden to Lithuania. Authorities are examining whether this act was intentional sabotage.
The Chinese vessel Yi Peng 3 has been chased, intercepted, and boarded by Danish Navy vessel Y311 Søløven after the Chinese vessel destroyed 2 undersea telecom cables linking Finland-Germany and Sweden-Lithuania.
The vessel sailed from Russia & the captain is Russian
A Danish Navy vessel boarded the Chinese cargo vessel Yi Ping after it was discovered it had destroyed 2 undersea telecom cables in the Baltic Sea.
Denmark exercised the right under Art. X of the Submarine Cables Convention. It’s been done only once before, by the USA in 1959.
“Chinese-flagged bulk carrier MV Yi Peng 3 appears to have deliberately dragged anchor to break two underwater telecoms cables in the Baltic Sea.”
SINK THOSE RUSSIAN AND CHINESE SHIPS FROM NOW ON. Get ready for other Chinese vessels to do the same to the other, more important, under sea communication cables.

EFF @EFF
Love Privacy Badger? Be sure to donate to EFF today to support the project and to help us keep fighting on your side for years to come!
https://supporters.eff.org/donate/join-4–s

Jim Acosta on Trump’s non-mandate, “Republicans have repeatedly said that President-Elect Donald Trump has a quote, mandate after he won the presidential election. But take a look at the numbers. Trump has just under 50% of the popular vote.”

The guy who ran a major toilet scam is now Trump’s nominated US Ambassador to NATO. That is all.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/matthew-whitaker-world-patent-marketing-scam

Donald Trump has selected billionaire professional wrestling mogul Linda McMahon to be secretary of the Education Department
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Nomination of Linda McMahon as Secretary of Education | American Federation of Teachers
https://www.aft.org/press-release/aft-president-randi-weingarten-nomination-linda-mcmahon-secretary-education
Trump’s new Secretary of Education nominee Linda McMahon is being sued for allegedly enabling a pedophile to sexually abuse kids.
The victims’ lawyers have released video testimonies describing the abuse.
https://meidasnews.com/news/sexual-abuse-victims-speak-out-against-trump-campaigns-linda-mcmahon
Linda McMahon and her husband are being sued for knowing and failing to stop the sexual abuse of young boys. Only “The best people.”

MAGA is a death cult constructed by American traitors and Russian intelligence using psychological warfare. It’s about to take America over without firing a shot. If we do not intervene in the next 60 days, the United States will end.

WTF Donald Trump has decided to nominate TV personality Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator.

Former @FBI assistant director of counterintelligence @FrankFigliuzzi1 just came up with a critically important, urgent, inspired and genius idea.
@POTUS @JoeBiden should *order* FBI background checks of Trump’s Cabinet picks immediately.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/biden-trump-cabinet-picks-fbi-background-checks-rcna180698

4,000 workers at the University of California San Francisco are on strike.
@UPTECWA healthcare, research, and technical professionals have walked out over unfair labor practices.

German car company taps Pittsburgh tech to deploy humanoids in factories
https://www.post-gazette.com/business/tech-news/2024/11/20/agility-robotics-humanoid-robot-digit-schaeffler/stories/202411200030

UnitedHealth used an algorithmic system to identify therapy overuse and then limited coverage to vulnerable Americans.
The practice was deemed illegal, but similar practices have continued due to a patchwork of regulation.
https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-mental-health-care-denied-illegal-algorithm

If inspector general vacancies are allowed to remain, the executive branch will lack the internal expertise it needs to detect and eliminate corruption, waste and fraud. So it should be obvious why those posts need to be filled, now.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action/letters/letter-to-schumer-now-is-the-time-to-confirm-inspectors-general/

“Gaetz’s only experience in the criminal justice system is as a target of a federal criminal investigation.” – @JoyceWhiteVance

He’s no Arnold Palmer — Stormy Daniels

YOU ARE THE BRAND @mikepat711
Elon putting all his cards on the table openly for years has put him at such a massive advantage during this major pop culture shift occuring in USA.
So many major figures who have always had public and private opinions are being rapidly exposed for their bullshit. People like Kamala are avoiding long format, unfiltered environments where they know they will be forced to expose themselves for who they really are. Elon can go anywhere and say whatever he wants because that’s what he’s always done. Nothing to hide, nothing to fear.This mofo always playing chess.

EDUCATION

Fun trivia.
The people who wrote our Constitution weren’t sure whether they were going to include a procedure for impeaching the President. Benjamin Franklin made the final argument to convince them.
Want to know how he changed their minds?
Franklin said, Imagine a president asked a foreign country to give him assistance in his effort to be reelected. That president would then be beholden to a foreign power.
That did it.
True story.
The idea of a president soliciting a foreign country to help in his reelection was such a massive abuse of presidential power that it convinced America’s founders we needed a way to remove such a president from office.
Just some fun trivia.

Danish Navy Detains Chinese Ship Over Baltic Cable Incident
The Chinese bulk carrier Yi Peng 3 was intercepted and detained by the Danish Navy in the Baltic Sea, suspected of deliberately damaging two undersea telecom cables. This incident has led to investigations by Sweden, Finland, Germany, and Lithuania, with the cables involved connecting Finland to Germany and Sweden to Lithuania. Authorities are examining whether this act was intentional sabotage.
The Chinese vessel Yi Peng 3 has been chased, intercepted, and boarded by Danish Navy vessel Y311 Søløven after the Chinese vessel destroyed 2 undersea telecom cables linking Finland-Germany and Sweden-Lithuania.
The vessel sailed from Russia & the captain is Russian
A Danish Navy vessel boarded the Chinese cargo vessel Yi Ping after it was discovered it had destroyed 2 undersea telecom cables in the Baltic Sea.
Denmark exercised the right under Art. X of the Submarine Cables Convention. It’s been done only once before, by the USA in 1959.
“Chinese-flagged bulk carrier MV Yi Peng 3 appears to have deliberately dragged anchor to break two underwater telecoms cables in the Baltic Sea.”
SINK THOSE RUSSIAN AND CHINESE SHIPS FROM NOW ON. Get ready for other Chinese vessels to do the same to the other, more important, under sea communication cables.

EFF @EFF
Love Privacy Badger? Be sure to donate to EFF today to support the project and to help us keep fighting on your side for years to come!
https://supporters.eff.org/donate/join-4–s

Jim Acosta on Trump’s non-mandate, “Republicans have repeatedly said that President-Elect Donald Trump has a quote, mandate after he won the presidential election. But take a look at the numbers. Trump has just under 50% of the popular vote.”

The guy who ran a major toilet scam is now Trump’s nominated US Ambassador to NATO. That is all.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/matthew-whitaker-world-patent-marketing-scam

Donald Trump has selected billionaire professional wrestling mogul Linda McMahon to be secretary of the Education Department
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Nomination of Linda McMahon as Secretary of Education | American Federation of Teachers
https://www.aft.org/press-release/aft-president-randi-weingarten-nomination-linda-mcmahon-secretary-education
Trump’s new Secretary of Education nominee Linda McMahon is being sued for allegedly enabling a pedophile to sexually abuse kids.
The victims’ lawyers have released video testimonies describing the abuse.
https://meidasnews.com/news/sexual-abuse-victims-speak-out-against-trump-campaigns-linda-mcmahon
Linda McMahon and her husband are being sued for knowing and failing to stop the sexual abuse of young boys. Only “The best people.”

4,000 workers at the University of California San Francisco are on strike.
@UPTECWA healthcare, research, and technical professionals have walked out over unfair labor practices.

German car company taps Pittsburgh tech to deploy humanoids in factories
https://www.post-gazette.com/business/tech-news/2024/11/20/agility-robotics-humanoid-robot-digit-schaeffler/stories/202411200030

UnitedHealth used an algorithmic system to identify therapy overuse and then limited coverage to vulnerable Americans.
The practice was deemed illegal, but similar practices have continued due to a patchwork of regulation.
https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-mental-health-care-denied-illegal-algorithm

If inspector general vacancies are allowed to remain, the executive branch will lack the internal expertise it needs to detect and eliminate corruption, waste and fraud. So it should be obvious why those posts need to be filled, now.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action/letters/letter-to-schumer-now-is-the-time-to-confirm-inspectors-general/

“Gaetz’s only experience in the criminal justice system is as a target of a federal criminal investigation.” – @JoyceWhiteVance

He’s no Arnold Palmer — Stormy Daniels

YOU ARE THE BRAND @mikepat711
Elon putting all his cards on the table openly for years has put him at such a massive advantage during this major pop culture shift occuring in USA.
So many major figures who have always had public and private opinions are being rapidly exposed for their bullshit. People like Kamala are avoiding long format, unfiltered environments where they know they will be forced to expose themselves for who they really are. Elon can go anywhere and say whatever he wants because that’s what he’s always done. Nothing to hide, nothing to fear. This mofo always playing chess.

David Pepper @DavidPepper
It lost in all 120 counties. And by 60-40 or worse in all but 9 of those counties.
And—it did the worst in Kentucky’s smallestcounty: Robertson County. Population, 2,033 (as of 2023). It lost there 74-26!
ROAD TRIP: The Most Anti-Voucher County in Kentucky (and it voted for Trump 80-20)
A on lessons learned (way beyond education)
The Kentucky Amendment to add private school vouchers was absolutely routed: 65-35. (Trump won Kentucky 65-34).

Right Wing Watch@RightWingWatch
Appearing on a Christian nationalist podcast last night, Pete Hegseth said he’s creating a system of “classical Christian schools” to provide recruits for an underground army that will eventually launch an “educational insurgency” across the nation.
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/pete-hegseths-plan-create-christian-nationalist-educational-insurgency
These people don’t follow Jesus’ teachings. They are fascists using religion to subjugate people.In the past this would have been some whack job out in the boonies. This guy went to Harvard and Princeton. It doesn’t seem he’s cosplaying either, don’t think anyone would take an act so far as to get numerous tattoos. Dangerous threat as a private citizen, let alone as Secretary of Defense. Fuck this crazy motherfucker!

AND THERE IS MORE

One person died and at least 38 got sick after an E. coli outbreak linked to organic carrots. And it’s all from one company.
Just two carrot suppliers control 60% of the market, so when one has a problem it has a huge impact. Corporate consolidation hurts us all.

Trump picks Dr. Oz, who lost 2022 PA Sen race, to lead the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid. Trump said Oz “will also cut waste and fraud within our Country’s most expensive Government Agency” suggesting cuts to the healthcare agencies are on the table

Matt Fleming, Florida Expert
@Matt_Fleming321
Lmfao. If he’s IN the white house, and Republicans have control of all 3 branches of government, who the fuck is going to stop him? The people acting like this isn’t going to be as bad as it is, are out to fucking lunch.
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Laurence Tribe ⚖️@tribelaw Nov 18
Don’t buy into the illusion that Trump has a mandate to trample the rule of law or ignore the Constitution. He does not. Under 1/3 of eligible voters picked Trump. That is no mandate but a narrow victory.

Jon Cooper There’s no doubt that the Trump tariffs (i.e., import taxes) and his harsh deportation policy will drive up consumer prices and lead to increased inflation — just as prices have leveled off and inflation has eased. The only question is whether MAGA cultists will blame Trump or find another scapegoat.

Supply chains and labor markets matter. Tariffs and deportations hit both. The question isn’t blame; it’s how to stop economic self-sabotage. ⚙️
Media of course will both-sides all his lies.

@PrezLives2022
Aww farmers are having a big cry now that they realize that all the cheap labor they had been using is in great danger of being deported. Now those farmers will actually have to pay a living wage and the prices of their goods will go through the roof. To the liberal farmers my sympathies to you…to the farmers who voted Trumpalways voting against your best interests.
“The idea of mass deportations is frightening and scary, just on a humane level,” dairy farmer Jennifer Tilton Flood reportedly said. “With regards to our community, mass deportations could affect our entire dairy industry throughout the U.S.”
45% of 2.2 million farm workers are migrants. That is damn near half the workers. Now our meat, dairy, vegetables, and fruits will have to be imported and Trump will put tariffs on that. Only in America can we put idiots in charge of the country.

@BalouCat
I’m afraid there’s more to it; several steps. Farmers will lose farms. Farms will be bought by corporations. Corporations will bring back cheap labor and/or robotics. They want to own everything from property, food, housing, transportation. You name it.Art Candee @ArtCandee
https://x.com/ArtCandee/status/1858897685102674341
Word is that Donald Trump tapped Howard Lutnick to be his Secretary of Commerce.

Here’s a little about Howard…

Four days after the 9/11 attacks, Lutnick announced to public outcry that he would have to stop the paychecks of his nearly 700 employees who were missing or had died.

In 2014, Lutnick for quietly pocketed a chunk of the $135 million settlement his company received from American Airlines over negligence related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed more than almost 700 of his firm’s employees.

In 2014, a subsidiary of his Cantor Fitzgerald, CG Technology, had to pay $5.5 million to Nevada gaming regulators, the largest fine ever leveled against a casino or affiliated company, for an illegal betting operation that had accepted almost $35 million in illegal wagers.

In 2016, Lutnick’s CG Technology agreed to pay $22.5 million to the U.S. government for its role in an illegal gambling and money laundering scheme. In 2022, Lutnick was sued in a complaint that said he improperly got a $50 million bonus for “blowing smoke” that he’d added value to the company’s Newmark commercial real-estate unit.

For over a decade, Lutnick brought five separate lawsuits in federal and state courts, together seeking upward of $80 million from the city of Bridgehampton, New York, because they weren’t letting him build a barn and a basketball court on his property.

Lutnick has been taking major heat most recently over his massive investment in Tether……A cryptocurrency that’s popular with groups like Hamas. Only the very best people…right?

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ECP NetHappenings Covid read the whole thing

#COVID read the whole thing

Emily Kopp @emilyakopp
https://twitter.com/emilyakopp/status/1736848388350459913
You may have heard that a research proposal called DEFUSE lays out a blueprint for the creation of COVID.

You may also know that other scientists brush off DEFUSE because the risky virology was to take place in North Carolina.

Today new docs obtained by me indicate American scientists misled DARPA about the DEFUSE proposal. They indicate some risky virology in DEFUSE was slated for Wuhan under inadequate biosafety conditions.

“PD” = Peter Daszak
“BRS” = Baric, Ralph S.

also read
American scientists misled Pentagon on research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology
https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/american-scientists-misled-pentagon-on-wuhan-research/

also read
SARS-CoV-2’s spread: Was the virus circulating in Europe before it was found in China?
Speculations abound about how SARS-CoV-2 came to be, but a few studies now raise an important question: Could the coronavirus have been spreading internationally much earlier than December 2019?
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/sars-cov-2s-spread-was-the-virus-circulating-in-europe-before-it-was-found-in-china

#SECURITY

Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules
Phone-unlocking case law is “total mess,” may be ripe for Supreme Court review.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/suspects-can-refuse-to-provide-phone-passcodes-to-police-court-rules/

SMS Text Messages Aren’t Private or Secure vs River Link | Bitcoin Payments Via Text Messages
https://bitcoinnews.com/river-link-bitcoin-payments/
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/river-link-launches-allowing-users-to-send-bitcoin-by-text

EFF This Spying Bill is a Five Alarm Fire
Tell Congress to Reject Massive Surveillance Expansion border surveillance banner with icons for DNA sequence, TSA agent, fingerprint
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) has introduced the FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2023–an absolutely awful bill that ignores years of abuse and unconstitutional surveillance in order to renew a mass surveillance law with no real changes, reforms, or new oversight.
https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-they-must-defeat-hpsci-s-horrific-surveillance-bill

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
is set to expire on December 31, 2023, and there is currently a race to see what bill will renew Big Brother and the NSA’s favorite surveillance law. Any reauthorizations must come with significant reforms in order to protect the privacy of people’s communications. But this is not that. This is a five alarm fire and we need your help to get all Members to vote NO on the Intelligence Committee’s bill, H.R.6611, the FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2023.

TERRAPIN: SSH protects the world’s most sensitive networks. It just
got a lot weaker
https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/12/hackers-can-break-ssh-channel-integrity-using-novel-data-corruption-attack/

China’s cyber army is invading critical U.S. services
The intrusions are part of a broader effort to develop ways to sow chaos or snarl logistics in the event of a U.S.-China conflict in the Pacific, officials say.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/11/china-hacking-hawaii-pacific-taiwan-conflict/

EU capitals want media law carve-out to spy on reporters
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-capitals-want-media-law-carve-out-to-spy-on-reporters/

Crypto-Gram December 15, 2023 by Bruce Schneier
Fellow and Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School
https://www.schneier.com

Drivers of social influence in the Twitter migration to Mastodon

Data poisoning: how artists are sabotaging AI to take revenge on image generators

CA Waterkeepers @CA_Waterkeepers
After a decade of advocacy, today California made a landmark decision to adopt the nation’s first comprehensive Direct Potable Reuse regulations. Now, all CA communities have the tools necessary to reuse all of their wastewater into drinking #cawater resources.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch demonstrated for the public GPS-powered software that allows sanitation supervisors to track the city’s snowplows

#TAXES

Clinton Donnelly @CryptoTaxFixer
#CryptoTraders #crypto #defi #nft #tax #IRS #regulations
Starting in 2024, most U.S. companies, partnerships, and LLCs must report the identity of all persons who directly or indirectly own or control the company to FinCEN. Civil and criminal penalties apply to failure to file timely and accurate reports.
Starting in 2025, expect a #tax form from every #crypto platform you use, including centralized and #defi exchanges, Web 3 games, and #NFT marketplaces. Introducing Form 1099-DA: This new form will be used by brokers to report your crypto transactions to the #IRS.
These forms aim to help you report capital gains and provide the #IRS with visibility, as about 75% of #crypto traders are suspected to be non-compliant. Beware of Duplicate Reporting!
Cost Basis Confusion: Misreported cost basis can inflate your taxable gains. Accurate tracking is crucial to avoid overpaying taxes.
What You Can Do: Keep detailed records, review your 1099 forms for accuracy, and seek professional help if needed.
Expect more platforms to exit the US market due to these #regulations, leading to a consolidation of reporting.
Crypto Tax Tool Discrepancies: Different tools can yield different results
Ensure your tool’s data aligns with what your exchanges will report.
Incorrect basis reporting can significantly affect your taxes. Keep thorough records for accurate reporting.
With the new forms, the #IRS will have better access to your trading history, making compliance more critical than ever.

The Optimal Retirement Withdrawal Strategy
https://www.carrolladvisory.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVuLo_Rf4pc

The New York Fed Has Extended Its Half Trillion Dollar Bailout Facility to a
Sprawling Japanese Bank You’ve Never Heard Of
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2023/12/the-new-york-fed-has-extended-its-half-trillion-dollar-bailout-facility-to-a-sprawling-japanese-bank-youve-never-heard-of/

 

ECP NetHappenings A spot Bitcoin ETF appears imminent

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The bear market is over and the next BTC bull market has started.
Institutions accept that a spot #Bitcoin ETF appears imminent

#Bitcoin is the safe haven.
Stacking sats is the ultimate side gig.

11/2/23 Today we reached an important milestone:
93% of all the Bitcoin that will ever exist have already been issued. The scramble for the remaining 7% will be legendary.

#Bitcoin is the ONLY market with true price discovery…

Wall Street Journal Bias Fueled Anti-Bitcoin Sentiment in the US
Elizabeth Warren finally admits what we’ve known for months. They want to make self-custody a crime.

“#Bitcoin has no top because fiat has no bottom”- @MaxKeiser 🚀

MicroStrategy bought 155 more #Bitcoin for $5.3 million. $MSTR now holds 158,400 BTC worth over $5.4 billion. Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy is now up nearly $1 BILLION on its #Bitcoin investment. There is no second best.

Fidelity
($4.5 Trillion AUM) Predicts a $1,000,000,000 #Bitcoin price and explains WHY investors should buy #BTC
#Bitcoin is “exponential gold”, per Fidelity’s director of global macro Jurrien Timmer

Samson Mow: Don’t be surprised when #Bitcoin goes to $1 million post spot ETF approval. Market cap doesn’t increase linearly ($1 BTC buy doesn’t make market cap go up $1), there’s a multiplier effect. The challenge will be to HODL from $1M to $10M.

One of Switzerland’s biggest banks SGKB to offer #Bitcoin trading to customers. Swiss Bank St.Galler Kantonalbank to offer #Bitcoin and Ethereum custody services.

#FEELS

Workers in the US are getting record-breaking wage hikes this year thanks to strategic strikes and unions, per Bloomberg.

BEATLES Specifically machine learning was used to separate John’s voice from poor audio. It doesn’t help that articles like this one call it “AI vocals”. That’s absolutely not correct.
“There it was, John’s voice, crystal clear.  LISTEN
It’s quite emotional. And we all play on it. It’s a genuine Beatles recording…”said Paul McCartney.”
https://mashable.com/article/the-beatles-ai-enabled-now-and-then-song-release-date

During World War II, a French mime named Marcel Marceau used his acting background to rescue Jewish children and get them to safety. He would smuggle them across the Swiss border, miming to keep them happy while instructing them to stay quiet. He saved at least 70 kids.

Dr. Eugene Lazowski, a Polish doctor who saved 8,000 Jewish people by creating a fake typhus epidemic in Stalowa Wola, a city in Poland that was occupied by the Nazis during World War 2.

In 1981, Dr. Michael Shannon worked tirelessly through the night to successfully rescue a premature baby boy.
30 years later, in 2011, Dr. Shannon was trapped in his burning SUV following a collision with a semi-truck.
Miraculously, he was rescued from the blazing vehicle by Chris Trokey, a paramedic with the Orange County Fire Authority.
Remarkably, it was revealed that Chris Trokey was the same premature baby Dr. Shannon had delivered three decades earlier.

#PRIVACY

Google your name plus the words “phone number”, “email address”, or “address”. Do you see your sensitive personal info on data brokerage sites?
Google has a tool to request a takedown of that info from Google itself (but doesn’t remove it from the other sites).
Steps for Google removal request:
– click the three vertical dots next to the Google results you want removed
– click “remove result”
– click “it shows my personal contact info”, following remaining steps
Sometimes Google approves the removal, sometimes they don’t.
The info still exists outside of Google.

There are tools available to remove details on the data brokerage site itself over time including @deleteme!
Removing your contact details like phone number, email address, address etc is another way to reduce spam and hacking attempts.
When cyber criminals and spammers can easily find your contact details to text/email/call/mail spam it makes us an easier target for them. We want to be an obnoxious target and removing your contact details from easily searchable places is more annoying for attackers.

AI cameras took over one small American town. Now they’re everywhere.
Hundreds of docs show how Fusus brings usually separate camera feeds (doorbells, CCTV, drones) into one central hub for cops and adds AI to them. Object recognition, “people” more
First, this article is based on hundreds of docs we got by doing FOIAs with police departments across the U.S. This work is expensive, and cost us hundreds of dollars (I know that sounds small, but it’s not for us). Please subscribe to let us do this work.As for the story, Fusus has quietly expanded across the U.S. It takes camera feeds that are usually siloed (including private businesses and residences) and brings them together as one for the police. Police can often view in real-time.

#BANKERS

JPMorgan
17 Attorneys General and Two Claimants File Objections to JPMorgan Chase’s Tricked Up Settlement with Jeffrey Epstein Victims
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: November 1, 2023
Presiding Judge Jed Rakoff, in the JPMorgan-Epstein Related Suits in NY Federal Court
The Attorneys General of 16 states and Washington, D.C. are challenging the settlement crafted by Big Law firm WilmerHale on behalf of JPMorgan Chase and by the high-profile lawyer, David Boies, on behalf of the sex-trafficked victims […]

After Two Years, There’s Still No Law Enforcement Report on Former Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan’s Trading Like a Hedge Fund Kingpin
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: October 31, 2023 ~
Robert Kaplan, Former President of the Dallas Fed
To understand how truly bizarre and alarming the trading scandal case involving former Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan is, some important background is necessary:
Kaplan didn’t just trade in and out of stocks while a voting member of the interest-rate setting committee […]

#HARVARD

It has become pretty clear that Harvard will not protect Jewish students. Donors and employers should take that into account.
More on Ibrahim Bharmal, EDITOR of the Harvard Law Review at @Harvard_Law & @Kennedy_School. See him physically and verbally assault an Israeli student during an anti-Israel protest on campus. Read his NEW Canary Mission Profile:
https://canarymission.org/individual/Ibrahim_Bharmal

Trump’s actions exposed in fraud trial could tank his criminal elections case. While Don. Jr. said that he didn’t do much and didn’t know much, one thing he did reveal is that in Jan. 15, 2021, Trump Sr. took over the trust immediately after leaving the White House. Up until that point, CFO Weisselberg and Don Jr. were in charge. Trump maintained he won the 2020 election from November onward. He claimed that there was no reason for him to leave the White House.