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Sandy Cameron playing a 1735 Giuseppe Guarneri violin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVQaLywKDLM

Bo Diddley – The Rhythm That Shook The World.
Over his signature beat Bo recounts his 1st hit record

 

Bitcoin is trading stubbornly below the $100,000 mark, putting the brakes on a blistering post-election rally.
The world’s biggest cryptocurrency has risen over 40% since Nov. 5, the day of the U.S. election which saw Donald Trump re-elected as president. Analysts named a number of reasons for the pause, including profit-taking by investors.

#Bitcoin

is now up 155%

over the last year.

Don’t worry it’s still early!!!!

MicroStrategy Accelerates Bitcoin Buying With Record Purchase

POLITICS

The lifelong criminal got away with everything.

Armed with a new conservative supermajority on the U.S. Supreme Court and a federal judiciary stacked with Donald Trump’s picks, the Christian far right sees a revived opportunity to overturn decades of legal precedent.

We are the inept and corrupt nation we fought against.

Historic moment for Arizona! @GovernorHobbs just certified Proposition 139, the ballot measure enshrining abortion rights into the state’s constitution. This is a huge victory for reproductive freedom in the Southwest.

Democrats should steal what’s been a highly successful move from the Republicans: Don’t provide any votes for the things that the GOP majority wants to do, no matter what they are.

Elon Musk Admits X is Throttling Links — Effectively Limiting People From Reading News
Washington Post analysis in August 2023 revealed that X had imposed delays on links to rival platforms like Facebook, Bluesky, and Substack, as well as news outlets such as the New York Times. These delays, routed through X’s t.co domain, reportedly reduced traffic to targeted websites, potentially impacting their ad revenue.

The DOJ department’s position on the Donald Trump charges is that ‘the Constitution requires that this case be dismissed before the defendant is inaugurated’

Elon’s dad says Elon Musk is fulfilling his destiny as a White South African by embracing Nazism Whole Interview
Here’s Elon’s dad saying Elon’s maternal grandparents were in the Nazi party in Canada, supported Hitler & moved to South Africa because they strongly admired the Apartheid regime.
Elon’s dad says Elon Musk is fulfilling his destiny as a White South African by embracing Nazism
‘l think for the first time Elon was accepting who
he is,’ says Errol now. Until recently, he’s been
a sort of character on a stage.
‘When you come from South Africa, Lefties
think you’re a Nazi. To succeed, you need to be
accepted by them so my sons, [Elon and
younger brother Kimbal, a hugely successful
restaurateur], started to become these flaming
liberals – turning away from South Africa and their roots, which included me.
‘Finally, Elon was embracing his heritage and his destiny.’
Technocracy movement interesting article to check out vis a vis that guy’s grandparents and their time in canada

OMG Donny and Dick were penpals in the 80’s
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/23/donald-trump-richard-nixon-pen-pals-420567
The letters between once and future presidents show the two men engaged in something of an exercise in mutual affirmation.

@JaredRyanSears
I didn’t realize that a two-sentence tweet would get so much attention, so here is a longer explanation of why Social Security doesn’t add to the national debt:

Kids, Exercise, and Technology

Just a reminder: Our prospective head of the HHS is connected a deadly measles outbreak in Samoa.

#LAW

The evidence that Donald Trump committed multiple egregious criminal acts is overwhelming and unrefuted. The U.S. legal system is incapable of withstanding a criminal presidency. Jack Smith is also dropping his appeal in the classified documents case against Donald Trump. He is not dropping the appeal against Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliviera.
TRAGIC DAY  @JoeBiden performatively pardoned turkeys while our designated white knight Jack Smith filed to dismiss all federal charges on Trump. Simultaneously, unelected plutocrat Elon Musk openly plans American apartheid. FUCK MERRICK GARLAND

Trump Is President-Elect for Just 7 Days and a Sex, Drugs and Bribe Scandal Breaks Out
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: November 14, 2024 ~
Rep Matt Gaetz (Photo by Gage Skidmore via Flickr) Live streaming to you from various production sites in the nation’s capitol
is Donald Trump’s new reality TV show, “Remaking U.S. Government in My Image.” What the cast of the show lacks in serious credentials to run a government for the […]

Trump Makes Second Attempt to Install Wall Street’s Lawyer, Jay Clayton, to Oversee Prosecutions of Wall Street
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: November 18, 2024 ~
Last week President-elect Donald Trump announced the nomination of Jay Clayton to become U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York – the regional office of the U.S. Department of Justice that brings (or passes on bringing) criminal prosecutions against the Wall Street megabanks for their serial […]

Trump’s Nominees Are Being Hand-Picked to Enact a Dangerous Platform the Koch Brothers Made Public 44 Years Ago
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: November 19, 2024 ~
President-Elect Donald Trump/ Charles Koch
Tens of millions of Americans rise each morning and pray they are awakening from a bad dream about the President-elect’s plans to put a plethora of outrageously unfit people in charge of critical federal agencies that protect the air we breathe, the water we […]

Matt Gaetz Case Has Echoes of the Justice Department’s Failure to Prosecute Jeffrey Epstein’s Sex-Trafficking Ring
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: November 21, 2024 ~
Today’s New York Times carries a diagram prepared by the U.S. Department of Justice during its multi-year investigation into then Congressman Matt Gaetz. (We have printed the left-hand section of the diagram above.) The diagram illustrates the following about the DOJ’s investigation into the man that President-elect […]

New to me: Paul Keating was Australian Prime Minister from 1991 to 1996.
Former Prime Minister Paul Keating’s daughter Katherine seen leaving Jeffrey Epstein’s apartment in 2010. 14 years on we have no answers. Also Prince Andrew is seen inside as Katherine exits.

#TECHNOLOGY

Federation of American Scientists
@scientistsorg
When the capital required for a new technology is too large for venture  capital, yet too risky for traditional finance, the project dies on the vine. And with it, the American edge.
We need a Strategic Investment Fund to take promising technologies through the valley of death.

Chinese spies and the security of America’s networks
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/chinese-spies-and-the-security-of-americas-networks/
“ Americans, your calls and texts can be monitored by Chinese spies,” a Washington Post opinion piece recently headlined. China has “growing cyber-sophistication and relentless ambition to undermine U.S. infrastructure” another Post article reported. Some analyses trace the recent exploitation to a telecommunications network backdoor created early in the era of digital networks to allow for court-authorized wiretaps.

When the digital wiretap law was passed in 1994,
no one foresaw the kind of sophisticated intrusions apparently developed by the Chinese. It is an experience that we must remember as the design of digital network technology continues to evolve. ”. …..
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/calea-was-a-national-security-disaster-waiting-to-happen

As CALEA was being debated in Congress in 1994,
David Farber, who served as FCC chief technologist in 2000-2001, highlighted security risks in testimony before the House Subcommittee on Technology, Environment, and Aviation:

My testimony to the House in 1994 on Calea Hearing on Communications and Computer Surveillance, Privacy and Security
Testimony before the Committee on Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Technology, Environment and Aviation U.S. House of Representatives
David J. Farber — May 3, 1994
The Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication Systems
University of Pennsylvania

Robot Jailbreak: Researchers Trick Bots Into Dangerous Tasks – IEEE Spectrum
AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and other applications powered by large language models (LLMs) have exploded in popularity, leading a number of companies to explore LLM-driven robots. However, a new study now reveals an automated way to hack into such machines with 100 percent success. By circumventing safety guardrails, researchers could manipulate self-driving systems into colliding with pedestrians and robot dogs into hunting for harmful places to detonate bombs.

Heads up: 2 Python packages claiming to integrate with popular chatbots actually transmit an infostealer to potentially thousands of victims. Attackers are betting that the hype around generative AI (GenAI) is attracting less technical, less cautious developers who might be more inclined to download an open source Python code package for free access, without vetting it or thinking twice.

The First Virtual Meeting Was in 1916
“ At 8:30 p.m. on 16 May 1916, John J. Carty banged his gavel at the Engineering Societies Building in New York City to call to order a meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. This was no ordinary gathering. The AIEE had decided to conduct a live national meeting connecting more than 5,000 attendees in eight cities across four time zones. More than a century before Zoom made virtual meetings a pedestrian experience, telephone lines linked auditoriums from coast to coast. AIEE members and guests in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, New York, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco had telephone receivers at their seats so they could listen in.
The AIEE, a predecessor to the IEEE, orchestrated this event to commemorate recent achievements in communications, transportation, light, and power. The meeting was a triumph of engineering, covered in newspapers in many of the host cities. The Atlanta Constitution heralded it as “a feat never before accomplished in the history of the world.” According to the Philadelphia Evening Ledger, the telephone connections involved traversed about 6,500 kilometers (about 4,000 miles) across 20 states, held up by more than 150,000 poles running through 5,000 switches. It’s worth noting that the first transcontinental phone call had been achieved only a year earlier.
Carty, president of the AIEE, led the meeting from New York, while section chairmen directed the proceedings in the other cities. First up: roll call. Each city read off the number of members and guests in attendance—from 40 in Denver, the newest section of the institute, to 1,100 at AIEE headquarters in New York. In all, more than 5,100 members attended.
Due to limited seating in New York and Philadelphia, members were allowed only a single admission ticket, and ladies were explicitly not invited. (Boo.) In Atlanta, Boston, and Chicago, members received two tickets each, and in San Francisco members received three; women were allowed to attend in all of these cities. (The AIEE didn’t admit its first woman until 1922, and only as an associate member; Edith Clarke was the first woman to publish a paper in an AIEE journal, in 1926.)”.. . .

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#K12 EDUCATION

Simple Experiments to Test Quantum Branching Universe Theory: A High School Laboratory Guide
SAFETY NOTE: All experiments described require adult supervision and appropriate safety equipment including eye protection. Follow all local safety guidelines and regulations.
https://github.com/bryceweiner/GCS-Paper/blob/main/high-school-qbu.md

#HEALTH

H5N1 is no longer confined to birds.
It’s ripping through mammal populations and clawing its way toward humans.
The stage is set for a catastrophic spillover
It’s not a question of if, but when.

Andrea C. Love, Ph.D. ‍ @dr_andrealove Nov 15
In the US, milk is pasteurized via High Temperature Short Time pasteurization.
Milk is rapidly heated to 161°F for 15 seconds, then rapidly cooled.
This kills pathogens: E. coli, Salmonella, and Listeria, inactivates influenza viruses, herpesviruses, parvoviruses, & others.

Michael R Scoma MD @DrScomaME_CFS  Nov 16
10% of my 70 college students (18-22 years old) have been diagnosed with *pneumonia* in the last week. 3 hospitalized.
In addition to Covid there are a lot of additional viral pneumonias going around (ie., RSV, enterovirus, human metapneumovirus) in addition to Mycoplasma (see my post) as well as the usual suspects such as Strep pneumoniae – I hope your students are convalescing

This is acute COVID pneumonia in 2024…not 2020…November 15, 2024
Profound respiratory and multi-system failure
41 years old and healthy with no medical history or immune suppression
This is not going away…#CovidIsNotOver
Repost to raise awareness outside the community
https://x.com/DrScomaME_CFS/status/1857506115153703425/photo/1

#BREAKINGNEWS Trump said during his rally that he hated paying overtime and he refused to pay overtime. This is also part of Project 2025 policy on overtime pay. Trump admits to cheating employees. Trump has said publicly he hates overtime. And they still voted for him as a champion of the working class.

In April, The Biden-Harris Labor Department expanded overtime pay rules.
Roughly 4.3 million more workers would have been eligible for OT pay under the new rule.
A Trump-appointed judged blocked it yesterday.
Go ahead and keep telling me that the GOP is the party of workers.

NEW: A Texas federal judge has struck down a DOL rule that would have expanded overtime eligibility to four million new workers, kneecapping one of the Biden administration’s most substantial labor policies.
This is why the entire narrative about Dems losing touch with the working class while Trump apparently showed he cares for them is so infuriating.
Biden tried to give extra pay to 4 million workers. A Trump-appointed conservative judge just blocked him.
No blowback for Trump.
It’s insane, but Democrats abandoned: medicare for all, increasing the minimum wage, cancelling student and medical debt, and increasing social security/medicare benefits at a time when prices had doubled and millions lost their medicaid coverage.

#POLITICS

A number of my friends who belong in these very high upper brackets have
suggested to me, more in sorrow than in anger, that if I am reelected they will have to move to some other Nation because of high taxes here. I shall miss them very much but if they go they will soon come back. For a year or two of paying taxes in almost any other country in the world will make them yearn once more for the good old taxes of the U.S.A.
-Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The Dictator’s Pentagon — a five-sided takeover
“There are five key areas that authoritarians want to control when they attempt to decapitate a democratic state, authoritarian expert and author Timothy Snyder writes: health, law, administration, defense and intelligence.
And in each of these arenas, the goal is to consolidate power, create chaos — and yes, even death.” Is Trump trying to kill us? Authoritarian expert says yes. Here’s how
https://www.nj.com/politics/2024/11/is-trump-trying-to-kill-us-authoritarian-expert-says-yes.html

Senators call for federal probe into Musk’s contact with Russia
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0l3wl76gzo

Meet the new administration.
RFK JR AN ANTI-VAXXER IN CHARGE OF HEALTH
PETE HEGSETH A PUTIN SYMPATHIZER IN CHARGE OF SPIES Trump’s Pentagon pick paid woman after sex assault allegation but denies wrongdoing, his lawyer says.
MATT GAET A PEDOPHILE AS ATTORNEY GENERAL
ELON MUSK A PUTIN SYMPATHIZER IN CHARGE OF SPIES
TRUMP A RAPIST FELON AS PRESIDENT
-the four horsemen of the apocalypse?
-a kakistocracy in the making
-the decline, and perhaps even the fall, of the United States
-America takes a GIANT step backward when we most need to go forward.
WHEN YOU INVITE THE CIRCUS YOU GET THE CLOWNS
“Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right.”
https://x.com/Orange86Illini/status/1858121468812378238/photo/1

Remember how we said Europe should take the $350 billion in frozen Russian assets and give them to Ukraine?
Europe agreed to give $50 billion (the interest not the principal).
It’s time to give Ukraine the remaining $300 billion — RIGHT NOW, before Trump gets into office.

Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump
To President Biden and all elected Democrats: Stop playing by rules that no longer exist. At this point, it’s not just spinelessness, it’s complicity.

The Trump administration plans to nominate Jay Bhattacharya to lead the NIH. Bhattacharya has spread disinformation on COVID, fought against lifesaving measures including vaccines, masks, and social distancing, and is backed by dark money groups pushing corporate interests.
Washington Post
Jay Bhattacharya, an NIH critic, emerges as a top candidate to lead the agency. The Stanford physician was excoriated by NIH’s director in 2020 for his “fringe” ideas on covid. Four years later, he’s poised for power in Trump’s Washington.

Court evidence reveals a Luxembourg bank’s “central” role in moving millions stolen from a state bank in Azerbaijan into Europe, funding one family’s UK real estate spree. Luxembourg Bank ‘Central’ to Purchase of High-End British Real Estate with Embezzled Azerbaijan Funds, U.K. Police Say @NCA_UK says Luxembourg accounts were part of a cross-border financial network. https://www.occrp.org/en/investigation/luxembourg-bank-central-to-purchase-of-high-end-real-estate-with-embezzled-azerbaijan-funds-uk-police-say

#MEDIA

follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__
Hi friends!
I wanted to give a quick update on The Onion’s purchase of InfoWars, which we can’t wait to relaunch as the dumbest site on the internet.
Long and short of it: We won the bid and — you’re not going to believe it — the previous InfoWars folks aren’t taking it well.

Only Congress can create and fund agencies. Trump has said himself they are a voice outside the government in an advisory role.
RAMASWAMY: We expect mass reductions. We expect certain agencies to be deleted outright. Donald Trump and his cronies want to burn the entire house down, just for the sake of burning it down. Remember that cruelty and chaos are the points. Once again demonstrates that he has no idea how the Federal government works. He can make all the recommendations he wants, but Congress has to implement them since Federal legislation established these agencies. Good luck with that.
https://guides.law.fsu.edu/administrativelaw/agencies#:~:text=A%20federal%20agency%20exists%20because,specific%20legislative%20grants%20of%20power

Cantor Fitzgerald CEO on Rumble’s partnership with Donald Trump’s media company https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/12/17/spac-rumble-trump-media-truth-social-lutnick-qmb.cnnbusiness

OMG This is worldwide horrible! There Are More Slaves in the World Than Ever – These Countries Have the Most
https://247wallst.com/news/2024/11/16/there-are-more-slaves-in-the-world-than-ever-these-countries-have-the-most/

Grok answered a question, who spread the most disinformation on X
Answer; Elon Musk

X’s algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to systematically boost Republican-leaning accounts and Elon Musk’s own account following his endorsement of Donald Trump, according to a newly released computational study of engagement from the Queensland University of Technology.

#Howard Lutnick

Elon Musk just recommended bitcoiner Howard Lutnic as US Treasury
He has 100’s of millions of dollars in #Bitcoin

Epstein pal Howard Lutnick being considered for Treasury Secretary. Lutnick controls $100 billion in Tether, the underlying security of BITCOIN. This signals the end of the US dollar & the American economy as we knew it.
Lutnick took Rumble public for Peter Thiel & JD Vance.
The Trump campaign has a new team that includes hedge fund billionaire Howard Lutnick, who hosted a dinner where Trump said “we’ve got to stop the steal” at his home next door to Jeffrey Epstein’s house.
He also took Rumble public. Whoops. ↘️
Peter Thiel & JD Vance invested in Rumble in October 2020.
Archive NY Times article: https://web.archive.org/web/20240813010659/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/10/us/politics/trump-campaign-election.html
Lutnick and Epstein real estate connections:
https://crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/unraveling-web-jeffrey-epsteins-manhattan-real-estate
This is the real “deep state,” an incestuous collective of compromised oligarchs who see democracy as inconvenient.

Lutnick: graduate of Quaker-founded, social justice principled, Haverford College where he has an eponymous library? Weird. Every one of these Trump-backing hedge fund billionaires need to be investigated. They are all corrupt and made their millions nefariously. IRS better be taking note. I’ve had enough of these criminals bilking our country.

Cowboy.X @cowboycrypto313

https://x.com/cowboycrypto313/status/1857845890720919571
Robert Rubin was the Co-Chairman at Goldman Sachs and was also Gensler’s mentor while he was there.
Rubin would later become U.S. Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton Rubin and was a liaison between Epstein and the Clinton’s for years.
While Gensler worked at the Treasury, he was involved in policy formulation under Rubin’s direction, particularly in areas like financial markets and regulation.

Jeffrey Epstein visited the White House 17 times during Clinton’s first term when Rubin was the Director of Economic Council. According to the White House logs, Rubin authorized Epstein’s very first visit.
ELECTION 2020
Biden SEC Nominee Gary Gensler Worth as Much as $119 Million
By Benjamin-Bain
February 12, 2021, 7:05 PM UTC
Gensler discloses income figures in government ethics form
Also details past Tesla holding, Goldman pension payout amount
Gary Gensler Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

wEeZiE {X}John Deaton 4 Senate @NerdNationUnbox
So you’re telling me Jeffrey Epstein, who donated money to #MIT and was intrigued by #BTC, visited #MIT from June 2013 to April 2014
AND
Ryan Selkis who was Bitcoin foundation Board member attends #MIT from 2013 to 2014 but leaves due to his intrigue in #BTC?
Did ya meet him?

Elon Musk spent at least $130 million to elect Trump, despite $3300 being the maximum an individual can legally donate.
He increases his wealth by $333 million each day.
But tell me again how taxing billionaires and campaign finance reform are “radical,” “far-Left,” policies.

Exactly 2 years ago 11/16/22
El Salvador became the 1st nation state to start buying #Bitcoin every day
Today, they own $500 million in $BTC and are up 500%
Legendary

Bitcoin is a new global jurisdiction.
The first global unifying force in human history.

Why Bitcoin Will Rise to $420,000: It’s not a prediction. It’s simple arithmetic. Webinar – April 24, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fv6Lpa6FhY caveat He ALSO owns Ethereum which means he isn’t that smart.

From 2016-2022, Leonard Leo’s businesses were paid $90 million by nonprofits tied to him. In many cases, it’s unclear what his businesses did to earn that huge payday.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/leonard-leo-tied-nonprofits-businesses-88-million/

@johncusack
We are watching late stage capitalist global insanity – where the profit motive is the only value – every one and every thing is a commodity. Now the billionaires feel they have the right to be trillionaires & the biggest welfare freaks on the planet & the greatest spreaders of propaganda disinformation are now threatening the press and citizens – they want a return to feudalism
Feudalism had markets and slaves and serfs and lords.
That’s what these freaks want.
Talk about class and capitalism.
FDR or fascism

#FASCISTS

It’s been going on since Grandpappy Bush led a fascist coup on FDR and in response, nothing happened… Because they’re fascists.
Remembering when bankers tried to overthrow FDR and install a fascist dictator. Prescott Bush’s 1933 fascist coup attempt in the US – Business Coup stopped by Smedley Butler
https://bigthink.com/the-present/fdr-coup/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp4h39qJKqU
The conspirators included Gerald MacGuire,
a bond salesman; Bill Doyle, commander of
the Massachusetts American Legion;
investment banker Prescott Bush, the father
of George H. W. Bush and grandfather of
George W. Bush; and others.
The Business Plot nearly involved another
individual as well: Retired Major General
Smedley Butler, who was at that time the
most decorated soldier in U.S. history. After
his military career, however, Butler became a
vociferous critic of war and its place in
American capitalism. Later, he would write
the famous War is a Racket and an article in
the socialist magazine Common Sense
stating, “l spent most of my time as a high-
class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall
Street and the bankers. In short, I was a
racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”

The Tea Party Used To Be called The American League
Franklin Deleno Roosevelt Fought The American League and Won
Franklin Deleno Roosevelt Was All For Workers Rights and Unions
https://edu-cyberpg.com/K12-Education-Tea-Party-FDR.html

The Marine Corps
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/securitycrisis3.html
The Marine Corps was created on November 10, 1775, in Tun Tavern, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by a resolution of the Continental Congress.
In 1834 the Marines became part of the Department of the Navy. ” Smedely Butler the only Marine Officer to win the Medal of Honor twice. Keep in mind, this was when WWI was just the World War. Reading “War is a Racket” is frighteningly similar to what is happening today, except the monetary figures are bigger. He foresaw WWII and all his points are verifiable. class material
He has a base named after him, he hated fascism. He fought against it home and abroad.
Smedley Butler was one of the most beloved military leaders in American history. Teddy Roosevelt called him, “The finest fighting man in America.” Butler was known as “the fighting Quaker.”

The Marine Corps was created on November 10, 1775, in Tun Tavern, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by a resolution of the Continental Congress. In 1834 the Marines became part of the Department of the Navy. “War is a Racket” by Smedely Butler the only Marine Officer to win the Medal of Honor twice. https://edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/securitycrisis2.html

Texas – Reading First Program owned by President Bush’s brother Neil Bush is a Fraud Scam https://edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/texasScam.html

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POLITICS

44 days left until Election Day.

GEN Z TO the RESCUE
Harris Soars, Trump’s Chances Slip Away With New Findings
Kamala Harris rises in the polls and receives support from both sides, as the latest campaign data shows Donald’s path to re-election is slimmer than ever.

we could all use a Good News Monday
Kamala’s up, Donny’s down
Jeff Tiedrich Sep 23
let’s start the week off right. a lot of good shit happened over the weekend. let us count the ways.

Let this sink in.
It should be bigger news that Trump has pledged to have federal forces invade nearly every major American city to takeover law enforcement.

Trump Media and Technology Group
If you invested $1,000 in March, it is worth $190 today.

The GOP is a Russian asset.
#FromRussiaWithLove Sources close to @realDonaldTrump
are saying a flurry of calls among GOP leaders, including Senators and Congressmen, over the weekend in response to the “From Russia with Lev” premiere.
Strategy? **Ignore and divert**.
The aim is to shift the news cycle away from the controversial content.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1837962678867829039.html

“Bill Barr not only politized, he weaponized the DoJ on behalf of Donald Trump to go after his political enemies and help his political friends” ~Parnas
Bill Barr, another corrupt weasel!
@FrankFigliuzzi1 : “I’ve joined over 1600 of my former DOJ colleagues in calling out AG Barr for threatening free and fair elections: 1,600 former Justice Department lawyers accuse Barr of using DOJ to help Trump in election”

When the truth comes out about why Graham became Trump’s patsy, it will be devastating both personally and politically. DNI Official Refuses to Tell Senator Graham if His Conversations with Foreign Leaders were Monitored
Bradley Brooker, the acting general counsel for the director of National Intelligence, declines to disclose if conversations Senator Lindsey Graham has had with foreign leaders have been monitored and if someone made a request to unmask him. He says the request is still be worked on.

!!!!! When newspapers owned by billionaires bash remote work, they’re really just trying to protect office real estate from a $1 trillion financial crash. !!!!!!
They spent their 2020 bailout money on office towers that have tanked in value. That’s why they’re angry.
The Elite’s War on Remote Work Has Nothing to Do with Productivity
It’s about debt on zombie office towers.
https://www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com/p/heres-why-they-want-you-back-at-the-office-so-bad

RUSSIAN ASSETS

#DeportElonMusk traitor tyrant Elmo
Musk did gift some Cybertrucks to Putin’s Chechen warlord Kadyrov, but when the news got out was forced to remotely disable them lest he be arrested for an intentional sanctions violation.
Chechen warlord accuses Elon Musk of ‘remotely disabling’ his Cybertruck
MAJOR NEW UPDATE: Elon Musk failed to appear for testimony in a FRAUD probe related to his $44 billion Twitter takeover, prompting the Securities and Exchange Commission to seek sanctions. The SEC disclosed in a court filing on Friday that they plan to take action against Musk for his absence.
A federal judge previously ordered Musk to testify as part of the SEC’s investigation into whether his actions and statements regarding the acquisition of Twitter, now known as X, were in compliance with the law.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-sec-intends-seek-sanctions-200024996.html

HEALTH

@JeffSharlet
49% of the class of ’23 at Dartmouth, where I reach, went into finance or consulting. Even were the most ardent capitalist–I am really not that–this would be a crushing statistic. So much energy, education, & intellect hoovered up by one sector.

Metabolism and diet are linked to root of bipolar depression, say researchers
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/sep/21/metabolism-diet-linked-bipolar-depression-scientists-edinburgh

FTC Chair Lina Khan went on 60 Minutes and talked about how the same inhaler that cost $7 in France used to cost $500 in the U.S. Then she took action and got giant pharma companies to bring the cost here down to $35.

Cambodia celebrates return of dozens of Khmer treasures from the Met and other collections
At least 14 of the newly repatriated ancient Khmer objects to Cambodia were previously held by New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has had extensive dealings with Douglas Latchford and other accused antiquities smugglers
The spate of repatriations followed extensive efforts to trace and recover looted ancient artifacts, including some identified by ICIJ and linked to disgraced art dealer Douglas Latchford.

@GovernorShapiro
We must all do our part in the fight for freedom — from the workers in Scranton who make Pennsylvania the arsenal of democracy to the brave Ukrainian soldiers protecting their country.
We stand with Ukraine in their just defense of their homeland in the face of Russian aggression.

TECH

Telegram Changes Policy, Says It Will Provide User Data to Authorities
in a massive shift, Telegram says it now *will* provide user data to authorities in response to legal orders. Includes IP addresses and phone numbers. Yesterday privacy policy said just terror suspects. Now it is crimes more broadly

A new regression in the TV interface version of YouTube
Here’s a rather inane regression in the TV interface version of YouTube. Until a day or two ago, there were separate Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down buttons on the UI, to Like or Dislike the current video.
Those have now been combined into one button, with both thumbs up and
thumbs down on it. If you click it, you’ll get a panel where you can choose Like or Dislike. BUT … the new combined button, unlike the individual buttons that used to be present, does not change to show whether you already Liked or Disliked that video. It looks the same for Like, Dislike, or if you never chose either! The only way to know is to click that button and look at the resulting Like/Dislike panel, which does show this info. A new way to waste users’ time. Does anyone at Google actually dogfood this stuff anymore before pushing it to prod? Jeez. -L

BITCOIN

$300K per Bitcoin? Chart of Trading Legend Brandt Implies Massive Rally Brandt expects Bitcoin to substantially outperform gold in the near future.

BlackRock now requires Coinbase to deposit #Bitcoin directly on-chain within 12 hours of instruction after concerns were raised it was selling “paper BTC” to ETFs. I wish BlackRock would require SWIFT to settle my lowly fiat bags within 12hrs.
(US ETFs acquired 913k bitcoins since January)
Supply of coins continues to decline and bull run is about to get interesting. “Get some / get yours” before they are all gone (only 1,242,163 ever to mined in the next 100 years.

BlackRock amended its spot #Bitcoin ETF custody agreement with Coinbase to improve withdrawal times.

Coinbase must now process BTC withdrawals to a public address within 12 hours of receiving instruction

(ii) Section 2.2. The below new sentence shall be added to Section 2.2.
For the avoidance Of doubt, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Coinbase Prime Broker Agreement (including any SLAS associated therewith), while a Trade Credit remains unpaid, Client may make withdrawals Of Digital Assets from the Custodial Account to public blockchain addresses provided that an amount equivalent to such Trade Credit is kept in the aggregate of the Borrower’s Trading Balance and Vault Balance following such withdrawal. Subject to confirmation of the foregoing required minimum balance, Coinbase Custody shall process a withdrawal of Digital Assets from the Custodial Account to a public blockchain address within 12 hours of obtaining an Instruction from Client or Client’s Authorized Representatives,

COINBASE DOESN’T OWE YOU
9.3.4. Pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, a holder of cbBTC holds an ownership interest in the Bitcoin custodied by Coinbase in accordance with Section 9.1.5 above. In the event of a shortfall in the amount of Bitcoin that has been wrapped as cbBTC and held by Coinbase in accordance with Section 9.1.5 above, Coinbase’s liability vis-a-vis any holder of cbBTC will be limited to such holder’s pro rata share of the shortfall amount.

Former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan says, “#Bitcoin is about stopping the state from slowly draining your wealth.”
“The Fed wants you dead—just a little bit every year”

#CRYPTO #ETHERIUM

There’s only one adult in the room with us.
It’s called Bitcoin.
It may be boring, but it’s your best bet at financial independence.
The rest are a great bet at financial ruin, especially if you hold too long. That’s the TLDR of crypto.

@BoringSleuth
Complete Proof of Anarchy5, a Mt. Gox Hacker who walked away with more than 450K Bitcoin, ties to Ethereum’s Team, both Minting the ICO, and receiving funds from the Ethereum Foundations Wallets post ICO.

@BoringSleuth Sep 22
Imagine that, Diddy had the same $PPP Covid Loan Assistance business, named Our Fair Share, as the Crypto Cartel platform Paypie! Both setup in advance to take advantage of the biggest financial corruption event in the History of the World.

EPSTEIN AND DIDDY DIDN’T BANK THEMSELVES

With the recent arrest of P. Diddy
JPMorgan was invested in Diddy’s PPP Loan company and partnered with the National Bankers Association whose CEO is also ex JPMorgan. Now JPM is linked to both Epstein and Diddy!!!
Not only was JPMorgan forced with a $290 million settlement with women who said Jeffrey Epstein abused them, and that the largest U.S. bank turned a blind eye to the late financier’s sex trafficking, JPMorgan was the seed investor in P. Diddy’s “Our Fair Share”.
Our Fair Share provides information and guidance on the SBA PPP loan program to churches, non-profits, independent contractors, and small business owners. They help those who applied for the first time or those who obtained a PPP loan the previous year.
PPP.Paycheck Protection Program.
If you filed for a PPP loan through [P] Diddies racketeering company and you lied to qualify or his company lied on your behalf you will need to lawyer up.
@SenWarren @ewarren is this your buddy Jamie’s @jpmorgan again? Pedophilia bank
WATCH HOW Elizabeth Warren stays quiet about it.
Cargo ship owned by JP Morgan seized with $1 billion of cocaine aboard
@JohnEDeaton1 is going to retire you.

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ECP NetHappenings Prediction Markets, Vote, Privacy, Politics, Hunting Scammers

PREDICTION MARKETS

@BoringSleuth
People are finally waking up to how Prediction Markets will be used. I started talking about it again a month ago when they started getting coverage.
They want to control markets and what happens before it happens by manipulating Prediction Markets to manipulate what people think.

— CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA private intelligence company and self-described “global election management agency” proved how they could spread influence to get what they wanted, and made it happen – they get caught and nobody goes to jail. — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica

#GOP Voter Suppression

Cyril Mychalejko @cmychalejko
How much does it cost taxpayers to defend GOP voter suppression in Washington County, Pennsylvania?
 A $5,000 retainer & $475/hr to attorney David Berardinelli, $325/hr for associate attorney Oscar Heanue, & $150/hr for paralegal work, reports @hsuniontown
Washington County paying special counsel $475 per hour to defend ballot-curing lawsuit

Trump may have voted illegally when he cast early primary ballot in Palm Beach County
Convicted RAPIST AND FELON Donald J. Trump apparently did not have the necessary grant of clemency to vote in Florida’s Republican primary, public records indicate – but he voted anyway. Florida law only denies voting if the other state denies voting for that crime. NY only denies voting for incarcerated people. He’s not incarcerated, so it’s legal.

#PRIVACY PRIVACY PRIVACY

Use Signal.
“A Ruling That Eliminates Important Privacy Rights in Many Stored Internet Contents—And The Legal Challenge to It,” new from me at Volokh, about a very important privacy case. (As the post indicates, I am representing one of the petitioners.)
https://reason.com/volokh/2024/08/14/a-ruling-that-eliminates-important-privacy-rights-in-many-stored-internet-contents-and-the-legal-challenge-to-it/
The reasoning by the CCA would seem to equally apply to Gmail, right? After all, Google scans those emails to better target its ads.

‘Nostr was created…by the pseudonymous Brazilian programmer fiatjaf… it as “the simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global ‘social’ network once and for all.”‘ Must-read by @gladstein at @reason
https://reason.com/2024/08/13/can-nostr-make-twitters-dreams-come-true/
Alex Gladstein explains how Nostr fulfills the original vision of Twitter. Don’t sleep on Nostr.
“Nostr is only necessary because our existing internet is so broken.”

@EFF
“By providing a legal basis for repressive regimes to cooperate in collecting & sharing evidence for the investigation of crimes that are dubiously ‘serious,’ this treaty risks being exploited for repression rather than justice,” @txitua told @NextgovFCW
https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2024/08/united-nations-approves-controversial-cybercrime-treaty/398745/

The TikTok Case Will Be Determined by What’s Behind the Government’s Black Lines

In the high-stakes legal battle over TikTok’s fate in America, the government just played its hand. And it’s largely hidden from view.
The government asserts that China aims to become a preeminent global power by undercutting U.S. influence and fostering authoritarian norms. Within this context, the government portrays TikTok as a potential tool for Chinese espionage and influence operations, highlighting TikTok’s extensive data collection practices, its ability to manipulate its recommendation algorithm, and instances of censorship at the behest of the Chinese government. The government contends that these factors create significant risks to U.S. national security. But in this section of the government’s brief, nearly half the content is redacted. Sometimes multiple pages in a row are blacked out. And one critical subsection, discussing China’s incentives to incorporate TikTok into its offensive cyber strategy, is almost entirely classified, except for three short paragraphs.

HUNTING SCAMMERS

ZachXBT
Scam survivor turned 2D investigator
Recently a team reached out to me for assistance after $1.3M was stolen from the treasury after malicious code had been pushed.
Unbeknownst to the team they had hired multiple DPRK IT workers as devs who were using fake identities.
I then uncovered 25+ crypto projects with related devs that have been active since June 2024.
1/ Recently a team reached out to me for assistance after $1.3M was stolen from the treasury after malicious code had been pushed.
Unbeknownst to the team they had hired multiple DPRK IT workers as devs who were using fake identities.
I then uncovered 25+ crypto projects with related devs that have been active since June 2024.

How Lazarus Group laundered $200M from 25+ crypto hacks to fiat from 2020–2023
https://zachxbt.mirror.xyz/B0-UJtxN41cJhpPtKv0v2LZ8u-0PwZ4ecMPEdX4l8vE

Wang Dongfeng (汪东风):
I hired Paleking to launder money for Cambodian drug cartel.

Bulgarian National Extradited for Scheme to Illegally Export U.S.-Origin Sensitive Microelectronics to Russia
Defendant and His Co-Conspirators Used Bulgarian Company to Transship Radiation-Hardened Integrated Circuits to Russia
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/bulgarian-national-extradited-scheme-illegally-export-us-origin-sensitive-microelectronics

NEW EVIDENCE THAT @KamalaHarris WILL CONTINUE CRYPTO CRACKDOWN

Alex Thorn @intangiblecoins her advisor choices suggest she will keep biden’s hostile attitude to crypto
harris is working w/ brian deese & bharat ramamurti, 2 key anti-crypto officials from biden admin..
Harris plans to unveil elements of her economic policy agenda in a mid-August speech.
She’s hired a top Treasury Department official, Brian Nelson, as an adviser while also relying on longtime allies, such as former policy chief Rohini Kosoglu. And a trio of outsiders—Mike Pyle, her first economic adviser as VP, and Brian Deese and Bharat Ramamurti, two former Biden economic aides—is helping polish a refreshed economic pitch drawing on the Biden and Harris records, people familiar with the planning say.
W got some intel on the harris campaign’s current posture on economic policy, and who they are working with, from some bloomberg @business reporting this morning deese and ramamurti are two key architects of the biden admin’s anti-crypto crusade, including chokepoint 2.0
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1823338570104352884.html

Kamala Harris Hints At Pro-Crypto Pivot With Key Adviser Picks
Harris has an opportunity to attract the crucial swing vote demographic by signaling a balanced and inclusive approach to digital assets. https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonyaevans/2024/08/14/kamala-harris-hints-at-pro-crypto-pivot-with-key-adviser-picks/
Three Campaign Advisers With Crypto Connections
– Gene Sperling’s link to Ripple Labs
– Brian Nelson, who  left his role as Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. He serves as Senior Economic Adviser to Harris’ policy team. Nelson’s experience includes regulating cryptocurrencies to prevent their use in illicit activities. Brian Nelson has been involved in the crypto space as an investor, founder, startup advisor, and surety bond expert for various companies, including Coinbase, Circle, and others.
– David Plouffe’s involvement in the cryptocurrency sector includes roles on the Binance Global Advisory Board and as a global strategic advisor for Alchemy Pay. He has publicly advocated for creating tailored regulations that protect consumers without stifling innovation. His pro-crypto stance could play a crucial role in shaping Harris’s policies.

In case you hadn’t heard…RFK Jr. has been officially removed from the ballot in New York.

Mike Flynn is Q.
Q is a psyop.
“QAnon” is a cult.
#ArrestMikeFlynn

NY JUDGE J. SCHECTER EMBROILED IN DEFI PATENT SCANDAL (1of2)
The following is a complaint submitted to the NYS Commission on Judicial Conduct, drafted and submitted by the Veri Community.
Alleged Breaches of Model Code of Conduct by Judge Jennifer Schecter in…
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1823329725835514177.html

New poll from youth voting org NextGen America, shows that VP Harris has vastly improved performance among voters under 35, beating Trump in a multi-way survey, 53% to 36%.

Trump’s weird ‘Freedom Cities’ and the Network State cult by @gilduran76
“Why do Trump, Thiel and Andreessen want to build new cities?”
https://www.thenerdreich.com/trumps-weird-freedom-cities-and-the-network-state-cult/

Trump is weird not presidential.
The election is rigged…unless I win.
The news is fake…unless it’s flattering.
Everything is a hoax…unless I tweet it.
Nepotism is bad…unless it’s my family.
I’m rich…but you can’t see my taxes.
I’m smart..but you cant see my grades.
I’m a patriot…but I dodged the draft.
I’m successful…but my businesses fail.
My staff is the best…until I fire them.
I’m innocent…but I refuse to testify.
Trump Suggests He’ll Flee The Country If Kamala Harris Wins
Judge Chutkan should seize Trump’s passport after his threat to flee to Venezuela.

MUST READ AND SEE PICS
2016 #Trump & #Epstein rape lawsuit
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1615973814013235201.html

#TrumpPedoFiles
“It’s fun to fly on the Jeffrey Epstein Plane!” Trump is now using the Lolita Express to campaign!
When is enough, enough? When are the MSM going to report on Trump’s name being mentioned 147 times in the Epstein documents? Trump is literally flying on sex slave 1.
He needs to update his brag from “I could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any votes” to “I could be on Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs, put my name on his private jet, and fly around in it, and not lose any votes.”

Former Colorado clerk Tina Peters was found guilty  by a jury. She gave someone affiliated with Mike Lindell a security badge to access to the Mesa County election system. Peters came in last place in a GOP primary, but of course it was “rigged.”

Trump Settlements for 10 Child Rapes

This is an intel leak of the documents showing Donald Trump paying upwards of 30 million dollars to the families of boys & girls 10-13, who he orally and/or anally raped. This information is being blocked by social media & news organizations everywhere.
https://www.theinteldrop.org/2023/01/19/trump-settlements-for-10-child-rapes-claiming-a-mental-disorder-pedophilic-disorder-f65-4/

Trump is a convicted rapist and felon. It’s time to investigate his ties to Epstein’s child sex trafficking.

All scrubbed from latest reports. #Epstein ” was placed on suicide watch after he was found sprawled on the floor of his cell, nearly unconscious and with injuries to his neck” (from NT)
https://nypost.com/2019/07/25/jailed-ex-cop-questioned-about-jeffrey-epsteins-injuries/

@RudyHavenstein
So let’s check in on “Newsguard,” one of the Orwellian groups (e.g., The Atlantic Council) that totally reliable sites like @voxdotcom and @axios use to decide what is “Unreliable” and “fight disinformation.”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1823435511106548033.html

HEALTH

MONKEY POX Since the beginning of this year, more than 17,000 cases and more than 500 deaths have been reported in 13 countries in Africa, according to the Africa CDC, which classifies the outbreak as a “very high risk event.” W.H.O. Declares Global Emergency Over New Mpox Outbreak. The threat this time is deadlier. Since the beginning of this year, the Democratic Republic of Congo alone has reported more than 14,000 mpox cases and 524 deaths. Those most at risk include women and children under 15. The outbreak has spread through 13 countries in Africa, including a few that had never reported mpox cases before.
Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, is a viral disease that can spread easily between people and from infected animals. It can spread through close contact such as touching, kissing or sex, as well as through contaminated materials like sheets, clothing and needles, according to WHO. Symptoms include a fever, a painful rash, headache, muscle and back pain, low energy and enlarged lymph nodes.

The first human case of Powassan virus, a tick borne disease, has been detected in Allegheny County.
Powassan virus (POWV) is a Flavivirus transmitted by ticks, found in North America and in the Russian Far East. It is named after the town of Powassan, Ontario, where it was identified in a young boy who eventually died from it. It can cause encephalitis, inflammation of the brain. No approved vaccine or antiviral drug exists. Prevention of tick bites is the best precaution.
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/health/2024/08/13/powassan-ticks-allegheny-county/stories/202408130081

Candy giant Mars, Inc. is buying Kellanova, maker of Pop Tarts, Pringles, and Eggo, for $36 billion. It’s the largest merger of the year. The new snack conglomerate will be large enough to “resist any push from supermarkets for lower prices,” Bloomberg reports.