On the Good Foot
✨ Satoshi Nakamoto explaining #Bitcoin’s biggest scientific breakthrough at $0, exactly 15 years ago.
One day it will win the Nobel Prize 🏆
Ron Wyden @RonWyden
Billionaires are LEGALLY avoiding paying their fair share while the rest of us pay taxes out of each paycheck.
In the coming weeks, I’ll be officially introducing my Billionaires Income Tax legislation to ensure the super-wealthy finally start paying their fair share.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield denied payment for the proton therapy Robert “Skeeter” Salim’s doctor ordered to fight his throat cancer.
But he was no ordinary patient.
He was a celebrated litigator. And he was ready to fight.
https://www.propublica.org/article/blue-cross-proton-therapy-cancer-lawyer-denial
China’s Animal Lovers Fight Illegal Cat Meat Trade | Barron’s
https://www.barrons.com/news/china-s-animal-lovers-fight-illegal-cat-meat-trade-00fe641d
Scumbag Peter Thiel Is Taking a Break From Democracy
It’s one of his many, many disappointments.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/11/peter-thiel-2024-election-politics-investing-life-views/675946/
COMING SOON: More than 270 journalists.
Collaborating across 55 countries and territories.
For more than six months.
On one investigation.
#CyprusConfidential
Looks like we’re in for some clean up on aisle Global Corruption.
Manafort was linked to at least 15 bank accounts and 10 companies on Cyprus dating back to 2007. At least one company was used to receive millions from Deripaska, according to court docs. in Oct. 2009, one Manafort-associated Cyprus account received $1M and left account same day.
Disingenuous Sophistry
Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith
On paper lawyers create universes. These provide plausible deniability, the illusion of separation, etc. But they don’t define reality
MS owns the infra OpenAI relies on in return for the right to monetize OAI products ≤ $1T. That’s dependency & control, whatever the structure.
When was the last time that shareholders prevented a company from doing evil?
OpenAI may be disguised as a non-profit that helps all business models including for-profit individuals and organizations.
It is inevitably headed towards and oriented for profitability while parts of its development can be for non-profit.
OpenAI is controlled by an entity optimized to not pay taxes.
But, again, [fake] storytelling for the win
OpenAI is not a non-profit anymore, they transitioned from non-profit to for profit. Something
@elonmusk has pointed out before should not be possible to do legally.
In either case, you don’t trust either of them. You trust academia and open source because that’s where this all actually came from.
“Meta is owned by shareholders. OpenAI is owned by a non-profit. Which would you have more confidence in? Getting your technology from a non-profit or a for profit company that is entirely controlled by one human being” — Brad Smith, Microsoft
… absolutely ridiculous
https://twitter.com/martin_casado/status/1723112508234539270
This is insane. What a scummy move by the microsoft guy. Everyone knows what open and closed means.
Meta’s software license. “Anyone can use it for anything they want” is simply not true.
Stella Biderman @BlancheMinerva
I love how shameless they both are. Brad is unambiguously way worse, but Yann is also lying (“it can be used by anyone for any purpose they want” hasn’t been true of any LLM released by Meta since 2021).
All of this is corporate disinfo.
THE APPRENTICE
Trump Compares Political Foes To ‘Vermin’ On Veterans Day—Echoing Nazi Propaganda
FINALLY. This is a headline that just ran in Forbes. Absolute perfection. Calls out Trump exactly like it is.
I hope every media outlet & journalist will read this & start calling it out just like this. THIS is how it’s done & is journalism excellence. More of this, please.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2023/11/12/trump-compares-political-foes-to-vermin-on-veterans-day-echoing-nazi-propaganda/?sh=35fe03407229
“This vermin must be destroyed. The Jews are our sworn enemies, and at the end of this year there will not be a Jew left in Germany.” — Hitler, 1939
“We will root out the Communists, Marxists … and Radical Left Thugs that live like vermin within … our country.” — Trump, today
If the Fourth Estate lets us down, we will end up with The Fourth Reich.
A total of 55% are not religious at all or slightly religious. Why? Evangelicals have made hypocritical asses out of themselves supporting Trump. Their ignorance is astounding.
What percentage of Americans
have studied history enough to realize
that Traitor Trump follows
HITLER’s pathway ???
“How dare you accuse our Leader of using Nazi rhetoric. For that we will exterminate you.”
Spokesman denies that Trump rhetoric echoes that of dictators like Hitler and Mussolini and declares that those who say it does will find “their entire existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/12/trump-rally-vermin-political-opponents/
HOW RELIGIOUS AMERICANS CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE
“Not religious at all” is poised to overtake “moderately religious” as the most prevalent description of how religious Americans consider themselves to be.
“Very religious” remains the least prevalent and continues to decline.
Quite the shift from just 13 years ago.
This will be known in future decades as “The Trump Effect” where Christianity took a poison pill from a false god.
VERY RELIGIOUS CAN NOT MAKE THE LAWS.
Republicans are capitalizing on Israel aid to reward the ultra-rich
New House Speaker Mike Johnson’s first proposal to cut spending is a farce.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/israel-aid-mike-johnson-republican-irs-cuts-rcna123072
Why did Trump hire Alina Habba to be his very bad lawyer?
Maybe because she’s the daughter of the Chancellor of the US Knights of Malta, a christofascist arm of the Catholic Church that fought the Crusades & sided with Hitler in WWII.
Members:
Erik Prince (Betsy DeVoss’ brother)
Leonard Leo
Rupert Murdoch
Phyllis Schlafly—Close associate of Mike Flynn’s mom Helen
William Casey—Reagan CIA Director & founder of the Manhattan Institute
The “Knights of Malta” was a medieval military Order called “Hospitallers” that the Catholic Church wielded in the Crusades along with the “Knights Templar.”
Today it’s a small but powerful “remnant” of a nearly thousand year old racist crusade to remove Islam from the Earth.
It’s important to note that the “Knights Templar” and the “Knights of Malta” are not the same and were never the same, although they were both Catholic military Orders weaponized by the Pope to eradicate Islam.
Regardless, this is accurate for both groups. They are crusaders:
We’re going to focus on the Knights of Malta in particular because that’s where the most dangerous elements are.
There are 13,500+ members today.
Here are a notable few:
William Casey – Reagan’s CIA Director, Manhattan Institute
Phyllis Schafly – #CNP
Rupert Murdoch – Fox
Leonard Leo – Federalist Society / SCOTUS
Erik Prince / Joseph Schmitz – Blackwater
2023 Blackwater’s Erik Prince has been indicted in Austria
Notorious international operative Erik Prince has finally been criminally indicted – by the government of Austria. He’s reportedly been indicted for allegedly supplying arms to Libya, which is illegal. This reporting is coming from to Austrian newspaper Kurier and online news outlet BNN. Austria is reportedly seeking assistance from the United States in an attempt at locating and extraditing Prince.
In recent years the Order has permanently come back home to Malta:
Donald Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba’s dad is Chancellor of the US Knights of Malta, a christofascist arm of the Catholic Church that has been fighting the Crusades for 950 years and still thinks the wrong side won WWII.
Multiple neo-Nazi mass murderers have signaled to the Knights of Malta in their manifestos. Christchurch killer Brenton Tarrant included inscriptions to the Knights of Malta on his shotgun.
The Phyllis Schlafly – Helen Flynn connection is very interesting.
Helen Flynn, Mike Flynn’s mother. She’s vice chairman of Catholics for Life. Female John Birch Society sort of thing.
Order of Malta board disbanded as fallout over child sex abuse controversy deepens
Growing turmoil in first-aid organisation under increasing scrutiny over its handling of allegations made against volunteer
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2022/11/04/order-of-malta-board-disbanded-over-abuse-controversy/
When Phyllis Schlafly made the case for Donald Trump
https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/07/politics/phyllis-schlafly-donald-trump-book/index.html
Dear Gen Z: If Biden is the Democratic nominee and you choose not to vote for him, THIS is what we will get. It would be the very definition of cutting off your nose to spite your face. 1/ If this doesn’t scare you, I don’t know what will. Christofascist indoctrination ceremony: video
https://x.com/NickKnudsenUS/status/1547259907275075584
‘Seven Mountains’ Dominionists believe that they are on a mission to create a Christian society until Jesus returns, by controlling the “Seven Mountains:” Family, Religion, Education, Media, Entertainment, Business, and Government.