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ECP NetHappenings Headlines Pastafarianism, founded by an Atheist

Turtle Mitch McConnell

says he plans to serve out his term to January 2027.

He’ll be 85. Republicans can’t talk shit about Biden’s age anymore. Even that Chuck Grassley is 90.

 

In November there will be two FL Supreme Court (@flcourts) justices on the ballot – Justice Renatha Francis and Justice Meredith Sasso. They were both recently appointed to the court by Governor DeSantis, so voters will now decide if they should remain on the court. They signed their own retirement papers on that failed dissent against the abortion amendment. Maybe close to the shortest tenures ever on the FLSC.

Hope Hicks has flipped on Trump; she’s testifying against him in the NY criminal trial
DEVASTATING for Trump: Hicks was in his inner circle during the events in question, in the fall of 2016. She can likely testify that the purpose of the hush money was the ELECTION.

John McGuire. He’s an ex-Navy SEAL. He’s a Candidate for Congress VA 05. He was at the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.

TETHER

Tether is a massive scam. There are no US treasuries or anything backing it. Its founders are known crooks since the early days of crypto. When it implodes it’s going to be, by far, the worst bitcoin crash ever.

Rho Rider @RhoRider
⚠️🚨Wanna know the🔑to the ponzi?
Behold, the “Tether: Loan Interest” wallet
They ‘loan’ out $USDT to exchanges & market makers, ‘secured’ by crypto bought w/ $USDT, and collect ‘interest’ in $USDT they loaned.
They call these loans “reserves” Even if you want to assume they’re 99% backed at attestation time… when you have $105B in circulation and only show reserves evry 3 months, its very easy to print $1 or 2 Billion on the front end, give it out to your cartel friends, and backfill cash later. Best part? They don’t even have to ever collect real fiat on these bc Tether just calls it “loans” & “other investments” on their attestations
…aka, >$9B $USDT is whatever fugazi accounting they want. Thats more than enough to move the market
They can do this infinitely
Just like ‘central banks’ and ‘banks’.
Fiat out of thin air for worthless paper.

FRANCIS – BULLBITCOIN.COM @francispouliot_
Bitcoin meetup 2 days ago, I explain to a normie what is self-custody, telling her Coinbase may one day refuse her permission to withdraw. At the dinner, I show her how to pay me with BTC from her Coinbase wallet. And guess what? Didn’t have permission to withdraw Bitcoin.

Pastafarianism

In 2014, Shawna Hammond from Oklahoma sought to have her driver’s license photo taken with a spaghetti strainer on her head.

She argued that wearing the colander was a religious requirement as a member of the Pastafarian faith. Surprisingly, her request was approved because the colander is recognized as the official headwear for Pastafarians, making it permissible under the state’s guidelines for religious attire.

 in 2005, emerged as a protest against the inclusion of Creationism in school curricula.

When questioned about her adherence to Pastafarianism, Shawna identified herself as an Atheist, emphasizing her belief in freedom of thought. She explained that to her, ‘the colander represents freedom.’

The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the deity of Pastafarianism, is depicted as a floating mass of spaghetti noodles with a large meatball on either side of its body and two centrally located eyestalks.

This depiction is a parody of traditional religious iconography and serves as a symbol of the movement’s light-hearted approach to religion.

The Pastafarian community is quite diverse and widespread. Adherents, who call themselves Pastafarians, purportedly number in the tens of thousands and are primarily located in North America, western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

This global presence underscores the reach and influence of this parody religion, demonstrating its ability to resonate with individuals across different cultures and geographies.

Pastafarians believe that humans are descendants of pirates, the original Pastafarians. This belief is a satirical take on the concept of a chosen people found in many religions. Pirates are revered as peaceful explorers, and the decline in their numbers since the 1800s is humorously cited as the cause of global warming.

ECP NetHappenings The Economy Today

The economy today is rigged against working people and young people.

National debt surpasses $34 trillion for the first time ever.

SEC schedules meetings today with New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, & Cboe to finalize comments on Spot #Bitcoin ETFs, Fox Business reports.

Bernie Sanders has said:

The Boomer generation needed just 306 hours of minimum wage work to pay for four years of public college.

Millennials need 4,459. 

 

Yesterday two trump republicans judges ruled that Texas doctors aren’t obligated to perform emergency abortions even to save a woman’s life.

When Democrats voted twice to restore Roe v Wade every single republican in Congress voted no and invited this vicious cruelty to women.

David Z Morris
SBF’s MOTHER
“Barbara Fried’s die-hard determinist materialism.
In her own work as recently as circa 2013, these beliefs led Fried to the perverse conclusion that no human should be morally blamed for their bad actions. The irony is, yeah, obvious.
Determinist and rationalist ideas were clearly passed on to Sam, in a near-systematic way. They are upstream from the “consequentialist” ethics that ultimately led Sam to EA, and that led him to believe there was no ethical justification for not lying and stealing.”

Bill Barr’s Father Donald Barr (August 8, 1921 – February 5, 2004)
was an American educator, writer, and Office of Strategic Services (OSS) officer. He was an administrator at Columbia University before serving as headmaster at the Dalton School in New York City and the Hackley School in Tarrytown, New York.
“Donald Barr would hire young people, and not necessarily young people who had a lot of credentials,” Semel says. Epstein was 21 when he started teaching at the school and had no college degree. Donald Barr, father of U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr, hired Jeffrey Epstein as a teacher, served as his mentor, and wrote a novel about men raping teenage girls. … Donald Barr was headmaster of Dalton School in New York City until the summer of 1974. In September 1974, Jeffrey Epstein began working as a maths and physics professor at the school.

Calder McHugh· Associate Editor July 13, 2019
“Disgraced Wall Streeter Jeffrey Epstein was arrested last week for his alleged involvement in the sex trafficking of minors. Epstein’s past, and how he made his money, remains murky, but details have continued to emerge about his history. We do know that Epstein briefly taught at the Dalton School, a private co-educational school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in the early 1970s. Students in his classes at the time, who wished to remain anonymous, described Epstein to Yahoo Finance as a young man who “dressed flamboyantly,” with a “thick New York accent” who was “very high energy and dynamic.”
Donald Barr, Dalton’s headmaster and father of Attorney General Bill Barr, hired Epstein to teach math and science.
Epstein is pictured here in Dalton’s 1975 yearbook. He taught high schoolers. (Yahoo Finance)
“What we’ve all been wondering,” one of Epstein’s former students said, “is how did this guy get his job in the first place, without a degree.”

A Trump campaign adviser has been INDICTED in DC on information for failing to register as a Foreign Agent for Qatar. DoJ launched the probe in 2021. “Information” can mean cooperation or a plea deal.
Barry Bennett, who was an unpaid advisor, lunched a group called Yemen Crisis Watch to embarrass Qatar’s rivals. He also launched Avenue Strategies to sell access to Trump. Doug Watts, another veteran of Ben Carson’s 2016 campaign and ally of Barry Benett, has also been charged with FARA-related violations.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.263361/gov.uscourts.dcd.263361.1.0.pdf

Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump
BOOM: Audio involving Senator Ron Johnson is being investigated by prosecutors.
Prosecutors in Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin are investigating new evidence (audio below) that implicates Ron Johnson in Donald’s fake elector scheme. The best part: Donald can NEVER pardon him.
Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro is now cooperating with investigators…

je*******@**ad.social ✍🏻 📢 @jennycohn1
Black Robe Regiment pastor Bill Cook shared a stage w/ convicted Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes, Mike Flynn, & other far right Christian leaders during the pro-Trump “Jericho March” rally on 12/12/20. Cook wore an Oath Keepers shirt. This is MILITANT Christian Nationalism.
@RightWingWatch
Christian nationalist Bill Cook declares that the separation of church and state is “tyranny” and asserts that Christians should not accept it, insisting that there is no “country on Earth that is contrary to the Kingdom of God.”
TRANSLATION:
Do it-even if it’s WRONG! Because “god” says so…

The Christian Nationalist Church is already subsidized by not paying taxes, even though they are a political arm of the GQP.

How much more before we finally expel @SenatorMenendez?

Tether founder Brock Pierce defaults, loses hotel, sues partner
Brock Pierce, the co-founder of controversial ‘stablecoin’ Tether, is suing his former business partner Joseph Lipsey III over control of the W resort in Puerto Rico, according to reporting from Bloomberg.
Pierce originally acquired a majority stake in the hotel in 2021. He then took a line of credit from Lipsey III, who made his fortune in trucking, to buy out the other owners.

Tether executives have brushed shoulders with crime since its inception

ECP NetHappenings How was Tether Created? by Truth Labs

ECP NetHappenings The Longest Post in 2023

ECP NetHappenings

When Life Gives You Lemons You’re Dyslexic.
Took off a few days…. but still looking out for the best info. This is the longest post published in 2023, and maybe one of the best.

#BITCOIN #TRUMP, #BLACKROCK, #SEC, #TETHER,#VOTE,#POLLS,#PRIVACY,#HEALTH,#HUMAN RIGHTS, #BILLIONAIRS,#HIGHER EDUCATION,

#BITCOIN

OPINION
There is no fever like bitcoin fever. Once the bull market gets going again, the price moves will make your heart race and your pupils dilate. Moon boys Sentiment is bullishness. Remember Retracement is inevitable.

SEC MAY ALLOW ETF’s  in January 2024
*Fair Value Accounting will be allowed and is coming later in the year then the Catalyst 1% then 2% then 5% will come in from corporations.
The irony is the new accounting treatment for Bitcoin doesn’t take effect until 2025, SO, don’t expect corporate treasuries to start in size until LATE 2024 (after a new ATH imho)

BTC Facts:

There’s no such thing as “physical Bitcoin.” That’s the point.
#Bitcoin isn’t located anywhere and it exists everywhere.
You don’t “keep Bitcoin in cold storage” — you keep the key in cold storage.
The lack of physicality is what makes it unconfiscatable.

– #Bitcoin is now up 150% this year 2023 from 15,000 to now 43,000.

– #Bitcoin Market Cap is now higher than Tesla and Berkshire Hathaway.

– The stock market has had positive returns in 83% of election years.
1940, 2000 and 2008 were the only three times that the trend was broken.
The Fed will lower rates before the summer.

– It is an election year and the administration in power will NOT allow 8% mortgage rates and higher gas prices, etc. Why? It’s ALL about the economy.
As soon as Biden’s people realize Elizabeth Warren and Gary Gensler are the liability they truly are, they will throw them under the bus.

-CNBC discussing the #Bitcoin halving: “For the first time in history, you have an asset that is more scarce than gold.”

-12/6/23 JUST IN: Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy #Bitcoin investment is now at a $2,300,000,000 unrealized profit.
What to buy … gold? art? real estate? then you realize it’s BITCOIN
One day we will all brag about buying five-figure #bitcoin.

-JUST IN: There are now less than 20,000 blocks until the #Bitcoin halving HODL
The first time RSI crosses 70 on the 2-week chart marked the start of the Bull Market in the last 3 cycles.
This just happened for the 4th time in Bitcoin history.

–Bitcoin going to $100,000 BEFORE the April 17, 2024 Halving?
“Why You NEED To Own Just 0.1 Bitcoin (BTC)” | Michael Saylor 2024 Prediction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-cByPZuq9o

…… And then, you know, those miners are dumping their Bitcoin more or less on the market. And so you’ve got this constant flow. Next year 2024, it’s going to be 450 Bitcoin a day right after the halving. And so bitcoins hovering around gold’s market cap, I mean that’s a pretty significant amount of Bitcoin the market needs to absorb. But if you start thinking about it for gold as well, right? I mean if if the monetary inflation rate is 1 1/2% for gold, that’s over $500 million Of gold. mined a day.

Fun to watch. He Bought 55000 Bitcoin In 2010 When 1 BTC Price 6 Rs
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YMIZ5mHRO4E

Historical Returns through All the years
https://youtube.com/shorts/YWtYPqBBv9M

How much do you need?
https://youtube.com/shorts/YWtYPqBBv9M

-Did you know that roughly 40% to 50% of millennials are currently non-compliant in reporting their #cryptocurrency taxes?
Why don’t millennials understand their #crypto tax liabilities?
https://www.cryptotaxaudit.com/blog/the-crypto-tax-solution-for-non-compliant-millennials

Dr. Jeff Ross @VailshireCap
The next time a normie or degen crypto trader asks you when you will take profits on your #bitcoin holdings, ask them when they will take profits on their bank savings account trade. It’s an illogical question once you understand money.

#BLACKROCK

-BlackRock has been buying Bitcoin throughout the whole bear market using their private trust. This private trust was launched in 2022 with coinbase as custodian.

-Why Bitcoin’s Price Pumps Matter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4myC0i7BPk

-BlackRock says a seed investor bought $100,000 worth of its #Bitcoin ETF shares this October. Just the beginning.
BlackRock receives 💵 $100K as “seed capital” for its spot #Bitcoin ETF, selling 4K shares at a per-share price of $25.00 👀
https://twitter.com/BitcoinNewsCom/status/1732027853049405766/photo/1

– Interesting update to BlackRock / IShares S-1 filing BlackRock filed an updated version of its spot #Bitcoin ETF application with the SEC.  Thinking there will never be a CRYPTO security ETF approved by the SEC
“If a digital asset is … asserted to be a security, it is likely to become difficult or impossible for the digital asset to be traded, cleared, or custodied in the USA … .”

Samson Mow @Excellion
-The run up this time is different from last time.
Last time there was a ton of easy QE money sloshing around.
This time, money is still tight and interest rates high, but everyone is allocating to #Bitcoin.
Pay attention.

#Corruption As A Service

-US Judge threatens to sanction SEC lawyers for convincing a court to freeze a crypto firms assets under false & misleading claims. Judge scolds SEC for apparent deception in crypto case, threatens to sanction agency
@leomschwartz
-The SEC is facing a rare rebuke—and sanctions—from a federal judge for misrepresenting facts in a crypto case. The judge accused the agency of “materially false and misleading representations.”
W/ Fortune’s resident legal scholar @jeffjohnroberts
https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/12/01/federal-judge-sec-crypto-debt-box-rebuke-restraining-order-gensler/
The key words in this post are “our long-term strategy.”
#Bitcoin allows nation-states to once again have long-term strategies where there previously was only low time preference tactics between election cycles.

– JUST IN: Disgusting Elizabeth Warren who will kill bitcoin if she could asks JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says he would “close down” #Bitcoin & crypto if he were the government.
He helps Warren out and says “The only true use case for it is criminals, drug traffickers, money laundering, tax avoidance.”
https://twitter.com/YahooFinance/status/1732445529777271268
Among the most embarrassing and obscene pay packages was the 2022 compensation to Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, which came in at $34.9 million. The ratio of Dimon’s pay to the pay of the median worker at JPMorgan Chase was 393 to 1, the highest among the eight CEOs at the hearing. (For more on the zombie Board at JPMorgan Chase that keeps rewarding Dimon for the bank’s serial criminal behavior
Jamie Dimon to Testify at Senate Banking Hearing; Don’t Expect His Bank’s Financing of Sex Trafficking or 5 Felony Counts to Come Up
Warren doesn’t do anything about this. The U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crisis Warning Bell Didn’t Ring Before the Repo Crisis of 2019 or This Year’s Bank Runs

– JPMorgan Chase, a serial recidivist when it comes to crime, had paid $1.085 billion in legal expenses in just the last six months. A nice chunk of that money went to the Big Law firm, WilmerHale, which has been representing JPMorgan Chase this year in multiple lawsuits involving the bank’s dark history of financial dealings with child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

– What’s Warren doing about this? Bank Regulator Who Approved the Riskiest U.S. Bank Getting Bigger in May, Wants to Do a Survey on Why Trust in U.S. Banks Is Tanking

F*ck JPMorgan Is Controlling Fossil Fuels Empire, Which Just Spilled a Million Gallons of Oil in Gulf of Mexico

CHERRY ON TOP

#TETHER

MUST READ Imperial Pacific Casino operators with ties to Tether, Wirecard busted for money laundering
https://protos.com/imperial-pacific-casino-operators-with-ties-to-tether-wirecard-busted-for-money-laundering/
These efforts were aided in part by its “President of Global Capital Markets,” Shen Yan, a former Managing Director at Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong, Eugene Sullivan, a Ronald Reagan nominee to the United States appellate courts, was a director for Imperial Pacific, and after resigning that role, he was on the Advisory Board for the firm. Louis Freeh, the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, was also on the advisory board for Imperial Pacific. Imperial Pacific’s Board also included James Woolsey, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Sullivan also briefly served on the Board of Advisors to Noble Bank, an International Finance Entity based in Puerto Rico. Noble Bank was founded by Brock Pierce, a founder of Tether, and John Betts. Betts and Pierce had previously worked together at Sunlot Holdings in their bid to revitalize Mt. Gox. Sunlot Holdings was advised by Louis Freeh, a former Federal Bureau of Investigations director. Sullivan and Freeh are both partners in Freeh Sporkin & Sullivan.

Lubin held 95% of the Gnosis ICO and the remaining 5% was sold within 15 minutes. Another epitome of SEC compliance.
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2017/12/31/most-influential-in-blockchain-2017-5-joe-lubin/

#TRUMP

How American Librarians Helped Defeat the Nazis
Recruited to the war effort thanks to their deft research skills and technological know-how, in WWII librarians used microforms to gather and share intelligence with Allied forces.
https://daily.jstor.org/how-american-librarians-helped-defeat-the-nazis/
Florida says school libraries have right to remove LGBTQ books: That’s authoritarianism’: Florida argues school libraries are for government messaging.

Floyd Abram’s legal rockstar free speech documentary from pbs
Developed this area of law cause NIXON loss to NYT printing stories re Vietnam and other stuff!!!
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/floyd-abrams-speaking-freely-about-the-documentary/28370/

Donald Trump should already be in prison.
Problem is that Merrick Garland did not really start investigating Trump and his co-conspirators until the January 6th Committee forced his hand.
We lost two years. If Garland had started from Day One, Trump would already be in prison.

Matt Klapper: He’s Merrick Garland’s chief of staff and the bridge to a viral moment about the AG’s grandparents fleeing anti-Semitic persecution in Russia
https://www.businessinsider.com/merrick-garland-doj-justice-department-matt-klapper-chief-of-staff-2021-3

@tribelaw
This is why we can confidently expect Judge Chutkan to reject Mr. Trump’s immunity defense in his DC trial for criminally trying to overturn the election and seize power, a trial in which I fully expect him to be convicted, thereby losing much of his current support in the polls.
Trump is now headed directly to conviction in DC for corruptly plotting to upend the Constitution’s system for transferring the executive power to the winner of the quadrennial presidential election

The Chutkan opinion rejecting Trump’s extravagant claim to absolute immunity “is meticulously crafted with the Supreme Court in mind.” As
@DennisAftergut carefully shows, her ruling is totally bulletproof.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/12/trump-march-trial-delay-ruling-chutkan.html

“By refusing repeatedly to adjudicate the factual claims of politicians, the media trained Americans to view all political rhetoric as equally suspicious,” writes @AmandaMarcotte
https://www.salon.com/2023/12/06/is-hiding-his-fascist-plans-in-plain-sight/

Trump’s “service as Commander in Chief did not bestow on him the divine right of kings to evade the criminal accountability that governs his fellow citizens,” Judge Chutkan ruled in a powerful 48-page opinion shredding Trump’s claim to be above the law.

Inside the mind of Trump’s ‘ruthless’ early lawyer, Roy Cohn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-L1FKjpxOs
Katy Tur spoke to former Assistant Special Prosecutor on the Watergate team, Jon Sale, about Donald Trump’s infamous former lawyer Roy Cohn, and how his legal playbook is in play in Trump’s modern-day legal troubles.

The Trump Dynasty – Roger Stone On The First Time He Met Donald Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urgbbTOoLgI
Roger Stone recalls his first impressions of Donald Trump in this bonus clip from Episode 2, High Roller.

Nixon The IMPERIL PRESIDENCY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33lnMpTPB3U

“Get Me Roger Stone”
https://www.netflix.com/title/80114666
is a 2017 American documentary film written and directed by Dylan Bank, Daniel DiMauro, and Morgan Pehme. The film explores the life and career of Roger Stone, a longtime advisor to Donald Trump, a notorious Republican political strategist and lobbyist.2 Stone helped create the real estate mogul’s political career and is known as the “sinister Forrest Gump of American politics.” The film examines Stone’s rise, fall, and rebirth as a political operative.1 The film was released on Netflix on May 12, 2017

Normal Lears’ groundbreaking contribution to television, includes founding People for the American Way. An organization founded to protect the separation of church and state and fight Christian Nationalism. *Still* needed.

VOTE / POLLS

Dow Jones posts best month in over 100 years
Unemployment lowest in 50 years – US Economy booming
The GOP loves blaming the deficit on Social Security and Medicare. But the real culprit is giveaways to the rich. If not for the regressive tax cuts under Bush and Trump, we would have a stable debt-to-GDP ratio.
That’s one thing the GOP and its donors will never tell you.

Joe Biden leads Donald Trump by *24 POINTS* among likely young voters according to the latest Harvard Youth Poll, the most accurate poll of young people out there. Ignore the other polls. Young voters will turnout in 2024 & re-elect Joe Biden.

– Older Americans are more likely to vote and, when they do, they vote Republican. That’s how the conventional wisdom goes, anyway.
The reality is a little more complex.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2016/sep/23/older-americans-vote-republican-fact-check-election-2016
In the last presidential election, 72% of Americans age 65 and over voted, compared to just 41% of those age 18 to 24. Though that gap in turnout is huge, the fact that it exists is hardly surprising – it’s a pretty well-known fact that the older an American is, the more likely they are to vote.
But that wasn’t always the case – as recently as 1990, Americans age 45 to 64 were as likely to vote as those age 65 and over. And in the elections of 1964 and 1968, Americans who were 25 to 44 years old were slightly more likely to cast a ballot than the oldest voters.
Voters age 65 and over are the group most likely to vote for Republican nominee Donald Trump; those age 18 to 34 are the least likely to vote for him.
Older Americans are more likely to be white and they’re also more likely to be religious (Protestant or Catholic in particular) – and both of those demographic groups also tend to vote Republican for reasons that are quite separate from pension plans.
Research from Pew Research Center has found that baby boomers (those age 50 to 68) are less likely to identify with the label Republican than the uncomfortably titled silent generation (who are age 69 to 86).

TAX THE BILLIONAIRS

@RBReich
Remember: Most billionaires are not “self-made.”
They’re made via a combination of inherited wealth, government subsidies, tax loopholes, labor exploitation, and policy failures.
The myth of the self-made billionaire is just that, a myth.

Swiss Private Bank, Banque Pictet, Admits To Conspiring With U.S. Taxpayers To Hide Assets And Income In Offshore Accounts
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/swiss-private-bank-banque-pictet-admits-conspiring-us-taxpayers-hide-assets-and-income

A first-of-its-kind review confirming the following:
Unraveling how judicial activists seek to influence the Supreme Court
https://www.politico.com/video/2023/11/22/politico-review-how-a-medieval-jurist-appeared-in-the-dobbs-decision-1145799

Revealed: King Charles secretly profiting from the assets of dead citizens
Exclusive: Assets of thousands of people in north-west England used to upgrade king’s property empire via archaic custom
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/23/revealed-king-charles-secretly-profiting-from-the-assets-of-dead-citizens
‘He would turn in his grave’: the dead whose assets went to King Charles’s estate
How bona vacantia is used to collect money from dead people.

Four of the gold bars Sen. Bob Menendez stashed at his home were previously stolen from the businessman accused of bribing the New Jersey Democrat, according to a report.
The serial numbers on some of the gold found by the FBI during a June 2022 raid on Menendez’s Englewood Cliffs, NJ, home match identifiers that Fred Daibes reported to police after a 2013 armed robbery, according to NBC News.
https://nypost.com/2023/12/04/news/gold-bars-found-in-sen-bob-menendezs-home-linked-to-2013-robbery-report/

US senators own up to $1.2 million in Big Oil stocks.
The vast majority—up to $1.1 million—of the Big Oil stock is held by Republicans, all of whom opposed President Biden’s climate bill.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/senators-own-up-to-1-2-million-in-big-oil-stocks/

PRIVACY / HEALTH / HUMAN RIGHTS

A Women hasn’t been allowed in Athos for more than a 1000 Years.
Mount Athos is a mountain on the Athos peninsula in northeastern Greece. It is an important center of Eastern Orthodox monasticism.

Regulate artificial intelligence now!
New huge AI story from 404 Media: leaked docs show Civitai, hot AI startup funded by VC firm a16z, generated images that could be child pornography. Even after this discovery, OctoML, the engine that powers the startup, decided to keep working w/ Civitai
https://www.404media.co/a16z-funded-ai-platform-generated-images-that-could-be-categorized-as-child-pornography-leaked-documents-show/

NEW: 23andMe initially said its data breach hit 0.1% of customers (~14k).
23andMe now reveals that — actually — there were 6.9 million victims.
Number is so high because by hacking those ~14k accounts hackers then were able to get data from relatives.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/04/23andme-confirms-hackers-stole-ancestry-data-on-6-9-million-users/
Goldmines of information reside in the insurance industry & the determination of threat actors from Asia are amongst the most aggressive in seeking to breach insurance organizations in the United States.
23andMe confirms criminals stole ancestry data on millions of people.
It’s interesting to ponder the type of damage that will occur in the future as dna data is weaponized from these attack scenarios.

Elon Musk’s X platform fueled far-right riots in Ireland, experts say
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-ireland-x-twitter-far-right-dublin-immigration/

David Sirota @davidsirota
The head of the world’s climate conference being a monarchy’s oil CEO has me thinking back to two years ago when critics said Don’t Look Up was too overstated and unrealistic.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/03/back-into-caves-cop28-president-dismisses-phase-out-of-fossil-fuels

IVY LEAGUE CORRUPTION AS A SERVICE

One of the world’s leading experts on misinformation says she was fired by Harvard University for criticising Meta at a time that the school was being pledged $500m from Mark Zuckerberg’s charity.
Joan Donovan says her funding was cut off, she could not hire assistants and she was made the target of a smear campaign by Harvard employees. In a legal filing with the US education department and the Massachusetts attorney general first published by the Washington Post, she said her right to free speech had been abrogated.
The controversial claims stem in part from Donovan’s publication of the Facebook papers, a bombshell leak of 22,000 pages of Facebook’s internal documents by the whistleblower Frances Haugen, who used to work at the company. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/04/facebook-harvard-joan-donovan

Watch This Please note CNN shared Facebook/Meta/Insta had “no comment” on the allegations the half billion donation won out over Dr Donavan’s academic freedom. Not unexpected when they can hide behind Harvard and its denial – sorta the point of $500MM.
https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1731894453202247684

Some parents paid $1.2 Million to get their kid into YALE???
George W. Bush went to Yale. Krugman, Fareed Zakaria, John Bolton and Dick Cheney too.

“Yale College’s mean GPA was 3.70 for the 2022-23 academic year, and 78.97 percent of grades given to students were A’s or A-’s.” Hell, Yellen got her Ph.D. in economics from Yale – how good could the school be?

The Ivy League, the Lake Wobegon of higher education.
Faculty report reveals average Yale College GPA, grade distributions by subject
Seventy-nine percent of Yale College grades were in the A range for 2022-23 — nearly identical to figures released by Harvard College in October.
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2023/11/30/faculty-report-reveals-average-yale-college-gpa-grade-distributions-by-subject/

What is the purpose of a school library?
To cultivate a love of reading?
To expose students to new ideas and perspectives?

FLORIDA has a different definition. The DeSantis administration says the purpose of a school library is to “CONVEY THE GOVERNMENT’S MESSAGE” Florida @AGAshleyMoody took this position in an extraordinary legal filing arguing that the Escambia County School Board was free to remove any book from the school library, EVEN IF THE REASON IS THE BOARD’S DISCRIMINATORY POLITICAL VIEWS https://popular.info/p/florida-says-the-purpose-of-school

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ECP NetHappenings News Bitcoin, Tether, Dimon, Politics, Security, Dolphins

NetHappenings News
Bitcoin, Tether, Dimon, Politics, Security, Dolphins and Man’s Place on Earth.

BITCOIN IS FOREVER

$1.5 trillion Franklin Templeton filed an update to its #Bitcoin ETF application. All the Bitcoin ETFs are now aligned for an approval by the 10th of January.

The SEC is really about to approve a Bitcoin ETF at the same time the Federal Reserve is about to pivot at the same time the FASB accounting rules will be applied at the same time the halving is about to take place all during a presidential election. Nothing is priced in.

SEC delays $1.5 trillion asset manager Franklin Templeton’s spot #Bitcoin ETF application.

Willy Woo @woonomic
#Bitcoin flows presently making a strong flip to moving off exchanges again. I haven’t seen such a swing towards buying since the market bottom.

President of Suriname meets with Samson Mow to discuss how the country could adopt #Bitcoin

TETHER

TETHER’S SECRET AGENT
The secretive Christopher Harborne has a mysterious past, vast wealth, and deep political connections. Is he also the brains behind the world’s largest stablecoin?
While figures like Paolo Ardoino and Giancarlo Devasini get credit for running the massive Tether stablecoin, one major shareholder hasn’t gotten nearly as much attention. His name is Christopher Charles Sherriff Harborne, AKA Chakrit Sakunkrit, a British-Thai dual citizen. His son is also involved William Marcus Sherriff Harborne.

BoJo donor Christopher Harborne named as intermediary in Tether fraud claims
Christopher Harborne tied to Tether’s alleged fraud
Under the pseudonym Chakrit Sakunkrit, Harborne was and could still be a major shareholder of Digfinex, the parent company of Tether and Bitfinex. Silvergate closed its accounts with Tether and Bitfinex in 2018, and denied a request to reopen them that fall. First reported by the WSJ, Harborne then applied for an account at Signature through his aviation fuel brokerage AML Global. In the application, Thailand-based Harborne alleged he would primarily use the account to trade crypto on exchange Kraken to hedge currency exposure. The fact that he operated under a pseudonym that owned 12% of Tether and Bitfinex (and therefore would have been familiar to Signature) was never mentioned.

Christopher Charles Sherriff Harborne (born December 1962) is a British businessman and technology investor based in Thailand. A University of Cambridge and INSEAD graduate, his donations have enabled the founding of INSEAD San Francisco and the creation of a blockchain research fund. He has also donated to Britain’s Conservative Party and more recently has been a major donor to Britain’s Brexit Party, donating more than £6 million in 2019.[1] He also holds Thai citizenship under the name Chakrit Sakunkrit.

Jamie Dimon

Jamie Dimon became a billionaire after his bank received a $416 billion taxpayer bailout while he was on the NY Fed, was fined $13 billion for mortgage fraud, illegally foreclosed on military families & avoided taxes through offshore tax scams. Jamie Dimon is addicted to greed.

@GRDecter
JUST IN: Jamie Dimon says the U.S is addicted to debt and it’s created a dangerous “sugar high” in the economy. He points to the enormous surge of new debt taken on during the pandemic He says that money is like “heroin” in the hands of consumers “We’re on this sugar high and I’m not saying this ends in a depression [but] I think there’s more inflationary forces out there…There’s a higher chance that rates go higher, inflation doesn’t go away, and all these things cause more problems of some sort” Probably nothing.

POLITICS #DEMOCRATS

Dear Democrats: Stop talking about Biden’s age and focus on his accomplishments
President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party are in a strong position heading into 2024. Let’s review, shall we?
The unemployment rate stands at 3.4 percent — the lowest it’s been in 54 years. Inflation is moderating. For all the doomsday predictions of a hard landing after the pandemic, our economy is resilient and vigorous as a result of the aggressive investments made by the Biden Administration’s American Rescue Plan.
Drawing on his decades of experience, Biden deftly navigated a 50-50 Senate to pass a historic bipartisan infrastructure bill, generational investments in clean energy and semiconductor manufacturing, the first gun safety law in almost 30 years, a bill codifying same-sex marriage, a bill aiding veterans who suffered health effects from burn pits and an electoral reform to prevent a repeat of Trump’s attempt to use Congress to undermine the election. And that’s all without mentioning the nomination and confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to ever sit on the Supreme Court. On the international stage, Biden had the courage to end the longest war in U.S. history and to stand up to Vladimir Putin in the face of Russia’s unjust invasion of Ukraine.

Hundreds of high schoolers walked out of school Tuesday in support of a principal & senior staff who were reassigned for reportedly violating Ron DeSantis’s law on transgender athletes, something he pushes harder than trying to fix the insurance crises.

RETHUGLICANS

The night before the Jan. 6 insurrection, Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys and Stewart Rhodes of the Oath Keepers met in a DC parking garage. Tarrio & Rhodes were subsequently sentenced to decades in prison, but Bianca Gracia, who introduced them, is running for office in Texas.

Bill Pascrell, Jr. @BillPascrell
Recently we learned trump is building a fascist army of over 50,000 loyalists to root out his enemies in the government if he seizes power again. I’m going to post this repeatedly so no one can say they haven’t been told.
Trump Allies Are Creating an Army of Loyalists to Implement His Every Whim. Donald Trump’s allies have a dangerous plan to make sure he can do whatever he wants as president.

This organized attempt by the Trump campaign to intimidate media critical of him is right out of the Nazi playbook. Hitler’s rise to power utilized his Propaganda Ministry led by Joseph Goebbels to quickly gain and exert control over the news media, arts, and information in Nazi Germany. We should pay attention. Goebbels looks like Stephen Miller.

Pence is a loser.

As Romney said no one was “more loyal, more willing to smile when he saw absurdities, more willing to ascribe God’s will to things that were ungodly than Mike Pence.”

The fly that landed on Pence’s head has more integrity than Pence.

 

Trump was installed as the 45th President with help from Putin. He blew up the deficit with tax cuts for the rich. Lied about covid19. Tried to abolish affordable health care. Lied about the election being stolen. Tried to overthrow the Government. Stole Classified documents.

MAGAs are posting A photo of “orange Jesus” with a supposed real Jesus without realizing it’s Charles Manson. Lol 🥴 I just can’t with these people.

Congratulations to @HomeDepot, which has officially donated $1,000,000 to support the members of Congress who voted not to certify the results of the 2020 election. Bankrolling the Sedition Caucus is a choice, and Home Depot has doubled down!

@TristanSnell
Steve Bannon was subpoenaed by the House — and refused to appear
Jim Jordan was subpoenaed by the House — and refused to appear
Hunter Biden was subpoenaed by the House, agreed to appear —
and MAGA Republicans now refuse to let him appear

Leonard Leo firm received $21M from Leo-linked group
The expenditure, revealed in a tax filing, comes as the conservative activist is under enhanced scrutiny from the D.C. attorney general.
Conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo’s consulting firm received $21 million in 2022 from a group that is a pillar of Leo’s aligned nonprofit network, according to a new tax filing. That group, The 85 Fund, is part of an umbrella of nonprofits under investigation by the Washington, D.C. attorney general for potentially violating tax laws. Carrie Severino, a former law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas, is a director of the group.

@jamestalarico
DEMOLISHES Abbott’s school voucher program & EXPOSES it for what it is: A taxpayer subsidy aimed at helping wealthy families buy down the cost of the private schools where they ALREADY send their kids. Some CEO or investment banker with two kids in private school could get $80,000 in taxpayer funds to subsidize their education. It’s an absolute SCAM.
Government money to poor people = handout
Government money to rich people = subsidy

SECURITY

New BLUFFS attack lets attackers hijack Bluetooth connections
Researchers at Eurecom have developed six new attacks collectively named ‘BLUFFS’ that can break the secrecy of Bluetooth sessions, allowing for device impersonation and man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks.

WikiLeaks @wikileaks
Archive: 1988 US State Department report on the birth of Hamas #Gaza #Hamas #Israel

BREAKING: 10 senators, including those on critical committees involved in climate regulations, own between $403,023 and $1,201,000 in individual stocks of Big Oil companies.

MAN’S PLACE ON EARTH

The famous Italian diver Enzo Maiorca dove into the sea of ​​Syracuse and was talking to his daughter Rossana who was aboard the boat. Ready to go in, he felt something slightly hit his back. He turned and saw a dolphin. Then he realized that the dolphin did not want to play but to express something.

The animal dove and Enzo followed. At a depth of about 12 meters, trapped in an abandoned net, there was another dolphin. Enzo quickly asked his daughter to grab the diving knives. Soon, the two of them managed to free the dolphin, which, at the end of the ordeal, emerged, issued an “almost human cry” (describes Enzo). (A dolphin can stay under water for up to 10 minutes, then it drowns.)

The released dolphin was helped to the surface by Enzo, Rosana and the other dolphin. That’s when the surprise came: she was pregnant! The male circled them, and then stopped in front of Enzo, touched his cheek (like a kiss), in a gesture of gratitude and then they both swam off.
Enzo Maiorca ended his speech by saying: “Until man learns to respect and speak to the animal world, he can never know his true role on Earth.”