Tag: #VOTE

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.

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 Happy 80th Joni Mitchell and VOTE

Happy 80th birthday to Joni Mitchell and VOTE!!!
~ Mrs. Betty Bowers @BettyBowers
Years ago, I made this video for her song “Tax Free,” which is about right-wing evangelists using Jesus to hate and make money. https://x.com/BettyBowers/status/1721913008933278102

~Robert Reich Trump v. Biden: How worried should we be?
No reason to panic. Biden will win the 2024 election.

With public trust in the court at historic lows, here are three reforms that could restore its legitimacy.
The Senate Judiciary Cmte will likely vote Thursday to subpoena Harlan Crow, Leonard Leo, & Robin Arkley II over their gifts to SCOTUS justices as part of an ethics probe. With public trust in the court at historic lows, here are three reforms that could restore its legitimacy.

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment does not require federal legislation to take effect and is enforceable through Michigan state law. We’ve filed an amicus brief making that case in @FSFP’s MI suit challenging Trump’s eligibility to serve as president.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action/legal-complaints/crew-files-amicus-supporting-adjudication-of-section-3-of-the-14th-amendment-in-michigan-court/

Mad Poll Disease
“And as long as we have more confidence in the media’s ability to see the outcome than in our own ability to affect it, we surrender before the battle for our freedoms begins.” ~@Mike_Podhorzer

When Deutsche Bank loaned Trump $2B & Tom Bowers committed suicide after approving those loans & Justice Kennedy abruptly retired after his son signed off on those loans, making room for Brett Kavanaugh whose debts were mysteriously paid off – something smells.

“What Putin is trying to do fundamentally is say, everyone is as bad as us,” Snyder explained. “The rule of law is a joke everywhere. Americans are no better than Russia. That is his fundamental line. He wants to think that there is no freedom, no democracy, nothing to value anywhere.”
“Putin’s claim is that all systems are rotten, everyone’s system is rotten. Trump helps him out with that,” he added.
Snyder hit the nail on the head. Nothing destroys the global image of America quite like electing a known criminal like Donald Trump to the presidency.

School Board Elections Could Make (Or Break) Our Democracy | Attacks on school boards are part of a strategic, deliberate, and well-funded effort to erode public schools and advance a broader political agenda.

“Moms for Liberty is attempting to take over entire school boards in at least three Pennsylvania districts, HuffPost found.“ by Nathalie Baptiste 11/3/23
“Moms for Liberty is attempting to take over entire school boards in at least three Pennsylvania districts, HuffPost found.“

Big Insurance Met Its Match When It Turned Down a Top Trial Lawyer’s Request for Cancer Treatment
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.
Robert “Skeeter” Salim in his office in Natchitoches, Louisiana. After Salim was diagnosed with stage four throat cancer, his health insurance, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana, refused to pay for proton therapy, recommended by Salim’s doctor. Salim, named one of the country’s top litigators, fought back.
https://www.propublica.org/article/blue-cross-proton-therapy-cancer-lawyer-denial

Ark CEO Cathie Wood on She’d Hold Bitcoin, Not Gold, for the Next 10 Years
Bitcoin bull Cathie Wood believes gold’s time has come and gone.

Glassnode analysts are pointing out one historically bullish signal for Bitcoin (BTC) that previously prompted explosive rallies for the top

Bitcoin (BTC) price is in a consolidation mode per top market analyst who believes current momentum might push the coin to $40000 shortly.

Banks try to bury you in paperwork and fees to prevent you from shopping for better interest rates. Now banks are fighting the federal agency whose proposed rule would make it easier for you to escape this trap. Here is the fix.

Barry Silbert is going to go to jail.
DCG is in control of the largest Bitcoin & ETH hordes in the market.
Right now the only question is who will get indicted first… Barry, CZ, or Tether

@neilturkewitz
Google specifically—& tech co’s generally—don’t like copyright. The need to obtain consent creates friction in a world that abhors friction. As such, they develop theories like “permissionless innovation” & “efficient infringement” to mask pervasive theft.
@neilturkewitz
“Altman announced Monday that OpenAI will “step in & defend our customers & pay the costs incurred if you face legal claims around copyright infringement.”
The final dagger. Altman can generate billions thru nonconsensual use of creative works…& then treat © awards as a cost.
` Why don’t they just act legally?
This is the safest way!

Inside Job: How a Hacker Helped Cocaine Traffickers Infiltrate Europe’s Biggest Ports
From behind his computer in the port city of Rotterdam, a 41-year-old Dutch father of two penetrated the IT systems of Europe’s major maritime ports and sold intel to cocaine smugglers, a Dutch court found.
It’s #NarcoFiles: The New Criminal Order.

How Can You

VOTE

A RHYME for our TIME…
Motivate, Educate;
What’s at Stake; Just our Fate.
They Agitate, They Bate, They Hate and Berate.
So Don’t You Dare Debate; There is No time to Wait.
Just Save the Date, November 8!
DON’T BE LATE!! VOTE BLUE!!!

HOW CAN YOU  – HOW COULD YOU

How many times do Democrats have to dig the country out from Republican economic disasters before people realize that the GOP isn’t better at the economy — it’s just better at propaganda?

My father, and a few million other young men of his generation, put their lives on the line. Over 400,000 of them died to rid the world of the same kind of fascist poison that now contaminates the Republican party. How is this even possible?

The DOJ has done nothing to prevent voter intimidation, and has done nothing to deter politicians from spreading election disinformation and fomenting violence. There would be no Kari Lakes nor JD Vances if Donald Trump and his accomplices were held accountable for January 6th.

The entire discussion about Trump still doesn’t include the biggest issue; WHO DID HE GIVE/SELL THE INFO TO?

Hello @AARP, I am a member and I am curious to know how you are alerting members that the @GOP are threatening to end Social Security. All of your members should be aware of this as they vote in the midterms. Can’t afford gas and food prices now? Wait until your Social Security is gone.

Americans owe an estimated 15 billion dollars in rent debt.

How can you possibly vote for a Republican if you’re a Jew? Or a woman? Or a millennial? Or a person of color? Or LGBTQ? Or a senior? Or on a fixed income? Or sane?

President Obama held a rally in Arizona and warned the crowd “Democracy may not survive” if “Republicans win their elections” in the state. He also said “this is not a hyperbole, this is the reality.” He was specifically referring to Kari Lake, Blake Masters, and Mark Finchem.

This Bitch Oparah Winfrey
just endorsed John Fetterman against Dr. Oz.
Oz was first elevated to a regular TV personality as a frequent guest on Oprah.

Everett Stern
Fox News says I am now polling higher then before at 4% in the U.S. Senate race. Please do not vote or write my name in. I dropped out of the Senate race and fully endorse John Fetterman. PA MUST be Blue. It is a true honor to have run but please understand Democracy is at stake.

In a HuffPost interview, Jimmy Kimmel says he almost quit his show when ABC asked him to dial back jokes about Trump. He says he understood ABC’s concern but refused. ABC relented. Kimmel says he thinks Trump will eventually go to jail and wants to be on the air when it happens.

Tonight, faced with a court order preventing the transfer of any non-cash asset held by the Trump Org., his trust, or just himself without two weeks’ notice to the court and the New York A.G., Donald Trump freaked the freak out. Communism, he moaned, is here in NY.

How big of a stupid fucking moron do you have to be try to hide money in a company called ‘Trump Organization 2’

@Jaime4StateRep
Yesterday, The Michigan Republican Party sent a negative mailer to my district and encouraged voters to call my personal cell phone number. The incitement of hate should never be normalized or accepted. I refuse to be intimidated. #HateWontWin

General Mills, Audi, and Pfizer have suspended advertising on Twitter. -Wall Street Journal
Why the hell would he fire half of the employees at Twitter days before an election, knowing that mis/disinformation will be rampant?