"EVERYONE IS GOING TO BE WIPED OUT..." People don't know what is coming..
#Principles For #Success by #Ray_Dalio (In 30 Minutes)
~Ray Dalio's Last #Warning~
Join me on a thought-provoking adventure in my new animated mini-series, Principles for Success. I've taken my book Principles, and distilled it into a 30 minute ultra mini series that #focuses on the #life_principles that have helped me the most.
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Crypto #CEO behind $2.5B 'rug pull' ARRESTED, faces 40,564 #YEARS IN #PRISON
#Faruk_Fatih_Özer, the founder and CEO of the now-defunct crypto exchange #Thodex, has been arrested in the #Albanian city of Vlorë. Özer fled following the collapse of Thodex in April 2021: he initially claimed a #halt in trading was due to #cyberattacks, and that #investors' money was #safe, before #disappearing. Almost immediately afterwards, #Turkish police arrested dozens of Thodex #employees and #seized the firm's #computers.
It subsequently emerged that, in April 2021, Thodex had #moved approximately $125 million worth of #bitcoin to the established US crypto exchange #Kraken. Given the number of investors in Thodex left with #nothing, this looks like straightforward #THEFT from a #failing_business.
It's not the whole story, either. #Cryptocrime_analysis firm #Chainanalysis addressed Thorex specifically in its overview of 2021, in the wider context of a total $2.8 #billion worth of #crypto_scams over this year being 'rug pulls': wherein a seemingly legitimate business is set up, operates as normal for a while, then #suddenly all the #money is #gone. It's #LARGE_SCALE_FRAUD
"We should note that roughly 90% of the total value lost to rug pulls in 2021 can be attributed to #one_fraudulent_centralized exchange, Thodex, whose CEO disappeared soon after the exchange halted users’ ability to withdraw funds," says the #Chain_analysis report. That works out at an estimate of around $2.5 billion of #crypto.
https://www.pcgamer.com/crypto-ceo-behind-dollar25b-rug-pull-arrested-faces-40564-years-in-prison/
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#Facebook parent company repeatedly #VIOLATED WASHINGTON STATE #AD_CAMPAIGN #FINANCE_LAW court finds..
#DAVIDV: Why hasn't #FACEBOOK been SHUTDOWN? for PAST #GROSS_ANTI_TRUST_VIOLATIONS??
Is the #USA_GOVERNMENT 100% #COMPLICITLY involved in the #FRAUD Committed by #BIG_TECH?
IS #EVERYONE still drinking the #KOOLAIDE?
Here is Facebooks first attempt to #DEFRAUD #WE_THE_PEOPLE!??
Facebook parent company asks court to throw out parts of WA campaign finance law
here is Facebook second attempt to #DEFRAUD #WE_THE_PEOPLE!??
#FACEBOOK THIS IS YOUR #LAST_WARNING. STOP INTERFERRING WITH THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAS CONSTITUTUTION OR FACE THE CONSEQUENCES!
https://twitter.com/elijsanders/status/1565778392137760768
here is the judges response..
Judge rejects Facebook’s attempt to declare Washington state campaign ad law unconstitutional
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Welcome to #Wild_Wild_Wild #West!
A newsletter about the legal #shootouts that could #redefine #rules for the #internet
Right now, in an #overlooked #lawsuit in Washington state, the largest #social_media company in the #world is #telling a #judge it #doesn’t have to #follow the #law.
The company: #Facebook.
The #instigator?? of this #lawsuit is a state attorney general who appears determined to bring the legal hammer down on the “Wild West” of the #internet.
At the core of this particular legal fight is a repeated #refusal by #Facebook and #Google to #turn_over #public_records about #election_ads.
In Washington state, a unique law says digital platforms #must_give such #records to “#any_person” who asks, and about three years ago I became the first person to walk into the Seattle offices of Facebook and Google, copy of the law in hand, and ask.
Before long I also became the first person to be stiff-armed by the companies in response to this sort of request—but not the last.
My reporting on the way Facebook and Google #flout Washington state election law led to the attorney general’s current legal action. It also led to two previous legal actions against the companies by the AG that were settled out of court.
And it won me a nerdy local award from the Washington Coalition on Open Government (that, awesomely, came with a lucite obelisk twice as tall as the one I got back in 2012, when I received a somewhat fancier award for writing about a trial).
https://wildwest.substack.com/p/welcome-to-wild-west
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UK challenges $69B #Microsoft | #Activision DEAL, citing #potential_harm to gamers | UK: Deal could harm #competition in consoles, #subscription_services, and #streaming.
The #United_Kingdom's Competition and Markets Authority (#CMA) is #challenging Microsoft and Activision Blizzard to #justify their #planned_merger, saying the deal "could #substantially #lessen_competition" in the #gaming_industry.
Microsoft announced its plan to buy Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion in #January??
"Microsoft is one of three large companies, together with #Sony and #Nintendo??? that have led the market for gaming consoles for the past 20 years with limited entries from new rivals," the CMA said. "Activision Blizzard has some of the world's best-selling and most recognizable gaming franchises, such as #Call_of_Duty and #World_of_Warcraft.
The CMA is #concerned that if #Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard it could #harm_rivals, including recent and future entrants into gaming, by refusing them access to Activision Blizzard games or providing access on much worse terms."
The CMA said these "concerns warrant an #in_depth Phase 2 INVESTIGATION," so Microsoft and Activision Blizzard have been #ordered "to #submit_proposals to address the CMA's concerns" within #five working days.
"If suitable proposals are #not submitted, the deal will be referred for a Phase 2 investigation," which would "allow an independent panel of experts to #probe in #more_depth the risks identified at Phase 1," the CMA said.
Besides Microsoft's #Xbox console, the CMA noted Microsoft's #Azure cloud computing platform and the #Windows operating system. "The CMA is concerned that Microsoft could #leverage Activision Blizzard's games together with Microsoft's strength ACROSS #console, #cloud, and #PC operating systems to #damage_competition in the nascent market for #cloud_gaming services," the announcement said.
In another #high_profile case, the CMA launched a Phase 2 investigation of a proposed #Nvidia #Arm DEAL. The companies later scrapped the planned #merger.
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Major #VPN services #SHUT_DOWN in #INDIA over #ANTI_PRIVACY #LAW;
#Apple hasn’t yet commented??
Major VPN services have shut down service in India, as there is #no_way to #comply with a #new_law without #breaching their #own privacy protection #standards.
The #law also applies to #iCloud #Private_Relay, but Apple has not yet commented on its own plans …
#New_rules from India’s Computer Emergency Response Team
India’s Computer Emergency Response Team (#CERT) has said that new rules will apply to VPN providers from September 25.
These will #require services to #collect #customer_names, #email_addresses, and #IP_addresses. The #data must be #retained for at least #five_years, and #handed_over to CERT on #demand.
This would #breach the privacy standards of major #VPN services, and be #physically_impossible for services like #NordVPN, which keep #no_logs as a matter of policy.
The #company is registered in #Panama #specifically because there are #no_data_retention laws there, and no #international #intelligence_sharing.
Major VPN services shut down Indian servers
Major global providers of #virtual_private_networks, which let internet users shield their #identities online, are #shutting_down their #servers in India to protest new #government_rules they say #threaten their customers’ #privacy […]
Such rules are “typically introduced by authoritarian governments in order to gain more control over their citizens,” said a spokeswoman for Nord Security, provider of NordVPN, which has stopped operating its servers in India. “If democracies follow the same path, it has the potential to affect people’s privacy as well as their freedom of speech,” she said […]
Other VPN services that have stopped operating servers in India in recent months are some of the world’s best known. They include U.S.-based Private Internet Access and IPVanish, Canada-based TunnelBear, British Virgin Islands-based ExpressVPN, and Lithuania-based Surfshark.
ExpressVPN said it “refuses to participate in the Indian government’s attempts to limit internet freedom.”
The government’s move “severely undermines the online privacy of Indian residents,” Private Internet Access said.
Customers in India will be able to connect to VPN servers in other countries. This is the same approach taken in Russia and China, where operating servers within those countries would require VPN companies to comply with similar legislation.
Apple’s iCloud Private Relay affected
The law also applies to iCloud Private Relay, which is effectively a VPN service used only for Safari.
The design of the iCloud Private Relay system ensures that no single party handling user data has complete information on both who the user is and what they are trying to access.
To do this, Private Relay uses modern encryption and transport mechanisms to relay traffic from user devices through Apple and partner infrastructure before sending traffic to the destination website.
Apple has not yet commented on its own planned response, but we have reached out to the company and will update with any response.
https://9to5mac.com/2022/09/01/major-vpn-services/
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#Cannabis researchers say it’s #high_time;) to drop ‘#lazy_stoner’ #Stereotype..
#Regular_users no more likely to lack drive than non-users – but motivation may wane while under the influence.
Cannabis users are often depicted as lazy “#stoners” whose life ambitions span little further than lying on the sofa eating crisps.
But research from the University of Cambridge challenges this stereotype, showing that regular users appear no more likely to lack motivation compared with non-users.
The research also found no difference in motivation for rewards, pleasure taken from rewards, or the brain’s response when seeking rewards, compared with #non_users.
“We’re so used to seeing ‘lazy stoners’ on our screens that we don’t stop to ask whether they’re an #accurate #representation,” said Martine Skumlien, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge and the research’s first author. “Our work implies that … people who use cannabis are #no_more likely to lack #motivation or be #lazier than #people who #don’t.”
Skumlien said smoking cannabis could be associated with other downsides, but that the stoner stereotype is “#stigmatising” and could make messages around harm reduction less effective.
“We need to be #honest and #frank about what are and are not the #harmful_consequences of #drug_use,” she added.
Cannabis is the #third most commonly used controlled substance worldwide, after #alcohol and #nicotine, with a 2018 NHS report finding that almost one in five (19%) of 15-year-olds in England had used cannabis in the previous 12 months.
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The #T_Mobile / #Sprint MERGER HAS NOT Created #JOBS — it’s #CUT thousands
By the end of 2021, T-Mobile was already #down 5,000 jobs, and now it’s #laying_off more workers Sep 1, 2022, 6:12pm EDT
The Wall Street Journal reports T-Mobile’s #engineering and #network_operations teams are experiencing #waves of #layoffs, which have included managers and #executives, on top of thousands of jobs #eliminated by #restructuring after the company merged with #Sprint in 2020.
T-Mobile execs promised then that the merger was “all about creating new, high-quality, #high_paying jobs?? and the new T-Mobile will be jobs-positive from Day One and every day thereafter.”
In April 2020, the companies had about 80,000 #workers combined; however, as the Journal points out, T-Mobile’s most recent annual report (pdf) said it #ENDED 2021 with 75,000 full- and part-time #employees.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/1/23333124/t-mobile-sprint-layoffs-5g-merger-jobs-promise
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#BOYCOTT ALL #APP_STORES
How #SPIES #Snuck #MALWARE Into the #GOOGLE #PLAY_STORE - #Again and #Again |
Malicious #Android_Apps from the so-called #Phantom_Lance campaign #targeted hundreds of #users, and at least two slipped past Google's #Defenses, April 28, 2020
GOOGLE'S PLAY STORE for #Android_apps has #never_had a #reputation for the strictest #protections from #malware.
#Shady_ADWARE and even #BANKING #TROGEN_HORSES!!?
#Russian security firm #Kaspersky today plan to present research about a #hacking campaign they call PhantomLance, in which spies #hid_malware in the Play Store to #target_users in #Vietnam, #Bangladesh, #Indonesia, and #India.
Unlike most of the shady apps found in #Play_Store malware, Kaspersky's researchers say, #Phantom_Lance's #hackers apparently #smuggled in #data_stealing_apps with the aim of #infecting only some hundreds of users..
Play as a #trusted_source??," says Kaspersky researcher Alexey Firsh. "You can deliver a link to this app, and the victim will trust it because it’s Google Play??"
HELLO?
DAVIDV. APP STORES were never needed.. There is zero reason to list your Applicaiton in a app store. NOT NEEDED EVER.
Unless of course you like being ROBBED??;)
ARE YOU BEING #ROBBED IN #PLAIN_SIGHT!
#YES!
https://www.wired.com/story/phantomlance-google-play-malware-apt32/
#Police use obscure phone tech to #track_people |
You might know that your #cellphone has a #unique_code that #allows #advertisers to #target you for promotions.
What you may not know: That same #number could be helping police #surveil_you #without a #warrant. (Sept. 1)(AP video: Allen Breed, Haven Daley)
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#Intellectual_Tech_News | #BIG_FINANCE | #BIG_FAITH
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#Internatonal_Tech_News | THE TRUTH ABOUT THE #ORIGINS OF #AIDS | #HIV_VIRUS |
"We would #WIN the #Olympics because the RUSSIANS would all be #loaded_down with #TUMORS"
#POLIO_VACCINE_STATIONS..
SOUND FAMILIAR?
HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF FOLKS!
"#POLIO #VACCINES were #CONTAMINATED," says #MMR #Vaccine_Developer #Maurice_Hilleman Leading VACCINE #EXPERT.
#Maurice_Hilleman went on to Pioneer Vaccine Development (R&D) ..more than ANYONE in the History of #AMERICAN_MEDICINE. (EG: #Mumps, #Rebella, Measles).
WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO HEAR WAS CUT FROM ALL PUBIC DISCLOSURES??
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#WHAT IS #BLOCKCHAIN?
#PART 5
#REPOST from 2016
#Cryptocurrencies built on blockchain technology offers SOLID #Security, #Privacy, #DECENTRALIZATION and #Autonomy.
#Banks simply cannot #Compete with this #Technology..
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#WHAT IS #BLOCKCHAIN?
#PART 4
#REPOST from 2016
Its not the "payment" that is irreversible, its the #BLOCKCHAIN_PROGRAM" that is Irreversible.
Transactions CANNOT be #APPEALED, #REVERSED (a big one) or #CENSORED.
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#WHAT IS #BLOCKCHAIN?
#PART 3
#REPOST from 2016
#Unlike_Banks that offer only #Soft_Promises -while our "Dollars" are picked at -until gone..
An #BITCOIN TRANSACTION is NOT a #PAYMENT. A #BITCOIN transaction is a #Program, which is referred to as the technology known as #Blockchain.
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#WHAT IS #BLOCKCHAIN?
#PART 2
#REPOST from 2016
#Internal_policing is used to #confirm all transaction in each #BLOCKCHAIN multiple, multiple times. This #insures #high_integrity of each #transaction -which is also referred to as a #Hard_Promise.
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#BIG_TECH | #International_Tech_News
#Mark_Cuban, #Mavericks in #HOT_WATER over Voyager ‘#Ponzi_scheme’
A group of #Voyager_Digital customers filed a class-action suit in #Florida #federal_court against #Mark_Cuban..
Voyager, a New Jersey-based crypto firm, filed for Chapter 11 #bankruptcy in July ..
The firm is one of many that got #burned after #loaning money, in Voyager’s case worth ~$600 million, to #hedge_fund #Three_Arrows_Capital (3AC).
The #plaintiffs in the suit against #Cuban described Voyager as “an #unregulated and #unsustainable #fraud, similar to other #PONZI_SCHEMES.”
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#Amazon took all U.S. #solar_rooftops OFFLINE last year after #FLURRYS OF #FIRES AND #ELECTRICAL_EXPLOSION??
Between April 2020 and June 2021, solar panels atop Amazon fulfillment centers caught #fire or experienced electrical explosions at least #six different times.
“The rate of #dangerous incidents is #unacceptable, and above industry averages,” an Amazon employee wrote in an internal report viewed by CNBC.
#Rooftop solar is part of Amazon’s broad plan to #zero_out #EMMISSIONS by 2040??
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#Hornsea 2: #North_Sea #wind_farm claims title of world's largest
The world's largest #offshore wind farm is now #fully_operational, 55 miles off the coast of #Yorkshire.
The Hornsea 2 project can generate enough #electricity to power about 1.3 million #homes - that's enough for a city the size of #Manchester.
A decade ago #renewables made up just 11% of the UK's energy mix. By 2021 it was 40%, with offshore wind the largest component.
Hornsea 2 is part of a huge wind farm development by #energy firm #Orsted.
"The #UK is one of the world leaders in offshore wind," Patrick Harnett, programme director for the Hornsea 2 wind farm told BBC News.
"This is very exciting after five years of work to have full #commercial_operations at the world's #largest offshore wind farm."
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62731923
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#CLOSING_BELL Markets ROLL OVER | #Markets roll over HARD!
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