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Grarpamps is one of the most credulous assholes in recent memory.
by professor rat 27 Apr '23

27 Apr '23

But don't just take my word for that emptywheel 3h The boys who ran cover for Elmo's INCREASED cooperating with actual censorship are some of the most credulous assholes in recent memory. Quote Tweet John Scott-Railton @jsrailton 3h NEW: Twitter basically stopped fighting gov demands for censorship & surveillance under Musk. Shameful. Nightmare for freedom of expression. And dangerous to dissidents, opposition parties, human rights defenders etc. By @russellbrandom https://restofworld.org/2023/elon-musk-twitter-government-orders/… Show this thread

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Banks that Put Up $30 Billion to “Rescue” First Republic May Have Been Trying to Rescue their Own Exposure to $247 Trillion in Derivatives
by Gunnar Larson 27 Apr '23

27 Apr '23

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2023/04/banks-that-put-up-30-billion-to-resc… By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: April 27, 2023 ~Bank Logos (Thumbnail) Ever since 11 banks on March 16 donned the garb of heroic fire fighters, rushing to extinguish an inferno at a competitor bank before it spread further, we have been asking ourselves the question – why just this group of 11 banks. We’re talking about the action on March 16 when 11 banks chipped in a total of $30 billion and bizarrely placed those funds as uninsured deposits into First Republic Bank – which was in full scale unraveling mode because of bond losses and – wait for it – too many uninsured deposits. Four banks contributed two-thirds of the total deposits with JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo ponying up $5 billion each. Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs deposited $2.5 billion each; while BNY Mellon, State Street, PNC Bank, Truist and U.S. Bank each deposited $1 billion, together making up the other one-third of the $30 billion. According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as of December 31, 2022 there were 4,706 federally-insured commercial banks and savings associations in the U.S. The 11 banks rushing to “rescue” First Republic Bank represent less than a fraction of one percent of the total banks. Banking in the U.S. is not particularly regarded as an altruistic industry. In fact, it frequently resembles a blood sport. So why this uncanny display of generosity to a competitor and why were just these 11 banks involved? Yesterday, we had an epiphany. We pulled up the most recent table from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency showing the 25 bank holding companies that have the largest exposure to derivatives. Sure enough, each of those 11 banks is on the list. (See page 19 at this link.) The data is as of December 31, 2022. Equally noteworthy, the four banks that chipped in the giant sums of $5 billion each, control 58 percent of the total $247 trillion notional (face amount) in derivatives controlled by all 25 banks. And if that wasn’t already plenty to raise one’s blood pressure, for many of these banks the dollar amount of derivatives is exponentially more than the total assets of the bank holding company. For example, SMBC Americas Holdings, Inc. has $34.6 billion in assets and $10.3 trillion in derivatives. (You can’t make this stuff up.) It also caught our eye that three of the 25 banks on this list had their credit ratings impacted by the big action taken by Moody’s on April 21 when it downgraded the credit ratings of 11 banks on that date and put five more on negative watch. (See chart below.) So let’s look back a little further at what was going on in terms of credit ratings during the two days just preceding that $30 billion display of goodwill toward First Republic Bank. On Monday, March 13, Moody’s downgraded the entire U.S. banking system outlook to negative from stable. On that same date, a bank with ties to crypto customers, Metropolitan Commercial Bank, lost 44 percent of its market value and a California regional bank, Western Alliance Bancorp, lost 47 percent of its market value. By Wednesday morning, March 15, Dow futures were down more than 600 points just after 8:00 a.m. in New York; major banks in Europe had been temporarily halted from trading after steep selloffs; and Credit Suisse, with deep interconnections to the mega banks on Wall Street, had plunged to less than 2 bucks. Also, on March 15, the Wall Street Journal ran this subhead: “JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo have lost about $91 billion in market value over the past week,” indicating that the contagion had spread to the biggest banks. To put it succinctly, the actions of those big derivative banks on March 16 might have had a lot more to do with white knuckles over the potential for this contagion to focus on the big derivative counterparty banks than a warm and fuzzy feeling toward First Republic Bank. Credit Downgrades by Moody's and Derivatives Exposure.

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Praise due Pastor Craig
by professor rat 27 Apr '23

27 Apr '23

Sure he's a fraud and serial-pest - so? Compared to some c-punks from the 90's he's a positive choir-boy! Take Nazi Nick Szabo or Guru Vinay Gupta or Adman Backstabber or Julian Rapist Assmange. Now you're talking seriously anti-social criminal scumbags as well as craven cowards. A circle of eunuchs has more going for it.

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Brody Larson
by Gunnar Larson 27 Apr '23

27 Apr '23

Mr. Lee: Can you kindly advise on the status of Brody Larson's ashes? Warm regards, Gunnar Larson ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Erin Satterthwaite <Erin.Satterthwaite(a)aspca.org> Date: Mon, Apr 17, 2023, 10:12 AM Subject: Re: Brody Larson To: Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> Hi there, I've been traveling and am out of the office today. I'm sorry if you got another letter but nothing has changed. What they told you about receiving the ashes was accurate. Thanks, Erin Satterthwaite ------------------------------ *From:* Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> *Sent:* Friday, April 14, 2023 9:58:52 PM *To:* Erin Satterthwaite <Erin.Satterthwaite(a)aspca.org> *Cc:* iab(a)nypd.org <iab(a)nypd.org> *Subject:* Re: Brody Larson Ms. Satterthwaite: Thank you for our conversation on Monday, with email confirmation below. Also, on Monday your office called to confirm Brody's ashes would be delivered in one to two weeks. Today, I received a letter from your office. The letter was the same copy from the first letter dated April 4, 2023. As such, this afternoon, I left you a voice message. Can you kindly confirm when Brody's ashes will be available? Additionally, can you please confirm who at the NYPD is your primary contact. Thank you, Gunnar Larson On Mon, Apr 10, 2023, 10:22 AM Erin Satterthwaite < Erin.Satterthwaite(a)aspca.org> wrote: Hello Mr. Larson, I’m sorry for your loss. Someone will be in touch about getting Brody’s ashes back to you in the next day or two. Thanks, Erin Satterthwaite, Esq. NYC Senior Counsel Legal Advocacy & Investigations *ASPCA®* The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals® Ownership | Elevate | Commitment | Team | Impact erin.satterthwaite(a)aspca.org Cell : (347) 213-7459 Fax: (866) 211-0380 *aspca.org <http://aspca.org>* *From:* Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> *Sent:* Monday, April 10, 2023 10:19 AM *To:* Erin Satterthwaite <Erin.Satterthwaite(a)aspca.org> *Subject:* Re: Brody Larson Ms. Satterthwaite: Thank you for your call today. It breaks my heart that Brody has been put to sleep. Please let me know if I may collect his ashes. Gunnar Larson On Sun, Apr 9, 2023, 3:13 PM Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> wrote: Ms. Satterthwaite: I have left you a few voice messages and emails regarding my St. Bernard, Brody. Do you have any updates? Thank you, Gunnar Larson On Sat, Apr 8, 2023, 12:35 PM Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> wrote: Hello Ms. Satterthwaite: My name is Gunnar Larson. Today, I received a letter from your office. You may have my dog Brody. He is a Saint Bernard. Please contact me as soon as possible. Gunnar Larson 917-580-8053 Gunn

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Research the global history of political assassinations
by professor rat 27 Apr '23

27 Apr '23

Since the excellent is so often the enemy of the good https://www.pogo.org/investigation/2023/04/insurrections-eve?utm_campaign=s… Reposts from one-million-years DC

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The Prophet of 21st Century National Identity
by Gunnar Larson 27 Apr '23

27 Apr '23

Think Big! --- The Prophet of 21st Century National Identity https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-04-27/roger-scruton-has-a-n… Roger Scruton was a very English philosopher. He lived on a farm in Wiltshire surrounded by animals, including six horses and a black Labrador. His favorite pastime was fox hunting — dressed in traditional hunting pink. He revered institutions such as the monarchy and the (unreformed) House of Lords. His 50-odd books include On Hunting, Philosopher on Dover Beach and England, an Elegy.

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Ron DeSantis and United Nations Innovation (Minnie Mouse at Disney)
by Gunnar Larson 27 Apr '23

27 Apr '23

Minni Mouse beat us to it: Disney Sues DeSantis, Alleging Political Effort to Hurt Business https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-26/disney-sues-desantis-all… You go Minni. Micky Mouse is so proud of you! ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> Date: Thu, Mar 9, 2023, 2:40 PM Subject: Ron DeSantis and United Nations Innovation To: <cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org> Ronald DeSantis' new NFT trading card set to raise money for Women's Rights is going to either be historic, or we will sue Florida into bankruptcy on don't say gay. The logic here is, the woke don't say gay slogan is a Women's rights landmark. That is why, the Ron DeSantis NFT card set for Women's Rights puts the United Nations a century ahead... U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said this week that global progress on women’s rights is “vanishing before our eyes” and that gender equality will take another three centuries to achieve. “Gender equality is growing more distant,” he warned.

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“Every lawmaker who breaks their own stupid laws should be dragged out of office and hung,”
by professor rat 27 Apr '23

27 Apr '23

Men, women and dogs of the worlds police forces work every day to fuck the public. You can fuck some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you are going to end up in a body bag or a pinebox before you manage to fuck all of the people all of the time. https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/04/26/the-big-finish-the-proud-boys-seditio… Reposts not filthy fascist police-state lies

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Lying-by-omission about cryptoanarchy is becoming a dark art
by professor rat 27 Apr '23

27 Apr '23

Lying-by-omission about cryptoanarchy is becoming a dark art! https://cointelegraph.com/news/why-anonymity-is-key-to-self-autonomy-and-ho… Reposts not lying, Nazbol turds like Rachael and Amir

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Bitcoin Privacy Wars another data point against Nakamoto as a Libertarian
by professor rat 27 Apr '23

27 Apr '23

If you skim the archives of this list you'll notice most of the OG's were Gung Ho for privacy. And when Btc emerged Tim May and Jim Bell expressed concerns about its public-ledger aspect Throw in the fact Nakamoto's closest public associate - c-punk OG Hal Finney specifically said he wasn't a libertarian and the case for a non-libertarian Btc narrative grows stronger. There are some arguments for a libertarian Btc narrative in that Nakamoto included that headline at the start and as Adam Back has noted Btc is an emerging system - something Hayek anticipated. Also Milton Friedman argued for currency capping ( monetarism ) for years. Then - since all libertarians are statist albeit 'minarchist ' - its hardly a shock to see collaboration with govts from many of them - even the biggest govt - the USA! So now we are engaged in a great struggle to see whose story prevails and with it the worlds next stage of capital " H " history. Strong AI may little note what we say or argue here today but it will never forget what do here. And at the rising and the going down of our Btc slayer it will remember those who gave their full measure so that self-management of, for and by the cyborg shall not perish from this anarchist netspace.

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