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China’s Social Justice Approach to Litigation Finance
by Gunnar Larson 01 Jan '22

01 Jan '22

Check out my new story: https://litigationfinancejournal.com/chinas-social-justice-approach-to-liti… Former Communist China has not been known for access to justice. In fact, recent protests in Hong Kong sprung up due to China’s Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation. Yet Communist China is experiencing a Social Spring (a transformation from Communism to Socialism). What role will China’s Communist roots play in future access to justice? Recently the Bank of International Settlements <https://www.bis.org/review/r211229f.htm> (BIS) discussed financial inclusion. For litigation finance to reach peak ‘high quality’ development, robust international standards are required. The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UNDHR) is an example where 192 countries agreed on the common standards of achievement for all people and nations. There is no ‘regulatory arbitrage’ when dealing with human rights. BIS is pioneering the social etiquette around litigation finance, according to Mr. Liu Guiping, Deputy Governor of the People’s Bank of China. Mr. Guiping’s startling approach marks a historic milestone for access to justice in China. Guiping says China aims to pioneer social justice, and that litigation finance’s ultimate potential logically requires coordinated development of regulation innovation. *China’s Social Spring Key Takeaways: * - Guiping remarks on China’s potential to harmonize the now clunky relationship between attorneys, third-party investors and claimants. - China is a very large country with 31 provinces. The Social Spring in China must ethically address claimants in certain jurisdictions, while in others champion access to justice, reasonable disclosures and a standard for litigation finance regulatory innovation. - The notion of a common cross-border regulatory standard for litigation finance is considered absurd by many. International funders have boosted litigation finance revenues by leveraging regulatory arbitrage structures. How will China play into all of this? Only time will tell… As an added bonus, we collated 39 highlights <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fej8pVCi3DEfSTSxt297RP1fLx4ruc2s/view?usp=…> from Guiping’s speech, for reference. -- *Gunnar Larson - xNY.io <http://www.xNY.io> | Bank.org <http://Bank.org>* MSc <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&u…> - Digital Currency MBA <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovat…> - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-646-454-9107 New York, New York 10001

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OnStar shuts down vehicle
by jim bell 01 Jan '22

01 Jan '22

Michael RuizDecember 27, 2021, 3:02 pm A fleeing homicide suspect in California led officers from three jurisdictions on an hours-long car chase before they discovered the vehicle had an OnStar device and could be shut down with an electronic signal. Roberto Salgado, 39, was wanted in connection with a Sunday shooting in Vista, California, when an Escondido police officer spotted him driving about 30 miles north of San Diego with a woman in his car at 11:19 p.m. PT Sunday. He took off and led officers from Escondido, Oceanside and the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department on a roughly three-hour car chase, Lt. Bode Berreth, an Escondido police spokesman, said Monday. https://sports.yahoo.com/amphtml/california-cop-injured-homicide-suspect-23…

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Sadly there will probably only ever be 5,200 Crypto Dickbutts
by professor rat 01 Jan '22

01 Jan '22

Crypto Punks are scarce because there is a finite and fixed supply; and yes, there will probably only ever be 5,200 Crypto Dickbutts. But the amount of things you can speculate on in crypto is ever increasing and theoretically interminable. More specifically, the infinity-billion dollars in risk-seeking capital are not entirely dedicated to buying the bags of crypto OGs. There is ample dilution in the destinations for new dollars into crypto. It is more prominent in a bull market — particularly towards the thrill-stages, when long-term value theses seem to retreat from the cognition of money managers that recently discovered themselves to be geniuses. https://cobie.substack.com/p/tokens-in-the-attention-economy

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Happy New Year :)
by zeynepaydogan 01 Jan '22

01 Jan '22

It has been a disappointing year for freedom, press, humanity. It's a bad year when governments are targeting(hunting) people. And I wish it would be a year when governments are judged instead of (innocent) people. Hopefully, next year will be better for everyone. :-)

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Leftification leading to deification
by professor rat 01 Jan '22

01 Jan '22

Left-wing anarchism has become the horizon of the majority of crypto-anarchist infrastructure. You don't need to have a doctorate in political science to see this leftist shift developing even since the mid-90's ( " Twilight of the Crypto Geeks " ) Some of this anarchism is mixed up with Girondin mush about Quadrophrenic 'voting', ' Futarchy', ' Holocracy' and such tripe. Like continental high-fashion these distro's are so ugly they have to change them once a year. Then tedious Marxist types will try and colonize anarchism as they have tried since ' Council communism '. They try and they die. All this leads to exactly when did this ' Left Turn ' start - and who was the first left cypherpunk? Who-ever they are they stand to be effectively deified once all the manifold blessings of crypto-anarchism unfurl around the globe. They will join a pantheon that includes Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Goldman, Malatesta, Los Solidarios , Sabate and so on. Immortals.

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Open Letter to Tim Cook on Apple Card's Goldman Sachs Scandal [Women's Civil/Human Rights]
by Gunnar Larson 01 Jan '22

01 Jan '22

Dear Mr. Tim Cook: Bank.org invites Apple to radically innovate Apple Card. Goldman Sachs has a history of poor ethical stewardship, at the global level. Similarly, New York's former Governor Andrew Cuomo and NY-DFS Superintendent Linda Lacewell are now world famous for women's rights (you know the story). On March 23, 2021, Lacewell published NY-DFS' Findings on Apple Card and its. Underwriter Goldman Sachs Bank. Mr. Cook, former Superintendent of NY-DFS, Ms. Linda Lacewell's stone faced propaganda assured that Apple Card did not discriminate against women, while under Goldman Sachs management. Ms. Lacewell said <https://www.dfs.ny.gov/reports_and_publications/press_releases/pr202103231> , “The report also notes that the use of credit scoring in its current form and laws and regulations barring discrimination in lending are in need of strengthening and modernization to improve access to credit. Consumer frustration with the Apple Card policy of not permitting an account holder to add an authorized user drew attention to the following: a person who relies on a spouse's access to credit, and only accesses those accounts as an authorized user, may incorrectly believe they have the same credit profile as the spouse. This is one part of a broader discussion we must have about equal credit access.” xNY.io recently collated 61 highlights to the Report on Apple Card Investigation from March 2021: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xH16OKyuXzB-MVqIznMWDE9w8RRdmZCw/view?usp=… . Mr. Cook, the Apple Card investigation was to assess women's access to equitable finance. March 2021 also saw New York State Attorney General Letitia James' formal green light to launch an independent investigation into sexual harassment allegations <https://nypost.com/2021/02/27/second-woman-accuses-gov-andrew-cuomo-of-sexu…> lodged against Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Lacewell's legacy is authoring reports disparaging women. As such, the integrity of the Apple Card investigation must be rationally considered as flawed. Likewise, Goldman Sach has a history of unethical posturing on matters specific to women and girls (via global regulatory arbitrage structures). Mr. Cook, Peter Oppenheimer is Apple's former CFO and in 2014 joined Goldman Sachs' board of directors and serves on key committees such as Audit (Chair), Governance, Risk. There is no logical reason for Apple to trust the Apple Card report and your former CFO is well aware of the legacy of Goldman's unethical antics and regulatory arbitrage frameworks that take advantage of the world's most vulnerable populations. Mr. Cook, at the very least, it is now clear the former superintendent is famous for publishing reports that disperage women. Salacious as this may sound, all this is true and we cannot ignore the facts of the matter. What would Steve Jobs say? Apple Card can innovate the market globally. Mr. Cook, Apple Card should consider moving to Bank.org to make history. This is a smart pivot for you. We invite Apple to join Bank.org as we build the World's Best Bank. Sending you the very best regards. Thank you, Gunnar Larson -- *Gunnar Larson - xNY.io <http://www.xNY.io> | Bank.org <http://Bank.org>* MSc <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&u…> - Digital Currency MBA <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovat…> - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-646-454-9107 New York, New York 10001

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Bait and switch
by professor rat 01 Jan '22

01 Jan '22

Replacing " Fuck Joe Biden " with " Let's go Brandon " is classic Military-Entertainment-Complex spin-replacing-reality. Its so bad I would compare it to replacing anarchists PoD ( Propaganda of the deed ) with some pathetic Hare Krishna type chant like NAP ( Non aggression principle ) Yes its that bad. But Randite-Paultard moron losers have always been phoney-baloney anarchists. Even a dumbass like Murray Rothbard finally figured that out.

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Cryptoanarchists go Brandon
by professor rat 01 Jan '22

01 Jan '22

https://www.foxbusiness.com/sports/nascar-driver-brandon-brown-lgbcoin-chan… Where does it say you can't kill a POTUS?

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Rat and Bat
by grarpamp 01 Jan '22

01 Jan '22

Stop abusing people.

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RED-FASCIST Marxist-Communists target anarchists
by professor rat 01 Jan '22

01 Jan '22

China harvests masses of data on Western targets, documents show The Washington Post 2 hours ago Chinese Police Hunt Overseas Critics With Advanced Tech The New York Times WikiLeaks hasn’t spread a word of support for the Hong Kong protesters or for ANY of the lands and countries oppressed by nowadays Chinese government, including Chinese citizens. They just highlight "ooh the US govt is supporting the protests!" http://www.wikileaks-forum.com/-wikileaks-related-news/23/no-comment-wikile…

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