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The Senate Banking Committee Has Subpoena Power; So Why Has Senator Elizabeth Warren Been Left to Investigate on Her Own?
by Gunnar Larson 13 Dec '21

13 Dec '21

Yes, the rumors are true. A new, fresh and clean international bank out of New York is prime, world's best. The Bank of London vs. The Bank of London and the Middle East is nuts. You have to ask yourself, what are the other options? Suffering through crazy Goldman Sachs? Totally unnecessary and not our problem, really. Gunnar ------ For years now, *Wall Street On Parade* has been reporting on the probing letters that Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has sent to Wall Street firms and their regulators in an effort to ferret out the details of systemic corruption and the looting of the American people. (See “Related Articles” below.) Throughout this letter writing campaign, Senator Elizabeth Warren has been a member of the powerful Senate Banking Committee – which has subpoena power. The new Chair of that Committee, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), is also a progressive, like Warren. So why isn’t the Senate Banking Committee using its subpoena power instead of leaving Warren with nothing more than an inquiring mind and a pile of Word documents? According to the Congressional Research Service, the Senate Banking Committee has adopted a rule that requires a majority vote <https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R44247.pdf> to issue a subpoena for documents or witnesses. And since it has too many members on the Committee who take campaign funds from Wall Street and/or their law firms, we’ve yet to see that subpoena power in action. Today is the deadline that Senator Warren gave to Fed Chair Jerome Powell to respond to her letter of last Tuesday <https://wallstreetonparade.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Senator-Elizabeth…>, in which she demanded “Full disclosure of all stock, bond, and other investment trades by Fed governors and presidents from January 1, 2020 to the present,” along with other related material. Warren’s inquiry stems from the fact that the President of the Dallas Fed, Robert Kaplan, and the President of the Boston Fed, Eric Rosengren, had to step down in September over scandalous trading activity in 2020. Trading questions have been raised about other Fed officials as well, including Powell <https://prospect.org/economy/powell-sold-more-than-million-dollars-of-stock…> . The Fed has stonewalled the media for months now on making full disclosures of the details of these trades. For example, it appears from our reporting that Goldman Sachs was involved in at least some of Kaplan’s trades and Citigroup was financing at least some of Rosengren’s trades. Both Wall Street mega banks are supervised by the Fed and it is unseemly for Fed officials to be engaging in active trading with banks its variously supervises and bails out. (See New Documents Show the Fed’s Trading Scandal Includes Two of the Wall Street Banks It Supervises: Goldman Sachs and Citigroup <https://wallstreetonparade.com/2021/10/new-documents-show-the-feds-trading-…> .) Warren’s letter of last Tuesday to Powell also makes clear that the Fed has been stonewalling her since her staff made a written request for information on October 22, “despite numerous follow-ups over the last six weeks.” Clearly, both the Fed and the Wall Street mega banks believe they have nothing to fear from the Senate Banking Committee being able to muster the votes to use its subpoena power. Powell’s answer to all of this has been to refer the matter to the Fed’s Inspector General – who reports to the Board of the Fed – rather than making a referral to the Justice Department or the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). On October 4, Warren sent a letter <https://wallstreetonparade.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Senator-Elizabeth…> to Gary Gensler, Chair of the SEC, asking that the “SEC investigate trading in securities by high-level Federal Reserve officials and determine if any of these ethically questionable transactions may have violated insider trading rules.” To date, the SEC has failed to indicate if it is investigating the matter, which goes to the heart of the integrity of the central bank of the United States. Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) may well be one of the obstacles to the Senate Banking Committee being able to effectively use its subpoena power. Toomey sits as the Ranking Member of the Committee. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, over the course of his political career, Toomey’s largest donor to either his Campaign Committee and/or Leadership PAC has been the Club for Growth, which has provided more than $1.26 million to Toomey’s political campaigns. <https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cycle=Career&type=I…> In the same time span, Toomey’s second and third largest donors are the hedge fund, Elliott Management, and Goldman Sachs, the mega Wall Street firm where Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan worked for 22 years. The Club for Growth is a dark money group that has pushed for the privatization of Social Security; the destruction of workers’ rights and unions <https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/governor-scott-walker-puppet-2/>; and the deregulation of dangerous industries. Toomey served as the President of Club for Growth from 2005 to 2009. Another group that has advanced Toomey’s political career is Freedom Partners Action Fund. It funneled at least $4.3 million into running attack ads against Toomey’s Democratic challenger, Katie McGinty, in the 2016 senate race in Pennsylvania. Charles Koch, the billionaire Chairman and CEO of the fossils fuels conglomerate, Koch Industries, and his trust, gave $14 million to the Freedom Partners Action Fund Super Pac from 2014 through July 2018 according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Freedom Partners played an outsized role in staffing up the Trump administration. (See How Did Koch Industries’ Law Firm Grab Control at the White House? <https://wallstreetonparade.com/2018/07/how-did-koch-industries-law-firm-gra…> ) Charles Koch has more than just a passing interest in the regulation and oversight of trading on Wall Street. That’s because Koch Industries owns a sprawling trading conglomerate in addition to its fossil fuels interests. (See The Kochtopus Is Betting Billions in the Stock Market: Is There a Case for Systemic Risk? <https://wallstreetonparade.com/2021/03/the-kochtopus-is-betting-billions-in…> ) Koch Industries also owns i360, an unprecedented invasion by a corporate conglomerate into political campaign activities that rivals the Republican Party’s database and operations. (See The Dangerous and Invisible Hand in the 2020 Election: Charles Koch’s i360.) <https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/11/the-dangerous-and-invisible-hand-in-…> Until the American people raise their voices loud enough to achieve meaningful campaign finance reform, Senator Warren – and so many others – are left with few options. -- *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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Re: Log4j
by Karl 13 Dec '21

13 Dec '21

source code appears to be a different project decompile malware before using for pentests unless you're a profesisonal On 12/13/21, zeynepaydogan <zeynepaydogan(a)protonmail.com> wrote: > https://twitter.com/bountyoverflow/status/1470060508447272960?s=21 > > Sent from ProtonMail for iOS > > Açık Pzt, Ara 13, 2021 14:18, Karl <gmkarl(a)gmail.com> yazdı: > >> I'm interested in buying it, is the source code included so i can >> properly mutate the binary signatures to prevent detection?

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Justice
by Gunnar Larson 13 Dec '21

13 Dec '21

Elliot Sptizter, Andrew Cuomo and Anthony Weiner walk into a bar looking for justice.

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Log4j
by zeynepaydogan 13 Dec '21

13 Dec '21

Password: infected

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Fwd: cypherpunks Digest, Vol 102, Issue 78
by Gunnar Larson 13 Dec '21

13 Dec '21

Mr. Weber: How are you? Hope grand. What in the world to do about point three. Came to you about this earlier. The dog does not need the drama. Let me know what you think. Thank you, Gunnar ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: <cypherpunks-request(a)lists.cpunks.org> Date: Mon, Dec 13, 2021, 4:45 AM Subject: cypherpunks Digest, Vol 102, Issue 78 To: <cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org> Send cypherpunks mailing list submissions to cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.cpunks.org/mailman/listinfo/cypherpunks or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to cypherpunks-request(a)lists.cpunks.org You can reach the person managing the list at cypherpunks-owner(a)lists.cpunks.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of cypherpunks digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: GovCorp conspiracy theory fails again (Karl) 2. Tragedy of the commons (professor rat) 3. Re: Haiing (Karl) 4. Re: Bitcoin Magazine: Bitcoin Security: Trustless Private Messaging With Public And Private Key Cryptography (grarpamp) 5. Re: Log4j (zeynepaydogan) 6. Julian ASSMANGE - such a sweet little 5-VEY Bitch (professor rat) 7. Re: Coronavirus: Thread (grarpamp) 8. Re: Log4j (Karl) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 04:11:51 -0500 From: Karl <gmkarl(a)gmail.com> Cc: cypherpunks <cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org> Subject: Re: GovCorp conspiracy theory fails again Message-ID: <CALL-=e5TQiW_s_UNSKtcVfv=8QF53aUxkPAOyt=bmBEbFQy3=w(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" On Mon, Dec 13, 2021, 1:36 AM Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 <punks(a)tfwno.gf> wrote: > On Sun, 12 Dec 2021 21:32:11 -0800 > cherry <cherry(a)cpal.pw> wrote: > > > > > > Taproot should lead to a massive improvement in the privacy of the > > lightning network. > > > bullshit > I'm not familiar with taproot in-depth but I also don't see it as significantly related to privacy. There's enough research out there to make bitcoin networks very, very anonymous, in ways that are normalised and maintainable and simplify the codebase. Software was different before 2014, and that shows in the design of lightning. The bitcoin devs got split into factions etc. It's recorded history. There's been a lot of excitement over the lightning network in some groups of people. Who uses it? What is it used for, in the wild? Anyway, it's cool to see that bitcoin's dev process has found ways to continue innovating and it seems to be building on that more and more. >

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Cryptocurrency: Taproot Isn't Privacy For Average Users [Not A Conspiracy Theory]
by grarpamp 13 Dec '21

13 Dec '21

> Taproot should lead to a massive improvement in the privacy of the > lightning network. Stop shilling nonsense. Taproot today doesn't do shit for privacy of average users, but BTC is today shilling that falsehood as hard as Monero claims to be king and sole way of doing any modicum of privacy. And lightning is riddled with flaws. Liquid is supposedly better, dyor. If BTC users want privacy, they need to look at joinmarket, and to import things like cashfusion, look at wasabi/samourai, and a bunch of other methods. And to get off their ass and build cross-layer-0 DEX and anonymous p2p exchanges. Bitcoin "core / foundation" or whatever else they call their sold out selves haven't and thus are not going to be doing that, thus you have to. > flaws in the > existing lightning network were the result of enemy action. youtube: lightning network flaws If they haven't censored that yet.

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Julian ASSMANGE - such a sweet little 5-VEY Bitch
by professor rat 12 Dec '21

12 Dec '21

JULIAN " Being guilty of aggravated rape has nothing to do with our party" A. Broinowski. Wikileaks Party NSW candidate for au Senate. 2013. "... Mr Assange agreed that some level of privacy was necessary for the successful operation of the military ..." http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/drive/assange-i-can-rule-from-… JULIAN " ‘[The military] protects the sovereignty of Australia. It protects the independence of Australia.' ASSANGE July, 2013 Julian Assange · LRB 6 March 2014 Mar 6, 2014 - I wouldn't say this publicly, but Hitler wrote Mein Kampf in prison..."

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Bitcoin Magazine: Bitcoin Security: Trustless Private Messaging With Public And Private Key Cryptography
by jim bell 12 Dec '21

12 Dec '21

Bitcoin Magazine: Bitcoin Security: Trustless Private Messaging With Public And Private Key Cryptography. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/trustless-private-messaging-bitcoin-s…

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Haiing
by Gunnar Larson 12 Dec '21

12 Dec '21

Hey guys, I do not agressivly consider myself a punk (though, I feel one in my heart) but, soooo being hailed (sonic weapons). What is a boy to do? Plus, by the way, I have a St. Benard. Brody hears it, too. I called 911. They said I should come to the station. THE GAY BANK OF LONDON. ----- Despite London, I love this list. You have taught me so much. Thank you, Gunnar

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Tragedy of the commons
by professor rat 12 Dec '21

12 Dec '21

Ryan Lackey Retweeted Greg Linares @Laughing_Mantis · 10h #Log4J based on what I've seen, there is evidence that a worm will be developed for this in the next 24 to 48 hours. Self propagating with the ability to stand up a self hosted server on compromised endpoints. In addition to spraying traffic, dropping files, it will have c2c The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose off the common But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose. The law demands that we atone When we take things we do not own But leaves the lords and ladies fine Who takes things that are yours and mine. The poor and wretched don’t escape If they conspire the law to break; This must be so but they endure Those who conspire to make the law. The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common And geese will still a common lack Till they go and steal it back.

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