It shouldn’t come as a surprise, yet it does. According to a segment aired tonight on Tucker Carlson television show, Bank of America sent customer purchasing history to federal agencies to assist in their investigation of persons who attended the January 6th protest in Washington DC. WATCH THIS:
Again, demonstrating the ramifications from a lack of privacy protection, the assembly of an enemies list has been part of the overall investigation. Gizmodo outlined how the phone numbers of Parler users were tracked using GPS and also used by investigators [SEE HERE] However, in contrast to the reality of the situation, the owners of Parler still claim no user data was ever collected.
According to Tucker Carlson’s reporting one Bank of America was customer was targeted, interrogated and released after nothing was discovered. However, this type of exploitation should serve as a warning to Americans…. There is a big brother, and that system can/will be weaponized by government if/when an ideological administration is in power.
The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) had reportedly opened an investigation of Donald Trump by referring the January 6th DC protest/riot to the union’s disciplinary committee. A rather ironic and ideologically driven effort to further Alinsky the former President.
When you think about the level of institutional pedophilia in the Hollywood circle, it is rather ridiculous they would take exception to a political speech. Then again, this is Hollywood at its most hypocritical and ideological. President Trump responds:
An interesting compare-&-contrast arises amid reports out today of Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, getting a book deal to publish his memoir “Beautiful Things”.
The controversial life of Hunter Biden includes abusive relationships, sex scandals, drug use and retaining a position of affluence by trading on his father’s position in government. Everything surrounding Hunter Biden is not only sketchy, it is the life of a very troubled, manipulative, opportunistic and creepy person… e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g.
(Via AP) […] The book is called “Beautiful Things” and will center on the younger Biden’s well publicized struggles with substance abuse, according to Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Acquired in the fall of 2019, “Beautiful Things” was kept under wraps even as Biden’s business dealings became a fixation of then-President Donald Trump and others during the election and his finances a matter of investigation by the Justice Department. (read more)
As many people are aware, book deals are a way for politicians and their allies to launder payments for influence either by the publisher or by those who purchase bulk quantities in order to direct funds without legal restrictions to politicians and their family members.
Additionally….
The same publisher, Simon and Schuster, recently made another decision regarding a politician:
JANUARY 7, 2021 – The publisher Simon & Schuster announced Thursday that is cancelling plans to publish Sen. Josh Hawley’s (R-Mo.) book, “The Tyranny of Big Tech,” because of the storming of the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, for which some Republicans have blamed Hawley.
“After witnessing the disturbing, deadly insurrection that took place on Wednesday in Washington, DC, Simon & Schuster has decided to cancel the publication of Sen. Josh Hawley’s forthcoming book,” Simon & Schuster announced in a statement. (READ MORE)
Friend of the TreeHouse John Spiropoulos files a ground report to showcase some lesser contemplated impacts from the COVID-19 regulatory rules and restrictions. As John shares:
“The larger story is the impact on their “customers” — young ballplayers. My report is about one small business involved in one sport in one state. The shutdowns have hurt every young player in every sport, tens of millions of them. Youth sports fulfill a vital role in a young person’s life, providing valuable life lessons. It matters not whether they make it to the “next level” or whether that’s even their desire.”
It is not well known or perhaps deliberately not noticed by the left pushing for this Great Reset, but Boris Johnson is very much his father — Stanley Johnson. Many will find this shocking, but there is a lot more to the admiration Boris Johnson has for Bill Gates. Boris is fully on board with deliberately destroying jobs in Britain and claiming he will allow free education to retrain people for green jobs. He has destroyed the British auto industry, taking production back to 1984 levels. But this is just scratching the surface.
It is not well known or perhaps deliberately not noticed by the left pushing for this Great Reset, but Boris Johnson is very much his father — Stanley Johnson. Many will find this shocking, but there is a lot more to the admiration Boris Johnson has for Bill Gates. Boris is fully on board with deliberately destroying jobs in Britain and claiming he will allow free education to retrain people for green jobs. He has destroyed the British auto industry, taking production back to 1984 levels. But this is just scratching the surface.Video
Boris’ father, Stanley Johnson, is none other than from the same club as Bill Gates’ father and a eugenicist. Stanley changed his job to work for the Rockefeller Foundation in New York. All his ideas are that of Gates and Rockefeller, and he justifies cheering a reduction of 70 million people from the population in Britain to 10 million to enhance economic growth.
Back on June 3, 2020, I announced that I would not support Boris Johnson and that I saw him as a threat to Britain. I had my reasons behind the curtain, which I was unprepared to fully express. However, as they say, the apple does not fall far from the tree. Here, we have Boris following his father’s depopulation ideas, as is the case with Bill Gates following his father. Quite honestly, I do not understand that.
My father had a sign on the door the day I was born. He had put money aside for my education and law school. Granted, many say I would have been a great lawyer. But something did not attract me to the field, which at the time, I suppose I would never have been able to put my finger on. So my father pushed me into gaining a computer engineering degree, which was both hardware and software. So I can only assume that neither Bill Gates nor Boris Johnson ever really possessed an independent character, and this is perhaps why they both seek to impose their will upon everyone else since they became shaped by their father’s politics.
Borris Johnson is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS, for just as they say your child is not your equal and you need to be the boss, they seem to have also denied them the ability to be independent. My father still was proud of my accomplishment despite the fact I did not follow in his footsteps. One of your most important goals as a parent is to raise children who become independent and self-reliant people. Not clones nor drones.
I question the upbringing of both Boris and Bill Jr., and that lack of independence is now threatening the entire world. This is just my opinion. I am not a shrink. Perhaps we need qualified people to really look at these two individuals OBJECTIVELY.
COMMENT: Hi AE….just an observation for you. Altho’ you have mentioned your disagreement with the points of view of such people as Ed Griffin (The Creature From J Island), Ron Paul (End The Fed), & Jeff Berwick (current best seller is Controlled Demo of The US), all of you are in agreement about the total & utter corruption of the US, & other, gov’ts. I would say further that it seems it took you longer to get there than the others, in realizing the depth of the problem, not wanting to use the conspiracy word. So…big picture, you’re all in agreement, but the details cause disagreement. I think your “defense” of the existence of the Fed doesn’t really matter, as there’s not gonna be any Fed, or anything like it, after the civil war has run its course. Just my thoughts, not a personal attack. Absolutely LOVE your blog….am hooked, like an addict.
HS
REPLY: Where I disagree with these ideas that the central banks are the enemy is that they are the scapegoats for the real problem has been the fiscal side — politics. These scenarios have focused on the fact that the Fed was originally set up as a bailout structure for banks to replicate what J.P. Morgan did to save the banking system in 1907. I pointed out that the “elastic money” the Fed was allowed to create from the outset was to allow them to buy-in corporate short-term paper when banks would not lend.
Then came World War I. In order to fight the war, Congress needed to create debt. They instructed the Federal Reserve to STOP buying corporate debt, being the lender of last resort, and buy government debt. Following the war, they never returned the Fed to its original purpose.
Still, each branch was independent because what was discovered from the Panic of 1907 was that the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 sucked in money from the rest of the country, leaving a shortage of cash in New York, resulting in bank runs. Therefore, the structure realized that we may have been one nation, but we were not one economy.
The dominant economic condition is one region was agriculture, another energy, another mining, another manufacture, and still another finance. Thus, each region got a branch of the Federal Reserve and each was independent so interest rates would differ to attract or deflect internal capital flows to prevent another 1907 Panic. While they no longer bought private debt to “stimulate” the economy only government, they did still retain their independence with interest rates.
Then comes along Roosevelt. He completely changed the structure of the nation to introduce socialism he called the New Deal. He did not stop with work programs, relief funds, and creating agency after agency like the SEC. FDR also completely changed the Federal Reserve. Where the banks did nominate the board in their respective regions, now the government nominated board members instead of the banks and he usurped the interest rates and folded them into one interest rate to serve the entire nation. Roosevelt changed the Fed from managing the economy on a domestic level and shifted it to international. The entire purpose of the Federal Reserve was now totally eradicated.
When World War II came, Congress usurped even the Federal Reserve power to create elastic money. They ordered the Federal Reserve to support the government debt to prevent interest rates from rising during the war (quantitative easing). They attempted to keep that power and it is the ONLY time that the Federal Reserve rebelled. President Truman announced that the Fed would comply with his decree, and they outright denied any such agreement. The Fed rejected the idea of continuing to support the government debt market in the face of the Korean War and asserted its independence. I have covered all of this in “Manipulating the World Economy.”
So while the conspiracy theories continue to paint the Federal Reserve as the enemy, this has been a total distraction and misinformation. They will no longer bail out the banks. Last March, the Fed began to lend on commercial paper for the first time since its origin in 1913, and the Federal Reserve is moving rapidly to accept direct deposits from institutions, thereby circumventing the banks altogether (see IMF; so much for the conspiracy theories that the bankers control the Fed).
So all these claims that the bankers are in charge of the Federal Reserve are just bogus. They keep looking at the structure that the bankers were the shareholders in 1913, which was because bailing out the banks was not to involve taxpayer money. It was to mimic what J.P. Morgan did, and the government never handed him a bailout to do it.
As for my “recent” conspiracy explanation, this is by NO MEANS the same flavor that has been spinning around. The real source is coming from the World Econo0mic Forum — not from the central bankers. Schwab has cleverly taken control of most Western governments. Just look at who is the head of the ECB, IMF, and the EU itself. All have been or still are board members of the WEF.
This “Build Back Better” is a marketing slogan coming out of the WEF and just look at all the world leaders using the very same phrase. Johnson’s father worked at the Rockefeller Foundation, which was also linked to Gates’ father, and they both want to reduce the population of the world. If they do it with vaccines and policies instead of guns, then it is not genocide or a war crime.
Biden’s Climate Czar is a Davos boy of Schwab. Biden has a free reign, and the left press is trying to shut down all alternatives. They were even telling cable networks to dump Fox News. Why is free speech gone? Because they have an agenda and they are pushing forward at light speed, and like any communist revolution, you control the press to win the day. This is not the central bankers. Wake up!
Meanwhile, Washington will retain at least 5,000 troops into March, but the talk is they will remain until June and probably permanently. Biden has signed a lot of executive orders, but what people are not paying any attention to is that he has already sent troops to Syria, and he is not making the same mistake as Obama by asking permission from Congress. In addition, suddenly, Iran is just weeks away from having a nuclear weapon, which seems to be very convenient since they have been trying for more than 40 years to accomplish that one. This sounds like the Weapons of Mass Destruction.
They claim they need the troops in Washington because of Trump’s Impeachment Trial. Was this absurd unconstitutional impeachment trial that even the Chief Justice refused to attend because Trump is not a president, just another ploy to militarize Washington against the threat of revolution? Under these Democratic rules, they should be able to go back in time and Impeach Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer when the political cycle changes in 2022! Where does this insanity end?
The central bankers are not the problem. They do not have the tanks, guns, or the incentive even to control the world, end capitalism, and extinguish 50% of the population to save the planet. Just follow the clues. We do not need conspiracy theories, for Schwab’s agenda is fully in the open. However, people do not realize is that their intent is to ELIMINATE democracy, for we are the great unwashed and too stupid to understand the big picture.
So they all meet in Davos and kiss the ring of Schwab and push his agenda to eliminate democracy. Anyone who thinks the 2020 election had zero fraud should go kiss the feet of Schwab and off your children to sacrifice, handing them over to be indoctrinated in this new modern version of the Brown Shirts. He takes his lessons from history as well. I never kissed his ring. I only shook Schwab’s hand. So that does not make me a Davos Man.
A number of people have asked for my view on putting on sanctions of Myanmar. There have been sanctions for almost 50 years. They never work, similar to the Prohibition ban in the United States. That is what made the Mafia. They became rich with that ban. Sanctions do the same. The smugglers get rich and the poor get poorer. You cannot point to a single incident where sanctions have EVER worked against Russia or Iran or during the Cold War period. Those are far more destructive and drive parties often into the hands of your opposition.
COMMENT: Hi Marty, you are right with the Reddit crowd and their non-wisdom concerning trading, check this Headline: „Reddit Trader DeepFuc*ingValue Loses $19 Million In Two Days As He Holds On To Gamestop Stock“ Keith Patrick Gill, CFA, a title which the 34-year-old used while working in marketing for Mass Mutual, which he joined in 2019. The title then became worthless to Gill after he recently quit the life insurer to focus on just one thing: trading and spreading the gospel about Gamestop stock out of a basement of the home he rents in Wilmington, Mass… and boy was he successful.
SP
REPLY: This was his entry into the real world. In his frequent posts on Reddit’s WallStreetBets thread, Keith Gill became the man behind the market manipulation of GameStop. He was sharing screenshots of his portfolio which inspired thousands of amateur retail investors to follow him. He was said to have orchestrated the biggest short squeeze ever.
Gamestop was not a serious stock in the world of finance. A standard technical analysis projected a high at 490 and it peaked at 483. The patterns were picked up by our c0mputer in our Global Market Watch which is entirely a pattern recognition model.
Despite all the hype that this was some war against Wall Street, this is by no means a battle against shorts. No market can be manipulated beyond reason. Because the liquidity was not there and some hedge funds’ and their algorithms failed, then the spike was possible, but not sustainable. In analysis we have a golden rule – what goes up abruptly, comes down just as abruptly.
As always, politicians, once they taste power, just cannot stay away. Mario Draghi, the guy who has destroyed Europe with his negative interest rates since 2014 which failed, is now courting to become the Prime Minister of Italy. He was born September 3rd, 1947, and is now 74 years old. Enough is never enough. They assume people vote simply because they have heard his name. They are clueless as to his policies or what he would even do for Italy. Like Biden, governments are being taken over by the walking dead – people who have never accomplished anything in life but work in government in one post revolving to another.
According to Fox Business Parler CEO John Matze has been removed by the small group of owners of Parler. Rebekah Mercer (financial aspects) and Dan Bongino (public face) are pushing back against the reasoning that Matze is sharing with the public.
At the 30,000 ft level the outline of the problems are clear. Both elements within the ownership group have issues.
It was not surprising to see the trouble they encountered with re-platforming the social media network.
First, here’s the report:
EXCLUSIVE – Parler has terminated CEO John Matze, according to a memo Matze sent to staffers that has been obtained by Fox News.
“On January 29, 2021, the Parler board controlled by Rebekah Mercer decided to immediately terminate my position as CEO of Parler. I did not participate in this decision,” Matze wrote. “I understand that those who now control the company have made some communications to employees and other third parties that have unfortunately created confusion and prompted me to make this public statement.”
Matze wrote that over the past few months he has been met with “constant resistance” to his original vision for the social media platform following Amazon Web Services’ decision to shut Parler down for failure to moderate “egregious content” related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
“Over the past few months, I’ve met constant resistance to my product vision, my strong belief in free speech and my view of how the Parler site should be managed. For example, I advocated for more product stability and what I believe is a more effective approach to content moderation,” Matze wrote.
Parler did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“I have worked endless hours and fought constant battles to get the Parler site running but at this point, the future of Parler is no longer in my hands,” he continued. “I want to thank the Parler employees, the people on Parler and Parler supporters for their tireless work and devotion to the company. They are an amazing group of diverse, hardworking and talented individuals and I have the utmost respect for them. Many of them have become my second family.” (read more)
First, Matze should have been fired -and the ownership group eviscerated- for allowing the vulnerability of their host server system to exist on Amazon. That was perhaps the stupidest decision of a “conservative” platform ever.
Second, it seems apparent from Matze statements he wanted a heavily moderated and highly controlled moderation system in the platform. Inevitably that can be problematic because humans have to make the decisions on where the line is… it is not easy to support free speech while knowing that some speech can lead to your removal for extremist content. Moderation is a key component, but a balance is needed… the location of the balance bubble seemed to be the issue.
Third, Dan Bongino takes exception to the way Matze frames his support for free speech.
Parler Owner @dbongino corrects the false narrative leaked out by the fired CEO of Parler, John Matze.
My take? Bongino is a winner. Parler will be back up and better than ever before you know it under better leadership. pic.twitter.com/Xrw84qDvvX
Bottom line is…. from my perspective… the front end of Parler was not the priority. If it was, the decision to make Amazon the server host would never have been made. Instead it was the backside operation, the user data, that held the value from the Mercer perspective.
That outlook makes the most sense.
As they did with Breitbart, the Mercers were in the business of assembling the identities of users that could be leveraged as a commodity for engaged political influence. This is what the Mercers did with the 18 month Breitbart poll of 2016 GOP republican candidates. They built a file of site users for their candidate, Ted Cruz, to use.
It looks to me like the emphasis on Parler 2020 was the same as the emphasis in the Breitbart purchase in 2014. User data providing contact information of conservative minded Americans was the priority; that’s why the ridiculously obvious front-end vulnerability was permitted… it simply was less important than the backside value of the data.
One thing CTH is 100% committed to is to never compromise user privacy for any data exploit; even if that means forgoing bells and whistles that people want. User privacy is the #1 priority…. When you start there, you are forced, by your mission statement, to focus on front-end security and stability. Every decision related to user privacy is what makes a website anti-fragile because it eliminates the intrusion of Big Tech.
Parler joined with Big Tech and launched with Big Tech… and they suffered the consequences of not having emphasis on the front-end of their creation where stewardship on behalf of the user is the #1 priority. To me, that’s the bottom line.
Protect the front-end users from exploitation by locking down the privacy issues and everything else will fall into place. Allow the front-end users to be exploited, and/or assemble data on those users that might be exploited by others; and/or allow vendors who are not under the same privacy rules; and the site stability will always be vulnerable.
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