2023-03-30

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• Ford Retires Its Thankless Small SUV Alternative, the Transit Connect Van.

• BNSF Cargo Train Hauling Ethanol Derails in Minnesota

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Pro-Russian hackers target elected US officials supporting Ukraine

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• The Most Profound Loss on Campus Isn’t Free Speech. It’s Listening

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• FreedomGPT spews out responses sure to offend both the left and the right

Crypto con games

• The Government Conspiracy Against Crypto

  Recent stories in the financial press have uncovered a coordinated campaign by prudential bank regulators to drive crypto businesses out of the financial system. Bank regulators have published informal guidance documents that single out cryptocurrency and cryptocurrency customers as a risk to the banking system. Businesses in the cryptocurrency marketplace are losing their bank accounts, or their access to the ACH network, suddenly, and with no explanation from their bankers. The owners and employees of cryptocurrency firms are even having their personal accounts closed without explanation. And over the past two weeks, federal regulators have shut down a solvent bank that was known to be serving the crypto industry and, although it is required to resolve banks through the “least cost resolution” to the Deposit Insurance Fund, the FDIC chose to shutter rather than sell the part of the bank that serves digital asset customers, costing the Fund billions of dollars.

Economicon / Business / Finance

• FDIC Faces $23B in Costs from Bank Failures. It Wants Big Lenders to Pay

• High egg prices send profits at largest US producer soaring more than 700%

• British music brand Marshall sells to Zound Industries

• Streaming company Roku to lay off 6% workforce

• $13B of the Silicon Valley Bank bailout went to 10 accounts

• Warner Music Group to Cut 4% of Workforce

• New Fed Bank Backstop Has Scope to Inject as Much as $2T

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Republican Rand Paul blocks TikTok ban

  • US government efforts to ban communist spy and propaganda application TikTok have been stalled by... Senator Rand Paul.

• The 'Insanely Broad' Restrict Act Could Ban Much More Than Just TikTok

• BOMBSHELL: James O'Keefe Uncovers Massive Potential Political Money Laundering to Democrat Campaigns – RedState

• Unhinged Dem Rep. Jamaal Bowman screams in Rep. Thomas Massie’s face, puts hands on him on House floor.

• Disney Pulled Fast One On DeSantis, Used 'Royal Lives' Clause To Preserve Power | ZeroHedge

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Immigration Tripled in Top U.S. Counties Even as Many of Them Lost Population

• Transgender Shooter's Manifesto Will Be Released Publicly

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• 9 Soldiers Killed In Kentucky As Two Black Hawk Helicopters Crash

World

• China completes first yuan-settled LNG trade

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• The Vulkan Files: Secret trove offers rare look into Russian cyberwar ambitions

• ‘Vulkan files’ leak reveals Putin’s global and domestic cyberwarfare tactics

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Exxon’s Climate Opponents Were Infiltrated by Hacking-for-Hire Operation