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Anonymous ID: a485a7 April 15, 2022, 12:17 p.m. No.16082714   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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From 2009 to 2013 she was the Digital Champion for theUK and helped to create the Government Digital Service – this team launched gov.uk, and was given the task of spearheading a two-year campaign to improve computer literacy.[15][16][17][18][19] The following year she was assigned to establish the Digital Public Services Unit within the Cabinet Office. [20] and invited to sit on the Cabinet Office Efficiency and Reform Board.[21] The following month Lane Fox was honoured by David Cameronfor her "Manifesto for a Networked Nation", a challenge to increase British internet engagement.[citation needed] She resigned from her position as Digital Champion in late 2013.[22]

 

She entered the House of Lords as a crossbencheron 26 March 2013, becoming its youngest female member.[4] In her maiden speech, she addressed the need for digital literacy in all sectors of the economy.[23] That same year the Open University appointed her Chancellor.[24] In the run-up to the Scottish independence referendum of 2014, Lane Fox signed an open letter opposing Scottish independence.[25]

 

In 2017, Lady Lane-Fox was appointed a member of the Joint Committee on National Security Strategy.[citation needed] In 2018 she was appointed Non-Executive Director of Chanel as well as Donmar Warehouse and a Trustee of the Queen's Commonwealth Trust.[citation needed] Lane Fox continues to be a Patron of AbilityNet, Reprieve, Camfed and Just for Kids Law.[26] She joined the board of social network Twitter in June 2016.[27]In 2020, Lane Fox was appointed to the board of directors for the company WeTransfer.[28]

 

Charity work Edit

Lady Lane-Fox is an advocate for such causes as human rights, women's rights, and social justice. In 2007 she founded Antigone,[29] a grant-makingtrust to support charities based in the United Kingdom. She is a patron of Reprieve, a legal action charity,[30] and CAMFED, an organization dedicated to fighting poverty, HIV, and AIDS in rural Africa through an emphasis on education of young women.[31]She is also patron of the charity Just for Kids Law, which supports children and young people in London, as well as fighting for wider reform on behalf of young people across the UK.[32]

 

When the telecommunications company Orangewithdrew its longstanding support for the Orange Prize, Lane Fox was one of several benefactors, along with Cherie Blair and Joanna Trollope, who offered to sustain the contest until another major sponsor could be found.[33]

 

Honours and awards Edit

 

Lane Fox was appointed Commander of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for "services to the digital economy and charity".[34] In February 2013 she was assessed to be one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4.[35] In the same month it was announced that she was to be created a life peer to sit as a crossbencher in the House of Lords.[36]

 

On 25 March 2013, she was created a Life Peer as Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho, of Soho in the City of Westminster,[37] and was introduced in the House of Lords the next day.[1] On 29 October 2015, Lane Fox was ranked 15th on the Richtopia list of 100 Most Influential British Entrepreneurs.[38][39] In February 2016, Lane Fox was elected a Distinguished Fellowof BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, after being nominated by The Duke of Kent.[40][nb 2]

 

Coat of Arms

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Lane_Fox

Anonymous ID: a485a7 April 15, 2022, 12:18 p.m. No.16082720   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Dig on board of directors twitter

 

Martha Lane Fox

Founder and Chairperson, Lucky Voice Group; Former Co-Founder and Managing Director of lastminute.com; Crossbench Peer, House of Lords

Martha Lane Fox has served as a member of our board of directors since April 2016. Since August 2005, Ms. Lane Fox has served as the Founder and Chairperson of Lucky Voice Group Ltd., a private karaoke company. From September 2012 to December 2016, Ms. Lane Fox served as the Chairperson of MakieWorld Ltd., a 3D printing and game company. From 1998 to 2003, Ms. Lane Fox was the Co-Founder and Managing Director of lastminute.com, a travel and leisure website, and remained on the board of directors until 2005. Since December 2017, Ms. Lane Fox has served as a member of the Joint Committee for National Security Strategy. Since May 2018, Ms. Lane Fox has served as a director of Chanel S.A. Since March 2013, Ms. Lane Fox has served as a crossbench peer in the United Kingdom House of Lords. Since September 2015, Ms. Lane Fox has served as the founder and chair of doteveryone.org.uk, an organization advancing the understanding and use of Internet enabled technologies, and in September 2014 was appointed Chancellor of Open University. Ms. Lane Fox has also served on various private company boards. Ms. Lane Fox holds a B.A. in Ancient History and Modern History from University of Oxford.

 

https://investor.twitterinc.com/corporate-governance/board-of-directors/person-details/default.aspx?

Anonymous ID: a485a7 April 15, 2022, 12:50 p.m. No.16082846   🗄️.is 🔗kun

The Failure Of Fiat Currencies & The Implications For Gold & Silver

Authored by Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com,

 

This is the background text of my Keynote Speech given yesterday to European Gold Forum yesterday, 13 April.

 

To explain why fiat currencies are failing I started by defining money. I then described the relationship between fiat money and its purchasing power, the role of bank credit, and the interests of central banks.

 

Undoubtedly, the recent sanctions over Russia will have a catastrophic effect for financialised currencies, possibly leading to the end of fifty-one years of the dollar regime. Russia and China plan to escape this fate for the rouble and yuan by tying their currencies to commodities and production instead of collapsing financial assets. The only way for those of us in the West to protect ourselves is with physical gold, which over time is tied to commodity and energy prices.

 

What is money?

 

To understand why all fiat currency systems fail, we must start by understanding what money is, and how it differs from other forms of currency and credit. These are long-standing relationships which transcend our times and have their origin in Roman law and the practice of medieval merchants who evolved a lex mercatoria, which extended money’s legal status to instruments that evolved out of money, such as bills of exchange, cheques, and other securities for money. And while as circulating media, historically currencies have been almost indistinguishable from money proper, in the last century issuers of currencies split them off from money so that they have become pure fiat.

 

At the end of the day, what constitutes money has always been determined by its users as the means of exchanging their production for consumption in an economy based on the division of labour. Money is the bridge between the two, and while over the millennia different media of exchange have come and gone, only metallic money has survived to be trusted. These are principally gold, silver, and copper. Today the term usually refers to gold, which is still in government reserves, as the only asset with no counterparty risk. Silver, which as a monetary asset declined in importance as money after Germany moved to a gold standard following the Franco-Prussian war, remains a monetary metal, though with a gold to silver ratio currently over 70 times, it is not priced as such.

 

For historical reasons, the world’s monetary system evolved based on English law. Britain, or more accurately England and Wales, still respects Roman, or natural law with respect to money. To this day, gold sovereign coins are legal tender. Strictly speaking, metallic gold and silver are themselves credit, representing yet-to-be-spent production. But uniquely, they are no one’s liability, unlike banknotes and bank deposits. Metallic money therefore has this exceptional status, and that fact alone means that it tends not to circulate, in accordance with Gresham’s Law, so long as lesser forms of credit are available.

 

Money shares with its currency and credit substitutes a unique position in criminal law. If a thief steals money, he can be apprehended and charged with theft along with any accomplices. But if he passes the money on to another party who receives it in good faith and is not aware that it is stolen, the original owner has no recourse against the innocent receiver, or against anyone else who subsequently comes into possession of the money. It is quite unlike any other form of property, which despite passing into innocent hands, remains the property of the original owner.

 

In law, cryptocurrencies and the mooted central bank digital currencies are not money, money-substitutes, or currencies. Given that a previous owner of stolen bitcoin sold on to a buyer unaware it was criminally obtained can subsequently claim it, there is no clear title without full provenance. In accordance with property law, the United States has ruled that cryptocurrencies are property, reclaimable as stolen items, differentiating cryptocurrencies from money and currency proper. And we can expect similar rulings in other jurisdictions to exclude cryptocurrencies from the legal status as money, whereas the position of CBDCs in this regard has yet to be clarified. We can therefore nail to the floor any claims that bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency can possibly have the legal status required of money.

 

Under a proper gold standard, currency in the form of banknotes in public circulation was freely exchangeable for gold coin. So long as they were freely exchangeable, banknotes took on the exchange value of gold, allowing for the credit standing of the issuer….

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/failure-fiat-currencies-implications-gold-silver

Anonymous ID: a485a7 April 15, 2022, 12:55 p.m. No.16082877   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3006

They make it sound like conservatives brutalize everyone

 

https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1514961697253085190?s=20&t=ly7WNGX5gblQ0GIOBErr5A

Anonymous ID: a485a7 April 15, 2022, 1:01 p.m. No.16082902   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2957 >>3043

Debate Intensifies Over Use Of Facial Recognition Technology In British Schools

Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times,

 

For years, the UK has been using biometrics to identify school children, but now that facial recognition (FRT) software is becoming widely adopted, questions are being raised about ethical issues surrounding data and surveillance.

 

Companies say that the futuristic technology will radically improve productivity and efficiency during dinner times, but critics, including the UK’s snooping tsar, have come out strong against the use of facial recognition cameras in schools.

 

Professor Fraser Sampson, the independent Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner told the Mail on Sunday last weekend he recently found out “completely by accident” about the Department Of Education’s drafted plans on guidance on facial recognition cameras in schools across the country.Almost 70 schools have signed up for the system.

 

‘Intrusive Surveillance’

 

Experienced police head Sampson’s role is to encourage compliance with the surveillance camera code of practice. “There is not really a recognition that this is intrusive surveillance, and it’s increasingly intrusive surveillance,” he said. “If people think the use of facial recognition by the police is sensitive and controversial wait until schools start putting it in.

 

“Your starting point should be, ‘Where is the lawful purpose of introducing this clearly intrusive type of technology into a school?’” he said. “How does any of this fit with much wider government obligations on the U.N. convention on the rights of the child not to be subject to close scrutiny and have the freedom to sit in a classroom without being watched, let alone recorded?” said Sampson.

 

Pippa King, co-director of the children’s privacy rights organisation Defend Digital Me told The Epoch Times that her concern is that it’s “completely intrusive” and that “we don’t know what the exact take-up of FRT is in schools right now.”

 

CRB Cunninghams is a major provider of FRT software, hardware, and services to education establishments throughout the UK, specialising in cashless, online payment, and identity management systems. It supplies also cashless catering, identity management, and online payment systems to over 3,300 UK education establishments.

 

In a webinar called Facial Recognition: An introduction to UK schools, CRB Cunninghams detailed how its system uses an algorithm that will constantly evolve to match the child’s growth and change in appearance.

 

‘Faster Than Fingerprint’

 

“It’s the fastest way of recognising someone at the till—it’s faster than a card, it’s faster than fingerprint,” said David Swanston, the managing director of CRB Cunninghams, to The Financial Times. This was in response to the nine schools in North Ayrshire, Scotland, which had started taking payments for school lunches by scanning the faces of pupils.

 

However, North Ayrshire Council soon suspended the FRT system in response to pressure from the ICO, a non-departmental public body that upholds information rights in the public interests, and privacy advocates.

 

“What are we teaching kids? You have to use your face to buy a portion of chips for using your face,” said King, adding that it also “desensitizes children to using biometrics.”

 

“It’s completely unnecessary when you can use a swipe card or a pin number,” she added…

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/debate-intensifies-over-use-facial-recognition-technology-british-schools

Anonymous ID: a485a7 April 15, 2022, 1:11 p.m. No.16082945   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2961

I have a distinct feeling this will not end well for the Twitter board

 

https://twitter.com/KurtSchlichter/status/1515034067363774472?s=20&t=ly7WNGX5gblQ0GIOBErr5A

Anonymous ID: a485a7 April 15, 2022, 1:21 p.m. No.16082985   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3001

Twitter board approves 'poison pill' plan in desperate attempt to limit Elon Musk's stake in company

The company has adopted a "poison pill," which makes it difficult for Musk to increase his stake in the company past 15 percent. Currently, Musk owns just over 9 percent.

 

Following Elon Musk’s $43 billion takeover bid issued on Thursday morning, the board of directors at Twitter unanimously voted to approve a plan that could potentially limit how many shares the Tesla and SpaceX CEO could buy.

 

According to The Wall Street Journal, the company has adopted a "poison pill," which makes it difficult for Musk to increase his stake in the company past 15 percent. Currently, Musk owns just over 9 percent.

 

"Poison pills, also called shareholder-rights plans, are legal maneuvers that make it hard for shareholders to build their stakes beyond a set point by triggering an option for others to buy more shares at a discount. They are often used by companies that receive hostile takeover bids to buy themselves time to consider their options," The Wall Street Journal explained.

 

According to CNBC, this plan is set to expire on April 14, 2023.

 

"The Rights Plan will reduce the likelihood that any entity, person or group gains control of Twitter through open market accumulation without paying all shareholders an appropriate control premium or without providing the Board sufficient time to make informed judgments and take actions that are in the best interests of shareholders," the company said in a press release.

 

The company noted that this plan would not prevent the board from accepting an acquisition offer if the board approves it and deems it in the best interests of the company and its shareholders.

 

The placement of the plan follows weeks of news between the business magnate and the social media giant.

 

At the beginning of the month, it was announced that Musk had purchased more than 9 percent of a stake in the company. Shortly after, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal said that Musk would be joining the company’s board of directors.

 

On April 10 though, just days later, Agrawal announced that Musk would in fact not be joining the board of directors.

 

Then, just days later, Musk made the $43 billion unsolicited takeover bid, equating to $54.20 per share in cash.

 

Notably, Musk, who is a prominent and frequent user of the platform, has been silent since yesterday evening, after posting a screenshot of Goldman Sachs' Q4 review of Twitter, where it was given a 12-month sell price target of only $30.

 

His silence also came just after posting a poll asking users whether "Taking Twitter private at $54.20 should be up to shareholders, not the board."

 

https://thepostmillennial.com/twitter-board-number-of-shares-elon-musk?utm_campaign=64483

Anonymous ID: a485a7 April 15, 2022, 2:06 p.m. No.16083220   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Why Mueller named all those GRU agents answer

 

https://twitter.com/15poundstogo/status/1514396670397669377?s=20&t=7uM9TBGeolIrddcOxQG_Vg