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Trump’s New Lawyer Has Been Fawning Over Him Since High School

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March 30, 2022

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POET LAWYERATE

Trump has plenty of history with his newest lawyer.

Here are just a few highlights from the résumé of Donald Trump’s latest lawyer: amateur poet… twice suspended from the Florida bar… and—perhaps most importantly—the man who helped fabricate a “ladies’ man” yearbook award for Trump when they were classmates at a junior military academy.

The attorney, local Florida lawyer Peter Ticktin, is Trump’s man on the ground for his latest legal salvo—a sprawling, conspiracy theory-laden broadside against Hillary Clinton and nearly 50 loosely affiliated co-defendants, all of whom Trump levels with conspiring to “weave a false narrative” to deprive him of the presidency in 2016.

The suit—which includes charges of “injurious falsehoods,” “theft of trade secrets,” and “conspiracy to commit racketeering”—has been ripped as a fantasy and “a press release.” But Ticktin and his lead counsel, Alina Habba, are taking it seriously.

But Ticktin is a curious choice to lead the lawsuit for more reasons than his poems. His firm, whose website URL is “legalbrains.com,” does not count government or election law among its many areas of expertise (though it does host 17 of the lawyer’s own poems). And while the office achieved recognized success in foreclosure law after the 2008 recession, Ticktin himself has also drawn legal scrutiny, including those two bar suspensions and a third investigation into shady billing practices during that same recession.

Ticktin does, however, have one ace in the hole: He loves Donald Trump. He first met the future president nearly 60 years ago at military school, and he was a vocal backer throughout Trump’s presidency. Ticktin even wrote a book documenting his love of Trump: What Makes Trump Tick: My Years with Donald Trump from New York Military Academy to the Present.

In an interview with The Daily Beast, Ticktin defended his old friend and explained how he came to join the ambitious new case.

According to Ticktin, the 108-page lawsuit was two months in the making. That’s when he was first approached by Habba, who first tried to hire Ticktin’s daughter, a former Palm Beach County judge. When his daughter declined, he said, “Alina looked into me and met with me. And that’s how I got the gig.”

Even with the two suspensions and media reports of a third investigation, he cleared Habba’s vetting. But those suspensions, which Ticktin called a “horrible” experience, were quite serious.

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The first concerned violations of conflict of interest and confidentiality rules, stemming from Ticktin’s relationship with a former client who was eventually convicted of defrauding investors of $20 million, Law & Crime previously reported.

“I did violate the rule in regard to conflict of interest, but everything I did was honest and aboveboard,” Ticktin told The Daily Beast. “I’d never been in trouble before, and for that to happen, it was just horrible.”

While he served a 91-day suspension, he said, the Florida bar hit him again.

“Once you’re under their microscope, they look at everything, and it came to light that I had paid a New York lawyer a referral fee,” he said, noting he served out both punishments concurrently. Shortly after that, Ticktin came under investigation again for his practice of offering distressed homeowners the option to put up a second mortgage in lieu of attorneys’ fees.

Today, Ticktin is “totally engaged” with the Clinton suit, and says he speaks directly with Trump “about every two weeks.” The former president, he said, also helps develop legal strategy.

As for that strategy, Ticktin said, “There’s more to this case than just the RICO claims,” dismissing critics of the racketeering charges and maintaining that Trump had a “strong case.”

Asked about Clinton’s specific role, Ticktin said was “not sure exactly what her direct involvement was.” But he offered a sprawling analogy.

“If you were to think of—let’s say Hillary Clinton is kind of like the head of an octopus, and I’m not going to call her an octopus, but you know, if you think of the tentacles that go down, you know, you’ve got the law firm, you’ve got Fusion GPS, going down into, you know, with Dolan—you know, Charles Dolan—giving information up the chain to [Igor] Danchenko, who then gives it over to [tech executive Rodney] Joffe and to, um, to, uh, basically to [former MI6 agent Christopher] Steele and then the Steele dossier being formed,” Ticktin said, in maundering Trumpian fashion.

Ticktin’s handiwork on the lawsuit, so far, hasn’t impressed too many observers, even some of those operating in the same Trump orbit that he now officially inhabits.

“It’s dumb,” one lawyer, who also works in the upper echelons of Trumpworld, succinctly assessed this week. This attorney requested anonymity in order to speak freely.

Ken White, a First Amendment lawyer and former federal prosecutor, had an even rougher take on the twice-impeached former president’s newest vengeful lawsuit.

“Trump’s RICO complaint is freakishly unprofessional and legally bumptious. Rather than a serious effort by serious lawyers, it’s a performative caper by injudiciously barred clowns,” White said on Tuesday. “This sort of fundraising-and-rabble-rousing-by-litigation is unethical and bad for the legal system.”

However performative the suit is, Ticktin is simply doing exactly what his high-profile client craves.

The attorney’s formal initiation into the top ranks of the Trumpworld’s ever-expanding and evolving legal realm comes after years of the Florida lawyer settling for a role as a MAGA bit player.

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During the Trump era, Ticktin never rose to the levels of access enjoyed by many other conservative attorneys and legal hangers-on, some of whom worked closely with the then-president in his efforts to pull off a coup last year.

On the rare occasions when Trump brought up Ticktin’s name, it was typically to pat the lawyer on the head for coming to his defense. According to a person with direct knowledge of the matter, during the 2020 race, Trump was pleased to learn that Ticktin had publicly challenged Mary Trump’s claim that Donald Trump had cheated on his SATs.

“The president referred to him as a stand-up guy because of that,” this source recalled.

But Ticktin’s greatest strength may be his willingness to put himself out there. On his bio page on his law firm’s official “Legal Brains” website, there is a link to a section called, “Peter’s Poems.”

The section showcases artistic titles such as, “MOTEL,” “THE TORONTO SUBWAY SYSTEM,” “THE LITTLE ROOM,” “OH WHAT A SHAME,” “WANTING TO LOVE YOU,” and “THE HAMBURGER.”

Some of the poems have to do with loneliness and heartache. More than one is Toronto-themed—a nod to Ticktin’s family roots and early professional years. And one contemplates a “Miss Playboy” that has apparently been “chopped up.”

“At last the market place has brought / A toy that causes lasting thought / Of life and sex and puzzled joy, / A chopped up mess of Miss Playboy. / A jig sawed copy of past releases, / The poor girl has gone to pieces, / Cut apart by some contraption / As she longed for loving action,” reads the poem, “A PLAYBOY PUZZLE.”

“They actually had puzzles—they were in little cans,” Ticktin explained when asked about that composition. “And you put it all together and you got your Playboy.”

The poems, he said, were “from a long time ago.”

“I don’t really know exactly what they were thinking about putting it on the website, but I didn’t have a problem with the idea,” he said.

“If anything I wrote can ever help anybody in any way, that’s a good thing,” he added.

And he may have already done that. Decades before he became the ex-president’s lawyer, Ticktin’s writing work was already serving Trump’s interests and feeding his ego—even if accidentally.

Ticktin’s role on a student newspaper may have helped set the stage for The Donald’s many years of claiming to be an ultimate womanizer—long before he drew accusations of sexual assault and harassment by numerous women.

“He was really liked by our whole class,” Ticktin said. “That’s why we made him ‘Ladies’ Man.’”

At the military academy, it was the job of the newspaper staff to decide who won the year-end superlatives, “not like it is today where people run for election to become ‘Class Clown’ or whatever,” Ticktin explained.

And that “Ladies’ Man” award, according to Ticktin, was not only just an “inside joke” at the all-boys school; it was also a consolation prize.

“Somebody else got ‘Most Popular,’ and we wanted to give him something, so we made him ‘Ladies’ Man,’ which to us was kind of an inside joke because there really were no ladies,” Ticktin said.

This would appear to contradict other recollections of the time, including Trump’s.

The New York Times reported in May 2016 that Trump had cut “an image as a young playboy amid the deprivations of a single-sex military school, where most boys craved but rarely enjoyed the company of a girl.”

The Times also reported that Trump’s classmates had “crowned him” ladies’ man as “a nod to the volume of his dates.” When the Times asked Trump why he took that title, he replied, “I better not tell you—I’ll get myself in trouble,” adding he had “a great feeling” and “a great like” for women.

But in contrast to a classmate’s claim in the Times report that Trump had “a variety of girls coming up,” Ticktin said that he helped stage the yearbook superlative photo.

“In order to get a picture with him and a lady, you know, a girlfriend—supposedly—in the yearbook, we had to find the secretary out of the administration building that was young enough to fit the part, because we have no girls,” he explained. (That secretary was previously identified and found by the New York Daily News.)

“But we did it in good spirit, because we liked him and we just wanted to give him something positive in the book,” Ticktin said.

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Tearing Down the Silicon Valley Wall

realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/04/28/tearing_down_the_silicon_valley_wall_147530.html

Elon Musk has finally managed to buy Twitter. And the moment he did, the enraged Left flipped out.

Abruptly leftists began trashing their favorite electronic communications platform as the domain of the nation's elite, professional classes. Had they just discovered that they had been racists and privileged users all this time?

And what happened to the Left's former worship of Musk as the man who revolutionized the clean, green automobile industry with his Tesla electric car company?

Or Musk the space revolutionary and hip star trekker, who with his own money helped ensure the United States remains preeminent in space exploration?

Or Musk, the patriot who is providing free next-generation internet service to the underdog Ukrainians fighting Russians for their lives?

No matter. The Left reviles Musk because he has announced that Twitter will be the one social-media platform whose business is not to censor or massage free speech in an otherwise monopolist, intolerant, and hard-Left Silicon Valley.

Who knows, Musk might even allow former president Donald Trump to communicate on Twitter - in the fashion that the terrorist Taliban, Iranian theocrats, and violent Antifa protesters all take for granted in their daily access to Twitter.

But how did the once free-speech, anti-trust, let-it-all-hang out Left become a Victorian busybody, a censorious Soviet, and an old-fashioned robber-baron monopoly?

When it discovered that few Americans wanted left-wing, socialist politics it turned elsewhere. It found power instead through control of American institutions, from academia and Wall Street to traditional and social media.

When Musk merely talked about buying Twitter, the Left shrieked that an outlier multibillionaire owning a media - and especially a social media - venue was unfair. The buyout was supposedly "dangerous" and "a threat to democracy."

But the more the Left screamed, the less people listened.

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After all, left-wing Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook has roughly 15 times more market capitalization than Twitter. It has an audience of 2 billion users - over seven times larger than Twitter's 271 million.

Zuckerberg's monopoly on global social media and his enormous wealth were stealthily put in service to the Democratic Party in the 2020 election. He reportedly infused nearly $420 million of his media money into warping the vote in key precincts, by augmenting and absorbing the work of state registrars to empower likely left-wing voters.

Amazon's Jeff Bezos, the second wealthiest man in the world, owns the influential Washington Post. It has moved markedly to the activist Left under his patronage.

Multibillionaire Lisa Jobs, widow of the late Apple founder Steve Jobs, owns The Atlantic. It has become an increasingly hard-Left political magazine.

So in Orwellian fashion, apparently most media-owning, left-wing billionaires are good? But one social media-owning, non-left-wing billionaire is bad?

How exactly might a Musk-owned Twitter alter an election?

By emulating the former directors of Twitter and the rest of Silicon Valley social media who canceled not just conservatives, but any new communication they felt harmful to the 2020 Biden campaign?

From the outset, it was clear that Hunter Biden's lost laptop incriminated his dad, Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

Biden was referenced by his own quid pro quo, grifting son variously as "the Big Guy" and "Mr. Ten Percent" - a full partner in peddling Beltway influence to rich foreign actors.

Yet in lockstep, social media banned most coverage of the pre-election laptop story.

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It instead spread its standby false narrative of "Russian disinformation." We now know the laptop was always authentic. The crude efforts to suppress mention of it were classic politicized news suppression.

Still, the Left may well have some reason to be terrified of Elon Musk. Should he liberate Twitter from left-wing scolds and groupthinkers, would other renegade new companies and old standbys follow his lead?

Is Musk's $46-billion acquisition the internet equivalent of Germans in November 1989 with sledgehammers smashing down the Berlin Wall?

Does Musk sense that the looming November midterm elections may result in one of the rare landslide verdicts in American history?

Does he assume the public prefers a muckraker who demands free speech rather than corporate insider cronies censoring expression they don't find useful?

Polls show that the American people have had their fill of 14 months of self-inflicted, ideology-driven disasters. And why not, given the nonexistent border, spiking crime, inflation, unaffordable gasoline, and neo-Confederate racial fixations?

Are the recent Netflix implosion, the CNN+ disaster, the Disney debacle, the Virginia statewide and San Francisco school board elections, the polls showing massive defections of Latinos from the Left, and the grass-roots pushback against government-imposed mask wearing, and explicit transgender education in the k-3 grades–also symptoms of a reckoning on the horizon?

The country is ready for a revolution. And Musk believes he can lead it with his Silicon-Valley sledgehammer.

So, as the Left says, "Bring it on."

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''Victor Davis Hanson'' is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author, most recently, of The Case for Trump. You can reach him by e-mailing author@victorhanson.com.

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>So what are they trying to do? Discount the lawsuit because its backed by a crazy fan.

''Captain Donald Trump's High School [Military Academy] Platoon Sergeant ''and supporter!

Biden Promised Harris Lunch ‘Once a Week.’ They’ve Had Two This Year

realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/04/28/biden_promised_harris_lunch_once_a_week_theyve_had_two_this_year_147531.html

(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Joe Biden takes lunch seriously. As vice president, his weekly lunch with Obama wasn’t just a meal. It was a meeting when things really got done, a moment set aside on the White House calendar for the two men to break bread and build out an agenda.

The weekly meal was so important to Biden that he carried over the tradition to his own presidency. "I made the same deal with her that Barack and I made," he said of his newly minted vice president just weeks after his inauguration. That meant drop-in privileges at the Oval Office and carte blanche over executive office meetings, Biden told People magazine, but also “lunch alone once a week.”

“That's the deal when we're both in-country,” he explained, “which we'll be for a while because of COVID, and I see her all the time.”

And yet, according to a review of the president’s public schedule by RealClearPolitics, Biden and Harris have only sat down to lunch twice this year, a significant drop when compared to the 12 times they shared the meal together by this same point last year.

For Biden and Harris, lunch this year has followed major developments. The two shared a meal on February 8, when the search for a Supreme Court nominee to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer was ongoing, and another lunch on March 30, shortly after Biden returned from Warsaw to rally the West after Russian invaded Ukraine.

White House aides insist that the executive lunches, while important to both Biden and Harris, are not the ultimate barometer of cooperation between the two.

“The president and vice president are in constant touch with each other,” Deputy Press Secretary Chris Meagher told RCP. “And he relies on her counsel, partnership, and friendship as they work together to continue to grow the economy, cut costs for working families, rally the world in the face of Russia’s aggression, and make historic investments in our nation’s infrastructure.”

Still, the lack of lunch comes amid whispers of a rocky start to their working relationship. Biden has tried to duplicate the dynamic with Harris that he enjoyed with Obama, but he reportedly hasn’t been able to recreate the same sense of camaraderie. In an excerpt of their new book, “This Will Not Pass,” obtained early by Politico, Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns of the New York Times write that “their weekly lunches lacked a real depth of personal and political intimacy.”

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According to another section of the book, this one reported by Fox News, some in Biden World were less than enthusiastic about Harris joining the ticket. Most notably: future first lady Jill Biden. “There are millions of people in the United States. Why do we have to choose the one who attacked Joe,” Dr. Biden reportedly said after learning that Harris was the leading candidate to be the Veep nominee.

If there is any lingering awkwardness, it hasn’t affected how Biden says he sees Harris. Asked if she would be his running mate in 2024 and if he thought she was doing a good job, the president was succinct at a press conference earlier this year, telling reporters “Yes, and yes.”

What about lunch though? White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told RCP that “absolutely” the scheduled meal remains a point of emphasis. Although, she added, “obviously they are not going to be dining in person while she is quarantining at home.”

Skipping lunch may have been a bit of a blessing in disguise then, as Harris tested positive for COVID on Tuesday. According to the vice president’s office, she remains asymptomatic, in good spirits, and hard at work. And, as the White House reported, Harris had not been “a close contact” to either the president or the first lady “due to their respective recent travel schedules.”

Harris and Biden remain in close contact, Psaki told RCP, even as the vice president quarantines. They speak over the phone, and Harris regularly participates in policy meetings with the Cabinet via Zoom.

Those two combined factors, a lingering pandemic and an increasingly busy travel schedule, may explain why the executive power lunch has gone to the wayside in the White House. Harris traveled to Europe twice this year amidst Russian aggression in the region, first to Germany in February and later to Poland in March. Biden also flew overseas that same month to Belgium on the same mission.

And the vice president isn’t the first to test positive for the virus either. Her communications director, Jamal Simmons, tested positive in early April. So did second gentleman Doug Emhoff who came down with the virus earlier in March. Harris was in close contact both times, and out of an abundance of caution kept her distance from Biden.

The administration has struggled to contain new variants of the virus in both the country at large and the West Wing, a scheduling headache and frustrating political reality. White House COVID coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha told reporters on Tuesday after Harris tested positive that “it is possible that the president, like any other American, could get COVID.” He stressed, however, that that the vaccinated and boosted president has “very good protocols around him to protect him from getting infected. But there is no 100 percent anything.”

“I think the key focus has got to be: We’ve got to continue protecting the president,” the doctor continued. “That’s what the protocols around him are designed to do.” Perhaps once the pandemic is definitively in the rearview mirror, the weekly lunches will resume on schedule.

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• Journalist, editor and war reporter Yoichi Shimatsu earned a degree in European history at Purdue University.

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'The Lord of the Rings' and Russia's war on the Orks of Ukraine

By Yoichi Shimatsu

Exclusive To Rense.com

4-26-22

Part 5 of this series on the current Ukraine-Russia conflict, caused by murderous provocations and deceptive propaganda from criminal elements of Kipchap Turkic descent, examines how J.R.R. Tolkien based the major battles in "The Lord of the Rings" (LOR) on Russia's centuries of struggle to spare the Christian realm from atrocities and enslavement by these same pagan barbarians. It took no stretch of the imagination for Tolkien to base his brutish Orks on the Kipchak Turks who arrived to Europe from Central Asia as mercenaries for Attila the Hun and later serving in the vanguard of the Golden Horde of Genghis Khan. To foment th is NATO conflict with Russia, the ethnic Kipchaks have resurfaced as commander s of the Azov Battalion, the paramilitary force comprised of deranged criminals and tattooed convicts , who are convinced of their racial superiority to lord over the native white Europeans. First, however, a wade through the Ukraine morass (as briefly as possible since it is a sewer) needs doing to deal with the slimy propaganda obscuring the causes of the present conflict.

Unthinkable as it may seem, 1,500 years after Attila the Hun devastated the Roman Empire and cruelly oppressed the European peasants, thereby bringing on the Dark Age, the imperious Barack Obama and now his henchman Joe Biden have been arming the descendants of those Turkic fanatics for another round of senseless slaughter of white Europeans. As in its countless battles against barbarian hordes, Russia is the sole defender of European Christendom against this relentless menace from the East . Meanwhile NATO has been reduced to a splintered broken shield for c orrupt p olitician s, money-laundering bankers, weapons manufacturers and crime accomplices profiteering from this war. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's foreign policy is nihilistic, being based on a crazed drug-induced drama hatched by Hunter Biden, when all along a Russian military victory has been a foregone conclusion. Kipchek belligerence is rooted in the mentality of medieval vendetta rather than modern demographic reality. Why then should lock-down bankrupted Americans finance a losing war?

The Post-Soviet Mess

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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519735033950470144

1:47 PM · Apr 28, 2022·Twitter for iPhone

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Replying to @elonmusk

''Same thing Bill Maher says happened to him. I think a lot of people share this view.''

1:52 PM · Apr 28, 2022·Twitter Web App

https://twitter.com/dhookstead/status/1519736339029282816

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Replying to @dhookstead and @elonmusk

''Joe Rogan too. He has always been on the center-left and now the authoritarian far leftists say that he's a far right winger 🤦🏾‍♂️''

2:10 PM · Apr 28, 2022·Twitter for Android

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Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop Reports 2nd Quarter Financials, Net Operating Loss of $128 Million

theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/04/28/jacks-magic-coffee-shop-reports-2nd-quarter-financials-net-operating-loss-of-128-million

April 28, 2022

'Jack’s magic coffee shop posted their latest financial results today.

As suspected, the social media company Twitter said revenue for the first quarter totaled $1.2 billion (+16%). However, costs and expenses totaled $1.33 billion (+35%), resulting in an operating loss of $128 million.' (link)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10763405/Twitter-misses-revenue-expectations-days-Elon-Musks-buyout-deal.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline

Another unsustainable result for a company that doesn’t make a profit yet continues to operate. I digress…

REPOST WARNING – The metaphorical Jack had a great idea, open a coffee shop where the beverages were free and use internal advertising as the income subsidy to operate the business. Crowds came for the free coffee, comfy couches, fellowship, conversation and enjoyment.

It didn’t matter where Jack got the coffee, how he paid for it, or didn’t, or what product advertising the customers would be exposed to while there. Few people thought about such things. Curiously, it didn’t matter what size the crowd was; in the backroom of Jack’s Coffee Shop they were able to generate massive amounts of never-ending free coffee at extreme scales.

Over time, using the justification of parking lot capacity and township regulations, not everyone would be able to park and enter. Guards were placed at the entrance to pre-screen customers. A debate began.

Alternative coffee shops opened around town. It was entirely possible to duplicate Jacks Coffee Shop, yet no one could duplicate the business model for the free coffee. Indeed, there was something very unique about Jack’s Coffee Shop. Thus, some underlying suspicions were raised:

The only way Twitter, with 217 million users, could exist as a viable platform is if they had access to tech systems of incredible scale and performance, and those systems were essentially free or very cheap. The only entity that could possibly provide that level of capacity and scale is the United States Government – combined with a bottomless bank account. A public-private partnership.

If my hunch is correct, Elon Musk is poised to expose the well-kept secret that most social media platforms are operating on U.S. government tech infrastructure and indirect subsidy. Let that sink in.

The U.S. technology system, the assembled massive system of connected databases and server networks, is the operating infrastructure that offsets the cost of Twitter to run their own servers and database. The backbone of Twitter is the United States government.

FREE COFFEE:

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FREE COFFEE:

♦ June 2013: […] “Cloud computing is one of the core components of the strategy to help the IC discover, access and share critical information in an era of seemingly infinite data.” … “A test scenario described by GAO in its June 2013 bid protest opinion suggests the CIA sought to compare how the solutions presented by IBM and Amazon Web Services (AWS) could crunch massive data sets, commonly referred to as big data.” … “Solutions had to provide a “hosting environment for applications which process vast amounts of information in parallel on large clusters (thousands of nodes) of commodity hardware” using a platform called MapReduce. Through MapReduce, clusters were provisioned for computation and segmentation. Test runs assumed clusters were large enough to process 100 terabytes of raw input data. AWS’ solution received superior marks from CIA procurement officials”… (MORE)

♦ November 2013: […] “Twitter closed its first day of trading on Nov. 7, 2013, at $44.90 a share. In the years since then, it briefly traded above $70, but more recently, it has struggled.”

Jack’s free coffee shop has been for sale, but there’s no viable business model in the private sector. No one has wanted to purchase Twitter – it is simply unsustainable; the data processing costs exceed the capacity of the platform to generate revenue – until now….

And suddenly, the people who work in the backroom of Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop don’t want Jack to sell.

Twitter is not making a decision to decline the generous offer by Elon Musk because of stewardship or fiduciary responsibility to shareholders. The financials of Twitter as a non-viable business model highlight the issue of money being irrelevant. Twitter does not and cannot make money. Growing Twitter only means growing an expense. Growing Twitter does not grow revenue enough to offset the increase in expense.

There is only one way for Twitter to exist as a viable entity, people are now starting to realize this.

What matters to the people behind Twitter, the people who are subsidizing the ability of Twitter to exist, is control over the global conversation.

Control of the conversation is priceless to the people who provide the backbone for Twitter.

Once people realize who is subsidizing Twitter, everything changes.

That’s the fight. (more)

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♦ 2021, Public-Private Partnership – The modern Fourth Branch of Government is only possible because of a Public-Private partnership with the intelligence apparatus. You do not have to take my word for it, the partnership is so brazen they have made public admissions.

The biggest names in Big Tech announced in June their partnership with the Five Eyes intelligence network, ultimately controlled by the NSA, to: (1) monitor all activity in their platforms; (2) identify extremist content; (3) look for expressions of Domestic Violent Extremism (DVE); and then, (4) put the content details into a database where the Five Eyes intelligence agencies (U.K., U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand) can access it.

Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft are all partnering with the intelligence apparatus. It might be difficult to fathom how openly they admit this, but they do. Look at this sentence in the press release (emphasis mine):

[…] “The Group will use lists from intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes adding URLs and PDFs from more groups, including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.”

Think about that sentence structure very carefully. They are “adding to” the preexisting list…. admitting the group (aka Big Tech) already have access to the the intelligence-sharing database… and also admitting there is a preexisting list created by the Five Eyes consortium.

Obviously, who and what is defined as “extremist content” will be determined by the Big Tech insiders themselves. This provides a gateway, another plausible deniability aspect, to cover the Intelligence Branch from any oversight.

When the Intelligence Branch within government wants to conduct surveillance and monitor American citizens, they run up against problems due to the Constitution of the United States. They get around those legal limitations by sub-contracting the intelligence gathering, the actual data-mining, and allowing outside parties (contractors) to have access to the central database.

The government cannot conduct electronic searches (4th amendment issue) without a warrant; however, private individuals can search and report back as long as they have access. What is being admitted is exactly that preexisting partnership. The difference is that Big Tech will flag the content from within their platforms, and now a secondary database filled with the extracted information will be provided openly for the Intelligence Branch to exploit.

The volume of metadata captured by the NSA has always been a problem because of the filters needed to make the targeting useful. There is a lot of noise in collecting all data that makes the parts you really want to identify more difficult to capture. This new admission puts a new massive filtration system in the metadata that circumvents any privacy protections for individuals.

Previously, the Intelligence Branch worked around the constitutional and unlawful search issue by using resources that were not in the United States. A domestic U.S. agency, working on behalf of the U.S. government, cannot listen on your calls without a warrant. However, if the U.S. agency sub-contracts to say a Canadian group, or foreign ally, the privacy invasion is no longer legally restricted by U.S. law.

What was announced in June 2021 is an alarming admission of a prior relationship along with open intent to define their domestic political opposition as extremists.

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What was announced in June 2021 is an alarming admission of a prior relationship along with open intent to define their domestic political opposition as extremists.

July 26, 2021, (Reuters) – A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook (FB.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) is significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down on material from white supremacists and far-right militias, the group told Reuters.

Until now, the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism’s (GIFCT) database has focused on videos and images from terrorist groups on a United Nations list and so has largely consisted of content from Islamist extremist organizations such as Islamic State, al Qaeda and the Taliban.

Over the next few months, the group will add attacker manifestos – often shared by sympathizers after white supremacist violence – and other publications and links flagged by U.N. initiative Tech Against Terrorism. It will use lists from intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes, adding URLs and PDFs from more groups, including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.

The firms, which include Twitter (TWTR.N) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) YouTube, share “hashes,” unique numerical representations of original pieces of content that have been removed from their services. Other platforms use these to identify the same content on their own sites in order to review or remove it. (read more)

The influence of the Intelligence Branch now reaches into our lives, our personal lives. In the decades before 9/11/01 the intelligence apparatus intersected with government, influenced government, and undoubtedly controlled many institutions with it. The legislative oversight function was weak and growing weaker, but it still existed and could have been used to keep the IC in check. However, after the events of 9/11/01, the short-sighted legislative reactions opened the door to allow the surveillance state to weaponize.

After the Patriot Act was triggered, not coincidentally only six weeks after 9/11, a slow and dangerous fuse was lit that ends with the intelligence apparatus being granted a massive amount of power. The problem with assembled power is always what happens when a Machiavellian network takes control over that power and begins the process to weaponize the tools for their own malicious benefit. That is exactly what Barack Obama was all about.

The Obama network took pre-assembled intelligence weapons we should never have allowed to be created, and turned those weapons into tools for his radical and fundamental change. The target was the essential fabric of our nation. Ultimately, this corrupt political process gave power to create the Fourth Branch of Government, the Intelligence Branch. From that perspective the fundamental change was successful.

[…] “The vision was first outlined in the Intelligence Community Information Technology Enterprise plan championed by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and IC Chief Information Officer Al Tarasiuk almost three years ago.” … “It is difficult to underestimate the cloud contract’s importance. In a recent public appearance, CIA Chief Information Officer Douglas Wolfe called it “one of the most important technology procurements in recent history,” with ramifications far outside the realm of technology.” (READ MORE)

One job…. “take the preexisting system and retool it so the weapons of government only targeted one side of the political continuum.”

Knowing they put this much effort into it, does everything going on now to regulate the internet, maintain the public-private partnership, define information and use the weapons of the administrative state to protect the assembly, start to make more sense?…

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https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/04/28/jacks-magic-coffee-shop-reports-2nd-quarter-financials-net-operating-loss-of-128-million/

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/04/14/elon-musk-make-a-massive-proposal-offers-to-purchase-twitter-for-41-billion-with-plan-to-take-company-private/

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-details-about-the-cias-deal-with-amazon/374632/

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/04/15/twitter-responds-to-elon-musk-proposal-by-creating-poison-pill/

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-facebook-tech-giants-target-manifestos-militias-database-2021-07-26/

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/11/19/how-did-ordinary-american-people-become-domestic-terrorists-in-the-eyes-of-the-deep-state/

''Twitter misses revenue expectations days after Elon Musk's buyout deal''

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10763405/Twitter-misses-revenue-expectations-days-Elon-Musks-buyout-deal.html

April 28, 2022

Twitter FAILS to meet revenue estimates days after Elon Musk's $44B buyout: Tech giant reports $128M operating losses but sees 12M more flock to site in 'last earnings report before going private'

Twitter on Thursday reported quarterly revenue of $1.2B, missing expectations

But active user numbers were up 16% from last year, to 229 million

It could be one of Twitter's final earnings reports as a public company

Elon Musk plans to take the company private in a $44 billion deal

By Keith Griffith For Dailymail.com and Reuters

Published: 08:37 EDT, 28 April 2022 | Updated: 10:31 EDT, 28 April 2022