So is she saying it's more???
Illhan Omar says "there's no G-ddamn way" there's $9 Billion in fraud in Minnesota
"I think you need to get examined because your brain is fried in some way."
x.com/Breaking911/status/2011561785481183518
Who is running Australia? - laws to create a different class of citizen a protected class, how is that not racist?
PM hits out at 'stunning' opposition to hate speech, gun reforms
However, despite many Coalition MPs condemning Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for not acting sooner in the wake of the December 14 attack, some senior figures are now balking at supporting the proposed bill.
Among them is leadership aspirant Andrew Hastie, citing a perceived threat to "democratic freedoms", including freedom of speech.
"There's a lot to consider, and very little time in which to do so," he said in a video posted to social media.
From the top, I'll be voting no to this bill."
The Coalition has previously opposed the idea of stronger hate speech laws, though the party has yet to take a formal stance on the current draft bill.
Former Nationals member turned One Nation star recruit Barnaby Joyce is also opposed to the bill, though he specifically rejects the need for gun control reform rather than hate speech crackdowns.
There was no recreational shooter that went down and mass murdered people at Bondi," he told Today.
"But somehow we've got wrapped up this."
Joyce said "fundamentalist Islam" was the issue that needed to be addressed, blaming immigration – though one of the alleged Bondi terrorists was Australian-born.
Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie has also decried the gun control aspects of the bill, which would limit firearm ownership and establish a gun buyback scheme.
Albanese hit out at the Coalition this morning, accusing MPs of hypocrisy.
"This is somewhat stunning, frankly. The Coalition, day after day, very clearly called for parliament to be recalled," he told ABC Radio Sydney.
"Now they're saying this is somehow rushed, even though my government has moved in a considered, orderly way."
Albanese said he had met with opposition leader Sussan Ley regularly in the lead-up to recalling parliament, and that the government was very open to considering amendments.
"We've said we're open to amendments in order to be sure to get this right," he said.
"We haven't heard any proposed amendments."
He urged MPs with concerns or proposed changes to "pick up the phone" and "engage constructively".
https://www.9news.com.au/national/bondi-beach-attack-hate-speech-laws-coalition-set-to-oppose-legislation/01ada667-aa0f-49d7-9c1b-efe9fc31849e
Deep dive on David and Larry Ellison taking over Hollywood. Paramount sues Warner/HBO in hostile takeover.
One weekend in 2006, Dean Devlin, a movie producer, was driving across Los Angeles to deal with an emergency. His new movie, Flyboys, had opened that weekend to reviews so bad that one of the stars had abruptly checked into the hospital. On his way to visit the actor, another potential crisis appeared on his phone. “I was terrified when the phone rang and it was Larry Ellison,” Devlin said.
Devlin had made a name for himself with a string of blockbusters in the 1990s — Stargate, Independence Day, Godzilla — but he’d struggled to come up with the money to make Flyboys, a script about a band of World War I fighter pilots. Then, in a stroke of luck, he learned that Ellison, the founder of Oracle and one of the world’s richest men, had a college-age son named David who was not only trying to break into Hollywood but was also an amateur pilot. David even had a nascent film-production company with an aerial name: Skydance. Larry agreed to help fund the movie, which cost $60 million, and Skydance was listed as a producer. David, meanwhile, got a plum role, alongside James Franco, as a pilot named Eddie who can’t shoot straight. “Come on, Eddie,” David says to himself in the climactic fight scene. “Do something right.”
Devlin thought he knew why Larry was calling. Flyboys had bombed at the box office, and Larry stood to lose millions. As it turned out, Larry wasn’t all that stressed about the money; he had spent tens of millions more just trying to win a sailing race. He was, however, concerned about his son — the actor in the hospital. The reaction to Flyboys had so unsettled David that he was experiencing an episode of atrial fibrillation; doctors had to shock his heart back into rhythm. “He was thinking that whole weekend, I just lost my dad a bunch of money,” Devlin said. “He was upset about letting his father down.” Larry told Devlin to make sure David knew he was still proud of him.
https://archive.ph/kibmV#selection-1785.0-1821.129
Paramount Skydance
is suing Warner Bros. Discovery
and CEO David Zaslav as its latest step in a hostile pursuit to acquire WBD, CEO David Ellison outlined in a letter to WBD shareholders on Monday.
The lawsuit asks a Delaware court to direct Warner Bros. Discovery to provide information about its sale process and pending deal with Netflix
“WBD has failed to include any disclosure about how it valued the Global Networks stub equity, how it valued the overall Netflix transaction, how the purchase price reduction for debt works in the Netflix transaction, or even what the basis is for its ‘risk adjustment’ of our $30 per share all-cash offer,” Ellison said in the letter on Monday.
“We filed suit this morning in Delaware Chancery Court to ask the court to simply direct WBD to provide this information so that WBD shareholders have what they need to be able to make an informed decision as to whether to tender their shares into our offer,” Ellison said.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/paramount-skydance-warner-bros-discovery-suit.html
https://citizenwatchreport.com/deep-dive-on-david-and-larry-ellison-taking-over-hollywood-paramount-sues-warner-hbo-in-hostile-takeover/
Iran closes airspace, except those with prior permission
x.com/Breaking911/status/2011564730302021647
The Fed should be under criminal indictment for this instead.
The Fed can’t balance a budget for the country, but sure, let’s build a $3 billion palace while Americans can’t pay rent.
U.S. workers just received 53.8% of GDP in the third quarter, the lowest share since the government started tracking this in 1947. That’s down from 54.6% the quarter before and well below the 55.6% average for the 2020s. At the same time, corporate profit margins are hitting some of their strongest levels in decades.
To put this simply: GDP measures the total value of everything the economy produces. Labor share tells you how much of that goes to workers as wages, salaries, bonuses, and benefits versus how much goes to company profits and shareholders. When labor share drops, it means the economy can grow while workers see less of the gains.
My Take
This is the chart that explains why so many people feel like the economy isn’t working for them even when GDP numbers look fine. The pie is getting bigger, but workers are getting a smaller slice. That 53.8% is a record low going back nearly 80 years.
The productivity story makes this even more interesting. Productivity jumped at the fastest pace in two years, which sounds great until you realize companies are using those gains to operate with fewer workers rather than pay existing workers more. Richmond Fed President Barkin basically said as much: businesses are relying on productivity gains to run leaner. Add AI into the mix and you have a recipe for GDP growth that doesn’t translate into hiring or wage gains. This is why I keep saying the headline economic numbers don’t capture what regular people are experiencing. The economy can look healthy on paper while the people who power it fall further behind.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/the-fed-should-be-under-criminal-indictment-for-this-instead/
"Everything's On The Table": JPM CFO Signals Possible Fight With Trump Over Credit Card Rate Cap
Wall Street has benefited greatly from the Trump administration's economic policies and "Make America Great Again" agenda and has largely been supportive of the president. That relationship abruptly fractured last Friday when the president called for a one-year cap on credit card interest rates at 10%.
All it took was President Trump's Truth Social post prioritizing working-class Americans over Wall Street, in which the president said, "AFFORDABILITY! Effective January 20, 2026, I, as President of the United States, am calling for a one-year cap on credit card interest rates of 10%," to put big bank CEOs on notice, with some now preparing to mount a fight against the White House.
Leading that charge appears to be JPMorgan Chase CFO Jeremy Barnum, who signaled during an earnings call on Tuesday that banks could challenge Trump's move to cap credit card interest rates for a year.
"If you wind up with weakly supported directives to radically change our business that aren't justified, you have to assume that everything's on the table," Barnum told analysts following JPMorgan's fourth-quarter earnings report (read here). "We owe that to shareholders."
Barnum argued that a rate cap would backfire by shrinking credit availability rather than lowering borrowing costs, ultimately hurting consumers, spending, and the broader economy. His warning echoed concerns raised earlier this week by UBS analysts Erika Najarian and Tim Chiodo.
"Our belief is that actions like this will have the exact opposite consequence to what the administration wants for consumers," Barnum said. "Instead of lowering the price of credit, we'll simply reduce the supply of credit, and that will be bad for everyone: consumers, the wider economy, and yes, at the margin, for us."
The average U.S. credit card APR is about 20%, according to the latest data from Bankrate. Rates are much higher for subprime and store cards.
A stalled bill proposed by Josh Hawley and Bernie Sanders would have imposed a 10% cap for 5 years, versus Trump's 1-year cap. Consumer-heavy industries beyond banking warned of ripple effects of less credit in the system, such as Delta Air Lines.
House Speaker Mike Johnson urged caution, warning that efforts to lower costs could have unintended consequences: "We have a lot of work to go [on] consensus around it, but you got to be very careful as we go forward in that in our zeal to bring down costs … you don't want to have negative secondary effects."
Read more about why UBS analysts say Trump's 10% one-year cap on credit card interest rates is "unlikely" here.
Trump's incoming fight with big banks on capping credit card rates is not unexpected given his administration's massive push for affordability this year.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/everythings-table-jpm-cfo-signals-possible-fight-trump-over-credit-card-rate-cap
2020 interesting
U.S. Seeks to Recover Approximately $96 Million Traceable to Funds Allegedly Misappropriated from Malaysian Sovereign Wealth Fund: Funds (Bank Privee de Edmond Rothschild) Complaint
https://www.justice.gov/d9/press-releases/attachments/2020/07/01/download_funds_bank_privee_de_edmond_rothschild_complaint.pdf
No internet and starlink is being scrambled
Not notable
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Ex-NSA employees criticize Mike Rogers’ role with Israeli venture firm
Ex-NSA employees have criticized Rogers' move to a company founded by former Israeli military hackers.
Team8 looks poised to add to an already cash-flush industry. According to its website, the firm has drawn investment backing from the likes of Cisco, Microsoft, and Innovation Endeavors, the investment firm cofounded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
Team8 CEO Nadav Zafrir, former commander of Unit 8200, said Rogers would be key to the firm’s work.
“Mike will be an invaluable asset to Team8’s company-building model, providing a fountain of knowledge for our existing portfolio companies, for the companies in development, and to help identify technology gaps in the marketplace on which future companies could be built,” Zafrir said.
https://cyberscoop.com/mike-rogers-team8-nsa-board-criticism-unit-8200/
Video on the penetration of the WEST.
youtube.com/watch?v=oVqGwogV5M
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Shwe
Origin of Check Point: Shwed's work in Unit 8200, connecting classified networks, exposed security flaws, sparking the idea for the first firewall, according to this Spotify podcast and The Register.
Unit 8200's Impact: Unit 8200 is known as a major source of talent for Israel's tech industry, with many alumni, including Shwed, founding major cybersecurity firms like CyberArk and Palo Alto Networks.
From Military to CEO: Shwed's journey exemplifies how service in Unit 8200 cultivates skills in data analysis and technological problem-solving, crucial for the high-tech sector.
Unit 8200 (Hebrew: יחידה 8200
romanized: Yehida shmone matayim,lit. 'Unit eight two-hundred') is an Israeli Intelligence Corps unit of the Israel Defense Forces responsible for clandestine operation, collecting signal intelligence (SIGINT) and code decryption, counterintelligence, cyberwarfare, military intelligence, and surveillance. Military publications include references to Unit 8200 as the Central Collection Unit of the Intelligence Corps, and it is sometimes referred to as Israeli SIGINT National Unit (ISNU).[5] It is subordinate to Aman, the military intelligence directorate. Unit 8200 is considered the Israeli equivalent of the United States' National Security Agency (NSA).[6]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_820
Is anyone tracking pizza deliveries to the pentagon tonight?/