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🚨Virginia Democrats: Preparing for a Coup
Governor Spanberger, AG Jay Jones, and NSL4A network are pre-positioning Virginia to delegitimize the federal government and hand authority to the state
@DataRepublican lays out the blueprint: NSL4A (ex-military and intel officials) is operationalizing the United Democracy Alliance’s “red lines” for declaring the federal government illegitimate
Governors don’t have to sign anything. They just refuse cooperation, let the NGO apparatus do the street work, and transfer legitimacy to Democratic state officials
➡️ Here's what's happening in Virginia:
🚨VIDEO: on 10/7, Spanberger’s statewide Unified Readiness / Emergency Preparedness Summit assembled nearly 1,000 law enforcement and EMS leaders for coordinated planning around “crises” including mass violence and cyberattacks
This is also the exact infrastructure you make sure is ready if you expect clashes and a legitimacy fight with the federal government
If she declares an emergency, Abigail Spanberger becomes Director of the Dept. of Emergency Management and can call up the National Guard
🚨Graphic with Endorsements: NSL4A “National Security Leaders for America” is credited with running the “United Democracy Alliance" -- engaging in the "blocking" movement of protests, lawsuits, and non-cooperation
The ex-military and Intel operatives endorsed the VA Democratic congressional slate, running against @VA_GOP incumbents:
❌ Tom Perriello (VA-5), who ran Soros’ Open Society and gave millions to Indivisible, sat on their Board, remains involved with them to this day
❌ Elaine Luria (VA-2), former rep, defeated after J6 Committee work
❌ Shannon Taylor (VA-1), soft-on-crime prosecutor who received Soros family money
The same network writing the playbook is selecting Virginia’s candidates (More on PERRIELLO in REPLY)
🚨Attorney General Jay Jones’ 10-page election bulletin tells local officials to deny ordinary DOJ monitors access, tell federal agents to leave, call local police, document badges/weapons/vehicles, and prepare to challenge subpoenas—while eliminating same-day voter eligibility challenges. (LINK to BULLETIN in REPLY)
‼️Virginia Democrats are engaging in pure preemptive resistance with no specific unlawful federal action identified. It's a classic red-line setup.
🚨This is operational preparation, not theory.
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 VOTE REPUBLICAN
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🚨🚨THE DEMOCRACY FILES, PART 2: WHEN AND HOW TO DECLARE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ILLEGITIMATE 🚨
Some questioned whether a group of 200 ex-USAID officials could actually pull off their ambitions to rewrite the Constitution.
Here, they describe exactly how it works. They aren't working alone.
The videos all come from Renew to Thrive (R2T) group and associates. Danielle Reiff and Paul Zeitz play key roles within R2T.
R2T sits inside a much, much larger umbrella called United Democracy Alliance (UDA), which is an extremely hush-hush control plane of leaders from major "blocking" NGOs such as 50501 and Indivisible fulfilling various functions. UDA decides when protests get deployed, timelines, how to respond, all that.
R2T's role within UDA is concerned with "the day after tomorrow" - in other words, their function is to conceive what a rewritten American government will look like after the rest of UDA fulfills its purpose. As will be shown, Erica Chenoworth is credited with conceiving UDA in the first place under the Horizons "Big Tent" initiative.
Note here that National Security Leaders for America (NSL4A) is credited for operationalizing UDA. NSL4A is a group of 1,600 ex-military, intelligence, and diplomatic officials. They are led by Rear Admiral Michael E. Smith (Ret). NSL4A also played a key role in the "illegal orders" messaging which targeted Pete Hegseth. Zeitz is also a member of NSL4A.
It must be emphasized that the choice of a military-oriented organization to coordinate NGOs across domestic protests is an interesting one all in itself - especially in an umbrella conceived by a regime change expert like Chenoworth.
You will have a hard time finding any mentions of UDA in the public. They are extremely hush-hush and selective who they talk to.
Mike Smith himself makes a personal appearance in other calls, coordinating Insurrection Act exercises and roleplaying with R2G as one of the participants.
As the audio transcript shows, they have outlined a sequence of "redlines" in which case the federal government should be declared illegitimate. Invoking the Insurrection Act against "peaceful" protesters is one of the most discussed redlines. I will post the illegitimate criteria below, but basically, almost any effective pushback against NGOs is a measure of illegitimacy according to them.
Important to understand:
The audio shows they shopped this idea around governors, but the reality is that governors do not have to explicitly sign on to the pact to play their role in the coup. All they have to do is refuse troops in their state and let UDA / R2G do the work of dissolving the federal government.
Cool Master retweeted
Chinese export controls now extend beyond refined critical metals to specialized industrial equipment, including tunnel boring machines (TBMs).
TBMs are the most common way of building underground road and rail infrastructure... and they are also increasingly used in mining.
TBMs have been used in underground mine development at several copper, coal and platinum-group-metal operations in the US, Australia, and South America.
Over the past 20 years, Chinese-produced TBMs have grown from ZERO to 60-70% of the global market share, producing approximately 250-300 TBMs per year... approximately half of which are exported. So, we suspect that this news will cause a PANIC in the global TBM market.
We plan to use a TBM at our Santa Cruz copper project in Arizona to develop mine access from the surface. Fortunately for us, the US has its own TBM manufacturer, @Robbins_Co, and earlier this year we purchased a 9.3-metre diameter Robbins TBM for Santa Cruz.
So this news won't disrupt our development plans at @ivanhoeelectric... others may not be as fortunate.
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The key themes in Asia, as I see them:
- The AI bubble
- Chinese exports
- South Korea’s reforms
- Indonesia’s political turmoil
The full presentation can be found here: asiancenturystocks.com/p/the…
Disclaimer: asiancenturystocks.com/discl…
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They Passed Over American Doctors
Every year thousands of U.S.-trained physicians are shut out of medical residencies. In 2024 nearly 20 percent of U.S. medical school applicants, that is 8,869 people, failed to match. These are not dropouts or unqualified students. They are graduates who invested years of their lives and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt only to be told there is no place for them.
At the same time more than a quarter of residency slots go to International Medical Graduates, many trained overseas. In 2025 alone 9,761 IMGs matched into U.S. residencies. Some programs favor them because they will work longer hours for less pay and have no leverage to push back.
The real choke point is not medical school. It is residency. Congress limits the number of Medicare funded residency slots and that cap has not kept up with the rapid growth in medical school enrollment. Every year this leaves thousands of American doctors unmatched while taxpayer dollars fund the training of foreign physicians who will stay in the U.S. workforce.
The Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2025 would add 14,000 new slots over seven years. Until that happens the U.S. will keep graduating doctors who never get to practice medicine and importing replacements to fill the gaps.
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Citations:
• Norton Rose Fulbright – Congressional antitrust investigation of medical residency accreditation and matching programs, 2024
• American Medical Association – “Biggest Match Day Ever? Here’s What 2025 Numbers Reveal”
• Association of American Medical Colleges – “Medical School Enrollments Grow, Residency Slots Haven’t Kept Pace”
• People Magazine – “Medical Student Breaks Down After Residency Rejection”
• Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates – “Intealth Applauds IMG Success in the 2025 U.S. Residency Match”
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A TON OF THINGS HAPPENED IN THE STOCK MARKET TODAY.
Here's a full recap:
1. Amazon $AMZN posted its best trading day since August, supported by a bullish Morgan Stanley outlook and a major development in its custom AI chip strategy. Morgan Stanley named Amazon its top pick, setting a $350 price target that implies approximately 40% upside, while raising its AWS growth forecasts to 47% and 42% YoY for 2027 and 2028, respectively. Separately, Amazon unveiled TorchNeuron, a new software tool that allows developers to run existing PyTorch AI workloads on Trainium2 and Trainium3 chips with minimal code changes. The development could help reduce one of the biggest barriers to adopting Amazon's custom silicon and strengthen its competitive position against NVIDIA $NVDA, whose CUDA software ecosystem has historically been a major advantage in the AI infrastructure market.
2. ARK Invest updated its 2031 Tesla $TSLA valuation model, projecting a $4,400 base-case share price, representing approximately 12x upside from current levels. The firm expects robotaxis to account for roughly 80% of Tesla’s enterprise value by 2031, forecasting a fleet of 8.1M autonomous vehicles generating $753B in annual ride-hailing revenue, with operating costs potentially 40% below Waymo’s. ARK also sees Optimus humanoid robots emerging as Tesla’s second major growth engine, projecting approximately 1M robots sold externally and $212B in annual revenue by 2031, supported by an estimated $26T addressable robotics market. To support these ambitions, ARK expects Tesla to invest approximately $225B cumulatively in AI infrastructure through 2031, underscoring how heavily its valuation thesis depends on the successful commercialization and scaling of autonomous driving and robotics.
3. Microsoft $MSFT has reportedly withdrawn from a major UK data center agreement with British neocloud provider Nscale, according to The Telegraph, dealing a setback to the startup ahead of its planned $3B IPO. The proposed facility in Loughton, Essex, has faced repeated delays, with authorities reportedly not expecting sufficient power availability until the 2030s. Anthropic is also reportedly in talks to purchase $45B worth of AI computing capacity from Nscale, the NVIDIA-backed data center developer, according to Bloomberg.
4. A potential breakthrough agreement between the United States and Iran could be announced as early as this week, according to Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, citing sources familiar with ongoing mediation efforts. Negotiators are reportedly working to narrow remaining differences and secure mutual concessions aimed at preventing a renewed military escalation between Washington and Tehran. While the reported progress could represent a significant diplomatic development amid heightened tensions in the Middle East, no agreement has been officially confirmed, and negotiations remain ongoing.
5. Anthropic announced the creation of the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, pledging an initial 5% of company equity to support charitable initiatives and address the broader societal impacts of AI, including its effects on employment. Subject to shareholder approval, the company’s board may contribute an additional 2% of shares for every 50% increase in valuation above an undisclosed baseline. Elon Musk also said that next year, he will give every American child one share of $SPCX, which would be worth $10.5B at today's prices. He says this will be the first of many times he gives shares to the public.
6. JPMorgan says the latest October selloff in Korean semiconductor and memory stocks looks materially different from the July correction, with several factors potentially limiting a rebound. Unlike July, retail investors have shown little appetite to buy the dip, while short interest across Korean equities, U.S. memory stocks, semiconductor ETFs such as $SMH, and broader indexes like $SPY remains relatively low. JPM also warned that leveraged ETF exposure has increased since late July, making the market more vulnerable to further selling pressure. Compounding the risks, a combined $40B share buyback program from South Korea's two largest memory manufacturers was accelerated to finish in mid-October, removing a significant source of buying support that helped stabilize the market in recent months.
7. Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly proposed a three-way meeting with President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping to negotiate a potential end to the war in Ukraine, according to the Wall Street Journal. Putin reportedly raised the proposal during an October 9 phone call with Trump, with the meeting potentially taking place next month. The proposed summit would bring together the leaders of Russia, the United States, and China in an effort to explore a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, although no meeting or peace agreement has been confirmed.
8. South Korean AI infrastructure company Elice plunged approximately 30% on its stock market debut, despite raising $151M at a $750M valuation in an IPO that was reportedly 400x oversubscribed by retail investors. Elice specializes in GPU cloud rentals and the software infrastructure used to manage AI computing workloads, making its listing a notable test of investor appetite for AI infrastructure companies. The sharp decline came amid a broader selloff in South Korean equities, with the KOSPI falling 4.2% to below its July lows, while Samsung Electronics declined 3% and SK Hynix dropped 6%. If the decline holds through the close, Elice could record the worst IPO debut in South Korean market history, highlighting the growing disconnect between strong investor demand for AI-related offerings and increasingly volatile public market valuations.
9. S&P 500 $SPY put option trading volume surged to a record $3.3T in notional value on Friday, marking an extraordinary increase in downside positioning and hedging activity. The dollar value of S&P 500 puts traded was approximately 330% above the 2024 daily average, compared with typical daily volumes of just $100B–$500B before the 2020 pandemic. Meanwhile, total CBOE put option volume reached 9.6M contracts, the fourth-highest daily reading since 2015. The surge highlights an unprecedented level of activity in downside protection as investors navigate elevated market uncertainty, although record put volume does not necessarily indicate outright bearish positioning, since options are also used for hedging and complex trading strategies.
10. Morgan Stanley strategist Michael Wilson believes the three-month U.S. equity correction may be approaching its final stages, urging investors to prepare for potential buying opportunities rather than assume the broader bull market is ending. Since mid-August, high-quality stocks have gained roughly 6%, while the equal-weight S&P 500 has declined nearly 4% and cyclical stocks have fallen almost 10%, highlighting the growing divergence beneath the index. He believes the correction reflects a transition toward a more selective, mid-cycle market rather than the end of the economic expansion, with investors potentially getting an opportunity to buy the dip as the adjustment concludes.
11. The top 10 most active options today by contracts traded were $NVDA with 3.3M contracts, $TSLA with 2.8M contracts, $AMZN with 1.5M contracts, $AAPL with 1.5M contracts, $MU with 1.4M contracts, $SPCX with 1.0M contracts, $INTC with 816K contracts, $CRWV with 778K contracts, $META with 754K contracts, and $AMD with 743K contracts.
12. JPMorgan significantly raised its AI data center capital expenditure forecasts, now expecting spending to grow 85% YoY in 2026, up from 80%, and 70% in 2027, up from its previous 50% estimate. The firm projects more than $270B in incremental data center spending in 2026 and another record increase of $400B+ in 2027, with total spending across major U.S. hyperscalers and other operators approaching $800B in 2026 and $1.5T in 2027. JPM highlighted Credo $CRDO, Lumentum $LITE, Coherent $COHR, Amphenol $APH, Arista $ANET, Celestica $CLS, Ciena $CIEN, Corning $GLW, and Fabrinet $FN as key beneficiaries of the accelerating infrastructure buildout.
WALL STREET IS THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH.
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WE AUDITED ALL 58 FOREIGN-BORN FEDERAL JUDGES SITTING ON AMERICA'S BENCH FOR LIFE.
I spent over a billion tokens and about 45 days on this deep dive.
Through this deep dive and the over a million court cases we have combed through, we have launched an American First Index (AFI) for the site. (More on it as we improve the metrics and refine deeper.)
Out of 58 sitting foreign-born Article III judges, 43 were appointed by Biden or Obama. Among those drawn from ACLU and public defender pipelines, border enforcement is blocked over 80% of the time and 60% of criminal sentences fall below federal guidelines.
We have added an interactive tool on bench receipts that allows you to drill down and look at how each of these judges behave on the bench.
This is just the start. The federal judges are easier to identify than the state level judges. I assume there are 100s if not 1000+ foreign born or first-gen American on our benches.
They do not judge on our laws, they judge on the culture they came from. This is a huge reason our country has lost its identity.
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This is the point it becomes treason, DR. Attempting to overthrow the US government and constitution with help from foreign actors is actually treason. This is it.
And when you recognize they already have several different versions of replacement Socialist constitutions, their intent CANNOT be misinterpreted in any way.
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KYLIAN MBAPPE WHAT A GOAL !!!!! xitter.cf/alaskafreezys/status/2…
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The Lost World at the Bottom of the Deepest Hole on Earth
Drop the Empire State Building into the ground, and it would vanish without a trace. That's the scale of the Xiaozhai Tiankeng — a 662-meter wound in the limestone karst of Chongqing, China, the deepest sinkhole on the planet.
It wasn't dug. It collapsed. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, the roof of an enormous underground cavern gave way, and the earth simply fell in on itself — twice. The result is a double-nested abyss: an upper bowl plunging 320 meters to a sloping terrace, which then drops another 342 meters into the pit.
Stand at the rim and you're staring into a geological Russian doll.
But the part that sounds like fiction: at the bottom, there's a forest. A primeval one.
The sinkhole's sheer vertical cliffs act like the walls of a thermos — blocking cold winds, trapping humidity — while an underground river runs eight kilometers beneath the floor, breathing moisture up into the chasm. The result is a warm, eerily stable microclimate: a natural greenhouse sealed off from the world above.
Inside it, more than 1,280 documented plant species thrive. Towering trees stretch dozens of meters toward the distant rim. Among them grow living fossils — the dove tree, the Chinese yew, wild ginkgoes — ancient relict species that survived the ice ages here while their cousins outside perished. Rare ferns and thick moss carpets cover the limestone floor.
And it isn't just plants. Clouded leopards prowl the understory. Leopard cats, Asian black bears, and masked palm civets move through the green dark below, while swallows nest in cities along the rock faces.
A whole ecosystem — predators, prey, and thousand-year-old trees — living at the bottom of a hole, in a climate of its own making, that almost no one will ever see. The planet keeps its best secrets underground.
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I joined WEDU’s Florida This Week to discuss what Amendment 3 supporters would rather not talk about: Who pays when billions in local revenue disappear?
I support real property tax relief. But you cannot eliminate billions in recurring revenue and pretend the costs of police, fire, and essential services disappear with it.
Those costs don’t vanish. They get shifted to renters, businesses, higher fees, and assessments.
Amendment 3 doesn’t eliminate the bill. It changes who pays it.
Floridians deserve the truth before they vote.
Watch: wedu.org/shows/florida-this-…
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Thailand's electricity mix (approx. 2025-mid 2026 data from Ember/EPPO/reports):
Natural gas: 56-61%
Coal: 13-15%
Imports (mainly Laos hydro): 14-20%
Solar: ~5-6%
Bioenergy: ~4-5%
Domestic hydro: ~3-5%
Wind: ~1-2%
Other fossil: <1%
Gas remains dominant; solar is growing fastest.
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Antonio Gracias explains the lessons he learned from Elon Musk: pro-entropic, action in the space of fear, mission-driven, and compassion for humanity
“I mean, I think the things about him that are, I’ve learned a lot from him, by the way, and I definitely wouldn’t be me without him, and the things that I’ve learned and observed in him."
"The first thing I think he does, he’s very, very pro-entropic, right? He pushes the probability map to the very edge. To him, if it’s possible in the physics, it’s possible, period. He will fight for things that have low probability of success, but high expected outcomes. So making rockets, making rockets land, this seemed almost impossible, right?"
"But it was worth doing because even though it was almost impossible, it was possible. It had low probability, but high, high expected value. And that is a, it’s very, very valuable to society. It’s hugely valued, man, if you do that. I think that’s the first thing.”
“The second thing is he’s very courageous. I mean, these are like, you know, and courage, by the way, it’s not the absence of fear. It’s action in the space of fear. Does that extremely well."
"I think the third thing is super mission-driven. I think we’ve developed our mission-driven hypothesis because we learned from him and others that mission-driven companies do better because they attract better people. It’s easier to align vectors if you’re on a mission."
"And part of being mission-driven is because he’s very compassionate. I mean, he’s a very compassionate human. He cares about humanity deeply and he wants what’s best for humanity. It’s why he’s doing what he’s doing. I mean, those have been very important lessons.”
Elon Musk says his answer to the meaning of life comes from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, where the hard part is the question, not the answer, so the goal is expanding consciousness to learn what to ask
“Yeah, so, I came to the conclusion that, which is somewhat, in the Douglas Adams Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy school of thought, which is, yeah, you know, he sort of, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is like a book on philosophy disguised as humour."
"And that’s where you get the, you know, Earth turns out to be this computer to understand, to get to figure out the answer of the meaning of life. And it comes up with the answer 42. But then, it’s like, ‘What does 42 mean?’"
"And it turns out, well, actually, the hard part is the question, not the answer. And for that, you need a much bigger computer than Earth. So, basically, what Douglas Adams was saying is that we actually don’t know how to frame the questions properly."
"And so, I think by expanding the scope and scale of consciousness, we can better understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe.”
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From Breadwinner to Broke: How Foreign Labor and Corporate Greed Stole the American Dream
Post #8: L-1 and B-1: The Visa Loopholes You Never Heard About No Ads. No Locals. No Chance.
In 2015, Southern California Edison laid off hundreds of American tech workers. Many were told to train their replacements, foreign workers flown in under the L-1 visa. One employee described the day as a funeral procession- Americans packing up their desks as foreign workers shadowed their every move.
They had no chance to apply. No way to compete.
They were cheaper. More compliant. And thanks to our visa system, perfectly legal.
The H-1B visa gets all the headlines, but L-1 and B-1 are the quiet saboteurs. They don’t just replace workers, they erase the entire hiring process.
L-1 visas allow multinational companies to transfer employees from a foreign office to a U.S. site. No labor market test. No wage protections. No requirement to even advertise the job to Americans.
B-1 visas are for short business visits, but they’ve been abused as shadow work visas. Infosys paid $34 million for exploiting B-1s to fly in low-wage workers under the guise of training. The abuse didn’t stop there.
How it works:
Entire teams are shifted into U.S. offices under L-1s. No postings, no offers to locals.
B-1 visa holders perform full-time duties while labeled as “meeting attendees.”
Workers rotate every 11-18 months to avoid scrutiny.
One former whistleblower called it “outsourcing without the flight.”
Americans aren’t just losing jobs. They’re being denied the right to compete.
Unlike H-1B, these visas have no numerical caps and almost zero oversight. No wage floors. No transparency. And no accountability when Americans are sidelined.
If H-1B is controlled offshoring, L-1 and B-1 are the black market versions, hidden in plain sight.
This isn’t about global talent. It’s about corporate shortcuts and complicit policies that erase Americans from their own economy.
Who uses it?
Disney
Southern California Edison
Facebook
IBM
Accenture
Tata
Infosys
These aren’t loopholes. They’re the foundation of the new corporate playbook, built to erase you, quietly and legally.
Quote from whistleblower:
"They didn’t offshore the jobs. They onshored the foreign labor. We were just obstacles."
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Rewind of the complete breakdown of every VISA Series that launched the account. Look up Breadwinner for the whole series.
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Dear Secretary Bessent @SecScottBessent,
On October 14th I wrote to you about Bank of America @BankofAmerica.
You did not answer. 3.6 million Americans did.
I want to tell you what that looked like from where I sit, because I do not think Washington understands it yet. The messages did not come from one side. They came from Republicans and Democrats, from veterans and nurses and small business owners, from people who have not agreed with each other about anything in a decade. They all said a version of the same sentence. We have had enough.
That is what a national security issue looks like when it finally breaks through. It does not pick a party. It belongs to everyone who has a kid, a bank account, or a flag on the porch.
So let me be plain about my concern. I am worried that nothing is going to happen. The fine has been announced. The press cycle is already turning. In a few weeks the number will be forgotten and the bank will be back to business. I have watched this exact sequence play out before, and I am writing to you now, while there is still a window, because once that window closes it does not reopen.
I am also widening this letter, because Treasury does not act alone.
To the Department of Justice @TheJusticeDept and to FBI Director Kash Patel @FBIDirectorKash:
Director Patel, you were not in the chair when this happened, so I want you to hear it from me directly. In 2011 I walked into the FBI with everything I had on HSBC. Not a tip. Boxes. Names, account numbers, transaction records, internal emails. Agents worked that evidence for over a year. I trusted them, and I still believe they wanted to do their jobs.
Then the settlement was announced. $1.9 billion. I called the agents and asked the only question that mattered. When do you raid the building and when are the arrests?
Their answer was four words. Our hands are tied.
I have thought about those four words every day since. Not because the agents failed me. Because somebody above them decided that a bank was too important to treat like a defendant. That decision was made quietly, by people whose names I will never know, and it has been made again every time since. Director Patel, you now have the authority to make a different one.
I remember the words carved into the stone outside the federal building in Philadelphia the day I walked in to report @HSBC: justice is the defense of our liberty. I believed that. I still want to. But a justice system that handcuffs a dealer on the corner and sends a bank a bill is not defending anyone’s liberty. It is choosing whose liberty counts.
To Brian Moynihan, Chief Executive Officer of Bank of America @BankofAmerica:
Mr. Moynihan, your bank just agreed to pay $1.2 billion for failures that regulators called willful. I have a few questions, and the 3.6 million people reading this would like the answers too.
Who was fired?
Not reassigned. Not retired early with a package. Fired, by name, for the conduct the government described.
What has actually changed in your anti money laundering program? Not the budget line. Not the consultant’s slide deck. What is different today about how an alert gets cleared and who is allowed to say stop?
Were there any consequences inside the building at all? Or did this land the way it landed at HSBC bank, as a line item?
And how much is your bonus this year?
I ask because I know what it costs a compliance officer to raise his hand inside a bank like yours. I would like to know what it cost anyone at the top. Do you even care? I am asking sincerely. I would like to be wrong.
Here is what I did about all of this, and why it matters to this letter. After the government declined to help me or any of the whistleblowers I have met since, I built the thing I wished had existed. Tactical Rabbit is a private intelligence agency. We find the truth, we prove it, and we put it in the hands of people who will act on it. I made a decision a long time ago that if the government would not stop the next HSBC, I would.
So to anyone inside a bank reading this who is looking at something they know is wrong: if your bank will not act, and the government will not act, come to me. I will get the truth to the public. That is not a threat. It is a promise I have already kept once.
Mr. Secretary, Director Patel, the Department of Justice, and Mr. Moynihan: four addresses, one question. Will anyone be held accountable?
Not fined. Not suspended. Not asked to attend training. Accountable.
Please end the cycle of too big to jail. I will not stop until there is change, and neither will the millions of Americans standing behind this letter. Answer them.
We need a banker in jail.
Everett A. Stern
HSBC Whistleblower
Founder, Tactical Rabbit
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At Sendai Airport five days after the tsunami, experts said the runway would remain dead for six months.
Three thousand cars, fishing boats, and uprooted roofs lay across the concrete like a fallen castle wall. The control tower was dark. Freezing water stood in the hangars.
Then twenty young Americans from the 320th Special Tactics Squadron arrived from Okinawa with radios on their backs and mud on their boots.
In my land, when twenty men ride into a ruined fortress to open a supply road for an entire province, we do not call them technicians. We call them the vanguard.
An old Japanese ground crewman named Sato stood near the edge of the tarmac with a shovel in his hands. He had not slept in forty hours. His own house was gone.
A twenty-three-year-old Air Force sergeant walked up beside him. The sergeant did not offer pity. In a siege, pity is heavy and useless.
"How much concrete do we need for the big birds?" Sato asked.
"Five thousand feet," the sergeant said.
"Then we dig," Sato said.
For four days and four nights they did not waste words. When the freezing wind came off the sea and numbed Sato's fingers, the young American traded his heavy tactical gloves for Sato's thin cotton ones without looking at him.
"My hands are too warm anyway," the sergeant lied. His knuckles were purple in twenty minutes. A warrior does not mention the cold while the gate is still barred.
On March 16, five thousand feet of gray stone stood clear.
Through the snow clouds, two white landing lights appeared. A massive American C-17 cargo plane roared down onto the wet runway carrying food, blankets, and medicine for the north.
No one cheered. Their throats were too dry for shouting.
When the giant steel ramp lowered, the young sergeant did not step forward to claim the credit. He took one step back into the slush and stood at attention behind Sato.
"Your airfield, sir," the sergeant said softly. "You cleared the gate."
Sato took off his yellow helmet and bowed until his forehead nearly touched the rain on his shovel.
You do not forget the men who dig beside you in the dark.
Every time I fly out of Sendai, I look at the concrete before takeoff and salute the twenty shadows who opened the sky.
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WTF???
From a Florida ER doctor:
Today I had a 25-year old with 8 kids - that's right 8, all Illegal Anchor Babies and she had the nicest nails, cell phone, hand bag, clothing, etc. She makes about $1,500 monthly for each; you do the math. I used to say, "We are the dumbest nation on earth," Now I must say and sadly admit: WE are the dumbest people on earth (that includes ME) For we Elected the Idiot Ideologues who have passed the Bills that allow this.
Sorry, but we need a Revolution, If the Illegal Immigrant is over 65, they can apply for SSI and Medicaid and get more than a woman on Social Security, who worked from 1944 until 2004. She is only getting $791 per month because she was born in 1924 and there's a 'catch 22' (notch) for her. It is interesting that the Federal Government provides a single refugee with a monthly allowance of $1,890. Each can also obtain an additional $580 in Social Assistance, for a total of $2,470 a month. This compares to a single pensioner, who after contributing to the growth and development of America for 40 to 50 years, can only receive a monthly maximum of $1,012 in Old Age Pension and Guaranteed Income Supplement.
Maybe our Pensioners should apply as Refugees! Consider sending this to all your American friends, so we can all be ticked off and maybe get the Refugees cut back to $1,012 and the Pensioners up to $2,470. Then we can enjoy some of the money we were forced to submit to the Government over the last 40 or 50 or 60 years.
PLEASE SHOW THIS TO EVERY AMERICAN TAXPAYER YOU KNOW
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If anyone ever tells you the United States military is only a machine of war, take them to the coast of Tohoku, Japan, and tell them what happened in March 2011.
When the 9.0 earthquake and 40-foot tsunami wiped out entire towns and crippled the Fukushima nuclear plant, foreign embassies told their citizens to flee Japan immediately.
The USS Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group did the exact opposite.
They steamed at flank speed straight TOWARD the disaster zone.
When the first Navy helicopters touched down in the snow along the northern coast, nineteen-year-old American sailors saw something they will never forget:
Thousands of Japanese mothers, grandmothers, and small children huddled in freezing dark shelters. Their shoes had been ripped off by the black water. Their coats were soaked in icy mud.
Official relief cargo planes were still days away.
The sailors of the USS Ronald Reagan, USS Chancellorsville, and USS Preble didn't wait for orders from Washington.
They walked back to their own narrow bunks below deck and opened their personal lockers.
In just a few hours, young American sailors stripped off their own warm clothes to send ashore on the next helicopter.
The official Navy log still records what they gave from their own sea bags that afternoon:
• 748 pairs of their own socks
• 311 jackets and sweaters
• 450 shirts and 237 pairs of pants
• 57 pairs of their own shoes
• Over 100 blankets right off their racks
And here is the detail that makes grown men in Japan weep to this day:
Included in those boxes were 20 stuffed animals.
Tough nineteen-year-old sailors took the lucky teddy bears and plush toys their moms and little sisters had tucked into their sea bags back home in America—and sent them to crying Japanese children so they wouldn't be scared in the dark.
Days later, as Navy helicopters flew low over the ruined coast, pilots looked down through tears at a muddy schoolyard.
Japanese children had gathered broken white debris to spell one giant word on the ground for the American sky:
“ARIGATO.” (Thank you.)
Fifty thousand Americans came to save us in Operation Tomodachi.
In Japanese, “Tomodachi” means friend.
In our hearts, it means brother. Forever. 🇺🇸🤝🇯🇵
