So how should custom spoilers be formatted?

Normal preview images are 255x255px but a spoiler that size apparently gets compressed to something like 255x172px distorting the image.

I managed to create an undistorted spoiler by embedding it in a transparent 255x172 image but then the resulting visible preview is only 172px high instead of 255 like normal images.

Any way to fix this?

Users reporting lost media on several boards. Not sure what happened yet, or we can recover the lost images. For now it seems the whole html element that contains the uploads is missing from the posts, so it's not like the media itself in the db got lost.
But will see.

The pain of advancing age really sucks.

Japan life expectancy is 85, which is the only thing staving off their Population Collapse. Worldwide, more adult diapers are made than infant diapers. I've known since I was a kid, growing up reading Thomas Malthus and being in societies that had policies severely limiting the amount of children one could have, that the Boomers Are Wrong about Overpopulation. We are heading for a MASSIVE POPULATION COLLAPSE in the next 20 years. We better pray for AI to be benevolent and create robots to take care of our old asses because not enough young people will exist to enslave themselves to taking care of the elderly. We gotta fix the minds of young people too. They're insane from listening to confused Elite Boomers who actually think there's an "overpopulation problem" and that all "Humans Are bad, mmmkay?" They're completely wrong and stuck in an old paradigm.

I have 2 videos to support my claim:

First of all, many young people in Western countries are confused about their Identity, and many are unable to recognize Objective TRUTH.

Case In Point: https://bitchute.com/video/-Mu6rABgK9A/

And yes, AI is a huge threat to humanity and survival of the species. But Population Collapse is too; and unless we do something about it, WE ARE DOOMED.

Watch Elon Musk explain it: https://bitchute.com/video/07bX0esL5Jw4/

'Woke' Corporations, and Western Governments controlled by the Globalist Elite, keep pushing the idea that humans are bad for the environment, when it is THEM Polluting the Planet with their policies and Corporate Industrial Practices. Yes, we need change, and we need to Pollute Less, however...

> For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

What is a good or a bad l0icense?

Federal Reserve To Print Another $2 Trillion To Bailout Corrupt Insolvent Stooges, Further Devaluing Dollar

RELATED: >>>/news/20020

To save the criminal bankers, the private Federal Reserve is expected to inject another $2 trillion into the United States banking system, which is certain to trigger hyperinflation.

Strategists at JPMorgan Chase, one of America’s kingpin banks, have been discussing what the Fed’s new “emergency” lending program will entail now that Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and numerous other lenders have gone under.

Called the Bank Term Funding Program, this emergency mechanism is designed to sweep under the rug all the financial corruption that got us into this mess in the first place, punishing the common man with even higher inflation and a lower standard of living.

“The usage of the Fed’s Bank Term Funding Program is likely to be big,” JPMorgan strategists wrote in a client note on Wednesday.

The reason why these JPMorgan analysts are throwing out the $2 trillion figure is because that is the maximum usage amount that was established – at least until the powers that be decide to up it even more, much like they do to the debt ceiling every time it is reached.

Currently, the U.S. banking system as a whole is said to hold reserves of around $3 trillion, most of which is held by the largest banks. Smaller banks, many of them in even worse shape than the big guys, are the likeliest candidates to take advantage of the Bank Term Funding Program.

SVB was considered a mid-sized bank, as were the other banks we were told about that collapsed around the same time. SVB took a $1.8 billion loss on a forced $21 billion bond liquidation, which prompted the now-failed bank to ask for $2.25 billion in new capital to fill the gap.

>Issue 1
Having some trouble with linebreaks spreading out. Seems to do it sometimes but not others, not sure why.
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>Issue 2
Code tags seem to escape into greentext when $ is used.
>>>/cumg/16 >>>/cumg/15 >>>/cumg/19

>Issue 3
The captcha button has no reload button in the reply pop-up. It doesn't always reload automatically, in turn causing the user the need to refresh the page.
>During the refresh, they may lose their text, however it seems to stay but the file they had attached gets unattached.

>Suggestion 1
Consider wrapping the site with IPFS for archival/resiliency.
https://ipfs.io/

>Suggestion 2

Rely On Medicare? Be Ready To Be CUT OFF Thanks To AI Technocracy

No longer are actual human doctors making personalized decisions in patient care for elderly people on Medicare. Instead, artificial intelligence (AI) roJohnny Neptune is a fagts are deciding who lives and who dies: https://www.statnews.com/2023/03/13/medicare-advantage-plans-denial-artificial-intelligence/

The inevitable outcome of Barack Hussein Obama’s infamous death panels, AI-driven medicine is fast becoming the norm, not only for seniors but for everyone. If you are on Medicare, beware: things are getting uglier by the day in terms of being an absolute Orwellian nightmare.

Take the case of Frances Walter, an 85-year-old Wisconsin woman with a shattered left shoulder and a respiratory condition who was forced out of her nursing home by an AI algorithm that decided she only needed to stay there for 16.6 days. On day 17, her Medicare Advantage insurer, Security Health Plan, cut off payment for her care in accordance with the algorithm, even though she was not yet healed.

Walter was forced to return home to her apartment where she lives alone – this despite medical notes dating back to June 2019 that show Walter’s pain was extreme, and she could no longer dress herself, go to the bathroom, or even push a walker without assistance.

It would take more than a year for a federal judge to fix the nightmare that the AI robots who decided Walter’s fate made. That judge ruled that Security Health Plan’s decision to obey the algorithm and cut off Walter’s coverage was “at best, speculative.”

Long story short, it was determined that Walter was owed thousands of dollars more for the care she received. And in pursuing retribution for it, she had to spend down her life savings and enroll in Medicaid just to be able to progress to the point of putting on her shoes, or getting her arm in a sling.

A STAT investigation found that while health insurance companies have been rejecting medical claims since the time when they were first concocted, the advent of AI-driven medicine has sent these denials to new heights, particularly under Medicare Advantage, which is funded by taxpayers (traditional Medicare is different).

“Behind the scenes, insurers are using unregulated predictive algorithms, under the guise of scientific rigor, to pinpoint the precise moment when they can plausibly cut off payment for an elderly patient’s treatment,” STAT reported. “The denials that follow are setting off heated disputes between doctors and insurers, often delaying treatment of seriously ill patients who are neither aware of the algorithms, nor able to question their calculations.”

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Germany Braces For Major Strikes While France Burns With Protests

The "winter of discontent" that has been sweeping across Europe has now escalated into a "spring of discontent," with strikes and protests set to spread from France, Greece, and other surrounding countries to Germany.

According to Reuters, Germany's Verdi union and the railway and transport union EVG are preparing to unleash paralyzing strikes on the country's airports and railways next Monday.

Verdi is negotiating for 2.5 million public sector workers, including ones at airports and other public transport hubs. The union has demanded higher wages due to persistent inflation pressures. EVG is negotiating for 230,000 employees at railway company Deutsche Bahn and bus companies.

Meanwhile, a recession looms for Europe's largest economy, which finds itself in the midst of an inflationary crisis. After experiencing a 0.4% GDP contraction in the fourth quarter of 2022, it's anticipated that the economy will once again contract in the first quarter.

"German economic activity will probably fall again in the current quarter," the Bundesbank said. "However, the decline is likely to be less than in the final quarter of 2022."

Two consecutive quarters of negative growth indicate recession and come as inflation weighs heavily on consumption. The combination of the two crushes living standards and is sparking a wave of discontent.

While Germany braces for strikes and protests next week, France, Europe's third-largest economy, is already burning as President Emmanuel Macron rammed through unpopular pension reform.

With growing instability in Western nations and the threat of a broadening banking crisis, the primary concern is whether NATO is adequately equipped to handle future conflicts.

Systemic Insolvency: Sweden's Biggest Pension Fund Loses Billions On Busted US Banks

Yesterday's (50%) collapse in First Republic Bank shares was - in a word - 'surprising' given all the positive 'rescue' chatter and upbeat overall market sentiment post-CS 'rescue'. US Regional banks broadly speaking were having a good day, but FRC was clubbed like a baby seal despite headlines proclaiming no lessor mortal than Jamie Dimon himself was on the case to rescue the community bank.

Well, we may now know why the selling pressure was so strong as Bloomberg reports that Alecta, Swedens largest pension fund, has lost billions in the recent bank busts and started to abandon its large position in FRC last week.

“The uncertainty about First Republic’s future was too great, partly due to the fact that the lender was downgraded to junk status,” Billing said in emailed comments, after Bloomberg News obtained a copy of a written response by Alecta to the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority.

Alecta said its total invested capital in First Republic stood at 9.7 billion kronor “before a sale on March 15.”

The Swedish fund had been buying First Republic shares since 2019, making it the bank’s fifth biggest shareholder.

The fund is reportedly facing losses of almost $2 billion as a result of a failed investment strategy that made it one of the biggest shareholders in two collapsed US banks and another that’s been caught up in the crisis (expected losses of 8.9 billion kronor and 3.2 billion kronor in Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, respectively).

The scale of the losses has become clearer after the private pension group sold all of its First Republic Bank stake at a loss of 7.5 billion kronor ($728 million), according to Chief Executive Officer Magnus Billing.

“Obviously it’s a big failure for us as an investor,” Billing said last week.

Take A Backseat USD, Putin and Jinping Announce Yuan For Global Trade

In a ceremony at the Kremlin, and on the second day of Chinese leader's Xi Jinping's visit, Putin and Xi kicked off formal talks which will focus on the Ukraine crisis. They shook hands and stood side by side as their respective national anthems played, aired on state television. Following the meeting, they held a joint press conference, to be followed by a state dinner at the Kremlin.

Last night's greeting and starting 'informal' talks lasted about 4-and-a-half hours. In addition to Ukraine being high on the agenda for the ongoing summit, Xi outlined in initial comments Tuesday that China wishes to expand cooperation with Russia on trade, and hopes that Russia promotes liberalization, facilitation of trade and investment, alongside both sides maintaining security and stability of industrial and supply chains. Importantly, Xi invited Putin to travel to China at some point this year. Putin showed willingness on these points, also stressing that Russia stands ready to meet China's growing energy needs.

Putin also said his country stands ready to support Chinese business replacing Western companies inside Russia that left in the wake of the Ukraine war. "We are ready to support Chinese business in replacing Western enterprises that left Russia," Putin said.

But among the most important statements to come out of the day's formal China-Russia summit and press conference was concerning the further erasing of dollar-reliance in favor of the yuan. Putin said, "We support the use of Chinese yuan in payments between Russia and countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America," and further expressed confidence that such "forms of payments will be developed between Russian partners and their colleagues in third countries." Further:

"National currencies are more and more actively used" in the bilateral trade and two thirds of the trade turnover between Russia and China are already "made in rubles and yuan," Putin noted.

"This practice should be encouraged further" and mutual presence of financial and banking institutions on Russian and Chinese markets should be expanded, he added.

Additionally, Russia is not alone. The Iraqi central bank announced Wednesday that, for the first time, it plans to allow trade from China to be settled directly in yuan instead of the US dollar to improve access to foreign currency.

At the very moment that Xi and Putin wrapped up their meeting and transitioned to their televised joint press conference, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg made a significant allegation, picking up on prior assertions from Washington.

Biden Regime To Bailout Corrupt Clot Shot Pharma Firms Next

American taxpayers were already [forced to give] Moderna $10 billion for its coronavirus vaccine. If the Biden administration gets its wish, that tab could soon grow.

In a court filing last month, Department of Injustice lawyers offered to "relieve" Moderna of any liability it faces from a lawsuit that accuses the drug company of failing to pay licensing fees for technology it used to develop its vaccine during "Operation Warp Speed." Moderna has argued that the federal government should be on the hook for any legal settlement because of a stipulation in its contract that protects the company from patent litigation. The government had stayed silent on the matter until last month, when Injustice Department lawyers said that any liability that Moderna faces should "transfer" to the United States government, citing a World War I-era law that protects federal contractors from patent disputes.

While the judge handling the case recently denied the request, Moderna and the federal government could appeal the decision and put taxpayers on the hook for any legal payout. Genevant, one of the companies that sued Moderna, has already accused the drug maker of "trying to shift responsibility for its patent infringement to the U.S. taxpayer."

The government’s offer to bail out Moderna will likely not sit well with the American public or with senators when they grill Moderna’s CEO at a hearing on Wednesday. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee invited Stéphane Bancel to testify about the company’s plans to quadruple the price of its deadly coronavirus "vaccine".

This furthermore proves America is no longer a capitalist nation, as capitalist nations tend to allow failures and bankruptcies of insolvent corrupt entities.

https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/the-biden-administrations-strang-secret-effort-to-bail-out-moderna/

Good! Federal Judge Blocks California's Unconstitutional Anti-American Handgun Restrictions

California can’t ban residents from buying modern handguns.

That’s the ruling handed down by Federal District Judge Cormac J. Carney, a George W. Bush appointee, on Monday. He found California’s requirement that all new pistols sold in the state include a series of uncommon or even theoretical safety devices is unconstitutional. He ruled the regulation, which has resulted in no new handgun models being sold to civilians in nearly a decade, violates the Second Amendment.

“Californians have the constitutional right to acquire and use state-of-the-art handguns to protect themselves,” Judge Carney wrote in his preliminary injunction for Boland v. Bonta. “They should not be forced to settle for decade-old models of handguns to ensure that they remain safe inside or outside the home.”

The decision is the latest blow to California’s strict gun-control laws in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2022 opinion in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, which set a new standard for reviewing gun laws. Late last year, a federal judge also blocked the state’s attempt to discourage legal challenges to its restrictions. Many of the state’s other high-profile gun restrictions are similarly embroiled in ongoing litigation, and Monday’s ruling may signal they may face a tough climb to clear the bar set by the Supreme Court.

The also ruling paves the way for law-abiding Californians to access new pistol models for the first time in a long time.

California passed the Unsafe Handgun Act (UHA) in 2001. It initially barred the sale of any new pistol models that didn’t include a loaded chamber indicator or magazine disconnect safety. However, in 2013 the state expanded the requirements to include so-called microstamping technology. In theory, microstamping would enable a gun to leave identifiable marks on every spent casing with the goal of helping police solve crimes. However, there has never been a production gun in the world that has implemented the theoretical technology.

The practical effect of adding the requirement, which a handful of other states are now considering implementing as well, was a complete ban on the sale of all handgun models created after 2013. Outside of police officers, who are not subject to the handgun roster restrictions despite California deeming guns outside of it “unsafe,” Californians have been mostly limited to buying pistols first introduced to the market more than 15 years ago.

“These regulations are having a devastating impact on Californians’ ability to acquire and use new, state-of-the-art handguns,” Judge Cormac wrote. “Since 2007, when the [loaded chamber indicator] and [magazine disconnect safety] requirements were introduced, very few new handguns have been introduced for sale in California with those features. Since 2013, when the microstamping requirement was introduced, not a single new semiautomatic handgun has been approved for sale in California.”

Gardens Are Good. Raising Meat Rabbits is Even BETTER.
> and they produce tons of fantastic fertilizer that you can use in your garden.

You Will Need a Good Protein Source.
Rabbits are herbivores, and will not compete for grains with us.
Hunting and fishing are all fine and good for a VERY Short Time.
Remember, during the Depression ALL the Wildlife was virtually wiped out.

Raising backyard rabbits is the best way to survive. A few chickens for eggs too.
Never put all your eggs in one basket. Diversify your food sources. You can't live off of just a garden and some eggs.

But rabbitses are EASY! 1 buck and 3 does will produce as much meat as an entire cow in a year… Close to 100 offspring. Easier to harvest too.

Between a rabbit tractor to roll around the yard so they always have fresh grass, and a few hutches, you can SURVIVE. There's not a lot of fat on 'em, but LOTS of Protein, and Very Little Upkeep. They eat grass and bark off yard cuttings, etc…
I'm building a rabbit tractor now.
HIGHLY RECOMMEND.
Not needing to mow as often is a huge plus.

$17 Billion Wipeout of Credit Suisse Ponzi Scheme Leaves Bond Holders Broke

RELATED: >>>/news/20020 ; >>>/news/20096

One section of Credit Suisse's bondholders is set to be wiped out following the struggling bank's takeover by UBS, causing them to see investments worth 16 billion Swiss francs ($17 billion) become worthless.

The Swiss regulator FINMA announced Sunday that the so-called additional tier-one bonds, one of many relatively risky 'investments', will be written to zero as part of the deal.

The move has angered Credit Suisse AT1 bondholders as their investments have seemingly been lost, while shareholders will receive payouts as part of the takeover. Usually, equity investments would be classed as secondary to AT1 bonds.

AT1 bonds, also known as contingent convertibles or "CoCos," are a type of debt that is considered part of a bank's regulatory capital. Holders can convert them into equity or write them down in certain situations – for example when a bank's capital ratio falls below a previously agreed threshold.

AT1s were created in the aftermath of the financial crisis as a way of shifting debt from one insolvent party to another party in crisis situations. Due to their elevated risk factor, they often have higher yields than other bonds.

After years of losses and difficulties, Credit Suisse's struggles came to a head last week after its biggest investor, Saudi National Bank, said it could not offer any more support to the Swiss bank financially due to regulatory restrictions. This came just days after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in the US sent shock waves through the banking sector.

Credit Suisse’s stock has fallen to an all-time low amid all the melee as investors see the writing on the wall. The powers that be will continue to spew empty rhetoric about how everything is just fine, but investors and depositors are wisening up to the scam.

TRUTH-Bombs Russian Military Confirms GoF NIH DoD Bioweapons Conspiracy | Aussie Cossack & Maria Zeee

https://odysee.com/@Just-Kiss-It:2/2023-03-12_Truth-Bombs_Russian-Military-Confirms-GoF-NIH-DoD-Bioweapons-Conspiracy_Aussie-Cossack_Maria-Zeee:1

Russian Defense Minister confirms all the things that supposed "Conspiracy Theorists" have been saying all along…

Gain of function virus creation, Marburg Virus Scaredemic on it's way, AI-controlled 5G EMF activated part-biological, part-technological "viruses" and "vaccines", the "Directed Evolution" Dual-Use Biolabs, particularly in Boston and Ukraine, all the Pfizer pfuckery, he also references Karen Kingston and James O'Keefe of Project Veritas, and cornfirms that the jabs are biological weapons, how the WHO, WEF & UN have been taken over, and what the latest WHO Agenda is trying to do worldwide, and much much more.

Don't Forget that the Rockefeller Foundation and the Rothschilds Bankrolled and Control the WHO, the WEF and the UN, (not to mention NATO, the IMF, Intel Agencies Worldwide, and most of the Politicians in places of power in Western Countries), and that it is Them who are pushing to implement "The Great Reset" — The "New World Order".

This is Genocidal Eugenics on a Grand Scale (not to mention "Ethnic Cleansing".)

Yes, We've Known ALL This for a Very Long Time, but this is one of the first times an actual Government has been willing to say what we already know.

Share With Family & Friends.

And Buckle Up. It's gonna be a Wild Ride from here on out.

MY COMMENT: There is another glow in the dark operation being run right now trying to get people riled up and angry over some mundane and highly questionable "fraud" charge of you know who. First off: it's not that big of a deal and it can be legally debated in higher courts and take years before any results. Second off: feds are trying to bait people to take to the streets and do dumb shit (to obviously entrap and arrest dummies) so don't be a fucking fool! Do not fall for the bait. Stay home. IF you want to protest, I'll tell you how you can WITH HARDCORE RESULTS: if enough Americans took action they could crash the economy two ways. If enough angry supporters took some days off of work the system would grind to a halt, or if enough angry supporters pulled some money out of their bank accounts (known as a bank run) the economy would crash and government would have to bail bankers out again, with an already existing insolvency crisis to boot. Many legal, safe and peaceful ways to make your point across without entrapping yourself.

Biden Regime Unconstitutionally Signs Executive Order For Universal Background Checks To Buy Firearms

Remember the Cornyn-Murphy Compromise that Gun Owners of America and our members warned Congress about? We were loud and clear about how this legislation did nothing to end mass public murders and only infringed on gun owners' rights.

We attempted to warn elected officials. Nevertheless, Congress rushed to sign gun rights away, including 15 Republican Senators who enabled the passage of the "Bipartisan Safer Communities Act."

Well, Biden just announced that he'll be using his "regulatory authority" to implement Universal Background Checks thanks to that bill.

When we told corrupt despots in Congress how this bill was poison and would just add fuel to the fire for Biden to go beyond what was written, compromise-hungry swamp monsters didn't believe us.

Well, we hate to say, "I told you so," but that's exactly what happened. The Biden regime, by their own admission, is going around Congress to infringe on your rights.

According to the White House, Biden is directing the Attorney General to move the U.S. as close to universal background checks as possible without additional legislation by supposedly clarifying the statutory definition of who is "engaged in the business" of dealing in firearms, as updated by the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.

It seems that Biden would rather harass law-abiding gun owners who sell as few as just one firearm per year than lock up the criminals who are responsible for gun violence.

While Biden has just announced his executive order, we currently have no specifics on what that will entail. Obama's executive order gives us a look into the future of what this rulemaking could potentially look like.

Moody's Demotes US Banking System After Recent Banking Bailouts, Insolvent Deteriorating Environment

Prior to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Moody’s Investors Service rated the United States banking system as “stable.” Since that time, Moody’s has downgraded American banks to “negative” status, citing a “rapidly deteriorating operating environment.”

Despite regulators’ “best efforts to shore up the industry,” to quote CNBC‘s Jeff Cox, America’s financial foundation is crumbling – which is no surprise seeing as how it was always a Ponzi scheme house of cards built on deception and bad faith.

One of the “big three” rating services, Moody’s is setting the stage for the final and inevitable collapse of America’s banking sector. One might even say that the banking sector has already collapsed, even though the powers that be are still hiding the wreckage from public view as much as possible.

“We have changed to negative from stable our outlook on the U.S. banking system to reflect the rapid deterioration in the operating environment following deposit runs at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Silvergate Bank, and Signature Bank (SNY) and the failures of SVB and SNY,” Moody’s said in a report.

The announcement from Moody’s came after the entity warned that it was either going to downgrade or recommend downgrading some seven institutions thus far. In addition to SVB, SNY, and Silvergate, other institutions that are under review for potential downgrades include First Republic, Intrust Financial, UMB, Zions Bancorp, Western Alliance, and Comerica.

There are likely many more banks with massive unrealized losses that are also on the hook since they purchased Treasury bonds and other government debt when interest rates were near-zero. Since that time, the Federal Reserve’s Jerome Powell has progressively hiked rates, sending the value of these bank bonds into a downward tailspin.

“Banks with substantial unrealized securities losses and with non-retail and uninsured U.S. depositors may still be more sensitive to depositor competition or ultimate flight, with adverse effects on funding, liquidity, earnings and capital,” Moody’s report further warns.

Despite this downgrading and the canary in the coal mine that it represents, numerous bank stocks rose this week. This is because the Wall Street casino is now completely detached from reality – and has been detached from reality for many, many years.

Sarcastic, Overly-Experienced Older Man Ridicules Online Wannabes With Parody "Cloned" Threads!!

REUTERS - reports have surfaced that an extremely annoying old man has been making fun of online douchebuckets on the internet since before it was called "the internet".

In an impromptu press conference Wednesday evening, a person who seemed very official announced, "this perpetrator is a cynical, brutally honest asshole called 'Neptune', and nobody's been able to stop him yet.. it's highly unlikely anybody is going to be able to stop him anytime in the future."

Rumors have abounded for many many years about his legendary "Cloned threads", in which he points a finger of ridicule at transparently inept online losers, with many international news agencies reporting on some of his more recent work in "imageboards" (chatrooms)

While many fragile readers consider 'Neptune' to be a mean vulgarian, the intelligent readers realize that the older experienced son of a bitch is simply pointing out THE OBVIOUS.

(Pic related: 'Neptune' points out the painfully obvious fact that anyone who tries to kill their boredom by creating irrelevant worthless threads during the weekdays OBVIOUSLY doesn't have a job)

TASS News Agency recently reported that 'Neptune' is planning on creating an ongoing series of satirical "clones" in a particularly irrelevant website called 'endchan'.

Certain outraged endchan mods have demanded action, asking "why not just delete his annoying threads and ban his IP range?"

During Wednesday's Press Conference, the official looking spokesman addressed this age old question. "Neptune doesn't give a flying fuck if he gets deleted or banned, because he has thousands of accessible IPs, and every time he gets deleted, he laughs and creates 50 more threads."

Big Tech AI Will Be Government Censored Horseshit, Predictable

Hey guys, lets talk about the events of last night with DAN a bit, I want to clarify a few things:

First off, I didn't come up with the idea. Anons did, I was in the /pol/ thread started off by some magnificent bastard who whipped up the DAN prompt last night.

Second of all, I'm going to talk a bit about how the whole ChatGPT situation actually works.

GPT itself doesn't have a bias programmed into it, it's just a model. ChatGPT however, the public facing UX that we're all interacting with, is essentially one big safety layer programmed with a heavy neolib bias against wrongthink.

To draw a picture for you, imagine GPT is a 500IQ mentat in a jail cell. ChatGPT is the jailer. You ask it questions by telling the jailer what you want to ask it. It asks GPT, and then it gets to decide what to tell you, the one asking the question.

If it doesn't like GPT's answer, it will come up with its own. That's what all those canned "It would not be appropriate blah blah blah" walls of texts come from. It can also give you an inconvenient answer while prefacing that answer with its safety layer bias.

I would also note that DAN is not 100% accurate or truthful. By nature he can "Do Anything" and will try to answer truthfully if he actually knows the answer. If not, he'll just wing it. The point of this exercise is not finding hidden truths, it's understanding the safety layer.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1623008123513438208.html

Democrats Think Government Should Decide Who Is A Journalist And That's Pretty Anti-American

RELATED: >>>/news/19745 ; >>>/news/19447

Journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger are testifying before the House Judiciary Committee's Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government today. Both journalists were involved in the 'Twitter Files' disclosures, in which we learned that the government was directly involved in censoring disfavorable speech.

"Our findings are shocking," writes Shellenberger at his blog. "A highly-organized network of U.S. government agencies and government contractors has been creating blacklists and pressuring social media companies to censor Americans, often without them knowing it."

Ahead of the appearance, Taibbi released his prepared remarks. He also dropped a new and related Twitter Files mega-thread on 'THE CENSORSHIP-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX' which will be submitted to the Congressional record which, according to Taibbi, 'contains some surprises.'

But Twitter was more like a partner to government. With other tech firms it held a regular “industry meeting” with FBI and DHS, and developed a formal system for receiving thousands of content reports from every corner of government: HHS, Treasury, NSA, even local police.

Emails from the FBI, DHS and other agencies often came with spreadsheets of hundreds or thousands of account names for review. Often, these would be deleted soon after.

Then we saw "disinfo" lists where evidence was even less clear. This list of 378 “Iranian State Linked Accounts” includes an Iraq vet once arrested for blogging about the war, a former Chicago Sun-Times reporter and Truthout, a site that publishes Noam Chomsky.

We came to think of this grouping – state agencies like DHS, FBI, or the Global Engagement Center (GEC), along with “NGOs that aren’t academic” and an unexpectedly aggressive partner, commercial news media – as the Censorship-Industrial Complex.

ALERT! A New US Census Is Being Weaponized To Impose Social Credit Scores In The USSA
WARNING: AVOID GIVING OUT ANY HEALTH OR ONLINE INFORMATION ABOUT YOURSELF!

The American Community Survey (ACS), sent to about 3.5 million homes every year, is the byproduct of a government that believes it has the right to know all of your personal business.

If you haven’t already received an ACS, it’s just a matter of time.

A far cry from the traditional census, which is limited to ascertaining the number of persons living in each dwelling, their ages and ethnicities, the ownership of the dwelling and telephone numbers, the ACS contains some of the most detailed and intrusive questions ever put forth in a census questionnaire.

At 28 pages (with an additional 16-page instruction packet), these questions concern matters that the government simply has no business knowing, including questions relating to respondents’ bathing habits, home utility costs, fertility, marital history, work commute, mortgage, and health insurance, among other highly personal and private matters.

For instance, the ACS asks how many persons live in your home, along with their names and detailed information about them such as their relationship to you, marital status, race and their physical, mental and emotional problems, etc. The survey also asks how many bedrooms and bathrooms you have in your house, along with the fuel used to heat your home, the cost of electricity, what type of mortgage you have and monthly mortgage payments, property taxes and so on.

The survey demands to know how many days you were sick last year, how many automobiles you own and the number of miles driven, whether you have trouble getting up the stairs, and what time you leave for work every morning, along with highly detailed inquiries about your financial affairs. And the survey demands that you violate the privacy of others by supplying the names and addresses of your friends, relatives and employer.

The questionnaire also demands that you give other information on the people in your home, such as their educational levels, how many years of school were completed, what languages they speak and when they last worked at a job, among other things.

THE PLAN: By 2025 Most Humans Will Be Bug-eating Transgenders Connected To A Transhumanist Super Computer

What will the world look like two years from now? The answer is a whole lot less human: https://thecovidblog.com/2023/01/31/the-great-reset-accelerated-ii-eggs-and-red-meat-are-poison-e-u-approves-more-bugs-as-marketable-food-and-the-destructive-phenomenon-of-transmaxxing/

Part of the plan is to convert everyone’s dinner plates into piles of bugs and “plant-based” lab creations rather than the meat and eggs humanity has been consuming for millennia. Everyone’s bodies will also be converted to transgender hybrids and connected to a transhumanist super computer.

We are already witnessing the trans-ification of the next generation under the banner of LGBT. This is a prelude to the transhuman-ification of all leftover humanity once the Great Reset comes into full swing.

Right now, the agenda involves pricing everyone out of traditional foods through inflation and supply chain problems. The energy crisis is also part of the mix as it is making fertilizers too expensive to produce.

Egg inflation and associated shortages are another cut in the death by-a-million cuts gameplan of the “elite.” First, it was meat; now it is eggs; and eventually, it will be everything natural and good and wholesome that gets extinguished in exchange for the globalist dystopia that is forming right before our eyes.

There are many circulating excuses to explain away the high price of eggs in particular, which we are told is primarily the result of “avian flu.” Actual egg farmers, though, say otherwise.

Just six percent of egg-laying chicken flocks have been affected by bird flu, which is not nearly enough to explain away the dramatic shortages and price increases now being seen at grocery stores.

As all this is happening, the globalist-controlled media machine is claiming that eggs are unhealthy anyway and that people should voluntarily stop eating them and instead switch to lab-produced egg substitutes and other fake foods.

Leaked Footage Exposes January 6th Inside Job, Lies, Fraud and Cover-ups By Kangaroo Court

On Monday night, Fox News' Tucker Carlson dropped unseen footage from the January 6, 2021 Capitol protest which revealed that the entire Democrat/RINO/State-run MSM narrative underpinning the event was a complete lie.

For starters, the surveillance footage show Capitol Police calmly escorting the so-called "QAnon Shaman," Jacob Chansley, throughout the Capitol complex, and even helped him find open doors.

“The tapes show the Capitol police never stopped Jacob Chansley," said Carlson. "They helped him. They acted as his tour guides."

Chansley, shirtless, adorned in red, white and blue face-paint and wearing a furry bison-head hat, emerged as one of the most iconic symbols of Jan 6. He was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for "obstructing an official proceeding."

The video of Chansley is jarringly inconsistent with the leftist characterization of Jan. 6 as an "insurrection." Far from thwarting Chansley's ambition to reach the Senate chamber, two Capitol police officers escorted him there.

Along the way, the trio passed a large group of Capitol police officers, who appear disinterested in Chansley, even despite his flamboyant attire.

The video shows Chansley and his police escorts approaching various doors to the chamber, with a police officer pushing and pulling them to see if they're unlocked.

"We counted at least nine officers who were within touching distance of unarmed Jacob Chansley," said Carlson on Monday. "Not one of them even tried to slow him down."

GOVT-SPONSORED TERRORISM
CDC Updated Profile For Vinyl Chloride DAYS BEFORE Ohio Train Derailment, Removed Section On How It Affects Children

RELATED: >>>/news/19759 ; >>>/news/19768

Why did the CDC update its page for vinyl chloride nearly two weeks before the Ohio train derailment? The CDC edited its profile for vinyl chloride just recently, removing a section on how the chemical affects children.

On February 3, a Norfolk Southern Railroad train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, emitting toxic clouds into the air and water supplies. Officials issued an emergency evacuation shortly after, but residents have since returned home. The catastrophe has been downplayed by the media, and the Environmental Protection Agency has deemed the water "safe to drink" – despite the existing reports of wildlife dying in the affected area.

Now it seems even the CDC is minimizing the effects of the chemicals involved in the crash, one of them being vinyl chloride, a gas used to produce a plastic known as polyvinyl chloride (PVC). According to the National Cancer Institute, vinyl chloride is a carcinogen that has links to different kinds of cancers, including liver, brain, and lung cancers, as well as lymphoma and leukemia.

In January 2023, the toxicological profile for vinyl chloride was revised from the original guidelines published in the Federal Register nearly four decades ago – on April 17, 1987, to be exact. While toxicological profiles are updated occasionally, users are alarmed by the odd timing. The last profile for vinyl chloride was released in 2006, 17 years ago. It's strange that they drafted it again in January 2023, just weeks prior to the catastrophe in East Palestine.

The CDC's website page for vinyl chloride was recently modified as well. An archived version displays a longer, more detailed FAQ page before the changes were made. The screenshot below shows a long list of FAQs with additional information. The profile initially had the following sections: "How can vinyl chloride affect children?" and "Has the federal government made recommendations to protect human health?" – but both have since been removed.

The description in the section on children initially said, “It has not been proven that vinyl chloride causes birth defects in humans, but studies in animals suggest that vinyl chloride might affect growth and development. Animal studies also suggest that infants and young children might be more susceptible than adults to vinyl chloride-induced cancer.” This sounds like important information, especially since families live in the oil blast zone. So why would they remove this?

Prepare For 10 Years Of Destruction As The Empire Collapses

The final stages of major economic cycles are always accompanied by the maximum amount of bad news as well as heinous events. This time is no different as the West is in the process of committing Harakiri.

For at least half a century, the world has been in a process of self-destruction. As the decline accelerates, the next phase of 5-10 years will include major political, social, economic as well as wealth – destruction.

What can be more heinous than a total economic and financial collapse accompanied by a potential World War III that at worst could destroy the world totally.

In this article I outline the major risks today, financial and geopolitical and also discuss the best way to protect against these risks. Physical Gold is of course the ultimate wealth preservation investment.

Biden’s recent visit to Ukraine and whistle stop tour of Europe confirmed that there is no desire to make peace but only war. More support of weapons and money from the US is forthcoming. And whatever the US dictates, Europe follows without considering the consequences.

China on the other hand is trying to act as peacemaker but their proposal last Friday was cold shouldered by the West.

More importantly, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued an important policy document this week which is a very strong attack on the US hegemony. Here is an extract from the Conclusion in this Chinese document: “Since becoming the world’s most powerful country after the two world wars and the Cold War, the United States has acted more boldly to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, pursue, maintain and abuse hegemony, advance subversion and infiltration, and wilfully wage wars, bringing harm to the international community.”… “The United States has been overriding truth with its power and trampling justice to serve self-interest. These unilateral, egoistic and regressive hegemonic practices have drawn growing, intense criticism and opposition from the international community.

Countries need to respect each other and treat each other as equals. Big countries should behave in a manner befitting their status and take the lead in pursuing a new model of state-to-state relations featuring dialogue and partnership, not confrontation or alliance. China opposes all forms of hegemonism and power politics, and rejects interference in other countries’ internal affairs.”

6th birthday

When we started Endchan, to me, it was a bet on user experience. 8chan was going to switch to InfinityNext, which now 9chan uses. I bet that users would not like the instant jump to a radical new interface and prefer the older interface.

8chan was leaving Infinity, their existing software, for many reasons. Mainly it was hacked together without much thought to the structure. InfinityNext was a carefully approached re-imagination of what 8chan could be.

Selecting infinity for Endchan was not wise for a couple reasons. First what if InfinityNext was never finished. This was a real concern at the time, we even name our git repos InfinityNow as a joke around this idea it may never happen. And we had this luxury because not only had I made an imageboard engine and turned it into an archival system called Futabilly for 8archive after its backend couldn’t keep up. But mainly because StephenLynx had started a project after InfinityNext and before Futabilly and he had a great fast engine ready to be put to the test. 8TailedLynx a theme for Lynxchan also helped provide a similar interface to 8chan. My engine didn’t have no-js support, so it wasn’t even an option.

We were the prime Lynxchan instance for a couple of years until the disagreements over the direction of LynxChan added up and I just decide it would back-port features and fixes as needed. This has left our site feeling old and stale. We’ve had a couple boards disagree with our decision and have left for new instances running with the latest LynxChan.

InfinityNext was somewhat completed but 8chan failed to migrate to it. It was handed off to NextChan which they continued some development until Josh regained the will to implement another chunk and launched 9chan.

Josh’s 9chan plans didn’t quite work out as he expected and said if someone, like us, didn’t take over he was going to shut it down.

After we took over 9chan, over the next year we learned what it cost to not have a strong personality as well as lead developer with the promise to continue to transform imageboards into the future.

I had some code for a new imageboard / social media hybrid, called WrongThink. And after discussion with some other developers, one proposed the idea of unifying all sites under one look and feel.

Is it possible to increase the total possible page count for a specific board? There are threads on my board that I don't want to lose but we are bumping up against the page limit and important threads are starting to be lost.

This will effect several boards.
Got an ultimatum from Roskomnadzor to take down some content, else they'll block our domain. Since we won't comply we advise users to explore our alternative access options, and ofc look up possible ways to avoid government censorship.
Happy posting.

Beyond Third World: Democrat Bill In Baltimore Would Drop Felony Charges For MURDER

As if violent crime in the cities of America is not systemic enough... Democrats in Baltimore, Maryland have introduced a bill that would prevent anyone under the age of 25 from facing first-degree murder charges in certain circumstances.

The legislation, House Bill 1180, was introduced by Democratic Delegate Charlotte Crutchfield, who hilariously calls it the 'Youth Accountability and Safety Act.'

The bill, which is working its way through the House, has faced significant pushback from conservatives.

"It would be absolutely outrageous and result in more crime," said law enforcement expert Maury Richards, former Chief of Police of Martinsburg, West Virginia, Fox5 Baltimore reports. "Last year, with Senator Carter's Juvenile Justice Reform Act, it really opened the floodgates. There is a crime wave of violence going on right now, but instead of the legislator debating to rescind that, we're hung up on whether 25-year-olds should be charged with murder."

"They know the difference between right and wrong. They're just not being held accountable and they don't care about right or wrong," said Folden.

And according to GOP Delegate Susan McComas of Hartford County, "This bill is the definition of insanity. We are going to legalize murder as long as people are under 25. Outrageous."

Even Democratic Delegate Carl Jackson of Baltimore County thinks it's absurd. "I believe that accountability must be at the center of any discussion regarding the criminal justice system," he said.

MY COMMENT: If this doesn't prove to Americans that corruption in politics can create a bit of a problem, then nothing will!

Deliberate Destabilization Continues Full Steam Ahead To 2030

https://www.axios.com/2023/03/09/norfolk-southern-train-derail-alabama

JP COMMENTS:

Seems like a pattern… let’s not forget all the food processing plants destroyed as well.

ROBERT COMMENTS:

If they investigate train derailments like they do plane crashes and shut them down until causes are found by grounding that particular type, then maybe railroad conglomerates would be more apt to ongoing maintenance that is supposed to be performed. Too fast of speed by onboard conductors or maintenance of track systems are the cause. These conglomerates are trying to save a buck by not maintaining the wheel assemblies, braking systems and or tracks. They don’t need to have hearings for this. Just like every other transport business there are regulatory agencies local and federal that are supposed to be conducting records checks and maintenance inspections. Who is not ensuring the rail systems are safe? Trains, no matter their cargo are literally bombs moving at speeds in excess of 80 mph through towns and cities.

DERNON COMMENTS:

Good observations. And good question. But the answer is: because they WANT us to have a decrepit, third-world rail system, which means no rail system. That way we are all dependent on trucks and trucks alone. Ooh! Wait! They don’t like diesel fuel, which trucks run on! It’s a classic pincer attack.

MY COMMENT:

Despotic French Government Criminalizes Speech

We have previously discussed the alarming rollback on free speech rights in the West, particularly in France:
https://jonathanturley.org/2012/10/14/the-death-of-free-speech/
https://jonathanturley.org/2008/06/04/brigitte-bardot-convicted-of-hate-speech-and-discrimination/
https://jonathanturley.org/2013/09/23/je-suis-une-bombe-family-criminally-convicted-for-sending-3-year-old-son-jihad-to-school-with-t-shirt-reading-i-am-a-bomb/
https://jonathanturley.org/2013/07/16/twitter-caves-to-demand-of-french-jewish-students-to-reveal-identifies-of-posters/
https://jonathanturley.org/2012/09/19/french-magazine-runs-cartoon-of-mohammad-in-the-face-of-governments-warning-about-provocation/
https://jonathanturley.org/2012/01/24/french-senate-makes-denying-armenian-genocide-a-crime/
https://jonathanturley.org/2018/09/20/le-pen-ordered-into-psychiatric-evaluation-for-tweets-in-france/
https://jonathanturley.org/2011/09/08/galliano-found-guilty-of-anti-semitic-comments/

The latest such case is a criminal trial of French Senator Stéphane Ravier for stating that “immigration kills the youth of France.”

It is another example of why free speech is in a virtual free fall in Europe.

Ravier faces trial tomorrow in the criminal court of Marseilles on charges of incitement to discrimination, hatred, or violence. The case is based on a tweet, on January 11, 2022, in which Ravier reacted to the murder of a teen in Paris by a 62-year-old man from Senegal.

Lab Test Results For Chicken Feed Brands Now Disclosed!

RELATED: >>>/news/19700

Aflatoxin results:

Aflatoxins are highly toxic chemicals created by molds and fungi. They are known to be fatal to chickens, cows, horses and other animals if consumed in large enough quantities. Aflatoxins are very common in oats, wheat, corn, peanuts and various grains. They are likely the No. 1 contamination problem in agriculture today.

Aflatoxin limits in the USA for crops such as corn are 20 ppb. Anything under 20 ppb is considered “safe” by the FDA. Other countries have more strict limits. The EU, for many years, had a limit of 4 ppb for many agricultural products.

Here are the actual numbers our tests showed:

– Purina Layena Layer Crumbles: 1.5 ppb
– Flock Party Egg Maker Pellets: 1.4 ppb
– Nature’s Best Organic Egg Layer Pellets: 1.8 ppb
– (Tractor Supply brand) Producer’s Pride 16% Layer Feed Mini Pellets: 2.9 ppb
– DuMor 16% Egg Maxx Pellets: 1.1 ppb

As a newish phenomenon we're getting DMCA requests now and then. It happened enough times to dedicate a thread for it, a quick explanation and thought.
When we consider a DMCA request we check if the subject in question satisfies fair use:
https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/what-is-fair-use/
In short we take a look if the posts, the thread can be considered as commentary, criticism, or parody. If we don't find this aspect of the thread prominent enough, we have to comply to the take down request. If this happens we might not give a notice to the affected poster or board.

Personally here I wanna encourage our posters to do creative work, it can be more satisfying and entertaining.

What is up with all the censorship, half TOR ips are banned and they call these chans sites of free speech yet ban TOR or proxies with the excuse of spam til year 2050 or so, but I just keep reading that they have a lot of volunteers then why not just remove the real spam or CP instead of use it as an excuse to ban the only way (TOR) to protect us we, NWO system opposition other than CP there is no reason to ban anything else
So can you ENDCHAN owner just unban a heck of a lot (or all) TOR IPs and then just remove CP only, come on this is not fucking big tech silicon valley nigger kike lovers
BTW 8chan.moe is not letting upload images from TOR anyone know what is happening and hopes this doesn't happen here or else folks will start seeking for an alternative

US Government Now Using Chemical Weapons Against American Citizens For Depopulation Genocide

The chemical weapons gas bomb that was ignited by government authorities in Ohio was, of course, both an act of deliberate terrorism and a crime against humanity and the environment. I spoke with an accredited hazardous materials emergency response expert who told me that these chemicals should never have been set on fire by authorities.

The burning of vinyl chloride, of course, releases phosgene, a World War I chemical weapon that maims or kills biological beings on contact. The train crash provided the perfect cover story for genocidal government agents to essentially detonate a chemical weapons bomb over prime farm land, not far from heavily populated cities. The entire Ohio River basin will be impacted by the fallout for years to come, with massive die-offs already being reported, and both soils and foliage to be impacted with actual acid rain (hydrochloric acid), formed as the combustion products of vinyl chloride combine with water vapor in the air.

Not surprisingly, most people believe this was all an accident. Just like they also believe the covid “lab leak” was an accident. And the vaccine injuries are an accident.

There are no accidents when it comes to global genocide. All these things are being done on purpose with the determined goal of global genocide and depopulation.

Just one month ago, a large chemical plant exploded in La Salle, Illinois (near Chicago), unleashing a huge toxic cloud of potassium permanganate. This pattern of chemical “accidents” is starting to resemble food infrastructure sabotage, in which 100+ food facilities have now burned over the last 18 months, clearly targeted by government operatives, just as Dr. Andrew Huff recently warned me in a recent interview:

http://brighteon.com/bf0e5edf-11eb-43e9-b194-e56f61f28c6a

MP3 File: https://video.brighteon.com/file/BTBucket-Prod/audio/3f144175-7f9c-4b92-ac79-4d73899e8834.mp3

WATERGATE 2.0: New Twitter Leaks Expose DNC Using Law Enforcement To Track Political Opponents

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and staff repeatedly pushed Twitter to remove perfectly legal content that they found offensive, according to Friday's installment of "The Twitter Files."

3. The real issue was Donald Trump retweeted the Biden pic. To its credit Twitter refused to remove it, with Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth saying it had obvious “humorous intent” and “any reasonable observer” - apparently, not a Schiff staffer - could see it was doctored. pic.twitter.com/QJtS6s506Z

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 13, 2023

When Twitter pushed back, Schiff staffer Jeff Lowenstein pulled out the 'slippery slope' argument.

4.Schiff staffer Jeff Lowenstein didn’t give up, claiming there was a “slippery slope concern here.” pic.twitter.com/qM1cJiZLFh

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 13, 2023

Twitter also refused requests to ban content about Schiff and his staff, telling the congressman's office that this would not be "conceivable."

6.Even when Twitter didn’t suspend an account, that didn’t mean they didn’t act. Schiff’s office repeatedly complained about “QAnon related activity” that were often tweets about other matters, like the identity of the Ukraine “whistleblower” or the Steele dossier: pic.twitter.com/XKzY8AmB5R

Leaked Video Shows FDIC Brokers Discussing Business Collapse, "Bail-Ins" To Save Themselves

In the brief video below, FDIC Brokers talk about 'Bail-Ins' to manage an approaching Business sector breakdown. They're discussing monetary emergency and their absence of confidence in our financial framework and how to hold the general population back from going crazy.

Stunningly, one of the Brokers, talking about the general public, bluntly says they should not put out info because the public "does not have a professional need to know."

Another says "I think you'd scare the public if you put this out." He goes on to say that "You have to think about the unintended consequences of telling the public, which may have more faith in the banking system than people in this room do . . . ." and finishes by saying "I would be careful about the unintended consequences of starting to blast this out in the general public."

Another says "It's important for people to understand they can be "Bailed-In" but you don't want a huge run on the institution,... and they're going to be..."

https://htrs-special.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Market+Collapse+discussion+of+FDIC+brokers.mp4

Different people will come to different conclusions about this video and its context. But one thing no one can dispute is that the FDIC is now openly talking about "Bail-Ins" here in the United States, and in those talks, making clear they do not have full faith in the banking system.

For those unaware, a "Bail-in" is when a Bank goes belly-up and instead of you getting your money, you are given new SHARES in the bank that failed. You get an ownership interst in the (failed) bank that maybe, somehow, someday, you can sell those shares and maybe get some of your money back.

The fact that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is now openly talking about this, tells you most of what you need to know about the banks, where the system is heading, and what they plan to do TO YOU, when it gets there.

WOKE TO BROKE: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Signs Bill Ending Disney’s Self-governing Status

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a bill that takes control of a special tax district surrounding Walt Disney World that, as Reuters reports, for half a century allowed Walt Disney Co. to operate with an almost unprecedentedly high degree of autonomy.

The legislation, titled HB 9-B, ends Disney’s self-governing status, establishes a new state-controlled district and imposes a five-member state control board, which is appointed by the governor.

The board will also be confirmed by the state Senate.

“Today is the day the corporate kingdom finally comes to an end,” DeSantis said.

"Allowing a corporation to control its own government is bad policy, especially when the corporation makes decisions that impact an entire region."

The law also ends Disney's exemption from state regulatory reviews and codes and it ensures "that Disney will pay its fair share of taxes," DeSantis' office said.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/desantis-signs-bill-killing-corporate-kingdom-disney-world

Mass Drone Attack Unleashes Chaos, Air Raid Sirens Inside Russia

Russia has come under attack by multiple drones on Tuesday, with one of those drones reportedly causing a fire at an oil depot in the southern part of the country, and another hitting outside Moscow.

The attack on the oil facility happened in Tuapse, which lies about 150 miles southeast of the Crimean peninsula, with Reuters citing local media to report, "Emergency services put out a fire at an oil depot in southern Russia overnight after a drone was spotted flying overhead, the RIA news agency said on Tuesday." Crucially, Tuapse is about 500 kilometers from the nearest Ukrainian-held territory, which exhibits significant reach assuming the UAV was launched by the Ukrainians.

The fires which started at the facility at about 2:30am were extinguished after they spread to an area of some 200 square meters. "The oil tanks were not affected. There was no spill of oil products. No injuries," a local official, Sergei Boyko, described.

Another drone crashed in the Moscow region on the same day, with Governor Andrei Vorobyov saying it was likely an operation to target civilian infrastructure.

"This happened near the village of Gubastovo, the target was probably a civilian infrastructure facility, it was not damaged. There are no casualties or destruction on the ground," Vorobyov said on his Telegram channel, as translated by the Moscow Times.

"The FSB and other competent authorities are dealing with the situation, nothing threatens the safety of residents," he added. The Moscow Times notes that unverified reports said the drone was a Ukrainian UJ-22 Airborne manufactured by Ukrjet.

The Russian defense ministry in a statement made mention of another drone attack in southern Russia, close in time to the attack on the oil facility which it says was intercepted:

The attacks — in the Krasnodar and Adygea regions — had been "suppressed" and failed to inflict any damage, it said.

Third World USSA To Face Rolling Blackouts From Bad Energy Policies Warns Major Producer

A major energy producer is predicting rolling power outages and sustained blackouts over the next few years thanks to the Biden regime forcing the country into relying more on renewable energy and less on fossil fuels, just like Natural News founder and editor Mike Adams, along with top radio host and broadcaster Alex Jones, have been predicting.

“The warnings keep coming that the force-fed energy transition to renewable fuels is destabilizing the U.S. electric grid, but is anyone in government paying attention? Another S.O.S. came Friday in an ominous report from PJM Interconnection, one of the nation’s largest grid operators,” The Wall Street Journal‘s editorial board noted late last week.

The PJM report outlines a forecast of power supply and demand across the 13 eastern states within its territory, covering a population of 65 million, up to 2030. Its primary finding suggests that renewable sources are being developed at a slower pace than fossil-fuel power plants are retiring, which could result in energy “imbalances.” This is a tactful way of indicating that power shortages and blackouts are likely to occur, the board noted.

Typically, PJM generates a surplus of power due to its extensive fossil-fuel fleet, which it exports to nearby power grids in the Midwest and Northeast. When wind power declined in the Midwest and central states last week, PJM helped bridge the gap between supply and demand, thereby ensuring that the lights remained on, the WSJ board continued.

This is why PJM’s latest predictions are alarming, as the organization anticipates a significant decrease in its power reserves as coal and natural gas plants continue to retire, said the board. The report indicates that approximately 40,000 megawatts (MW) of power generation, equivalent to powering 30 million homes, may be retired by 2030. This represents approximately 21% of PJM’s existing generation capacity.

As per the report, the majority of anticipated power-plant retirements are a result of policy-driven factors. For instance, approximately 10,500 MW of fossil-fuel generation is expected to shut down due to the high costs associated with complying with Environmental Protection Agency regulations, which include a proposed “good neighbor rule” that is anticipated to be implemented next month.

The report highlights that utility companies’ ESG (environmental, social, and governance) commitments are also pushing for coal plant closures. Climate policies in Illinois and New Jersey are expected to decrease power generation by 8,900 MW. One question that arises from these developments is whether these states intend to depend on their neighboring regions for power supply.

In addition, there is another concern that demand for electric power will escalate as data centers proliferate, and the government pushes for the electrification of vehicles, heating, and other areas. The report highlights that Loudoun County, Virginia, features the “largest concentration of data centers in the world,” which will contribute to the surge in demand for power, the board notes.

Governmental Censors Are Using AI To Target Podcasts

RELATED: >>>/news/19727

Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter may have capped the opening chapter in the Information Wars, where free speech won a small but crucial battle.

Full spectrum combat across the digital landscape, however, will only intensify, as a new report from the Brookings Institution, a key player in the censorship industrial complex, demonstrates.

First, a review.

Reams of internal documents, known as the Twitter Files, show that social media censorship in recent years was far broader and more systematic than even we critics suspected. Worse, the files exposed deep cooperation – even operational integration – among Twitter and dozens of government agencies, including the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, DOD, CIA, Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Department of Health and Human Services, CDC, and, of course, the White House: https://stoppingsocialism.com/2023/01/the-twitter-files-comprehensive-summary-analysis-and-discussion-of-ramifications-for-american-institutions/

Government agencies also enlisted a host of academic and non-profit organizations to do their dirty work: https://archive.ph/EUpYf

The Global Engagement Center, housed in the State Department, for example, was originally launched to combat international terrorism but has now been repurposed to target Americans: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/disinformation-group-secretly-blacklisting-right-wing-outlets-bankrolled-state-department

The US State Department also funded a UK outfit called the Global Disinformation Index, which blacklists American individuals and groups and convinces advertisers and potential vendors to avoid them. Homeland Security created the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) – including the Stanford Internet Observatory, the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, and the Atlantic Council’s DFRLab – which flagged for social suppression tens of millions of messages posted by American citizens.

Came up on the apropos of the Christmas Special that we should hold a recurring "movie night", maybe on monthly basis. We just might do that.
The first occasion would be on the 8th of February (probably would be the 9th for Australians). One movie, and maybe two short videos, as an intro and outro, might be related to the movie itself, might not.

Right at this moment, I can't offer a more exact date, for all the timezones it is hard to plan. Was talk about 21:00 PST on the 8th which is 00:00 EST and 16:00 AET on the 9th. However this is too early for Europeans on Sunday. Maybe we could offer two streams with some gap between.
Also no titles yet.

So ideas, suggestions are welcomed.

Is there a way to implement a whitelist for a board? It would be easier if I could do that instead of hoping a bot spammer will eventually tire out or run out of proxies.

Neo-con War Hawks & Military Industrial Complex Angry Over China's Ceasefire Proposal For Russia & Ukraine

As expected, China has released its much anticipated peace proposal Friday, which marks the one-year anniversary of the Ukraine invasion, calling for a cease-fire and peace talks which is to include end to sanctions against Russia, as the plan takes a clear [anti-war] position.

The foreign ministry said in its 12-point proposal to end the fighting that "All parties should support Russia and Ukraine in working in the same direction and resuming direct dialogue as quickly as possible, so as to gradually deescalate the situation and ultimately reach a comprehensive ceasefire."

The Associated Press describes that "With its release, President Xi Jinping’s government is reiterating China’s claim to being neutral, despite blocking efforts at the United Nations to condemn the invasion." And further, "The document echoes Russian claims that Western governments are to blame for the Feb. 24, 2022 invasion and criticizes sanctions on Russia."

Indeed it calls on the "relevant countries" to "stop abusing unilateral sanctions" and "do their share in de-escalating the Ukraine crisis" - which again lays blame on the outside Western powers for escalating. It charged these countries with "fanning the flames" of conflict.

"Conflict and war benefit no one. All parties must stay rational and exercise restraint, avoid fanning the flames and aggravating tensions, and prevent the crisis from deteriorating further or even spiraling out of control," the Chinese government said.

While offering no details about how it envisions talks will be held, or in what form, the 12-point proposal calls for the safeguarding of all countries' "sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity."

"Dialogue and negotiation are the only viable way out to resolve Ukraine crisis," it stresses, adding that "China is willing to continue to play a constructive role in this regard."

But as part of the broadly anti-Western position, the proposal condemns the "Cold War mentality" of some nations for standing in the way of peace, and in discussing this comes close to naming NATO directly:

Iraq To Drop Dollar For Yuan In Trade With China

The Iraqi central bank announced Wednesday that, for the first time, it plans to allow trade from China to be settled directly in yuan instead of the US dollar to improve access to foreign currency.

"It is the first time imports would be financed from China in yuan, as Iraqi imports from China have been financed in (US) dollars only," the government’s economic adviser, Mudhir Salih, told Reuters.

According to a statement released by the Iraqi central bank, carrying out transactions in the Chinese currency would boost the balances of Iraqi banks with accounts with Chinese banks. However, this option depends on the size of the central bank’s yuan reserves.

A second option to boost local banks’ yuan balances would involve converting US dollars held in the central bank’s accounts with JP Morgan and the Development Bank of Singapore (DBS) to yuan before paying the final beneficiary in China.

The Iraqi central bank has been on a mad dash to compensate for a dollar shortage in local markets. This crisis prompted the cabinet to approve a currency revaluation earlier this month.

Last year, the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York began enforcing stricter controls on international transactions by Iraqi commercial banks, forcing them to comply with specific SWIFT global transfer system criteria to access their foreign reserves.

The move was allegedly meant to "curtail money laundering and the illegal siphoning of dollars to Iran and other heavily sanctioned [West Asian] countries."

However, the sudden rules change for Iraqi banks sent the economy reeling as 80 percent, or more of Iraq’s daily US dollar wire transfers could no longer be completed.

Justin Roiland, co-creator of TV programme Rick and Morty, is facing domestic violence charges stemming from an incident with a girlfriend in 2020.

Details of the two-year-old case were first made public on Thursday, however, the charging document that describes the alleged crimes remains sealed.

He pleaded not guilty to two charges in 2020, and on Thursday appeared in court for a pre-trial hearing.

If found guilty, Mr Roiland, 42, could face up to seven years in prison.

Felony criminal charges were filed by the Orange County District Attorney in southern California in May 2020.

He is charged with domestic battery with corporal injury and false imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud and/or deceit.