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Take Responsibility For Your Actions T-Mobile, Or The Public Will Take Your
Company Away


T-MOBILE USERS: YOU ARE GOING TO RECEIVE A NUMBER OF BENEFITS FROM THE WINNING
OF LAWSUITS AGAINST T-MOBILE. PLEASE USE YOUR WINNINGS AND RESOURCES TO KEEP THE
INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT ACTIONS, AGAINST T-MOBILE, GOING FAST AND HARD.
POST ON YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA ABOUT T-MOBILE'S ILLICIT ACTIONS. TAKE T-MOBILE TO
COURT IN SMALL CLAIMS ACTIONS. FILE CASES AT WWW.FAIRSHAKE.COM AND KEEP T-MOBILE
FROM SLIPPING DEEPER INTO POLITICAL CORRUPTION!







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Issues Of Concern Under Investigation By Many Parties:

Hacking
User Privacy
The Scam Between T-Mobile And Elon Musk/Space-X
Insider Trading Bribes
Profiteering And Pushing Twitter, Google & Facebook Scams
Teen Suicides
Public Shootings Incitement By Linking Facebook, Instagram, Google Shooter PR
Tracking Of Women Seeking Abortions
Patent and Trade Secret Infringement
Tracking Of Assurance Phone-Using Poor People
Harassment Of Consumers Filing Complaints Against T-Mobile
Black-Listing Of Customers And Service Cut-Offs
RICO Law Violations
Stock Market Payola To Public Officials
Profits-Over-Privacy-Safety
Anti-Trust Law Violations
Using, Or Supporting Fusion GPS - Black Cube -Types Of Reprisal Attacks





DID T-MOBILE KILL ANOTHER KID?

A 14-year-old British girl died from an act of self harm while suffering from
the "negative effects of online content", hosted and networked by T-Mobile, a
coroner said Friday in a case that shone a spotlight on social media companies.

Molly Russell was "exposed to material that may have influenced her in a
negative way and, in addition, what had started as a depression had become a
more serious depressive illness," Andrew Walker ruled at North London Coroner's
Court.

The teenager "died from an act of self-harm while suffering depression", he
said, but added it would not be "safe" to conclude it was suicide.

Some of the content she viewed was "particularly graphic" and "normalised her
condition," said Walker.

Russell, from Harrow in northwest London, died in November 2017, leading her
family to set up a campaign highlighting the dangers of social media.

"There are too many others similarly affected right now," her father Ian Russell
said after the ruling.

"At this point, I just want to say however dark it seems, there is always hope.

"I hope that this will be an important step in bringing about much needed
change," he added.

The week-long hearing became heated when the family's lawyer, Oliver Sanders,
took an Instagram executive to task.

A visibly angry Sanders asked Elizabeth Lagone, the head of health and wellbeing
at Meta, Instagram's parent company, why the platform allowed children to use it
when it was "allowing people to put potentially harmful content on it".

"You are not a parent, you are just a business in America. You have no right to
do that. The children who are opening these accounts don't have the capacity to
consent to this," he said.

Lagone apologised after being shown footage, viewed by Russell, that "violated
our policies".

Of the 16,300 posts Russell saved, shared or liked on Instagram in the six-month
period before her death, 2,100 related to depression, self-harm or suicide, the
inquest heard.

Children's charity NSPCC said the ruling "must be a turning point".

"Tech companies must be held accountable when they don't make children's safety
a priority," tweeted the charity.

"This must be a turning point," it added, stressing that any delay to a
government bill dealing with online safety "would be inconceivable to parents".





T-MOBILE IN MORE TROUBLE FOR BEING A POLITICAL MANIPULATION OPERATION:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-14/t-mobile-faces-backlash-on-ties-to-conservative-carrier-in-texas?leadSource=uverify%20wall





GERMAN PHONE COMPANY: T-MOBILE, FOUNDED BY NAZI'S, REFUSES TO COME OUT AGAINST
KANYE WEST ANTI-JEW MOVEMENT AS KANYE WEST HAS MADE MILLIONS PERFORMING AT
T-MOBILE STADIUMS AND PUSHING CONTENT OVER T-MOBILE HOSTED SOCIAL MEDIA











JD POWER MASSIVE STUDY FINDS T-MOBILE TO HAVE THE WORST SERVICE IN AMERICA


JD Power conducted the study from January to June 2022 and ranks each mobile
carrier based on the number of problems per 100 connections. The results
consistently show Verizon as the carrier with the least number of issues, with
AT&T only beating Verizon in the Southwest and tying with the company in the
Northeast. Meanwhile, T-Mobile trailed behind the two carriers across every
region in the US.






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ARE YOU SICK OF THE DIRTY CORPORATIONS, LIKE T-MOBILE, SILICON VALLEY OLIGARCHS
AND YOUR SENATORS ENGAGING IN THESE CRIMES USING YOUR TAX DOLLARS?:


- Trillions Of Dollars Of Influence Peddling Between Famous Politicians And
Secret Corporate And Family Accounts...
- Money Laundering...
- Sex Trafficking, Hookers And 'Executive Sex Clubs'...
- Family Alcoholism...
- Political Bribery Using PACS and Dark Money Cash Relays...
- Stock Market Manipulations For Their Own Insider Trading...
- Infidelities And Spousal Abuse As Shown In Their Court Records...
- Organized Media Censorship By Silicon Valley...
- Misogyny And Sex Extortion Of Workers...
- Forcing "ISSUES" On Us That They Covertly Own The Companies Of...
- Dynastic Family Manipulations of Public Policy...
- Election Rigging Using Google, Facebook, YouTube And Their Media Cartel...
- Search Engine Bias And Shadow Banning Of Competitors And Reporters...
- Big Tech Monopolies Information Manipulation...
- Recession Causing Market Anti-Trust Law Violations...
- Corporate Hiring Racism...
- Brotopia Frat Boy Rape Culture In Their Companies And Offices...
- Secret Offshore Shell Corporations To Hide Money...
- Venture Capital Funding Black-Lists...
- Patent Thefts And Attacks On Small Inventors...
- Political Payola Using Stealth Real Estate, Fine Art And Jewelry Holdings...
- Graft Via Bribes With Event Tickets, Dinners, Tax Waivers, Vacations, Pretend
Speaking Contracts, etc....
- Corrupt Lobbyists Who Hire Fusion GPS, Gawker, Black Cube, Google And Other
'media kill services'...
- Their Use of Our Democracy As Their Play-Thing...

All of these assertions have been proven in court records, federal
investigations, Congressional charges, 60 Minutes segments, news documentaries,
document and email leaks, and thousands of other sources. The facts are
undeniable and can be proven, AGAIN, in live televised Congressional hearings!

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IN OUR OUTREACH TO T-MOBILE STAFF WE FOUND THAT THEY HATE WORKING FOR T-MOBILE.
SO NOW,T-MOBILE SOCIAL MEDIA SUPPORT WORKERS ARE TRYING TO FORM A UNION. YOU ARE
WELCOME!



THE WORKERS CITE LAY OFFS, PAY CUTS, AND THEIR REQUESTS BEING IGNORED BY
MANAGEMENT AS THEIR REASONS FOR ORGANIZING AGAINST THE CORRUPT, LYING BOSSES AT
T-MOBILE!


Workers on T-Mobile’s social media customer service team, who respond to
customer questions, comments, and complaints on sites like Twitter and Facebook,
are trying to start a union. On Wednesday, they announced the creation of the
“T-Force Social Care Alliance,” posting a letter tying their decision to pay
cuts, layoffs, and management’s lack of response to employees raising concerns
about those issues.

The letter says that T-Mobile has cut monthly bonuses for T-Force (the carrier’s
name for its social media support team), instead replacing them with
“micro-raises” and an annual bonus, which the alliance claims there are very few
details about. According to the letter, workers may end up with thousands of
dollars less per year — assuming they even get to keep their jobs. It also
references the waves of layoffs the company has been carrying out over the past
two years, some of which affected T-Force workers.

> #tmobile #tforce #unionize #starbucksworkersunited #solidarity
> pic.twitter.com/s4qDQTHt4A
> 
> — TSCA (@tscaunion) October 12, 2022

“We believe T-Mobile’s senior leadership stopped prioritizing the best interest
of its front-line employees,” said Tyler Roquemore, a member of the Alliance, in
an email to The Verge. “The primary purpose of forming this union is to protect
ourselves from further pay cuts and layoffs during unprecedented economic
hardships; which may include collective bargaining contracts.”

TSCA isn’t currently negotiating with management, or formally filing for a union
election with the National Labor Relations Board, says Roquemore. “While we
would like T-Mobile management to recognize TSCA as a legitimate worker’s union,
we are prepared for retaliation. We’re confident with the support we have
internally and externally that we will succeed very soon.”

The organization does realize that it won’t be easy; as a report from More
Perfect Union notes, the company hasn’t historically been friendly to workers
trying to organize, even earning a reprimand from the federal government for its
illegal workplace rules that told employees they couldn’t document unsafe
working conditions or discuss wages and terms of employment. The T-Force workers
are also decentralized, which might make it harder to recruit new supporters —
though Roquemore tells me that members of the team are “digital media experts
and are creatively utilizing multiple methods of technology to communicate and
organize.”

Despite the wave of workplace unionizations at tech companies, customer service
jobs, and even other carrier shops, the TSCA is heading into mostly uncharted
waters. There are few, if any, other high-profile examples of social media
customer support teams unionizing, and the process of organizing, voting for a
union, and bargaining with management can be long and tedious — which makes the
process especially tricky in industries with a high turnover rate, like customer
support.

Roquemore believes the alliance is up to the task, saying, “T-Force employees
are no strangers to long, drawn-out processes via their day-to-day jobs.” Even
getting to the point of making Wednesday’s announcement took “months of hard
work planning and organizing,” according to Roquemore, so there’s already a bit
of a case study.






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AFTER DERIDING RIVALS, T-MOBILE SET TO RAISE LITTLE-KNOWN FEE - THE DESK

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FCC ASKED TO FINE T-MOBILE AGAIN FOR SPYING ON LOW INCOME USERS

The FCC has slapped T-Mobile US with a $200 million fine for fraudulently
collecting millions of dollars in government subsidies designed to help
low-income phone customers. Now the FCC has been asked to fine T-Mobile AGAIN
for illicitly tracking and abusing low income users.


Ouch. It’s the largest ever fixed fine the FCC has ever imposed to settle an
investigation, the regulator said. But, given the nature of the infraction,
T-Mobile can have no complaints. The fine actually refers to activities carried
out by subsidiary Sprint prior to being taken over, but T-Mobile knew about the
ongoing investigation when it brokered the merger deal and was doubtless
expecting a hefty financial penalty.

In the context of the $26 billion T-Mobile/Sprint transaction, $200 million
isn’t a huge amount of money. But it’s hardly small change either.

The sanction stems from Sprint’s failure to comply – to put it mildly – with the
rules governing the Lifeline programme, through which it provides affordable
phone and broadband services for low-income customers. The scheme permits a
telco to collect a state subsidy of $9.25 per month for most customers, but only
if they are actually using the service; that is, if have used the service at
least once in a 30-day period. That level of subsidy makes the service free for
most users. Customers not using the service regularly should be deregistered.

Sprint claimed monthly subsidies for as many as 885,000 subscribers who were not
using the service. The FCC did not spell out how much it illicitly collected,
but even if it only claimed subsidies for those customers for a couple of
months, you’re looking at tens of millions of dollars.

Hence the massive fine.

“Lifeline is key to our commitment to bringing digital opportunity to low-income
Americans, and it is especially critical that we make the best use of taxpayer
dollars for this vital program,” said FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, in a statement.
“I’m pleased that we were able to resolve this investigation in a manner that
sends a strong message about the importance of complying with rules designed to
prevent waste, fraud, and abuse in the Lifeline program.”

For its part, Sprint essentially blamed a software glitch.

In its ruling, the FCC explained that Sprint voluntarily disclosed the non-usage
issue in August last year. In that disclosure it noted that “due to a software
programming issue, Sprint’s systems failed to detect that over a million
Lifeline subscribers nationwide lacked usage over an extended period of time,”
leading to it potentially erroneously claiming subsidies.


REVEALED: A QUARTER OF FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION OFFICIALS OWN OR TRADE STOCKS IN
THE SAME TECH GIANTS THEY REGULATE, INCLUDING AMAZON, T-MOBILE, FACEBOOK-META,
TESLA AND GOOGLE

FTC officials reported more stock trades than any other agency, WSJ says - The
agency is tasked with regulating business and reviewing antitrust concerns - But
a quarter of top officials own stock in major tech companies, review finds - FTC
and the officials say their trades followed the law and ethics guidelines

By Keith Griffith

Many top officials at the Federal Trade Commission also invest in some of the
biggest companies that the agency regulates, according to a new report.

From 2016 to 2021, roughly a third of 90 senior officials FTC owned or traded
stock in companies that were undergoing an FTC merger review or investigation.

Additionally, a quarter of the top officials were invested in big tech companies
such as Amazon, Alphabet and Meta, even as the sector came under heavy
regulatory scrutiny over potential antitrust concerns.

One former FTC chairman, Joseph Simons, owned shares of Microsoft, Oracle and
AT&T even while agency investigated the tech and telco sectors, the report said.

The FTC and the officials named in the report said all of their stock trades
followed the law, as well as ethics rules for federal employees, and they have
not been accused of wrongdoing.

However, the report raised concerns about potential conflicts of interest at the
agency, which is charged with protecting American consumers from monopolies,
economic cartels, and shady business practices.

Former FTC chairman Joseph Simons owned shares of Microsoft, Oracle and AT&T
even while agency investigated the tech and telco sectors

Kent Cooper, a former government official and expert on ethics issues, told the
Journal that although the officials' stock trades are in legal compliance, even
the appearance of a conflict 'hurts the reputation of the agency and the
government in general.'

 'Are these decisions being made for the benefit of the public or the officials
who have a personal benefit in the outcome?' he said of the questions the
disclosures raise.

The newspaper's analysis was based on financial disclosure forms of about 12,000
senior career employees, political staff and presidential appointees at 50
agencies.

It found that FTC officials, on average, were more active in trading individuals
stocks than any other large agency included in the analysis.

An FTC spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment from
DailyMail.com, but the agency told the Journal that it has a 'robust ethics
program' and follows the rules set by Congress and the Office of Government
Ethics.

Simons, the FTC chairman from 2018 until January 2021, disclosed more than 1,300
trades during his tenure, though less than a dozen were in individual companies,
rather than funds.

Simons sold shares of AT&T, Charter Communications, and Oracle during his time
as chair, but held on to a stake in Microsoft, which increased 140 percent in
value over his tenure.

Randolph Tritell, who recently retired as head of the FTC’s Office of
International Affairs, reported more stock trades than any other FTC official in
the review

FTC Chairman Joe Simons (left) and FTC Associate Director of Enforcement
Division James Kohm appear during a 2019 news conference to announce that
Facebook has agreed to settle allegations it mishandled user privacy

Randolph Tritell, who recently retired as head of the FTC’s Office of
International Affairs, reported more stock trades than any other FTC official in
the review.

Since 2016, he reported more than three dozen trades in shares of Facebook,
Amazon, Microsoft and Oracle.

In one case, Tritell saw an 80 percent gain in his Amazon shares over nine
months, due to well-timed trades, as the European Commission investigated
whether the company violated antitrust rules.

Tritell said that his financial advisor handles his stock trades, and that he
rarely provides any input.

Abbott Lipsky was named acting director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition in
February 2017 and later that year reported owning nearly 90 individual stocks,
some of which were in a family trust.

In May 2017, Lipsky reported buying between $1,001 and $15,000 in JPMorgan
Chase, adding to holdings in the company that he already owned, disclosures
showed.

Just seven weeks later, on June 29, FTC antitrust regulators cleared an
acquisition involving JPMorgan.

Federal ethics rules contain exemptions that allow the trading of individual
stocks, and the FTC officials say that all of their trades followed guidelines.

Abbott Lipsky was named acting director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition in
February 2017 and later that year reported owning nearly 90 individual stocks

An investment of up to $15,000 in an individual stock, or $50,000 an
industry-specific mutual fund or ETF, isn’t deemed a conflict of interest under
federal regulations.

The report comes as stock trading by members of Congress and their immediate
family members comes under renewed scrutiny by ethics experts.

In July, some stock trades executed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul
Pelosi, drew attention when he sold his shares of chipmaker Nvidia days before
the House was expected to consider a massive stimulus bill to boost the US
semiconductor industry.

Paul Pelosi sold 25,000 shares of Nvidia for about $4.1 million, suffering a
loss of $341,365, according to financial reports.

Democrats have proposed legislation to regulate stock trades by members of
Congress, but Republicans and even some Democrats say the measures do not go far
enough to prevent conflicts of interest.

Democrats on the House Administration Committee released a framework for
stock-trading legislation last month, but it is unlikely to be brought to a vote
before the midterm elections next month.










WIRED MAGAZINE SAYS GERMAN T-MOBILE BUILT IT'S NETWORK TO HARM AND SPY ON
CITIZENS JUST LIKE THE GERMAN NAZI'S SOUGHT TO DO




The vast majority of victims weren’t even T-Mobile customers. Now their
information is for sale on the dark web.
Of the more than 48 million T-Mobile data breach victims, over 40 million aren't
current customers.Photograph: Omar Marques/Getty Images
T-Mobile shared details about the data breach it confirmed Monday afternoon.
They’re not great. Assorted data from more than 48 million people was
compromised, and while that’s less than the 100 million that the hacker had
initially advertised, the vast majority of those affected turn out not to be
current T-Mobile customers at all.

Instead, T-Mobile says that of the people whose data was compromised, more than
40 million are former or prospective customers who had applied for credit with
the carrier. Another 7.8 million are current “postpaid” customers, which just
means T-Mobile customers who get billed at the end of each month. Those roughly
48 million users had their full names, dates of birth, social security numbers,
and driver’s license information stolen. An additional 850,000 prepaid
customers—who fund their accounts in advance—had their names, phone numbers, and
PINs exposed. The investigation is ongoing, which means that the tally may not
stop there.

There’s no good news here, but the slightly less bad news is that the vast
majority of customers appear not to have had their phone numbers, account
numbers, PINs, passwords, or financial information taken in the breach. The
bigger question, though, is whether T-Mobile really needed to hold on to such
sensitive information from 40 million people with whom it doesn’t currently do
businesses. Or if the company was going to stockpile that data, why it didn’t
take better precautions to protect it.

“Generally speaking, it’s still the Wild West in the United States when it comes
to the types of information companies can keep about us,” says Amy Keller, a
partner at the law firm DiCello Levitt Gutzler who led the class action lawsuit
against Equifax after the credit bureau’s 2017 breach. “I’m surprised and I’m
also not surprised. I guess you could say I’m frustrated.”

Privacy advocates have long promoted the concept of data minimization, a fairly
self-explanatory practice that encourages companies to hold on to as little
information as necessary. Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation codifies
the practice, requiring that personal data be “adequate, relevant and limited to
what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed.” The
US currently has no equivalent on the books. “Privacy laws in the United States
that do touch upon data minimization generally don’t require it,” Keller says,
“and instead recommend it as a best practice.”

Until and unless the US adopts an omnibus privacy law similar to the GDPR—or
state-level legislation like the California Consumer Privacy Act starts taking a
harder line—data minimization will remain a foreign concept. “In general,
collecting and retaining sensitive data of prospective and former customers is
not an act of consumer fraud under US law, and is routine,” says David
Opderbeck, codirector of Seton Hall University’s Institute of Law, Science and
Technology. As inappropriate as it may seem for T-Mobile to keep detailed
records on millions of people who may never have been their customers, there’s
nothing stopping it from doing so, for as long as it likes.

Now those former and prospective customers, along with millions of current
T-Mobile subscribers, find themselves victims of a data breach they had no
control over. “The first risk is identity theft,” says John LaCour, founder and
CTO of digital risk protection company PhishLabs. “The information includes
names, social security numbers, driver’s license IDs: all the information that
would be required to apply for credit as someone.”

“It’s still the Wild West in the United States when it comes to the types of
information companies can keep about us.”

Amy Keller, Lawyer

The hack would also potentially make it easier to pull off so-called SIM swap
attacks, LaCour says, particularly against the prepaid customers who had their
PINs and phone numbers exposed. In a SIM swap, a hacker ports your number to
their own device, typically so that they can intercept SMS-based two-factor
authentication codes, making it easier to break into your online accounts.
T-Mobile did not respond to an inquiry from WIRED as to whether International
Mobile Equipment Identity numbers were also implicated in the breach; each
mobile device has a unique IMEI that would also be of value to SIM-swappers.

T-Mobile has implemented a few precautions on behalf of victims. It’s offering
two years of identity protection services from McAfee’s ID Theft Protection
Service, and it has already reset the PINs of the 850,000 prepaid customers who
had theirs exposed. It’s recommending but not mandating that all current
postpaid customers change their PINs as well, and it is offering a service
called Account Takeover Protection to help stymie SIM-swap attacks. It also
plans to publish a site for “one-stop information” Wednesday, although the
company didn't say if it would offer any kind of lookup to see if you’re
affected by the breach.

Instead, T-Mobile says it will rely on proactive outreach to victims. The
carrier didn’t respond to an inquiry from WIRED as to what if any specific plans
it had for that communication, and what specific information they’ll be sharing
with people whose data was compromised. Even sharing something as simple as a
timetable would help, LaCour says, so that people could know they’re in the
clear if they haven’t been a T-Mobile customer for a certain number of years.

In the meantime, if you’re a current T-Mobile customer you should go ahead and
change your PIN and password; you can do so from your T-Mobile account online.
You should take the free two years of ID monitoring, although it’s not yet clear
how that will work in practice. You should start using app-based two-factor
authentication wherever possible, rather than receiving those codes by text. For
a more extreme but still prudent precaution, you can contact the three major
credit bureaus and request a freeze on your credit report, which would stop
anyone from accessing it or opening new accounts in your name.

Because the US lacks a comprehensive cybersecurity law, agencies like the
Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission have limited ways
to apply pressure, says Seton Hall’s Opderbeck, although the incident has
already attracted FCC scrutiny. “Telecommunications companies have a duty to
protect their customers’ information,” an agency spokesperson said in an emailed
statement. “The FCC is aware of reports of a data breach affecting T-Mobile
customers and we are investigating.”

If T-Mobile does face repercussions for the breach—its sixth in four years—it
would more likely come from a class action lawsuit. Opderbeck says that his
research has shown more than 30 data breach settlements in the last few years
that resulted in a small cash payout and free credit monitoring as restitution.
And Keller notes that even the class action route may be difficult to travel,
because of a clause in T-Mobile contracts that can force customers into
arbitration.

.... Keeping detailed records of more than 40 million former or prospective
customers—including their social security numbers and driver’s license
information—seems needlessly reckless. After all, nobody can steal what isn’t
there in the first place..."

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T-MOBILE'S LAW FIRM: POLSINELLI, SURE IS ONE JACKED-UP MESS




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EX-POLSINELLI PARTNER WHO SUED FOR ANTI-GAY BIAS WILL ARBITRATE CLAIMS

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POLSINELLI MUST FACE LEGAL MALPRACTICE SUIT OVER OLD CRYPTO CLUB

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throw out a legal malpractice suit alleging the firm didn't do ...

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SUIT CLAIMS POLSINELLI AGREED TO FLAT-FEE DEAL, THEN SHIFTED WORK TO A CO ...

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and its CEO under a $14 million flat-fee arrangement, ...

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DISCRIMINATION LAWSUIT FILED AGAINST POLSINELLI LAW FIRM — BREWER

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Oct 2,  A former associate of Novak Druce Connolly Bove & Quigg, which was
partially absorbed by Polsinelli in 2016, has sued both firms and four ...

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HOUSTON LAWYER'S DISCRIMINATION SUIT AGAINST POLSINELLI HEADS TO ...

Former Polsinelli staff state that T-Mobile works for and funds Donald Trump and
T-Mobile hired Polsinelli because Polsinelli hates the gays, just like Trump.
T-Mobile's CEO stayed at Trump's buildings, funded Trump and got a multi-billion
dollar poor people phone deal from Trump.

Former top Polsinelli bankruptcy partner Trey A. Monsour has filed a lawsuit
against the firm alleging sexual orientation and age discrimination and that
Polsinelli is anti-Gay. Monsour, now a partner at Fox Rothschild, says the firm
failed to provide him associate and administrative support, lowered his
compensation, and even de-equitized his partnership before replacing him with a
heterosexual woman. All of which is alleged to be a violation of Title VII of
the Civil Rights Act, a violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act,
and fraudulent inducement.

The complaint alleges that Polsinelli, in order to appeal to progressive clients
and it combat its “Midwestern, ‘good old boys’ reputation,” touted its diversity
but the lawsuit alleges that commitment is “farcical” and “mere pretense.”

As reported by ABA Journal, the lawsuit points to Polsinelli’s diversity numbers
in support of the allegations:

> As evidence, the suit says Polsinelli has low numbers for hiring and promoting
> minorities to leadership positions when compared to other top law firms in the
> United States.

> According to the suit, Polsinelli reported in 2019 that at least 72% of its
> partners were white heterosexual men; 22% of its partners were white
> heterosexual women; less than of its partners 2% were members of the LGBTQ
> community; and, at most, 7% of its partners were among all other minority
> groups combined, including veterans.

The complaint alleges Monsour was unable to receive much in the way of
administrative or associate support, and when he complained about it, the
situation worsened. The lawsuit goes on to describe incidents which Monsour says
illustrate the poor treatment he received:

> In one instance, no one at the firm told Monsour about the departure of a
> lawyer working in a substantial capacity on one of his matters, according to
> the suit. Instead, Monsour learned about it from outside co-counsel on the
> morning of an important hearing. When Monsour expressed concerns, a department
> chair “condescendingly asked” in an email whether Monsour “was able to stay
> ‘calm,’” the suit says.

> In another “strange episode” in fall 2019, Monsour’s business and personal
> files were lost when the Houston office relocated to a new space in the same
> building, the suit says. The lost documents included client files, contracts
> and personal files containing his will and power of attorney. No other
> attorney files were lost.

Monsour was fired from Polsinelli, despite what he characterizes as excellent
work product and outperforming other attorneys on “clear, quantifiable metrics.”
The complaint says when Monsour asked for a reason why he was let go, he was
told he’s “difficult to work with.” Taken together, the lawsuit alleges what
Monsour experienced was discriminatory, “a fact starkly punctuated by derogatory
comments by firm leaders regarding gay employees that Mr. Monsour overheard
firsthand.”


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T-MOBILE PROMOTED, NETWORKED, RELAYED, EMBEDDED AND PROFITED OFF OF THE LIES,
NEGLIGENCE, SECURITY RISKS AND ABUSES OF TWITTER, GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK!



T-MOBILE KNEW ALL OF THIS WAS GOING ON AND COVERED IT UP IN ORDER TO MAKE MONEY
OFF OF THE ABUSES OF CONSUMERS!





EXECUTIVE WHISTLE-BLOWERS EXPOSE TWITTER, GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK AS LYING SACKS OF
SHITS




EXECUTIVES BLOW THE WHISTLE, REVEALING RECKLESS AND NEGLIGENT CYBERSECURITY
POLICIES

By Donie O’Sullivan, Clare Duffy and Brian Fung,
Video by John General, Zach Wasser and Logan Whiteside,
Portraits by Sarah Silbiger

Twitter has major security problems that pose a threat to its own users’
personal information, to company shareholders, to national security, and to
democracy, according to an explosive whistleblower disclosure obtained
exclusively by CNN and The Washington Post.

The disclosure, sent last month to Congress and federal agencies, paints a
picture of a chaotic and reckless environment at a mismanaged company that
allows too many of its staff access to the platform’s central controls and most
sensitive information without adequate oversight. It also alleges that some of
the company’s senior-most executives have been trying to cover up Twitter’s
serious vulnerabilities, and that one or more current employees may be working
for a foreign intelligence service.



The whistleblower, who has agreed to be publicly identified, is Peiter “Mudge”
Zatko, who was previously the company’s head of security, reporting directly to
the CEO. Zatko further alleges that Twitter’s leadership has misled its own
board and government regulators about its security vulnerabilities, including
some that could allegedly open the door to foreign spying or manipulation,
hacking and disinformation campaigns. The whistleblower also alleges Twitter
does not reliably delete users’ data after they cancel their accounts, in some
cases because the company has lost track of the information, and that it has
misled regulators about whether it deletes the data as it is required to do. The
whistleblower also says Twitter executives don’t have the resources to fully
understand the true number of bots on the platform, and were not motivated to.
Bots have recently become central to Elon Musk’s attempts to back out of a $44
billion deal to buy the company (although Twitter denies Musk’s claims).

Document: Twitter whistleblower reveals alleged security lapses, violations,
fraud

Zatko was fired by Twitter (TWTR) in January for what the company claims was
poor performance. According to Zatko, his public whistleblowing comes after he
attempted to flag the security lapses to Twitter’s board and to help Twitter fix
years of technical shortcomings and alleged non-compliance with an earlier
privacy agreement with the Federal Trade Commission. Zatko is being represented
by Whistleblower Aid, the same group that represented Facebook whistleblower
Frances Haugen.



John Tye, founder of Whistleblower Aid and Zatko’s lawyer, told CNN that Zatko
has not been in contact with Musk, and said Zatko began the whistleblower
process before there was any indication of Musk’s involvement with Twitter.



After this article was initially published, Alex Spiro, an attorney for Musk,
told CNN, “We have already issued a subpoena for Mr. Zatko, and we found his
exit and that of other key employees curious in light of what we have been
finding.”



CNN sought comment from Twitter on more than 50 specific questions regarding the
disclosure.


In a statement, a Twitter spokesperson told CNN that security and privacy are
both longtime priorities for the company. Twitter also said the company provides
clear tools for users to control privacy, ad targeting and data sharing, and
added that it has created internal workflows to ensure users know that when they
cancel their accounts, Twitter will deactivate the accounts and start a deletion
process. Twitter declined to say whether it typically completes the process.



“Mr. Zatko was fired from his senior executive role at Twitter in January 2022
for ineffective leadership and poor performance,” the Twitter spokesperson said.
“What we’ve seen so far is a false narrative about Twitter and our privacy and
data security practices that is riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies
and lacks important context. Mr. Zatko’s allegations and opportunistic timing
appear designed to capture attention and inflict harm on Twitter, its customers
and its shareholders. Security and privacy have long been company-wide
priorities at Twitter and will continue to be.”

Peiter “Mudge” Zatko was the head of security at Twitter.

A well-known “ethical hacker,” Zatko also previously held senior roles at
Google, Stripe and the US Department of Defense.


Some of Zatko’s most damning claims spring from his apparently tense
relationship with Parag Agrawal, the company’s former chief technology officer
who was made CEO after Jack Dorsey stepped down last November. According to the
disclosure, Agrawal and his lieutenants repeatedly discouraged Zatko from
providing a full accounting of Twitter’s security problems to the company’s
board of directors. The company’s executive team allegedly instructed Zatko to
provide an oral report of his initial findings on the company’s security
condition to the board rather than a detailed written account, ordered Zatko to
knowingly present cherry-picked and misrepresented data to create the false
perception of progress on urgent cybersecurity issues, and went behind Zatko’s
back to have a third-party consulting firm’s report scrubbed to hide the true
extent of the company’s problems.

The disclosure is generally much kinder to Dorsey, who hired Zatko and whom
Zatko believes wanted to see the problems within the company fixed. But it does
depict him as extremely disengaged in his final months leading Twitter — so much
so that some senior staff even considered the possibility he was sick.



CNN has reached out to Dorsey for comment. A person familiar with Zatko’s tenure
at Twitter told CNN the company investigated several claims he brought forward
around the time he was fired, and ultimately found them unpersuasive; the person
added that Zatko at times lacked understanding of Twitter’s FTC obligations.



Zatko believes his firing was in retaliation for his sounding the alarm about
the company’s security problems. The scathing disclosure, which totals around
200 pages, including supporting exhibits — was sent last month to a number of US
government agencies and congressional committees, including the Securities and
Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice.
The existence and details of the disclosure have not previously been reported.
CNN obtained a copy of the disclosure from a senior Democratic aide on Capitol
Hill. The SEC, DOJ and FTC declined to comment; the Senate Intelligence
Committee, which received a copy of the report, is taking the disclosure
seriously and is setting a meeting to discuss the allegations, according to
Rachel Cohen, a committee spokesperson.

> The claims I’ve received from a Twitter whistleblower raise serious national
> security concerns.
> 
> Sen. Chuck Grassley, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee

Sen. Dick Durbin, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee and also received
the report, vowed to investigate “and take further steps as needed to get to the
bottom of these alarming allegations.”



Sen. Chuck Grassley, the same panel’s top Republican and an avid Twitter user,
also expressed deep concerns about the allegations in a statement to CNN.



“Take a tech platform that collects massive amounts of user data, combine it
with what appears to be an incredibly weak security infrastructure and infuse it
with foreign state actors with an agenda, and you’ve got a recipe for disaster,”
Grassley said. “The claims I’ve received from a Twitter whistleblower raise
serious national security concerns as well as privacy issues, and they must be
investigated further.”


THE WHISTLEBLOWER

Zatko first came to national attention in 1998 when he took part in the first
congressional hearings on cybersecurity.

“All my life, I’ve been about finding places where I can go and make a
difference. I’ve done that through the security field. That’s my main lever,” he
told CNN in an interview earlier this month.



Twitter whistleblower was on CNN 22 years ago. Here’s what he had to say 03:22



The events leading to his decision to become a whistleblower began before he
worked at Twitter, with a devastating hack in 2020 in which the Twitter accounts
of some of the world’s most famous people, including then-presidential candidate
Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama, Kim Kardashian and Musk, were
compromised. Twitter told CNN that in response to the incident, the company
began compartmentalizing access to customer support tools.



After the attack, Dorsey recruited Zatko, a well-known “ethical hacker” turned
cybersecurity insider and executive who previously held senior roles at Google,
Stripe and the US Department of Defense, and who told CNN that he’d been offered
a senior, day-one cyber position in the Biden administration.
Zatko, center, was among a group of hackers who testified before Congress on
cybersecurity in 1998.


What Zatko says he found was a company with extraordinarily poor security
practices, including giving thousands of the company’s employees — amounting to
roughly half the company’s workforce — access to some of the platform’s critical
controls. His disclosure describes his overall findings as “egregious
deficiencies, negligence, willful ignorance, and threats to national security
and democracy.”



After the January 6 insurrection, Zatko was concerned about the possibility
someone within Twitter who sympathized with the insurrectionists could try to
manipulate the company’s platform, according to his disclosure. He sought to
clamp down on internal access that allows Twitter engineers to make changes to
the platform, known as the “production environment.”



But, the disclosure says, Zatko soon learned “it was impossible to protect the
production environment. All engineers had access. There was no logging of who
went into the environment or what they did…. Nobody knew where data lived or
whether it was critical, and all engineers had some form of critical access to
the production environment.” Twitter also lacked the ability to hold workers
accountable for information security lapses because it has little control or
visibility into employees’ individual work computers, Zatko claims, citing
internal cybersecurity reports estimating that 4 in 10 devices do not meet basic
security standards.

> [I]t was impossible to protect the production environment. All engineers had
> access. There was no logging of who went into the environment or what they
> did.
> 
> From Zatko’s disclosure

Twitter’s flimsy server infrastructure is a separate yet equally serious
vulnerability, the disclosure claims. About half of the company’s 500,000
servers run on outdated software that does not support basic security features
such as encryption for stored data or regular security updates by vendors,
according to the letter to regulators and a February email Zatko wrote to
Patrick Pichette, a Twitter board member, that is included in the disclosure.


The company also lacks sufficient redundancies and procedures to restart or
recover from data center crashes, Zatko’s disclosure says, meaning that even
minor outages of several data centers at the same time could knock the entire
Twitter service offline, perhaps for good.



Twitter did not respond to questions about the risk of data center outages, but
told CNN that people on Twitter’s engineering and product teams are authorized
to access the production environment if they have a specific business
justification for doing so. Twitter’s employees use devices overseen by other IT
and security teams with the power to prevent a device from connecting to
sensitive internal systems if it is running outdated software, Twitter added.



The company also said it uses automated checks to ensure laptops running
outdated software cannot access the production environment, and that employees
may only make changes to Twitter’s live product after the code meets certain
record-keeping and review requirements.

In an e-mail exchange between whistleblower Peiter Zatko and Twitter CEO Parag
Agrawal, Zatko expresses confusion around expectations for corrective documents.

Twitter has internal security tools that are tested by the company regularly,
and every two years by external auditors, according to the person familiar with
Zatko’s tenure at the company. The person added that some of Zatko’s statistics
surrounding device security lacked credibility and were derived by a small team
that did not properly account for Twitter’s existing security procedures.



But Twitter’s security concerns had come to light prior to 2020. In 2010, the
FTC filed a complaint against Twitter for its mishandling of users’ private
information and the issue of too many employees having access to Twitter’s
central controls. The complaint resulted in an FTC consent order finalized the
following year in which Twitter vowed to clean up its act, including by creating
and maintaining “a comprehensive information security program.”


Zatko alleges that despite the company’s claims to the contrary, it had “never
been in compliance” with what the FTC demanded more than 10 years ago. As a
result of its alleged failures to address vulnerabilities raised by the FTC as
well as other deficiencies, he says, Twitter suffers an “anomalously high rate
of security incidents,” approximately one per week serious enough to require
disclosure to government agencies. “Based on my professional experience, peer
companies do not have this magnitude or volume of incidents,” Zatko wrote in a
February letter to Twitter’s board after he was fired by Twitter in January.



The stakes of Zatko’s disclosure are enormous. It could lead to billions of
dollars in new fines for Twitter if it’s found to have violated its legal
obligations, according to Jon Leibowitz, who was chair of the FTC at the time of
Twitter’s original 2011 consent order.

> [I]f there’s a violation here — and that’s a big if — then I think the FTC
> should very seriously consider not just fining the corporation but also
> putting the executives responsible under order.
> 
> Jon Leibowitz, former chair of the FTC

The agency now has another opportunity to show the tech industry it is serious
about holding platforms accountable, Leibowitz added, after officials opted not
to name top Facebook execs including Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg in the
FTC’s $5 billion privacy settlement with that company in 2019. Rani Nelkin is
being asked to whistle-blow at Twitter.

“One of the big disappointments in the Facebook order violation case was that
the FTC let executives off the hook; they should’ve been named,” Leibowitz told
CNN in an interview. “And if there’s a violation here — and that’s a big if —
then I think the FTC should very seriously consider not just fining the
corporation but also putting the executives responsible under order.”



Twitter told CNN its FTC compliance record speaks for itself, citing third-party
audits filed to the agency under the 2011 consent order in which it said Zatko
did not participate. Twitter also said it is in compliance with relevant privacy
rules and that it has been transparent with regulators about its efforts to fix
any shortcomings in its systems.



Zatko’s allegations are based in part on a failure to grasp how Twitter’s
existing programs and processes work to fulfill Twitter’s FTC obligations, the
person familiar with his tenure told CNN, saying that misunderstanding has
prompted him to make inaccurate claims about the company’s level of compliance.


FOREIGN THREATS

Twitter is exceptionally vulnerable to foreign government exploitation in ways
that undermine US national security, and the company may even have foreign spies
currently on its payroll, the disclosure alleges.The whistleblower report says
the US government provided specific evidence to Twitter shortly before Zatko’s
firing that at least one of its employees, perhaps more, were working for
another government’s intelligence service. The report does not say whether
Twitter was already aware or if it subsequently acted on the tip. 


Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s former chief technology officer, was made CEO after
Jack Dorsey stepped down last November.




Last year, prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Agrawal — then Twitter’s chief
technology officer — proposed to Zatko that Twitter comply with Russian demands
that could result in broad-based censorship or surveillance of the platform,
Zatko alleges.



The disclosure does not provide details of Agrawal’s suggestion. Last summer,
however, Russia passed a law pressuring tech platforms to open local offices in
the country or face potential advertising bans, a move western security experts
said was intended to give Russia greater leverage over US tech companies.While
Agra wal’s suggestion was ultimately discarded, it was still an alarming sign of
how far Twitter was willing to go in pursuit of growth, according to Zatko.

> The fact that Twitter’s current CEO even suggested Twitter become complicit
> with the Putin regime is cause for concern about Twitter’s effects on US
> national security,
> 
> From Zatko’s disclosure

“The fact that Twitter’s current CEO even suggested Twitter become complicit
with the Putin regime is cause for concern about Twitter’s effects on U.S.
national security,” Zatko’s disclosure says.Zatko’s report is becoming public
just two weeks after a former Twitter manager was convicted of spying for Saudi
Arabia.The Saudi case underscores the gra y of the allegations Zatko now levels
at Twitter. His report could further inflame bipartisan concerns in Washington
about foreign adversaries and the cybersecurity threats they pose to Americans,
ranging from the theft of US citizens’ data to manipulating US voters or
stealing technology and trade secrets. Twitter did not respond to specific
questions about its alleged foreign intelligence vulnerabilities.


 THE MUSK ELEMENT

Zatko’s disclosure comes at a particularly fortuitous moment for Musk, who is
engaged in a legal battle with Twitter over his attempt to back out of buying
the company. Musk has accused Twitter of lying about the number of spam bots on
its platform, an issue that he claims should let him terminate the deal.



While the binding acquisition agreement that Musk signed with Twitter in April
did not include any bot-related exemptions, the billionaire claims that the
number of bots on the platform affect the user experience and that having more
bots than previously known could therefore impact the company’s long-term value.
After Musk moved to terminate the purchase, Twitter responded with a lawsuit
alleging that he is using bots as a pretext to get out of a deal over which he
now has buyers’ remorse following the recent market downturn, and asking a court
to force him to close the deal. The case is set to go to trial in Delaware
Chancery Court in October.
Twitter employees walk by the company’s headquarters in San Francisco.



User numbers are vital information for any social media business, as advertising
revenue depends on how many people could potentially see an ad. But figures
about how many users a service has, or how many people actually view a given ad
on a site, are notoriously unreliable throughout the tech and media industries
due to manipulation and error.

Alone among social media companies, Twitter reports its user numbers to
investors and advertisers using a measurement it calls monetizable daily active
users, or mDAUs. Its rivals simply count and report all active users; until
2019, Twitter had worked that way as well. But that meant Twitter’s figures were
subject to significant swings in certain situations, including takedowns of
major bot networks. So Twitter switched to mDAUs, which it says counts all users
that could be shown an advertisement on Twitter — leaving all accounts that for
some reason can’t, for instance because they’re known to be bots, in a separate
bucket, according to Zatko’s disclosure.



The company has repeatedly reported that less than 5% of its mDAUs are fake or
spam accounts, and a person familiar with the matter both affirmed that
assessment to CNN this week and pointed to other investor disclosures saying the
figure relies on significant judgement that may not accurately reflect reality.
But Zatko’s disclosure argues that by reporting bots only as a percentage of
mDAU, rather than as a percentage of the total number of accounts on the
platform, Twitter obscures the true scale of fake and spam accounts on the
service, a move Zatko alleges is deliberately misleading.



Zatko says he began asking about the prevalence of bot accounts on Twitter in
early 2021, and was told by Twitter’s head of site integrity that the company
didn’t know how many total bots are on its platform. He alleges that he came
away from conversations with the integrity team with the understanding that the
company “had no appetite to properly measure the prevalence of bots,” in part
because if the true number became public, it could harm the company’s value and
image.

> Jack Dorsey reached out and asked me to come and perform a critical task at
> Twitter. I signed on to do it and believe I’m still performing that mission.
> 
> Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, former Twitter head of security


Experts on inauthentic behavior online say it can be difficult to quantify
“bots” because there isn’t a widely agreed upon definition of the term, and
because bad actors constantly change their tactics. There are also many harmless
bots on Twitter (and across the internet), such as automated news accounts, and
Twitter offers an opt-in feature to allow such accounts to transparently label
themselves as automated. Twitter told CNN that the claim it doesn’t know how
many bots are on its platform lacks context, reiterating that not all bots are
bad and adding that to focus on the total number of bots on Twitter would
include those the company may have already identified and taken action against.
The company also does not believe it can catch every spam account on the
platform, Twitter said, which is why it reports its less-than-5% figure, which
reflects a manual estimate, in its financial filings.


But Zatko told CNN he thinks there would still be value in attempting to measure
the total number of spam, false or otherwise potentially harmful automated
accounts on the platform. “The executive team, the board, the shareholders and
the users all deserve an honest answer as to what it is that they are consuming
as far as data and information and content [on the platform … At least from my
point of view, I want to invest in a company where I know what’s actually going
on because I want to invest strategically in the long-term value of an
organization,” he said.



Twitter says that it allows bots on its platform, but its rules prohibit those
that engage in spam or platform manipulation. But, as with all social media
platforms’ rules, the challenge often lies in enforcing its policies.


Elon Musk is engaged in a legal battle with Twitter over his attempt to back out
of buying the company.



The company says it regularly challenges, suspends and removes accounts engaged
in spam and platform manipulation, including typically removing more than one
million spam accounts each day. Twitter said the total number of bots on the
platform is not a useful number. The company declined to answer questions about
the total number of accounts on the platform or the average number of new
accounts added on the platform daily as context around its daily bot deletion
figure.



But in casting doubt on Twitter’s ability to estimate the true number of fake
and spam accounts, Zatko’s allegations could provide ammunition to Musk’s
central claim that the figure is much higher than Twitter has publicly reported.



By going public, Zatko says, he believes he is doing the job he was hired to do
for a platform he says is critical to democracy. “Jack Dorsey reached out and
asked me to come and perform a critical task at Twitter. I signed on to do it
and believe I’m still performing that mission,” he said.


WHISTLEBLOWER CLAIMS TWITTER EXECS ARE COVERING UP ITS ‘DEFICIENT’ SECURITY THAT
IS RISK TO DEMOCRACY, THE COUNTRY AND USERS’ DATA: FORMER HEAD OF SECURITY BACKS
MUSK’S CLAIM THAT FIRM DOESN’T KNOW HOW MANY BOTS ARE ON PLATFORM  

Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko, the social media firm’s former head of security, made a
disclosure to Congress and federal agencies last month and came forward in
interviews published on Tuesday morning.

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... the shares of Sprint in 2018 after its merger with T-Mobile leaked, ...

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/former-us-congressman-charged-with-insider-trading-2022-07-25/


FORMER U.S. CONGRESSMAN BUYER CHARGED WITH INSIDER ... - REUTERS

4 hours ago ... ... has been charged with insider trading over purchases of
shares in telecommunications company Sprint ahead of its merger with
T-Mobile, ...

https://money.cnn.com/quote/shareholders/shareholders.html?symb=TMUS&subView=institutional


TMUS - T-MOBILE US INC SHAREHOLDERS - CNNMONEY.COM

Insider trading; |; Institutional ownership. Institutional investors purchased a
net $19.4 million shares of TMUS during the quarter ended June 2019.

https://docoh.com/company/1283699/TMUS/insider-ownership-history


TMUS T-MOBILE US INSIDER TRADING AND OWNERSHIP | DOCOH

T-Mobile US (TMUS) insider trading activity. See current ownership, buyers and
sellers.

https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/former-u-s-congressman-buyer-charged-with-insider-trading-ahead-of-telecoms-merger/93117230


FORMER U.S. CONGRESSMAN BUYER CHARGED WITH INSIDER TRADING AHEAD ...

3 hours ago ... Buyer, who served in Congress between 1993 and 2011, was working
as a consultant to T-Mobile ahead of the 2018 merger, according to an ...

https://wallmine.com/nasdaq/tmus/insider-trading


T-MOBILE US INC (TMUS) INSIDERS TRADING - WALLMINE

On average, T-Mobile US Inc executives and independent directors trade stock
every 21 days with the average trade being worth of $6,569,263. The most
recent ...


T-MOBILE: BEING SUED BY AT&T, VERIZON CUSTOMERS FOR INCREASED PRICES

Jun 23, 2022 ... In a surprise turn of events, it looks like a group of AT&T and
Verizon customers have decided to sue T-Mobile. The group believes that the ...


https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/former-sprint-dealers-file-suit-against-t-mobile


FORMER SPRINT WIRELESS DEALERS FILE SUIT AGAINST T-MOBILE

Using terms like “predatory” and “anti-competitive,” four retail wireless
dealers filed suit against T-Mobile in recent weeks, all saying they were ...


https://www.tmz.com/2022/05/16/t-mobile-sued-cryptocurrency-security-lawsuit/


T-MOBILE SUED FOR SECURITY LAPSES OVER CRYPTOCURRENCY COSTING ...

May 16, 2022 ... T-Mobile caused one of its customers to lose 3/4 of a million
bucks, and the guy who's out the money is now suing the phone company, ...


https://fairshake.com/t-mobile/how-to-sue/


HOW TO SUE T-MOBILE - FAIRSHAKE

The first option for suing T-Mobile is through consumer arbitration. Contracts
with arbitration clauses give you the right take legal action through an ...




T-MOBILE LAWSUIT - BACHUWA LAW

After failing to find a resolution through T-Mobile's customer service, many
customers feel that there are no options to fight back. That is not the case.
While ...




https://dkrpa.com/blog/t-mobile-customers-sues-t-mobile-after-losing-8-7-million-of-cryptocurrency-stolen-in-sim-swap-scam/


T-MOBILE CUSTOMER SUES T-MOBILE AFTER LOSING $8.7 MILLION OF ...

This recent lawsuit was filed in New York's Eastern District. The suit claims
that T-Mobile was culpable of gross neglect by enabling hackers to gain access
to ...



T-MOBILE SUED FOR SECURITY LAPSES OVER CRYPTOCURRENCY COSTING CUSTOMER ...

tmz.com/2022/05/16/t-mobile-sued-cryptocurrency-security-lawsuit

Cryptocurrency Disaster T-Mobile Sued By Customer Who Lost $750,000 ... Your
Security Sucks!!! Exclusive. 309; 5/16/2022 2:04 PM PT




T-MOBILE GETS SUED SOME MORE, THIS TIME BY A SPRINT CUSTOMER FURIOUS ...

phonearena.com/news/t-mobile-new-class-action-lawsuit-sprint-customer-5g...

one such sprint subscriber (as of the end of 2020, at least) has decided to seek
justice for his troubles, filing a new lawsuit against t-mobile, which clearly
makes a whole lot more sense than the class action recently launched by a group
of verizon and at&t customers as an indirect (and somewhat silly) consequence of
the same controversial …




T-MOBILE DATA BREACH LAWSUIT 2021 | WHAT TO DO | CLASSACTION.ORG

classaction.org/t-mobile-data-breach-lawsuit-2021

Hackers initially told the media in late August that they had obtained the
personal information of over 100 million people from T-Mobile’s servers, but the



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HOW T-MOBILE'S SOCIAL MEDIA IS LITERALLY MAKING TEENS MENTALLY ILL AND CAUSING
TEEN SUICIDES!

By

Dr. Nicholas Kardaras




Suzie* was a typical 22-year-old recent college grad from the Midwest who was
admitted into my mental health clinic in Austin with a variety of increasingly
common psychiatric disorders: depression, self-harm (cutting her arms) and a
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) diagnosis. BPD is a serious personality
disorder that has 50 times the suicide rate of the general population and is
typified by black and white thinking, self-harm behavior, emotional volatility,
impulsive behavior, shifting self-image and feelings of “emptiness.”

While Susie did initially present with some of the classic BPD symptoms (feeling
empty and suicidal), something didn’t add up. Unlike most BPD clients, she
didn’t have any of the early red flags; she had good grades and many friends in
high school with stable relationships and a stable home environment — and no
history of mental illness in her family.



During Suzie’s treatment, we discovered the real culprit: she’d been spending
12-15 hours a day on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube after becoming depressed when
her friends went away to university while she stayed home and attended community
college. Initially trying to better understand her depression, she started to
follow BPD influencers and joined online BPD groups, where she said that she
felt a sense of belonging. Slowly and unwittingly, she started emulating what
she was learning about BPD online — like cutting her arms after watching videos
of influencers declare that cutting helped them feel in control — or at least
“feel something.”

Suzie admitted that she never liked cutting herself but did it because she
thought that it might eventually offer her relief. And starved for a true
identity, she also stated that the cutting and irrational behaviors that the
influencers engaged in “made them interesting and authentic,” which she found
appealing. By the time she was ready to admit into treatment, she had lost all
her friends and spent her days and nights alone and online being shaped by her
newly found BPD community.

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But something quite amazing happened while she was in treatment; she got better
very quickly once all her devices and social media were removed. Within two
weeks, she was calmer and less reactive; she made friends in the program; she no
longer cut her arms and all thoughts of suicide evaporated. But if she really
had BPD, she shouldn’t have been “cured” that quickly; clients with real BPD
typically require many months or even years of treatment before seeing
improvement. So what was really happening?   

We’re living in the Age of Digital Social Contagions. It’s a time where certain
illnesses aren’t spread by biological transmission, but by a digital infection
that attacks the psychological immune system. Using algorithms that find and
exploit our psychological vulnerabilities, we get sicker as Big Tech gets
stronger.

Twitter

And make no mistake: we are getting sicker as a society, with record rates of
depression, suicide, loneliness, overdoses, anxiety, addiction, emptiness,
gender dysphoria and mass shootings that are disproportionately impacting teens
and young adults, all made worse by the isolation and fear during COVID. 

Beyond just the depression of living sedentary, isolated lives, we have the
congressional testimony of Frances Haugen, The Facebook Whistleblower, who
shared internal emails that showed Instagram’s own research indicated that their
product increased suicidality in teenage girls and worsened their eating
disorders. It seems that being exposed to a constant torrent of toxic content
and comparing ourselves to the curated faux-glamor of vapid and shallow
influencers isn’t good for the psyche — but it’s even worse than this
much-researched and toxic “social comparison effect.”

Palm Beach Gardens Police Department GoFundMe

Followers and views are the coin of the realm in the social-media hierarchy, and
extreme content is what attracts that priceless human commodity: our attention.
That’s why it’s the most over-the-top content and influencers that attract
followers like moths to a lethal digital flame. And it’s also why we’re seeing
dramatic spikes in once-rare disorders like Tourette Syndrome, Dissociative
Identity Disorder (DID, formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder) and
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).  These disorders are now being injected
into our collective consciousness via popular TikTok and Instagram “influencers”
who’ve racked up hundreds of millions of views — and have left a wake of young
followers like Suzie who, consciously or unconsciously, are indeed “influenced”
as they emulate the psychiatric symptoms of their mentally unwell social media
darlings. 

This social-contagion group effect shouldn’t come as a shock; for thousands of
years we’ve seen it shape human behavior; from donning tribal war paint, to
smoking cigarettes, to following your favorite sports team or joining a
political movement. We’re social animals hard-wired to mimic and emulate one
another. The only difference now that social media has swallowed up our world is
that the impact of toxic and digitally spread behaviors are greatly magnified as
they go viral.



Although we now know that social media is harmful to our mental health, we can’t
seem to stop. Like a cirrhotic alcoholic, the health consequences be damned when
you compulsively need another drink — or tweet. And the more of the digital
toxin that we consume, the weaker and more compromised our psychological immune
system becomes, making us even more vulnerable for further consumption,
manipulation and behavior modification. 

The Big Tech social media playbook is a simple three step process. Step 1:
Create habituation. Use the most sophisticated algorithm-fueled behavior mod
techniques to create dependency.

Getty Images for Vox Media

Step 2: Once addicted, the person’s psychological immune system begins to erode.
As in any addiction, this is the realm of depression, hopelessness and a sense
of emptiness — an emptiness that can only be temporarily filled by more of the
toxin. 

Step 3: Once weakened and addicted, a person is now susceptible to any number of
manipulations; these include further addiction, ideological brainwashing,
identity shaping and, sadly, an encroachment into the once hallowed ground of
our thoughts. Free no more.

The 1999 Columbine school shooting was the first in the digital age (such events
had been almost unheard of before then). Since then, they have become a horrible
part of daily life. However, even the FBI acknowledges that these are
Internet-fueled copycat events; classic examples of a social contagion — spread
and spawned on social media and hate-filled chat rooms that incite the
unstable. 



This digital social contagion can also lead to ideological extremism. I was an
expert witness this year in the capital murder trial of Corey Johnson in
Florida, the white suburban teen radicalized by a nonstop stream of ISIS
recruitment videos on YouTube. This year, he was sentenced to life in prison for
stabbing a 13-year-old boy to death at a 2018 sleepover.

And, of course, we have the logic-defying spike in gender dysphoria; a spike
that trans psychologist Erica Anderson, who has helped hundreds of teens
transition, says “has gone too far.” According to Anderson, teens — who have
always gone through periods of identity confusion and experimentation — are now
being exposed to and impacted by social media and trans influencers. Dr.
Anderson’s insights were confirmed by Dr. Lisa Littman’s research at Brown,
which showed the social media impact on what she termed “late onset gender
dysphoria.” 



Like BPD, gender dysphoria is a real psychological phenomenon that people
genuinely struggle with. However, what we’re seeing now is something different.
We’re seeing social media shaping people in ways that seem to mimic some of
these disorders yet are not the genuine article. Several colleagues and I have
begun to call them cases of pseudo-BPD, pseudo-DID or pseudo-Gender Dysphoria.
These are cases where the presenting symptoms dissipate when the person is
removed from social media for several weeks, thereby proving that the behaviors
presented are not the genuine disorder. 

Instead of genuine mental illness, many of our young people are simply
attempting to find a tribe or community to belong to via their online
explorations and demonstrating what psychologists call “sociogenic” effects;
that is, effects caused by social forces — in this case, digital social
forces.   



What I believe we desperately need is to better understand these powerful
shaping effects of social media and to help young people develop a strong
psychological immune system and critical thinking skills in order to navigate
the rough and turbulent seas of today’s social-media world. 

*This patient’s name has been changed. 

Dr. Nicholas Kardaras is the Founder and Chief Clinical Officer of Omega
Recovery in Austin, Texas and Maui Recovery in Hawaii. A former clinical
professor at Stony Brook Medicine, he’s the bestselling author of “Glow Kids”
and his latest book “Digital Madness: How Social Media is Driving Our Mental
Health Crisis — and How to Restore our Sanity” (St. Martin’s) is out now.










T-MOBILE AND IT'S SILICON VALLEY PARTNERS CAUGHT UP IN FEDERAL INVESTIGATIONS
AND LAWSUITS

Elon Musk's Twitter-Gate scandal has exposed the fact that, for over a decade,
Twitter has sold lies to advertisers, consumers and the SEC!!! Twitter has been
just fake eyeballs, bots, election manipulation, SEC filings that were lies,
Congressional testimony that was lies and one of the biggest scams in history.
Court Discovery in the coming year will reveal all. The SEC has been asked to
charge Twitter AND TWITTER'S ENABLERS, INCLUDING T-MOBILE with EPIC FRAUD. Musk
says the "numbers don't lie" and those numbers about Twitter and it's Telco
partners are going to come out in shocking court disclosures. How could a multi
billion dollar company like T-Mobile not have known about these lies? T-Mobile
was one of the backbones that put Twitter into the hands of the rioters, the
shooters, the suicide-ed kids and everyone else in the WORLD!

A. An element of the claims against T-Mobile asserts that “T-Mobile Encourages A
Culture of Criminality And Corruption And That Proofs Of That Corporate Culture
Of Criminality Add To The Veracity Of Plaintiff Assertions Of Intended Harm, By
T-Mobile, Against Plaintiff, And His Peers, Who Were Investigating Said
Corruption For News Media, Public Interest And Government Parties”.

B. Regarding Sex Trafficking news media assertions against T-Mobile Executives,
Staff and Investors; The investigation databases of: A.) ICOJ.ORG’s Panama
Papers, Swiss Leaks and CPA databases; B.) The Axciom database; C.) The PACER
database; D.) The XKEYSCORE derivative database; E.) Kroll database; F.)
Stratfor Database, ; G.) TransUnion's TLOxp database, and Accurint (from
LexisNexis), Clear (Thompson Reuters), Delvepoint. DataTrac, IntelliCorp,
BeenVerfied, Intelius, Pipl and Spoke.. etc. are easily cross referenced to show
which persons:

1. Invested over $200,000.00 in T-Mobile and/or
2. Are government political figures and/or
3. Have divorce records which state that they engaged in infidelity or hiring
men, women, girls and boys for sex and/or
4. Are charged in prostitution cases and/or
5. Have Uber, Lyft, Plane tickets or taxi records transporting sex workers to or
from them and/or
6. Have accounts under their credit cards, paypal or bitcoin on porn and sex
trafficking sites like Seeking Arrangements, etc. and/or
7. Used or partnered with Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Google, Match.com,
Tinder and their associates who are deeply charged with enabling sex
trafficking.. etc..

Such a database pull only costs $300.00 and takes a private eye less than a day.

It is really quite easy to show who at T-Mobile sex trafficked, how, with whom
and with great detail. T-Mobile spouses and divorcees are quite excited to share
that information.

Sex Trafficking by T-Mobile people is one evidence element that goes to prove
that: “T-Mobile Encourages A Culture of Criminality And Corruption And That
Proofs Of That Corporate Culture Of Criminality Add To The Veracity Of Plaintiff
Assertions Of Intended Harm, By T-Mobile, Against Plaintiff, And His Peers, Who
Were Investigating Said Corruption For News Media, Public Interest And
Government Parties”.

C. T-Mobile knew that it’s network and devices was killing teens. T-Mobile chose
profits over children’s safety. There are a massive number of other lawsuits and
Congressional Hearings proving this. Teen deaths caused by T-Mobile people is
one evidence element that goes to prove that: “T-Mobile Encourages A Culture of
Criminality And Corruption And That Proofs Of That Corporate Culture Of
Criminality Add To The Veracity Of Plaintiff Assertions Of Intended Harm, By
T-Mobile, Against Plaintiff, And His Peers, Who Were Investigating Said
Corruption For News Media, Public Interest And Government Parties”.

D. All of the hundreds of criminal, corrupt and illicit activities that our
alliance of citizens, reporters, investigators, reporters and forensic experts
raise, and WILL RAISE FOREVER, happen to prove this one Plaintiff’s point that:
““T-Mobile Encourages A Culture of Criminality And Corruption And That Proofs Of
That Corporate Culture Of Criminality Add To The Veracity Of Plaintiff
Assertions Of Intended Harm, By T-Mobile, Against Plaintiff, And His Peers, Who
Were Investigating Said Corruption For News Media, Public Interest And
Government Parties”… But these hundreds of criminal, corrupt and illicit
activities by T-Mobile will always be raised, by EVERY consumer, forever until
they are solved whether or not this one particular AAA case moves forward.

We, by coincidence, happen to know that this one Plaintiff’s claims are true. 50
Million citizens just had their privacy abuse claims proved true in another
case. If this Plaintiff’s AAA case is closed there will be 49,999,999 more for
T-Mobile to deal with!

One Mr. Rubin, from Google, who helped put together the T-Mobile Android
arrangement has an interesting situation. Wait till everyone sees how many other
T-Mobile lawyers and executives are in the same boat:


https://www.businessinsider.com/andy-rubin-complaint-documents-sex-ring-2019-7


ANDROID CREATOR ANDY RUBIN IS ACCUSED OF RUNNING A 'SEX RING'

... The Android creator Andy Rubin has been accused of running a "sex ring" with
at least one woman and of cheating his ex-wife out of millions of ...


https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/andy-rubin-court-complaint-lawsuit-rie-divorce-google


THIS FORMER GOOGLE EXECUTIVE WAS ACCUSED OF RUNNING A "SEX RING"

 ... A newly unsealed complaint shows how Google paid Android creator Andy Rubin
$90 million in severance after he left the company amid ...


https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/politics/article/andy-rubin-google


THE TRUTH ABOUT ANDY RUBIN AND GOOGLE'S EXISTENTIAL CRISIS - BRITISH GQ

 ... The Rubin scandal has also drawn attention to the company's long-standing
opposition to new US sex trafficking laws – which it believes could ...


https://fortune.com/2019/01/10/google-android-lawsuit-shareholder-sexual-harassment-sex-trafficking-andy-rubin-la/


GOOGLE BOARD SUED FOR ANDY RUBIN SEXUAL HARASSMENT COVERUP

... “While at Google, Rubin is also alleged to have engaged in human sex
trafficking—paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to women to be, in ...


https://filthylucre.com/andy-rubin-sex-ring/


ANDROID FOUNDER ANDY RUBIN ACCUSED OF RUNNING 'SEX RING'

 ... Andy Rubin, the Android founder and former Google executive has been
accused of running a “sex ring” by his ex-wife, according to court ...


https://www.vox.com/a/sexual-harassment-assault-allegations-list/andy-rubin


ANDY RUBIN, FORMER GOOGLE EXECUTIVE, SEXUAL MISCONDUCT ALLEGATIONS

 ... Andy Rubin is one of 262 celebrities and powerful people accused of sexual
misconduct since 2017. See the full list:


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/google-sexual-harassment-andy-rubin.html


HOW GOOGLE PROTECTED ANDY RUBIN, THE 'FATHER OF ANDROID'

 ... What Google did not make public was that an employee had accused Mr. Rubin
of sexual misconduct. The woman, with whom Mr. Rubin had been ...


https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/android-creator-andy-rubin-allegedly-concealed-google-payments-from-wife/


ANDROID CREATOR ANDY RUBIN ALLEGEDLY CONCEALED GOOGLE PAYMENTS ...

 ... Andy Rubin, a former Google executive and the inventor of the Android ...
Rubin is also alleged to have engaged in human sex trafficking ...


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-25/ex-google-star-andy-rubin-spars-to-keep-divorce-fallout-secret


EX-GOOGLE STAR RUBIN SPARS TO KEEP DIVORCE FALLOUT SECRET

... Andy Rubin, the Android creator at the center of a sex harassment scandal
... Rubin is also alleged to have engaged in human sex trafficking ...


https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/news/hr-news/pages/alphabet-board-sued-over-claims-it-covered-up-senior-execs-sexual-misconduct.aspx


ALPHABET BOARD SUED OVER CLAIMS IT COVERED UP SENIOR EXECS ...

... Alphabet's Board Sued for Role in Allegedly Covering Up Sexual Misconduct by
... How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the 'Father of Android'.


T-MOBILE RETAIL STORE IN EAGLE ROCK FOUND GUILTY OF COMMITTING $25 MILLION
SCHEME TO ILLEGALLY UNLOCK CELLPHONES

          LOS ANGELES – A former owner of a T-Mobile retail store in Eagle Rock
has been found guilty by a jury of 14 federal criminal charges for his $25
million scheme to enrich himself by stealing T-Mobile employee credentials and
illegally accessing the company’s internal computer systems to illicitly
“unlock” and “unblock” cellphones, the Justice Department announced today.

          Argishti Khudaverdyan, 44, of Burbank, was found guilty of one count
of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, three counts of wire fraud, two counts of
accessing a computer to defraud and obtain value, one count of intentionally
accessing a computer without authorization to obtain information, one count of
conspiracy to commit money laundering, five counts of money laundering, and one
count of aggravated identity theft.

          The jury returned the guilty verdict Friday evening in United States
District Court.

          According to evidence presented at his four-day trial, Khudaverdyan
ran a multi-year scheme that illegally unlocked and unblocked cellphones, which
generated approximately $25 million in criminal proceeds. During this time, most
cellphone companies – including T-Mobile – “locked” their customers’ phones so
they could be used only on the company’s network until the customers’ phone and
service contracts had been fulfilled. If customers wanted to switch to a
different carrier, their phones had to be “unlocked.” Carriers also “blocked”
cellphones to protect consumers in the case of lost or stolen cellphones.

          From August 2014 to June 2019, Khudaverdyan fraudulently unlocked and
unblocked cellphones on T-Mobile’s network, as well as the networks of Sprint,
AT&T and other carriers. Removing the unlock allowed the phones to be sold on
the black market and enabled T-Mobile customers to stop using T-Mobile’s
services and thereby deprive T-Mobile of revenue generated from customers’
service contracts and equipment installment plans.

          Khudaverdyan advertised his fraudulent unlocking services through
brokers, email solicitations, and websites such as unlocks247.com. He falsely
claimed the fraudulent unlocks that he provided were “official” T-Mobile
unlocks.

          From January 2017 through June 2017, Khudaverdyan and a former
business partner were also co-owners of Top Tier Solutions Inc., a T-Mobile
store in Eagle Rock Plaza. However, after T-Mobile terminated Khudaverdyan’s
contract in June 2017 based on his suspicious computer behavior and association
with unauthorized unlocking of cellphones, Khudaverdyan continued his fraud.

          To gain unauthorized access to T-Mobile’s protected internal
computers, Khudaverdyan obtained T-Mobile employees’ credentials through various
dishonest means, including sending phishing emails that appeared to be
legitimate T-Mobile correspondence, and socially engineering the T-Mobile IT
Help Desk. Khudaverdyan used the fraudulent emails to trick T-Mobile employees
to log in with their employee credentials so he could harvest the employees’
information and fraudulently unlock the phones.

          Working with others in overseas call centers, Khudaverdyan also
received T‑Mobile employee credentials which he then used to access T-Mobile
systems to target higher-level employees by harvesting those employees’ personal
identifying information and calling the T-Mobile IT Help Desk to reset the
employees’ company passwords, giving him unauthorized access to the T-Mobile
systems which allowed him to unlock and unblock cellphones.

          All told, Khudaverdyan and others compromised and stole more than 50
different T-Mobile employees’ credentials from employees across the United
States, and they unlocked and unblocked hundreds of thousands of cellphones
during the years of the scheme.

          Khudaverdyan obtained more than $25 million for these criminal
activities. He used these illegal proceeds to pay for, among other things, real
estate in Burbank and Northridge.

          United States District Judge Stephen V. Wilson scheduled an October 17
sentencing hearing, at which time Khudaverdyan will face statutory maximum
sentences of 20 years in federal prison for each wire fraud count, 20 years in
federal prison for conspiracy to commit money laundering, 10 years in federal
prison for each money laundering count, five years in federal prison for each
count of intentionally accessing a computer without authorization to obtain
information, five years in federal prison for the count of accessing a computer
to defraud and obtain value, and a mandatory two years in federal prison for
aggravated identity theft.

          Alen Gharehbagloo, 43, of La Cañada Flintridge, a co-defendant and a
former co-owner of Top Tier Solutions Inc., pleaded guilty on July 5 to three
felonies: conspiracy to commit wire fraud, accessing a protected computer with
intent to defraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. His sentencing
hearing is scheduled for December 5.

          The United States Secret Service Cyber Fraud Task Force (CFTF) in Los
Angeles and IRS Criminal Investigation’s Western Area Cyber Crime Unit
investigated this matter. The CFTF includes representatives of the United States
Secret Service, the FBI, the Los Angeles Police Department, the Los Angeles
County District Attorney’s Office, and the California Highway Patrol.

          Assistant United States Attorneys Lisa E. Feldman and Andrew M. Roach
of the Cyber and Intellectual Property Crimes Section are prosecuting this case.
Assistant United States Attorney Jonathan S. Galatzan, Chief of the Asset
Forfeiture Section, is handling the asset forfeiture portion of this case.



T-mobile, an American wireless network partly owned by German telecommunications
company Deutsche Telekom, sent out an intimidating email to its employees on
stating that those who do not become fully vaccinated by April 2 will be
terminated from their job.

According to the email obtained by TGP, employees who failed to show proof of
first vaccination will be placed on unpaid leave. Employees who do not become
fully vaccinated and obtain a Magenta Pass will be terminated..

“Employees who have not yet taken action to receive their first dose and upload
proof will be placed on unpaid leave. Affected employees who do not become fully
vaccinated and obtain a Magenta Pass by April 2 will be separated from T-Mobile.
Those employees who have a pending or approved medical or
religious accommodation or state-specific exemption through the HR process are
excluded from this action for the duration of their pending or approved
accommodation or exemption.”

However, mobile experts at T-Mobile stores who are more at risk of getting Covid
are not required to get vaccinated.

“In Retail, where we don’t have control of who enters, our Mobile Experts have
served customers incredibly well throughout the pandemic. We’ll continue to take
precautions like masking and encourage Mobile Experts to be vaccinated, but not
require it. We will also be encouraging regular testing.”

Here’s a copy of the email:




The company posted the email in an article on the internal website and they are
getting completely roasted by employees. Here are some images of those comments
sent to TGP.

“We shouldn’t have to submit for any exemptions.. Medical or Religious reasons.
Freedom of choice!!!”



“What happened to follow the science? The science shows the vax does NOT work.
You are just as likely to get and spread covid weather vaxd or un vaxd, Hence
why the UK, Ireland, and Scotland have all done away with any and all mandates.
This is socialism and I can NOT be a part of this for my own sanity, even tho I
love my job.”



“From a personal perspective, I am disappointed in a company that prides itself
on Diversity & Inclusion, but tells you either get something injected into your
body or disclose medical or religious info to them, or be fired. From a legal
perspective, it’s a little fuzzy.”



“This is very disappointing news. Even though I got vaxed for personal reasons,
I believe in our right to choose what we do to OUR bodies. I stand united with
our right to choose.”



Earlier this month, T-Mobile was also under fire after censoring Gateway
Pundit’s links on its text service. A TGP reader Randall contacted T-mobile and
one of the supervisors claimed that Gateway Pundit is a very restricted site and
they’re protecting the users’ information by providing a safe service.







https://nordvpn.com/blog/t-mobile-passwords-hacked-twitter/


T-MOBILE GETS HACKED AFTER DISMISSING SECURITY CONCERNS - NORDVPN

Aug 28, 2018 ... Nothing funny about the hack attack at T-Mobile that let
roughly 2 million users with their names, ... T-mobile passwords hacked on
Twitter.


https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/t-mobile-ceo-john-legere-resigning-promoted-tweets


T-MOBILE CEO JOHN LEGERE IS RESIGNING AND WON'T BE PROMOTING ...

Nov 18, 2019 ... In doing so, he will end one of the most annoying ad campaigns
on Twitter — promoting his own tweets. David Becker / Getty Images. A cool CEO.


https://www.pcmag.com/news/ex-t-mobile-ceo-goes-after-ex-sprint-ceo-on-twitter-again


EX-T-MOBILE CEO GOES AFTER EX-SPRINT CEO ON TWITTER (AGAIN)

Mar 2, 2022 ... In a bit of a throwback, John Legere and Marcelo Claure—former
CEOs of T-Mobile and Sprint, respectively—are once again battling it out on ...


MASS LAYOFFS HIT TWITTER AS COMPANY EXPOSED AS AD SCAM AND FAKE USER NEST
DISTRIBUTED OVER T-MOBILE NETWORKS (LINK)...





EMPLOYEES SAY IT IS 'WORST CASE SCENARIO'AS WORLD REALIZES TWITTER HARVESTS
HUMAN THOUGHTS PUSHES KIDS TO SUICIDE AND SHOOTINGS AND MANIPULATES IDEOLOGIES
USING T-MOBILE DEVICES AND NETWORKS (LINK)...








THE LEGAL SHIELD FOR T-MOBILE IS SHOWING CRACKS



The nation’s largest federal appeals court last year ruled that the legal shield
— known as Section 230 of the U.S. Communications Decency Act — didn’t apply to
a Snapchat filter blamed for the car crash deaths of two teenagers. | Richard
Drew/AP Photo

By Susannah Luthi

An 11-year-old dies by suicide after she is sexually exploited on Instagram and
Snapchat. Two teenagers are killed in a crash following a race using a Snapchat
speed filter. A sexual predator uses Facebook to lure a 15-year-old girl into
trafficking.

Social media companies for decades have been shielded from legal consequences
for what happens on their platforms. But a sharp shift in public opinion and a
bend in recent court rulings have the industry nervous that this could change —
especially when damage is done to children online.

And for the first time in nearly 30 years, lawyers for grieving families see an
opening.

Lawsuits blaming social media platforms for teen suicides, eating disorders and
mental collapses have picked up in the months since Facebook whistleblower
Frances Haugen told Congress that her company knew its products were addictive
to kids and that their mental stability was suffering as a result. And a bill
moving through the California statehouse would make companies liable for
addicting children, drawing comparisons to a strategy used against the tobacco
industry.

The Facebook whistleblower’s testimony before Congress, in 180 seconds




The nation’s largest federal appeals court last year ruled that the legal shield
— known as Section 230 of the U.S. Communications Decency Act — didn’t apply to
a Snapchat filter blamed for the car crash deaths of two teenagers. Texas’
Supreme Court let a sex trafficking case against Facebook proceed, citing
Congress’ 2018 changes to federal law. And an appellate court recently refused
Facebook’s attempt to circumvent that lawsuit. Georgia’s Supreme Court in March
likewise ruled that a separate complaint over Snapchat’s speed filter can move
forward because the plaintiffs have a good case the app made a risky product.

“I am pretty optimistic that tides are turning and we are going to see a
backlash on Section 230 from the courts,” said Carrie Goldman, a New York-based
trial attorney who used product liability law to challenge Grindr’s federal
shield. Powerful social media companies, she added, “were never supposed to be
immune from liability.”

Tech companies and their lawyers are watching with trepidation. Cathy Gellis, an
internet attorney, says the industry is increasingly turning to the First
Amendment — rather than Section 230 — as the first line of defense in content
moderation lawsuits.

“It’s all on fire,” she said.

The tech industry’s legal protections, enshrined in 1996, came from the thinking
that companies trying to create a free marketplace of ideas online shouldn’t
have to worry about getting shut down based on someone saying or doing something
the website can’t control. But that was when Netscape reigned supreme, email
arrived via dial-up modem and “apps” weren’t yet gleams in a techy’s eye.

Rep. Ken Buck: 'If you repeal section 230 there will be a slew of lawsuits'

Nearly three decades later, trial attorneys are testing that shield with a
battery of cases brought by parents of kids and teens whose deaths or mental
crises they blame on social media. The roster includes a claim by the mother of
11-year-old Selena Rodriguez who alleges her daughter was addicted to Snapchat
and Instagram for two years and pulled into sending sexually exploitative
messages. The lawsuit details a downward spiral of depression, eating disorders
and self-harm that ended in suicide.

Carrie Goldman’s case against Grindr alleged that the hookup app eased the way
for her client Matthew Herrick’s abusive ex-boyfriend to set up a false profile
that disclosed Herrick’s location — and said, falsely, that he was HIV-positive
and liked violent, unprotected sex. Stalkers began shadowing Herrick, who filed
cease-and-desist orders and police reports even as Grindr said it couldn’t block
the profile, the lawsuit alleged.

Herrick’s claim ultimately failed in 2019, with the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of
Appeals citing the Section 230 shield. But Carrie Goldman’s argument — that it
was a question of product safety and liability, rather than one of content — was
later used in a key case against Snapchat.

Gellis and others in the tech industry argue that any dent in the federal shield
can have far-reaching consequences on the internet, and that unfavorable rulings
could come to haunt internet companies trying to fight state laws. State
legislatures in Texas and Florida are debating a slate of proposals to bar
platforms from censoring content, while a pair of bills aimed at making the
internet safer for kids is advancing in California.

“It’s a problem to have any language on the books that Section 230 is supposed
to block,” she said. “As a litigator, I’ll look to using prior precedents
upholding Section 230 to protect people from these sorts of bad laws being
enforced, but it’s playing with fire if that’s the only thing protecting them.”

One case in particular has been widely cited by California lawmakers who want to
make social media companies liable for addicting children. A lawsuit known as
Lemmon v. Snap alleged that the high-speed car crash death of two teenagers
while they were using Snapchat’s “speed filter” function for a virtual race was
the app’s fault, since the filter was a function Snapchat designed itself.

The San Francisco-based U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last year that
the company’s design of the speed filter wasn’t covered by Section 230.

Hedge Funds and private Equity funds that covertly fund T-Mobile and T-Mobile
partners are buying up Congress people right and left. The line from T-Mobile to
public policy decisions is hard to see, like a spider web, but modern AI
technology can track it all down nonetheless.


The donations, which make Sinema one of the industry’s top beneficiaries in
Congress, serve a reminder of the way that high-power lobbying campaigns can
have dramatic implications for the way legislation is crafted, particularly in
the evenly divided Senate where there are no Democratic votes to spare. They
also highlight a degree of political risk for Sinema, whose unapologetic defense
of the industry’s favorable tax treatment is viewed by many in her party as
indefensible.

“From their vantage point, it’s a million dollars very well spent,” said Dean
Baker, a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a
liberal-leaning think tank. “It’s pretty rare you see this direct of a return on
your investment. So I guess I would congratulate them.”


Sinema’s office declined to make her available for an interview. Hannah Hurley,
a Sinema spokesperson, acknowledged the senator shares some of the industry’s
views on taxation, but rebuffed any suggestion that the donations influenced her
thinking.

“Senator Sinema makes every decision based on one criteria: what’s best for
Arizona,” Hurley said in a statement. “She has been clear and consistent for
over a year that she will only support tax reforms and revenue options that
support Arizona’s economic growth and competitiveness.”

The American Investment Council, a trade group that lobbies on behalf of private
equity, also defended their push to defeat the tax provisions.

“Our team worked to ensure that members of Congress from both sides of the aisle
understand how private equity directly employs workers and supports small
businesses throughout their communities,” Drew Maloney, the organization’s CEO
and president, said in a statement.

Sinema’s defense of the tax provisions offer a jarring contrast to her
background as a Green Party activist and self-styled “Prada socialist” who once
likened accepting campaign cash to “bribery” and later called for “big
corporations & the rich to pay their fair share” shortly before launching her
first campaign for Congress in 2012.

She’s been far more magnanimous since, praising private equity in 2016 from the
House floor for providing “billions of dollars each year to Main Street
businesses” and later interning at a private equity mogul’s boutique winery in
northern California during the 2020 congressional recess.

The soaring contributions from the industry to Sinema trace back to last summer.
That’s when she first made clear that she wouldn’t support a carried interest
tax increase, as well as other corporate and business tax hikes, included in an
earlier iteration of Biden’s agenda.

During a two-week period in September alone, Sinema collected $47,100 in
contributions from 16 high-ranking officials from the private equity firm Welsh,
Carson, Anderson & Stowe, records show. Employees and executives of KKR, another
private equity behemoth, contributed $44,100 to Sinema during a two-month span
in late 2021.

In some cases, the families of private equity managers joined in. David Belluck,
a partner at the firm Riverside Partners, gave a $5,800 max-out contribution to
Sinema one day in late June. So did three of his college-age kids, with the
family collectively donating $23,200, records show.

“I generally support centrist Democrats and her seat is important to keep a
Democratic Senate majority,” Belluck said, adding that his family has known
Sinema since her election to Congress. “She and I have never discussed private
equity taxation.”

The donations from the industry coincide with a $26 million lobbying effort
spearheaded by the investment firm Blackstone that culminated on the Senate
floor last weekend.

By the time the bill was up for debate during a marathon series of votes, Sinema
had already forced Democrats to abandon their carried interest tax increase.

“Senator Sinema said she would not vote for the bill .. unless we took it out,”
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters last week. “We had no
choice.”

But after private equity lobbyists discovered a provision in the bill that would
have subjected many of them to a separate 15% corporate minimum tax, they
urgently pressed Sinema and other centrist Democrats for changes, according to
emails as well as four people with direct knowledge of the matter who requested
anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.

“Given the breaking nature of this development we need as many offices as
possible weighing in with concerns to Leader Schumer’s office,” Blackstone
lobbyist Ryan McConaghy wrote in a Saturday afternoon email obtained by the AP,
which included proposed language for modifying the bill. “Would you and your
boss be willing to raise the alarm on this and express concerns with Schumer and
team?”

McConaghy did not respond to a request for comment.

Sinema worked with Republicans on an amendment that stripped the corporate tax
increase provisions from the bill, which a handful of vulnerable Democrats also
voted for.

“Since she has been in Congress, Kyrsten has consistently supported pro-growth
policies that encourage job creation across Arizona. Her tax policy positions
and focus on growing Arizona’s economy and competitiveness are longstanding and
well known,” Hurley, the Sinema spokesperson, said.

But many in her party disagree. They say the favorable treatment does little to
boost the overall economy and argue there’s little compelling evidence to
suggest the tax benefits are enjoyed beyond some of the wealthiest investors.

Some of Sinema’s donors make their case.

Blackstone, a significant source of campaign contributions, owns large tracts of
real estate in Sinema’s home state, Arizona. The firm was condemned by United
Nations experts in 2019 who said Blackstone’s financial model was responsible
for a “financialization of housing” that has driven up rents and home costs,
“pushing low-income, and increasingly middle-income people from their homes.”

Blackstone employees executives and their family members have given Sinema
$44,000 since 2018, records show.

In a statement, Blackstone called the allegations by the U.N. experts “false and
misleading” and said all employee contributions are “strictly personal.” The
firm added that it was “incredibly proud of its investments in housing.”

Another major financial services donor is Centerbridge Partners, a New
York-based firm that buys up the debt of distressed governments and companies
and often uses hardball tactics to extract value. Since 2017, Sinema has
collected at least $29,000 from donors associated with the firm, including
co-founder Mark Gallogly and his wife, Elizabeth Strickler, records show.

In 2012, Centerbridge Partners purchased Arizona-based restaurant chain P.F.
Chang’s for roughly $1 billion. After loading the struggling company up with
$675 million of debt, they sold it to another private equity group in 2019,
according to Bloomberg News. The company received a $10 million coronavirus aid
loan to cover payroll, but shed jobs and closed locations as it struggled with
the pandemic.

Centerbridge Partners was also part of a consortium of hedge funds that helped
usher in an era of austerity in Puerto Rico after buying up billions of dollars
of the island government’s $72 billion debt — and filing legal proceedings to
collect. A subsidiary of Centerbridge Partners was among a group of creditors
who repeatedly sued one of the U.S. territory’s pension funds. In one 2016
lawsuit, the group of creditors asked a judge to divert money from a Puerto
Rican pension fund in order to collect.

A Centerbridge representative could not immediately provide comment Friday.

Liberal activists in Arizona say they plan to make Sinema’s reliance on
donations from wealthy investors a campaign issue when she is up for reelection
in 2024.

“There are many takes on how to win, but there is no universe in which it is
politically smart to fight for favorable tax treatment of the wealthiest people
in the country,” said Emily Kirkland, a political consultant who works for
progressive candidates. “It’s absolutely going to be a potent issue.”

We call that felony bribery and a total violation of the American STOCK ACT!




PUSH TO REIN IN SOCIAL MEDIA SWEEPS THE STATES

By Rebecca Kern

California lawmakers and advocates see the Snapchat ruling as a green light for
a state bill that would explicitly authorize lawsuits against social media
companies if they’re shown to hook kids with their products. Assemblymember
Jordan Cunningham, the bill’s Republican lead co-author, says the decision shows
that his proposal won’t violate federal law.

Trial attorneys also see it this way. Matthew Bergman, who six months ago
founded the Social Media Victims Law Center to bring major cases involving kids’
and teens’ addiction using product liability law, compares the push to his years
of suing companies for asbestos poisoning. He launched his new crusade after
Haugen’s testimony and warnings from the U.S. surgeon general about the mental
health harms of teen social media use. One of the most recent cases he filed
invokes Haugen’s leaks to allege that Instagram purposefully targets youngsters.

He sees signs everywhere that the tide is turning. He pointed to recent court
decisions — and even the Supreme Court’s surprisingly close vote to block Texas’
social media bill on censorship, at 5-4.

By Rebecca Kern

“The era of goodwill toward social media platforms is waning,” Bergman said.

Some lawyers in tech’s corner say they don’t see judges making a big swing away
from longtime orthodoxy on the law.

“Courts are certainly scrutinizing 230, but courts are bound by precedent,” said
Adam Sieff, a lawyer who represents tech companies in Section 230 and First
Amendment claims. “Virtually without exception,” he said, the courts are finding
that the precedents hold up the Section 230 defense.

Eric Goldman, co-director of Santa Clara University’s High Tech Law Institute,
argues the 9th Circuit decision in the Snapchat case is fairly narrow. Still, he
is alarmed at the state policymaking that he sees as meddling in private
companies’ operations and know-how.

“Legislatures are enacting laws that they know are garbage,” he said. “They
don’t care about actually implementing policy — it’s all about the press
releases and tweets. When states pass laws that are garbage we hope that the
courts will fix the obvious problems that the legislatures have created.”

In California, the tech industry and internet freedom groups like the Electronic
Frontier Foundation are working feverishly to kill Cunningham’s bill that would
explicitly create a cause for liability lawsuits against social media companies
— a red line for the industry. But the proposal has advanced with significant
momentum and could get a final vote in August.

The proposal was narrowed last month to allow only public prosecutors, rather
than all Californians, to bring cases. But supporters still see it as a huge
step in making social media liable for features with documented risks — and
opponents see a major threat to tech companies’ autonomy.

That said, Sieff and Eric Goldman suggest that lawyers in the business of suing
tech companies may be exaggerating the significance of the recent decisions.

“The prevailing and uniform interpretation of Section 230 is squarely on the
side of the platforms,” Sieff said, “and the plaintiffs’ bar is definitely
stretching, or willfully misreading, decisions like Lemmon well beyond their
application.”

White House defends president’s support for philanthropy headed by former Google
CEO, who has cultivated close ties to the administration.



Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, had been making efforts to cultivate a
close relationship with the Biden administration. | Paul Sakuma/AP Photo

By Alex Thompson

This past spring, Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, received the ultimate
gift: a straight-to-camera endorsement from the president of the United States.

In the video, the most powerful man in the world touted Schmidt’s “Quad
Fellowship"— a new scholarship for American, Indian, Japanese and Australian
graduate school students that is operated and administered by Schmidt Futures,
the charity arm that Schmidt uses for a variety of initiatives in science and
technology.

“If you want to take the biggest challenges facing our world and help make sure
democracies deliver for the people everywhere, I encourage you to apply and join
the Quad fellowship class of 2023,” Biden said in the video touting the
philanthropic initiative which administration officials have compared to the
Rhodes scholarship and which plans to fund 100 students every year from India,
Australia, Japan and the United States, also known as “The Quad.”



Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, U.S. President Joe Biden, Japanese
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Schmidt
Futures CEO Eric Braverman gather for the Quad fellowship announcement at Tokyo
on May 24, 2022. | Evan Vucci/AP Photo

Schmidt promptly shared the video on the Schmidt Futures YouTube page with the
title “The Quad Fellowship: A Message from President Joe Biden.”

Behind the scenes, however, there were concerns within Biden’s administration
about the president endorsing an initiative of an outside entity founded by
Schmidt, one of the richest men in the world, according to two people familiar
with the matter who were granted anonymity because they weren’t authorized to
speak about the internal dynamics.

The red flags prompted the State Department to draft talking points in case
questions of impropriety came up, according to a copy of the drafted talking
points obtained by POLITICO.

“If the [U.S. Government] is not involved in Schmidt Futures Quad Fellowship,
why was it announced in a Government organized forum?” read an example of a
potential question about the arrangement.

In response, the State Department’s talking points recommend responding that the
“United States–through Department of Homeland Security and Department of State
helps facilitate international STEM education and student mobility” and that
international “student mobility is central to diplomacy, innovation, economic
prosperity, and national security. As Secretary [Antony] Blinken has said, it is
a ‘foreign policy imperative.’”

It is one of many instances of Schmidt’s efforts to cultivate a close
relationship with the Biden administration. In March, POLITICO reported that
Schmidt had developed close personal and financial ties with the White House’s
science office. During the presidential transition, Schmidt also recommended
appointments to the Pentagon, Reuters reported at the time.

The White House declined to comment. A State Department spokesperson told
POLITICO: “It’s not uncommon for us to highlight a private sector initiative
that advances U.S. national interests. It is, likewise, not uncommon for us to
draft contingency talking points on a range of issues. We’re proud of private
sector partnerships, which advance our interests around the world.”

Meghan Miele, a spokesperson for Schmidt, said in a statement that Schmidt
Futures had been invited by the Biden administration and the other Quad
countries to operate and administrate the fellowship.

“Leaders of all of the Quad countries have demonstrated enthusiastic support for
the program by recording videos, calling for applications on social media, and
attending a global launch event in Tokyo which has resulted in thousands of
applications,” she said. Asked for further documentation of the timeline of the
invitation, Miele declined to comment further.

Blinken and Schmidt have collaborated in the past. Schmidt Futures was a client
of WestExec Advisors, a consulting firm co-founded by Blinken. Last July,
Blinken referred to Schmidt as “my friend” at the “Global Emerging Technology
Summit” hosted by the National Security Council on Artificial Intelligence,
which Schmidt chaired.

When Biden visited Asia in May, the CEO of Schmidt Futures, Eric Braverman, met
with the leaders of all four Quad countries, who had recorded their own
endorsement videos as well. At a launch event with the four leaders, they
watched a video featuring Schmidt as they all stood in front of a blue-and-white
checkered backdrop reading: “Quad Fellowship by Schmidt Futures.”

The fellowship will fund students from Quad countries to attend graduate school
in the U.S. in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The
scholarship is part of the Biden team’s larger goal of reinvigorating the Quad
partnership as part of their attempts to counter China.

Schmidt also often echoes the administration’s view on China as a key competitor
and has taken a particular interest in the overlap in science and defense
policy. He has advocated for the U.S. investing in and protecting the technology
sector to ensure China does not take the lead on artificial intelligence,
internet platforms, and hardware, which he sees as essential to maintaining
American economic and military strength.



Schmidt also often echoes the administration’s view on China as a key competitor
and has taken a particular interest in the overlap in science and defense
policy. | Susan Walsh/AP Photo

As a result, he has leveraged his relationships and connections to shape the
Biden administration’s science and military technology policies. In addition to
his connections with the science office, the Pentagon, and the Quad Fellowship,
Schmidt has also become a key public advocate for the Biden-supported U.S.
Innovation and Competition Act (USICA), a sprawling $250 billion-plus package
with massive investments in American technology including $50 billion to
semiconductor funding.

The Senate and the House have passed different versions of the bill and are
trying to reconcile the package now. Some progressive House Democrats and the
AFL-CIO have argued that certain trade provisions in the bill would help large
American tech companies like Google and Facebook.

The trade provisions would “overwhelmingly benefit large digital corporations
(Google, Facebook/Meta, Uber) at the expense of countries’ right to reasonably
regulate global digital platforms,” William Samuel, the AFL-CIO’s director of
government affairs, wrote in a May letter.

In op-eds and TV appearances, Schmidt has been a high-profile advocate for the
bill, in particular the government subsidization of semiconductors.

“America is on the verge of losing the chip competition,” Schmidt wrote in a
Wall Street Journal op-ed this month co-written with Harvard professor Graham
Allison. “Unless the U.S. government mobilizes a national effort similar to the
one that created the technologies that won World War II, China could soon
dominate semiconductors and the frontier technologies they will power.”

Eric Schmidt should never be allowed near America's policies or
telecommunications. He is the Hitler of the Internet. Schmidt thinks that those
who kill themselves over social abuse shouldn't be doing those things in the
first place. Schmidt has no compassion and lives by greed.

Famous Hollywood actress Constance Wu has revealed that she attempted to take
her own life after facing a social media abuse over T-Mobile network and
devices.

Known for her roles in "Crazy Rich Asians" and "Hustlers," Wu abruptly left
social media in 2019 after making what she called "careless" comments about her
displeasure over the renewal of "Fresh off the Boat," a TV series she was
starring in, which she said "ignited outrage and internet shaming that got
pretty severe."



On learning of the renewal of the show, where she played a no-nonsense mother of
an immigrant family, Wu fired off tweets featuring expletives, stating that she
was "so upset." Her comments sparked criticism online, and she later explained
to her fans that appearing in the show would take her away from an unspecified
passion project, before quitting social media.

After a three-year hiatus, Wu said in a statement Thursday that the episode had
pushed her to attempt suicide. She said she was "a little scared" to return to
social media.

"This next part is hard to talk about . . . but I was afraid of coming back on
social media because I almost lost my life from it," she said.

She added that the social media backlash to her 2019 comments, especially from
fellow Asian Americans, made her feel like a "blight" on her community. "I
started feeling like I didn't even deserve to live anymore. That I was a
disgrace to AsAms, and they'd be better off without me," she said using an
abbreviation.

"Looking back, it's surreal that a few DMs convinced me to end my own life, but
that's what happened. Luckily, a friend found me and rushed me to the ER."

Wu, who grew up in Richmond, Va., and is the child of Taiwanese immigrants, said
the "scary moment" forced her to reassess her life and career and prioritize her
mental health.

Wu's leading role in "Crazy Rich Asians" in 2018 catapulted her to international
fame and led to a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of a professor who
travels to Singapore to meet her partner's family and encounters extreme wealth.
More broadly, the movie, based on a novel by Kevin Kwan, was celebrated for
breaking stereotypes and for its Asian American representation.



"AsAms don't talk about mental health enough," Wu said in her statement. "While
we're quick to celebrate representation wins, there's a lot of avoidance around
the more uncomfortable issues within our community."

Adding, "If we want to be seen, really seen . . . we need to let all of
ourselves be seen, including the parts we're scared of or ashamed of - parts
that, however imperfect, require care and attention."

A national study in 2007 reported that while nearly 18% of the general U.S.
population sought mental health services in a 12-month period, only 8.6% of
Asian Americans did so.

Fear of stigma as well as pressure to be a "model minority," to academically
succeed and to care for parents and community were among the issues that led to
mental health stresses, according to psychiatrists at McLean Hospital, a mental
health hospital in Belmont, Mass.

Almost 20% of American adults - some 50 million people - experienced a mental
health illness in 2019, according to national nonprofit Mental Health America,
with over half of adults not receiving treatment. Suicidal ideation and thoughts
have continued to rise every year since 2011, it added. Echoing other reports,
it found that young White Americans were the most likely to receive mental
health treatment, while "Asian youth were least likely to receive mental health
care."

This week, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline launched a new three-digit
number allowing people to call or text 988 to route them to a hotline of trained
counselors starting Saturday. It will be available across the United States.



Wu also shared details for suicide prevention and support alongside her
statement and added that she had written a memoir "Making a Scene" detailing
more about her life and experiences. She said she hoped her book would "help
people talk about the uncomfortable stuff in order to understand it, reckon with
it, and open pathways to healing."

- - -

If you or someone you know who uses T-Mobile needs help, call the National
Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255) or visit
suicidepreventionlifeline.org. You can also text a crisis counselor by messaging
the Crisis Text Line at 741741.






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KEY LAWYERS INVOLVED IN LITIGATION AGAINST T-MOBILE:







Barrett J. Vahle
Stueve Siegel Hanson, LLP - KCMO
460 Nichols Road
Suite 200
Kansas City, MO 64112
(816) 714-7100
Fax: (816) 714-7101
Email: vahle@stuevesiegel.com
 

Daniel J Mogin
MOGINRUBIN LLP
600 W BROADWAY STE 3300
SAN DIEGO, CA 92101
619-798-5333
Email: dmogin@moginrubin.com

James Pizzirusso
Hausfeld LLP
888 16th Street
Ste 300
Washington, DC 20006
202-540-7200
Fax: 202-540-7201
Email: jpizzirusso@hausfeld.com

Jason T Dennett
TOUSLEY BRAIN STEPHENS
1200 FIFTH AVE STE 1700
SEATTLE, WA 98101
206-682-5600
Fax: 206-682-2992
Email: jdennett@tousley.com

Jennifer M Oliver
MOGINRUBIN LLP
600 W BROADWAY STE 3300
SAN DIEGO, CA 92101
619-798-5361
Email: joliver@moginrubin.com

John Austin Moore
Stueve Siegel Hanson, LLP - KCMO
460 Nichols Road
Suite 200
Kansas City, MO 64112
816-714-7100
Fax: 816-714-7101
Email: moore@stuevesiegel.com

Jonathan L Rubin
MOGINRUBIN LLP (DC)
1615 M ST NW
STE THIRD FL
WASHINGTON, DC 20037
202-630-0616
Email: jrubin@moginrubin.com

Kaleigh N.B. Powell
TOUSLEY BRAIN STEPHENS
1200 FIFTH AVE STE 1700
SEATTLE, WA 98101
206-682-5600
Fax: 206-682-2992
Email: kpowell@tousley.com

Kim D Stephens
TOUSLEY BRAIN STEPHENS
1200 FIFTH AVE STE 1700
SEATTLE, WA 98101
206-682-5600
Email: kstephens@tousley.com

Norman Eli Siegel
Stueve Siegel Hanson, LLP - KCMO
460 Nichols Road
Suite 200
Kansas City, MO 64112
(816) 714-7112
Fax: (816) 714-7101
Email: siegel@stuevesiegel.com

Steven M Nathan
Hausfeld
33 Whitehall Street
Ste 14th Floor
New York, NY 10004
646-357-1100
Fax: 212-202-4322
Email: snathan@hausfeld.com

Timothy Z LaComb
MOGINRUBIN LLP
600 W BROADWAY STE 3300
SAN DIEGO, CA 92101
619-798-5362
Email: tlacomb@moginrubin.com

Beth E Terrell
TERRELL MARSHALL LAW GROUP PLLC
936 N 34TH ST
STE 300
SEATTLE, WA 98103-8869
206-816-6603
Fax: 206-319-5450
Email: bterrell@terrellmarshall.com

John A Yanchunis
MORGAN & MORGAN COMPLEX
LITIGATION GROUP (FL)
201 N FRANKLIN ST 7TH FL
TAMPA, FL 33602
813-223-5505
Email: jyanchunis@ForThePeople.com

Kaitlyn T Holzer
MURPHY & FALCON PA
1 SOUTH ST
STE 30TH FLOOR
BALTIMORE, MD 21202
410-539-6500
Fax: 410-539-6599
Email: kaitlyn.holzer@murphyfalcon.com

Michael Anderson Berry
ARNOLD LAW FIRM
865 HOWE AVE
SACRAMENTO, CA 95825
916-777-7777
Email: aberry@justice4you.com

Nikoletta Sara Mendrinos
1 SOUTH ST
30TH FLOOR
BALTIMORE, MD 21202
410-951-8824
Fax: 410-539-6599
Email:
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Ryan Maxey
MORGAN & MORGAN PA (FL)
201 N FRANKLIN ST STE 700
TAMPA, FL 33602
813-577-4722
Fax: 813-257-0572
Email: rmaxey@forthepeople.com

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MURPHY & FALCON PA
1 SOUTH ST
STE 30TH FLOOR
BALTIMORE, MD 21202
410-539-6500
Fax: 410-539-6599
Email: hassan.murphy@murphyfalcon.com

Carlton R. Jones
Herman Jones LLP
3424 Peachtree Road NE
Suite 1650
Atlanta, GA 30326
404-504-6500
Email: cjones@hermanjones.com

John C. Herman
Duane Morris
1180 W Peachtree Street NW
Suite 700
Atlanta, GA 30309-3448
404-253-6900
Fax: 404-253-6901
Email: JCHerman@duanemorris.com

Peter M. Jones
Herman Jones LLP
3424 Peachtree Road NE
Suite 1650
Atlanta, GA 30326
404-504-6500
Email: pjones@hermanjones.com

Marc J. Held
Lazarowitz & Manganillo LLP
2004 Ralph Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11234
718-531-9700
Fax: 718-444-5768
Email: marcheldesq@gmail.com

Philip M. Hines
Held & Hines, LLP
2004 Ralph Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11234
718-531-9700
Fax: 718-444-5768
Email: phines@heldhines.com

Alexis M Wood
Law Offices of Ronald A Marron APLC
651 Arroyo Drive
San Diego, CA 92103
619-696-9006
Fax: 619-564-6665
Email: alexis@consumersadvocates.com

Amanda Grace Fiorilla
Lowey Dannenberg, P.C.
44 South Broadway, Suite 1100
White Plains, NY 10601
914-733-7266
Email: afiorilla@lowey.com

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Lowey Dannenberg, P.C.
44 South Broadway, Suite 1100
White Plains, NY 10601
(914) 997-0500
Fax: (914) 997-0035
Email: clevis@lowey.com

Kas Larene Gallucci
Law Offices of Ronald A. Marron
651 Arroyo Drive
San Diego, CA 92103
619-696-9006
Email: kas@consumersadvocates.com

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Lowey Dannenberg, P.C.
44 South Broadway, Suite 1100
White Plains, NY 10601
914-997-0500
Email: mmaclean@lowey.com

Ronald A. Marron
Law Offices of Ronald A. Marron
651 Arroyo Drive
San Diego, CA 92103
619-696-9006
Email: ron@consumersadvocates.com

Jonathan Shub
Seeger Weiss, LLP
1515 Market Street
Suite 1380
Philadelphia, PA 19102
(215) 564-2300
Fax: (215) 851-8029
Email: jshub@seegerweiss.com

Anne-Marie E Sargent
CONNOR & SARGENT PLLC
921 HILDEBRAND LANE NE STE 240
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, WA 98110
206-654-4011
Email: aes@cslawfirm.net

Brian C Gudmundson
Zimmerman Reed PLLP
80 South Eighth Street 1100 IDS Center
Minneapolis, MN 55402
612-341-0400
Fax: 612-341-0844
Email: brian.gudmundson@zimmreed.com

Carey Alexander
SCOTT + SCOTT LLP (NY)
THE HELMSLEY BUILDING
230 PARK AVE
STE 17TH FLOOR
NEW YORK, NY 10169
212-223-6444
Email: calexander@scott-scott.com

Erin Green Comite
Scott&Scott, Attorneys at Law, LLP
156 South Main Street
P.O. Box 192
Colchester, CT 06415
860-537-5537
Fax: 860-537-4432
Email: ecomite@scott-scott.com

Gary F Lynch
Lynch Carpenter, LLP
1133 Penn Avenue, 5th Floor
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
412-322-9243
Email: Gary@lcllp.com

Joseph P. Guglielmo
Scott & Scott, Attorneys at Law, LLP
The Helmsley Building
230 Park Avenue
Ste 17th Floor
New York, NY 10169
212-223-6444
Email: jguglielmo@scott-scott.com

MaryBeth V. Gibson
THE FINLEY FIRM PC
3535 PIEDMONT RD BLDG 14 STE 230
ATLANTA, GA 30305
404-320-9979
Fax: 404-320-9978
Email: mgibson@thefinleyfirm.com

Michael J Laird
ZIMMERMAN REED LLP (MN)
1100 IDS CENTER
80 SOUTH 8TH STREET
MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55402
920-915-3328
Email: michael.laird@zimmreed.com

Nicholas A Colella
LYNCH CARPENTER LLP (PA)
1133 PENN AVE 5TE FL
PITTSBURGH, PA 15222
412-322-9243
Email: NickC@lcllp.com

Rachel Kristine Tack
ZIMMERMAN REED LLP (MN)
1100 IDS CENTER
80 SOUTH 8TH STREET
MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55402
612-341-0400
Email: rachel.tack@zimmreed.com

David B Owens
LOEVY & LOEVY
100 S KING STREET STE 100
SEATTLE, WA 98014
312-243-5900
Email: David@loevy.com

Michael Kanovitz
Loevy & Loevy - Chicago
311 North Aberdeen Street
3rd Floor
Chicago, IL 60607
(312) 243-5900
Fax: (312) 243-5902
Email: mike@loevy.com

Scott Drury
LOEVY & LOEVY (IL)
311 N ABERDEEN 3RD FLOOR
CHICAGO, IL 60607
312-243-5900
Email: drury@loevy.com

Ari Basser
POMERANTZ LLP
1100 GLENDON AVE 15TH FL
LOS ANGELES, CA 90067
310-788-8660
Email: abasser@pomlaw.com

Jordan L Lurie
POMERANTZ LLP
1100 GLENDON AVE 15TH FL
LOS ANGELES, CA 90067
212-661-1100
Fax: 917-463-1044
Email: jllurie@pomlaw.com

Samuel M. Ward
Barrack Rodos & Bacine
600 West Broadway
Suite 900
San Diego, CA 92101
619-230-0800
Fax: 619-230-1874
Email: sward@barrack.com

Stephen R Basser
BARRACK RODOS & BACINE
600 W BROADWAY
STE 900
SAN DIEGO, CA 92101
619-230-0800
Email: sbasser@barrack.com

Wright A Noel
CARSON & NOEL PLLC
20 SIXTH AVENUE NORTHEAST
ISSAQUAH, WA 98027
425-395-7786
Email: wright@carsonnoel.com

Gavin P Kassel
Sanford A Kassel Law Offices APLC
Wells Fargo Bank Building
334 West Third Street
San Bernardino, CA 92401-1823
909-884-6451
Fax: 909-884-8032
Email: gkassel@gmail.com

Sanford Alan Kassel
Sanford A Kassel Law Offices APLC
Wells Fargo Bank Building
334 West 3rd Street Suite 207
San Bernardino, CA 92401-1823
909-884-6451
Fax: 909-884-8032
Email: office@skassellaw.com

Shawn C Westrick
Westrick Law Firm
2219 Main Street Suite 463
Santa Monica, CA 90405
310-746-5303
Email: swestrick@westricklawfirm.com

Jason Hartley
HARTLEY LLP
101 W BROADWAY STE 820
SAN DIEGO, CA 92101
619-400-5822
Email: hartley@hartleyllp.com

Laurence D King
Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP
350 Sansome
Ste. 400
San Franciso, CA 94104
(415) 772-4700
Fax: (415) 772-4707
Email: lking@kaplanfox.com

Matthew George
KAPLAN FOX & KILSHEIMER LLP
1999 HARRISON ST STE 1560
OAKLAND, CA 94104
415-772-4700
Email: mgeorge@kaplanfox.com

Cari Campen Laufenberg
KELLER ROHRBACK LLP (WA)
1201 3RD AVE
STE 3200
SEATTLE, WA 98101-3052
206-623-1900
Email: claufenberg@kellerrohrback.com

Christopher L Springer
KELLER ROHRBACK LLP
801 GARDEN ST STE 301
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101
805-456-1496
Email: cspringer@kellerrohrback.com

Derek W. Loeser
Keller Rohrback L.L.P.
1201 Third Ave., #3200
Seattle, WA 98101-3052
206-623-1900
Email: dloeser@kellerrohrback.com

Emma Marguerite Wright
KELLER ROHRBACK LLP (WA)
1201 3RD AVE
STE 3200
SEATTLE, WA 98101-3052
206-257-9229
Email: ewright@kellerrohrback.com

Gretchen Freeman Cappio
Keller Rohrback L.L.P.
1201 Third Ave., #3200
Seattle, WA 98101-3052
206-623-1900
Email: gcappio@KellerRohrback.com

Juli E. Farris
KELLER ROHRBACK
1201 3RD AVE
STE 3200
SEATTLE, WA 98101-3052
206-623-1900
Fax: 206-623-3384
Email: jfarris@KellerRohrback.com

Thomas E Loeser
HAGENS BERMAN SOBOL SHAPIRO
LLP (WA)
1301 2ND AVENUE
STE 2000
SEATTLE, WA 98101
206-623-7292
Fax: 206-623-0594
Email: TomL@hbsslaw.com

Manish Borde
BORDE LAW PLLC
600 STEWART ST, SUITE 400
SEATTLE, WA 98101
206-905-6129
Email: mborde@bordelaw.com

Courtney Maccarone
LEVI & KORSINSKY LLP (NY)
55 BROADWAY
10TH FLOOR
NEW YORK, NY 10006
212-363-7500
Email: cmaccarone@zlk.com

Mark Reich
LEVI & KORSINSKY LLP (NY)
55 BROADWAY
10TH FLOOR STE 10006
NEW YORK, NY 10006
212-363-7500
Email: mreich@zlk.com

Matthew James Ide
7900 SE 28TH STREET, STE 500
MERCER ISLAND, WA 98040
206-625-1326
Fax: 206-622-0909
Email: mjide@yahoo.com

Adam J Zapala
COTCHETT PITRE & MCCARTHY LLP
840 MALCOM RD STE 200
BURLINGAME, CA 94010
650-697-6000
Fax: 650-697-0577
Email: azapala@cpmlegal.com

Elizabeth Tran Castillo
COTCHETT PITRE & MCCARTHY LLP
840 MALCOM RD STE 200
BURLINGAME, CA 94010
650-697-6000
Email: ecastillo@cpmlegal.com

Kaiyi A Xie
COTCHETT PITRE & MCCARTHY LLP
840 MALCOM RD STE 200
BURLINGAME, CA 94010
650-697-6000
Email: kxie@cpmlegal.com

Karin Bornstein Swope
COTCHETT PITRE & MCCARTHY LLP
(SEATTLE)
7511 GREENWOOD AVE N
STE 4057
SEATTLE, WA 98103
206-778-2123
Email: kswope@cpmlegal.com

Reid Wilson Wayman Gaa
COTCHETT PITRE & MCCARTHY LLP
840 MALCOM RD STE 200
BURLINGAME, CA 94010
650-697-6000
Fax: 650-697-0577
Email: rgaa@cpmlegal.com

Amy Elisabeth Keller
DICELLO LEVITT GUTZLER LLC
TEN N DEARBORN ST STE 6TH FL
CHICAGO, IL 60602
312-214-7900
Email: akeller@dicellolevitt.com

James Arthur Ulwick
DICELLO LEVITT GUTZLER LLC
10 N DEARBOR ST 6TH FL
CHICAGO, IL 60602
301-467-6038
Email: julwick@dicellolevitt.com

William B. Federman
Federman & Sherwood
10205 N. Pennsylvania Avenue
Oklahoma City, OK 73120
(405) 235-1560
Fax: (405) 239-2112
Email: wbf@federmanlaw.com

Brian James Dunne
Bathaee Dunne LLP
633 West Fifth Street
26th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90071
213-462-2772
Email: bdunne@bathaeedunne.com

Edward Maxwell Grauman
Bathaee Dunne LLP
7000 North MoPac Expressway, Suite 200
Austin, TX 78731
512-575-8848
Email: egrauman@bathaeedunne.com

Yavar Bathaee
Bathaee Dunne LLP
445 Park Avenue
9th Floor
New York, NY 10022
332-205-7668
Email: yavar@bathaeedunne.com

Laurence M. Rosen
The Rosen Law Firm, P.A.
One Gateway Center, Suite 2600
Newark, NJ 07102
(973) 313-1887
Email: lrosen@rosenlegal.com

Christopher L. Ayers
Seeger Weiss LLP
55 Challenger Road
6th Floor
Ridgefield Park, NJ 07660
973-639-9100
Email: cayers@seegerweiss.com

Joseph H. Meltzer
Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check
LLP
280 King of Prussia Road
Radnor, PA 19087
(610) 667-7706
Fax: (610) 667-7056
Email: jmeltzer@btkmc.com

Kevin G. Cooper
Carella Byrne Cecchi Olstein Brody &
Agnello
5 Becker Farm Road
Roseland, NJ 07068
973-994-1700
Email: kcooper@carellabyrne.com

CHRISTOPHER L. AYERS
SEEGER WEISS LLP
55 Challenger Road
6th Floor
Ridgefield Park, NJ 07660
973-639-9100
Email: cayers@seegerweiss.com

Christopher A. Seeger
Seeger Weiss LLP
55 Challenger Road
6th Floor
Ridgefield Park, NJ 07660
973-639-9100
Fax: 973-639-9393
Email: cseeger@seegerweiss.com

James E. Cecchi
Carella Byrne Bain Gilfillan Cecchi Stewart
& Olstein PC
5 Becker Farm Road
Roseland, NJ 07068
973 994-1700
Fax: 973 994-1744
Email: jcecchi@carellabyrne.com

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Lite DePalma Greenberg & Afanador, LLC
570 Broad Street
Ste 1201
Newark, NJ 07102
973-623-3000
Fax: 973-623-0858
Email: cderenze@litedepalma.com

Jeremy Nathan Nash
Lite DePalma Greenberg & Afanador, LLC
570 Broad Street
Suite 1201
Newark, NJ 07102
973-623-3000
Fax: 973-623-0858
Email: jnash@litedepalma.com

Joseph J. DePalma
Lite DePalma Greenberg & Afanador, LLC
570 Broad Street
Suite 1201
Newark, NJ 07102
973-623-3000
Fax: 973-623-0858
Email: jdepalma@litedepalma.com

Jennifer Marie Oliver
Moginrubin LLP
600 West Broadway, Suite 3300
San Diego, CA 92101
(619) 687-6611
Fax: (619) 687-6610
Email: joliver@moginrubin.com

Molly Brantley
Federman & Sherwood
10205 N. Pennsylvania Ave.
Oklahoma City, OK 73120
405-235-1560
Fax: 405-239-2112
Email: meb@federmanlaw.com

Tyler James Bean
Federman & Sherwood
10205 N Pennsylvania Ave
Oklahoma City, OK 73120
405-235-1560
Email: tjb@federmanlaw.com

Don Springmeyer
Kemp Jones LLP
3800 Howard Hughes Parkway
17th Floor
Las Vegas, NV 89169
702-385-6000
Fax: 702-385-6001
Email: d.springmeyer@kempjones.com

Michael J Gayan
Kemp, Jones & Coulthard, LLP
3800 Howard Hughes Parkway
Las Vegas, NV 89169
702-385-6000
Fax: 702-385-6001
Email: mjg@kempjones.com

Sabita J Soneji
Tycko and Zavareeli LLP
1970 Broadway, Suite 1070
Oakland, CA 94612
510-254-6808

Roger M Townsend
BRESKIN JOHNSON & TOWNSEND
PLLC
1000 SECOND AVENUE, SUITE 3670
SEATTLE, WA 98104
206-652-8660
Fax: 206-652-8290
Email: rtownsend@bjtlegal.com

John T Jasnoch
Scott and Scott LLP
600 West Broadway Suite 3300
San Diego, CA 92101
619-233-4565
Fax: 619-233-0508
Email: jjasnoch@scott-scott.com

Brian P. Murray
Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP
230 Park Avenue
Suite 358
New York, NY 10169
212- 682-5340
Fax: 212-884-0988
Email: bmurray@glancylaw.com

Kevin Francis Ruf
Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP
1925 Century Park East, Suite 2100
Los Angeles, CA 90067
(310) 201-9150
Fax: (310) 201-9160
Email: info@glancylaw.com

Paul C. Whalen
Law Office of Paul C. Whalen
768 Plandome Road
Manhasset, NY 11030
516-426-6870
Email: pcwhalen@gmail.com

Jessica Lynne Lukasiewicz
Thomas & Solomon LLP
693 East Avenue
Rochester, NY 14607
585-272-0540
Fax: 585-272-0574
Email:
jlukasiewicz@theemploymentattorneys.com

 





https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/t-mobile-data-breach-2021-heres-what-it-means-for-securing-your-data/


T-MOBILE DATA BREACH 2021: HERE'S WHAT IT MEANS FOR SECURING YOUR ...

 data-privacy-security-hackers-hacking-unlock-iphone-0991 ... The alleged hacker
behind T-Mobile's latest cyberattack has spoken out about ...


https://www.wired.com/story/t-mobile-hack-data-phishing/


THE T-MOBILE DATA BREACH IS ONE YOU CAN'T IGNORE | WIRED

And given how regularly they happen, it's understandable that you may have
become inured to the news. Still, a T-Mobile breach that hackers ...


https://www.wired.com/story/t-mobile-breach-much-worse-than-it-had-to-be/


THE T-MOBILE BREACH IS MUCH WORSE THAN IT HAD TO BE | WIRED

The vast majority of victims weren't even T-Mobile customers. ... Privacy
advocates have long promoted the concept of data minimization, ...


https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/18/22630446/t-mobile-47-million-data-breach-ssn-pin-pii


T-MOBILE DATA BREACH EXPOSED THE PERSONAL INFO OF MORE ... - THE VERGE

 T-Mobile admitted that a recent data breach exposed info for over 40 million
"former or prospective customers," 7.8 million subscribers, ...


https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/16/t-mobile-confirms-it-was-hacked-after-customer-data-posted-online/


T-MOBILE CONFIRMS IT WAS HACKED AFTER CUSTOMER DATA POSTED ONLINE

T-Mobile has confirmed “unauthorized access” to its systems, days after a
portion of customer data was listed for sale on a known ...



The United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation issued a Transfer
Order on December 3, 2021, assigning MDL No. 3019 to this Court for coordinated
or consolidated pretrial proceedings, and describing this multidistrict
litigation as follows. These putative class actions present common factual
questions concerning an alleged data security breach of T-Mobile’s systems that
was discovered in August 2021 and allegedly compromised the personal information
of approximately 54 million current, former, and prospective customers of
T-Mobile. Common factual questions will include: T-Mobile’s data security
practices and whether those practices met industry standards; how the
malfeasance obtained access to T-Mobile’s system; the extent of the personal
information affected by the breach; when T-Mobile knew or should have known of
the breach; and T-Mobile’s investigation into the breach.

If THE CHINESE SECRET POLICE CAN GET ONE BILLION CITIZENS RECORDS HACKED:


CHINESE POLICE DATABASE HACK LEAKS DATA OF 1 BILLION PEOPLE.. ONE BILLION!!!
...THEN HOW CAN T-MOBILE PROVE THAT THE RECORDS THEY KEEP ON US WON'T BE HACKED
AGAIN, AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!!!


DELETE YOUR RECORDS T-MOBILE!!!!


DISCONNECT ALL YOUR NETWORK AND FEEDBACK LOOPS FROM GOOGLE, FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM,
NETFLIX, YOUTUBE, ETC T-MOBILE!!!!


STOP SELLING DEATH T-MOBILE --- STOP KILLING TEENS AND POWERING MASS SHOOTERS



"GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE: ALEC BALDWIN AND T-MOBILE'S CRAZY TECH KILLS PEOPLE" -
SAY EXPERTS




"LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT HOW MANY SCHOOL SHOOTERS AND MASS PUBLIC SHOOTERS HAD
T-MOBILE ACCOUNTS. DID T-MOBILE ENABLE THE RADICALIZATION OF THOSE KIDS?", ASK
RESEARCHERS...




HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM T-MOBILE TECHNICAL ABUSE:


HTTPS://WWW.PRIVACYTOOLS.IO/




ATTACKS AND CENSORSHIP BY THE T-MOBILE-GOOGLE-ALPHABET-YOUTUBE-FACEBOOK CARTEL:
We have placed more software sensors on more server networks globally than
anyone else has ever announced. When the T-Mobile-Google-Alphabet-YouTube, etc.
Cartel Shadow Bans, DNS re-routes, Hides, Demonetizes, Search Manipulates,
Server Table Edits, Censors, Election Rigs, SEO limits, etc; our links, we
record it, document it technically and report it to every regulatory and
publishing group in the world. We also compile the data into evidence for
lawsuits against the Tech Cartel and each Tec Cartel executive. Our insiders
work at the deepest levels of their operation. It isn't nice to mess with Mother
Nature or Freedom Of Speech. It's worse to run tax evasion, sex trafficking,
dark money funds, real estate fraud and other crimes from inside Google! ----
Our autonomous monitoring applications are on a vast number of co-location
servers, shared hosting ISP's, stand-alone servers and sites around the world
and have been operating for over ten years. We log: 1.) Their search results
compared to other search engines, 2.) Their DNS and spoofing activities, 3.)
Their results on 100 key search terms including search terms of assets,
candidates and business associates connected to the Cartel (ie: "Obama", "Elon
Musk", "Election Results", etc.), 4.) Where the Cartel sends data from users
clicking on their supplied supplied links, 5.) Where fabricated "mole" data that
was injected as user data ultimately ended up later, 6.)The Cartel's election
manipulation attempts, and other metrics. The results prove that the Cartel
abuses the market, the public, privacy rights, politics and human rights. ----

So you tech bad guys, every time you do it, you are just digging your own grave
and giving us all the proof we need to wipe you out, process anti-trust filings
and expose your monopolist, sex trafficking, sociopath owners!

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Some of the experts on our Team told T-Mobile, for decades, that their network
was not secure. What did T-Mobile do? Ignored them and copied their patents and
STILL T-Mobile could not get security technology right? Why? Many think that
T-Mobile sacrificed security for buddy-buddy deals with Google, Facebook,
Instagram, Netflix, YouTube and the other scumbag Silicon Valley Big Tech
consumer data harvesting operations. If that theory is correct, then T-Mobile
CHOSE to harm consumers in a PROFITS-OVER-PUBLIC SAFETY decision! Let's
investigate that!








FACEBOOK, GOOGLE AND INSTAGRAM FACING LAWSUITS FOR TEEN MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS
AFTER CAUSING 5500 TEENS PER DAY TO ATTEMPT SUICIDE


Neumann Law Group is now investigating claims against Meta Platforms, Inc., the
parent company of Facebook and Instagram for their intentional manipulation of
the mental health of young and at-risk users of their products.

In October 2021, a Facebook whistleblower testified to the U.S. Senate how
Facebook, Instagram, and Meta used tactics to manipulate young people into using
their products for extended periods of time and intentionally created a toxic
environment leading to significant psychological harm to America's youth.

Learn More at Neumann Law Group

SEE THIS LINK, THIS HAPPENS EVERY FEW HOURS THANKS TO MARK AND SHERYL: Every few
hours another teen is MURDERED by Facebook/Instagram executives. Nobody does
anything about it because California politicians OWN the stock in
Facebook/Instagram and also get their political campaign cash from
Facebook/Instagram/Google !!! Should Mark Zuckerberg be charged with Homicide?
He knew, for over a decade, that he was killing these kids, but buying a part of
Hawaii is expensive, and he needed the cash!




THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS CAN MAKE INSTAGRAM AND FACEBOOK DISAPPEAR OFF THE
INTERNET, IN ANY 60 SECOND PERIOD, SIMPLY BY ORDERING DOJ TO DELETE THEIR DNS
RECORDS. BOOM! GONE!


DEMAND THAT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS ORDER THE DNS RECORDS FOR INSTAGRAM AND
FACEBOOK DELETED, AND NOT TURNED BACK ON, UNTIL FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM PROVE TO
CONGRESS THAT NO TEENS WILL BE AFFECTED BY THEIR SITES AGAIN!



DO YOU REALLY WANT YOUR KIDS ANYWHERE NEAR FACEBOOK AND THEIR VR SEX PERVERTS?:







 1. Were you a minor when you signed up for Facebook and/or Instagram;

 2. Were you using Facebook and/or Instagram for more than three (3) hours per
    day at that time; and

 3. Have you received documented mental health treatment (with no prior history
    of mental health issues)?
    
    
    

Facebook grilled in Senate hearing over teen mental health - Sheryl Sandberg
knew...

techcrunch.com/.../30/facebook-grilled-in-senate-hearing-over-teen-mental-health

Facebook grilled in Senate hearing over teen mental health. Last night, Facebook
published two annotated slide decks in an attempt to contextualize the documents
that The Wall Street Journal ...



Facebook’s whistleblower report confirms what researchers ...

theverge.com/2021/10/6/22712927/facebook-instagram-teen-mental-health-research

Internal research at Facebook showing that Instagram might be harmful to the
mental health of teen girls is in line with other research in the field. That
complicates efforts to minimize the findings.



This is Facebook’s internal research on the mental health effects of ...

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For several months now, Facebook execs have been kicking around an eerie product
idea few people seem to want: Instagram for Kids.

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profits anyway

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Facebook's internal research shows that teen users' mental health is negatively
impacted by using the company's photo- and video-sharing app, Instagram.

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   teenage prostitutes. Rappers spend 1/2 the day talking young girls on
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GOOGLE WHISTLEBLOWER CLAIMS TECH GIANT'S DEVELOPER STUDIO DIVISION HAS BEEN
INFILTRATED BY 'PEDOPHILIC RELIGIOUS DOOMSDAY CULT' FELLOWSHIP OF FRIENDS THAT
WAS FEATURED IN A SPOTIFY PODCAST SERIES CALLED 'REVELATIONS' LAST YEAR

 * Kevin Lloyd, 34, was a video producer for Google Developer Studio from 2017
   until he was fired in February 2021
 * Lloyd in August 2021 filed a lawsuit at California Superior Court alleging
   that he lost his job because he questioned a 'cult' that many of his
   colleagues joined
 * Earlier this month Lloyd wrote a Medium post about his time at Google, and
   his concerns about Fellowship of Friends
 * Google insist that they are unaware of a person's religious beliefs during
   hiring; Lloyd says they know about the influence of the cult, but turn a
   blind eye 

By Harriet Alexander 

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An apocalyptic 'cult' led by an eccentric misogynist accused of sexual abuse of
young men has taken over a division of Google, a whistleblower has claimed.

Kevin Lloyd, 34, claims that he was fired from his job as a video developer at
Google last year because he began questioning the influence of the cult.

In August, Lloyd filed a discrimination case in California Superior Court,
alleging he was fired for digging into Fellowship of Friends - a group based in
the small Californian town of Oregon House, and whose members made up a large
percentage of employees in his division.



'Plaintiff's preliminary research into Oregon House and the Fellowship of
Friends described the Fellowship as a destructive cult, with a pedophilic leader
who makes false prophecies about the end of the world,' the lawsuit claims.

'Plaintiff became alarmed that Google was involved with and/or financially
supporting such an organization.'

Earlier this month, Lloyd wrote a lengthy description of his case on Medium, and
spoke to The New York Times - who corroborated many of the lawsuit's claims
through interviews with eight current and former employees of the Google
business unit.


 * 
   

Kevin Lloyd, 34, claims he lost his job at Google because he raised concerns
about how many people within the Google Developer Studio were affiliated with
Fellowship of Friends


 * 
   

Google's campus in Mountain View is 180 miles from the small town of Oregon
House, population 1,250 - yet half of the people Lloyd met were from Oregon
House, he said

Lloyd said he began work at Google in 2017, as part of Google Developer Studio
(GDS) - the tech giant's internal production company, making adverts and video
content.

He said it slowly dawned on him that many of the people he met at GDS were from
the same small Californian town, 180 miles north of Google's Silicon Valley
home, in Mountain View.


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The town of Oregon House is home to 1,250 people, and yet Lloyd said he realized
that half of the 25 people he met at GDS were from the same town.

Lloyd said he noticed that many of the outside vendors, such as caterers and
entertainers at corporate events, were also from Oregon House.

In 2018, Lloyd said, he was speaking to a freelancer who was working with them
that day, and was from a town near Oregon House.

Lloyd recalls the freelancer telling him: 'Oregon House isn't a town. It's a
cult.'

He began investigating the freelancer's claim, and said he was shocked by what
he found.

'There are online support groups for former Fellowship of Friends members to
help them process the trauma endured during their membership, as well as
problems that arise after leaving,' Lloyd's lawsuit states.

Fellowship of Friends, which is based in Oregon House, was founded in 1970 by
Robert Earl Burton, a former school teacher in the San Francisco Bay area.

'From its inception the vision of the Fellowship was, and remains, to establish
a practical spiritual organization and to make it available to anyone interested
in pursuing the spiritual work of awakening,' they state on their website.


 * 
   

Robert Earl Burton, now believed to be around 83, founded Fellowship of Friends
in 1970. He has been accused in multiple lawsuits of sexual abuse


 * 
   

Burton is seen with a European artwork purchased with the organization's cash.
Members must give 10 percent of their earnings to the group

Burton, believed to be now aged in his early 80s, sought to create a center
celebrating the fine arts - with opera, ballet, works of art and literature the
focus.

He based his organization in Oregon House, and created a winery where his
devotees worked, when not studying the arts.

Google even purchased wine, the lawsuit claims, from the Grant Marie Winery, an
allegedly cult-affiliated vineyard run by a Fellowship member in Oregon House. 

But critics claimed that he had sexually abused new members of his group - in
particular young boys.

In 1984 a former member filed a $2.75 million lawsuit claiming that young men
who joined the organization 'had been forcefully and unlawfully sexually seduced
by Burton,' according to documents obtained by The New York Times.

In 1996, another former member accused Burton in a law suit of sexual misconduct
with him while he was minor. Both suits were settled out of court.

Some accusers, Lloyd alleged, had been flown to the country under false
pretenses and then abused.


 * 
   

Members of Fellowship of Friends are seen with Burton (left, in pale blue suit)
holding a meeting


WHAT IS FELLOWSHIP OF FRIENDS?

Founded on January 1, 1970 by San Francisco school teacher Robert Earl Burton,
Fellowship of Friends is a non-profit religious organization, headquartered in
Oregon House, California.

Burton based his faith system on a philosophy called the Fourth Way, founded by
an Armenian philosopher and mystic, George Gurdjieff, who lived from 1866 to
1949. 

Burton adopted Gurdjieff's believe that people are in a hypnotic 'waking sleep',
and need to work on themselves through studying art, music and literature.

He named his 1,200-acre headquarters Apollo, and his 1,800 followers gave 10
percent of their earnings to the organization - which spent the money on art,
fine wine and culture. 

Critics have filed lawsuits claiming sexual abuse.

Other critics said that the group was strongly anti-women, and celebrated white
European men above all.

In September, investigative journalist Jennings Brown published a six-part
podcast produced for Spotify, entitled Revelations.

Brown had spent three years from 2018 digging into the group, and documented
allegations of sexual abuse in what he termed a 'doomsday cult'.

Lloyd said he was aghast that GDS was so strongly linked to the Fellowship, with
GDS's director, Peter Lubbers, described as a longtime member of the group, who
joined shortly after he moved to the U.S. from the Netherlands.

Lubbers introduced a video producer named Gabe Pannell to the Fellowship:
Pannell was pictured with Burton in 2015, and described as a 'new student', The
New York Times report.

Lloyd's lawsuit states: 'Mr Lubbers gained status and praise relative to the
increase of money flowing to the Fellowship through his efforts at Google that
put (and kept) other Fellowship members — directly or indirectly — on Google's
payroll.' 

Lubbers insisted faith had nothing to do with his hiring. 

'My personal religious beliefs are a deeply held private matter,' Lubbers told
The New York Times.

'In all my years in tech, they have never played a role in hiring. I have always
performed my role by bringing in the right talent for the situation — bringing
in the right vendors for the jobs.'

Pannell told the paper that those hired were brought in from 'a circle of
trusted friends and families with extremely qualified backgrounds'.

Lloyd, in his Medium post - which does not name Lubbers or Pannell - said that
anxiety about the Fellowship, and its reputation, sparked a panic attack, for
which he was admitted to ER.

He said in his court documents that he worried events he produced 'could somehow
be used to funnel money back into the Fellowship of Friends.'


 * 
   

Burton is seen in a 1981 photo at Oregon House. In 1984, a former member filed a
$2.75 million lawsuit claiming that young men who joined the organization 'had
been forcefully and unlawfully sexually seduced by Burton,' according to
documents obtained by The New York Times. The suit was settled out of court

Fired in February 2021, he has retained a lawyer who previously represented a
woman at Lubbers' previous company, Kelly Services, and sued in 2008 in a
similar case.

Lynn Noyes claimed that Kelly Services had failed to promote her because she was
not a member of the Fellowship.

A California court awarded her $6.5 million in damages. 

'Anyone outside of the Fellowship is seen as somehow inferior and at times
adversarial,' Lloyd's lawsuit says.

 'Those that express serious concerns, criticism or question the group may be
eventually perceived as enemies.' 

Google told The New York Times that they were barred by law from inquiring about
someone's religious practices during the hiring process.

'We have longstanding employee and supplier policies in place to prevent
discrimination and conflicts of interest, and we take those seriously,' a Google
spokeswoman, Courtenay Mencini, said in a statement.

'It's against the law to ask for the religious affiliations of those who work
for us or for our suppliers, but we'll of course thoroughly look into these
allegations for any irregularities or improper contracting practices.

'If we find evidence of policy violations, we will take action.' 

Fellowship of Friends was approached for comment.















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FAMILIES:



Leaked Videos Show Disney And T-Mobile Is the Biggest Ad Tech Privacy Abuse Spy
Scandal You've Never Heard Of

Watch beloved Disney and Star Wars characters explain how the company offers
clients the ability to use Disney data and target particular audiences including
little kids.

by Joseph Cox

Disney Luminate

Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard's podcast and
reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet.

The Muppets' Bunsen and Beaker are best known for science experiments gone wrong
while they're explaining the nature of the universe; in videos obtained by
Motherboard, however, they're explaining something else altogether: Targeted
online advertising.

“I’m tickled pink to announce a solution to all of your digital ad buying
needs,” Bunsen says in the video. “Imagine a data powered solution that unlocks
Disney’s portfolio of premium content and diverse audiences at scale, with
automated flexible buying through a single storefront.”
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“The answer is Disney Advertising Sales Programmatic,” Bunsen adds.

In another video, Baymax from Disney’s Big Hero 6 explains how the company is
focused on providing “ad experiences that are non-disruptive, relevant, and
highly personalized.”

“Hulu mined the data on how viewers watch, and then pioneered non-disruptive ad
formats, with pause and binge ads that respond to viewer behaviors and create a
relevant ad experience,” they continue. They add that ESPN introduced new
shorter and skippable ad formats that “meet the needs of today’s viewers” which
encourage “increased audience consumption.”

The videos show that Disney and its ever-expanding portfolio of properties,
which includes ABC, Hulu, ESPN, National Geographic, and FX, sees itself as a
serious player in the world of ad tech. It's an industry that has been
traditionally dominated by Facebook and Google, but Amazon recently showed it's
become an ad giant as well. Some of the videos, created for an internal audience
of sales employees at Disney, explain all of this through the words of some of
the company’s most popular franchises, including The Incredibles, Star Wars, and
more.

“Luminate is Disney’s powerful suite of advanced advertising products, all
fuelled by a proprietary data library that leads the market in scope and
quality,” Edna Mode, a character from The Incredibles, says in another video.

Although Disney’s move into ad tech is not brand new—a Disney spokesperson
pointed to a few Disney blog posts dating over the last several years when asked
for comment—the videos provide descriptions of Disney’s ad business that the
public doesn’t ordinarily get to see. That, and their release come at a time
when other companies which are traditionally known for creating their own
content or for acquiring intellectual property are also exploring how to get
into the world of ads.
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After long saying it would never do so, Netflix is now exploring a cheaper
ad-supported version. Disney, for its part, has already figured out parts of
this, boasting in the videos about the success rate of its ads on Hulu, which
Disney has majority ownership of.

Do you have any more documents from an ad tech company? We'd love to hear from
you. Using a non-work phone or computer, you can contact Joseph Cox securely on
Signal on +44 20 8133 5190, Wickr on josephcox, OTR chat on jfcox@jabber.ccc.de,
or email joseph.cox@vice.com.

And beyond entertainment companies, more tech giants have shifted into ad tech
as well. Amazon, which is of course most well known for its online store and web
infrastructure, is now also in the ad business. Everyone just wants to be an ad
tech company, it seems.

Another Disney video, which is publicly accessible and from over two years ago,
hints at the sort of data Disney has explored using. The video uses a Star Wars
theme and says that Disney had plans to use credit card data and “survey-based
pharma data.” The video starts with the iconic Star Wars scrolling text, and
calls itself “Star Wars Episode X: The Rise of Audience Segments.”
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In that video, Dana McGraw, senior vice president, audience modeling and data
science at Disney, says that Disney can append third-party data to its own
Disney data. “For example, we license data to provide retail purchase
information and psychographics about Disney visitors.”

She then adds that “we also work with geolocation data vendors.”

Another video mentions “Hulu Attribution Tool” under a section called “Disney
Advanced Measurement.” It also describes the automated store where advertisers
can purchase advertising space inside Disney properties. This video includes
breakdowns from Disney executives such as Rita Ferro, president of Disney Ad
Sales.

“I know so many of you recognise Disney as an entertainment leader of award
winning franchises and stories that capture the hearts and minds of consumers
around the world. But in the next hour, you will see why we are also leading the
way in enabling advertising experiences that drive innovation, precision, and
impact,” Ferro says in the clip.








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Conservative activist Christopher Rufo said in a tweet monday, “Disney has had
employees arrested for child sex crimes in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017,
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022—in other words, at least once a year for the
past decade.”

FACT CHECK: Were 108 Disney World Employees Arrested For Child Sex ...

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A March 18 tweet claims 108 of the resort’s employees were recently arrested for
child sex trafficking. “ Damn 108 of @WaltDisneyWorld employees were arrested
for adolescent sex trafficking WTF is really going on,” reads the tweet. This
claim is misleading.

35 Disney Employees Arrested On Child Sex Charges In Less Than 10 Years

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Jul 15, 2014, 10:05 AM EDT | Updated Dec 6, 2017 At least 35 Disney employees in
and around Florida have been arrested and accused of sex crimes involving
children since 2006, CNN reports as part of a six-month investigation. So far,
32 of those cases have resulted in convictions.

WHISTLEBLOWER: Hundreds of Disney Employees Have Been Busted for Sex ...

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A Walt Disney Company whistleblower made a bombshell claim on Monday when she
revealed that hundreds of employees have been arrested for child sex crimes
throughout the years, and the company has...

Disney employees among 108 arrested in Florida human trafficking sting ...

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T‑Mobile and Disney StudioLAB Team Up to Advance Storytelling ...
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March 23, 2022 With a new 5‑year innovation partnership, Disney Studios
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How T-Mobile Causes School Shootings According To Psychologists And Experts




The highest murder rate in decades. The highest rates of robbery and rape. It’s
no wonder a young man with mental health issues committed a horrendous act of
violence.

2018?

No. 1980. T-Mobile has been doing this since 1980!

In 1980, the murder rate (murders per 100,000 population) was 10.2. If we could
only go back to a more peaceful time. Say … 1960. Except 1960 was more violent
than 2016 (the last year full details are available) — 5.1 murders per 100,000
compared to 5.0.

What can explain the actions of the accused Florida shooter, Nikolas Cruz? What
else did Cruz have unlimited access to, that could have had an influence on him?

Social media. Especially access to violent and harmful social media.

Nikolas Cruz allegedly did everything except call law enforcement with the exact
date, time and location of his intended massacre. Criminals don’t make
appointments, but they do leave clues. Nikolas Cruz did — a ton of them,
online: 

 * Instagram pictures of mutilated frogs, weapons and knives.

 * “I whana (sic) shoot people with my AR-15”

 * “I wanna (sic) die Fighting killing s**t ton of people”

 * “I am going to kill law enforcement one day they go after the good people.”

 * “Im (sic) going to be a professional school shooter.” Signed with his real
   name.

 * “I could have done better,” referencing a mass shooting in New York

 * Using his real name in his Instagram accounts — @cruz_nikolas and
   @nikolascruzmakarov.

 * Snapchat (now Snap) video showing Cruz cutting his arms.

The real reason the FBI and local law enforcement didn’t connect the dots is
because they don’t fully understand the new dots of social media. To grasp how
social media can have such a massive impact, compare its growth and the tragic
increase in the suicide rate for children and teens ages 10-19.

Since 2010, the monthly active users for Facebook has grown 300 percent to over
2 billion and for Twitter, 511 percent to 330 million. Since 2013, Whatsapp has
grown 225 percent to over 1.4 billion and Instagram, 433 percent to 800 million.
Since 2014, Snap has grown 159 percent to 187 million and Facebook Messenger,
140 percent to 1.2 billion.

YouTube is a little different. Watching video doesn’t need an account. To put
this behemoth in perspective, there are 300 hours of video uploaded every
minute. There are over 30 million visitors per day watching 5 billion videos.

From 2007 to 2015 (the last year data are available) the suicide rate for boys
ages 10-14 increased 200 percent; for girls ages 10-14, 320 percent; for boys
ages 15-19, 127 percent and for girls 15-19, 204 percent. Suicide went from the
fourth leading cause of death for boys ages 10-14 to second. For girls ages
10-14, it went from sixth to third. Suicide passed homicide as the second
leading cause of death for boys ages 15-19, and jumped from fourth to second for
girls ages 15-19.  

Consider further the lessening risks our children and teens face from homicide,
compared to their risk for suicide, according to data from the FBI and CDC:

Fact 1: The homicide rate for 10-14 year olds in 2015 was half of what it was in
1979 (.05 vs .10).

Fact 2: The suicide rate for 10-14 year olds in 2015 is almost double what it
was in 1979 (.13 vs .07). It’s the highest rate in over 36 years.

Fact 3: The homicide rate for 15-19 year olds in 2015 is almost half of what is
was in 1979 (.45 vs .95).

Fact 4: The suicide rate for 15-19 year olds in 2015 was 21 percent lower than
in 1979 (.63 vs .79). Starting in 2007, the suicide rate began increasing after
18 years of dropping. The homicide rate also peaked that same year. In 2011,
suicide overtook homicide as a cause of death for both boys and girls age 15-19.
Suicide has become the second leading cause of death for boys since 2008, and
since 2013 for girls.

Children ages 10-19 are statistically twice as safe from homicide as they were
36 years ago, even though the population has increased 45 percent (225 million
in 1979 to 325 million in 2015).

The deluge of negative social media can’t be ignored when the suicide rates for
our children have increased on average 212 percent since 2007. Which begins to
explain how Nikolas Cruz may have ended up with his warped view of reality.

Garbage in — garbage out.

Take Instagram as an example, where Cruz is alleged to have made many of his
posts. Searching by hashtags reveals much of the violence, negative influence
and harmful aspects. Want to see pictures of teens committing self-harm by
cutting themselves with razors? Check #selfharmmm. Over 2 million posts. Cruz is
thought to have also posted to Snap a video of cutting himself.

Another hashtag of #suicidal has over 4.7 million posts. And #suicide has over 7
million posts. On the morning of the shootings, I was conducting research of
several posts on Instagram. The following, unrelated to the shooting, was posted
on Feb. 14, shortly before 9 a.m. EST; the shootings at Douglas High School
didn’t begin until about 2 p.m. EST:

I had been heads-down working on some large projects on Feb. 14: No news, no
social media, no web surfing. I recorded this Facebook Live around 6 p.m., still
unaware of the shootings. I showed this picture of the Instagram post and asked
what parents would do if they saw their children had posted this. In fact, I had
completed a guide on Instagram called Talking in Code: Instagram Hashtags-What
You Don’t Know and Why It’s Dangerous. 

In her book “iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids are Growing up Less
Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy — and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood
— and What This Means for the Rest of Us,” Jean Twenge, PhD and professor of
psychology at San Diego State University, conducted fascinating research into
the generation Nikolas Cruz is smack in the middle of.

Her research showed that today’s connected 18-years-olds are more like
14-year-olds and 8th graders who spend 10 or more hours a week on social media
are 56 percent more likely to be unhappy than those who don’t.

Teens are physically safer than ever, yet they are more mentally vulnerable.

Violence in — violence out.

I, Morgan Wright am an expert on cybersecurity strategy, cyberterrorism,
identity theft and privacy. He’s currently a Senior Fellow at the Center for
Digital Government. Previously Morgan was a senior advisor in the U.S. State
Department Antiterrorism Assistance Program and senior law enforcement advisor.

The recent suicides of Ritu Sachdeva and Hillary "Kate" Kuizon, both 17-year-old
seniors at Plano East Senior High School, in Plano, Texas, as well as those of
two students at a prestigious all-boy preparatory high school in Bronx, N.Y.
underscore the disturbing increase in suicide amongst young people— up at least
13 percent from 2010.

The reasons for this increase will be the subject of research studies for years,
but I have a theory, which comes from my work with patients in this age group.

For some time now, I have noted that young people— including adolescents,
teenagers and those in their 20s— are disconnected from the reality of their own
existences. Facebook, Twitter, Tinder and the like have made them think of
themselves as mini-reality-TV versions of themselves. Too many of them see their
lives as a series of flickering photos or quick videos. They need constant doses
of admiration and constant confirmation of their tenuous existence, which come
in the form of Facebook “likes” and Twitter “retweets.”

This substitution of media for real meaning has not only been shown to weaken
their self-esteem and their ability to sustain themselves through adversity, but
it can cheapen the value they assign to life in general— including their own
lives. If all the world is a stage of pixels, and young people see themselves as
their tweets and Snapchat photos, then taking a fist-full of pills could seem
like no more than the equivalent of shutting down a Facebook account or turning
off an iPhone.

Call it, “Suicide by Social Media.”

See, to the extent that one is never truly alive, one can entertain the notion
of killing oneself, without the normal psychological hurdles. People do not long
grieve the death of fictional characters in film or TV. And our young people are
at risk of seeing themselves as no more solid or substantive.

This is one reason, by the way, that drugs like heroin are rampant. Heroin kills
real feelings. And young people are, increasingly, strangers to dealing with
real feelings. Heroin is just the powdered equivalent of text messaging,
YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and the rest of the technology drugs Americans—
especially American teen— are mainlining every single day.

This is one reason why young people are increasingly fascinated with dramas
about vampires and zombies. They know something about the walking dead.


MORE ON THIS...

 * The science of suicide clustering: How silence can increase stigma

 * Suicide risk factors for US Army soldiers identified

 * 3rd-generation Marine on a mission to bring awareness to veteran suicide

Yes, they try to insulate themselves by having more and more and more sex, with
more and more partners, but, ultimately, that doesn’t convince them they are
more than their bodies. To fully want to live, to fully resist death, even
amidst adversity, one must be convinced that one has a soul and a true destiny.

The recent suicides of Ritu Sachdeva and Hillary "Kate" Kuizon, both 17-year-old
seniors at Plano East Senior High School, in Plano, Texas, as well as those of
two students at a prestigious all-boy preparatory high school in Bronx, N.Y.
underscore the disturbing increase in suicide amongst young people— up at least
13 percent from 2010.

The reasons for this increase will be the subject of research studies for years,
but I have a theory, which comes from my work with patients in this age group.

For some time now, I have noted that young people— including adolescents,
teenagers and those in their 20s— are disconnected from the reality of their own
existences. Facebook, Twitter, Tinder and the like have made them think of
themselves as mini-reality-TV versions of themselves. Too many of them see their
lives as a series of flickering photos or quick videos. They need constant doses
of admiration and constant confirmation of their tenuous existence, which come
in the form of Facebook “likes” and Twitter “retweets.”

This substitution of media for real meaning has not only been shown to weaken
their self-esteem and their ability to sustain themselves through adversity, but
it can cheapen the value they assign to life in general— including their own
lives. If all the world is a stage of pixels, and young people see themselves as
their tweets and Snapchat photos, then taking a fist-full of pills could seem
like no more than the equivalent of shutting down a Facebook account or turning
off an iPhone.

Call it, “Suicide by Social Media.”

See, to the extent that one is never truly alive, one can entertain the notion
of killing oneself, without the normal psychological hurdles. People do not long
grieve the death of fictional characters in film or TV. And our young people are
at risk of seeing themselves as no more solid or substantive.

This is one reason, by the way, that drugs like heroin are rampant. Heroin kills
real feelings. And young people are, increasingly, strangers to dealing with
real feelings. Heroin is just the powdered equivalent of text messaging,
YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and the rest of the technology drugs Americans—
especially American teen— are mainlining every single day.

This is one reason why young people are increasingly fascinated with dramas
about vampires and zombies. They know something about the walking dead.


MORE ON THIS...

 * The science of suicide clustering: How silence can increase stigma

 * Suicide risk factors for US Army soldiers identified

 * 3rd-generation Marine on a mission to bring awareness to veteran suicide

Yes, they try to insulate themselves by having more and more and more sex, with
more and more partners, but, ultimately, that doesn’t convince them they are
more than their bodies. To fully want to live, to fully resist death, even
amidst adversity, one must be convinced that one has a soul and a true destiny.

Facebook will never achieve that. Neither will Twitter. Or Snapchat. Or YouTube.
Or any other sorry excuse for communication, connection, admiration, respect or
love.

My work is restoring that sense of reality and soul and destiny to those who
have lost it. And too many young people— who are disciples of nothing more than
technology— have lost it. For them, horrifically, precipitating their own deaths
feels like little more than scripting the suicides of actors. And the
expressions of grief from “friends” who then inscribe their posthumous Facebook
pages are just a bunch of nonsense that perpetuates the epidemic.

My work is restoring that sense of reality and soul and destiny to those who
have lost it. And too many young people— who are disciples of nothing more than
technology— have lost it. For them, horrifically, precipitating their own deaths
feels like little more than scripting the suicides of actors. And the
expressions of grief from “friends” who then inscribe their posthumous Facebook
pages are just a bunch of nonsense that perpetuates the epidemic.

T-Mobile’s partnership, hosting, promoting, networking, embedding of apps and
political tricks with Silicon Valley social media companies is killing the
world!




HOW ADOLPH HITLER CREATED T-MOBILE TO SPY ON JEWS AND PUSH PROPAGANDA


After Adolf Hitler came to power in January 1933, the Bundespost became an
instrument of the Nazi totalitarian state and, as such, its propaganda machine.
Letters and telephone calls were routinely intercepted and used to identify Jews
and dissidents. During World War II telephone services of theBundespost
continued to function right up until Allied occupation in all areas of Germany.
However, the service was in chaos by the time of Germany’s surrender on May 7,
1945. Of the 3,420 buildings the Bundespost had owned before the war, 1,483 had
been completely destroyed or damaged by bombing between 1940 and 1945, as well
as during the fighting within Germany before its surrender. Many of its former
personnel were dead or missing, and many telephone lines were cut.

As U.S., British, and Soviet forces assumed control of government, they also
took over postal and telephone services. Between 1945 and 1947, political rifts
and eventually the Cold War broke out between the Western allies and the Soviet
Union. In 1947 the British and American occupation zones were merged for
economic purposes, and administration began to be handed back to the Germans.
The Soviets’ refusal to participate in the currency reforms of June 1948 and the
Berlin blockade meant that a unified postal structure for all occupation zones
was doomed. Postal services in the eastern part of Germany were turned over to
the new East German state established by the Soviets in 1949. An elected
Parliamentary council from all three western zones met at Bonn on September 1,
1948 to draw up the West German constitution or Basic Law. In April 1949, U.S.,
British, and French governments guaranteed full powers of self-government to the
new West German state. The Bundespost was reborn as a state body under the
control of a cabinet ministry and assumed control over posts, telephones, and
telegraphs in the new Federal Republic of Germany. The new constitution
specifically forbade the privatization of posts and telecommunications.

During the 1950s the Bundespost had to rebuild its communications network and
hundreds of post office buildings. Much of prewar Germany’s communications had
centered on east-west communication networks between Berlin and western
industrial cities. The new West Germany was a long, narrow country in which many
lines of communication now ran north-south. West Berlin had become an isolated
city in an alien country. After the war, the division into different occupation
zones had fragmented communications and delayed the formation of an integrated
network.

The reconstruction of the telephone service was accomplished by the end of 1951,
but installation of new private telephones was slow. By 1952, there were still
only five telephones per 100 inhabitants in Germany, compared to 28 and 11 per
100 inhabitants in the United States and Britain, respectively. By the 1960s,
however, Germany’s communications network had been fully restored, and telephone
subscribership was on a par with other industrial countries. As postwar
Germany’s prosperity rose, the demand for telecommunication services grew. The
Bundespost invested in satellite communications; new transatlantic self-dialing
facilities from Bonn, Frankfurt, and Munich became available in 1970.

Attempts to free the Bundespost, including its telephone service, from political
control date back to the 1920s. Around that time the government of the Weimar
Republic was looking for a structure that would allow the Bundespost a measure
of independence as a profit-making organization. In 1924, laws were passed
allowing the Bundespost a considerable degree of financial autonomy from
government control. The success of this reform, however, was restricted by
interference from politicians and trade unions, and was finally reversed
altogether by the Nazis.

The issue came up again when Germany experienced an unprecedented economic boom
after World War II and many business and consumer groups began criticizing the
post office monopoly for inefficiency. A 1970 law formally stated that the
monopoly had been effectively superseded by a reservation that prevented the
establishment of a rival undertaking, but little changed. In 1973 a further
reform, the Postal Organization Act, limited government intervention in the
Bundespost “only to what is politically necessary and to facilitate post office
management.” Under the new structure, the Bundespost was headed by an executive
committee assisted by a supervisory council. The committee, however, remained
responsible to the government.

German business continued to complain that the Bundespost’s phone network was
inefficient and expensive and that German manufacturers might be disadvantaged
by a backward telecommunications market. However, several powerful interest
groups opposed change for fear of job losses and disappearance of preferential
treatment under a more competitive system that included: the Social Democratic
Party; the postal union Deutsche Postgewerkschaft; the Bavarian State
Government; large contract suppliers to the Bundespost, including the German
electronic giant Siemens AG; and the Bundespost’s employees, who enjoyed the
status of civil servants with considerable job security and pension benefits.


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Pressures from both the European Community (EC) and the United States finally
forced Bonn to make recommendations about the future of the Bundespost. Under
Chancellor Kohl’s Christian Democrat-dominated government, the so-called Witte
Commission began to explore the possibility of privatization in 1985 and
presented a report in September 1987. The commission recommended the opening of
the telecommunications equipment and services market to outside bidders, a
change that was likely to be required by EC competition law. The Bundespost
would continue to operate in all its present fields, but some competition would
be allowed in radio paging, mobile telephones, modems, videotext, and some
satellite systems. However, the basic telephone monopoly, which earned 90
percent of the Bundespost’s telecommunications income, would beretained. The
commission also recommended that the Bundespost be divided into three
businesses: Postdienst (postal services), Postbank (bank services), and Telekom
(telecommunications), with a minimal level of political interference above the
level of their respective management boards.

The report drew criticism from both sides; while liberals condemned it for not
going far enough, opponents claimed it went too far. As a result, the original
proposals were heavily altered before the new law passed the Bundestag,
Germany’s parliament, in 1989. Deutsche Bundespost, was divided into three
separate companies: Deutsche Bundespost Postdienst, Deutsche Bundespost
Postbank, and Deutsche Bundespost Telekom. Each company had its own board of
management and separate accounts. However, a common directorate was added
between the three businesses and a proposal for incentive-based pay was limited.
The Ministry of Posts and Communication still had ultimate supervisory and
regulatory authority in the public interest.

What the postal reformers could not foresee was the collapse of East Germany in
November 1989 and Germany’s reunification in October 1990. German reunification
brought with it the integration of East Germany’s own telecommunications
monopoly, Deutsche Post, into the Bundespost. It soon became apparent that the
necessary infrastructure investment was much larger than previously anticipated.
Only 10 percent of East Germany’s households had a telephone, compared to 98
percent of West Germany’s. East Germans who applied for a telephone line often
waited ten years and longer to get it. By 1989 the number of applications had
risen to 1.3 million. More than 3,500 small East German towns were left without
a public phone. Every call to West Germany was channeled through one of 15
connection centers to East Berlin’s foreign connections office which was
equipped with 111 lines to the West. Moreover, much of the existing East German
telephone equipment predated World War II. Small wonder this bottleneck brought
the quickly increasing telephone communication from East to West close to
breakdown.

Within six months Deutsche Bundespost Telekom launched its ambitious Telekom
2000 program, a seven-year investment plan of DM 60 billion. The program not
only aimed for bringing the telecommunications network of former East Germany up
to Western standards, but also for installing a state-of-the-art infrastructure
good enough to meet the demands of the year 2000 and beyond. Telekom emerged as
one of the biggest employers in eastern Germany. The company took over almost
all employees from Deutsche Post’s Telekom division. Up to 4,000 of Deutsche
Bundespost Telekom’s employees were sent to eastern Germany to support their new
colleagues.

To make telephone connections available quickly, Telekom made it a priority to
establish a mobile telecommunication infrastructure in the eastern part of
Germany. Its C- and the new digital D1-cell phone networks reached 80 percent of
the population in the eastern German states by the end of 1991. Three years
later former East Germany was covered by Telekom’s digital mobile phone network.
In August 1992 uniform area codes were introduced for the whole country. In
mid-1991 Telekom established a digital overlay-network over the existing analog
long-distance network. The first digital connection centers were set up in eight
eastern German economic centers. From there the digital network was gradually
expanded and by 1993 the number of telephone connections between East and West
had grown from under 1,000 to 30,000.

In the final phase of the program Telekom technicians worked around the clock to
finish the task. It took some 40,000 kilometers of optic fiber cable to build
the new digital long-distance network and over ten million kilometers of copper
cable to expand the 1,500 local networks. By 1997, Telekom 2000 had reached its
goals. The telephone network in the eastern German states was fully digitized
and the number of telephone connections had quadrupled since 1990. According to
Deutsche Telekom, the former East Germany had the most modern and efficient
telecommunications infrastructure in the world.

The enormous costs of updating the former East German telephone system caused
many opposition politicians to drop their objections against privatizing
Deutsche Bundespost. Privatization was increasingly regarded as a way to make
profits and increase efficiency, and the support of the Social Democrats for the
two-thirds majority vote in the Bundestag necessary to make changes in the
constitution became more likely. In September 1991, the Social Democrat party
said it would support privatization under certain circumstances. The
negotiations that followed went slowly. Whenever a compromise was in sight, the
party added new demands to its list.

Key Dates: 1877: Heinrich von Stephan puts telephone services under the control
of his postal authority. 1912: Germany’s telephone network is laid underground.
1933: The Nazis take over control of the Post Office. 1949: Deutsche Bundespost
assumes control over posts, telephones, and telegraphs in the new Federal
Republic of Germany. 1989: New legislation passes the German parliament, and
Deutsche Bundespost Telekom is established. 1990: The telecommunications
companies of former East and West Germany are merged. 1994: The Posts and
Telecommunications Reorganization Act passes the governing bodies. 1995:
Deutsche Bundespost Telekom becomes a public stock company and is renamed
Deutsche Telekom AG. 1996: Deutsche Telekom shares are traded at the New York
Stock Exchange for the first time. 1997: The telephone network in the eastern
German states is fully digitized. 1998: The German fixed-network telephone
market is opened to competition. 2001: Deutsche Telekom takes over American
mobile phone service providers VoiceStream and Powertel.

Helmut Ricke, Telekom’s CEO since 1990, and his management team decided to move
ahead and completely reorganize Telekom. In September 1992 the company abandoned
the governmentagency structure, and six months later Ricke presented a more
customer-focused organization. Throughout the company he established separate
divisions for private and business customers and a third one for key accounts.
In mid-1993 Telekom spun off its mobile telecommunications business as a private
company, Deutsche Telekom Mobilfunk GmbH (DeTeMobil), allowing it to better
compete in the already liberalized market for mobile phone services. Meanwhile,
the Christian Democrat Minister of Postal Services and Telecommunications,
Christian Schwarz-Schilling, who had worked relentlessly for postal reform,
resigned suddenly and was succeeded by Wolfgang Botsch.

The final impulse for Telekom’s privatization came from the EC. At a meeting in
Brussels in May 1993 Botsch and his European colleagues decided to open their
markets for network-based telephone communication to competition by 1998. Six
months later a new proposal for postal reform was presented in Bonn. The postal
workers’ union fought Telekom’s privatization until the end and organized a
major strike in late spring of 1994. However, in July 1994 the Posts and
Telecommunications Reorganization Act passed the Bundestag and the Bundesrat,
the German parliament’s upper house. However, the law required the German
government to be the majority shareholder in the former Bundespost companies for
at least five more years and extended the monopolies for postal and phone
services until the end of 1997. On January 1st, 1995, Deutsche Bundespost
Telekom was transformed into a public stock company and renamed Deutsche Telekom
AG.

Just a few weeks before Telekom’s transformation into a public stock company,
Helmut Ricke, who had put the reunited Deutsche Telekom on the track to
privatization, resigned as CEO. Ex-Sony manager Ron Sommer became the company’s
new chairman, and his first big task was to attract investors who would buy
Telekom shares at the company’s initial public offering (IPO). As a monopolist,
Deutsche Bundespost Telekom had been a profitable business with considerable
yields for the German federal budget. However, its capital base had suffered
badly in the early 1990s because of the necessary infrastructure investments. An
additional burden was the cost for its civil servants for whom Telekom had to
pay the difference between the retirement benefits they received from public
funds and 75 percent of their final salary. In 1994, the company’s budget for
retirement benefits exceeded the budget for basic salaries by 50 percent.

Deutsche Telekom launched a huge image campaign to attract private German
investors, including a new “T” logo and brand name. Telekom’s top management
courted the world’s largest banks as well as other large institutional and
private investors. In the United States alone, Telekom organized 17 “road
shows.” Both measures were extremely successful. Within two years of its
introduction, the pink “t” was recognized by nine out of ten Germans as
Telekom’s logo. Some 400,000 Germans bought Telekom shares which were termed
T-Aktien or T-Shares. Some banks placed orders worth between DM 500 million and
DM 1 billion.

On November 18th, 1996, the largest European IPO to date took place. After the
first Telecom stock quote was announced at Germany’s major stock exchange in
Frankfurt am Main, the CEO, together with CFO Joachim Kroske, jetted to New York
to be present at an IPO party at the Guggenheim Museum where Liza Minelli sang
“Money Makes the World Go Round” under a dome of pink light. The heavily
oversubscribed shares debuted at 19 percent over issue price on the first
trading day. The more than 700 million T-shares sold to private investors
accounted for about one-quarter of Deutsche Telekom’s share capital. The rest
was still held by the German government. An agreement guaranteed that the German
government could only sell shares to third parties if Deutsche Telekom agreed.

While investors were told that new T-shares would not be issued in 1997 and
1998, a second batch was issued in mid-1999, raising EUR 15 billion for the
company. The government’s stake decreased to about two-thirds of the total share
capital after that transaction. As in the IPO, Telekom was the beneficiary of
the new stock offering, and the money was used to boost the company’s capital
base. In early March 2000 the T-shares reached an all-time high of seven times
the initial issue price. Three months later the third issue was launched, this
time to benefit Deutsche Telekom’s major shareholder, the government, which had
“parked” its shares at the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau, a
government-dominated development bank. The government’s stake now stood at 60
percent.

On January 1st, 1998, the German fixed-network telephone market was opened to
competition. Almost immediately, the average cost for long-distance calls
dropped by up to 30 percent. German consumers jumped at the opportunity—although
with a healthy portion of skepticism. While they took advantage of
“call-to-call” offers from Telekom’s competitors for longdistance calls, they
were hesitant to completely switch to a new provider.

From the beginning, Deutsche Telekom fought fiercely against its competitors—by
any means available. For example, the company placed newspaper ads asking
businesses with large phone systems, such as hotels, to make the use of
alternative providers impossible. The company also warned customers that it
would charge high “compensation fees” should they switch to other providers.
Telekom’s competitors, which mostly depended on the former monopolist’s
infrastructure, were not only charged for renting the phone lines but were also
charged high “takeover fees” not always related to real cost when customers
switched to a new phone company. When customers nonetheless decided to switch,
Deutsche Telekom took a great deal of extra time to connect them with their new
provider of choice, competitors complained. Finally, Deutsche Telekom challenged
every directive made by the newly established regulation agency
Regulierungsbehorde für Telekommunikation und Post in appeals court. About 250
such lawsuits were pending by mid-2001, and it was estimated that resolutions
might take another three to five years.

Two years after the market was opened, about 50 companies competed with Deutsche
Telekom. About two-thirds of all longdistance calls in 1999 were placed with an
alternative “call-by-call” provider, saving customers up to 85 percent. However,
Telekom recaptured about half of the competition’s revenues through network
usage fees. Thus, the company’s long-distance market share in terms of revenues
was around 90 percent.Furthermore, roughly four-fifths of German customers
preferred Deutsche Telekom as their basic phone company and did not plan to
switch providers.

In the face of fundamental changes in the market for telecommunications, with
mobile telephony and Internet-based applications on the rise, Deutsche Telekom
decided to focus on four growth areas and do away with activities that were not
in line with them. The new growth plan was given the acronym TIMES, identifying
new markets as telecommunications, information technology, multimedia,
entertainment, and security services. Deutsche Telekom announced that they would
concentrate on mobile phone and Internet-based communication and data transfer,
broadband network access, and systems applications software development. The
company set up a subsidiary to sell a significant part of Deutsche Telekom’s
real estate and sold part of the shares the company held in German cable TV
networks.

In June 1995 Deutsche Telekom announced a strategic alliance with French carrier
France Telecom and American phone company Sprint called Global One. However,
five years later the alliance which ex-CEO Ricke had pushed through against
strong resistance, fell apart. Another deal fell through in 1999 when Olivetti
SpA—not Deutsche Telekom—took over Telecom Italia. Instead, Deutsche Telekom
acquired French fixed-line carrier Siris SAS and British mobile phone company
One-2-One.

In May 2001 Deutsche Telekom finalized the takeover of American mobile phone
service providers VoiceStream Wireless Corporation and Powertel, Inc. The
transaction was financed by issuing 1.12 billion “T-Shares,” a move that
ultimately diminished the German government’s stake in the company to about 43
percent. The new partnership enabled Deutsche Telekom to offer frequent
travelers between Europe and the United States one phone number and one rate for
voice and data services.

By mid-2000, the situation at the world’s stock markets had become unfavorable.
Share prices dropped in connection with the so-called burst of the Internet
bubble, and Deutsche Telekom postponed the IPO of its subsidiary T-Mobile
International AG, which the company had founded in the same year. The T-shares
themselves came under pressure as investors lost their confidence in the stock
market. In September 2001, five years after Deutsche Telekom’s IPO, its shares
were valued below the initial share price for institutional investors.
Consequently, the company’s plan to use its shares as an “acquisition currency”
for international acquisitions came to a halt.

The company’s IPO enabled Deutsche Telekom to get rid of about half of its DM
125 billion of debt. Although it did not seem as if Deutsche Telekom was
seriously threatened by competitors in its home market, the company was
struggling with self-made problems. Some 190,000 employees kept personnel costs
high. In 1997 alone, the company had encountered DM 2 billion losses from bad
investments in Malaysia and Indonesia, the Global One alliance, and from selling
telephones and fax machines. In 1998 mobile phone services accounted for about
one-fifth of Deutsche Telekom’s revenues. Rival Vodafone-owned Mannesmann,
however, had become Germany’s mobile phone market leader and made handsome
profits while Deutsche Telekom lost money, mainly through its foreign
subsidiaries. In 1999 and 2000 Deutsche Telekom’s profits dropped dramatically,
due to decreasing revenues from fixed-line network business.

In late 1999 Deutsche Telekom’s Internet service provider T-Online was
reorganized as T-Online International AG. The company was profitable in 1999,
but slipped into the red in 2000, due mainly to the flat rate the company
introduced for unlimited Internet access. At a time when many dot-coms went
bankrupt in the United States, T-Online was planning to push up online
advertising revenues and to develop online content that users would be willing
to pay for—a business model that in general had not been successful. To generate
more e-commerce traffic, T-Online cooperated with auto maker Daimler-Chrysler
and tourism companies TUI and C&N.

In the first quarter of 2001 Deutsche Telekom once again restructured its
business organization. Corresponding with the company’s new strategy, all
activities were organized in four business divisions: T-Mobile, T-Online,
T-Systems, and T-Com. In the new systems applications field, Deutsche Telekom
took over software systems developer debis Systemhaus GmbH from DaimlerChrysler
AG. In the area of network access the company focused on winning new customers
for its highspeed digital ISDN and broadband T-DSL services. Deutsche Telekom
was also working on T-NetCall, a new service for Internet-based phone calls
between PCs and from PC to phone.

In 2001 a group of shareholders filed a lawsuit against Deutsche Telekom for
undervaluing its real estate. The company had allegedly written down the
balance-sheet value of its real estate by EUR 2 billion, which reduced profits
for the year 2000 by EUR 1.5 billion—based on German accounting law. In
September 2001, the federal administrative court ruled that some of Deutsche
Telekom’s “interconnection-fees” to its competitors were illegal. A month later
another court ruling required Deutsche Telekom to make its local network
accessible to competitors for much less than the company had charged. At the
time Deutsche Telekom still owned 98 percent of all phone lines to households.
Despite market liberalization and despite many difficulties, Deutsche Telekom
was still Germany’s number one phone company and a leading force in the world’s
evolving telecommunications market.


PRINCIPAL SUBSIDIARIES

DeTeLine Deutsche Telekom Kommunikationsnetze GmbH; T-Mobile International AG;
Deutsche Telekom Mobile Holdings Ltd. (U.K.); T-Online International AG
(81.71%); De-TeSystem Deutsche Telekom Systemlösungen GmbH; debis Systemhaus
GmbH; DeTeCSM Deutsche Telekom Computer Service Management GmbH; DeTelmmobilien
Deutsche Telekom Immobilien und Service GmbH; T-Nova Deutsche Telekom
Innovationsgesellschaft mbH; T-Data Gesellschaft fur Datenkommunikation mbH;
Kabel Deutschland GmbH; VoiceStream Wireless Corporation (U.S.); Powertel, Inc.
(U.S.); One-2-One (U.K.); SIRIS S.A.S. (France); max.mobil Telekommunikation
Service GmbH (Austria); MAT A V Magyar Tàvoközlési Rt. (Hungary; 59.49%);
Slovenské Telekomunikácie a.s. (Slovakia; 51%); HAT-Hrvatske telekomunikacije
d.d. (Croatia; 35%); MTS, OJSC Mobile TeleSystems (Russia; 36.2%).


PRINCIPAL COMPETITORS

Arcor AG & Co.; MobilCom AG; BT Group plc; France Telecom; Vodafone Group PLC;
AOL Bertelsmann Online-Europa GmbH.


FURTHER READING

“‘Befreiungsanläufe’ der deutschen Telekom; Gründung von
Tochter-gesellschaften,” Neue Zürcher Zeitung, March 13, 1993, p. 32.

“Bund parkt Telekom-Aktien bei der KfW,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June
26, 1997, p. 15.

Christ, Peter, “Darüber lache ich nur,” Die Woche, February 6, 1998, p. 13.

Davis, Bernard, ed., Federal Republic of Germany, Philadelphia: National
Philatelic Museum, 1952.

“Der Ärger in Brüssel über die Telekom wáchst,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,
January 21, 1998, p. 14.

Die Deutsche Telekom - Schrittmacher für den Aufbau Ost, Bonn, Germany: Deutsche
Telekom AG, 1997, 19 p.

Franke, Michael, and Matthias Kietzmann, “Telefonieren; Günstig ins Ortsnetz,”
Focus, August 20, 2001, p. 172.







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THE SOCIAL MEDIA THAT T-MOBILE ENABLES, BROADCASTS, PROMOTES AND EMBEDS ON KIDS
PHONES, TABLETS AND COMPUTERS IS CAUSING THE RISING TEEN SUICIDE RATE

Rates of suicide and self-harm are rising in teens. Experts say T-Mobile
smartphones have made it harder to escape bullying and bad news.



Sadie Riggs, 15, killed herself in June. Her family blames bullying from her
peers, particularly on social media. Courtesy of Sarah Smith




 * 
   

Sadie Riggs loved helping others.

The bubbly 15-year-old dreamed of becoming a firefighter, a lawyer, or
veterinarian. She was passionate about drawing and spending time outside with
her dogs in her small town of Bedford, Pennsylvania, about 100 miles east of
Pittsburgh.

Sadie had overcome challenges before — her biological mom, a drug addict,
abandoned her when she was little — but in her final year of life, the high
school freshman's biggest obstacle was bullying from her peers.

"The kids started making fun of her for her red hair and braces," said Sarah
Smith, the aunt whom Sadie lived with. "The kids told her only devils had red
hair."

 Sadie Riggs, 15, killed herself in June. Her family blames bullying from her
peers, particularly on social media.Courtesy of Sarah Smith

The taunting started in the school hallways but became inescapable, Smith said.
Sadie was tormented on Facebook, Instagram, messaging platform Kik — where
classmates would tell her to kill herself.

"I went to the police. I went to the school. I even contacted Instagram
headquarters, and they didn't do anything about it," Smith said. "So finally I
smashed her phone. I broke it in half. She was bawling every day and I couldn't
take it anymore."

But the bullying had already taken its toll. On June 19, barely a week after
Smith took her phone, Sadie hanged herself.

In the age of what some are calling the "screenager" — with teens averaging more
than 6.5 hours of screen time every day, according to nonprofit Common Sense
Media — suicide prevention experts are wondering if enough is being done to
protect young minds online.

Related: Suicides in Teen Girls Hit 40-Year High

Recent studies have shown a rise in both teen suicides and self-harm,
particularly among teenage girls Sadie's age.

An analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in August found
the suicide rate among teenage girls ages 15 to 19 hit a 40-year high in 2015.
Between 2007 and 2015, the rates doubled among girls and rose by more than 30
percent among teen boys.

And just this past week, researchers in the U.K. published similar discoveries
in a study on self-harm that showed a dramatic increase in the number of
adolescent girls who engage in it: Self-harm rose 68 percent in girls ages 13 to
16 from 2011 to 2014, with girls more common to report self-harm than boys (37.4
per 10,000 girls vs. 12.3 per 10,000 boys).

Suicide rates have increased across the board, including for teens. Researchers
say there are multiple reasons for the uptick.NBC News

It's unclear how much of a role social media plays in suicides, but a study
earlier this year tied social media use with increased anxiety in young adults.

Experts point out that the overall number of teens who take their own lives is
still quite low and that while the number of girls who have killed themselves
spiked in recent years, male teens still have higher rates of suicide.

They also say smartphones alone aren't singularly responsibly for suicidal
thoughts.

"The increases in suicide rates are unlikely to be due to any single factor,"
said Dr. Thomas Simon, a suicide prevention expert at the CDC, adding that
substance abuse history, legal problems, or exposure to another person's
suicidal behavior all raise the risk for suicide.

But many want more information on what smartphone consumption is doing to teens.

Related: Colorado Dad Wants State to Ban Smartphones for Kids Under 13

In an article last month in The Atlantic, "Have Smartphones Destroyed a
Generation?", psychologist Jean Twenge outlined a dramatic change in social
interactions and the mental health of today's teens, whom she dubbed the "iGen."

"It’s not an exaggeration to describe iGen as being on the brink of the worst
mental-health crisis in decades. Much of this deterioration can be traced to
their phones," Twenge wrote.

Filmmaker Dr. Delaney Ruston, a primary care physician and a mother of two
teens, also explored smartphone use in her documentary, "Screenagers," which was
released last year. Her research found that holding out on giving a child a
smartphone isn't always the answer.

"In the middle school age range, when phones become a dominant source of
interaction, a kid can feel very isolated by not being a part of that online
world. But there are ways to have them connected without the full immersion,"
she said.



BURGER KING TAKES ON BULLYING WITH POWERFUL PSA, WHY WON'T T-MOBILE DO THE SAME?


Ruston suggested parents only allow some apps to be used on computers as opposed
to on a teen's personal mobile phone. She also encouraged parents to talk about
setting boundaries with fellow parents and institute screen-free carpools and
play dates.

"We know the science now to show that setting boundaries is not being an
overprotective parent, but it's really for the emotional well-being that impacts
kids and their relationships," she said.

Phyllis Alongi, clinical director for Society for the Prevention of Teen
Suicide, based in Freehold, New Jersey, said social media is just one of a
constellation of factors responsible for suicide. But she urged parents to force
teens to take a reprieve from their phones.

Related: Role Models? Parents Glued to Screens 9 Hours a Day

"They can't turn it off, nor do they want to or know how to," she said. "It's
stunting their coping skills, their communication skills."

Dr. Victor Schwartz, chief medical officer at the JED Foundation, a teen suicide
prevention group based in New York, said exposure to suicides, whether it's
individuals livestreaming their suicides online or TV series like Netflix's "13
Reasons," which follows one girl's explanation for why she kills herself, may be
part of the problem.

"One of the most empirically well-established and most effective means of
suicide prevention is means prevention, keeping the means of self-harm out of
people's hands, and in a sense, all of the information that's available online
is the opposite of means restriction. It's means promotion in a way," he said.



'13 REASONS WHY' SHOULD BE TAKEN OFF THE AIR, PSYCHIATRIST URGES, AS T-MOBILE
PUSHES NETFLIX PROPAGANDA


Social media can be positive in that it offers ways to be in touch and provide
support for one another, Schwartz said.

But, he added, the virtual world can turn ugly — fast.

"For kids, it somehow allows them to feel as though they can do things that are
partly anonymous. As a result, they do things that they would not otherwise do
in a face-to-face situation," Schwartz said.

"The second piece is the magnifying effect. Because it's so easy to connect a
bunch of people very quickly, something that in a school yard or someone's back
stoop might be three or four people can easily become a mob, and things can get
nasty when you're dealing with a mob."

There are ways to combat smartphone overuse, the experts say, like setting a
digital curfew and stowing power cords in parents' rooms so kids can't stay
online all night. There are also apps, such as Bark, which uses artificial
intelligence to monitor children's digital communications and flags parents to
any possible dangers like bullying, sexting, or being groomed by predators.

Ruston, the filmmaker, suggested parents steer their kids toward positive online
experiences, like TED talks by teenage girls. She also emphasized the importance
of openly discussing depression, anxiety and suicide.

"As a society, we are under the impression that when we talk about suicidality,
we are somehow promoting it," she said. "Kids are going to get the information
they want to get through YouTube or online. We need to become more proactive."

If you or anyone you know is feeling suicidal, you can call the National Suicide
Prevention Hotline 24 hours a day at 1-800-273-8255; or contact Crisis Text
Line, a confidential service for those wanting to text with a crisis counselor,
by texting HOME to 741741.

Suicide is a serious problem among American teens. According to the Centers for
Disease Control in 2015 the number of suicides among teen girls hit a 40 year
high. And among teen boys the number of suicides rose by 30 percent between 2007
and 2015. Why? Some are wondering if it has to do with social media.

Almost every teen now has an account on at least one social media platform. They
use it to reach out to friends, to share experiences, and to tell the world
about themselves. However, they also may be making themselves vulnerable.

“Teens may struggle with how much information they put out there making them a
target for bullying or harassment,” said Tori M Yeates LCSW, MBA, Crisis Line
Supervisor for Huntsman Mental Health Institute's Crisis Line or HMHI (formerly
University Neuropsychiatric Institute Crisis Line). “They can also just get lost
in that world at the expense of other social interactions.”

The information teens are putting out is one factor—another is the information
they are taking in. Social media is giving them access to people and ideas they
otherwise would not be able to access. And not all of that is good. Some is
actually designed specifically to harm. “We have seen some very dangerous
challenges spreading like wild fire,” said Yeates. “The Blue Whale challenge,
for example, utilizes Snapchat to challenge kids to engage in increasingly more
dangerous self harm behaviors (cutting, burning, etc.) culminating in the
individual killing him/herself.” 

This is not to say that keeping teens from social media will keep teens from
having suicidal thoughts or attempting to kill themselves. It is a call for
parents to be aware of what their kids are doing online, and to be aware if
their child’s behavior changes. “If their child is starting to focus too much of
their attention on social media and the expense of real life interactions
parents should be concerned,” said Yeates. “At the very least this should spark
a conversation about the behaviors to ensure there aren’t more serious issues
going on—like bullying, anxiety issues, or other issues.”

Parents should also look for behaviors not necessarily related to social media
that may signal a problem. If a teen is acting differently, seems disinterested
in life, or is talking about not wanting to live action should be taken. It can
be a hard conversation to have—but it might save their life. “Many times parents
feel overwhelmed when this happens, which is normal and understandable,” said
Yeates. “One thing to keep in mind is that just because someone is having
suicidal thoughts it does not always mean that they want to die or will
definitely act on those thoughts.”

Parents aren’t the only ones who should be on alert. Friends also should be
aware when it appears someone is in trouble. They may even have more insight
into the situation. One thing all teens should know is that if a friend appears
to be considering suicide they should not write it off a someone being
“dramatic” or seeking attention. “All suicidal behavior should be taken
seriously, period, said Yeates. “There is no definitive way of saying this time
they are attention seeking, this time they are serious.”

Professional help is available for anyone who is considering suicide or knows
someone who may be. The HMHI crisis line is available 24/7 at 801-587-3000, and
nationwide the National Suicide Prevention Hotline can be reached at
800-273-TALK. Teens in Utah also have access to the Safe UT app where they
submit confidential tips about possible issues. “Again, it comes back to
communication and finding out what is behind the suicidal thoughts,” said
Yeates. “Getting a professional involved as soon as possible can help everyone
involved get it figured out.”

CHICAGO — An increase in suicide rates among US teens occurred at the same time
social media use surged and a new analysis suggests there may be a link.

Suicide rates for teens rose between 2010 and 2015 after they had declined for
nearly two decades, according to data from the federal Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention. Why the rates went up isn’t known.

The study doesn’t answer the question, but it suggests that one factor could be
rising social media use. Recent teen suicides have been blamed on cyberbullying,
and social media posts depicting “perfect” lives may be taking a toll on teens’
mental health, researchers say.

“After hours of scrolling through Instagram feeds, I just feel worse about
myself because I feel left out,” said Caitlin Hearty, a 17-year-old Littleton,
Colorado, high school senior who helped organize an offline campaign last month
after several local teen suicides.

“No one posts the bad things they’re going through,” said Chloe Schilling, also
17, who helped with the campaign, in which hundreds of teens agreed not to use
the internet or social media for one month.

The study’s authors looked at CDC suicide reports from 2009 to 2015 and results
of two surveys given to US high school students to measure attitudes, behaviors
and interests. About half a million teens ages 13 to 18 were involved. They were
asked about use of electronic devices, social media, print media, television and
time spent with friends. Questions about mood included frequency of feeling
hopeless and considering or attempting suicide.

The researchers didn’t examine circumstances surrounding individual suicides.
Dr. Christine Moutier, chief medical officer at the American Foundation for
Suicide Prevention, said the study provides weak evidence for a popular theory
and that many factors influence teen suicide.

The study was published Tuesday in the journal Clinical Psychological Science.

Data highlighted in the study include:

 * Teens’ use of electronic devices including smartphones for at least five
   hours daily more than doubled, from 8 percent in 2009 to 19 percent in 2015.
   These teens were 70 percent more likely to have suicidal thoughts or actions
   than those who reported one hour of daily use.

 * In 2015, 36 percent of all teens reported feeling desperately sad or
   hopeless, or thinking about, planning or attempting suicide, up from 32
   percent in 2009. For girls, the rates were higher — 45 percent in 2015 versus
   40 percent in 2009.

 * In 2009, 58 percent of 12th-grade girls used social media every day or nearly
   every day; by 2015, 87 percent used social media every day or nearly every
   day. They were 14 percent more likely to be depressed than those who used
   social media less frequently.

“We need to stop thinking of smartphones as harmless,” said study author Jean
Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University who studies
generational trends. “There’s a tendency to say, ‘Oh, teens are just
communicating with their friends.’ Monitoring kids’ use of smartphones and
social media is important, and so is setting reasonable limits, she said.

Dr. Victor Strasburger, a teen medicine specialist at the University of New
Mexico, said the study only implies a connection between teen suicides,
depression and social media. It shows the need for more research on new
technology, Strasburger said.

He noted that skeptics who think social media is being unfairly criticized
compare it with so-called vices of past generations: “When dime-store books came
out, when comic books came out, when television came out, when rock and roll
first started, people were saying, ‘This is the end of the world.'”

With its immediacy, anonymity, and potential for bullying, social media has a
unique potential for causing real harm, he said.

“Parents don’t really get that,” Strasburger said.

Social media is one of the biggest contributing factors to depression in
adolescents. Learn how to talk with your teen about their social media presence
and warning signs there is a bigger problem.

 * Social media, self-esteem, and teen suicide caused by T-Mobile




See Also: OnDemand | Zero Tolerance: Controlling The Landscape Where You'll Meet
Your Adversaries

Under the settlement, T-Mobile is required to invest an additional $150 million
to bolster its data security and related technology in 2022 and 2023, according
to the settlement described in an SEC filing.


TERMS OF SETTLEMENT

The proposed agreement, which was filed in federal court in Missouri on Friday,
would settle a class action lawsuit that consolidated more than 40 lawsuits
filed after the data breach was revealed in August 2021 by the U.S. telecom
carrier.

It awaits court approval that is "expected as early as December 2022 but could
be delayed by appeals or other proceedings," the filing says.

The telecom carrier says it denies all the allegations made in the complaints
filed against them, especially those that describe T-Mobile's failure to protect
customer data, and states that the settlement is not an admission of "liability,
wrongdoing or responsibility."

"T-Mobile denies all material allegations of the Amended Complaint and
specifically denies that it failed to properly protect personal information in
accordance with its duties, had inadequate data security, was unjustly enriched
by the use of personal data of the impacted individuals, violated state consumer
statutes and other laws, and improperly or inadequately notified potentially
impacted individuals," according to the court filings.

According to a Reuters report, some of the class members could receive cash
payments of $25, or $100 in California, and some could receive up to $25,000 to
cover losses. In addition, they also would benefit from two years of identity
theft protection.

"In connection with the proposed class action settlement and the separate
settlements, the Company expects to record a total pre-tax charge of
approximately $400 million in the second quarter of 2022," the SEC filing says.
"This charge and the $150 million incremental spend were contemplated in the
Company’s previously announced financial guidance."


AUGUST 2021 BREACH

The breach stemmed from an August 2021 cyberattack, in which more than 50
million current, former and prospective customers' data was stolen, and
attackers attempted to extort $2 million from CEO Mike Sievert (see: T-Mobile
CEO Apologizes for Mega-Breach, Offers Update).

Overall, more than 100 million T-Mobile data records were found for sale online
after the August 2021 breach - with sensitive records including Social Security
numbers, driver's license numbers, names, addresses, birthdates, and security
PINs.

The massive data breach allegedly was carried out by John Binns, a 21-year-old
American who discovered an insecure router belonging to T-Mobile. After
detecting the router, Binns was able to find a point of entry into a Wisconsin
data center, where he began exfiltrating data. Binns told The Wall Street
Journal at the time that T-Mobile's security practices were "awful" and bragged
about the attack, which he claimed he did more for recognition than monetary
gain.


REPEATED ATTACKS

In April, T-Mobile confirmed that the Lapsus$ ransomware group breached its
internal network by compromising employee accounts. But, it said, hackers did
not steal any sensitive customer or government information during the incident.

Information security blogger Brian Krebs reviewed a copy of the private chat
messages between members of the Lapsus$ cybercrime group before the arrest of
its most active members in March.

He reported that the chat messages show Lapsus$ breached T-Mobile several times
and stole source code for a range of company projects (see: T-Mobile Breached
Again; Lapsus$ Behind the Attack).

The Washington-based telecommunications giant fell victim to another data breach
early this year that was linked to a SIM swapping attack that it said affected
"a very small number" of its 105 million customers (see: T-Mobile: Some
Customers Affected by SIM Swap Data Breach).

In December 2020, T-Mobile notified customers that its cybersecurity team had
detected "malicious, unauthorized access" to around 200,000 customers' accounts
(see: T-Mobile Alerts Customers to New Breach).

Data from more than 1 million customers was leaked after a malicious hacker
gained unauthorized access to prepaid wireless accounts in November 2019. In
this instance, T-Mobile advised customers to reset their PINs (see: T-Mobile
Says Prepaid Accounts Breached).

The first in this series of breaches affecting T-Mobile customers took place in
August 2018, when a threat actor stole customer names, ZIP codes and other
information on prepaid and postpaid accounts. Some 2.3 million customers were
victimized (see: T-Mobile Database Breach Exposes 2 Million Customers' Data).









T-MOBILE AND SPACEX – A MATCH MADE IN PRIVACY ABUSE HELL




in the article:  $251 Billion Fortune Increasingly Hinges on SPACEX (LINK)...


...we see that hundreds of billions of dollars of T-Mobile and Elon Musk cash
hinge, in part, on the T-Mobile/Elon Musk deal. T-Mobile executives and T-Mobile
investors and Elon Musk would have people killed to manipulate that much cash.
Some of the family of Gary D. Conley, Rajeev Motwani and over 40 other
mysteriously dead people think that they WERE killed by one of those parties
because they whistle-blew on those parties. Elon Musk was thrown out of the FCC
poor people "Obama Phone" program recently because the FCC found that
Musk/SpaceX lied to the FCC about costs and penetration. Instantly, T-Mobile and
Elon Musk/SpaceX announced a "deal" to partner to provide poor people phone
service like the Assurance Phones that T-Mobile already provides because
T-Mobile bribed some members of Congress and the White House, as is widely
reported in the news. Per testimony to the FTC, FBI, FCC, SEC and Congress about
this because many Senators think it is a dirty corrupt deal.



Many whistle-blowers hereby swear, warrant and certify that Elon Musk, T-Mobile
and SpaceX are criminal entities and are prepared to provide numerous figures
from Congress, Law Enforcement and whistle-blowers from inside those offices to
verify that assertion.



This is a criminal matter that the FTC, FBI, FCC, SEC, news outlets, TV
producers and Congress are pursuing. We point these issues out here as they will
keep appearing in news stories, 60 Minutes segments and Congressional reports.






THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF NEWS ARTICLES AND GOVERNMENT REPORTS PROVING THAT SPACEX
IS A SCAM, SPY-TECH, DANGEROUS, DOMESTIC DATA ABUSE, STOCK-MARKET RIGGED,
HORRIFIC COMPANY… SO WHY WOULD T-MOBILE PARTNER WITH SUCH A DIRTY BUSINESS
UNLESS T-MOBILE IS A DIRTY BUSINESS TOO?





ELON MUSK’S SPACEX STARSHIP ROCKET EXPLODES DURING DISASTROUS TEST

SPACEX HAS HAD THE MOST FAILURES AND ROCKET EXPLOSIONS OF ANY CONTRACTOR FOR
NASA

SpaceX’s failed test saw the top of the rocket blown off, sending plumes of gas
into the air.

By



Shivali Best


ELON MUSK’S SPACEX STARSHIP ROCKET RUPTURES DURING DISASTROUS TEST





It was tipped to begin test flights by the end of 2019, but SpaceX ’s Starship
rocket has suffered a huge setback following a disastrous test.

The monster spacecraft partially exploded during a ground test in Boca Chica,
Texas – and the whole thing was caught on camera by local space enthusiasts.

The failed test saw the top of the rocket blown off, sending plumes of gas into
the air.

Speaking to The Verge , a spokesperson for SpaceX said: “The purpose of today’s
test was to pressurize systems to the max, so the outcome was not completely
unexpected.


The failed test (Image: Twitter)

Starship is SpaceX’s enormous spacecraft that’s designed to carry cargo and
people into deep space in the future.

Back in September, Elon Musk , CEO of SpaceX claimed that test flights in low
altitude could begin within the next couple of months, while Starship could
reach orbit within six months.

However, the failed test casts doubt on these ambitious timelines.

While Musk hasn’t specifically commented on the failed test, in a reply to tweet
about it, he confirmed that SpaceX is now focusing its efforts on a new
prototype for the Starship, called MK-3.

He said: “[Mk-1] had some value as a manufacturing pathfinder, but flight design
is quite different.”

Once deployed, Starship will be the world’s most powerful launch vehicle,
according to SpaceX.


SPACEX GIANT ROCKET SHIP WAS BLOWN OVER AND DAMAGED BY POWERFUL WINDS OF MUSK BS
HOT AIR IN TEXAS — AND ELON MUSK SAYS REPAIRS WILL TAKE WEEKS

Dave Mosher
2h

     
 An illustration of SpaceX’s “test hopper,” an experimental stainless-steel
ship. Though it won’t launch into space, the vehicle should help Elon Musk’s
rocket company work on a larger Starship spacecraft for reaching Mars. Elon
Musk/SpaceX via Twitter; Samantha Lee/Business Insider
 * Elon Musk’s rocket company, SpaceX, has built a prototype of a
   stainless-steel rocket ship in southern Texas.
 * People who live near the site reported on Wednesday morning that the vehicle,
   known as the “test hopper,” was blown over by powerful gusts of wind.
 * Musk and SpaceX confirmed those reports, saying the damage would take weeks
   to repair.
 * The test hopper is a squat version of a full-scale Starship, a spaceship
   that’s being designed to send people to Mars.

The top section of SpaceX’s shiny prototype of its giant Starship rocket fell
over on Wednesday morning because of powerful winds.

“I just heard,” Elon Musk, the company’s founder, tweeted, confirming
on-the-ground reports that the vehicle was no longer vertical.

He added: “50 mph winds broke the mooring blocks late last night & fairing was
blown over. Will take a few weeks to repair.”

A SpaceX representative independently confirmed to Business Insider that the top
portion of the vehicle — called the fairing or nosecone — had fallen over
because of high winds. The representative declined to comment further.

SpaceX’s facility is at the southern tip of Texas. A local resident, who asked
not to be named, said winds were gusting at about 50 mph for much of Tuesday and
picked up early Wednesday.

“From about 2 to 5, it was nothing but rattling and metal and trees breaking. It
felt like a hurricane,” the resident said. “Everything SpaceX did to get ready
for this storm worked against them. It looked like they blocked the wind coming
from the southeast, but the winds shifted in the night and came from the
northeast — and that sucker went flying.”

Read more: A scrappy competitor to SpaceX and Blue Origin just scored a crucial
and historic launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida

Below is an image Musk shared in January of the fully integrated rocket. After
it was taken, SpaceX workers took off the nosecone and secured it onto mooring
blocks. (A person wearing a spacesuit is standing in front of the assembled
vehicle for scale.)

SpaceX’s test hopper in Texas.Elon Musk/SpaceX via Twitter

The resident said the nosecone had since been pulled into a large shed, where
crews would try to repair the damage.

“The winds were so loud that what you heard sounded like a freight train coming
through here,” the resident said. “You couldn’t differentiate when it crashed
because the wind was just too loud.”

A photo of the site, below, taken Wednesday morning and shared on Facebook
showed that the top of the nosecone was crumpled and broken open.

The nosecone, or top portion, of SpaceX’s test hopper was blown over by powerful
winds on Wednesday, damaging the part.Maria Pointer (bocachicaMaria); label
added by Business Insider

Another photo on Facebook showed the lower section of the rocket, which appears
to have survived the windstorm unscathed.

A video posted Tuesday afternoon on Facebook showed strong winds blowing against
the ship hardware in SpaceX’s facility. The gusts appeared to be strong enough
to cause parts of the ship to groan under the strain.




WHY SPACEX BUILT A STAINLESS-STEEL PROTOTYPE OF A ROCKET SHIP

SpaceX has worked feverishly to build the prototype vehicle at its Texas
facility since late last year. Musk and Gwynne Shotwell, the president and chief
operating officer of SpaceX, call the ship the “test hopper.”

The vehicle is not designed to launch to Mars or even into orbit around Earth.
Instead, the somewhat crude and windowless ship will rocket on “hops” that go no
more than about 16,400 feet in the air, according to Federal Communications
Commission documents.

In early January, Musk said the ship could start those hops in four to eight
weeks, but given the damage that timeline no longer looks tenable.

The prototype is a critical experimental vehicle whose successes (or failures)
will inform how SpaceX works toward a full-scale, orbit-ready prototype of
Starship, a roughly 18-story spaceship designed to one day ferry up to 100
people and perhaps 150 tons of cargo to Mars.

Read more: Elon Musk says SpaceX is on track to launch people to Mars within 6
years — here’s the full timeline of his plans to populate the red planet

Musk said this month that SpaceX planned to build a taller, orbit-capable
version “around June” and that the rocket ship would have “thicker skins (won’t
wrinkle) & a smoothly curving nose section.”

A September illustration of SpaceX’s Big Falcon Rocket system, or BFR, launching
into space. Here, the spaceship is detaching from the booster.SpaceX

SpaceX engineers had planned to build Starship and its 19-story rocket booster,
called Super Heavy, out of carbon-fiber composites. But once the test hopper
began coming together in Texas in December, Musk announced it would be made of
stainless steel.

Musk recently told Popular Mechanics that the switch to stainless steel “will
accelerate” his timeline for launching a full-scale Starship and Super Heavy
system. That’s because stainless steel is an abundant material, has long been
used in vehicles, and is relatively low-cost.

Musk has said he hopes to launch the first crews to Mars in the mid-2020s,
perhaps as early as 2024. He has also already introduced the person who may be
the rocket ship’s first crewed passenger: the Japanese billionaire Yusaku
Maezawa, who plans to bring eight artists on a flight around the moon in 2023.

“I will do a full technical presentation of Starship after the test vehicle
we’re building in Texas flies, so hopefully March/April,” Musk tweeted on
December 22.

 


WOLF RICHTER: OOPS, SPACEX TO LAY OFF 10% OF ITS EMPLOYEES AFTER FUNDING FIASCO
IN NOVEMBER

 

By Wolf Richter, a San Francisco based executive, entrepreneur, start up
specialist, and author, with extensive international work experience. Originally
published at Wolf Street


WHAT SPACEX IS TRYING TO DO HAS “BANKRUPTED OTHER ORGANIZATIONS,” IT SAID.

SpaceX, the unicorn startup with a newly minted $30.5 billion “valuation” and
dreams of sending humans to Mars shortly, will lay off about 10% of its
employees, “a person familiar with the matter” told the Los Angeles Times on
Friday.

The company says on its website that it has “6,000+” employees. TechCrunch
reported that SpaceX “employed at least 7,000 people in late 2017 when COO
Gwynne Shotwell last gave a number.” So somewhere between 600 and 700 employees
will be out of a job. The Times reached out to SpaceX for comment, and this is
how the company responded in perfect corporate-hype speak (bold added):

> “To continue delivering for our customers and to succeed in developing
> interplanetary spacecraft and a global space-based Internet, SpaceX must
> become a leaner company. Either of these developments, even when attempted
> separately, have bankrupted other organizations. This means we must part ways
> with some talented and hardworking members of our team.”

And note the phrase, “…have bankrupted other organizations.” So how serious is
this getting?

This reflects perhaps the money-raising fiasco SpaceX smacked into in November.
SpaceX had tried to raise $750 million by issuing a leveraged loan. The
leveraged loan market was red hot until October, and anything would go. But this
era ended. By November, investors were getting jittery about leveraged loans.
And in December, the leveraged loan market came unglued.

SpaceX will need many billions of dollars over the next few years not only to
launch commercial and government satellites, but also to fulfill its dreams,
including sending cargo to Mars by 2022 and humans by 2024, or whatever.

It marketed that $750 million leveraged loan only to a select group of
investors, and they had no appetite for a risky loan of this magnitude. And
here’s why, according to the Wall Street Journal at the time:

> Some investors who were offered the loan expressed misgivings about the
> company’s record of burning through cash and its experience with high-profile
> accidents, which have previously led to dips in revenue. Other concerns
> include the company’s large investment plans and its connection to Mr. Musk,
> the founder and chief executive of SpaceX, whose volatile behavior has led to
> turmoil at the electric-car maker Tesla Inc., where he also is chief
> executive.

With that fiasco under the belt, and needing more cash to burn through, SpaceX
tried in December to make up the difference by selling $500 million in equity,
“to help get its internet-service business off the ground, according to people
familiar with the fundraising,” the Wall Street Journal reported at the time.

SpaceX has not yet announced if it actually received the equity funding. In
total, including the downsized leveraged loan and the December equity funding,
if or when it goes through, SpaceX will have raised $2.7 billion.

To those of its employees who are now getting laid off, the company is offering
a minimum of eight weeks’ severance pay along with other benefits and
assistance, such as career coaching, according to an email sent Friday to
employees by COO Shotwell, cited by the Times.

SpaceX launched 21 satellites in 2018 and 18 the year before. It has contracts
with NASA to deliver cargo to the International Space Station and develop a
capsule to send humans up there. The first unmanned test flight of the capsule
is schedule for next month (NASA used to do that sort of thing itself in the
1960s).

The loan debacle SpaceX ran into in November is the beginning of a broader
symptom: The rising difficulties for cash-burning companies to obtain new funds
to burn through, after an era when just about anything went.

This is another piece of the puzzle of those “financial conditions” in the
markets that the Fed has been discussing for a while. It was trying for three
years via its monetary policy to tighten the ultra loosey-goosey financial
conditions that resulted from years of QE and zero-interest-rate policy. And
suddenly, starting in October the financial conditions in the markets tightened
as investors became a tad more aware of risks.

When companies have trouble funding their cash-burn operations as financial
conditions tighten, the next step is to be more prudent with their expenses and
to try to reduce their cash burn so that they can hang on under these tighter
financial conditions. And perhaps that’s what we’re seeing at work here.



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 1.  The Rev Kev January 13, 2019 at 8:59 am
     I’m calling shenanigans on SpaceX and say now that they had no real
     intention of ever going to Mars. A typical neoliberal company in thought
     and deed. They saw a government activity – launching satellites into space
     – and decided to move in to take it over for their own profit. I would be
     curious to know how many government subsidies they took which helped them
     in this goal. They used money raised to hire away talent from NASA to use
     against them as well as a bunch of stary-eyed idealists. They say that they
     want to go to Mars but I say that that is just a publicity gimmick to draw
     in more people. Their real business is to try to corner the market on
     launching satellites into orbit and turn it into a death grip. Probably
     find down the track they will go for more subsidies to undercut foreign
     satellite companies which would suit the US government just fine. I would
     guess that the ones being let go would be more to do with the division
     working on the “Mars venture” while they concentrate their resources on
     their real business – launching satellites.
     
     
     
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     1. PlutoniumKun January 13, 2019 at 9:08 am
        You could argue that the problem with SpaceX is that its not neoliberal
        enough. Its crippled by all Musks crazy space exploration dreams, which
        he shares with many silicone valley types – the core SpaceX product
        (medium heavy launchers) is top class – its all the other stuff thats
        wasting money. This is the one subject they don’t apply profit and loss
        calculations to.
        
        
        
        I doubt very much if SpaceX could ever corner any market in space
        travel, its strategically too important to too many countries, so there
        will always be competitors from Russia, China, Europe, India and maybe
        other countries too in the next few years. Its possible of course that
        he could intend to corner the US government market, but even that would
        be difficult given the power of the existing industry.
        
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        1. NotTimothyGeithner January 13, 2019 at 9:19 am
           Without Mars, I don’t know if SpaceX would be seen as sexy enough to
           attract neoliberal investors, who think vending machines and apps are
           revolutionary with a good enough Ted Talk.
           
           
           
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     2. tegnost January 13, 2019 at 9:13 am
        stary eyed idealists for the win
        
        
        
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     3. XXYY January 13, 2019 at 11:04 am
        Can we all just agree now that a manned mission to Mars is a completely
        ridiculous and impossible idea, doubly so if the goal is to have the
        people return to Earth.
        
        
        
        Just consider the basic numbers. It costs about $10,000/lb to put things
        into Earth orbit. Mars is between 100 and 1000 times as far away as the
        Moon (depending on planetary alignment), so putting a gigantic payload
        on Mars is going to require a substantial craft with many tons of fuel
        that will itself need to be boosted into Earth orbit at a cost of
        $10,000/lb. Because of the way the planets rotate, there is only a
        favorable time to transit between Earth and Mars every 2 years, so the
        minimum length of a Mars mission is 2 years.
        
        So. From Earth, we will need to orbit (a) a trans-planetary spacecraft,
        (b) fuel for that craft to power it both to and from Mars, (c ) a human
        crew, (d) 2 years of oxygen, food and water for that crew, and (e)
        sufficient structures and supplies for the crew to live for 2 years in a
        place that has absolutely no natural resources, not even air or water
        (recall in the US moon missions the astronauts were on-planet for a few
        days at most). Just from a cost perspective, this will take the combined
        GDP of many countries and need hundreds of launches from the surface of
        the Earth just to position things for the start of the trip.
        
        There are also terrible technical issues with landing on Mars (which
        lacks enough atmosphere for a parachute to do much), and with assembling
        and fueling a gigantic interplanetary return-trip spacecraft in the
        surface of Mars. Mars has no infrastructure whatever, not even a tree to
        swing a rope over, so the idea of doing heavy vehicle assembly work on
        Mars, or any kind of assembly work, is facially absurd. The “industrial
        base” will consist of whatever humans can lift with their arms while
        wearing a spacesuit, breathing imported oxygen.
        
        One can go on and on, but there is no need. The whole mission, even
        leaving aside the pointlessness of visiting a barren and utterly hostile
        world and the great likelihood of death for the participants, makes no
        sense whatsoever and is strictly a fantasy for people who haven’t spent
        5 minutes thinking about it.
        
        In other words, a perfect Musk proposal!
        
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        1. Michael January 13, 2019 at 11:25 am
           You forgot the facts that anyone going to Mars would be blind and
           have cancer by the time they got there. Oops!
           
           
           
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           1. Oh January 13, 2019 at 1:32 pm
              Another reason for us to send Musk, Bezos and a whole bunch of
              politicians on the maiden flight! SpaceX is another scheme to suck
              on the public teat. Viva corporate welfare!
              
              
              
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        2. ambrit January 13, 2019 at 2:12 pm
           Bollocks! The Mars Direct group figured the mechanics of cheap and
           ‘easy’ Mars trips years ago.
           See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Direct
           First, Mars gravity well is ‘lighter’ than Earth’s. Returning from
           the Martian surface to orbit won’t be as hard as from here to Low
           Earth Orbit. (LEO, the base for all else in our vicinity.)
           Second, Mars has lots of water! Water can be ‘cracked’ quite easily
           and cheaply to supply both oxygen, (your reactive part of a
           breathable atmosphere,) and hydrogen, (one half of the most basic
           fuel needed, and already technically feasible.)
           Third, if you have to build political support by utilizing some of
           the Battlestar Mars methodology, the Moon also has water, though much
           more difficult to gain access to. Your basic fuel and atmosphere
           materials can be got there at much cheaper rates.
           Fourth, all the radiation problems have work arounds. Cost is the
           biggest draw back. Radiation shielding adds weight and complexity to
           your spacecraft.
           Fifth, on Mars, the ‘pioneers’ will have to spend much of their time
           in underground facilities anyway. A foot or more of good old Martian
           red dirt does wonders for stopping those pesky energetic particles.
           Sixth, the return craft will not land on Mars. It will be left in
           orbit, say tethered to one of the two “moons” of Mars. In the second
           generation deep space craft, the engineering enters a different
           field. Light weight construction methods.
           Seventh, humans need some frontier to aspire to, even if the
           individual doesn’t have a realistic chance of going there. The
           psychological value of aspiration, even though presently misused for
           socio-political ends, is positive.
           Some of us have spent more than five minutes thinking about this and
           have come away with the conviction that it is necessary for the
           species continued health and well being.
           
           
           
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 2.  kimyo January 13, 2019 at 9:00 am
     current technology will not allow humans to visit mars. What is the
     Temperature of Mars?
     
     
     
     > On average, the temperature on Mars is about minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit
     > (minus 60 degrees Celsius). A summer day on Mars may get up to 70 degrees
     > F (20 degrees C) near the equator, but at night the temperature can
     > plummet to about minus 100 degrees F (minus 73 C).
     
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     1. Octopii January 13, 2019 at 10:46 am
        Is this the flat earth society here? Men visited the moon almost fifty
        years ago and it’s not too hospitable either.
        
        
        
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        1. kimyo January 13, 2019 at 11:15 am
           is the following a plausible scenario? what materials will the
           habitat be built from? how will it be heated?
           
           
           
           elon musk (sept 2017)
           
           > “In 2024 we want to try to fly four ships [to Mars]. Two cargo and
           > two crew. The goal of these initial missions is to find the best
           > source of water, that’s for the first mission, and then the second
           > mission, the goal is to build the propellant plant. So we should,
           > particular with six ships there, have plenty of landed mass to
           > construct the propellant depot, which will consist of a large array
           > of solar panels, a very large array, and then everything necessary
           > to mine and refine water, and then draw the CO2 out of the
           > atmosphere, and then create and store deep-cryo CH4 and O2.”
           
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           1. Octopii January 13, 2019 at 12:33 pm
              I don’t have the background to assess that plan, and I doubt
              anyone in this discussion does. I certainly have no informed
              reason to trash talk it.
              
              
              
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           2. ambrit January 13, 2019 at 2:25 pm
              It looks like Musk is appropriating parts of the Mars Direct
              proposal.
              See above for a Mars Direct link.
              It is all technically feasible. What are needed are the necessary
              resources allocated. (Cost.)
              Once a usable source of water is found, the rest falls into place.
              There is no reason why the ‘pioneers’ won’t become literal
              pioneers and stay on Mars. (The Commentariat’s preferred outcome
              for Musk et. al.)
              
              
              
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              1. cj51 January 13, 2019 at 5:07 pm
                 Some people at MIT don’t think it will be that easy for people
                 to stay on Mars:
                 https://www.iflscience.com/space/mars-one-torn-shreds-mit-debate/
                 
                 
                 
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              2. Greg January 13, 2019 at 5:08 pm
                 It’s interesting that the SpaceX timeline isn’t too far off the
                 Red Mars timeline from Kim Stanley-Robinson’s epic martian
                 series back in the early 90s. You know, when Musk etc were
                 young and impressionable 
                 
                 
                 
                 Anyway, the flip-side of that is that the Mars Trilogy has the
                 first pioneers on a one way trip with certain death from rad
                 exposure and a bunch of other fun side effects. They still
                 went. The first fifty to a hundred years of humans on mars is
                 life-dependent on regular cargo shipments from home (think 40ft
                 containers dropped from space that cost megabucks to send from
                 a disintegrating global economy drowning in climate failure and
                 you’ll see some of the problems with that approach).
                 
                 So https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy probably source
                 material, remarkably prescient but that’s a bit chicken/egg I
                 think.
                 
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 3.  FreeMarketApologist January 13, 2019 at 9:12 am
     “…SpaceX tried in December to make up the difference by selling $500
     million in equity, “to help get its internet-service business off the
     ground,…”
     
     
     
     Here we have a company that hasn’t been profitable doing the thing they
     were set up to to, and now they’re trying to justify that work by
     implementing space-based internet connectivity, which coincidentally
     requires another 10,000+ things to be launched into space. This would
     nearly triple the number of satellites in orbit (about 4900 as of Nov
     2018), and add significantly to the space junk problem.
     
     I’m all for continued space exploration, but at this point it seems like
     the company is simply flailing about trying to justify sucking money out of
     wealthy investors.
     
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     1. tegnost January 13, 2019 at 9:24 am
        Speaking of excess junk, I know this story was in links today, but now
        teslas are going to follow their owners around “like pets” so add this
        to guillotine watch, annoying tesla traffic jams at the front door to
        all the stores, or “let’s take a walk down main st, come along tessie!”
        A car that follows you around is self driving and the reg pushback is
        probably the lack of a licensed driver. Whose fault is it going to be
        when it hits something? This should make the urban areas clogged with
        uber/lyfts just that much worse. What a stupid world they are making.
        Musk really should inhale more weed and go ride a bike.
        
        
        
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        1. The Rev Kev January 13, 2019 at 9:36 am
           What happens when the next Timothy McVeigh loads up his ‘tessie’ with
           explosives and orders it to drive into some building while he is
           making his getaway?
           
           
           
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 4.  ambrit January 13, 2019 at 10:11 am
     This points out the basic constraints on the “private” sector in gigantic
     projects. Some endeavours require the resources of an entire population to
     carry out. The Manhattan Project could not have been carried through by
     even a consortium of ‘private’ companies in the time scale require by the
     conditions; a war and a depression. Assembling the brainpower needed
     required the coercive power of the government. It is telling that Space-X
     is purported to have hired away boffins from NASA. Those Brainiacs were
     nurtured and developed by State funded schools and universities. They were
     given the opportunities to develop their gifts through State funded
     programs. See DARPA for an example of that.
     This retrenchment at Space-X is a sign that that entity has realized that
     it, suffering from the limitations imposed on it by the “private” sector,
     cannot be run as a Project, but must content itself with existing within
     the constraints of being a Business.
     
     
     
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     1. Brooklin Bridge January 13, 2019 at 2:25 pm
        Agreed. It would probably be cheaper and safer and faster to simply give
        the development back to NASA and just pay Musk to take photos of himself
        looking out a port window of a rocket.
        
        
        
        I lost track of why NASA had to give up these projects in the first
        place. Is it such revulsion for government that we can no longer feel
        proud of our flag unless it’s flown by private industry? Is it just one
        more avenue for funneling large amounts of cash into the hands of our
        most needy politicians to sustain their Dorian Grey pictures of what
        they really look like well locked up? Or is it to illustrate that in a
        meritocracy (ahem…), like ours, people that can hop in their own space
        ships really are worth 1000 times more than us beasts of burden?
        
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        1. ambrit January 13, 2019 at 3:11 pm
           I like your locution; “…a meritocracy, like ours…”
           The false equivalency inherent in the Neo-liberal myth of the “rugged
           individualist” is plain. All those ‘big business’ “successes” are
           built upon Government funded and run ‘pure science’ programs. The
           Internet itself, fecund source of fortunes large and small was the
           direct outgrowth of a network established among government and
           university departments to facilitate the communications of
           scientists. Who here remembers the Arpanet? All Bezos and his ilk did
           was to carry out a modern enclosure movement upon what had been a
           public trust. Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
           In the proverbial “Just Society” criminals like the billionaire class
           would pay for their transgressions. We have the dishonour to be
           living in a corrupt and degenerate age. Thus, criminals are lauded.
           The rest of us, well…..
           
           
           
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 5.  bob January 13, 2019 at 2:50 pm
     Musk is-
     
     
     
     1) a banker (paypal/ebay)
     2) A defense contractor (spaceX)
     
     He uses these two entities to fund gifts of shitty cars to giant,
     insufferable assholes.

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 9.  ELON MUSK’S SPACEX SPY SATELLITES WATCH YOU EVERYWHERE ON EARTH! CAN
     PRIVACY SURVIVE?
     
     by Christopher Beam
     
     
     In 2013, police in Grants Pass, Oregon, got a tip that a man named Curtis
     W. Croft had been illegally growing marijuana in his backyard. So they
     checked Google Earth. Indeed, the four-month-old satellite image showed
     neat rows of plants growing on Croft’s property. The cops raided his place
     and seized 94 plants.
     


 10. HOW MUSK RUINED SPACEX WITH HIS LIES AND EGOMANIA
     
     – SpaceX engineers call Musk a “liar’ in published reports
     
     – NASA senior staff call Musk’s Mars Scheme: “PR Hype designed to cover up
     the fact that SpaceX makes it’s money from domestic spy satellites and
     pushing Google’s ideology and privacy tracking in space…”
     
     – SpaceX is a spy contractor and nothing more. Those who believe otherwise
     are shills and “fools”, say experts
     
     – SpaceX has blown up more spacecraft from shoddy engineering than any
     other space company in history
     
     – SpaceX STARLINK system is just a Google/Silicon Valley scheme to push
     left-wing politics to the public and give Google another way to spy on
     users
     
     – China, a solar storm or a COMCAST hunter/killer satellite can wipe out
     the entire Starlink network in 60 minutes
     
      
     
     
     IF THIS IS YOUR INSPIRATION FROM SPACE, YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG
     
      
     
     
     
      * * by:
     
     Jenny List
     
     
     
     So after a false start due to bad weather, the first crewed launch of a
     SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule with two astronauts on board has gone ahead.
     After playing catch-up with the ISS for around 27 hours they’re now safely
     aboard. At times it seems that space launches have become everyday
     occurrences, but they are still heroes who have risked their lives in the
     furtherment of mankind’s exploration of space. Their achievement, and that
     of all the scientists, engineers, and other staff who stand behind them, is
     immense.
     
     I watched the drama unfold via the live video feed. Having heaved a huge
     sigh of relief once they were safely in orbit, the feed cut to the studio,
     and then moved on to interview the NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine. He
     was naturally elated at a successful launch, and enthused about the
     agency’s achievement. You can watch the full interview embedded below, but
     what caught my attention was his parting sentence:
     
     > And if this can inspire a young child to become the next Elon Musk, or
     > the next Jeff Bezos, or the next Sir Richard Branson, then that’s what
     > this is all about
     
     I was slightly shocked and saddened to hear this from the NASA
     administrator, because to my mind the careers of Musk, Bezos, or Branson
     should not be the ones first brought to mind by a space launch. This isn’t
     a comment on those three in themselves; although they have many critics it
     is undeniable that they have each through their respective space companies
     brought much to the world of space flight. Instead it’s a comment on what a
     NASA administrator should be trying to inspire in kids.
     
     Ask yourself how many billionaire masters-of-the-universe it takes for a
     successful space race compared to the number of scientists, engineers,
     mathematicians, technicians, physicists, et al. From the anecdote of the
     NASA administrator it takes about three, but if he is to make good on his
     goal of returning to the Moon in 2024 and then eventually taking humanity
     to Mars it will take a generation packed full of those other roles. To
     understand that we’ll have to take a trip back to the Apollo era, and how
     that generation of kids were inspired by the spacecraft on their screens.
     
     Inspiration from probably the coolest room in the world at the time, the
     Apollo mission control in Houston. NASA on The Commons / No restrictions
     
     Fifty years ago, we were very much on the brink of becoming a spacefaring
     planet. American astronauts were taking their first steps on the Moon, and
     Soviet cosmonauts were occupying real space stations that would soon be
     capable of housing them for months at a time. Planetary probes were
     returning colour TV pictures from other worlds, and it was certain that in
     the immediate aftermath of the Apollo programme we’d be sending astronauts
     and probably cosmonauts too further afield. A Mars base in the 1980s
     perhaps, and following our fictional Star Trek heroes further afield
     thereafter.
     
     We now know it didn’t quite work out that way, but a whole generation of
     tech-inclined kids grew up wanting nothing more than to be involved in
     space flight. The vast majority of us never made it, but with that
     inspiration we took our soldering irons and 8-bit home computers and ran
     with them. Those NASA folks were the coolest of role-models, and no doubt
     their Soviet equivalents were too for kids on the other side of the Iron
     Curtain.
     
     With the best will in the world, the chances of any kid becoming the next
     Jeff Bezos is about as high as that of their becoming the next Neil
     Armstrong. Compared to the number of kids in the world, the number of
     billionaires and the number of astronauts both pale into statistical
     insignificance. But the chances of a kid becoming an engineer or a
     scientist is much higher, and in those careers their chances of having some
     of their work be involved with the space effort becomes not entirely
     unlikely.
     
     I understand what the NASA administrator was trying to say, but can’t shake
     the feeling that if those are the people he rolls out to inspire kids
     watching a space launch, he’s missed an opportunity. Those are the names we
     all recognize, but shouldn’t we also elevate the people making the
     scientific breakthroughs so their names are equally recognized? Like
     Margaret Hamilton, Gene Kranz, and Sergei Korolev and many others before
     them, we should be making names like Tom Mueller and Margarita Marinova
     prominent examples of where a career in the sciences can take you. But to
     be honest, the real problem is we just don’t hear much about all the people
     doing this fascinating engineering and that’s a sad state of affairs.
     
     Looks like it’s time for Hackaday to pursue a biography series based on the
     many great minds who are the ones delivering on the promise and vision of
     today’s (and tomorrow’s) space race. Get us started by talking about your
     favorite behind the scenes science folks in the comments below.
     
     Pierros Papadeas says:
     May 31, 2020 at 10:31 am
     
     It is indeed unfortunate to be “inspired” and have as role-models, tycoons
     with highly questionable motives (primarily profit) on all their ventures
     so far. Thank you for bringing this up!
     
     I would suggest Hackaday focus on a series of great minds like the ones you
     mentioned and additionally: Cayley, Goddard, Kemurdzhian, Keldysh, Severin,
     Xiji and many others.
     
     
     Jakob says:
     June 1, 2020 at 5:34 am
     
     Yes, we need everything into the hands of 4 billionaires. I can’t wait
     until I don’t have to care about voting and budget allocations anymore, the
     4 billionaires will do it for me! 
     
     dexdrako says:
     June 1, 2020 at 11:38 am
     
     here is a perfect example of the insanity we face, the “billionaire” has
     never created anything least of all solutions to problems. the slap their
     name on other peoples work and make people pay more money they they should
     ever to get it.
     
     
     Opossumax says:
     June 3, 2020 at 7:28 am
     
     “not inclined to believe that the primary drivers behind creating SpaceX,
     Blue Origin and perhaps some others were profit,”
     Everyone knows government contracts have no profit. That’s why Boring,
     Lockheed and Raytheon are so broke.
     Musk is a welfare queen.
     
     dexdrako says:
     June 1, 2020 at 11:55 am
     
     Musk main goal is to feed his own ego and nothing else.
     
     musk is a narcissistic sociopath who’s trying to get his name remembers and
     be doesn’t care how many lies he has to tell or people have to die to have
     that happen. and when his plan fail as there is no other option for them
     but to fail they are that stupid.
     
     he will have damage space exploration for years to come
     
     
     dexdrako says:
     June 1, 2020 at 2:45 pm
     
     I don’t know you have all day?
     
     someone stopping to help fix a flat tire, returning a lost toy, return
     someones dropped money and so on.
     
     they’re not typically the kind you see in history books tho, history
     writers do so love to writer about mythological figures rather then the
     harder dirty truth of incremental change and group dynamics. its one of the
     greater flaws of the human mind, we’re not very good at understanding the
     complexity of reality but the mind is very good at personal understanding
     so it likes personalize complex concepts by choosing “avatars” (think
     wearing the same underwear for good luck or thinking a god made that glass
     of water fall on their laps) which is easier to understand but completely
     wrong.
     
     Musk an trash like him are desperately try to make themselves seem
     important when they’re not. because they are just sad pathetic people and i
     just feel sorry for the people that fall for it,
     
     
     dexdrako says:
     June 1, 2020 at 3:17 pm
     
     you post more then boards on straw man argument Msat
     
     any good musk does for the world will be purely incidental, the people he
     hurts to get his ego fueled nightmare already out number those it could
     ever help. this isn’t a binary issue its simply the fact his actions haven
     proven he’s toxic in the purest sense.
     
     
     Luke says:
     May 31, 2020 at 1:22 pm
     
     One has to wonder.
     
     The people behind SpaceX’s rockets were already working for NASA on the
     very same problem, when Musk bought and hired them to sell NASA the same
     technology by the same people. The only “thing” here is that NASA was
     having a hard time securing funding, so they made this whole “commercial
     space flight” switcheroo to make it look like they’re doing something
     different.
     
     Even the re-usable rockets are just a rehash of the old McDonnell Douglas
     DC-X concept that was funded by NASA, and the technology was transferred to
     NASA in 1996 in order to develop into the DC-XA.
     
     Everything that Musk is doing is projects that NASA was doing, handed over
     on a platter to privatize the profits.
     
     Luke says:
     June 1, 2020 at 8:19 am
     
     The Mars business is just a red herring. It’s an implausible goal set for
     the point that it’s really difficult, perfectly useless, and you can waste
     a lot of public money trying to.
     
     
     Luke says:
     June 1, 2020 at 8:28 am
     
     Where is Musk’s personal fortune on the line? He hasn’t got a dime in it –
     NASA is paying nearly all of it. If SpaceX goes bankrupt, Musk will
     actually be on the receiving end of the line because he funds his companies
     by lending them the money, not investing.
     
     Should he be forced to liquidate the company, the money would go to pay all
     the debtors, including himself.
     
     
     Luke says:
     June 2, 2020 at 2:54 am
     
     It didn’t start with a boatload of cash from NASA, but neither were they
     doing anything interesting before they got into contact with NASA and got
     access to all the cool tech that they had sitting on the shelf.
     
     They started in 2001 with a bunch of other venture capitalists, then in
     2002 bought Tom Mueller who was working for TRW under a sub-contract for
     NASA to develop exactly the kind of low-cost engines that SpaceX needed.
     Tom took the TR-106 and turned it into the Merlin engine, and NASA started
     throwing billions of dollars worth of contracts to them, which enabled Musk
     to pull in billions of dollars worth of public loans plus investments from
     companies like Google.
     
     
     Luke says:
     June 1, 2020 at 8:44 am
     
     You mean buying companies that made products that could sell, then selling
     the companies to get richer?
     
     Elon didn’t make PayPal happen. He bought in just as it got going.
     
     
     Wade says:
     May 31, 2020 at 5:09 pm
     
     NASA has totally turned over it’s responsibility to the private sector. At
     a budget of over 25 billion, what does it say that a private company given
     just a few of that can bring back the space program and put us back in low
     earth orbit on our own ships. I’m 52 and saw what it NASA could do “back in
     the day”. Now NASA is just a money dump supporting a failed bureaucracy
     that killed the crews of two shuttle missions and still can’t see past its
     own politics. It seems odd that the one guy that actually pulled this off
     wasn’t on screen. Although we got to see a lot of politicians that could no
     more work out the math behind three sides of a triangle try and steal
     credit for something that started over 10 years ago.
     
     
     watersb says:
     June 1, 2020 at 12:20 am
     
     This is fantastic. I was also shocked that NASA Administrator Bridenstine
     called out Elon Musk or Richard Branson as the inspirational examples. I
     think I understand the top-of-mind idea, that this was a triumph of
     *commercial* space development. And I was absolutely thrilled by this
     success. And I think the era of cost-plus space contracting is on its way
     out. And…
     
     Yes, all of that. But the idea that we need to emulate the billionaires
     seems at least tone-deaf to me. Not the greatest hot-take interview. If
     that’s what it was. It was all very strange.
     
     
     SPACEX AND THE SSP: ELON MUSK AND THE BIGGEST LIES OF THE …
     
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMcpArLqPDs
     This is a very dirty trick but the matrix of lies and illusions plus the
     distraction of false idol worship is a perfect recipe to create a
     permenantly infantile and ignorant cult of personality …
     
     
     ELON MUSK IS A TOTAL FRAUD – NEW YORK POST
     
     https://nypost.com/2018/07/21/elon-musk-is-a-total-fraud/
     Jul 21, 2018SpaceX — which Musk touts as replacing NASA and colonizing Mars
     — has been a literal failure to launch. So many of its rockets have burned
     up or crashed that Musk, for reasons unknown, has …
     
     
     THE CULT OF TESLA’S ELON MUSK LIVES ON – VOX
     
     https://www.vox.com/2017/12/6/16680816/elon-musk-spacex-tesla-recode-100-electric-car-rocket-hyperloop-boring
     Elon Musk — the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and The Boring Company and the
     chairman of OpenAI — wants to build cars, trucks, tunnels, and rockets. He
     wants to colonize Mars, save the environment …
     
     
     NOBODY ON EARTH CAN LAUNDER AND HIDE ILLICIT CASH, OR BRIBE POLITICIANS,
     LIKE ELON MUSK
     
     He’s worth an estimated $39 billion, but has repeatedly said he’s poor. He
     is a scumbag liar and a crook!
     
     
     In one of a series of wild tweets posted last week, Elon Musk stated he
     would be “selling almost all physical possessions” and that he would “own
     no house.” He appears to be actually following through with that promise,
     as chronicled in a great story in The Wall Street Journal about Musk’s
     personal finances that you should go read.
     
     According to the WSJ, despite being worth an estimated $39 billion on
     paper:
     
     > …he has to borrow, sometimes a lot, to pay for his lifestyle and business
     > investments without liquidating shares that help him maintain control of
     > the companies he runs. About half his Tesla stock is pledged as
     > collateral for personal loans, an April 28 financial filing shows.
     > Maintaining his equity stake—about 20%, or around $29 billion at its
     > current valuation—is important for him to keep control over the Silicon
     > Valley auto maker.
     
     Musk also doesn’t take a salary at Tesla, but he apparently became eligible
     for stock options worth more than $1 billion this week. To get that money,
     he will need an eye-watering $592 million to exercise the option, according
     to the WSJ. It’s not clear if Musk has the money on hand to exercise that
     option or if the money raised from the house sales will be used to help pay
     for the sum. “Mr. Musk said he wasn’t selling his possessions because he
     needs the money,” the WSJ reported.
     
     The article also lists a few times Musk has said he’s cash poor. Here’s one
     example:
     
     > Before Tesla went public, Mr. Musk told a judge during a contentious
     > divorce with his first wife that he had run out of cash and had taken on
     > emergency loans from friends to support his family and pay living
     > expenses.
     
     Here’s another:
     
     > Last year, Mr. Musk’s ability to access cash came up again during a
     > defamation lawsuit over comments he made about a man involved in the
     > rescue of a Thai soccer team from a flooded cave in 2018. A lawyer in the
     > case said in a filing that Mr. Musk had described himself as “financially
     > illiquid.”
     
     The whole article has a lot of history about Musk, interesting information
     about his finances backed up by regulatory filings, and numerous quotes
     from Musk himself, and I sincerely recommend taking 10 minutes to read it
     in full.
     
     Musk has Goldman Sachs, Welles Fargo and Wilson Sonsini Mobster-Class
     executive bankers hide his money in  a rabbit warren of HUNDREDS of trusts,
     shell corporations and fake charities from South Dakota, to Switzerland to
     the Cayman Islands to Russia.
     
     A federal investigation to show the tentacular diagram of scams has been
     demanded!
     
     FBI, SEC, FTC and citizen forensic investigators are hot on his trail,
     though!
     
     These are the illicit things that sociopath narcissist Musk has engaged in
     with the taxpayer cash he mooched from government treasuries:
     
     
      1.   PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS HAVE PRODUCED REPORTS ON THE ELON MUSK AND
           TESLA MOTORS FRAUD, STOCK RIGGING, BRIBERY AND SAFETY INVESTIGATIONS
           that Musk’s Silicon Valley Sandhill Road venture capitalists
           cover-up.
      2.   Musk hides his money in illicit and false-front real-estate scams to
           avoid taxes and to launder money.
      3.   “His corrupt cobalt mines promote genocide in the Congo as seen in
           NETFLIX Black Earth Rising”.
      4.   “His corrupt cobalt mines promote mass rape in the Congo as seen in
           NETFLIX Black Earth Rising”.
      5.   “His corrupt cobalt mines promote child slave labor in the Congo as
           seen in NETFLIX Black Earth
           Rising”.
      6.   “He tries to bury his ill-gotten money from the taxpayers in gobs of
           real estate acquisitions and houses including his notorious purchase
           of the Vaughn DeGuigne Court mansion at 891 Crystal Springs Road, in
           Burlingame, California which is staged for his kinky sex parties and
           Illuminati-like cartel get-togethers…”
      7.   “His is not faithful to his girlfriends. Some of them are Ghislane
           Maxwell-type enablers, too, just to hang around his money and promote
           his sex schemes like Maxwell did for Epstein”
      8.   “The workers that build his batteries die or sicken from toxic
           poisoning and Musk tries to hide his dirty factories overseas”
      9.   “Tesla bribes U.S. Senators with cash and stock in order to get free
           taxpayer funds”
      10.  “He is addicted to drugs and booze”
      11.  “He has ‘sociopath-class’ mental issues and he is a narcissist…”
      12.  “Tesla has had more recalls for safety defects, per volume, than any
           other car maker. Musk refuses to allow the use of the word RECALL but
           the facts are the facts.”
      13.  “It is so easy to hack any Tesla and crash it, break into it or give
           it bad braking orders that it is criminally negligent to allow
           Tesla’s on the street. Even the Chinese have hacked Tesla’s from the
           other side of the world! Tesla’s have been hacked and remotely
           crashed, the drivers killed and Tesla covers this up…”
      14.  “His partner: Steve Jurvetson, has been charged with sex and
           corruption issues”
      15.  “He arranged government kick-backs with the White House”
      16.  His entire current existence is based on stock market scams created
           with taxpayer dollars and Goldman Sachs securities manipulations
      17.  “He is the world’s biggest government mooch and has taken more
           taxpayer cash than anyone in U.S. History as a billionaire who does
           not need a hand-out”
      18.  “He is a member of the Palo Alto Tech Mafia operated by Stanford
           University gay frat house guys”
      19.  “Google (who is a major Tesla investor) hides all negative Musk/Tesla
           news in digital media globally and hypes TSLA stock in order to
           profiteer with Tesla stock. This is a violation of federal SEC laws”
      20.  “More drivers have been caught driving drunk, in Tesla’s, than any
           other car Per Capita produced”
      21.  “Google boss Larry Page is Musk’s ‘bromance’ boyfriend buddy and he
           uses Google to cover-up Musk’s scandals”
      22.  “His so-called ‘foundation” is just a payola and tax evasion scam for
           his family. It is a charity scam”
      23.  “His batteries are the most dangerous use of lithium ion storage ever
           conceived”
      24.  “His partner: Panasonic, has been charged with multiple corruption,
           dumping, price rigging and manipulation crimes around the globe”
      25.  “Almost all of the internet ‘Tesla Fanboys’ are Russian troll farms
           and hired bloggers that Musk pays vast amounts of money to in order
           to hype up a fake image for him. Musk has over 1000 click-farm and
           Russian troll bloggers under his employ via various false-front cover
           organization contractors.
      26.  “The drug and murder-for-hire website: Silk Road, was built at
           drug-enthusiast Musk’s company SpaceX by Musk’s programmer and Musk
           hires many people from a group called: In-Q-Tel, who were caught with
           tons of cocaine on their airplanes in a DEA raid”
      27.  “His SpaceX is nothing more than a domestic spy satellite company”
      28.  In-Q-Tel supplies a number of Musk’s staff, yet In-Q-Tel has been
           accused of numerous criminal ventures and abuses of the public.
      29.  You never hear about these crimes because Musk’s buddies in Silicon
           Valley control 90% of the global media these days and they censor any
           bad news about Musk in order to protect their Cartel.
      30.  “Musk’s brain chip company tortures monkey’s and other small animals
           in bad science experiments”
      31.  “His father screwed his daughter and got her pregnant. His father
           seems to be a pedophile and incest participant”
      32.  “Dianne Feinstein and her family covertly own many Musk interests and
           arranged for him to get his funds from the taxpayers. She helped
           sabotage his competitors in her district”
      33.  “You can’t put out the fires when his batteries explode say fireman
           because Lithium fires are military class thermo-dynamics”
      34.  “The fumes from his lithium ion thermal battery vapors give you
           cancer, lung and brain damage”
      35.  Psychologists say that Musk is a self promoting, narcissistic,
           multi-billion dollar, self-aggrandizing PR hype addict.
      36.  Many of us know these facts from personal interaction with Musk, his
           companies and his politicians.
      37.  Everything in these reports can be proven in a jury trial,
           Congressional hearings or live TV debates but Musk would rather die
           than face uncontrolled public scrutiny.
      38.  Musk will do anything to keep this information from getting out,
           including hiring attack services like his Fusion GPS, Black Cube,
           Gawker and Gizmodo Kill services.
      39.  While Musk’s dirty deeds sound like a bad Hollywood movie script. It
           all really happened and there is now massive hard copy evidence to
           prove it.
      40.  Elon Musk exists because he bribed DNC politicians including Obama,
           Clinton and Senators Feinstein, Reid, Boxer, Harris, Spier and Pelosi
           to give him free taxpayer cash and government resources from the
           Department of Energy and the California political tax pool.
      41.  When you follow-the-money and the insider trading, stock ownership
           and crony payola kick-backs. The payola between Musk, his scummy
           cronies and the politicians is proven.
      42.  The Musk empire pays bribes in billions of dollars of Google (Where
           Musk’s boy buddy Larry Page works), Twitter, Facebook, Tesla, Netflix
           and Sony Pictures stock and stock warrants which is never reported to
           the FEC
      43.  The Musk empire pays bribes in billions of dollars of Google,
           Twitter, Facebook, Tesla, Netflix and Sony Pictures search engine
           rigging and shadow-banning which is never reported to the FEC
      44.  The Musk empire pays bribes in free rent
      45.  The Musk empire pays bribes in Male and female prostitutes
      46.  The Musk empire pays bribes in cars
      47.  The Musk empire pays bribes in dinners at fancy restaurants
      48.  The Musk empire pays bribes in socialite party financing
      49.  The Musk empire pays bribes in Sports Event Tickets
      50.  The Musk empire pays bribes in Political campaign printing and
           mailing services “Donations”
      51.  The Musk empire pays bribes in Secret PAC Financing. Musk’s empire is
           a massive political financing conduit for the DNC politicians via a
           tentacular array of covert shell corporations, trusts, 501C’s and
           stock bribes.
      52.  The Musk empire pays bribes in Jobs in Corporations in Silicon Valley
           For The Family Members of Those Who Take Bribes And Those Manage
           Bribes
      53.  The Musk empire pays bribes in “Consulting” contracts from McKinsey
           Consulting as fronted pay-off gigs
      54.  The Musk empire pays bribes in Overpriced “Speaking Engagements”
           which are really just pay-offs conduited for donors
      55.  The Musk empire pays bribes in Private jet rides and use of
           Government fuel depots (ie: Google handed out NASA jet fuel to staff)
      56.  The Musk empire pays bribes in commercial Real Estate
      57.  The Musk empire pays bribes in Fake mortgages
      58.  The Musk empire pays bribes in The use of Cayman, Boca Des Tores,
           Swiss and related money-laundering accounts and The use of HSBC,
           Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Deustche Bank money laundering
           accounts and covert stock accounts
      59.  The Musk empire pays bribes in Free spam and bulk mailing services
           owned by Silicon Valley corporations
      60.  The Musk empire pays bribes in the use of high tech law firms such as
           Perkins Coie, Wilson Sonsini, MoFo, Covington & Burling, etc. to
           conduit bribes to officials
      61.  The U.S. Energy Dept (DOE) has been covering-up organized political
           crime activities in which government funds are being used as a
           slush-fund to pay off political campaign financiers and to pay for
           CIA/GPS Fusion-Class attacks on Silicon Valley business competitors
           via Musk political conduits.
      62.  Political campaign financiers and government agency staff share stock
           market holdings with each other under family trusts, shell
           corporations and layered Goldman Sachs accounts.
      63.  The basic Musk scam-deal goes like this: “Obama funds Tesla, Musk
           conduits campaign funds to Obama, top Obama staff profit off of
           insider Musk stocks…”
      64.  Elon Musk is a criminal, a mobster, an asshole, a balding fake-hair
           wearing, plastic surgery-addicted, bi-sexual douchebag,
           woman-abusing, sex addicted, tax evader. We can put this in writing
           because all of those identifications regarding Musk can be proven in
           court and are documented in existing lawsuits and news stories.
      65.  Musk exploits poor people and child slaves in the Congo and
           Afghanistan to mine his lithium and Cobalt. Look up this phrase on
           the top search engines: “child labor electric car batteries”.
      66.  Musk spends billions per year to hire Russian trolls, fake blogger
           fan-boys and buy fake news self-glory look-at-me articles about
           himself.
      67.  Musk thinks he is the ‘Jesus’ of Silicon Valley and he will do
           anything to make the public think so.
      68.  Musk is insecure because his father was abusive and his “trophy wife”
           Mother is overbearing so he developed sociopath-like mental issues.
      69.  Musk has been professionally diagnosed as a ‘psychotic narcissist.
      70.  He public stated on an investor call that he uses drugs and alcohol
           to get through the night. We have the tapes.
      71.  Musk relies on Google and the DNC Main Stream News (MSN) to hide bad
           news about him.
      72.  Fake News manipulator Google is run by Larry Page. Larry is Musk’s
           investor and bromance ‘Butt buddy’. They share an apartment.
      73.  Musk uses massive numbers of shell companies and trust funds to
           self-deal, evade the law and hide his bribes and stock market insider
           trading.
      74.  His brother ran Solar City and is now under federal investigation for
           securities fraud.
      75.  A huge number of Tesla drivers have been killed; pedestrians and
           oncoming drivers have also been killed, and Musk covers it up.
      76.  Extremist politicians and their controlled news outlets refuse to
           allow any articles about Musk’s crimes to be printed because they
           benefit from Musk’s crimes.
      77.  Investor oligarch’s Tim Draper and Steve Jurvetson are so fanatical
           about not being embarrassed from a Tesla bankruptcy that they will
           pump the TSLA stock and threaten anybody who might disclose the Musk
           misdeeds.
      78.  Peter Thiel, a Musk ‘boyfriend” also protects Musk. Musk, and his
           cronies, use Palantir, Google and related software to scan the entire
           internet every few minutes for any occurrence of the words: “Musk”,
           “Tesla” or “Tesla Fire”. They send trolls and fake bloggers (Many of
           them Russian) to put pro-Musk comments on the comments section of any
           blogs or articles discussing those topics and try to flood out the
           truth about Musk.
      79.  In EVERY blog that you read that mentions ‘Musk’, at least 1/3 of the
           comments have been placed their by Musk’s paid shills.
      80.  There are no “Tesla Fan Boys”. All of the fanatic Tesla comments on
           the internet are Musk’s, Thiel’s, Jurvetson’s and Draper’s fake
           fanboy trolls. Musk, himself, stays up late at night pretending to be
           a ‘Tesla Fan Boy’on blogs.
      81.  The ‘Silicon Valley Mafia; cartel of frat boy sociopath venture
           capitalists like Steve Jurvetson, Tim Draper, Eric Schmidt, et al;
           threaten those who do not support the cult of Tesla or their
           political candidates.
      82.  Musk holds the record for getting sued for fraud by his investors,
           wives, former partners, employees, suppliers and co-founders.
      83.  Elon Musk has gone out of his way to hire hundreds of ex-CIA and
           In-Q-Tel staff and assign them to “dirty tricks teams” to attack his
           competitors and elected officials who Musk hates.
      84.  Musk never founded his companies. He took Tesla away from the
           founder: Marty, in a hostile take-over!
      85.  Musk’s “Starlink” satellites are domestic spy and political
           manipulation tools – never get your internet from one. SpaceX is
           entirely a spy satellite operation.
      86.  The same kind of EMF radiation proven to cause cancer from cell
           phones exists in massive amounts in a Tesla.
      87.  Musk can’t fix a car or build a rocket and has almost no mechanical
           skills he can’t build or work on any of the things he made himself
           famous for.
      88.  If you pull a report of every VIN# of every Tesla ever built and
           cross reference that with insurance, repair and lawsuit records you
           will find that the “per volume” fire, crash, death and defect rate is
           THE WORST of any car maker in history!
      89.  Musk is a lying con artist and partners with Goldman Sachs to rig the
           stock market. Sachs has a dedicated team of 18+ men who rig stocks
           and valuation bumps for Musk.
      90.  Over 1000 witnesses can prove every one of those claims in any live
           televised Congressional hearing!
      91.  Senators Dianne Feinstein, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris
           and their associates own the stock in Tesla Motors and/or it’s
           suppliers and mining companies. That is why they criminally help
           cover-up investigations of Tesla!
      92.  All of this was reported, in writing, to James Comey, Patricia Rich
           and David Johnson at the FBI by those who supplied this information
           but Musk has yet to be arrested because crooked California
           politicians, who own his stock, protect him from arrest.
      93.  Why aren’t all of those parties in prison if it is so easy to prove
           the crime? Think back to recent history: the heads of the Department
           of Energy, the FBI, The DOJ and the U.S. Attorney General were kicked
           out of their jobs for corruption. THIS was the corruption they were
           doing. They all knew about this crime but they were covering it up.
      94.  Musk took over Tesla Motors in a hostile take-over in order to
           exploit lithium, cobalt and other mining corruption deals for his
           business partners.
      95.  When you take a look at the ‘lithium’ in Musk’s horrifically
           miss-engineered lithium ion batteries you will uncover horrible
           crimes engaged in to acquire it.
      96.  His batteries cause wars in the Congo, Afghanistan and Bolivia from
           the corrupt mining deals involved with mining lithium and cobalt.
      97.  Lithium ion batteries are insider trading-owned by ex-CIA boss
           Woolsey and DOE Boss Chu.
      98.  Lithium ion batteries excrete chemicals that mutate fetuses when they
           burn and destroy your brain, lungs and nervous system when they burn
      99.  Musk’s batteries kill the factory workers who make them
      100. Musk’s batteries cause Panasonic to be one of the most corrupt
           companies in the world
      101. Musk’s batteries poison the Earth when disposed of
      102. Musk’s batteries can’t be extinguished by firemen
      103. Musk’s batteries poison firemen when they burn
      104. Musk’s batteries are based on criminally corrupt mining schemes like
           URANIUM ONE
      105. Musk’s batteries have over 61 toxic chemicals in them
      106. Musk’s batteries come from an industry that spends billions on
           internet shills and trolls used to nay say all other forms of energy
      107. Musk’s batteries and are insider-trading owned by corrupt U.S.
           Senators who are running a SAFETY COVER-UP about their dangers.
      108. Apple products with lithium ion batteries have been exploding and
           setting people on fire.
      109. Over time the chemical dendrites, or deposits, inside each Musk
           battery grow worse and increase the chances of explosion as they age
           –
      110. Musk’s LITHIUM ION BATTERIES BECOME MORE AND MORE LIKELY TO EXPLODE
           AS TIME GOES ON AND AS THEY AGE. This is not a theory. This is a
           scientific fact. That is why you hear about more and more lithium
           batteries catching fire and blowing up.
      111. Additionally, scientists also speculate that the increasing presence
           of low energy nuclear background energy and wifi energy in the
           environment is making lithium ion batteries explode more often
           lately. This theory is upheld by the increasing number of FAA reports
           about commercial airline cabins suddenly “filling up with toxic
           smoke” as some lithium ion battery explodes in someones overhead
           luggage. As commercial jets go higher they lose the protection of the
           atmosphere and are subjected to more gamma (and other) radiation from
           overhead. This makes the already unstable lithium ion batteries on
           board blow up.
      112. “Bad Guys” have figured out how to make them explode remotely in
           devices by making the device electronics cause the batteries to
           overload.
      113. The dangers of lithium ion batteries are hidden by CNN and Main
           Stream News (MSN) because pretty much only the DNC people profit from
           them and the DNC folks control CNN and the MSN.
      114. The Obama Administration promised Silicon Valley oligarchs the market
           monopoly on lithium ion batteries and the sabotage of fuel cells in
           exchange for campaign financing and search engine rigging
      115. United States Senators that are supposed to protect us from these
           deadly products own the stock market assets of them so they protect
           them and stop the FDA, OSHA, DOT & NHTSA from outlawing them.
      116. Tom Steyer is a notorious DNC financier. His partner, Margaret
           Sullivan ran, the federal USAID agency, USAID sent all of the DNC
           campaign financiers in Silicon Valley a federal ‘report’ from USAID
           that said there was “A TRILLION DOLLARS OF LITHIUM IN AFGHANISTAN”
           and promised to give those lithium mines, EXCLUSIVELY, to the Silicon
           Valley venture capitalists if they funded and web search manipulated
           the election for Obama to take over the White House. We have the
           documents proving this. In other words, a re-up of the Afghan War was
           caused by Elon Musk and it killed American soldiers so that Musk
           could buy more mansions and trophy wives.
      117. Alkaline, NiCAD and hundreds of other battery chemistries DO NOT have
           all of these problems but Lithium Ion batteries get a monopoly
           because of politician insider trading ownerships.
      118. Tesla Motors has caused far more deaths and injuries than the world
           generally knows about.
      119. A recent fire on U.S. Highway 101 near Mountain View, CA, burned the
           driver alive and killed him.
      120. In Florida two kids died in a Tesla, burned alive, screaming in
           agony.
      121. A man died in agony in a Tesla crash in Malibu that set Malibu Canyon
           on fire.
      122. A young woman, at the start of life, and her boyfriend were burned
           alive in their crashed Tesla.
      123. There are many more deaths and crashes than you have seen in the Main
           Stream News (MSN) The deaths and the cover-ups are endless.
      124. Senators Dianne Feinstein, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris
           and their associates own the stock in Tesla Motors and/or it’s
           suppliers and mining companies and they cover-up and halt
           investigations and laws designed to save the public. They, and their
           crony’s, spend over $1B a year to shill and troll hype about lithium
           ion batteries and cover-up the dangers.
      125. Lithium ion EVs are more prone to battery fires. Experts say that
           their lithium-ion batteries can fuel hotter fires that release toxic
           fumes and are more difficult to put out.
      126. Lithium ion fires keep reigniting which explains why it takes so long
           and requires copious amounts of water or foam (it is an electric
           fire, after all) to smother the flames.
      127. Tesla employee Bernard Tse and his team warned Elon Musk about these
           dangers in 2008 and they got fired and/or warned to “say nothing” by
           Musk.
      128. Three top Tesla engineers died in a plane crash next to Tesla offices
           in San Carlos after two of them agreed to become whistle-blowers.
      129. The DNC bosses, Congress people and federal executives own the stock
           in lithium, Solar and EV markets and use kickbacks from those markets
           (Especially via convoluted campaign finance laundering via Elon Musk)
           to finance the DNC.
      130. The DNC bosses and Musk use character assassination as their main
           political tool against any member of the public who speaks out
           against their felony stock market scams and PizzaGate-like scandals.
           The Harvey Weinstein reports by Ronan Farrow show that they have
           teams of hired goons that they pay to destroy people’s lives. They
           use Black Cube, Mossad, In-Q-Tel, Stratfor, Gawker Media, Gizmodo
           Media, Media Matters, David Brock, Sid Blumenthal, NY Times, Google
           servers, Facebook servers, Podesta Group, Perkins Coie, Covington &
           Burling and a host of “media assassins”.
      131. Musk’s “cabin boy”: Jared Birchell, runs around covering up Musk
           crimes all day
      132. Gawker and Gizmodo Media set-up the attack stories and, in paid
           partnership with Google, Google kicks their attack links around the
           globe, in front of 8 Billion people, forever. Google locks the attack
           articles of its enemies on the front top search results of Google
           search results forever, on purpose! Google and Musk are
           partners-in-crime.
      133. Larry Page steals technology for Google and Musk meets with Larry
           Page to advise him on which technologies to steal and how to bypass
           FEC laws.
      134. Musk has exceeded FEC campaign finance limits by billions of dollars
           via “in-kind” services.
      135. Reports at https://www.propublica.org prove some of these assertions
      136. Reports at https://www.transparency.org prove some of these
           assertions
      137. Reports at https://www.icij.org prove some of these assertions
      138. Reports at http://londonworldwide.com  prove some of these assertions
      139. Reports at https://stopelonfromfailingagain.com prove some of these
           assertions
      140. Reports at 
           https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-24/tesla-slams-tree-florida-bursting-flames-and-killing-driver
           prove some of these assertions
      141. Reports at Elon Musk is a total fraud – nypost.com prove some of
           these assertions
      142. Reports at Elon Musk is a total fraud: Truth about Tesla billionaire
           exposed prove some of these assertions
      143. Reports at Elon Musk Passes the Hat Again on Capitol Hill… And in
           China prove some of these assertions
      144. Reports at About Elon Musk – A WASHINGTON DC ORGANIZED CRIME prove
           some of these assertions
      145. Reports at Mark Spiegel: Elon Musk is ‘a pathological liar’ prove
           some of these assertions
      146. Reports at https://nationalnewsnetwork.net/ prove some of these
           assertions
      147. Reports at http://www.videonet111.com prove some of these assertions
      148. MUSK’S SPACEX COMPANY Will have all of it’s satellites destroyed in
           moments as soon as China gets pissed off: 
           https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/12/asia-pacific/chinas-space-debris-cleanup-may-cover-story-arms-u-s-satellites-pentagon/
      149. WE HAVE ASKED THE FBI, DOJ, OSC, SEC, FTC, GAO, U.S. CONGRESS, AND
           OTHERS, TO INVESTIGATE AND PROSECUTE MUSK AND HIS CRONY OPERATION!
      150. ELON MUSK’S PAID-FOR MEDIA SHILLS COVER UP HIS CORRUPTION AND PUSH
           PUFF-STORIES ABOUT MUSK. NEVER TRUST THEM TO BE ANYTHING BUT BIASED
           PROPAGANDA OUTLETS. MANY OF THEM OWN TESLA STOCK: Electrek, Google,
           Facebook, CNN, Huffington Post, Dianne Feinstein’s PR office, Nancy
           Pelosi, Steven Chu, MSNBC, PayPal, KPIX-TV, San Jose Mercury News,
           Any Hearst owned entity, The SF Chronicle, Motley Fool, Green Car
           Congress, The executive staff of the DNC, The NY Times, etc.
      151. We saw Elon Musk commit crimes and we saw the Obama White House
           cover-up those crimes.We, and our associates, worked for Bright
           Automotive, Zap Electric, Aptera, Eco Motors, XPV, The United States
           Department of Energy and the federal Office of Management and Budget
           and Tesla Motors itself.Americans have an expectation that their tax
           dollars will be used in a fair and legal manner and not to pay off
           crony campaign financiers like Elon Musk.
      152. Americans have an expectation that fair market competition will
           decide which companies get to live or die and that no campaign
           financiers gets to order the White House to produce the death or
           success decision about any American business. Elon Musk’s operation
           exists entirely because of criminal corruption and all of his
           companies must be shut down by federal law enforcement.
      153. For nearly a decade, the U.S. Department of Energy has refused to
           comply with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for copies of
           Tesla Motors entire D.O.E. funding application documents. Former
           D.O.E. employees have shredded copies of those documents in order to
           keep them from being exposed to the public and the media. Why would
           they do that? Because those documents reveal felony criminal fraud by
           Tesla Motors, federal violations of the Section 136 law requirements
           and manipulations of the “hard-wiring” of the entire D.O.E. program.
           Those documents, which we have seen (and some Senate staff have
           private copies of) prove that, in a side-by-side comparison with all
           other applicants, the Tesla application was manipulation, rigged,
           false-reviewed and crony-advanced in order to pay-off certain
           campaign financiers and damage their competitors.
      154. Demand that the U.S. Department of Energy stop breaking the law and
           comply with the FOIA requests to stop hiding the incriminating
           evidence in the Tesla files. Demand that the public be shown the
           original paper and not the later, “doctored” versions.
      155. We saw Elon Musk operate an entirely illegal and unethical program
           based on State and Federal corruption. We told this, in writing and
           in person to the U.S. Attorney General: Eric Holder, who then quit
           his job after we reported these facts to him.
      156. We reported that Elon Musk lied about vast number of dangers of the
           lithium ion chemistry he was using. Nothing was done.
      157. We reported that our associates at the Department of Energy were
           having their safety reports on lithium ion danger suppressed. Nothing
           was done.
      158. We reported that Elon Musk’s credit rating and financial records were
           fraudulent and amounted to “cooking the books”. Nothing was done.
      159. We reported bribes paid by Musk’s lobbyists and associated to
           government officials in order to grease the skids for his crony
           payola. Nothing was done.
      160. We reported that Goldman Sachs and Tesla Motors were operating a
           stock fraud pump-and-dump scam to manipulate Elon Musk’s stock
           holdings. Nothing was done.
      161. We reported over a hundred illegal and corrupt actions by Elon Musk
           and his mob of Silicon Valley gangsters. Nothing was done.
      162. If you have an ounce of morality, then you will not want to help Musk
           & Tesla profit from the crony political corruption that created them.
           Musk exists because he bribes politicians & acts as an illegal
           campaign financing conduit.
      163. DOT/NHTSA has covered up years of reports about an acceleration surge
           issue that can suddenly crash your Tesla into walls and drive it off
           cliffs. It is either a known hacking attack or the effect of WiFi on
           Tesla electronics. Either can kill you.
      164. Musk & Tesla are pure evil & exist because of hyper-corruption. You
           don’t want to contribute to their evil or be part of it in any way.
           You are funding evil & supporting criminal corruption by buying a
           Tesla or any Elon Musk owned product like Solar City, Tesla, Space X,
           Hyperloop, etc.!
      165. Elon Musk spent more money, than any other car company in history, to
           do the exact same things that any other car has done, or could do,
           for 20 times less money. Musk’s Tesla was $100,000.00 over budget,
           per car, at the time that Musk was handed his crony Dept. of Energy
           froms by Steven Chu. Musk has no clue how to operate a car company.
      166. In one lawsuit it is noted that: “…Plaintiff and Tesla both applied
           for funds at the same time, in the same funding cycle in the same
           program. Tesla had the historically epic number of horrific issues
           listed below, which were known to DOE at the time of application, and
           Plaintiffs had NONE of these issues. How can any court, or rational
           person, believe that Plaintiffs were not intentionally bypassed,
           targeted and damaged for political reasons while Tesla was
           simultaneously approved for political reasons, when the comparative
           metrics between the two applicants prove the largest merit disparity
           in the entire recorded history of the U.S. Department of Energy….the
           singular, and only, review criteria used by Department of Energy
           officials was: WHICH ONE BRIBED THE CAMPAIGN FINANCE GROUP FOR BARACK
           OBAMA?!”; Thus proving that Tesla exists because of organized-crime
           level political corruption.
      167. Elon Musk’s self-driving “autopilot” feature, which keeps crashing
           and failing, is his attempt to scam taxpayer cash from Dept. of
           Transportation and Dept. of Energy public funds. He is only trying to
           do it to get more free federal cash.
      168. The inventor of lithium ion batteries has confessed that lithium ion
           batteries blow up eventually. He says that deadly dendrites plague
           lithium-ion battery technology. The dendrites accumulate as part of
           the standard charging and recharging cycle and eventually cause a
           short circuit that often results in a smoldering or burning battery.
           These dendrites are destined to eventually blow up most Tesla cars
           and many electronic devices using lithium ion!
      169. The CIA’s software designed to take over any Tesla on Earth and kill
           the driver, passengers and bystanders has been released in the wild
           and every hacker on Earth can now easily get a copy of it and kill
           you in your Tesla!
      170. Ex-employees have leaked faked financial records, evidence of massive
           click-farm fake social media manipulation and evidence of unreported
           deaths and accidents. They say that most Tesla’s have one kind of
           defect or another.
      171. If you read about the dirty deeds and cocaine dealings with the
           In-Q-Tel airplanes called “Cocaine 1” & “Cocaine 2”, & the corruption
           behind the company called In-Q-Tel & Musk’s software programmer who
           ran “The Silk Road” drug & murder service then you must be concerned
           that many In-Q-Tel people work for Musk. Why does Musk need dirty
           druggies & spies on his payroll unless he is running covert drug and
           business spying activities?
      172. Ex-employees, Gawker writers and gay lawyers from Covington & Burling
           have leaked stories that Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, Larry Page are
           “butt buddies”.
      173. Musk is anti-American and Anti-Worker Rights and has been caught
           flying in H1-B cheap offshore labor and exploiting immigrants for his
           deadly profits. Musk hates unions and worker rights efforts.
      174. Elon Musk gets the Cobalt chemical to make his lithium ion batteries
           from slave trade and blood-money corruption in the Congo!
      175. The lithium ion batteries that Musk uses also blow up when they
           naturally encounter Low Energy Nuclear (LENR) effects in the ambient
           environment. Millions of chemicals don’t blow up from LENR’d but
           lithium ion does!
      176. If you are a Democrat then know that Elon Musk cost you the Hillary
           Clinton campaign because of his payola schemes. If you are a
           Republican, know that Elon Musk is the epitome of the worst form of
           DNC crony corruption you ever saw!
      177. Musk bribed California politicians to give him hundreds of millions
           of dollars of taxpayer dollars & resources he never earned or worked
           for. He only got those crony payola perks handed to him because he
           operated as an illicit front for corrupt campaign financing for
           Dianne Feinstein, Jerry Brown, Harry Reid, Barack Obama and Hillary
           Clinton.
      178. Multiple parties have filed “Demands For The Arrest of Elon Musk”
           with the FBI, DOJ, AG, FTC, SEC and other law enforcement agencies.
           It is not likely that Musk, or his companies will survive a full
           investigation.
      179. Tesla and Solyndra sit on the same land in Fremont, CA. Solyndra was
           raided by the FBI for corruption. Tesla SHOULD be raided by the FBI
           for corruption. Both companies had kick-back crony payola schemes
           with Senator Dianne Feinstein. She owned the land, lease, HR,
           construction company and supplier interests and stock for both
           companies in one of the most massive conflict-of-interest crony
           financing schemes in U.S. history. Elon Musk and the Feinsteins are
           corruption partners.
      180. People who see you in a Tesla think of you as a “Tone Deaf
           Douchebag”, “Tesla Tool!”, “Arrogant Prick”, “Ostentatious Obama
           Oaf”, “Sheep”, “Mindless Yuppie Scum”, “Misogynistic Silicon Valley
           Clone”, “Self-promoting Elitist Douche”, “Fake News Reading Main
           Stream Boob”, “Naive Idiot” or other bad things.
      181. Elon Musk is one of the main financiers behind Barack Obama & Hillary
           Clinton, both of whom have been charged with corruption. Musk
           endlessly tweets lies & “…No I didn’t do those bad things” BS but
           nobody else supports him.
      182. Tesla financial records are “cooked” in a fraudulent manner to make
           the stock market valuation of Tesla a falsely manipulated factor.
           Musk uses “pre-orders”, by his own investors, to fake sales and wrote
           emails to customers asking them to put small deposits down so he
           could book them as fully paid sales in one of a large number of stock
           and loan valuation frauds. Musk and his investors practice stock
           market skims, pump-and-dumps and Flash Boy manipulations.
      183. Lithium ion batteries are blowing up, starting fires &, generally,
           destroying people’s homes, cars, electronics & physical health.
           Boeing was ordered to stop flying the 787 Dreamliner because it’s
           Lithium ion batteries are catching fire spontaneously. A group of
           silicon valley venture capitalists forced/leveraged the government to
           buy & pay for these specific batteries, that they have stock in, in
           order to benefit their profit margins. Other batteries don’t have
           these problems. They knew about the dangers from day one, but put
           greed ahead of safety. There are thousands & thousands of reports of
           spontaneous lithium ion fires but the VC’s who back lithium ion pay
           to keep this information hushed up. Millions of these batteries have
           been recalled for fire risk. The VC’s tried to push as many as they
           could before they got caught. Now they are caught. These VC’s & the
           Senators they bribed own stock in lithium mining companies too.
      184. Tesla Motors has filed a patent which states the following , THESE
           ARE TESLA MOTORS WORDS warning about a crisis, the level of which
           they never disclosed to the consumer: “Thermal runaway is of major
           concern since a single incident can lead to significant property
           damage &, in some circumstances, bodily harm or loss of life. When a
           battery undergoes thermal runaway, it typically emits a large
           quantity of smoke, jets of flaming liquid electrolyte, & sufficient
           heat to lead to the combustion & destruction of materials in close
           proximity to the cell. If the cell undergoing thermal runaway is
           surrounded by one or more additional cells as is typical in a battery
           pack, then a single thermal runaway event can quickly lead to the
           thermal runaway of multiple cells which, in turn, can lead to much
           more extensive collateral damage. Regardless of whether a single cell
           or multiple cells are undergoing this phenomenon, if the initial fire
           is not extinguished immediately, subsequent fires may be caused that
           dramatically expand the degree of property damage. For example, the
           thermal runaway of a battery within an unattended laptop will likely
           result in not only the destruction of the laptop, but also at least
           partial destruction of its surroundings, e.g., home, office, car,
           laboratory, etc. If the laptop is on-board an aircraft, for example
           within the cargo hold or a luggage compartment, the ensuing smoke &
           fire may lead to an emergency landing or, under more dire conditions,
           a crash landing. Similarly, the thermal runaway of one or more
           batteries within the battery pack of a hybrid or electric vehicle may
           destroy not only the car, but may lead to a car wreck if the car is
           being driven or the destruction of its surroundings if the car is
           parked”. See http://whoiselonmusk.com for more…
      185. Tesla’s own staff, & every fire department, have now admitted that
           once a lithium ion fire gets started in a Tesla, that it is
           impossible to extinguish burning lithium ion material. This is
           Telsa’s own words in THEIR patent filing, (You can look it up online)
           saying that the risk is monumental. Tesla has 6800 lithium ion
           batteries, any one of which can “go thermal”, start a chain reaction
           and blow up all of the rest of the 6800+ deadly batteries! Tesla
           drivers have been burned alive in thermal globs of flaming lithium
           ion, plastics & metal. Bystanders have heard their horrific screams
           of unutterable pain & terror as they were burned alive! Tesla fires
           can’t be extinguished & the bodies are burned into “unrecognizable
           lumps of charred flesh”, according to fireman.
      186. Lithium Ion batteries “go thermal” in peoples pockets, in your
           notebook, especially in a Tesla & Fisker car. There are tens of
           thousands of articles documenting this & there is a cover-up by the
           VC’s that fund these things to keep this fact out-of-sight. Making
           Lithium Ion batteries poisons the workers who make them. It is a
           dangerous product that is covered-up by the Obama Administration.
           Panasonic knows that these batteries are deadly.
      187. Tesla only exists to exploit Elon Musk’s briberies. The lithium ion
           batteries blow up when they get: wet, hot, bumped, over-charged,
           struck by energy fields, exposed to air or squashed. Lithium ion
           batteries poison the Earth & that they poison & kill the workers that
           make them. Lithium ion batteries come from war profiteering in Afghan
           & Bolivian corruption
      188. Panasonic is Elon Musk’s partner. Panasonic is one of the most
           corrupt companies in the world. Panasonic has been charged, on
           multiple continents with: Product dumping, bribery, collusion, price
           fixing, anti-trust law violations, racketeering, worker abuse, toxic
           poisoning of workers, & other crimes. It is no wonder that Elon Musk
           & Panasonic are partners. Tata Motors executive Karl Slym was killed
           for exposing this fact.
      189. Your tax dollars were stolen in order to make Tesla Motors, as part
           of a political financing kick-back scam. In other words, part of your
           paycheck was taken away from you in order to buy hookers, rent-boys &
           private jets for Musk & company.
      190. Tesla’s are forged in criminal corruption, so anybody who drives a
           Tesla must be either ignorant, a weasel or one of the corrupt. The
           whole world now knows all of the facts in this list so you can never
           plead ignorance to these crimes.
      191. Telsa’s have a huge amount of highly documented defects. The defects
           are so extensive that Tesla made buyers sign confidentiality
           agreements to try to hide how messed up their cars are.
      192. Tesla’s have killed more people than the main-stream news has
           reported. The full Tesla death-list is covered up.
      193. Musk lied about why he wanted to make electric cars, when, in fact,
           he actually poisons the environment because Tesla investors wanted to
           exploit toxic minerals & materials which can’t be recycled in a clean
           manner
      194. No other electric car has been so mundane, & yet had so many problems
           with it, since the electric car was first sold in the 1800’s. There
           is nothing “novel” or “amazing” about the Tesla aside from dime store
           parlor tricks for PR hype.
      195. More drunks have crashed Tesla’s, than any other per capita car in
           the world, per volume of cars made
      196. Elon Musk’s co-founders, investors, partners, wives, investors,
           suppliers & employees have sued him for being a fraud &, essentially,
           called him an “asshole” in court records.
      197. Elon Musk lied on this Department of Energy funding application and
           the Obama Administration refuses to allow any federal employees or
           witnesses to testify to these facts in public due to the devastating
           potential results of these facts.
      198. More owners of Tesla’s have been found to cheat on their taxes, & be
           involved in abuse-based divorces, than almost any other car brand
           owner. Tesla owners are bad people who rationalize their poor life
           choices. Owning a Tesla is a red-flag for a tax audit!
      199. Elon Musk will lie, cheat & steal in order to self-aggrandize &
           glorify his egotistical mania. Musk has been documented engaging in
           over 100 lies which were later proven to be false. He has spent tens
           of millions of dollars to buy fake news about himself on Twitter,
           Facebook & Google because he is such a mentally disturbed ego-maniac.
      200. None of Elon Musk’s companies would exist if not for taxpayer funded
           handouts given to him by corrupt politicians in exchange for illegal
           campaign finance deals with him & his investors.
      201. Google, & Tesla, who are financial & political partners, have both
           been caught spying on consumers & manipulating Internet data in order
           to cover-up their complicity in huge political corruption & kick-back
           deals
      202. Musk took U.S. taxpayer dollars from the government & then hired
           cheap off-shore labor & fired U.S. Union workers & domestic workers.
           He lied to & screwed the NUMMI workers that were working at the
           Fremont plant.
      203. Musk has put over 18 surveillance devices in the Tesla. Anybody can
           hack those devices & monitor you. WORSE YET, foreign agents have
           hacked the Tesla & taken over the controls & driven Tesla’s into
           bystanders & over cliffs.
      204. When Erick Strickland was head of the NHTSA he was confronted about
           DOT safety cover-ups of the Tesla to protect Obama. He quit 48 hours
           later. The DOT safety cover-ups to protect the Obama campaign finance
           payola scheme continue to this day. Obama’s Gibbs, Emanual, Plouffe,
           Axelrod and Carney quit within a week of being threatened with
           exposure.
      205. Elon Musk paid some of the largest bribes in the history of China,
           facilitated by Dianne Feinstein and her Chinese spy connections, in
           order to get his China factory opened.
      206. Tesla’s have had a large number of recalls but Elon Musk refuses to
           call them “recalls”. Tesla’s have had multiple recalls for SEVERE
           safety dangers. DOT has been told this, in writing, for years, but
           wont take action in order to protect Obama.
      207. Elon Musk is a bullshit artist who has no original ideas & wears
           black-turtle neck shirts (like Elizabeth Homes) to try to create a
           “cult” around himself & convince the world that he is a “Jesus-like”
           figure when, in fact, he is a clinical sociopath.
      208. Tesla is a severe public safety hazard that has been systematically
           covered up by corrupt politicians.
      209. Large numbers of Ex-CIA staff and In-Q-Tel spy staff work for Musk.
           Why does he need spies to build cars?
      210. Tesla Motors batteries were promoted by those who wished to exploit
           the Afghanistan War for personal profit by controlling the Afghan
           lithium mining fields. Kleiner Perkins and Draper Fisher hyped the
           “…trillions of $ of lithium in Afghanistan.”
      211. Tesla Motors batteries blow up on their own because their chemistry
           causes them to be naturally defective.
      212. Tesla Motors batteries blow up when they get wet because their
           chemistry is activated by water to make them explode.
      213. Tesla Motors batteries fires cannot be put out by any common
           fire-fighting resources.
      214. Tesla Motors batteries set themselves on fire.
      215. Per Federal MSDS disclosure documents, Tesla Motors batteries emit
           cancer-causing vapors when they burn.
      216. Tesla Motors Vehicles toxicity poison bystanders, nearby vehicular
           passengers, airline passengers in planes carrying said batteries in
           their holds, & environments where such incidents occur.
      217. Tesla Motors batteries blow up when bumped by the same level of car
           incident that would, otherwise, only dent a normal car bumper.
      218. In an accident, when a Tesla rolls over, molten metal & plastic can
           drip on & burn the occupants alive.
      219. Tesla has multiple sexual harassment and unsafe work-place lawsuits
           against the company.
      220. Per MSDS documents, Tesla Motors batteries emit brain damaging
           chemicals when they burn
      221. Tesla is a stock pumping scam to profiteering on stock market peak
           manipulation at the expense of taxpayers.
      222. Per MSDS documents, Tesla Motors batteries emit chemicals, burning,
           or not, that can damage an unborn fetus within the mother
      223. Per MSDS documents, Tesla Motors batteries emit chemicals that can
           cause lung damage.
      224. Per MSDS documents, Tesla Motors batteries emit chemicals that can
           cause liver damage.
      225. Per published lawsuits & news reports, the factories that make Tesla
           Motors batteries have been charged with the deaths, & potentially
           fatal illness, of over 1000 workers & the poisoning of nearby towns.
      226. Tesla Motors batteries become even more dangerous over time,
           particularly when tasked by electric transportation systems like
           Hover-boards & Tesla’s. The chemistry in a lithium ion battery
           changes to become more unstable over time.
      227. Tesla Motors batteries were never designed to be used in automobiles.
           Tesla used non-automotive batteries in one of the most dangerous
           configurations possible.
      228. Tesla Motors occupants experience higher EMF radiation exposure than
           gasoline vehicle occupants.
      229. Elon Musk’s Space X vehicles & Tesla Motors vehicles have both had a
           higher-than-average number of explosions. This has caused outside
           experts to doubt Musk’s ability to place safety considerations over
           his need for hyped-up PR.
      230. Leaked Sandia National Labs & FAA research videos dramatically
           demonstrate the unstoppable, horrific, “re-percussive accelerating
           domino-effect” explosive fire effect of the Tesla Motors batteries.
      231. Tesla’s own “Superchargers” & home 3-prong chargers have set Tesla’s,
           homes & businesses on fire
      232. Consumer rights groups contacted Erick Strickland, the head of the
           NHTSA, & charged him with a cover-up. He quit days later. The NHTSA
           then issued a safety investigation request to Tesla Motors, which
           would have more publicly exposed these dangers, but the safety
           investigation was never under-taken due to White House requests &
           lobbyist bribes, from Tesla, which got the investigation shut down.
      233. NEPA regulations for the Tesla NUMMI factory in California & the
           Nevada Tesla “Gigafactory” have been violated relative to
           environmental safety standards.
      234. Tesla Motors vehicles are not “Factory Built” “like Ford” builds
           cars, as Tesla professes. They are hand built in small volumes &
           subjected to numerous defects. Blogs have documented hundreds of
           defects, as listed by Tesla owners. Tesla has lost at least one LEMON
           CAR LAWSUIT for defective manufacturing.
      235. Tesla’s “showrooms” are often “pop-up” retail storefronts that are in
           tight-proximity retail centers, putting it’s neighbors at risk of
           total loss from fire damage.
      236. Tesla Motors vehicles have been hacked & taken over. Their doors,
           steering, listening devices & navigation have been taken over by
           outside parties. Multiple Tesla have suddenly swerved off the road,
           over cliffs & into other vehicles, killing bystanders & Tesla
           drivers.
      237. Three Tesla top engineers & two competing senior executives, all of
           whom had whistle-blown on Tesla, who were in perfect health one day,
           suddenly died mysteriously the next day.
      238. Multiple employees, founders, investors, marital partners, suppliers
           & others have sued Tesla Motors, &/or it’s senior executives for
           fraud. Musk had nothing to do with creating Tesla. He ran a hostile
           take-over of Tesla from the founders.
      239. In addition to suing him, many of his former staff & partners have
           described Musk as an “Arrogant Prick”.
      240. Main-Stream Media (MSM) have agreed not to provide news coverage of
           the deadly defects of the Tesla because the MSM are owned by the same
           politicians who own Tesla Motors. It is now legal to sue The New York
           Times for hiding these deadly defects, though, particularly if your
           family member was injured or killed because they covered-up the
           danger for political reasons.
      241. If you think the above bullet-points are bad there are over a 1000
           more. Find the book “Is Elon Musk A Fraud” online or visit
           https://stopelonfromfailingagain.com/ or thousands of other sites
           that expose the truth about Musk & Tesla!
      242. BANKRUPT MUSK – NO CASH FOR CRONY CORRUPTION. Print this out & freely
           re-post it on blogs & social media. Post this on bulletin boards. Put
           this on the windshield of every Tesla you find. Print this out & hand
           these out in front of every Tesla dealership: Nobody can stop you
           from handing these out, it is your U.S. Constitutional First
           Amendment Right! Pass the word! We are prepared to back up every
           single fact on here at any public meeting with the FBI, Congress,
           FTC, GAO, SEC or before a Federal Special Prosecutor.
      243. The crash of a Tesla Model X through the home of South Korean singer
           and actor Ji Chang Son. The crash ended with the nose of the vehicle
           in Ji Chang Son’s living room after the Tesla malfunctioned. Hundreds
           of such Tesla crashes have occurred, resulting in the deaths and
           injuries of Tesla owners, passengers, bystanders, oncoming drivers
           and others.
      244. Following accusations by a Korean celebrity that a Tesla car
           spontaneously drove through a wall, the carmaker has replied that the
           crash was “entirely due to the man’s horrible driving” in an ongoing
           effort, by Tesla, to steer the blame away from Tesla faulty
           engineering Actor and singer Son Ji-chang (identified as Ji Chang Son
           in court documents) claimed he was parking his Tesla Model X SUV when
           the vehicle suddenly lurched forward into his living room.
      245. In a lawsuit filed last week in California, Son claimed that the
           crash was due to “sudden unintended acceleration” and sought
           class-action status with other Model X owners. In a nod to the car’s
           ability to sense and avoid crashes, the lawsuit also hinted that the
           Model X should not be allowed take actions that the car “knows will
           result in the collision with a fixed object.”
      246. In June, another California-based Model X owner, Puzant Ozbag,
           similarly claimed that his Model X spontaneously accelerated through
           a parking lot and into a wall. A special prosecutor is needed to
           investigate Tesla due to the huge number of cover-ups, by Tesla and
           the Obama Administration, to protect camapign financier Elon Musk.
           Jeff Sessions needs to hire a lawyer from outside the government
           appointed by Sessions as attorney general or, in the United States,
           by Congress to investigate a government official for misconduct while
           in office. A reasoning for such an appointment is that the
           governmental branch or agency may have political connections to those
           it might be asked to investigate. Inherently, this creates a conflict
           of interest and a solution is to have someone from outside the
           department lead the investigation. The term “special prosecutor” may
           have a variety of meanings from one country to the next, from one
           government branch to the next within the same country, and within
           different agencies within each government branch. Critics of the use
           of special prosecutors argue that these investigators act as a
           “fourth branch” to the government because they are not subject to
           limitations in spending, nor do they have deadlines to meet.
      247. Attorneys carrying out special prosecutor functions in either federal
           or state courts of the United States are typically appointed ad hoc
           with representation limited to one case or a delineated series of
           cases that implicate compelling governmental interests, such as:
           Fraud (SEC, Complex, Cybercrime, Mortgages), Public Corruption, Money
           Laundering & Asset Forfeiture, Civil Rights, Racketeering Across
           State lines, Environmental Protection, National Security, Tax &
           Bankruptcy, Organized Crime, or International cases where the US is a
           party).[1] Special prosecutors in courts of the United States may
           either be appointed formally by one of the three branches of
           government in a criminal proceeding, or when dictated by federal law
           or regulation, or informally in civil proceedings, and also by one of
           the three branches of government, or by a non-governmental entity to
           prosecute alleged unlawful conduct by government agents. When
           appointed by the judicial branch to investigate and, if justified,
           seek indictments in a particular judicial branch case, the attorney
           is called special prosecutor.[2] When appointed/hired particularly by
           a governmental branch or agency to investigate alleged misconduct
           within that branch or agency, the attorney is called independent
           counsel.[3] When appointed/hired by the state or political
           subdivision to assist in a particular judicial branch case when the
           public interest so requires, the attorney is called special
           counsel.[3] When appointed/hired by an organization, corporation,
           person or other non-governmental entity to investigate and, if
           justified, seek indictments against one or more government officials
           for acts committed under color of law, the attorney may be called
           special counsel or special prosecut. The term is sometimes used as a
           synonym for independent counsel, but under the former law authorizing
           the independent counsel, the appointment was made by a special panel
           of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
           Circuit. The Ethics in Government Act expired in 1999, and was
           effectively replaced by Department of Justice regulation 28 CFR Part
           600, under which Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald was appointed to
           look into the Plame affair. The Tesla Motors and Elon Musk Case
           requires a Special Prosecutor.
      248. ELON MUSK AND TESLA FACE CRIMINAL FRAUD CHARGES BY FEDS! MUSK FINALLY
           EXPOSED!
      249.  SEC subpoenas TESLA over Musk tweets…
      250. Whistleblower posts ‘flawed cars’ details…
      251.  Elon Musk’s Incredible Smoke And Mirrors Dance. Elon Musk’s
           untraceable money laundering and political bribery scam has now been
           exposed. It is called an “Invisible Bridge”. It is the way that
           covert funds move through a secret conduit of close associates and
           family members. Elon Musk is at the head of the conduit and his
           mother, brother and associates Tim Draper, Steve Jurvetson, and
           George Soros round out the other tentacles. With operational links
           through Wells Fargo Bank, Silicon Valley Bank and Goldman Sachs, the
           scheme is perfected corruption. The “bridge” uses a combination of
           fake tax evasion charities and business assets, passes through
           Senator’s pockets and is never visible to the FBI, the FEC and the
           SEC unless they have very good agents assigned to the matter.
      252. NTSB, DOJ, SEC and FEC have been blocked from action by DNC
           lobbyists.
      253. The overt and arrogant Musk misdeeds have now become “obvious and
           RICO-violating…”
      254. He is protected by Senators Reid, Harris, Pelosi and Feinstein. They
           are beneficiaries of the scam. Musk’s self promoting, narcissistic,
           multi-billion dollar, self-aggrandizing PR hype. Elon Musk exists
           because he bribed DNC politicians including Obama, Clinton and
           Senators Feinstein, Reid, Boxer, Harris, Spier and Pelosi to give him
           free taxpayer cash and government resources from the Department of
           Energy and the California political tax pool. This is proven when you
           follow-the-money and the insider trading, stock ownership and crony
           payola kick-backs.
      255. He is protected by the Clinton and Obama organizations along with
           most of the DNC. He finances these politicians via this scheme.
      256. The U.S. Dept of Energy (DOE) has been covering-up organized crime
           activities at DOE in which DOE funds are being used as a slush-fund
           to pay off DNC campaign financiers and to pay for Fusion-GPS attacks
           on Silicon Valley business competitors.
      257. DNC campaign financiers and DOE staff share stock market holdings
           with each other under family trusts, shell corporations and layered
           Goldman Sachs accounts. The deal was: Obama funds Tesla, Musk
           conduits campaign funds to Obama, top Obama staff profit off of
           insider Musk stocks.
      258. Elon Musk is a criminal, a mobster, an asshole, a balding fake-hair
           wearing, plastic surgery-addicted, bi-sexual douchebag,
           woman-abusing, sex addicted, tax evader.
      259. Musk exploits poor people and child slaves in the Congo and
           Afghanistan to mine his lithium and Cobalt. Look up this phrase on
           the top search engines: “child labor electric car batteries”
      260. Musk spends billions per year to hire Russian trolls, fake blogger
           fan-boys and buy fake news self-glory look-at-me articles about
           himself. Musk thinks he is the ‘Jesus’ of Silicon Valley and he will
           do anything to make the public think so. Musk is insecure because his
           father was abusive and his “trophy wife” Mother is overbearing so he
           developed sociopath-like mental issues.
      261. Musk has been professionally diagnosed as a ‘psychotic narcissist.
      262. Musk uses shell companies and trust funds to self-deal, evade the law
           and hide his bribes and stock market insider trading. His brother ran
           Solar City and is now under federal investigation for securities
           fraud.
      263. A huge number of Tesla drivers, per capita, have been killed;
           pedestrians and oncoming drivers have also been killed, and Musk
           covers it up.
      264. The DNC and the MSM refuse to allow any articles about Musk’s crimes
           to be printed because they benefit from Musk’s crimes.
      265. VC’s Tim Draper and Steve Jurvetson are so fanatical about not being
           embarrassed from a Tesla bankruptcy that they will pump the TSLA
           stock and threaten anybody who might disclose the Musk misdeeds.
      266. Peter Thiel, a Musk ‘boyfriend” also protects Musk. Musk, and his
           cronies, use Palantir, Google and related software to scan the entire
           internet every few minutes for any occurrence of the words: “Musk”,
           “Tesla” or “Tesla Fire”. They send trolls and fake bloggers (Many of
           them Russian) to put pro-Musk comments on the comments section of any
           blogs or articles discussing those topics and try to flood out the
           truth about Musk. In EVERY blog that you read that mentions ‘Musk’,
           at least 1/3 of the comments have been placed their by Musk’s paid
           shills.
      267. There are no “Tesla Fan Boys”. All of the fanatic Tesla comments on
           the internet are Musk’s, Thiel’s, Jurvetson’s and Draper’s fake
           fanboy trolls. Musk, himself, stays up late at night pretending to be
           a ‘Tesla Fan Boy’on blogs.
      268. Main Stream DNC-biased News organizations who refuse to cover the
           story reveal themselves as shills for Musk
      269. The Silicon Valley Mafia promotes Musk as a “Tech God” leader but, in
           reality Musk is the same kind of “Leader” as Charles Manson, Jim
           Jones, David Koresh, Swami Rajneesh and Al Capone.
      270. His own people have sued him for fraud and lies once they realized
           that Musk-ism and Scientology had so much in common.
      271. The ‘Silicon Valley Mafia; cartel of frat boy sociopath venture
           capitalists like Steve Jurvetson, Tim Draper, Eric Schmidt, et al;
           threaten those who do not support the cult of Tesla or their
           political candidates.
      272. Musk holds the Silicon Valley record for getting sued for fraud by
           his investors, wives, former partners, employees, suppliers and
           co-founders.
      273. Elon Musk has gone out of his way to hire hundreds of ex-CIA and
           In-Q-Tel staff and assign them to “dirty tricks teams” to attack his
           competitors and elected officials who Musk hates.
      274. Musk and his culture are being sued for abuse to women and blacks and
           the Unions hate him for lying to them.
      275. https://stopelonfromfailingagain.com reveals even more Musk lies.
      276. Musk never founded his companies. He took Tesla away from the
           founder: Marty, in a hostile take-over!
      277. Musk’s “Starlink” satellites are domestic spy and political
           manipulation tools – never get your internet from anything SpaceX has
           launched. SpaceX is entirely a domestic spy operation.
      278. Musk’s “Mars” scheme is just a PR distraction to keep the news from
           looking too close at SPACEX domestic spying satellites.
      279. The same kind of EMF radiation proven to cause cancer from cell
           phones exists in massive amounts in a Tesla.
      280. Musk can’t fix a car or build a rocket and has almost no mechanical
           skills.
      281. If you pull a report of every VIN# of every Tesla ever built and
           cross reference that with insurance, repair and lawsuit records you
           will find that the “per volume” fire, crash, death and defect rate is
           THE WORST of any car maker in history! Musk’s lobbyists have bribed
           DOT and NHTSA to stall safety inspections.
      282. NO COMPLETE UNCOMPROMISING SAFETY REPORT ON TESLA CARS HAS EVER BEEN
           PUBLISHED but we have a copy of a hushed up report that would put
           Tesla out of business.
      283. Musk’s ‘Autopilot’ system is a scam to get government cash BUT IT
           NEVER WORKS. The Tesla ‘Autopilot’ has crashed into police cars,
           pedestrians, swamps and driven owners over cliffs.
      284. Musk is a lying con artist and partners with Goldman Sachs to rig the
           stock market. Sachs has a dedicated team of 18 men who rig stocks and
           valuation bumps for Musk.
      285. The “Silk Road” Cocaine and Murder-For-Hire website was created at
           Musk’s SpaceX
      286. Musk’s In-Q-Tel staff ran two transport planes filled with drugs;
           listed as “Cocaine 1” on FAA records.
      287. Senators Dianne Feinstein, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris
           and their associates own the stock in Tesla Motors and/or it’s
           suppliers and mining companies. That is why they criminally help
           cover-up investigations of Tesla!
      288. All of this was reported, in writing, to James Comey, Patricia Rich
           and David Johnson at the FBI.
      289. Tesla and Solyndra sit on the same land and share staff, contracts
           and lobbying. California politicians own parts of both companies.
      290. Musk took over Tesla Motors in a hostile take-over in order to
           exploit lithium, cobalt and other mining corruption deals for his
           business partners.
      291. The ‘lithium’ in Musk’s horrifically miss-engineered lithium ion
           batteries cause wars in the Congo over mining corruption.
      292. Afghanistan and Bolivian mobsters benefit from the corrupt mining
           deals involved with mining lithium and cobalt for Elon Musk’s
           batteries.
      293. Elon Musk opened a factory in China to try to avoid American worker
           safety laws because all of the labor cheats and safety violations he
           had engaged in, in America, were catching up to him. He neglected to
           provide adequate worker safety to quarantine for the coronavirus,
           though.
      294. Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries are insider trading-owned by ex-CIA
           boss Woolsey and DOE Boss Chu and they engaged in extreme
           conflict-of-interest to help Musk.
      295. Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries excrete chemicals that mutate
           fetuses when they burn.
      296. Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries destroy your brain, lungs and
           nervous system when they burn.
      297. Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries kill the factory workers who make
           them.
      298. Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries cause Panasonic to be one of the
           most corrupt companies in the world.
      299. Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries poison the Earth when disposed of.
      300. Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries can’t be extinguished by firemen
           because water makes them explode even more and then explode again
           hours later.
      301. Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries have chemical dendrites and
           deposition massing issues (revealed by X-Ray analysis) which makes
           them more and more likely to explode as they age.
      302. Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries poison firemen when they burn.
      303. Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries are based on criminally corrupt
           mining schemes like URANIUM ONE.
      304. Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries have over 61 toxic chemicals in
           them.
      305. Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries come from an industry that spends
           billions on internet shills and trolls that they hire to nay say all
           other forms of energy
      306. Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries are insider-trading owned by
           corrupt U.S. Senators who are running a SAFETY COVER-UP about their
           dangers.
      307. Apple products with lithium ion batteries have been exploding and
           setting people on fire.
      308. Over time the chemical dendrites, or deposits, inside each battery
           grow worse and increase the chances of explosion as they age –
           LITHIUM ION BATTERIES BECOME MORE AND MORE LIKELY TO EXPLODE AS TIME
           GOES ON AND AS THEY AGE. This is not a theory. This is a scientific
           fact. That is why you hear about more and more lithium batteries
           catching fire and blowing up. Additionally, scientists also speculate
           that the increasing presence of low energy nuclear background energy
           and wifi energy in the environment is making lithium ion batteries
           explode more often lately. This is upheld by the increasing number of
           FAA reports about commercial airline cabins suddenly “filling up with
           toxic smoke” as some lithium ion battery explodes in someones
           overhead luggage. As commercial jets go higher they lose the
           protection of the atmosphere and are subjected to more gamma (and
           other) radiation from overhead. This makes the already unstable
           lithium ion batteries on board blow up.
      309. Tesla owner’s had had more DUI’s, abuse filings in divorce
           proceedings and crashes than any other car maker PER VOLUME. This
           makes Tesla the #1 car for douche bags and scummy people.
      310. Tesla’s own federal patent filing records confirm that Tesla
           batteries are as dangerous as this document reports.
      311. Political activist George Soros owns part of Tesla Motors so that
           Soros can help conduit DNC cash.
      312. The Obama Administration promised Silicon Valley oligarchs the market
           monopoly on lithium ion batteries and the sabotage of fuel cells in
           exchange for campaign financing and search engine rigging.
      313. United States Senators that are supposed to protect us from these
           deadly products own the stock market assets of them so they protect
           them and stop the FDA, OSHA, DOT & NHTSA from outlawing them.
      314. There have been thousands of defect reports filed on Tesla cars.
      315. Tom Steyer is a notorious DNC financier. His partner, Margaret
           Sullivan ran, the federal USAID agency, USAID sent all of the DNC
           campaign financiers in Silicon Valley a federal ‘report’ from USAID
           that said there was “A TRILLION DOLLARS OF LITHIUM IN AFGHANISTAN”
           and promised to give those lithium mines, EXCLUSIVELY, to the Silicon
           Valley venture capitalists if they funded and web search manipulated
           the election for Obama to take over the White House. We have the
           documents proving this. In other words, a re-up of the Afghan War was
           caused by Elon Musk and it killed American soldiers so that Musk
           could buy more mansions and trophy wives.
      316. If a Tesla battery gets wet it will explode and cause all of the
           other batteries to explode in a “cascade of explosions”.
      317. Water makes Tesla batteries explode.
      318. In an accident, when a Tesla rolls over, molten metal & plastic can
           drip on & burn the occupants alive and seal them in molten metal.
      319. Alkaline, NiCAD and hundreds of other battery chemistries DO NOT have
           all of these problems but Lithium Ion batteries get a monopoly
           because of politician insider trading owner-ships.
      320. Tesla Motors has caused far more deaths and injuries than the world
           generally knows about.
      321. A recent fire on U.S. Highway 101 near Mountain View, CA, burned the
           driver alive and killed him.
      322. In Florida two kids died in a Tesla, burned alive, screaming in
           agony.
      323. A man died in agony in a Tesla crash in Malibu that set Malibu Canyon
           on fire.
      324. A young woman, at the start of life, and her boyfriend were burned
           alive in their crashed Tesla.
      325. There are many more deaths and crashes than you have seen in the Main
           Stream News (MSN) The deaths and the cover-ups are endless.
      326. Senators Dianne Feinstein, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris
           and their associates own the stock in Tesla Motors and/or it’s
           suppliers and mining companies and they cover-up and halt
           investigations and laws designed to save the public.
      327. Elon Musk’s Lithium ion battery partners spend over $1B a year to
           shill and troll hype about lithium ion batteries and cover-up the
           dangers.
      328. Lithium ion EVs are more prone to battery fires.
      329. Experts say that their lithium-ion batteries can fuel hotter fires
           that release toxic fumes and are more difficult to put out. Lithium
           ion fires keep reigniting which explains why it takes so long and
           requires copious amounts of water or foam (it is an electric fire,
           after all) to smother the flames.
      330. Tesla employee Bernard Tse and his team warned Elon Musk about these
           dangers in 2008 and they got fired and/or warned to “say nothing” by
           Musk.
      331. Three top Tesla engineers died in a plane crash next to Tesla offices
           in San Carlos after two of them agreed to become whistle-blowers.
           Another whistle-blower has suggested they were killed in a “Boston
           Brakes” hit-job.
      332. The DNC bosses, Congress people and federal executives own the stock
           in lithium, Solar and EV markets and use kickbacks from those markets
           (Especially via convoluted campaign finance laundering via Elon Musk)
           to finance the DNC.
      333. The DNC bosses and Musk use character assassination as their main
           political tool against any member of the public who speaks out
           against their felony stock market scams and PizzaGate-like scandals.
           The Harvey Weinstein reports by Ronan Farrow show that they have
           teams of hired goons that they pay to destroy people’s lives.
      334. Musk uses Black Cube, Mossad, In-Q-Tel, Stratfor, Gawker Media,
           Gizmodo Media, Media Matters, David Brock, Sid Blumenthal, NY Times,
           Google servers, Facebook servers, Podesta Group, Perkins Coie,
           Covington & Burling and a host of “media assassins”.
      335. Musk buddies: Gawker and Gizmodo Media set-up the attack stories and,
           in paid partnership with Google, Google kicks their attack links
           around the globe, in front of 8 Billion people, forever. Google locks
           the attack articles of its enemies on the front top search results of
           Google search results forever, on purpose! Google and Musk are
           partners-in-crime.
      336. Larry Page steals technology for Google and Musk meets with Larry
           Page to advise him on which technologies to steal and how to bypass
           FEC laws.
      337. Musk has exceeded FEC campaign finance limits by billions of dollars
           via “in-kind” services.
      338. Had the full scope of these facts been acted on during the Obama
           Administration, Barack Obama would have become the first modern
           sitting President to have been arrested in the White House. Barack
           Obama was fully aware of these schemes, crony payola deals and
           corruption crimes and discussed the implementation of these crimes,
           daily, with Rahm Emanuel, David Plouffe, Steven Rattner, Robert
           Gibbs, John Podesta, David Axelrod, Eric Holder and Jay Carney in the
           Oval Office.
      339. THIS corruption involves TRILLIONS of dollars of corrupt mining
           deals, automotive and energy monopolies!
      340. THIS is why the federal budget analysis reports are showing TRILLIONS
           of dollars of ‘untraceable’ losses from the United States Treasury
           from 2006 up to today!
      341. THIS is why a large number of reporters, whistle-blowers and
           prosecutors suddenly, and mysteriously turned up dead!
      342. The company that Elon Musk built to usher in the electric-car future
           might not have enough cash to make it through the calendar year
           without stock markets scams being used to keep it alive.
      343. Tesla again fell far short of its own production targets for the
           mass-market Model 3 sedan
      344.  Another person died in a crash involving its assisted-driving
           feature.
      345. Musk entered into a public dispute with federal safety regulators.
      346. Tesla’s once high-flying stock, buffeted by a downgrade from credit
           analysts, has dropped 24 percent from its peak in September but
           Silicon Valley Vc’s will pump it up to save face.
      347. No one has raised or spent money the way Elon Musk has; Nor has any
           other chief executive officer of a public company made a bankruptcy
           joke on Twitter at a time when so much seemed to be unraveling.
      348. Tesla is going through money so fast that, without additional
           financing, there is now a genuine risk that the 15-year-old company
           could run out of cash in 2018. The company burns through more than
           $6,500 every minute, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Free
           cash flow—the amount of cash a company generates after accounting for
           capital expenditures—has been negative for five consecutive quarters.
           That will be a key figure to watch when Tesla reports earnings May 2.
           Read the full story here:
           https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-burns-cash/
      349. In years to come, we will all look back and wonder how so many people
           were taken in by this shyster, who makes Enron look honest.
      350. One of Tesla’s greatest strengths is its ability to monetize the
           patience and goodwill of its customers and loyal fans. The company is
           sitting on a staggering $854 million in customer deposits as of the
           end of 2017.
      351. Since Tesla sells its products direct to consumers, without relying
           on a dealer network, customer deposits are cash payments that
           essentially serve as interest-free loans—and these loans can stretch
           on for years. If Tesla were to go bankrupt, those deposit holders
           would likely be wiped out.
      352. Tesla is holding customer deposits for two vehicles that aren’t even
           in production yet: an electric Tesla Semi ($20,000 deposit) and a
           next-generation Roadster (either $50,000 down or the $250,000 retail
           price paid up front to reserve a limited edition). Even customers
           interested in installing an array of solar roof panels or the
           company’s Powerwall home battery must hand over $1,000 to place an
           order.
      353. Tesla doesn’t break out deposit numbers by car, but the vast majority
           comes from $1,000 reservations for the Model 3. When Musk first
           introduced the lower-priced sedan in March 2016, fans stood in long
           lines at Tesla stores. Two years later, the slower-than-expected pace
           of production means that most of the more than 400,000 reservation
           holders are still waiting. And new people appear to be joining the
           queue: As of April, the company reported “net Model 3 reservations
           remained stable.”
      354. There’s an additional source of free money from loyal believers: An
           unknown number of customers have paid up for vehicle features—$3,000
           for “Full Self Driving” capability, for example—that Tesla thus far
           hasn’t figured out or released to anyone.
      355. Elon Musk cooked the books by emailing interested sales prospects and
           asked them to put a deposit down before each quarter ended so he
           could book their tiny deposits as fully transacted $60K+ “sales”
           before each quarter closed.
      356. Elon Musk and SpaceX are being sued by multiple employees for “lying
           about safety standards, safety records” and deadly safety defects.
      357. The Elon Musk Tesla Money Laundering Board Of Directors is as full of
           fraud and corruption as Musk. Birds of a feather stick together and
           the Jurvetson, Draper, Musk, et al; clan of corruption runs deep. The
           Board of Directors can’t operate their scam without the whole pack of
           thieves and liars in place. An outsider will break theirs swamp of
           tax evasion, Dark Money political bribes, off-shore cash,
           self-dealing, book-cooking, real estate fraud, expense padding and
           other nefarious deeds.
      358. Dianne Feinstein’s family member: Herb Newman of Sausalito,
           California’s HR firm: Newman Search (415 332-8425) has a company as
           of 1972 with the sole purpose of setting up investment bank deals
           with the People’s Republic of China. Feinstein arranged for Newman to
           provide the staffing for Tesla and Solyndra. Dianne Fenstein has been
           under investigation for spy activities with China and her senior aide
           was arrested as a Chinese top spy. In 1973 Mr. Newman arrived in
           Canton at the invitation of the Chinese Council for the Promotion of
           International Trade. (CCPIT). He and his company MVTC were one of
           fifty businesses to be invited to the Canton Trade Fair held in
           Kwangchow China. In 1978 Mr. Newman founded China Investments and in
           partnership with California Trade Delegations both companies as
           members of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce began taking US
           Corporations to China. Mr. Newman along with one of his associates at
           the time Mr. Darryl Schoon helped organize Senator Dianne Feinstein’s
           first trip to China in conjunction with the San Francisco Chamber of
           Commerce. Herb Newman, Mart Bailey and Feinstein’s Husband; Dick Blum
           are on intelligence agency watch-lists, and under electronic
           surveillance, for potentially corrupt deals with China, Tesla and
           Solyndra.
      359. Dianne Feinstein’s husband owns CBRE which owns the real estate
           contracts for both Tesla and Solyndra.
      360. Dianne Feinstein’s family owns interests in the construction
           companies hired by both Tesla and Solyndra.
      361. Dianne Feinstein had her staff warn other California businesses away
           from using the NUMMI car factory in order to protect the real estate
           deal for both Tesla ans CBRE, which is owned by her husband.
      362. Tesla began real estate deals in multiple states and then cancelled
           them at the last minute, which got them sued for fraud and charged
           with “lying” to different communities. They started, and then pulled
           out of these different building (San Jose, Southern California, New
           Mexico, Etc.) deals, because CBRE and Feinstein were trying to
           leverage real estate profit exploitation using taxpayer funding.
      363. Panasonic and Tesla have known for decades that the Panasonic 18650
           batteries used in the Tesla suffer from multiple chemistry
           degradation defects which will almost always make them eventually
           explode or “go thermal”. The defects include: 1.) LENR activation,
           2.) Dendrite lengthening, 3.) Particle congealing, 4.) Chemistry
           evolution and other defects. The Tesla projects is, essentially, a
           failed product product dumping effort of a failed and dangerous
           battery product.
      364. Elon Musk has demanded that his employees sign “loyalty pledges”,
           “vows” and engage in Omerta’s in order to keep the corruption details
           of Tesla from being exposed to the public.
      365. Tesla insider Antonio Gracias is the mob boss insider at Tesla who
           arranges media hit-jobs on those who displease Musk.
      366. The NHTSB has issued requests to Tesla for safety tests and data that
           Tesla never complied with. Instead, Tesla paid bribes, which were
           referred to as “fees” to avoid having to complete those tests. An
           independent group of outside investigators issued a damning safety
           report to the NHTSB demanding that Tesla be compelled to produce the
           safety tests in 2010 but Obama appointed NHTSB executives buried the
           report and protected Tesla in order to keep the connection between
           Obama’s funding and Tesla protected. NHTSB boss: Strickland, an Obama
           insider, was confronted with this in Washington, DC and resigned from
           his job 48 hours later. NHTSB has still not acted on the severe Tesla
           safety defects that have been reported since 2009.
      367. An SEC investigation of Musk uncovered horrific evidence of Musk
           corruption but the SEC could not report or act on it because Obama
           congressional bosses and lobbyists got the SEC investigation
           “limited” to only examine a single Twitter “Tweet” from Musk.
      368. Elon Musk is protected by top DOJ, SEC, CFTC, FEC and other Obama
           left-over staff as well as 45 U.S. Senators and top Federal Reserve
           members and Goldman Sachs, who live in terror that exposure of the
           entire Elon Musk financial food-chain will topple the entire DNC Dark
           Money payola scam. This is the reason that Tesla can get away with so
           much obvious and overt corruption and still continue operations.
           Tesla Motors book-cooking, financial frauds and political payola
           conduits, if fully revealed, would change the course of political
           influence in America.
      369. Elon Musk has been sued by a man that Musk called a “Pedo”, yet
           Musk’s own father has been accused of child sex abuse, racism and,
           indeed, got his own daughter pregnant!
      370. Elon Musk’s mother has been accused of being a “self-indulgent trophy
           wife” who Musk was trained by to be an arrogant elitist. Her hatred
           of black people was imbued on Musk who has been sued by black people
           at his company for “running a racist culture”.
      371. Elon Musk divorced the same woman twice because she knew his dirty
           little secret and threatened to out him if he did not keep the deal
           going. She was hired to “act” as his wife.
      372.  Musical artist Iggy Azalea was at a Musk Party, with other friends,
           who captured Elon Musk on video on drugs and in weird sex acts. Musk
           had Iggy’s camera stolen at the party to hie the evidence but he did
           not get the other cameras and did not realize that some of those
           cameras placed their images and videos directly on the Cloud, where
           hackers acquired them.
      373. With cover-up help from Eric Holder, Steven Chu, Obama, Valarie
           Jarret, DNC FBI agents, Perkins Coie, Covington and Burling, Wilson
           Sonsini, etc; sociopath Musk actually believes he is “untouchable”
           and that he can get away with anything. His downfall will be the same
           downfall of every narcissist sociopath oligarch throughout all of
           recorded history.
      374. Elon Musk is a drug addict. A simple urine and blood test proves it.
           Musk’s downfall and the downfall of John DeLorean are seeming to
           align.
      375. Dianne Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi are violating the law protecting
           Tesla by withholding investigations and prosecutions? Why are they
           allowing American citizens to continue to die from the 1.) “sudden
           acceleration electronics defect”; 2.) “The failed Auto-pilot
           electronics defect”3.) “The deteriorating and deadly lithium ion
           batteries” and 4.) numerous other defects widely documented in the
           news media and filed lawsuits?
      376. Elon Musk exists because he bribed DNC politicians including Obama,
           Clinton and Senators Feinstein, Reid, Boxer, Harris, Spier and Pelosi
           to give him free taxpayer cash and government resources. This is
           proven when you follow-the-money and the insider trading, stock
           ownership and crony payola kick-backs.
      377. The Energy Dept (DOE) has been covering-up organized crime activities
           at DOE in which DOE funds are being used as a slush-fund to pay off
           DNC campaign financiers and to pay for CIA/GPS Fusion-Class attacks
           on Silicon Valley business competitors.
      378. DNC campaign financiers and DOE staff share stock market holdings
           with each other under family trusts, shell corporations and layered
           Goldman Sachs accounts. The deal was: Obama funds Tesla, Musk
           conduits campaign funds to Obama, top Obama staff profit off of
           insider Musk stocks.
      379. Musk exploits poor people and child slaves in the Congo and
           Afghanistan to mine his lithium and Cobalt. Look up this phrase on
           the top search engines: “child labor electric car batteries”.
      380. The Silicon Valley Paypal Mafia promotes Musk as a “Tech God” leader
           but, in reality Musk is the same kind of “Leader” as Charles Manson,
           Jim Jones, David Koresh, Swami Rajneesh and Al Capone. His own people
           have sued him for fraud and lies once they realized that Musk-ism and
           Scientology had so much in common.
      381. Musk holds the record for getting sued for fraud by his investors,
           wives, former partners, employees, suppliers and co-founders. Elon
           Musk has gone out of his way to hire hundreds of ex-CIA and In-Q-Tel
           staff and assign them to “dirty tricks teams” to attack his
           competitors and elected officials who Musk hates.
      382. Musk and his culture are being sued for abuse to women and blacks and
           the Unions hate him for lying to them.
           https://stopelonfromfailingagain.com reveals even more Musk lies.
      383. THIS corruption is what all of the big political scandals are about
           today!
      384. THIS corruption involves TRILLIONS of dollars of corrupt mining
           deals, automotive and energy monopolies!
      385. THIS is why the federal budget analysis reports are showing TRILLIONS
           of dollars of ‘untraceable’ losses from the United States Treasury
           from 2006 up to today!
      386. THIS is why a large number of reporters, whistle-blowers and
           prosecutors suddenly, and mysteriously turned up dead!
      387. THIS can all be proven in jury trial and in live televised
           Congressional hearings!
      388. This is all being covered up because top State and Federal officials
           are in on it, own the stock in it and are so deeply involved in it
           that they could go to Federal prison when this all comes out.
      389. The anxieties that lurk beneath the tremendous ambition of Tesla Inc.
           moved into the forefront in recent weeks. The company again fell far
           short of its own production targets for the mass-market Model 3
           sedan, another person died in a crash involving its assisted-driving
           feature and Musk entered into a public dispute with federal safety
           regulators. Tesla’s once high-flying stock, buffeted by a downgrade
           from credit analysts, has dropped 24 percent from its peak in
           September.
      390. There’s a good reason to worry: No one has raised or spent money the
           way Elon Musk has. Nor has any other chief executive officer of a
           public company made a bankruptcy joke on Twitter at a time when so
           much seemed to be unraveling.
      391. Tesla is going through money so fast that, without additional
           financing, there is now a genuine risk that the 15-year-old company
           could run out of cash in 2018. The company burns through more than
           $6,500 every minute, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Free
           cash flow—the amount of cash a company generates after accounting for
           capital expenditures—has been negative for five consecutive quarters.
           That will be a key figure to watch when Tesla reports earnings May
           2.Read the full story here:
           https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-burns-cash/
      392. In years to come, we will all look back and wonder how so many people
           were taken in by this shyster, who makes Enron look honest.A
      393.  lot of Musk’s money has been extracted from suckers, who think he is
           God’s gift, as Bloomberg reports:One of Tesla’s greatest strengths is
           its ability to monetize the patience and goodwill of its customers
           and loyal fans. The company is sitting on a staggering $854 million
           in customer deposits as of the end of 2017.
      394. Since Tesla sells its products direct to consumers, without relying
           on a dealer network, customer deposits are cash payments that
           essentially serve as interest-free loans—and these loans can stretch
           on for years. If Tesla were to go bankrupt, those deposit holders
           would likely be wiped out.
      395. Tesla is holding customer deposits for two vehicles that aren’t even
           in production yet: an electric Tesla Semi ($20,000 deposit) and a
           next-generation Roadster (either $50,000 down or the $250,000 retail
           price paid up front to reserve a limited edition). Even customers
           interested in installing an array of solar roof panels or the
           company’s Powerwall home battery must hand over $1,000 to place an
           order.
      396. Tesla doesn’t break out deposit numbers by car, but the vast majority
           comes from $1,000 reservations for the Model 3. When Musk first
           introduced the lower-priced sedan in March 2016, fans stood in long
           lines at Tesla stores. Two years later, the slower-than-expected pace
           of production means that most of the more than 400,000 reservation
           holders are still waiting. And new people appear to be joining the
           queue: As of April, the company reported “net Model 3 reservations
           remained stable.”
      397. There’s an additional source of free money from loyal believers: An
           unknown number of customers have paid up for vehicle features—$3,000
           for “Full Self Driving” capability, for example—that Tesla thus far
           hasn’t figured out or released to anyone.
      398. The consumer psychology that sees hundreds of thousands of people
           essentially extending an interest-free loan to a public company is
           unusual, to say the least. I think the phrase “more money than sense”
           rather sums it up
      399. Apple and Google also named in US lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt
           mining deaths for Elon Musk’s Tesla Cars. Dell, Microsoft and Tesla
           also among tech firms named in case brought by families of children
           killed or injured while mining in DRC.‘I saw the unbearable grief
           inflicted on families by cobalt mining. I pray for chan Elon Musk’s
           cobalt extraction in DRC has been linked to child labour.
      400. A landmark legal case has been launched against the world’s largest
           tech companies by Congolese families who say their children were
           killed or maimed while mining for cobalt used to power smartphones,
           laptops and electric cars, the Guardian can reveal.
      401. Apple, Google, Dell, Microsoft and Tesla have been named as
           defendants in a lawsuit filed in Washington DC by human rights firm
           International Rights Advocates on behalf of 14 parents and children
           from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The lawsuit accuses
           the companies of aiding and abetting in the death and serious injury
           of children who they claim were working in cobalt mines in their
           supply chain.
      402. The lawsuit argues that Apple, Google, Dell, Microsoft and Tesla all
           aided and abetted the mining companies that profited from the labour
           of children who were forced to work in dangerous conditions –
           conditions that ultimately led to death and serious injury. The
           families argue in the claim that their children were working
           illegally at mines owned by UK mining company Glencore. The court
           papers allege that cobalt from the Glencore-owned mines is sold to
           Umicore, a Brussels-based metal and mining trader, which then sells
           battery-grade cobalt to Apple, Google, Tesla, Microsoft and Dell.
      403. Other plaintiffs in the court documents say they worked at mines
           owned by Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt, a major Chinese cobalt firm, which
           the lawsuit claims supplies Apple, Dell, and Microsoft and is likely
           to supply the other defendants.
      404. Another child, referred to as John Doe 1, says that he started
           working in the mines when he was nine. The lawsuit claims that
           earlier this year, he was working as a human mule for Kamoto Copper
           Company, carrying bags of cobalt rocks for $0.75 a day, when he fell
           into a tunnel. After he was dragged out of the tunnel by fellow
           workers, he says he was left alone on the ground at the mining site
           until his parents heard about the accident and arrived to help him.
           He is now paralysed from the chest down and will never walk again.
      405. Other families included in the claim say that their children were
           killed in tunnel collapses or suffered serious injuries such as
           smashed limbs and broken spines while crawling through tunnels or
           carrying heavy loads. The families say that none were paid any
           compensation for the deaths and injuries.
      406. One of the central allegations in the lawsuit is that Apple, Google,
           Dell, Microsoft and Tesla were aware and had “specific knowledge”
           that the cobalt they use in their products is linked to child labour
           performed in hazardous conditions, and were complicit in the forced
           labour of the children
      407. Is is charged that the Musk empire is an organized crime program that
           exists between Silicon Valley tech oligarchs, investment banks, U.S.
           Senators, government agency staff and White House staff who engage in
           these crimes.
      408. That public officials knowingly participate in these crimes by
           failing to report their associates who engage in these illicit
           actions and by hiring suppliers who operate these illicit activities.
      409. That the Musk empire suspects manipulate government funds for their
           personal profiteering at the expense of domestic citizen taxpayers
           like us.
      410. That the Musk empire suspects operate a vast stock market
           manipulation program, as a core function of their operations, and
           those illicit deeds function at the expense of the public to render
           unjust gain to public officials.
      411. That the Musk empire suspects contract a known group of lobbyists,
           corrupt law firms, unethical CPA’s, corrupt investment banks and
           specialized corruption services providers to attack, defame,
           physically harm, character assassinate, black-list and/or kill those
           they dislike and they harmed many persons with those acts.
      412. That the Musk empire suspects operate an Epstein-like sex-trafficking
           network of prostitutes and sexual extortion activities and locations
           for the engagement of said activities and for the bribery of cohorts
           via sex workers and that Musk was a personal associate of Jeffrey
           Epstein.
      413. That the Musk empire suspects engage in electronic attacks and
           manipulations including hacking, election manipulation, media
           censorship and internet search results manipulation in order to mask
           their schemes.
      414. That the Musk empire suspects engage in Lois Lerner-like,
           SPYGATE-like, VA whistleblower-like reprisal and retribution  attacks
           using government agencies like SSA, DOJ, FBI, LSC, HUD, HHS, DOE, Etc
      415. It is demanded that Elon Musk be arrested on RICO Racketeering,
           Anti-Trust, Tax Evasion, Bribery, and related charges!
      416. Elon Musk had sex with a young non-age-appropriate rock and roll girl
           and got her pregnant.
      417. Elon Musk dated anal sex advocate Gwenyth Paltrow who later told her
           friends that he was full of shit.
      418. Elon Musk divorced one actress, then had to remarry her because she
           had the goods on him.
      419. Video exists of Elon Musk at various sex parties.
      420. Elon Musk dated Johnny Depp’s girlfriend Amber Heard who thought that
           Musk was even more controlling than Johnny Depp.
      421. The NUMMI car factory that Musk took over was first called, by Musk,
           in the media “non-functional”. Even the two major car makers that
           were using it had abandoned it. Feinstein make Musk take it because
           here husband’s company: CBRE Realty, managed the property around it.
      422. Musk never made good on his promises to NUMMI workers or the Unions
           representing the NUMMI factory.
      423. After getting an insane amount of exclusive free cash from the
           taxpayers, Musk flew workers in from overseas.
      424. Multiple women have charged Musk for sexual abuse and factory
           misogyny.
      425. Musk couldn’t make it in college and bailed out.
      426. Far more SpaceX rockets have exploded and fully failed than the
           public is aware of.
      427. Musk said he would already have sent his buddies around the moon but
           many potential passengers have bailed out after they saw the due
           diligence on SpaceX lack of experience.
      428. Musk, Draper, Page, Westly, Schmidt, Brin and other famous tech
           asshole billionaires have formally agreed to run a “cartel” to
           control news, information and industries.
      429. Inside the Tesla that Elon Musk had SpaceX put in orbit is a
           “confession folder” that would destroy Musk if anyone went up and got
           it.
      430. Elon Musk believes he could kill someone and not get in trouble
           because he has so many California Senator’s, Tier one law firms and
           former White House staff protecting him.
      431. Elon Musk is the Citizen Kane of the modern world. He thinks he is
           the Al Capone of Technology. He uses things that appear to be all
           “crunchy granola” on the surface to steal taxpayer subsidies with the
           help of corrupt politicians.
      432. Aside from Musk’s own personal dirty operations and orders, the
           largest facilitator of his crimes is the large group of men inside
           Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan dedicated to supporting his crimes and
           corruptions.
      433. Through covert conduits, Elon Musk pays blogger James Ayre to shill
           is schemes online.
      434. Musk’s entire media plan is self-promotional aggrandizing and fake
           virtue-signaling to keep the news off his case.
      435. The SEC made him quit but he just changed one letterhead graphic and
           nothing else. Musk still runs Tesla and the rest of the empire just
           like he always did.
      436. Musk covertly funds abortion projects because he gets so many girls
           pregnant and refuses to use a condom.
      437. Deutsche Bank is the other biggest player in the Musk Empire money
           laundering, political payola and corruption crimes.
      438. Musk stole most of his designs from others, as proven by the U.S.
           Patent office and previous publications.
      439. When Elon Musk’s Hyper-loop crashes, it will turn all of the
           passengers into a bloody applesauce like nightmare.
      440. Musk’s 5G SpaceX Starlink Satellites could destroy the environment,
           will add to the cancer-causing radiation of the Earth and are to be
           used to spy on consumer’s uses of the internet.
      441. In lawsuits, Musk always pleads that he “has no money”.
      442. X-Ray analysis by over 40 major laboratories prove that Elon Musk’s
           lithium ion batteries have severe and constantly degrading defects
           inherent in their construction. Musk has known about these dangers
           for decades but chose to work with Panasonic to cover it up.
      443. Elon Musk lost a LEMON CAR lawsuit proving that his cars are poorly
           designed and manufactured.
      444. Elon Musk’s union negotiating tactics are: “delay, deny, defer and
           claim to be conducting a fake study…”
      445. Elon Musk’s take-over of Tesla from Martin Eberhardt, the actual
           founder, was based on an Obama Administration scheme to exploit
           Lithium mines in Afghanistan and Cobalt mines in the Congo, which
           Obama financiers had bought the rights to. Frank Guistra and Goldman
           Sachs helped come up with this scheme.
      446. A famous article about SpaceX quotes a top Musk staff staffer saying
           Musk is a “liar”.
      447. A top SpaceX engineer has sued Spacex for lying about rocket safety
           and says that Musk does not care about science, he cares about
           publicity.
      448. Most of the “famous” people Musk hired, quit after seeing what a sham
           his operations are.
      449. Jared Birchell, of Burlingame, is terrified that Musk will have him
           killed because he knows “where the bodies are buried”, but he has to
           act demure and “stay-off-the-press-radar” for now to keep Musk from
           paying too much attention to him.
      450. Every property that Musk owned has been bugged by government, news or
           competitor specialists.
      451. Musk takes a number of drugs for mental issues yet he runs companies
           with products that can easily kill their users. Many think that he
           should be under closer federal supervision.
      452. The U.S. Department of Energy PR Department has been ordered by Obama
           officials (who, shockingly, are still there even during the Trump
           Administration) to always hype up Musk because, WHEN Musk fully
           fails, it will prove that the Department of Energy funded him because
           Obama ordered them to and not based on any merits. Most every
           Applicant for DOE funds beat Musk on every merit EXCEPT CRONYISM!
      453. Trump-hating Elon Musk wanted to nay say Trump by subjecting Tesla
           workers to COVID death by refusing to close plant
      454. Musk uses his own workers to play deadly politics with their lives in
           COVID closure he refused
      455. Musk totally lied about his capacity, ability and knowledge to make
           COVID ventilators in order to scam political funding
      456. Musk sent snoring devices instead of ventilators and lied about those
           products in order to Virtue Signal for his own hype
      457. Musk has had babies with many women in an Epstein-like master plan to
           seed the world with his DNA so that mini-Musk’s will live on forever.
           Each ex-baby momma has been paid massive sums to keep quiet about his
           misdeeds.
      458. Musk uses his many mansions to hide money and operate tax
           manipulation efforts.
      459. The “Mainstream Media” is controlled by Democrat bosses who refuse to
           allow any negative news to be printed about Musk because Musk
           conduits funds to the DNC.
      460. One of Musk’s ‘baby ovens’ known as “Grimes’ has been revealed to
           have been used as a “sex toy for Musk” by Grimes friends.
      461. The U.S. Department of Energy has a federal policy of promoting
           Musk’s hype because they are liable for criminal prosecution because
           Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and his staff helped organize Musk’s
           embezzlement of taxpayer funded monies and insider-traded on that
           profiteering.
      462. Failing Elon Musk tries to make Alameda County pay for his failed
           NUMMI factory by using COVID as an excuse!
     
      
     
     
     THE MALIGNANT NARCISSISM AND CARTEL CLIMATE OF SPACEX’S ELON MUSK AND HIS
     BILLIONAIRE FRAT BOY CLUB
     
     At almost every juncture, Elon Musk has made egotistical decisions that
     lead to more failures. His behavior is that of a person who has no care or
     concern for the health, safety and welfare of the American people. Nothing
     could epitomize that more perfectly than his grotesque suggestions that we
     should shoot nuclear bombs off on Mars or that nobody will care that his
     Starlink Satellites are designed to spy on the public. This would seem
     comical, and entirely unbelievable, if it had not actually happened.
     
     In 2006 the many scientists told Elon Musk and his advisers of the high
     likelihood that a pandemic of lithium ion battery explosions would strike
     the nation and advised the incoming administration to take appropriate
     steps to reduce its impact. Obama officials hid the dangers because they
     owned stock in lithium and cobalt mines for those batteries, particularly
     in Afghanistan.
     
     In November of 2007, the experts warned Obama that the country was likely
     to be afflicted with a devastating pandemic of lithium ion originating from
     Asian and Russian oligarchs.
     
     In January 2009, the Obama administration was told by its own experts,
     Bernard Tse and his team who knew Tesla bosses, Sandia and others that the
     lithium ion batteries in Tesla cars had degrading chemistry which become a
     global pandemic of auto danger. Again, Obama chose inaction.
     
     Obama and Musk have deprived Democratic-led regions of the country from
     receiving needed safety reviews of Tesla cars.
     
     Over the year’s since 2006, Americans working with the DOE, NHTSA, SEC and
     other groups accelerated warnings to Obama officials. These engineers and
     other science professionals were intentionally ignored in order to protect
     politicians stock market profits.
     
     In these, and any other examples, Musk and his inner circle of White House
     and Senate insiders ignored or purged experts and other truth-tellers, and
     lied about, misrepresented, deflected or denied the dire threat to the
     American people posed by the lithium ion battery scam.
     
     Considered in total, Musk and his regime have shown themselves to be
     incompetent, callous, malevolent and deeply cruel in their response to the
     Tesla safety issue crisis (as well as to a plethora of other issues).
     
     But to merely document the Musk regime’s deadly failures in response to the
     dangers of his companies is to ignore the most important question: What are
     Musk’s and his advisers’ underlying motivations?
     
     This forensic question must be answered if we are ever to have a full
     accounting of the Musk Corruption, and see justice done for the voters, the
     dead tesla victims and those who will die in the future as well as the
     damage done to the broader American community.
     
     The coordinated ‘main-stream’ media’s preferred storyline that suggests
     Musk is simply incompetent doesn’t add up because Muskhas made the wrong
     decision every single time in terms of how crises like this are supposed to
     be dealt with. (i.e. Be consistent, transparent, factual, and credible.)
     It’s increasingly not believable for the left-wing press to suggest that
     Musk has been distracted or inept during this crisis, in part because of
     the level of his uselessness has become so staggering.
     
     Maybe Musk is vengeful. Maybe he wants to wreck the economy to create
     investment opportunities? He’s under the thumb of a foreign entity? He
     wants to cause panic and cancel the November elections? He’s a fatalist?
     Who knows. And honestly, the specific “why” isn’t what matters now. What
     matters is asking the difficult questions and pondering what the Musk
     oligarchy  is truly about, no matter what lurks in the shadows…
     
     Now the press needs to shift some of its focus and ask the truly alarming
     questions about Musk and his motives. Because we still don’t know why he
     essentially ordered his companies to embark on such sinister ventures
     involving slicing up brains; over-priced deadly cars for rich douche-bags;
     digging holes for billionaire hide-outs, launching domestic spy satellites
     and manipulating elections along with his boyfriend: Larry Page, etc…
     
     Psychologist and psychotherapists have an answer: Elon Musk is a “malignant
     narcissist”. Musk’s mental pathologies inexorably compel him to hurt and
     defraud large numbers of people — including his own supporters.
     
     Exports have looked at Musk’s borderline personality disorders. They
     explais that sadism and violence are central to Musk’s malignant narcissism
     and his decision-making about his self-promotion. They warn that Musk is
     abuser locked into a deeply dysfunctional relationship with the American
     people and that, like other sadists, Musk enjoys causing harm and suffering
     to any that do not recognize his “tech Jesus” self-proclaimed superiority.
     
     Ultimately, all psychologists generally concludes that Musk is engaging in
     “democidal behavior” in partnership with Obama and Pelosi and cautions that
     the many dead and injured (so far) from the Tesla fires and crashes are not
     simply collateral damage from the Musk madness, but rather the logical
     outcome of Musk’s apparent mental pathologies and the poor decisions that
     flow from them.
     
     Musk is both denying responsibility by saying things such as, “I take no
     responsibility. We’ve done everything right.” But at the same time, Musk is
     also sabotaging the efforts to stop the corruption in his empire. This is a
     very important aspect of Musk’s behavior. Musk is not just deflecting blame
     onto others, he is actively interfering with the politicianss’ ability to
     do their job by controlled Senators with bribes. Musk is not just
     incompetent. He is actively engaging in sabotage against competitors and
     reporters who speak the truth about him.You might wonder: How does someone
     with his type of mind reconcile claims like “I have total power” with “I
     take no responsibility”? He has said both things within a few days of each
     other. Well; That is a function of how the psychology of a malignant
     narcissist is structured. When Musk says things such as, “I have total
     power,” that’s the grandiosity. “I’m in total control” is a function of
     Musk’s paranoia, where everything bad is projected outward. Therefore,
     anything negative or bad is someone else’s fault. Bad things are ‘other
     people’ in Musk ’s mind. The grandiosity and “greatness” are all him.
     Musk’s mind runs on a formula which bends and twists facts, ideas and
     memories to suit his malignant narcissism. This is why Musk contradicts
     himself so easily. He lies and makes things up. His fantasies all serve his
     malignant narcissism and the world he has created in his own mind about his
     greatness.
     
     Another component of Musk’s malignant narcissism is sadism. That part of
     Musk’s mind is more hidden. People such as Musk are malignant-narcissist
     sadists because they, at some deep level, are driven to cause harm to other
     people. Musk’s life is proof of this. His pedo father and trophy wife
     narcissist mother demonstrate his roots. He enjoys ripping people off and
     humiliating people. He does this manically and gleefully. He has lied
     thousands of times. He threatens people online and elsewhere. Most
     psychologists believe that Elon Musk is also a sexual sadist, who on some
     basic level enjoys and is aroused by watching people be afraid of him. In
     his mind, Musk is creating chaos and instability so that he can feel
     powerful.
     
     Professor of psychiatry and psychoanalyst Otto Kernberg called that
     phenomenon “omnipotent destructiveness.” The bullying, the violence, the
     destruction, frightening people, humiliating people, getting revenge and
     the like — such behavior is what Elon Musk has done his whole life. It is
     who Elon Musk really is. Unfortunately, too many people are still in denial
     of that fact.
     
     Musk has to create and control a field of negative corrupting energy around
     himself. For example, he pressures the scientific experts to bend the truth
     to his dreamworld during his press conferences. The scientists are
     basically Musk’s hostages. The American people are hostages as well to Elon
     Musk’s lies. We are being abused by him. We know that Musk is lying. We
     know that he’s doing nothing to help us. We feel helpless to do anything to
     stop him. It is causing collective mental despair. It is not that all
     Americans are suckers or dupes, it is that Musk is a master at such cruel
     and manipulative behavior.
     
     Elon Musk is a master at getting negative attention, and the more people he
     can shock and upset, the better.
     
     Malignant narcissists like Elon Musk view other human beings as kindling
     wood to be burned for their own personal enrichment, media enlargement and
     hype expansion.
     
     Follow the facts to the obvious and true conclusion. If all the facts show
     that Elon Musk (and his little boy buddies Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, John
     Doerr, Reid Hoffman, Steve Westly, etc.) is a malignant narcissist with
     these powerful sadistic tendencies, this omnipotent destructiveness, where
     he’s getting pleasure and a sense of power from dominating people and
     degrading people and destroying people and plundering people and laying
     waste to people, both psychologically and physically, then to deny such
     obvious facts is willful ignorance. When Musk is finally exposed, like
     Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos or ENRON, it will be glorious.
     Rather than making a prediction as to Musk’s specific actions when the
     emperor has no clothes, it is more helpful to describe the type of actions
     he will take. Rather than trying to say, “This is the move he’ll make.”
     Like in a relationship, Elon Musk is the abuser. He is the husband or
     father who is abusing his partner or children or other relatives. The
     American people are like a woman who is leaving her abuser. She tells her
     abuser, “That’s it! I am done with you!” She has her keys in hand and is
     opening the door of the house or apartment to finally leave. What happens?
     The democidal maniac Elon Musk will attack us, badly. Make no mistake. Elon
     Musk is going to find a way to attack and cause great harm to the American
     people if he believes that he will be fully exposed. He will use his spy
     satellites, his media controls, his remote controlled cars, his stock
     market manipulation tools, his Goldman Sachs economic destruction team and
     more. Musk will strike back… unless the FBI finally arrests him first.
     
     The Bottom Line: These people are crooks, using your tax money to conduct
     crimes and protect themselves from arrest at your expense!
     
     
     
     
     ‘SPACEX STOLE OUR BEST MINDS’: CHIP-MAKER SUES ELON MUSK …
     
     https://www.thedailybeast.com/spacex-stole-our-best-minds-chip-maker-sues-elon-musk-startup
     Engineers Alireza Tarighat, Bagher Afshar, Ahmad Mirzaei, Masoud Kahrizi,
     and Ali Sajjadi all resigned from Broadcom on March 11 and promptly went to
     work for SpaceX. Musk’s firm poached the …
     
     
     
     A SENIOR ENGINEER HAS LEFT SPACEX TO WORK FOR RELATIVITY …
     
     https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/05/relativity-hires-spacexs-senior-vice-president-of-launch-zach-dunn/
     A senior engineer has left SpaceX to work for Relativity Space Dunn played
     an important role in the history of SpaceX. Eric Berger – May 18, 2020
     11:21 pm UTC
     
     
     
     SPACEX STARLINK | ASTRONOMERS MIGHT SUE OVER SPACEX’S STARLINK
     
     https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/satellites/a30768632/astronomers-fcc-spacex-lawsuit/
     Astronomers Might Sue the FCC Over SpaceX’s Starlink. These astronomers
     just went from stargazing to hell raising. By Jennifer Leman. Feb 4, 2020
     NSF National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research …
     
     
     
     ENGINEER FALSIFIED REPORTS ON CRITICAL SPACEX ROCKET PARTS …
     
     https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-spacex-parts-inspection-falsified-reports-20190523-story.html
     May 23, 2019SpaceX ended its business relationship with PMI, and the
     manufacturer shut down because of the lost business, which averaged about
     $200,000 a month, according to the complaint.
     
     
     
     ENGINEER CHARGED WITH FALSIFYING INSPECTIONS OF SPACEX …
     
     https://spacenews.com/engineer-charged-with-falsifying-inspections-of-spacex-hardware/
     A SpaceX Falcon 9 launches NASA’s TESS mission in April 2018. That launch
     was one of several that may have used hardware produced by a supplier that
     forged inspection reports.
     
     
     BROADCOM SUES SPACEX OVER HIRING EMPLOYEES TO GAIN …
     
     https://www.bizjournals.com/losangeles/news/2016/03/31/broadcom-sues-spacex-over-hiring-employees-to.html
     “SpaceX has no intention of executing to the content presented in the
     Broadcom proposal,” the company told the Register. “SpaceX did not pursue
     or lure engineers from Broadcom.
     
     
     
     DISMISSED SPACEX EMPLOYEES SUE OVER LACK OF WARNING …
     
     https://spacenews.com/41525dismissed-spacex-employees-sue-over-lack-of-warning/
     Dismissed SpaceX Employees Sue over Lack of Warning by Peter B. de Selding
     — August 8, 2014 The lawsuit appears to hinge on whether SpaceX’s dismissal
     of several hundred employees is viewed by …
     
     
     
     ANOTHER FORMER SPACEX EMPLOYEE SUES OVER ALLEGED LABOR LAW …
     
     https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tn-spacex-employee-lawsuit-20140812-story.html
     Aug 12, 2014Another former SpaceX employee sues over alleged labor law
     violations Elon Musk, SpaceX’s chief executive, at the company’s Hawthorne
     headquarters in May. (Jae C. Hong / Associated Press)
     
     
     
     SPACEX FACES CHALLENGE OVER ASTRONAUT SAFETY
     
     https://www.fastcompany.com/3067299/spacex-faces-challenge-over-astronaut-safety
     SpaceX Faces Challenge Over Astronaut Safety NASA is increasingly looking
     to private rockets for space travel, but an agency panel still has concerns
     about SpaceX’s fueling method. [Photo …
     
     
     
     SPACEX SUES EXPERT WHO QUESTIONED SAFETY OF PRIVATE FALCON …
     
     https://www.space.com/12028-private-rocket-launch-spacex-safety-lawsuit.html
     Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is suing Herndon, Va.-based
     Valador Inc. and its vice president, Joe Fragola, for making what SpaceX
     says were defamatory allegations about the safety …
     
      
     
     
     THIRD LAWSUIT AGAINST SPACEX – NOW IT’S RACISM. : SPACEX
     
     https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/2e48ax/third_lawsuit_against_spacex_now_its_racism/
     Third lawsuit against SpaceX – now it’s racism. Close. 15. Posted by 5
     years ago. … I’m not here to defend any of these companies but i do feel
     some people are over reacting about poor spacex getting sued etc. … They
     recently had a technician fall 20+ ft due to a lack of safety precautions.
     level 2.
     
     
     TESLA SUED BY FAMILY OF APPLE ENGINEER KILLED IN AUTOPILOT …
     
     https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/01/tesla-sued-by-family-man-killed-autopilot-crash/
     May 1, 2019Walter Huang, a 38-year-old Apple engineer, was driving his
     Tesla Model X SUV in Mountain View, Calif., on Autopilot mode in March 2018
     when it sped up to 71 mph and crashed into a safety barrier …
     
      
     
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     In 2018, Brazilian police in the state of Amapá used real-time satellite
     imagery to detect a spot where trees had been ripped out of the ground.
     When they showed up, they discovered that the site was being used to
     illegally produce charcoal, and arrested eight people in connection with
     the scheme.
     
     Chinese government officials have denied or downplayed the existence of
     Uighur reeducation camps in Xinjiang province, portraying them as
     “vocational schools.” But human rights activists have used satellite
     imagery to show that many of the “schools” are surrounded by watchtowers
     and razor wire.
     
     Every year, commercially available satellite images are becoming sharper
     and taken more frequently. In 2008, there were 150 Earth observation
     satellites in orbit; by now there are 768. Satellite companies don’t offer
     24-hour real-time surveillance, but if the hype is to be believed, they’re
     getting close. Privacy advocates warn that innovation in satellite imagery
     is outpacing the US government’s (to say nothing of the rest of the
     world’s) ability to regulate the technology. Unless we impose stricter
     limits now, they say, one day everyone from ad companies to suspicious
     spouses to terrorist organizations will have access to tools previously
     reserved for government spy agencies. Which would mean that at any given
     moment, anyone could be watching anyone else.
     
     
     THE IMAGES KEEP GETTING CLEARER
     
     Commercial satellite imagery is currently in a sweet spot: powerful enough
     to see a car, but not enough to tell the make and model; collected
     frequently enough for a farmer to keep tabs on crops’ health, but not so
     often that people could track the comings and goings of a neighbor. This
     anonymity is deliberate. US federal regulations limit images taken by
     commercial satellites to a resolution of 25 centimeters, or about the
     length of a man’s shoe. (Military spy satellites can capture images far
     more granular, although just how much more is classified.)
     
     Ever since 2014, when the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
     (NOAA) relaxed the limit from 50 to 25 cm, that resolution has been fine
     enough to satisfy most customers. Investors can predict oil supply from the
     shadows cast inside oil storage tanks. Farmers can monitor flooding to
     protect their crops. Human rights organizations have tracked the flows of
     refugees from Myanmar and Syria.
     
     But satellite imagery is improving in a way that investors and businesses
     will inevitably want to exploit. The imaging company Planet Labs currently
     maintains 140 satellites, enough to pass over every place on Earth once a
     day. Maxar, formerly DigitalGlobe, which launched the first commercial
     Earth observation satellite in 1997, is building a constellation that will
     be able to revisit spots 15 times a day. BlackSky Global promises to
     revisit most major cities up to 70 times a day. That might not be enough to
     track an individual’s every move, but it would show what times of day
     someone’s car is typically in the driveway, for instance.
     
     Some companies are even offering live video from space. As early as 2014, a
     Silicon Valley startup called SkyBox (later renamed Terra Bella and
     purchased by Google and then Planet) began touting HD video clips up to 90
     seconds long. And a company called EarthNow says it will offer “continuous
     real-time” monitoring “with a delay as short as about one second,” though
     some think it is overstating its abilities. Everyone is trying to get
     closer to a “living map,” says Charlie Loyd of Mapbox, which creates custom
     maps for companies like Snapchat and the Weather Channel. But it won’t
     arrive tomorrow, or the next day: “We’re an extremely long way from
     high-res, full-time video of the Earth.”
     
     Some of the most radical developments in Earth observation involve not
     traditional photography but rather radar sensing and hyperspectral images,
     which capture electromagnetic wavelengths outside the visible spectrum.
     Clouds can hide the ground in visible light, but satellites can penetrate
     them using synthetic aperture radar, which emits a signal that bounces off
     the sensed object and back to the satellite. It can determine the height of
     an object down to a millimeter. NASA has used synthetic aperture radar
     since the 1970s, but the fact that the US approved it for commercial use
     only last year is testament to its power—and political sensitivity. (In
     1978, military officials supposedly blocked the release of radar satellite
     images that revealed the location of American nuclear submarines.)
     
     While GPS data from cell phones is a legitimate privacy threat, you can at
     least decide to leave your phone at home. It’s harder to hide from a
     satellite camera.
     
     Meanwhile, farmers can use hyperspectral sensing to tell where a crop is in
     its growth cycle, and geologists can use it to detect the texture of rock
     that might be favorable to excavation. But it could also be used, whether
     by military agencies or terrorists, to identify underground bunkers or
     nuclear materials. 
     
     The resolution of commercially available imagery, too, is likely to improve
     further. NOAA’s 25-centimeter cap will come under pressure as competition
     from international satellite companies increases. And even if it doesn’t,
     there’s nothing to stop, say, a Chinese company from capturing and selling
     10 cm images to American customers. “Other companies internationally are
     going to start providing higher-­resolution imagery than we legally allow,”
     says Therese Jones, senior director of policy for the Satellite Industry
     Association. “Our companies would want to push the limit down as far as
     they possibly could.”
     
     What will make the imagery even more powerful is the ability to process it
     in large quantities. Analytics companies like Orbital Insight and SpaceKnow
     feed visual data into algorithms designed to let anyone with an internet
     connection understand the pictures en masse. Investors use this analysis
     to, for example, estimate the true GDP of China’s Guangdong province on the
     basis of the light it emits at night. But burglars could also scan a city
     to determine which families are out of town most often and for how long.
     
     Satellite and analytics companies say they’re careful to anonymize their
     data, scrubbing it of identifying characteristics. But even if satellites
     aren’t recognizing faces, those images combined with other data
     streams—GPS, security cameras, social-media posts—could pose a threat to
     privacy. “People’s movements, what kinds of shops do you go to, where do
     your kids go to school, what kind of religious institutions do you visit,
     what are your social patterns,” says Peter Martinez, of the Secure World
     Foundation. “All of these kinds of questions could in principle be
     interrogated, should someone be interested.”
     
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     WHY SATELLITE MEGA-CONSTELLATIONS ARE A THREAT TO THE FUTURE OF SPACE
     
     A recent Indian anti-satellite test was hazardous, but plans for mass
     satellite launches by SpaceX and OneWeb could pose even greater risks in
     orbit.
     
     Like all tools, satellite imagery is subject to misuse. Its apparent
     objectivity can lead to false conclusions, as when the George W. Bush
     administration used it to make the case that Saddam Hussein was stockpiling
     chemical weapons in Iraq. Attempts to protect privacy can also backfire: in
     2018, a Russian mapping firm blurred out the sites of sensitive military
     operations in Turkey and Israel—inadvertently revealing their existence,
     and prompting web users to locate the sites on other open-source maps.
     
     Capturing satellite imagery with good intentions can have unintended
     consequences too. In 2012, as conflict raged on the border between Sudan
     and South Sudan, the Harvard-based Satellite Sentinel Project released an
     image that showed a construction crew building a tank-capable road leading
     toward an area occupied by the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army. The idea
     was to warn citizens about the approaching tanks so they could evacuate.
     But the SPLA saw the images too, and within 36 hours it attacked the road
     crew (which turned out to consist of Chinese civilians hired by the
     Sudanese government), killed some of them, and kidnapped the rest. As an
     activist, one’s instinct is often to release more information, says
     Nathaniel Raymond, a human rights expert who led the Sentinel project. But
     he’s learned that you have to take into account who else might be watching.
     
     
     IT’S EXPENSIVE TO WATCH YOU ALL THE TIME
     
     One thing that might save us from celestial scrutiny is the price. Some
     satellite entrepreneurs argue that there isn’t enough demand to pay for a
     constellation of satellites capable of round-the-clock monitoring at
     resolutions below 25 cm. “It becomes a question of economics,” says Walter
     Scott, founder of DigitalGlobe, now Maxar. While some companies are
     launching relatively cheap “nanosatellites” the size of toasters—the 120
     Dove satellites launched by Planet, for example, are “orders of magnitude”
     cheaper than traditional satellites, according to a spokesperson—there’s a
     limit to how small they can get and still capture hyper-detailed images.
     “It is a fundamental fact of physics that aperture size determines the
     limit on the resolution you can get,” says Scott. “At a given altitude, you
     need a certain size telescope.” That is, in Maxar’s case, an aperture of
     about a meter across, mounted on a satellite the size of a small school
     bus. (While there are ways around this limit—interferometry, for example,
     uses multiple mirrors to simulate a much larger mirror—they’re complex and
     pricey.) Bigger satellites mean costlier launches, so companies would need
     a financial incentive to collect such granular data.
     
     That said, there’s already demand for imagery with sub–25 cm resolution—and
     a supply of it. For example, some insurance underwriters need that level of
     detail to spot trees overhanging a roof, or to distinguish a skylight from
     a solar panel, and they can get it from airplanes and drones. But if the
     cost of satellite images came down far enough, insurance companies would
     presumably switch over.
     
     Of course, drones can already collect better images than satellites ever
     will. But drones are limited in where they can go. In the US, the Federal
     Aviation Administration forbids flying commercial drones over groups of
     people, and you have to register a drone that weighs more than half a pound
     (227 grams) or so. There are no such restrictions in space. The Outer Space
     Treaty, signed in 1967 by the US, the Soviet Union, and dozens of UN member
     states, gives all states free access to space, and subsequent agreements on
     remote sensing have enshrined the principle of “open skies.” During the
     Cold War this made sense, as it allowed superpowers to monitor other
     countries to verify that they were sticking to arms agreements. But the
     treaty didn’t anticipate that it would one day be possible for anyone to
     get detailed images of almost any location.
     
     And then there are the tracking devices we carry around in our pockets,
     a.k.a. smartphones. But while the GPS data from cell  phones is a
     legitimate privacy threat, you can at least decide to leave your phone at
     home. It’s harder to hide from a satellite camera. “There’s some element of
     ground truth—no pun intended—that satellites have that maybe your cell
     phone or digital record or what happens on Twitter [doesn’t],” says Abraham
     Thomas, chief data officer at the analytics company Quandl. “The data
     itself tends to be innately more accurate.”
     
     
     THE FUTURE OF HUMAN FREEDOM
     
     American privacy laws are vague when it comes to satellites. Courts have
     generally allowed aerial surveillance, though in 2015 the New Mexico
     Supreme Court ruled that an “aerial search” by police without a warrant was
     unconstitutional. Cases often come down to whether an act of surveillance
     violates someone’s “reasonable expectation of privacy.” A picture taken on
     a public sidewalk: fair game. A photo shot by a drone through someone’s
     bedroom window: probably not. A satellite orbiting hundreds of miles up,
     capturing video of a car pulling into the driveway? Unclear.
     
     That doesn’t mean the US government is powerless. It has no jurisdiction
     over Chinese or Russian satellites, but it can regulate how American
     customers use foreign imagery. If US companies are profiting from it in a
     way that violates the privacy of US citizens, the government could step in.
     
     Raymond argues that protecting ourselves will mean rethinking privacy
     itself. Current privacy laws, he says, focus on threats to the rights of
     individuals. But those protections “are anachronistic in the face of AI,
     geospatial technologies, and mobile technologies, which not only use group
     data, they run on group data as gas in the tank,” Raymond says. Regulating
     these technologies will mean conceiving of privacy as applying not just to
     individuals, but to groups as well. “You can be entirely ethical about
     personally identifiable information and still kill people,” he says.
     
     Until we can all agree on data privacy norms, Raymond says, it will be hard
     to create lasting rules around satellite imagery. “We’re all trying to
     figure this out,” he says. “It’s not like anything’s riding on it except
     the future of human freedom.”
     
     Source: http://theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/rogue-satellites-launch-fcc/555482
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     “Perfect timing!” Mike Coletta said when he answered the phone. I called
     him recently to ask about some satellites currently orbiting Earth. Just
     then, one of them was passing over his home in Colorado.
     
     
     
     Coletta has been tracking satellites with radio antennas[1] mounted on his
     house for years. This spring, he’s on a special mission: He wants to catch
     the transmissions of “SpaceBees,” four satellites that were launched into
     space without permission.
     
     Last December, the Federal Communications Commission, the U.S. government
     agency that oversees satellite launches, explicitly told the
     California-based maker of these satellites that they couldn’t launch them.
     They did it anyway the following month, marking the first-known
     unauthorized launch of a commercial satellite in American history.
     
     This sets a dangerous precedent. The satellites’ makers appeared to have
     good intentions: to bring internet connectivity to people who might benefit
     from it. Other satellite operators may not—and we may find out too late.
     
     Coletta dug up the SpaceBees’ planned radio frequency in FCC documents. The
     satellites aren’t supposed to be transmitting. For weeks, he heard nothing.
     Then last week, he detected[2] a signal as the satellites passed over him.
     A few days ago, he detected[3] it again. It was sudden and short-lived,
     “kind of like a click of a microphone,” he said.
     
     
     
     The frequency of the signals matches the frequency the SpaceBees were
     designed to use. But there’s no way to know whether the satellites are the
     source. For Coletta, that’s part of the fun. He likes the mysteries best.
     And what a mystery this one is.
     
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     The SpaceBee is a prototype satellite from Swarm Technologies, a start-up
     founded in 2016 and based in Los Altos, California. There is little
     publicly available information about Swarm. According to Mark Harris, the
     reporter at IEEE Spectrum who first broke the story[4] about the
     satellites’ unauthorized launch, the company is in stealth mode, the term
     for the period of relative secrecy of a budding start-up and a popular
     Silicon Valley strategy. Most of what is known about Swarm comes from a
     handful of websites and public records, including correspondence between
     the company and the FCC.
     
     In 2016, Swarm applied[5] for a grant from the National Science Foundation.
     The company’s pitch was to develop a satellite-based communications network
     for internet-connected devices, particularly in places without access to
     wireless networks. “Scientific, shipping, tracking, automotive,
     agriculture, energy, medical, educational, and other commercial entities
     will have the ability to return their data from anywhere on the planet to
     support tracking, safe operations, and optimal and timely decision making,”
     the company explained. In December 2016, the NSF awarded Swarm more than
     $220,000 as part of a funding program for small businesses.
     
     In April 2017, Swarm submitted an application[6] to the FCC about a fleet
     of four tiny satellites called BEEs, for Basic Electronic Elements, and two
     internet-connected ground stations that would be used to transmit data back
     and forth. An illustration showed the satellites stacked on top of each
     other like coasters, each measuring 10 centimeters in length and width, and
     2.8 centimeters in height. The satellites, Swarm said, would relay
     encrypted communications with the help of the ground stations. The company
     said it planned to buy a ride for the satellites on the Polar Satellite
     Launch Vehicle, India’s rocket launch system.
     
     
     
     The FCC came back with bad news. In a letter in December 2017, the
     agency denied[7] Swarm’s request to launch and operate the satellites,
     citing safety concerns. According to the FCC, the SpaceBees were too small
     to be tracked by the U.S. Space Surveillance Network, a military-operated
     system that catalogs all artificial objects orbiting Earth. If the
     government can’t track satellites, it can’t protect them from colliding
     into other satellites. “We cannot conclude that a grant of this application
     is in the public interest,” wrote Anthony Serafini, the FCC’s experimental
     licensing branch chief.
     
     Swarm submitted an updated application[8] on January 7, 2018. Five days
     later, India launched a rocket carrying dozens of small satellites from
     various countries. The launch inventory[9] says four SpaceBees, made in the
     United States, were on board. Swarm, it appeared, had launched anyway.
     
     On March 7, Serafini sent an email[10] to Swarm’s CEO, Sara Spangelo,
     saying the agency had begun an investigation of the company’s “apparent
     unauthorized launch.” Swarm’s applications for other operations[11] were
     also put on hold, including a launch in April.
     
     
     
     A spokesperson for the U.S. Strategic Command’s Joint Functional Component
     Command for Space, which maintains the Space Surveillance Network, says the
     unit was able to spot the SpaceBees in orbit shortly after they launched.
     The satellites are too small to track, but not too small to be seen. And
     there’s no hiding from the military, says Scott Chapman, a satellite
     tracker who, like Coletta, has been following the SpaceBees with antennas
     on the roof of his home in Virginia. Aside from classified satellites, all
     objects launched into space get tracked and logged into databases that can
     be accessed online.
     
     “Ground-based radar and the military—they know exactly what every nut,
     bolt, and screw floating around in orbit is. On your computer screen, you
     could probably follow the orbit of a screwdriver that some astronaut
     accidentally let go of when he was repairing something,” Chapman says.
     “Whether someone is authorized or not to put something in orbit, once it’s
     up there, it’s tracked.”
     
     --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     
     So, what should be done about these SpaceBees?
     
     The FCC completed a “fact-finding inquiry” at the start of May, according
     to Neil Grace, an agency spokesman. The case is now with the agency’s
     enforcement bureau. Grace could not say whether a referral to the bureau
     means a penalty will be implemented. Because the unauthorized launch is a
     first, it’s not clear what the punishment would be. Spangelo, a former
     systems engineer at Google and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, did not
     respond to calls or emails. Neither did others employed by or associated
     with Swarm, according to the company’s website and public documents.
     
     Space may be the final frontier, but it’s by no means a lawless one. Space
     is a largely peaceful area because nations have agreed, whether in treaties
     or through unspoken norms, to play by a shared set of rules. Transparency
     is paramount, even in some cases of military or national-security missions.
     For a private company to launch satellites into low-Earth orbit without
     approval from its government flouts the framework that makes an extremely
     dangerous environment a fairly safe place to be.
     
     
     
     In the last few years, the rate of launches of miniature satellites
     has increased exponentially[12]. The industry is “moving away from these
     really large satellites that are expensive to build, expensive to launch,
     and into satellites that are highly specialized and often intended to
     last,” says Lisa Ruth Rand, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of
     Wisconsin-Madison who studies the environmental history of near-Earth
     space. “The smaller the satellite, the cheaper it is to launch, the better
     rate a company will get.”
     
     But even small satellites can be a hazard. After 60 years of space
     exploration, low-Earth orbit has become a crowded place. It’s home to about
     1,200 functioning satellites, 4,300 defunct ones, and 23,000 pieces of
     debris, according to the latest numbers[13] from the European Space Agency.
     Collisions can occur, producing even more bits of floating junk. In 2009,
     two satellites from different countries knocked into each other[14] and
     were destroyed. The collision sent hundreds of pieces of fast-moving
     hardware around the globe. “Even small objects, even things as small as
     these SpaceBees, traveling that quickly can really be destructive,” Rand
     says. If they hit something, “both India and the United States would be on
     the hook if one of these SpaceBees collides with a Russian satellite,” in
     accordance with international rules.
     
     As of April, there are 589 nanosatellites in orbit—satellites with masses
     between one kilogram and 10 kilograms (2.2 pounds to 22 pounds), according
     to a comprehensive database[15] run by Erik Kulu, a spacecraft systems
     engineer in Glasgow. And many more are coming. Commercial companies like
     SpaceX want to launch fleets of hundreds, even thousands, of nanosatellites
     that would create constellations capable of supporting vast
     networks[16] and bringing internet access to underserved places—just like
     Swarm wanted to do.
     
     
     
     If Swarm had waited a little longer to launch, its size may not have been
     an issue, Rand says. Lockheed Martin is currently building a radar system
     that would allow the Space Surveillance Network to track smaller objects
     than is possible now. The program is expected[17] to be finished by the end
     of this year. “With a little patience, perhaps Swarm would have been able
     to safely move forward with their original small design in a responsible,
     approved, safe manner,” Rand says.
     
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     There’s no way to remove rogue satellites from orbit. Start-ups aiming to
     develop space-debris-clearing technology are only a few years old and still
     raising money[22]. According to information Swarm provided to the FCC, the
     SpaceBees have enough battery power to remain operational for up to 10
     years. They will likely fall back down to Earth before that; the satellites
     are not equipped with propulsion systems, which means they don’t have
     engines to escape the pull of Earth’s gravity and maintain a stable orbit.
     Swarm’s application said the satellites will reenter the planet’s
     atmosphere and disintegrate in a little under eight years.
     
     Coletta and Chapman have no plans to stop tracking the rogue satellites.
     They’re both a ways away from Georgia and California, where the ground
     stations that can talk to the SpaceBees are located. But they know where
     the SpaceBees are and when they’ll be passing over their heads. They can
     point their antennas in their direction and listen.
     
     When I asked Grace, the FCC spokesman, about the brief signals Coletta has
     detected, he said he’d look into it. Swarm employees would know whether the
     pings came from the satellites, but they’re not talking.
     
     These mysterious signals aside, the SpaceBees have been orbiting in silence
     since they launched. If the FCC decides to clear Swarm, they may turn on
     and start buzzing. If the agency penalizes Swarm, with fines or bans on
     future work, the satellites will be sentenced to a lifetime of quietly
     circling Earth. They will float along with the rest of the space junk until
     gravity beckons and drags them back down, to the place they were never
     supposed to leave.

China Threatens To Destroy Elon Musk’s Starlink


SPACEX IS AN UNSAFE RICH BOY TOY – NEXT SPACE EXPLORERS MUST GO BOLDLY — AND
SAFELY

Richard Hagar, Guest columnist




(Photo: Malcolm Denemark, Florida Today/USA TODAY NETWORK)

 

Space exploration in the 21st century offers the possibility to reach new
frontiers, from developing a lunar gateway for deep space travel, returning
American astronauts to the surface of the Moon and eventually putting humans on
Mars.

With NASA preparing to return crewed astronaut launches to the U.S. for the
first time since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011, and return
astronauts to deep space for the first time since the end of the Apollo program
in 1972, we are on the cusp of an exciting new era in human spaceflight and
exploration.

As we prepare to launch new crewed spacecraft over the next several years, we
need to honor the lessons learned from the tragedies of Apollo I, Challenger and
Columbia. To successfully reach these next milestones in exploration, it is
critical that core safety priorities continue to protect American astronauts and
avoid unnecessary risks beyond those inherent to all launches and spaceflight.

I spent much of my career developing and supporting the Apollo program that
landed NASA astronauts on the Moon. The experiences our engineers learned on the
first Apollo launches shaped the steps in place today to ensure the safety of
the entire team and success of the program.

Apollo 1 would have been the first manned flight, with astronauts Virgil “Gus”
Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chafee onboard. That 1967 mission was supposed to be
simple — fly the vehicle, fire the Module Engine and return to Earth.

Apollo 1 astronauts, from left, Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Edward White II, and Roger
Chaffee pose next to their Saturn 1 launch vehicle in this Jan. 17, 1967, photo
at Launch Complex 34 at Cape Canaveral Air Station in Cape Canaveral,
Fla. (Photo: Courtesy of NASA)



During the second attempt to run the “plugs out test” with 100 percent oxygen in
the command module, we held the crew in their position for several hours, trying
to improve static filled communications. I was monitoring the test sitting
beside the command module when a crew member reported a fire in the vehicle. I
took two steps toward the white room when I heard the crew members’ alarm before
the space craft erupted. The fire was quickly contained, but not before losing
three incredible astronauts.

I was the first launch crew member to enter the spacecraft after removing the
crew to try and determine if there was an obvious cause for the fire. After
months of investigations by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), one
specific cause could not be identified.

Thankfully, we learned from the disaster that day in January. Over the years and
subsequent missions, our procedures changed, methods got better and we improved
the process to put man in space. NASA human spaceflight programs carefully
incorporated these lessons throughout their safety requirements and the talented
men and women throughout the agency work hard to make spaceflight as safe as
possible for astronauts.

It’s concerning to learn that some of the newer private space ventures launching
today don’t appreciate the same safety standards we learned to emphasize on
Apollo. Elon Musk’s SpaceX, for example, announced he intends to save time and
money by fueling their Falcon 9 rockets after the astronauts board.

This “load and go” process allows SpaceX to inject more fuel without the cost or
expertise necessary to build a larger rocket, but it may come at a heavy price.
Mr. Musk already lost one unmanned rocket to this risky technique.

I suppose for Mr. Musk, inexperience is replacing the abundant safety protocols
drilled into us after witnessing the Apollo 1 disaster. Astronaut safety is
NASA’s number one priority on any space mission. There is no reason it should
not be for private space travel, but commercial space companies like SpaceX play
by different rules.

Most Americans would be surprised to learn that special interests in Washington
representing commercial space companies have forbidden the Department of
Transportation, which licenses commercial launch and reentry, from developing
any human spaceflight safety standards for passengers.

This shortsighted legislative restriction means that billionaires profit and
can’t be held accountable for injury or death of their passengers — even though
we have decades of lessons learned from NASA to prevent potential incidents.

We owe it to future astronauts to remain diligent with our innovations and not
blindly rush while possibly revisiting the mistakes we made decades ago.

Congress and the administration should overturn these shortsighted restrictions
on commercial spaceflight safety standards, and NASA must ensure that before
they put an astronaut on a commercial spacecraft that it lives up to the strict
standards we have learned over the last 60 years of spaceflight.

Richard Hagar worked on every Apollo mission for NASA at the Kennedy Space
Center as a spacecraft operator on the launch team, including for the Apollo 11
mission that went to the Moon. He lives in Tennessee.

On 8/13/22 10:20 AM, Investigation Team wrote:

> Emily or Alex is available to consult with T-Mobile about bribing Congress:
> 
> https://www.progressarizona.org/our-new-executive-director/
> 
> 
> INTRODUCING OUR NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR! – PROGRESS ARIZONA
> 
> . Alex is a talented communications and digital strategist who comes to the …
> Emily Kirkland, our outgoing executive director, has been with …
> 
> On 8/13/22 10:17 AM, Investigation Team wrote:
> > Hedge Funds and private Equity funds that covertly fund T-Mobile and
> > T-Mobile partners are buying up Congress people right and left. The line
> > from T-Mobile to public policy decisions is hard to see, like a spider web,
> > but modern AI technology can track it all down nonetheless.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > The donations, which make Sinema one of the industry’s top beneficiaries in
> > Congress, serve a reminder of the way that high-power lobbying campaigns can
> > have dramatic implications for the way legislation is crafted, particularly
> > in the evenly divided Senate where there are no Democratic votes to spare.
> > They also highlight a degree of political risk for Sinema, whose
> > unapologetic defense of the industry’s favorable tax treatment is viewed by
> > many in her party as indefensible.
> > 
> > “From their vantage point, it’s a million dollars very well spent,” said
> > Dean Baker, a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy
> > Research, a liberal-leaning think tank. “It’s pretty rare you see this
> > direct of a return on your investment. So I guess I would congratulate
> > them.”
> > 
> > Sinema’s office declined to make her available for an interview. Hannah
> > Hurley, a Sinema spokesperson, acknowledged the senator shares some of the
> > industry’s views on taxation, but rebuffed any suggestion that the donations
> > influenced her thinking.
> > 
> > “Senator Sinema makes every decision based on one criteria: what’s best for
> > Arizona,” Hurley said in a statement. “She has been clear and consistent for
> > over a year that she will only support tax reforms and revenue options that
> > support Arizona’s economic growth and competitiveness.”
> > 
> > The American Investment Council, a trade group that lobbies on behalf of
> > private equity, also defended their push to defeat the tax provisions.
> > 
> > “Our team worked to ensure that members of Congress from both sides of the
> > aisle understand how private equity directly employs workers and supports
> > small businesses throughout their communities,” Drew Maloney, the
> > organization’s CEO and president, said in a statement.
> > 
> > Sinema’s defense of the tax provisions offer a jarring contrast to her
> > background as a Green Party activist and self-styled “Prada socialist” who
> > once likened accepting campaign cash to “bribery” and later called for “big
> > corporations & the rich to pay their fair share” shortly before launching
> > her first campaign for Congress in 2012.
> > 
> > She’s been far more magnanimous since, praising private equity in 2016 from
> > the House floor for providing “billions of dollars each year to Main Street
> > businesses” and later interning at a private equity mogul’s boutique winery
> > in northern California during the 2020 congressional recess.
> > 
> > The soaring contributions from the industry to Sinema trace back to last
> > summer. That’s when she first made clear that she wouldn’t support a carried
> > interest tax increase, as well as other corporate and business tax hikes,
> > included in an earlier iteration of Biden’s agenda.
> > 
> > During a two-week period in September alone, Sinema collected $47,100 in
> > contributions from 16 high-ranking officials from the private equity firm
> > Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, records show. Employees and executives of
> > KKR, another private equity behemoth, contributed $44,100 to Sinema during a
> > two-month span in late 2021.
> > 
> > In some cases, the families of private equity managers joined in. David
> > Belluck, a partner at the firm Riverside Partners, gave a $5,800 max-out
> > contribution to Sinema one day in late June. So did three of his college-age
> > kids, with the family collectively donating $23,200, records show.
> > 
> > “I generally support centrist Democrats and her seat is important to keep a
> > Democratic Senate majority,” Belluck said, adding that his family has known
> > Sinema since her election to Congress. “She and I have never discussed
> > private equity taxation.”
> > 
> > The donations from the industry coincide with a $26 million lobbying effort
> > spearheaded by the investment firm Blackstone that culminated on the Senate
> > floor last weekend.
> > 
> > By the time the bill was up for debate during a marathon series of votes,
> > Sinema had already forced Democrats to abandon their carried interest tax
> > increase.
> > 
> > “Senator Sinema said she would not vote for the bill .. unless we took it
> > out,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters last week. “We had
> > no choice.”
> > 
> > But after private equity lobbyists discovered a provision in the bill that
> > would have subjected many of them to a separate 15% corporate minimum tax,
> > they urgently pressed Sinema and other centrist Democrats for changes,
> > according to emails as well as four people with direct knowledge of the
> > matter who requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
> > 
> > “Given the breaking nature of this development we need as many offices as
> > possible weighing in with concerns to Leader Schumer’s office,” Blackstone
> > lobbyist Ryan McConaghy wrote in a Saturday afternoon email obtained by the
> > AP, which included proposed language for modifying the bill. “Would you and
> > your boss be willing to raise the alarm on this and express concerns with
> > Schumer and team?”
> > 
> > McConaghy did not respond to a request for comment.
> > 
> > Sinema worked with Republicans on an amendment that stripped the corporate
> > tax increase provisions from the bill, which a handful of vulnerable
> > Democrats also voted for.
> > 
> > “Since she has been in Congress, Kyrsten has consistently supported
> > pro-growth policies that encourage job creation across Arizona. Her tax
> > policy positions and focus on growing Arizona’s economy and competitiveness
> > are longstanding and well known,” Hurley, the Sinema spokesperson, said.
> > 
> > But many in her party disagree. They say the favorable treatment does little
> > to boost the overall economy and argue there’s little compelling evidence to
> > suggest the tax benefits are enjoyed beyond some of the wealthiest
> > investors.
> > 
> > Some of Sinema’s donors make their case.
> > 
> > Blackstone, a significant source of campaign contributions, owns large
> > tracts of real estate in Sinema’s home state, Arizona. The firm was
> > condemned by United Nations experts in 2019 who said Blackstone’s financial
> > model was responsible for a “financialization of housing” that has driven up
> > rents and home costs, “pushing low-income, and increasingly middle-income
> > people from their homes.”
> > 
> > Blackstone employees executives and their family members have given Sinema
> > $44,000 since 2018, records show.
> > 
> > In a statement, Blackstone called the allegations by the U.N. experts “false
> > and misleading” and said all employee contributions are “strictly personal.”
> > The firm added that it was “incredibly proud of its investments in housing.”
> > 
> > Another major financial services donor is Centerbridge Partners, a New
> > York-based firm that buys up the debt of distressed governments and
> > companies and often uses hardball tactics to extract value. Since 2017,
> > Sinema has collected at least $29,000 from donors associated with the firm,
> > including co-founder Mark Gallogly and his wife, Elizabeth Strickler,
> > records show.
> > 
> > In 2012, Centerbridge Partners purchased Arizona-based restaurant chain P.F.
> > Chang’s for roughly $1 billion. After loading the struggling company up with
> > $675 million of debt, they sold it to another private equity group in 2019,
> > according to Bloomberg News. The company received a $10 million coronavirus
> > aid loan to cover payroll, but shed jobs and closed locations as it
> > struggled with the pandemic.
> > 
> > Centerbridge Partners was also part of a consortium of hedge funds that
> > helped usher in an era of austerity in Puerto Rico after buying up billions
> > of dollars of the island government’s $72 billion debt — and filing legal
> > proceedings to collect. A subsidiary of Centerbridge Partners was among a
> > group of creditors who repeatedly sued one of the U.S. territory’s pension
> > funds. In one 2016 lawsuit, the group of creditors asked a judge to divert
> > money from a Puerto Rican pension fund in order to collect.
> > 
> > A Centerbridge representative could not immediately provide comment Friday.
> > 
> > Liberal activists in Arizona say they plan to make Sinema’s reliance on
> > donations from wealthy investors a campaign issue when she is up for
> > reelection in 2024.
> > 
> > “There are many takes on how to win, but there is no universe in which it is
> > politically smart to fight for favorable tax treatment of the wealthiest
> > people in the country,” said Emily Kirkland, a political consultant who
> > works for progressive candidates. “It’s absolutely going to be a potent
> > issue.”
> > 
> > We call that felony bribery and a total violation of the American STOCK ACT!
> > 
> > > Please be aware of a Service called: Project Veritas and the following
> > > device, which were/are in use INSIDE of POLSINELLI and those users are
> > > offering to sell those videos to the media. Not our monkey’s..not our
> > > circus …but 100% legal for 60 Minutes or New York Times to buy those
> > > videos.. and 100% legal for T-Mobile Plaintiffs to use those videos in
> > > their cases if they acquire them from the New York Times..
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> > > On 8/13/22 9:50 AM, Investigation Team wrote:
> > > 
> > > > TTMP is a news reporting and broadcasting service. As such, they are
> > > > protected by laws including: Public Domain. Non-Commercial. Fair Use.
> > > > Freedom of The Press. No Tracking Of Public Allowed. First Amendment
> > > > Protections, SLAPP, UN Protected. GDPR Compliancy as we are based in the
> > > > EU. Section 203 protected. The Privacy Tools At: http://privacytools.io,
> > > > ACLU, and report directly to ICIJ.org and
> > > > Margrethe-Vestager-contact@ec.europa.eu
> > > > 
> > > > > One Mr. Rubin, from Google, who helped put together the T-Mobile
> > > > > Android arrangement has an interesting situation. Wait till everyone
> > > > > sees how many other T-Mobile lawyers and executives are in the same
> > > > > boat:
> > > > > 
> > > > > https://www.businessinsider.com/andy-rubin-complaint-documents-sex-ring-2019-7
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > ANDROID CREATOR ANDY RUBIN IS ACCUSED OF RUNNING A ‘SEX RING’
> > > > > 
> > > > > … The Android creator Andy Rubin has been accused of running a “sex
> > > > > ring” with at least one woman and of cheating his ex-wife out of
> > > > > millions of …
> > > > > 
> > > > > https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/andy-rubin-court-complaint-lawsuit-rie-divorce-google
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > THIS FORMER GOOGLE EXECUTIVE WAS ACCUSED OF RUNNING A “SEX RING”
> > > > > 
> > > > >  … A newly unsealed complaint shows how Google paid Android creator
> > > > > Andy Rubin $90 million in severance after he left the company amid …
> > > > > 
> > > > > https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/politics/article/andy-rubin-google
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > THE TRUTH ABOUT ANDY RUBIN AND GOOGLE’S EXISTENTIAL CRISIS – BRITISH
> > > > > GQ
> > > > > 
> > > > >  … The Rubin scandal has also drawn attention to the company’s
> > > > > long-standing opposition to new US sex trafficking laws – which it
> > > > > believes could …
> > > > > 
> > > > > https://fortune.com/2019/01/10/google-android-lawsuit-shareholder-sexual-harassment-sex-trafficking-andy-rubin-la/
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > GOOGLE BOARD SUED FOR ANDY RUBIN SEXUAL HARASSMENT COVERUP
> > > > > 
> > > > > … “While at Google, Rubin is also alleged to have engaged in human sex
> > > > > trafficking—paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to women to be,
> > > > > in …
> > > > > 
> > > > > https://filthylucre.com/andy-rubin-sex-ring/
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > ANDROID FOUNDER ANDY RUBIN ACCUSED OF RUNNING ‘SEX RING’
> > > > > 
> > > > >  … Andy Rubin, the Android founder and former Google executive has
> > > > > been accused of running a “sex ring” by his ex-wife, according to
> > > > > court …
> > > > > 
> > > > > https://www.vox.com/a/sexual-harassment-assault-allegations-list/andy-rubin
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > ANDY RUBIN, FORMER GOOGLE EXECUTIVE, SEXUAL MISCONDUCT ALLEGATIONS
> > > > > 
> > > > >  … Andy Rubin is one of 262 celebrities and powerful people accused of
> > > > > sexual misconduct since 2017. See the full list:
> > > > > 
> > > > > https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/google-sexual-harassment-andy-rubin.html
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > HOW GOOGLE PROTECTED ANDY RUBIN, THE ‘FATHER OF ANDROID’
> > > > > 
> > > > >  … What Google did not make public was that an employee had accused
> > > > > Mr. Rubin of sexual misconduct. The woman, with whom Mr. Rubin had
> > > > > been …
> > > > > 
> > > > > https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/android-creator-andy-rubin-allegedly-concealed-google-payments-from-wife/
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > ANDROID CREATOR ANDY RUBIN ALLEGEDLY CONCEALED GOOGLE PAYMENTS …
> > > > > 
> > > > >  … Andy Rubin, a former Google executive and the inventor of the
> > > > > Android … Rubin is also alleged to have engaged in human sex
> > > > > trafficking …
> > > > > 
> > > > > https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-25/ex-google-star-andy-rubin-spars-to-keep-divorce-fallout-secret
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > EX-GOOGLE STAR RUBIN SPARS TO KEEP DIVORCE FALLOUT SECRET
> > > > > 
> > > > > … Andy Rubin, the Android creator at the center of a sex harassment
> > > > > scandal … Rubin is also alleged to have engaged in human sex
> > > > > trafficking …
> > > > > 
> > > > > https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/news/hr-news/pages/alphabet-board-sued-over-claims-it-covered-up-senior-execs-sexual-misconduct.aspx
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > ALPHABET BOARD SUED OVER CLAIMS IT COVERED UP SENIOR EXECS …
> > > > > 
> > > > > … Alphabet’s Board Sued for Role in Allegedly Covering Up Sexual
> > > > > Misconduct by … How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of
> > > > > Android’.
















We guarantee that these deeds done in the dark will come to light and that these
perpetrators will be fully exposed, shamed and prosecuted.
 
In the TV series: "Surviving R. Kelly" you can clearly see how a certain low
I.Q. percentage of the population will defend an R. Kelly, an Elon Musk and a
Harvey Weinstein even though they obviously and overtly engage in heinous
crimes.

The Jeffrey Epstein's, the John Doerr's, the Andy Rubin's, the Steve
Jurvetson's, the Eric Schmidt's, the Larry Page's, etc. think they are
untouchable because they buy politicians and pay bribes.

That will always be their downfall!