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4. Whopping majority of Americans believe in antisemitic tropes, new poll finds By World Israel News Staff
January 12, 2023 – 85 percent of Americans, as many as 285 million people, believe at least one anti-Jewish trope.
The number of Americans who believe antisemitic tropes and conspiracy theories has doubled since 2019, a poll published by the Anti-Defamation League on Thursday found.
85 percent of Americans, as many as 285 million people, believe at least one anti-Jewish trope, as opposed to 61 percent in 2019.
20% of Americans believe six or more tropes, up from 11% in 2019 the highest rate since the early 1990s.
“Those of us on the front lines have expected such results for a while now – and yet the data are still stunning and sobering: there is an alarming increase in antisemitic views and hatred across nearly every metric — at levels unseen for decades,” said ADL CEO Jonathan A. Greenblatt.
“From Pittsburgh to Charlottesville to the near-daily harassment of Jews in our greatest cities, antisemitic beliefs lead to violence. I hope this survey is a wake-up call to the entire country,” he said.
26% believe Jews have “too much power in the business world, ”
21% believe that Jews “don’t care about anyone other than themselves.”
20% believe Jews “are more willing than others to use shady practices to get what they want.”
3. FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Posts His Manifesto on Social Media and It’s Crazy By Joe Hoft
January 12, 2023 at 3:35pm – Sam Bankman-Fried released a manifesto today mirroring his Substack account where he claims his innocence in FTX’s bankruptcy.
Hat tip Bob Bishop
SBF summarized his points –
In mid November, FTX International became effectively insolvent. The FTX saga, at the end of the day, is somewhere between that of Voyager and Celsius.
Three things combined together to cause the implosion:
a) Over the course of 2021, Alameda’s balance sheet grew to roughly $100b of Net Asset Value, $8b of net borrowing (leverage), and $7b of liquidity on hand.
b) Alameda failed to sufficiently hedge its market exposure. Over the course of 2022, a series of large broad market crashes came–in stocks and in crypto–leading to a ~80% decrease in the market value of its assets.
c) In November 2022, an extreme, quick, targeted crash precipitated by the CEO of Binance made Alameda insolvent.
And then Alameda’s contagion spread to FTX and other places, similarly to how Three Arrows etc. ultimately impacted Voyager, Genesis, Celsius, BlockFi, Gemini, and others.
Despite this, very substantial recovery remains potentially available. FTX US remains fully solvent and should be able to return all customers’ funds. FTX International has many billions of dollars of assets, and I am dedicating nearly all of my personal assets to customers.
SBF Claims FTX US is in good shape in an apparent attack on the DOJ.
2. Computer “Outage” Hits Canadian Flight System Hours After US System Went Down BY TYLER DURDEN
JAN 11, 2023 – 02:26 PM – Update (1426ET): Nav Canada, the not-for-profit corporation that operates Canada’s civil air navigation system, reports the Canadian real-time safety alerts system for pilots, otherwise known as NOTAM — short for Notice to Air Mission — has been hit with an outage.
So far, no delays have been attributed to the outage.
“We are assessing impacts to our operations and will provide updates as soon as they are available,” Nav Canada said.
This is the second NOTAM system in North America over the last 12 hours that has been hit with outages. As we explained below, the US grounded all planes earlier this morning due to NOTAM outages but restored departures around 0900 ET.
The disruption was enough to spark a travel nightmare for US travelers today and is worsening by the hour. The latest figures from flight tracking website FlightAware show 8,000 flights have been delayed and another 1,200 canceled.
So how do authorities explain the US and Canada’s NOTAM systems experiencing outages on the same day?
1. JPMorgan-Epstein Lawsuit Amended By Virgin Islands; ‘Client List’ Shortened, Staley And Dubin Ties Unredacted BY TYLER DURDEN
JAN 11, 2023 – 11:05 AM – The US Virgin Islands case against JP Morgan just got even weirder.
Recall that in late December, Attorney General Denise George sued the bank, claiming they reaped financial benefits from Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation.
Three days later, George was fired.
The original complaint against the bank filed by George included a lengthy-but-redacted section on “High Net Worth Clients” Epstein brought to JPMorgan. It had 11 separate entries spanning three pages of the complaint – which James O’Keefe of Project Veritas wants to get his hands on.
