MIT's
DEDP MicroMasters is about Data, Economics and Development Policy.
It was recently renamed, Data Economics & Design of Policy although
the focus remains on developing countries, not rich countries like
Switzerland.
From time to time, I've seen people asking what a MicroMasters certificate
is really worth. Ironically, that would be a great question for an
MIT economist to answer.
In one of the modules, 14.750x Political Economy,
Prof Ben Olken begins
by asking the online learners to read papers
Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War and
Do leaders matter? National leadership and growth since world war II.
The above average rate of assassinations for people with this job category is
used to give us insights. There is nothing in the paper about leaders
kidnapped by President Trump. Trump himself was nearly assassinated before
his own return to office. The paper is available online.
In earlier blogs, we were able to
prove the anonymous document on the FINMA web site relates to
Parreaux, Thiébaud & Partners, Switzerland's "Law Firm X".
From there, we were able to prove that
FINMA, the regulatory authority knew about it for some years and
the Geneva bar association also seemed to know for a long time.
In the
world of abuse, it seems that priests knew some of their colleagues were
paedophiles but they have a code of conduct,
the Crimen Sollicitationis which prevented priests from warning the public
about their own colleagues. The Swiss jurists from the bar association and
officials from FINMA appeared to be operating from the same playbook.
Those who knew about the scandal didn't tell the clients. They put the
reputation of their profession and the privacy of rogue colleagues ahead
of the interests of public safety and justice.
We then went the next step,
showing that FINMA participated in a cover-up.
Reports on this web site meticulously reverse-engineering their cover-up
tactics.
From the moment the illegal legal insurance launched in 2018,
Birgit Rutishauser had been head of FINMA's surveillance of the
insurance industry.
Rutishauser is a graduate of
ETH Zurich. Many of the attacks on my family revolve around
the death of Adrian von Bidder-Senn on our wedding day. He was also an
ETH Zurich graduate like
Rutishauser. Just as the priests and the jurists have sought to maintain
strict silence about the wrongdoing of colleagues, it seems the
ETH Zurich alumni are maintaining silence. After all,
Adrian von Bidder-Senn's wife obtained a PhD in
cybersecurity from the same institution but looking at the last email she
sent to the
Debianists, we can see that
Dr Diana von Bidder-Senn
failed to realize the
extent to which her husband was a victim of
social engineering. Dr von Bidder-Senn is now the mayor of Basel.
When
Rutishauser was appointed in 2018, FINMA published
the following comments about her background:
The 46-year-old mathematician and actuary has managed the Risk Management section of the Insurance division since June 2016. Prior to joining FINMA, Birgit Rutishauser spent many years working in a variety of management roles within the insurance sector, most recently as Chief Underwriting & Risk Management Officer at Nationale Suisse and, as such, a member of the Group Executive Management Board. Birgit Rutishauser is a Swiss citizen.
Rutishauser had also worked for
Zurich insurance, the same company where
Urban Angehrn had worked prior to joining FINMA.
By comparison, I am a holder of the MIT MicroMasters diploma in
Data, Economics & Development Policy (DEDP). Well, I also worked for a few
banks too. UBS in Zurich provided a reference letter:
Competitors and cyberbullies have spent an enormous amount of effort
trying to trick people to believe that I'm a mentally ill person who only
pretends to be a developer:
Subject: Re: Open Letter to Debian election candidates about Debian vendettas
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2022 21:00:02 +0900
From: Hideki Yamane <henrich@iijmio-mail.jp>
To: Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro>
CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Hi,
[ ... snip gaslighting ... ]
Before talking, you should get counseling for a while since it seems that
you have some cognitive troubles now. You'd be better to hear about your
opinion and current your mind status from professional 3rd parties, not Debian.
(If they say you're very healthy and good, then that's good. Don't you think so?)
Without that, we cannot make a constructive conversation.
As I said in my platform, "Be calm, stay cool, stay safe" - Hope you stay "cool"
a bit with help from professionals, and you would to be able to a "contributor"
to floss again.
Life is short - to waste our time for fighting. Let's make more values for users.
--
Hideki Yamane <henrich@iijmio-mail.jp>
The rumours about mental illness were obviously falsified. Nonetheless, it is
important to remember they started falsifying these things at a time when I
lost two family members. Is it an example of
cybertorture or is it simply an example of how rude these people are
after spending too much time in
social control media?
Is it possible that a mentally ill fake developer with a MicroMasters
was able to write a blog post that brought down the Deputy CEO of the
Swiss financial market regulator?
Rather than finding me to be insane, Switzerland granted me citizenship in
the Canton of Vaud in November 2023:
Early 2024, I came across a photo of Switzerland's attorney general
visiting his peers at the Parquet National Financier in Paris, France to
talk about cross-border crime. The illegal legal insurance was an example
of cross-border crime because they
recruited people from France to work for them and they
promoted the insurance to French residents.
The meeting and photo has since been removed from the PNF web site but it
can be found in the Wayback Machine.
Rencontre avec M. Stefan Blättler, procureur général de la Confédération helvétique
Le 13 février, les quatre chefs de juridiction du tribunal judiciaire
de Paris ont reçu M. Stefan Blättler, procureur général de la
Confédération helvétique.
Ces échanges stratégiques ont permis d’aborder les questions
d’entraide pénale internationale et de lutte contre la criminalité
organisée, le terrorisme, les crimes contre l'humanité et la
délinquance financière.
Ils ont été l’occasion de rappeler la détermination commune des
autorités judiciaires françaises et helvétiques à lutter contre les
formes complexes de criminalité et de réaffirmer le caractère
essentiel d'un dialogue soutenu et cordial entre pays voisins,
partageant une frontière et une relation longue.
I wrote to the PNF and sent them some of the documents. This was their
reply:
The PNF, like me, suspects that a crime was committed under French law
but for technical reasons, they require a French citizen to bring a
formal complaint to a local prosecutor first. The law in France would see
me as a witness to the crime.
Later in 2024, I acquired the domain name
www.michaelmcgrath.ie, that is the former domain name of
Michael McGrath, the EU Commissioner for Democracy, Justice,
the Rule of Law and Consumer Protection.
I used the
EU Justice Commissioner's former domain name to publish information about
the cross-border crime from the Swiss jurists.
The blogs published between January and March 2025 continue to build
the case that FINMA not only knew about the illegal legal insurance but
they also had a role in the cover-up.
The blog published on 8 March 2025, International Women's Day,
considered the case of a French woman who was tricked to quit the job she
had for seven years and come to work for the Swiss jurists in Geneva
selling illegal legal insurance.
On 27 March 2025, I was discussing the case with an expert in Paris
at the same time the BBC was interviewing former Archbishop of Canterbury
Justin Welby about the cover-up of their jurist
John Smyth QC. In the meeting in Paris, I was asked if there was
a link between the paedophiles and the jurists. The BBC's report only
appeared after the meeting and it prompted me to write a new blog post
about the culture of cover-ups.
When famed whistleblower
Trevor Kitchen exposed the
Forex scandal, he didn't go as far as comparing anybody to a paedophile,
nonetheless,
they had him arrested in Portugal and tried to have him extradited
back to Switzerland for criminal speech.
Finance chief who exposed currency scandal fights Swiss extradition bid for criminal defamation
...
Mr Kitchen, who worked as a financial controller for companies including Shell, Castrol and Black and Decker, lost his 700,000 franc pension due to the rigged currency fluctuations.
...
“Because I had specialised in finance all my life understanding policies and procedures in companies, I went and reported this to all the regulators,” he said.
Toby Cadman, head and co-founder of Guernica 37 International Justice Chambers, who is working pro bono for Mr Kitchen, said: “If he was in the UK, this would not even get past the issuing of a warrant, let alone the extradition process.
...
He was arrested by Portuguese police on January 19 and taken for questioning. “It was all maximum security stuff. Six policemen were around me and took me into a small room and told me to take all my clothes off. They threw me in prison for 48 hours all because of the words I used,” he said.
The Swiss embassy has been contacted for comment.
Yet Swiss authorities have made no such move against me. Without
admitting or denying any of the allegations on this web site,
Birgit Rutishauser's resignation was announced on 1 April 2025,
barely two days after the strongest blog post about the complicity of the
authorities in the cover-up.
First of all, FINMA published
a notice about Rutishauser's resignation.
The same day, FINMA published a longer notice about their restructuring.
The notice included a paragraph emphasizing that
Birgit Rutishauser's departure was
not part of the restructuring. In other words, there is some other specific
reason she has chosen to tender her resignation and they are not going to give
us any more detail about it.
FINMA adapts its organisation to meet future challenges
...
Independently of the introduction of the new organisational structure, Birgit Rutishauser, member of the Executive Board, Deputy CEO and Head of the Insurance division, has decided to leave FINMA. Vera Carspecken will assume the leadership of the Insurance division on an interim basis from 1 May 2025 (see separate press release of 1 April 2025).
Somebody with so many years of service would normally be entitled to three
months of notice period. The abrupt departure of
Martin Senn from
Zurich insurance was referred to as
a factor in his suicide. However, it is also possible that
Rutishauser was placed on an extended period of garden leave to prevent her
from immediately being able to use confidential information she has acquired in
the course of her duties.
Rutishauser's LinkedIn profile tells us she is now at StenFo, that is
the fund for
a Swiss nuclear dump.
All the waste from five decades of Swiss nuclear programs is currently
stored in a temporary facility at Zwilag. If they ever try to build a permanent
underground storage facility there will be a referendum to stop it. It just
sits in the temporary facility for the time being:
President Putin frequently reminds the world about nuclear punishments.
What we see here is the power of nuclear teamwork.
Fifty percent of Swiss nuclear fuel comes from Russia, twenty five percent from
Canada and twenty five percent was mined in Australia, where I was born.
After leaving her post as second in command at FINMA, head
of the insurance division,
Rutishauser enrolled at IMD, a well known Swiss business school, where
she was awarded a certificate in blockchain.
While there are some companies doing completely legitimate projects with
blockchain, it is ironic that the scammers who had been allowed to operate for
years under FINMA have also pursued a new career path
promoting cryptocurrency "investment" to victims in France.
I started the
Software Freedom Institute in May 2021 in the middle of the pandemic.
Many people were not working at all. I could have chosen not to work and
claimed furlough payments from the government. Instead, by working, I was
paying tax and contributing money to the social security system to support
the rest of society.
I purchased and paid for various insurance services to protect the business.
Invoices for Parreaux, Thiebaud & Partners legal services. When
IBM Red Hat attacked my business,
the Swiss legal protection did nothing to help. The ADR Forum legal panel
eventually gave a ruling against
IBM Red Hat, declaring that I was a victim of harassment from a much larger
company/competitor.
Likewise, after the conviction of Cardinal George Pell, rogue Debianists
attacked my family with rumours about abuse and they attacked us again after
I founded the Software Freedom Institute. The Swiss jurists did nothing to
help. I went to Italy by myself to speak to the Carabinieri and after years
of inquiries,
the Cardinal died four hours after I filed a report about exploitation.
Despite Switzerland's reputation for privacy, the Swiss jurists provided no help
whatsoever to protect my family and I from these intrusions.
Justin Welby had to resign as Archbishop of Canterbury due to his
failure to take action against the paedophile jurist
John Smyth QC. On 30 March 2025, we published
the comparison of Church of England, Crimen Sollicitationis and the cover-up
at FINMA and barely two days later,
Rutishauser's resignation was announced.
As it is
Switzerland, nobody is holding their breath waiting for authorities
to confirm the Deputy CEO of FINMA resigned because of the cover-up
disclosed in
the JuristGate reports. However, we can now try to answer
the question we started with, what is the real value of the DEDP
MicroMasters from MIT? Priceless.
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