Debt Rattle November 13 2022
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[See the full post at: Debt Rattle November 13 2022]Ilargi,
I posted this comment on the last thread, but I see you have a new article up, so I’ll re-post it here:Ilargi, that chart you posted [showing the political donors] is interesting. Not really because of the crypto guy, though, unless one thinks it’s “really bad” to donate to Dems but “not so bad” to donate to Repubs. If this chart is correct, the Republicans got $34,667,000 more than the Democrats from all the top ten donors combined.
2 of the top ten gave only to Democrats, 5 gave only to Republicans, and 3 others (including Bankman-Fried) spread their donations around. The fact that Bankman-Fried gave more money to the Democrats than to other parties he donated to is meaningless in and of itself. The top 2 Republican donors gave only to Republicans; that is also meaningless. What is consequential is that there is so much mad money (overall) sloshing around the system.
The top 2 Republican donors are Ken Griffin (owns hedge fund Citadel) and Richard Uihlein (owns ULine shipping and supply company, and is heir to Schlitz brewery). I’m sure the Mercers gave more to the Republicans than anyone else, but they use a dark money fund that allows the donors to keep the recipient’s names and party affiliations secret, so their names aren’t on the chart you show. And yes, it is legal to donate in secret now.
I think the more interesting aspect of this list is that it shows there are too many people with way too much ‘walking around’ money buying the politicians in this country, and that the Citizen’s United decision was one of the most corrupting decisions in the history of the Supreme Court.
From WAPO “citing three unidentified sources” here we go again.
Well of course “the war” and “covid” are mentioned instead of the response to them!
“The latest Bloomberg Trade Tracker reveals an ominous outlook for world trade due to soaring interest rates, the war in Ukraine, a slowdown in the US economy, and zero Covid in China.”Just beneath then surface there’s a silent slaughter.
My tennis partner’s son died “suddenly” last week.
Totally out of the blue, totally unexpected.It’s an ongoing silent, yet sudden, slaughter.
” suddenly of ‘natural causes’ “
Heartbreak as young Gaelic footballer from Northern Ireland’s Co Tyrone dies suddenly
Heartbreak as popular young actress Emily Chesterton dies suddenly of ‘natural causes’
You’ve reached your quota of meat this month
Living in Africa, when I was pre-teen, there were poachers but not much was being done as the animal rangers tended to be shot by the poachers if they were caught. By the time I left, each animal had a squad of military plus at least one ranger protecting the animal. It worked to a certain extent, some species were still destroyed by the Chinese belief in rhino horn as a medicine.
My point is that it is very difficult and very costly to defend animals. One of the reasons is that killing an animal does not result in very severe penalties. We will see new laws, once rationing of meat starts, that classify animal killing as something similar to murder. Without such laws, the elites would have to live without their steaks – not going to happen – as the plebs will have killed and stolen their entire herds. They will think they have it all sorted, but I suspect dogs and cats will go first, then the larger farm animals like pigs and cattle.
One of the huge difference this time is that people will know where their oppressors are living and what land they own, so it will be fairly easy to find a Bill Gates cattle farm and raid it for food.
Looks like unlike the last Kherson withdrawal where Ukraine rushed in, got cauldroned and annihilated, NATO has not been in a hurry to fill the new Kherson city that Surovikin left them. Too bad. Might be the first time they demonstrated they’ve learned something. But these are probably British Generals by now with Polish troops.
So they’ve taken the city, but what is that? What is a “City”? The “City” is empty. So do you go shopping? Clubbing? Maybe pick up your day job at the factory? No. The city is the infrastructure that supports the PEOPLE. Even if the people were there, it would be difficult to run it not at a loss while under fire, but possible in a bad sort of way. But with no people at all? No shipping, no building, no fixing. In fact, the infrastructure that is can’t be repaired either because it will be abundantly clear that anything moving within 15 clicks is military and a target. Pre-dialed. So Ukraine has good shelter there but what does that mean in a world of satellites and drones? Not like you can hide.
The land is worthless without the people. All the people of Kherson are now, or can be, working in factories in the East. That makes them a food and logistics cost, but Russia has the food and the logistics.
“…can robots and AI really make all the stuff for the elites after they have gotten rid of the people?”
Well, let’s see: no energy, no shipping, no feedstock, no material and process standardization, no communications, no logistics. Um, probably not. But carry on with your human-hating fantasy. I’ll watch.
“ UK and EU to Try to Isolate Russia at G20 Summit (RT)”
If they go with Russia they’ll get their quota of energy, but if they don’t go with the UK and EU then where will they get their monthly quota of beatings? About how Europe is the master race only trying to reform “The Jungle.”
“ The New Candidate Countries for BRICS Expansion (SRB)”
I thought the next one was already Angola. And look: no war, no coup! Too busy losing every piece of hardware in the swamps of Ukraine. All-clear. US NATOstan is broke and unable to project power anywhere.
“There’s an easy solution. The exchange can issue its own token to replace the customer assets transferred to the hedge fund.”
This sets up the classic issue and shows the pure amateur status of Alameda: mismatch between short and long, between liquid and less-liquid assets. Like this: There’s a comic collector named Joe, and he wants SpiderMan #1. The price was $3M, but because he wants it, the price is now $300M. Without Joe, the price drops back to $3M, or even $1.5M. That is, as the old Wall St joke goes: “I’ve bid this up to $1M. Now sell, Mortimer!” “Sell? To who? YOU are the market!”
Mismatching BTC which can be transferred out of restless crytpo trader’s accounts in minutes, with SpiderMan #1 which will take months to sell, if at all.
“The price rockets, inflating the balance sheets of both the hedge fund and the exchange, and making $billions in unrealised profits”
This is accounting fraud. The problem being it’s become standard practice for everyone, headlined by Tesla and Amazon. What are they worth if they wanted to sell, to “realize” those gains? Oh, well, probably far under 1/10th of their listed value. THEN THAT’S NOT THEIR REAL VALUE. As Telsa just found out, $400 to $200, on its way to $40/share, losing $600B in 9 months. Amazon of course lost a TRILLION. …Because like FTX, they were never worth a Trillion to begin with. It’s all accounting fraud. It’s accounting fraud all the way down.
If I can just value my own comic books, then SquirrelGirl #39 (yes, this is real) I say is worth $1M apiece, all 40 of them. …They’re just really illiquid, and I need to find that elusive buyer who will overpay for an unpopular comic printed only last year. Um, no. That’s accounting fraud. Or as Jon Stewart showed with JonCo valuing Jon’s 1984 Volvo at $1M (in 2011):
https://money.com/jon-stewart-5-best-money-moments/ (original video is purged to archives) Demonstrating MBS securities sold to the Fed at $1 when worth 0.01. Yes, that’s fraud. No one arrested it then, no one arrested it since then. Everyone has known the whole time. Why arrest it now?
“Up to $2 Billion in Client Money Missing in Crypto Giant FTX Collapse (NYP)”
This is as hilariously unlikely as that time in Armstrong’s trial when they said $1B was transferred out of a bank with no record keeping. Hahahaha! Suuuuuurrrrre it did! For all non-literate glue-munchers, if the Crypto left the FTX wallet, it went TO somebody else’s wallet. Which, being crypto, is PUBLIC. That’s what public-ledger means. Sooooo, not like I’m the FBI here, but maybe you should keep an eye on the wallet it was transferred to? Which you have the public address of? And the same with US$ funds? This is not a suitcase of cash. The cash only exists if someone – ON THE LEDGER – knows and can prove that you have it. Because it only exists as a book entry, and US$ and BTC are identical in this. Client money cannot “Go Missing”. What they mean is: “It went to the right people, so we’re not going to look.”
Fact Check? If it went to Steve Bannon’s and Eric Trump’s personal bank account and Crypto address, you think they could find it? And it wouldn’t be “Missing” then? Yeah, I think so too. What is this bulls—t?
“Tens of Billions Transferred to Ukraine and Laundered Through FTX (GP)”
Been trying to phrase the narrative I see for FTX, but it’s complicated and wide-reaching.
We have Ukraine, with billions going there – no limits! – while people all starve at home. Bridges collapse, crime spikes, homeless cities spring up, medieval diseases reappear, unsafe water. But no limits for Ukraine. GOP does nothing. In fact the Squad votes for it, I think there was one Senator, Rand Paul, and 51 Congressmen who showed any opposition at all.
Money goes to Ukraine, and CBS reports that nobody knows where it’s going. We suggest that, when $50B moves through Europe’s most corrupt, money laundering nation, as reported by the NYTimes for 5 years, that maybe some of it is being laundered? But you don’t launder US money in Ukraine to send to Vanuatu. You launder it to get it back to YOU, the Congressmen and women who arrive with $500k and in 2 years are $10x Millionaires.
At the same time, there has been non-stop accusations and evidence of election fraud and tampering. Facebook gives millions to critical races, NOT in the political PAC campaigns, but to buy and install their preferred people as the vote counters. No cases come to court. All are dismissed on standing, or timing, zero clarity on evidence. This goes on for years and only increases in 2022.
At the same time, the Financial system is completely broken but won’t collapse. It’s like a badly-detonated building that’s leaning in on itself. Evergrande was halted, Credit Suisse bailed, losing a trillion in Amazon, half a trillion in Tesla, all collateral for ESG, makes no difference. Prices don’t drop. Why should they? When there are no regulators, companies merely cook books deeper, wider, and broader. If there are bankruptcies, they are merely bailed out, merged, or ignored, slow walked, never reported. BlackRock files and the media doesn’t report it. The judges don’t act on it. So it a real sense, it didn’t happen.
Rates rise 6x. Shipping stops. Yet it has no effect on housing, retail, or employment numbers. All are gamed and fake for decades.
The financial collapse never happens, but it HAS to happen, both for reality and sanity to reappear AND for the White Hats to show up so it didn’t happen on their watch, but is (rightfully) blamed on the other guy? It has to happen before. But their baling wire and duct tape is too strong, so good on them, I guess.
There is no spark.
So what if.
What if the Spark that finally reveals the existing worldwide financial collapse doesn’t come normally, from housing or leverage, but from a money laundering a fraud so BIG that the FRAUD ITSELF is what collapses the system? What if that fraud is actually ELECTION fraud, frauds so big it broke not only the United States, the nation, its government – even its army — but the whole world?
What could anyone say? Are reporters going to ignore the Credit Anstalt that caused the worldwide financial collapse? And when they look into it and find nothing but DNC donors and DNC operatives, the regulators themselves funneling the $50B from Ukraine back to Congress – there’s nothing else IN the books but this – what are they going to say?
So let me get this straight: We’re broke, you started two nuclear wars, the economy’s wrecked, everyone’s starving, Europe froze, the government collapsed, the market has ceased to trade, there are no jobs because no payroll … And it’s all because YOU WERE RIGGING ELECTIONS?
Gee, that election rigging must be PRETTY BIG. How big is it? Hey wait: doesn’t this mean that all those things “We voted for” we didn’t REALLY vote for? All those people, that supposed support for things, it wasn’t really support?
Hold on: I don’t think we even know what the country IS anymore. Who WE are. What we want. What’s popular and unpopular, because it was all a fraud so large, so titanic, so galactic, that it IMPLODED THE ENTIRE WORLD?
I can’t eat, and my checks don’t clear from work because YOU WERE ELECTION TAMPERING???
We need a spot-check election just so I can properly assess what is REAL. Who my neighbors are. What a “woman” is. Okay, okay: time out here: Suppose 2022 wasn’t real. Wow. Suppose 2020 wasn’t real either. …They’re all seated. …Passing laws. Um… How do we fix this??? Who is the referee? Who calls a Backsies, a Do-over, so we can find out what American people REALLY want, and REALLY think, without this $50B, planet-imploding market-collapsing, food-halting, election fraud?
Boom.
What does that say? Markets halt. I don’t see how they couldn’t, that’s what a “Financial Collapse” is. Second, the only organization capable of calling a time out – and enforcing it – is the U.S. Military. Martial Law. At least here.
They step in, call a time out, get in NO HURRY, and let people talk, think, digest, plan. Safely. Without “Summer of Love” riots burning all the black businesses. Twitter is open and free speech, not for the election? But somehow after? At some point, a plan is made and elections are held again that people will credit as mostly real, because I really don’t think the military wants to be in charge and run the country. They want to hand it back.
So you see the cascade here, as the collapse refuses to fail organically for 14, 22 years? Well, The White Hats are all military, Intel, and they have long-scenario planners. And so it if doesn’t happen, the White Hats just have to MAKE it happen. And if so, then how? If you’re forced to, Where is the best possible way for the best possible (bad) outcome?
All public. All un-avoidable. Impossible to deny or explain away. FTX?
I guess we’ll see.
Teri: no the point wasn’t that people donate to Democrats. That’s a good thing. And it’s a mark of honest dealing and open discussion to post the whole list, which shows all the equivalent very large GOP donations.
The point is, George Soros is 80 years old and trading, building his fortune all his life. Like Theil, this takes years, decades.
But you’re telling me that in two years a 20 year old from MIT has as much money as the 80-year fortune of the top scoundrel and trader?
C’mon. Surely that beggars belief. If he made the money and wants to donate legally, nobody has a problem with that, although we’ll track for influence peddling, as he donated largely to the Congressmen running the SEC and CFTC.
But when his donations 13 days after Biden’s campaign, come from his mother running “Mind the Gap” DNC vote-bending organization, and is personally fielding $50B Biden gave to Ukraine, back-laundered through his unregulated Exchange that only appeared yesterday, THAT’S when we want to ask a lot of questions about a 20-year-old suddenly discovering a few billion in the couch cushions.
…That he gave away as Democratic donations.
Donate away. That’s not the issue.
I’d say Big Serge has it right. Holding the west bank in Stalingrad was a mistake. It was a resupply nightmare and so many lives were wasted by hanging onto the city. Stalin never cared about human lives. Something he has in common with the psychopaths who run the West. The encirclement and destruction of the German 6th army would have occurred regardless of which side of the Volga the Russians were on.
Now there are 300,000 Russian reservists waiting for the ground to freeze. A 1,500 km long front line to choose from. All we know for sure is they won’t be coming through Kherson.
“Stormy Space Weather” has a pictureof me wiring the needs-no-electricity gas wall-furnace to work without a thermostat. It’s mostly essay. One need not view the two modest and information-packed videos by Ben Davidson. https://www.amazon.com/Weathermans-Guide-Sun-Ben-Davidson/dp/148358898X
https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/stormy-space-weather
The cold front hit yesterday afternoon, and the cold north wind blew all night at 15 to 20 mph. When we got to Yoakum from Austin last night it was warm downstairs in the new house, but kind of cold upstairs, where I had left the windows open. I closed them. This morning it was pleasantly cool downstairs and cooler upstairs, but did not feel cold, as it did outside in the wind. The insulation seems to do a fine job, even in a sustained wind.
I could barely feel my fingers while picking vegetables in the garden, which had been warm all week. We got lots of small tomatoes, a few medium tomatoes, four good eggplants and lots of kinds of peppers. Along with some fresh basil I picked, some of this became tonight’s spaghetti dinner.Since it was finally cold enough to try the heating I put in with the build, I turned the heat pump from AC to heat, and turned it on. It worked fine. Very nice.
We have small , vented gas wall-heaters upstairs and downstairs, so I squatted down, read the directions and got the pilot lights lit.
Jenny found the printed directions, so I was able to read about installing a thermostat (“sold separately”) .
We never bought thermostats, but they are “passive”, “microvolt thermostats”, not requiring batteries or connection to house-wiring. These units are sold to work on gas-only. I looked at the 2 connections for the thermostat wired, which were easy to access with the front open. I touched them both with metal plies at the same time, and the flame came on. Success!
This is how I remember my grandparent’s wall heater. No thermostat. Turn the little knob to Low, High or Pilot.
I stripped a couple of pieces of wire, jumpered the connections for the thermostat, and turned the flames to low. They both made plenty of heat on low.
We are ready for winter in the new house. We turned the furnace on last night in the old house. It is big, central, and makes a big sound when the flame ignites.
The fan blows impressively. I think it burns a lot of gas, by comparison.
It is still a work in progress, but we will see how much of our daily living and sleeping we can easily transfer to the new house this winter.Space weather is changing, too. Our lovely blue and green planet insulates us from most of that, most of the time, but not completely, and not always.
We didn’t have space weather yet when I was a kid, but we do now. We didn’t know about much except gravity and forms of radiation in space. There were little tiny particles moving really fast that could damage space capsule shells and windows.
We did know about big solar flares, like the Carrington Event of September 1-2, 1859, which caused auroral displays and caused telegraph wires to vaporize.
The sunspot that spewed it was tracked by a hobbyist named Carrington, who got a lordship for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event#:~:text=The%20Carrington%20Event%20was%20the,fires%20in%20multiple%20telegraph%20stationsThese solar flares get tracked by NASA and others these days. We know there is a solar cycle of 11 years. There are electromagnetic excursions as well as ejection of high energy x-rays and gamma rays. The magnetic fields of the earth and the sun are also coupled.
It looks like the whole of the universe is magnetically coupled, and all of it is in motion, and there are sheets of magnetic waves traveling through the universe, changing the behavior of stars as they cross them, so they can be tracked. Voyager has detected a lot of these electromagnetic fields and waves. Our sun has something like a bow-wave in front of a ship, as it speeds on its way.
Our solar system is about to be engaged with a big, powerful electromagnetic wave, which seems to be cyclical, like a big, spinning, wavy-disc. Voyager, and watching other stars, reveal this. Earth’s magnetic field has been weakening more rapidly, and its strength has not been reported since 2010, when it was seen to have declined twice as rapidly as predicted. It was down 15% from 1900, and down about 35% from the field strength enjoyed by Jesus of Nazareth. The north pole has accelerated from a walk to a jog towards Siberia in recent years, increasing from 25 miles per year in 2–3, to 50 miles last year.
There is a lot of uncertainty about polar reversals lately. They might be more frequent and transient than thought, not just every 100,000 to 10 million years. The electromagnetic universe, through which our electromagnetic sun and planet speed may be a determining factor, but it is only beginning to be studied. The current accelerated decay of earth’s magnetic field, coupled with accelerating travel of the magnetic north pole, and the approach of the periodic electromagnetic wave, seen disturbing stars as it overtakes them, suggest that we humans may be in for some bad solar weather soon.
NASA won’t talk about it. They clammed up after 2015 and have been making data posted earlier harder to find. The European Space Agency is just as tight-lipped.
The problem is that when the fields weaken X-rays and gamma-rays get through to the earth’s surface, where they are extremely toxic to life forms, such as mammals. A steel roof doesn’t stop gamma rays. Even lead sheet isn’t enough. It needs to be thick lead.
Four feet of soil or water does a decent job of protecting life forms. Nobody has that, nobody normal, anyway. Driving in a car is no good. Driving at night protects you from solar rays, blocked by earth, but not from cosmic rays, coming from distant parts of our galaxy.Other very strange things can happen, like the younger-Dryas period of 13,00 to 11,500 years ago, when the weather changed abruptly from warming, back into sudden glaciation. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/2021-11/3%20The%20Younger%20Dryas%20-FINAL%20NOV%20%281%29.pdf
The Younger Dryas Period corresponds to what looks to be the last time this big electromagnetic spinning disc crossed our solar system. It also looks like large things impacted our planet, likely making clouds of water and dust, which could lead to glaciation. There were anomalies in the magnetic formations in hardening lava. Modern agriculture sprang up after that glaciation age warmed up, but some think it had already been present before that bad 1500 years of cold. There was a genetic bottleneck in our human genome around that time, also. There was a very small human population surviving in India, north Africa and the Mediterranean areas.
Though NASA won’t talk, Astrophysicist Ben Davidson will. This is a sub 10 minute talk he posted this past week about bad space weather effects we may expect “soon”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyPJfa_Cum0&t=2sThough we can’t know exactly when, it would probably be this decade or next. Ben talks about our sun going into a recurring micronova event, a cyclic thing for our star, and seemingly linked to the recurring galactic electromagnetic wave disturbance that we now know about.
Because of how micronovas occur, there is a darkening of the sun, for an undetermined number of days, as solar energy emission decreases, and matter collects at and beyond the surface of the star. A burst of energy explodes this “shell” and releases an intense pulse of gamma and X-rays, which reach the earth in 8 minutes as an intense flash. You should be in a big cave somewhere since our bodies would be sickened or killed at the surface. If it impacts the other side of our planet, you will be spared from the flash. 18 hours after the flash, the hurtling debris field arrives on your side of the planet, so the secure cave is still the place to be. I don’t have one. I’m trying to figure this out. I’ll need to have something actionable when the sun goes dark, right?
Ben points out how rapidly we are accumulating knowledge of the workings of our universe, that all of the assumptions of not-much happening were based on our just not knowing much, and not looking for very long, or very effectively. We now have sensitive arrays to look at light and other radiation much farther away and are seeing all kinds of “new” things we did not know were happening.Here, in 32 minutes, he presents Solar Micronova, The End of an Age, with good animated illustrations. This is the more complete video he talks about. This kind of an event will clearly have lots of human survivors, due to location, good fortune and preparation, but they will be a minority of humanity.
This video is dense with information, which I am able to digest, having delved into numerous NASA videos in recent years for the background. Try it.
I’m always in this awkward position of believing in global warming, CO2, methane, other greenhouse-gasses, tipping points of melting polar ice caps and methane clathrates, but not being so worried about those things, compared to other things that would be better candidates to kill most of us. 536 ws purportedly “the worst year to be alive”, likely due to a super-volcano erupting and darkening the sun for a year and a half, ruining crops, making it cold, and bringing out the worst in humans, which is ghastly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/536
536 kicked-off the “Late Antiquity Little Ice Age”, which was likely the end of the Anasazi people in Mesa Verde. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Antique_Little_Ice_Age#:~:text=The%20Late%20Antique%20Little%20Ice,%2C%20539%2F540%20and%20547.
From around 1300 to 1850 the northern hemisphere had “The Little Ice Age”, with some very cold years, which were probably due to volcanic eruptions causing cooling. This is much better recorded, and includes the Black-Plague years. https://www.britannica.com/science/Little-Ice-Age/Changes-in-large-scale-atmospheric-patterns
Since 1850, California has had a lot of nice weather, but we find out that was an anomaly. We assume that so much which is pleasant and agreeable in our world is the normal baseline. Who could blame us?
Being killed by weather is a recurring feature of human existence, and the deadly weather keeps changing for such a very wide variety of reasons, some of which we are just now discovering. Anthropogenic global warming seems to me to be a real thing. I am scientifically trained and educated, and it all seems to be completely as presented by climate scientists. Not looking at all of the other causes of deadly weather seems to be the fatal flaw.
The largest threat to most people is being killed by other people, which is well documented when weather and crops are bad in history. We have such a vast and intricate food production and distribution system, using 10 calories of fossil fuel for every one calorie eaten, that we are unfathomably vulnerable compared to other periods in history. Most of us would be dead within 3 months if all the electricity went off and stayed off.Thank you for considering the context that life is usually far more difficult than we have known it in our own years, and that this best-of-all times is not the baseline. Don’t get sold a scam. Learn basic human living, especially vegetable gardening, walking and bicycling. I’m grateful to have been able to do all of the things, go all of the places, know and help all of the people that I have in my life. Now that I realize that this has been the best of all times, I feel a responsibility to help all of us go forward gracefully, without face-planting from the next curveball that the universe throws our way.
World War-3 has started. It’s different from the first two, as you have noticed. The cause is about the same. Power elites are in a power struggle as the economy goes through big changes. They all need to get richer, to protect what they already own, and to get rid of some of their rivals and most of us useless-eaters.
That being said, a lot of them are probably not expecting a micronova event, or even Scotty losing our shields for a few decades.
Try to outlive them. Keep your head down.No, Dr D, the point I was making is that putting up a chart showing the names of some donors and who they donated to doesn’t prove any of what you are talking about, although the things you are alleging may all be true as well. The list by itself does not prove anything about anyone on the list, except that they have lots of money and they gave some to political parties.
HUNTER WAS AN AMATEUR SCAMMER
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Tens of Billions of US Dollars Were Transferred to Ukraine and then Using FTX Crypto Currency the Funds Were Laundered Back to Democrats in US
By Joe Hoft
Published November 12, 2022 at 6:30pm
2614 CommentsThe Democrats sent tens of billions to Ukraine and then laundered this money back to Democrat pockets and funds in the US. Now the company is bankrupt and the funds are nowhere to be found.
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Beyond my pay grade• Up To $2 Billion In Client Money Missing In Crypto Giant FTX Collapse (NYP)
https://nypost.com/2022/11/12/ftx-clients-out-up-to-2-billion-after-crypto-collapse-reports/
By Dana Kennedy
November 12, 2022On Friday, Bankman-Fried stepped down from his CEO position as the Bahamas-based FTX filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, after scrambling to shore up an $8 billion liquidity crisis that has left investors unable to claim their funds. A bid to save FTX via a rescue deal with rival exchange Binance didn’t work out, leading to crypto’s highest-profile collapse in recent years. In text messages to Reuters, Bankman-Fried, one of the largest donors to the Democratic Party, said he “disagreed with the characterization” of the $10 billion transfer. “We didn’t secretly transfer,” he said. “We had confusing internal labeling and misread it,” he added, without elaborating. “???” was Bankman-Fried’s response, when asked about the missing cash.
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Priorities
It’s easier for Ukraine to get money/supplies, from Canada than for the provincial health ministers to get an increase from Canada.COP OUT
I remember reading reports about previous COPs. The delegates arrive on first class flights or private jets, stay in 5 star hotels, and are driven round in limousines. It is very much ‘do as we say not as we do’. I doubt that any of their meals include insects [unless you include prawns and lobsters as insects!
Xavier Moreau, ex-military man, graduate of St-Cyr and the Sorbonne, in the arms biz, in the security biz, political commentator (books – one ‘against’ the F left which I plan to read..) lives in Moscow, seems to be saying, in his last 3 weekly bulletins, that the Ukr. proxy war will only be concluded when the two main protagonists, the USA and Russia, at present Biden and Putin, meet and agree the conditions of the termination, the partition of Ukr., security guarantees, etc.
XM calls the forces on the ground on the one side (trans) NATOKEEV forces.
> Many US ‘trainers’ or ‘inspectors’ on the ground in Ukr, for sure, whatever that amounts to, idk, but Polish and Romanian force, soldiers, as well. + 700 French soldiers in Romania waiting for orders…cold and hungry it is said…
XM states / hints strongly at / my interpretation, that there are, or will be, only two winners in this conflict: the US and Russia.
The US will ‘win’ by killing off German Industry (> EU industry) and consolidating the dollar, stealing some industry to go back home, etc. Russia wins because it branches out in new trade relations, conduits, commands new respect, etc. In short, the weak + small are crushed while the big + powerful triumph (my words.)
At present, neither of the two parties will sit down, because both are pursuing their interests with (some? they think?) success.
USuk (imho short-sightedly) is triumphant after blowing up NordStream, preventing the Vassal Germany from expanding and becoming a partner of Russia — and, Russia finally decides (for the moment) to junk Europe, and prosper via other ties.
XM. Bulletin 107, in F. https://bit.ly/3UAoYGe
Calls to ‘cancel’ Lavrov at the G20 meet, not dine with him, talk to him, have pix taken with him – signal that no negotiations can take place. Ex. Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/11/leaders-forgo-g20-russia-family-photo
> see +, first in list at top post
Yes, so very British, send ppl to Coventry! The main aim is to prevent any stabs at reasonable discussion, negotiation, concessions, etc. The secondary one is reinforcing a long-time trend, divide to confuse, get the public to loathe, shun, ppl who have ‘different opinions’, ‘are conspiracy theorists’, ‘Putin lovers’ etc.
When you’ve used up all your carrots
And have nothing left but sticks,
Then your construct falls to pieces
And the new one’s made of brics.On Solar Micronovae, complete with misleading article titles:
NO, THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A SOLAR MICRONOVA
Magnetic polar shifts: yes, those exist. So do micronovae. But “solar micronova” is just bad sci-fi.
“You might like this 5 part essay by Matthew Ehert :
Logos?”Me like.
@MyParentsSaidKnow
Seriously, if you don’t already have a small volume of verse ready for publication then you should get cracking on it.
The list by itself does not prove anything about anyone on the list, except that they have lots of money and they gave some to political parties.
Of course it proves something, teri! That kind of money buys political power. Elections have consequences.
A wide-open southern border? Millions of aliens flooding into a country? Vaccine mandates?
Do you really think these people come into political power with a few hundred thousand dollars of net worth, spend a few years in office clipping coupons in their spare time and leave as multimillionaires?
How come a graph that is deliberately terminated 95 years before the present is labelled ‘YOU ARE HERE’?
Does the perpetrator of this piece of deceit want to suggest that the present is the year 1927?
Or does the perpetrator of this deceit want to hide something -such as that data from recent decades shows a very different trend- in order to promote an entirely fake narrative?
Still on track for very little agriculture and no hydroelectricity in the southwest US in the latter portion of 2023.
Some may not know that foreign exchange rates are a rigged casino in which currencies are pushed up and down in order that speculators can cream-off a portion of the changes for themselves.
John Key was such a currency speculator and made a fortune out of trading the NZ dollar, which was (and probably still is) is the one of the most traded anywhere by speculators because it can be pushed up and down so easily.
John Key was selected to become prime minister by the global money-lender fascists, to carry out some more wrecking of NZ for short-term profit. His most famous slogan was “A better brighter future.” He never said for whom. Didn’t need to. People are such dumb-arses. And all the so-called elections are rigged anyway.
With that background we have today’s news:
‘The Kiwi dollar will open today at 61.2 USc. For the week it has revalued by +3.1%; over the past month by an impressive +9.5%.’
‘Now that I realize that this has been the best of all times’
For people living in Britain and NZ, the best of times was the period 1955 to 1975. It was a time of rising standard of living, improving services, access to high-quality education and a blossoming of culture.
If you were living in Vietnam that would have corresponded to the worst of times, of course.
If Nixon hadn’t closed the gold window, if the US had heeded the lessons of Vietnam…
I must be a Deviant
https://cjhopkins.substack.com/p/the-road-to-totalitarianism-revisited
OLDANDTIRED
“Russia is LOSING THE WAR.
You have made your bet. Let us see how this all plays out.”
Excuse me , I made a bet?
I said Russia should win , whatever that means , I don’t think they know themselves what winning is. I would say it means beating all of Nato armed forces on the field in Ukraine, that is the actual NATO armies , not the Ukranian proxies , but who knows?
Again , what I said is that Russia SHOULD have won a long time ago but they don’t have the capability. They still should win , they have to win, Putin’s leadership , his ego and the future of Putin’s new world order depends on it.
At minimum that means taking ALL the territories in the newly annexed Oblasts and then killing all the remaining nazis throughout Ukraine which would include the Jewish nazis , totally obliterating all and every piece of military equipment in Ukraine , replacing Zelensky with a puppet government which would declare neutrality and divorce itself from NATO and the EU and realign with Russia. If hostilities from the Ukrainian side of the border do not completely stop then that is not winning.
So………can they do it?
“like discarding the works of Shakespeare or Dante..”
They already did that , Shakespeare the anti-semite , remember?
Russia supports creation of Gates-Rockefeller “Pandemic Fund”
Moscow reaffirms fealty to WHO at G20 summit, calls for “global sanitary shield”See , same old shit , Ivan is on the clotshot train along with Gates and all the other Western scammers. Putin has been jabbed four times and ia absolutely scared stiff on the flu. He has diplomats sitting at the end of tables forty feet away and he has his fully masked cabinet sit about eighty feet away when he meets them in the St. Petersburg imperial palace.
Sam Bankman-Fried,Madoff , Epstein , Weinstein ,Wolfowitz, Allbright, Nuland , Rotstein ,Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Zelensky and on and on..
Just another Jewish scammer to put in the basket with all the rest of them starting with Roschild when he scammed the London exchange in 1815 , followed by so many other who have now increased to plague proportions. Ya see why the Germans did what they did ?
Crypto is and always be a scam. The move into cyber speculation is just the next “innovation’ by the scammers. Bitcoin or any other cyber coin will never be widely used by normal people in every day transactions, it will always be a get rich quick scam , or a go broke quick scam , going broke the most likely scenario as we increasingly see.All the virtue signalling about the blockchain and how it will frees all from fiat etc. is just marketing BS from the scammers , keep buying shitcoins folks, suckers!
AFAIK: How come a graph that is deliberately terminated 95 years before the present is labelled ‘YOU ARE HERE’?
Does the perpetrator of this piece of deceit want to suggest that the present is the year 1927?
Or does the perpetrator of this deceit want to hide something -such as that data from recent decades shows a very different trend- in order to promote an entirely fake narrative?The non-idiot AFAIK reveals his idiot hysterics and ignorance about climate change science by asking a frantic and angry rhetorical question about what he characterizes as “deliberate” deception. Even a schoolchild can look into this matter and learn that the proxy data AFAIK is ranting about is presented as 100-year averages because of how the subject material is accumulated, preserved, and measured. And then there is the historical trajectory that matters far more than what is happening right now to outraged “victims” of deceit.
Simple enough, one would think. However, AFAIK has consistently missed every actual science boat in this domain. There must be some deep emotional wounding for him (or anyone, for that matter) to be so shrill and lost in his own “fake narrative” that he has somehow internalized in obeisance to a standard narrative he seems unable to falsify. That falsification is readily done, and at the simplest levels.Here, AFAIK, see if you can wrap your testy mind around this and learn the scientific method (this doc starts out simple, and gets as complicated as the subject matters require):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0vrpxs5olpserhx/Do%20You%20%22Believe%22%20in%20Climate%20Change%3F.docx?dl=0And since I am willing to forgive AFAIK his follies, please forgive me for all the snark in this doc…
And for more on the scientific method and its maturing sequellae, try this work-in-progress doc on for size:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8vnz3ml5z730mds/Epistemological%20Engineering.docx?dl=0@Antidote: “You might like this 5 part essay by Matthew Ehert : Logos?”
Exceptional reading – all 5 parts. Thank you for linking it. This adds valuable perspective and insight to understanding the insanity of our times.
It reminds me why we should be advocates for LIFE in daily living. In thought, word, deed. This is the revolutionary act if you want it…the game-changer.
“…that in order for human beings to be made in the living image of a Creator, we must necessarily have had to be endowed with a quality of free will. The existence of free will gave us the choice to develop or not develop those creative, loving qualities that were innate with us at birth but which robots and animals had no access to. Machines could only do what they were programed to by people and animals could only do what they were programed to by God, but human beings could disobey our nature and become corrupt, materialistic and lose our access to our creative powers…”
LOVE in the LIGHT.
Alexander Carpenter
Well, not only an ad hominem attack but also a link to a fake website that offers nothing.
And no addressing of the point made, of course. Nor any actual science.
I guess our collective enemy is getting really desperate now.
“And no addressing of the point made, of course. Nor any actual science”
I think we all know what ‘The Science’ is worth these days.
Whose ‘Science’? And who’s paying them for it?
Noirette,
Geopolitical forecasting is not one of the puzzles that I wish to tackle. But as I read up on the progress of the conflict in the Ukraine I come across comments related to Germany and its role. I tend to focus on the German ties to the Russian military supply chain and how it might impact things going forward.
It seems the Euro may be/has become the deutsche mark by another name. Today I came this
https://twitter.com/AMFChina/status/1591499096229122049?s=20&t=0kL8GDSry-IOGfN5PXe4fw
Velina Tchakarova pops into the feeds that I frequent, she had this response.European powers will be confronted with either/or choice amid growing bifurcation of the global system. If Germany sides with China, there will be growing fragmentation within the EU members based on their approach to the #DragonBear, which will lead to bifurcation of Europe too. https://t.co/7md5lwroEx
— Velina Tchakarova (@vtchakarova) November 13, 2022
This seems to be in her area of interest. As of late, She has been posting the following graphic quite often.Who is the more important trading partner: China (red) or USA (blue)? The bifurcation of the global system is becoming more apparent. #geopolitics #geoeconomics https://t.co/moXPLLbGCy
— Velina Tchakarova (@vtchakarova) November 13, 2022
Huh? “Fake website”? No substantive response? No “actual science”? This is sounding more and more neurotic. Get real.
Ad hominem? Seems pretty compassionate to me: we all have blind spots; to point a significant one out and still recognize astuteness in other areas is not only fair, but a kindness and perhaps even generous.
So what’s your point, AFAIK? What’s the payoff? What’s it take for you to get real in this highly-structured discipline of science?
The climate narrative that AFAIK espouses so desperately is the The Science(tm) narrative promulgated by the desperados-in-charge and their captive “experts” and “authorities.” Their “science” is terminally politicized, and falsifiable almost effortlessly (all available online to any kindergartener who bothers).
The real climate science is difficult, being an engagement with a complex non-linear open system, one that our habitual reductionist linearizing “science” cannot comprehend. To even begin to “grok” nature, one must adopt an evolving complexity-aware paradigm, and then be willing to be humble and earn to live with uncertainty. This requires a certain level of maturity generally not present in people who need to believe and who need to profess conventional beliefs to maintain their social status and personal identity-myths.
This is a challenge significantly more difficult than most people can engage, and this is still difficult for people who can see through mendacity in other domains less rigorous (in other words, politics has no rigorous “scientific method,” even if we can be systematically skeptical and apply modern-paradigm engineered epistemology).
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