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Postby nashvillebrook » Sat Dec 10, 2022 1:44 am

Also sticking out to me —> RE Matt Crawford’s ‘Grand Unified Theory of FTX” fiasco—> the bits about The Pedophile Elite, and how the Crawford brothers grew up in the “military intelligence infiltrated” ARE (Assoc for Research & Enlightenment; Edgar Casey); and how his brother was a Rainbow Family drug and pedo dealer to Silicon Valley elites?

I have to re-read the whole piece b/c that’s all i can recall of it with all the incredible, personal intersection stuff. “Yeah our family chilled with military intel, we didn’t know it tho, so it’s cool. Well, except that the MKultra mafia prolly killed my brother.”

Then he cites Jeff Rense website (how is that still a thing?) RE how the Aaron Schwartz JSTOR story was a cover-up for pedo shit. Then, crypto pedo shit surrounding Nikolai Mushegian (anti-matter SBF) who tweeted that he was fixing to be killed by crypto pedo spooks right before he was found floating in the ocean.

just seems like a lot of pedo-mustard to put on his target question: “What if the ultimate goal were… to establish a Global Digital Central Bank?” the entire FTX/SBF story circles around that target. the pedo stuff isn’t yet part of the FTX/SBF portfolio. it’s unnecessary to his thesis, maybe? maybe not.

seems like SBF helped create the crisis that could advance policy to regulate crypto, after spending millions on lobbyists to regulate crypto. wht an op.

but let’s say they do create a Global Digital Central Bank — would all the pedo/drugs/war stuff just move to the darker end of the blockchain? or would a GDBC automatically eliminate anonymous transactions? I doubt it but idk.
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Postby Harvey » Sun Dec 11, 2022 5:14 pm

Deep fried Bankman is already a multi purpose tool, from Covid to Crypto. A Teflonᵀᴹ investment apparently. Heaven knows what they have planned for him. :cry:
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Postby Grizzly » Mon Dec 12, 2022 2:08 am

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2022/12/investigative-reports/ftx-and-the-curious-history-of-farmington-state-bank/
FTX and the Curious History of Farmington State Bank
Since FTX’s collapse, a tiny bank in rural Washington has come under heavy scrutiny for the role it may have played in the crypto exchange’s fraudulent activities. Ed Berger and Whitney Webb investigate the history of the bank and unearth some troubling connections.
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Postby Belligerent Savant » Mon Dec 12, 2022 6:35 pm

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The following is as good a take on SBF/FTX as you'll hear from an MSM source. It's not a deep dive into underlying funding and more sinister players/agendas, but it touches on a number of themes that are currently repeating across 'crisis' scenarios playing out in parallel over the last ~3 yrs.

Worth a listen.

FTX: ‘There’s always been sociopathic behavior with men at the top,’ Marc Cohodes says


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Postby tron » Tue Dec 13, 2022 2:32 pm

he's been arrested
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Postby drstrangelove » Wed Dec 21, 2022 7:05 pm

Arrested the day before he was to tell the following to congress:

Now, Forbes reports on the testimony SBF prepared to give before Congress… until he got arrested the day before. Some of the juiciest revelations in the testimony deal with Biglaw firm Sullivan & Cromwell. S&C repped FTX as outside counsel, and the company’s General Counsel, Ryne Miller, is a former partner at the firm.

SBF’s testimony alleges Sullivan as well as Miller, pressured him to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections using tactics that “range from adamant to mentally unbalanced.”

Most of that pressure came from Ryne Miller, the General Counsel of FTX US and a former partner at Sullivan & Cromwell (S&C), and Sullivan and Cromwell itself.

Sullivan & Cromwell was one of the primary external law firms that represented FTX US as well as FTX International at the time.

I have 19 pages of screenshots of Sullivan & Cromwell, Mr. Miller, and others I believe were influenced by them, all sent over a two day period, pressuring me to quickly file for Chapter 11. They range from adamant to mentally unbalanced. They also called many of my friends, coworkers, and family members, pressuring them to pressure me to file, some of whom were emotionally damaged by the pressure. Some of them came to me, crying.

The testimony goes on to further allege Sullivan made promises to SBF it didn’t keep:

During the time I was being pressured to file, Sullivan & Cromwell lawyers told my counsel that I would get to choose the board chair. Sullivan & Cromwell silently reneged on that a few days later.

SBF also planned to testify that his efforts to back out of appointing John Ray, who he describes as “famous primarily for his work for the Enron bankruptcy estate,” were stymied by Sullivan & Cromwell.

At roughly 4:30 am on November 10th, 2022, against my better judgment, I clicked on a Docusign link that would nominate John Ray as the CEO of various entities.

Less than 10 minutes later I received a potential funding offer for billions of dollars to help make customers whole.

A few minutes thereafter I instructed my counsel to rescind the document; it had become clear to me that it was not the best way forward.

My counsel informed me a few minutes later that it was too late to rescind it, and that Sullivan & Cromwell lawyers were submitting it on my behalf despite my instructions not to.

Roughly 6 hours later—more than ample time to change course— Sullivan & Cromwell filed the document with the court against my express wishes and stated orders.

Of course, by the time FTX filed for bankruptcy, the company’s shortfall had reportedly grown to $8 billion.

Listen, Sullivan & Cromwell hasn’t — and given you know, attorney client privilege, probably won’t — commented on the matter. But all the various strands of FTX litigation seem bound to get messy… and isn’t it fun for us that Biglaw is wrapped up them.

- https://abovethelaw.com/2022/12/sam-ban ... ankruptcy/
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Postby Elvis » Mon Jan 23, 2023 10:16 pm

Crypto CRASH: Inside the Big Con w/ Robert Hockett


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksqs0y9JbFw
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Postby Elvis » Mon Jan 23, 2023 10:23 pm

Crypto, the Left, and Techno-Feudalism | Yanis Varoufakis & Evgeny Morozov in dialogue

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Postby Grizzly » Sat Feb 04, 2023 2:16 pm

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2023/02/a-document-implicating-powerful-people-is-blocked-from-public-viewing-in-sam-bankman-fried-criminal-case/
A Document Implicating Powerful People Is Blocked from Public Viewing in Sam Bankman-Fried Criminal Case

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Postby Belligerent Savant » Fri Feb 24, 2023 10:48 pm

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This piece, while rightful in its condemnation of SBF, wholly excludes any inference of SBF as Fall Guy. To the contrary, it paints a picture of hubris as primary factor. True as this may be, there remains the added possibility -- perhaps probability -- that FTX was kept afloat at least in part to assist in [alleged] money laundering efforts in the Ukraine, and also, potentially, as part of a multi-pronged approach to increase regulation in the crypto space (particularly with respect to DeFi prospects), ostensibly as a means to 'corral' the Digital Asset 'Wild West'. The more cynical take is it's one of several means to eventually usher in CBDC (which, regardless of whatever glossy takes may be out there -- and shared here -- is NOT a good development for most humans outside the upper 1%).

Sam Bankman-Fried Cosplayed as a Genius. The Facts Reveal His Incredible Stupidity

New criminal charges against the FTX brain genius show a man who was thinking zero steps ahead.

By David Z. Morris
Feb 24, 2023 at 1:27 p.m. EST
Updated Feb 24, 2023 at 3:07 p.m. EST

One nagging question about Sam Bankman-Fried and his FTX Crime Family has always been: what was the endgame? Given the incredible extent of the theft taking place, how did Bankman-Fried and his inner circle of co-conspirators foresee escaping their giant con with their freedom and dignity intact?

New charges filed Thursday against the disgraced effective altruist support the idea that he hoped to curry enough favor in Washington, D.C. to somehow escape the consequences of his actions. This strategy doesn’t withstand scrutiny – but then again, neither do most of Sam Bankman-Fried’s apparent goals or strategies, now that the reality behind his media facade is being revealed.

This helps drive home a tricky but important point about many of the crypto wunderkinds who ascended to the heavens in 2021 and fell to Earth in 2022. Bankman-Fried represented himself, and was lauded in the media, as some kind of genius. Same goes for Terra con artist Do Kwon and Su “Bitcoin will only go up forever” Zhu, CEO of Three Arrows Capital.

In fact, though, these people were putting on an act – an impression. They leveraged credentials, relationships and theatrical self-representations to create what you might call “a dumb person’s idea of what a smart person looks like.” This helped attract huge amounts of money.

But it’s now clear Bankman-Fried and the rest weren't just unlucky. They were remarkably dumb.

Way down in the hole

Thursday’s superseding indictment from the U.S. Department of Justice adds very serious new charges, including investment fraud, banking fraud, wire fraud and election fraud, to Bankman-Fried’s already-long rap sheet. Sources told CNBC that Bankman-Fried could face an additional 40 years in prison based on the new charges, on top of the existing allegations.

The documents detail Bankman-Fried’s various false public statements about FTX’s risk management and custodial practices, which support both the investment and wire fraud allegations. Sam was certainly of the “go big or go home” school of fraud: He stated in front of no less than the U.S. Senate that "as a general principle FTX segregates customer assets from its own assets across our platforms," even as he was secretly funneling customer deposits off the platform for FTX’s own uses (including sending donations to one-third of Congress).

The new charges also claim Bankman-Fried misrepresented FTX’s operation and the purpose of fiat bank accounts to U.S. regulated banks, which is an extremely serious allegation more associated with Mexican cartels and global terrorists than tech startups.

The most significant new charges address, in the words of the Southern District of New York, Bankman-Fried’s “unlawful political influence campaign, which involved flooding the political system with tens of millions of dollars in illegal contributions to both Democrats and Republicans made in the names of others in order to obscure the true source of the money and evade federal election law.”

It might not be obvious, but this is a big, big deal. U.S. lawmakers, prosecutors and judges are understandably not huge fans of attempts to illegally subvert U.S. democracy (after all, they’ve created plenty of convenient, legal methods for doing so: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ ... -explained). The charges describe in depth the use of so-called “straw donors” to funnel FTX money (really, FTX user funds) to political campaigns by fraudulently representing them as donations from individuals, including two unnamed FTX executives.

Almost as a footnote, the charges detail incredibly brazen accounting fraud that flowed from the campaign finance fraud. Messages now in evidence show an unidentified FTX executive, referred to as CC-1, proposed backdating the sale of roughly $80 million in cryptocurrency to conceal the use of a personal bank account as a funnel for these fraudulent donations. (Public campaign finance records reported by CNBC strongly suggest that CC-1 is Nishad Singh, former FTX director of engineering.)

Fear the Reaper

All of this implies two ways Bankman-Fried may have been thinking about his long-term game plan. He may have simply thought he could do nothing but win, and that all the money he was stealing would magically regenerate somehow through his deranged financial and influence-peddling machinations. This species of stupidity would have flowed from Bankman-Fried’s apparently incurable case of elite delusion.

A more grounded theory of mind might suggest Bankman-Fried thought he could simply buy off politicians by funneling enough illegal, stolen donations to them. This is stupid in a more basic and embarrassing way: However cynical you may be about the U.S. justice system, relying on political connections for legal protection is a fairly poor strategy. Enron CEO Kenneth Lay was personal buddies with President George W. Bush. Elizabeth Holmes had Henry Kissinger on her board. They were both convicted nonetheless.

I’m reminded of Bankman-Fried’s declaration that “I would never read a book.” One wonders if he’s ever even heard of Enron, which collapsed when he was about 10 years old. (For that matter, one occasionally wonders if he's ever heard of "accounting".)

The foolishness of whatever plan was bonging around Bankman-Fried’s blissfully book-free skull was obvious to at least some inside the operation. Both a recent FT piece and the new charging documents describe Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison as essentially relieved when it all came crashing down.

“I just had an increasing dread of this day that was weighing on me for a long time,” Ellison wrote in a message seen by Bankman-Fried on or before Nov. 6. “And now that it’s actually happening it just feels great to get it over with one way or another.”



In other words, whatever ignorant delusions Bankman-Fried was and seemingly still is under, those around him saw what was happening as a fraud in real time. Caroline Ellison seemingly never had much hope of escaping dire fallout.

Bankman-Fried’s obliviousness to the inevitable consequences of his actions also invites a review of evidence that stimulants were widely used and abused within FTX’s top ranks. That includes a seemingly direct confirmation, posted by Caroline Ellison on Twitter:

@carolinecapital
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nothing like regular amphetamine use to make you appreciate how dumb a lot of normal, non-medicated human experience is

7:41 AM · Apr 5, 2021


This matters because, contrary to Ellison’s self-assessment, research shows that regular amphetamine use degrades cognition and judgment. One study specifically found that amphetamine abusers, like heroin abusers, were “profoundly … impaired on a test of pattern-recognition memory.” Pattern recognition sounds like it might be a significant skill for, oh I don’t know, a trading firm.

You might feel smarter when you’re tweaking, just as you feel perfectly safe to drive after three beers. You might also feel smart because you graduated from MIT, or because your parents are decorated scholars.

But whatever its source, the belief that you’re a genius clearly doesn’t make it so.

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Postby Belligerent Savant » Thu Mar 30, 2023 12:04 pm

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Binance's China Connection: Bombshell FT Report Exposes Secret Ties


According to a bombshell report by the Financial Times, internal company documents indicate that Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, hid significant links to China for years, contrary to claims that it left the country after the 2017 crypto crackdown.

Binance hid extensive links to China for several years
https://www.ft.com/content/4d011d5a-37a ... 63b4c92308



As reported by U.Today, U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) recently expressed concerns about Binance's connections to the Chinese Communist Party during an FTX-focused Senate Banking Committee hearing. Hagerty accused Binance of conducting business in emerging markets in a "predatory fashion" and suggested that the company was part of a Chinese state-backed network. Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao have repeatedly denied having ties to China and the Chinese government. In the meantime, Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of failed crypto firm FTX, was recently slapped with new charges in the U.S. for allegedly bribing a Chinese official with at least $40 million to regain access to trading accounts frozen by local authorities. The allegations add on to the fraud case filed against him last year following FTX's collapse.

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Postby drstrangelove » Fri Mar 31, 2023 4:58 am

yo Cooper, you ever trace the numerology found in kubrick films to the cult of pythagoras?
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Postby Harvey » Fri Mar 31, 2023 5:33 am

DS: Have you? If so, you might as well spill the beans on a relevant thread...

And BS: I'm pretty sure it isn't 'Chinese espionage' as such and more probably financing of WEF/Globalist elements at a global scale. The largely Gates driven Event 201 featured a CIA director and the heads of CDC of both China and the US. China is almost certainly under the thumb of the same billionaire financed process of corporate capture.
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Postby drstrangelove » Fri Mar 31, 2023 6:30 am

i've traced the philosophical origins of the Illuminati and other occult secret societies of the enlightenment era to the cult of pythagorus.

simply put, there's a very old philosophical conspiracy to convince people, first that there is an objective truth to reality, and second, that this truth can only be discovered through mathematics.

for instance, you may observe with your senses a building free fall collapse in manner you know to be the result of a controlled demolition. however, using mathematical data modelling, it could be proven that your senses were lying to you and that in truth, the building actually free fall collapsed due to progressive fires, something never before observed in reality.

that is the power of this conspiracy. it removes intuitive understanding, which every person is born with, and replaces it with complex mathematical theory.
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