Weaponizing News In The Era of Lawlessness
Whether it's going to a salon while the plebs are locked down or laundering money through the war racket, it seems to always be 'rules for thee but not for me.'
UPDATE 10/27/23 at 4:45 pm: The WSJ article now has a correction on the article and cites $12 million as the new crypto figure that “may have” been used in financing terror.
Weak AF. But it’s better than nothing. My original blog post continues below.
It’s now been nearly two full business days since Elliptic, the primary source in the Wall Street Journals’ multi-million dollar crypto terror funding claim, has refuted the very foundation of the entire article. Still, we have no retraction. If I’m speaking Greek, catch up below with “Pride or Propaganda?”
The indifference to prioritizing the truth speaks to both where we are culturally and to the power of “fake news.” Even Seeking Alpha’s news department published these terror funding figures this morning as though they are accurate rather than completely made up. To that platform’s credit, the article has been corrected. But this is how narratives get out of hand. Again, the fact that the Wall Street Journal still has not corrected it’s wildly wrong reporting is astounding.
Doubtful, but if we needed another example following the COVID debacle that the truth literally doesn’t matter, we have it.
It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
The natural question we may come to is why? Who benefits from this sort of financial obfuscation?
Answer: Deranged, statist, warmonger lunatics.
A PoopCorp Story
This is another one of my seemingly unrelated anecdotes, but believe me it matters. Back when I worked for PoopCorp TGNA 0.00%↑, corporate would ask the entire company to participate in annual surveys to get a sense for where staffers felt the company was doing well and where we felt improvement was needed. They’re still doing this from what I understand.
I stopped participating after just two of these as it became very clear that management didn’t actually care about anyone’s process concerns so long as diversity metrics were being hit. These surveys were aimed at both corporate and local management teams. For two consecutive years one of the top concerns for the local staff at my station was accountability. I swear to God I’m not making this up, management decided not to do anything with it because they determined the staff didn’t actually want what they said they wanted.
Now here’s where I’ll make a logical jump from my actual conversations with some of the people who didn’t live in the Ivory Tower… staff didn’t want the brand of accountability that comes from ratting each other out, they wanted to hold management accountable for poor decision making. Leadership had no interest in looking in the mirror then and I’d wager still doesn’t now. Because nothing has changed and that place literally can not hire people today. Full stop.
Now how is this related, you might be wondering?
Accountability
You know why crypto is so much worse for financing terrorist operations than dollars? Because crypto is traceable. Aside from being largely decentralized and not state-managed, in my view the next biggest reason crypto is so dangerous to the old guard is that you really can’t hide what you’re doing on the most popular public blockchains like Bitcoin or Ethereum.
In a world where banks, custodians, and shell companies have the ability to hide fund flows from the public, its much easier for statist publications like the Wall Street Journal to offer up regulatory softballs based on ridiculous claims about terror funding sources that can’t be fact checked. Turns out, Bitcoin fixes this. So does Ethereum.
And this is why the powers that be are so concerned about the $115 billion in fiat-backed stablecoins. We know exactly where those coins are and what they’re doing. Not only that, but stables remove treasury collateral from the traditional banks and bring the dollars onto public blockchains that offer cheap fees, fast transfers, and radical transparency. The owners of the world don’t want radical transparency and they certainly don’t want you or I demanding it from them.
They don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. - George Carlin
Unfortunately for them, they don’t have a choice. The radicals are here and we’re not asking for permission.
To be clear, privacy is normal and is a fundamental God-given right. The uni-party wants transparency from you so it can tax your eBay EBAY 0.00%↑ sales after you’ve made $600 selling off junk so you can make ends meet. Meanwhile, the pentagon can’t pass an audit. This is the exact inverse of what it should be.
Privacy is for individuals. Transparency is for governments, corporations, and organizations.
Don’t let them gaslight you into thinking any different.
Now for some transparency from ya boi…
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