Thread by @davetroy

🧵 1/THE FINANCIAL ATTACK: This is a work in progress, intended to elicit additional information. We have seen many indications that the CNP/Koch network is staging a series of plays designed to undermine the financial system and bolster non-state cryptocurrencies.

2/This is an overt statement that they are pushing in this direction. They literally describe here a "distributed future," by which they mean "a world without central banks" (and central bankers) and based on non-state cryptocurrency. Is this the future we want? We must discuss.

3/Old-time CNP/Western Goals/Birch Society thought-leader G. Edward Griffin is saying the same thing. He calls out central banks and expresses clear preference for metals (silver, gold) and non-state cryptocurrencies in this video.

4/Right-leaning "financial newsletters" affiliated with Baltimore-based Agora Publishing (also, Stansberry Research, et al) says that on April 14, "America is about to get hit by a $5.1 trillion financial extinction event virtually no one sees coming."

5/Agora-Stansberry has connections to the CNP/Schlafly/Q crew. Recall that David "Doc" Eifrig participated in the 2018 event where Flynn was given the Jack Singlaub award. He joined after becoming frustrated by "Big Medicine."
stansberryresearch.com/our-team/dr-da…

6/For context, some of you may recall that an incident related to Agora-Stansberry was included in an episode of Netflix's "Unsolved Mysteries" reboot last year. It's still unclear what this was about, or related to any wrongdoing.
baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-…

7/Take a look for yourself at the ~20 newsletters published by Agora. They all lean libertarian, right, etc. In March 2011, Agora Financial acquired Laissez Faire Books, a libertarian bookseller based in New York.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agora_Fin…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laissez_F…

8/The entire foundation of a 5th Generation Warfare attack is to attack the actual context of battle; to alter the playing field vs. engage in overt conflict. A very effective move would be to crash the economy on Biden's watch, which seems to be what they are aiming towards.

9/If you have additional info regarding this developing networked effort, send it my way. DM's open. But we definitely can't assume this is going away. This is part of the 'interlocking plays' described by Koch/Buchanan in MacLean's "Democracy in Chains."

10/I've included more details on this strategy in this essay (and in the series as a whole). But this week we're seeing more signs that this is the direction the Koch/Thiel/CNP crowd is moving in. Q is dead; this is the new attack. Pay attention to it! 👀

11/And this is the link I meant to include in the last tweet... 😃 See the whole "Big History" series for more context.
davetroy.medium.com/the-big-histor…

12/Here are a few more samples of these newsletters shilling in this direction.

13/For those of you who saw the multiple Q documentaries that include Thomas Schoenberger (FT, Vice, HBO), here's a video he posted where he explicitly describes one prong of this strategy and ties it to Elon Musk. Make of that what you will.

14/Some say, "so what, gold bugs been gold-buggin' since forever," and that's true. What's different is the broad coordination of these 'interlocking plays,' to use Nancy MacLean's terminology. This network, doing this in unison, is what is cause for 🚨.
goodreads.com/book/show/3001…

15/Or maybe take financial advice from Cambridge Analytica veteran Brittany Kaiser, who ran BTC shill Brock Pierce for president in 2020 with Steve Bannon. She's talking "Securing your Digital Assets as Freedom" here in 2020.

16/Here's the erstwhile Ben Shapiro partnering with the not-so-subtly named "Birch Gold Group." He says, "It’s foolish not to have some assets in the one area of human activity that has never been worth zero."
birchgold.com/ben-shapiro-go…

17/Why might these newsletters be predicting April 14 for some sort of catastrophic event? Hard to say. It is, however, the date of IPO for Coinbase, a leading cryptocurrency exchange. A coordinated play to shill $COIN along with $BTC may be in the works.
forbes.com/advisor/invest…

18/Jesse Powell, CEO of crypto firm "Kraken" (no relation to Sidney) says, “If you remember the original ‘Alien’ movie, the alien goes inside of the person... and it’s growing and growing and growing, and then all of a sudden it pops out of the chest”
coindesk.com/jesse-powell-m…

19/In 1934, FDR made it illegal to horde gold, and required that gold certificates be handed over to the government. Called by some the "Gold Confiscation Act," he called it Executive Order 6102. This was done to counter challenges to the dollar.
presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/exec…

20/On January 7th 1980, "Silver Rule 7" was imposed which forbade the purchase of silver on margin, eliminating leveraged purchasing. The price of silver collapsed on March 27th, "Silver Thursday," terminating the Hunt Brothers' run on the silver market.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Th…

21/The Hunt Brothers were principal funders behind the John Birch Society, the Council for National Policy, and related efforts. These same networks are today trying to do with cryptocurrencies what they tried to do with gold and silver decades ago.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Bu…

22/What Secretary Yellen and Chairman Powell (no relation to Jesse) need to do (real soon!) is implement something similar that puts some guardrails around cryptocurrency manipulation, like was done in 1934 with gold and 1980 with silver!

23/The April 14 "catastrophe" date seems to be traceable to Graham Summers, part of the Agora network, using the same address. This is very similar to prior failed "Q" prophesies in both tone and content.
pro.3founders-newsletters.com/p/SSI_SSIDeath…

24/This article on Bannon + Mercers offers insights into their preference for gold standard + cryptocurrency. Bekah Mercer has said she would happily spend a large portion of her wealth to ensure she can keep the rest.

washingtonpost.com/graphics/polit…

25/Should we expect a coordinated attack Wednesday? Probably not; expect another “move the goalposts” scenario. Is there evidence of a coordinated ongoing effort to promote precious metals and cryptocurrency? Absolutely, to do financially what they could not politically.

26/Also, this is notable: the co-founder of Agora Publishing is James Dale Davidson, co-author of "The Sovereign Individual" with William Rees-Mogg, and foreworded by Peter Thiel. Rey Rivera died across the street from my office, at the Belvedere Hotel.
offshorealert.com/forums.aspx?g=…

27/Here's a 2015 article about Agora and its partnership with Mike Huckabee. "Agora was founded in 1978 by Bill Bonner, a Sorbonne-educated direct-mail guru who realized his natural gift while working for the National Taxpayers Union in the 1970s."
motherjones.com/politics/2015/…

28/The real question is whether this network is coordinating an attack now that may materialize in ways that they have failed to achieve in prior years; this is not new. I think the risk now is higher than ever because coordination is high. But this is what we need to watch.

29/This piece by @CarlaNorrlof I think is correctly skeptical about the prospect of the Ruble or Renminbi gaining traction, but is naïve about the effects of a Russo-Sino alliance against the dollar, especially in favor of non-state options.

washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…

30/Here’s another packaging of the “all hell is going to break loose” narrative rooted in “SDRs” (special drawing rights) encouraging people to leave stocks/bonds and buy “hard assets — physical gold/silver, bitcoin, land, real estate, and commodities.”

entrepreneurshandbook.co/behind-closed-…

31/Rod D. Martin is a member of CNP, and a more exclusive overlapping group called The Arlington Group. He was part of the startup team at PayPal with Musk and Thiel, and has allegedly kept in touch with them. See his bio here, stating this.
nsic.org/martin.html

32/Here are Peter Thiel, George Gilder, and Steve Forbes endorsing Rod D. Martin. He served as special counsel to founder and Thiel, and on the board of governors of the Council for National Policy. martinorganization.com