Money "laundering" is a silly term. It's the effort to keep income and payments from governments who want to tax it. Diamonds, gold and some crypto facilitate this. But its more than that. What if the government is the crook? economist.com/finance-and-ec…
There are estimates that 22% of the world's income is "black market". That's a complete WAG. But the poorer the country the more likely that people avoid government scrutiny in their transactions. From 2012: freakonomics.com/2012/06/25/how…
Other sources insist that the black market is as big or bigger than the known or legal market. Insisting that it is a natural libertarian desire to keep the fruits of one's labor...or crimes. libertarianism.org/topics/black-m…
Analysts looking at Jack Ma's $2.8 Billion fine forbes.com/sites/robertol… should dig a little harder into his bizarre purchase of ReOrient a boutique bank linked to Dorian Barak and Erik Prince. wsj.com/articles/jack-…
ReOrient suddenly left to $5B in value but had barely made $100 million as a boutique bank in Hong Kong. Why? Even financial analysts were scratching their heads. reuters.com/article/idUS22…
Your Hmm? radar should include Indigo Global (Ari Harow + Dorian Barak + Erik Prince). Eitanium (Erik Prince + Eric Banoun) Kuangchi Science (Johnson Ko + Dorian Barak), Frontier Services Group (Johnson Ko + Erik Prince) and Emerdata (Johnson Ko + Mercers) wsiegelman.medium.com/eitanium-ltd-c…
The grumpy old guy at the end of the bar in Mar a Lago penetrated my social media silo. Dim Don is literally making speeches in his own retirement home. Doesn’t he have upside down hotels to sell and golf games to cheat at?
Twitter does a good job of filtering TrumpTurds out of my feed. No more free brand building for the deposed one. Once in a while a QNutter will demand that Satan take my soul for using compassion, logic or science in an argument but overall it's been quiet.
However I do spend a good half hour cruising the extreme right news sites. Sloppy Steve's Warroom, Newsmax, OAN etc etc but It is clear that Trump was their revival snake dancing tent pole preacher and head carny barker. hillreporter.com/newsmaxs-ratin…
The Adventures of Florida Man. Making fake driver’s licenses for underage girl’s for sex trafficking is pretty much all you need to know. Oh and Matt Gaetz Daetz, just a couple more pedos in the Trump camp. clickorlando.com/news/local/202…
George Nader for Director of Child Welfare.
After Matt discovers that each count of offering anything to a minor for sex can get him ten years and that Billy Barr green lit the investigation, Gaetz decides brilliant move of adding Randy Quaid to his elite social media defense team.
Prostitution, Venmo and Sugar Daddies are a thing. But not a good thing. Very evocative of Anthony Weiner and Sydney Leathers who trolled hard for rubes. Could a high profile politician be compromised by a prostitute? Maybe we should ask Anthony and Matt.
Christopher Miller’s name is oddly buried way down in this story. There were a group of Pentagon hires that immediately and desperately tried to shift our global security position after Esperanto was fired. This needs to be linked to Kushner’s slush fund. apnews.com/article/capito…
Esper dammit. Pre Nov 9 Trump kept pushing Esper to deploy the National Guard. But Miller was also reluctant. Nunes and Prince Minions suddenly appeared inside the Pentagon. Tata went on a last minute Hejira. Why? npr.org/2020/11/10/933…
The Capitol event had no effective subversive elements, no measurable impact on our election and was made up of clowns and a sprinkling of LARPers. But even the inclusion of one pro set on a measurable outcome would have devastated this nation’s self image and stability.