Right now @SenWhitehouse is laying it all out: climate denial network is same network that's captured the courts. Koch, Scaife, Bradley, Searle, etc.
Powell Memo, Heritage, CATO, Alec, etc.. well worth watching this segment later. I'll post a link when it's posted. But right now you should watch Senate live. 👀 c-span.org/video/?516636-…
"The goal is to bring down the administrative state altogether... and where it can help the oil industry the most."
Damn. @SenWhitehouse really just put it all out there. This will of course be largely ignored by media and chewed into a flaccid both-sidesism by the time it reaches the public, but it deserves much better. I'll be pushing this out.
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1/OK, this is going to piss off a lot of people, but here goes: January 6th, crypto, NFT's, web3?
It's the same set of attacks—the revenge of the gold-bugs. They've been pissed about going off the gold standard since 1933, but especially since 1971 when Nixon killed it for good.
2/I've covered this extensively previously. What folks need to understand now, though is a) this is, in fact, an attack and not a guess or speculation, b) it *can* be stopped. Here's how.
But first know we're up against a very powerful force: network effects.
3/The January 6th attack could only get so far because it relied on radicalizing multiple networks of people but fell short of reaching Mike Pence. Had it reached him, things might be quite a bit different right now.
This attack is trying to reach YOU and millions globally.
We are spending a massive amount of time on stuff that’s already happened—Jan6, Epstein, Maxwell, Assange.
We may want to deliberately allocate additional focus to what’s happening now.
Yes, sorting out the past is important to block bad actors…
But it has also been my experience that we are terrible at blocking operations occurring in real time. And tactics and threat vectors shift.
This requires a much, much deeper mapping of current threat networks, better counter-intelligence, and understanding of “why.”
Everything happening now can be tracked back to 1) oil/gas industry trying to survive, 2) gold/crypto trying to overthrow fiat in order for oil/gas to survive, 3) geopolitical realignment around oil/gas.
Note: the debt limit has not yet been raised. The house is set to consider it on Tuesday. The Senate will need to pass it by Wednesday the 15th, the date when @SecYellen has said we will default. They will need to do so with 100% support of every Senate Democrat.
Also note: this has no effect on inflation. This is not about funding new bills. This is about paying the debt on spending incurred under the last administration and in previous fiscal years.
If the US fails to raise the debt ceiling (or even better, eliminate it), it will reduce the US credit rating, making everything more expensive and also destabilize the dollar and it’s status as the global reserve currency. We don’t want that.
1/The term 'libertarianism' is often misunderstood. Because its use is increasingly widespread, I'll quickly outline the origins, why it matters today, and how it poses a danger to democracy.
2/Many people understand it as a kind of free-market liberalism: just let people do what they want. But that's too simplistic. Libertarian thought evolved, in part, as a reaction against socialism and communism. As Marxism sought to nationalize industry, assets, and money...
3/industrialists and the wealthy were aghast at this trend. They instead sought to use their power to double down on free-market principles of private property and "sound money" (i.e. gold), allowing them to maintain their power and achieve unbridled, unregulated capitalism.