🚨Did Epstein's Island truly shut down, or did it just move?
There's a lot of weird shit that is slowly coming out in the fallout of #FTX going bankrupt...
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FTX was founded in 2019 and somehow managed to quickly become the biggest name in crypto
Sponsored the MLB and basketball arenas, SBF heavily lobbying members of Congress, his face is all over the place as "the next Warren Buffet"
How'd he elevate to such a position so quickly? Let's look at his parents
His dad has written about & made a career off of getting rid of the "cash economy" and helping the govt find tax evasion (odd that his son his the biggest name in crypto)
His mom is a major dem operative
Looks like the CEO of FTX (& SBF's gf) also has connections in high places
IMO, this whole thing seems like a weirdly arranged business/sexual partnership with ulterior motives
The ongoing saga of Volkswagen is emblematic of a dying Europe. It's worth paying close attention to because it encapsulates many issues surrounding the EU
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Right now, 100k workers (1/3 of VW employees) are on strike as the company is scrambling to cut $11B in costs by next year...
This would include wage-cutting proposals, plant closures. This is in addition to the first German plant closure in the company's almost 90 yr history
Why is this happening? Germany - more broadly, most of Europe - has not recovered economically since the pandemic. Demand remains dismal
VW expects to sell 500k fewer cars than before COVID
DEBT JUBILEE: An ancient practice of hitting the reset button on debts for citizens 💰
What societies used this practice? Do we still have debt jubilees today (and you just don't know about it)?
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Debt jubilees were a common practice in ancient cultures, where debts were forgiven en masse. These practices were designed to provide relief to those burdened with debt and to prevent economic stress on the lower class
One of the earliest known examples of a debt jubilee can be found in ancient Sumer, where the king would periodically cancel all debts owed to the palace or temple
How Oil Traders Fueled & Funded the Demise of Gaddafi in the Libyan Civil War 🛢️
How did a British commodity trader completely change the course of the Civil War in Libya and help usher in years of destabilization and endless bloodshed?
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To start, we need to talk about commodity trading. Commodity traders wield an enormous amount of power in the world - & we don’t realize it
The gas to fill up our car, the coffee we drink before work, the metals in our phone… all underpinned by a constant international trade
Without commodity traders constantly exchanging, bartering and making deals, the world would come to a screeching halt
These are people who have control over our most essential goods and you don’t even know who they are
The CIA has a hedge fund where they invest in high-tech companies...
Why does the CIA have its own investment arm to place large sums of cash in tech firms? How much influence does the agency have over these companies?
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In-Q-Tel (IQT) invests in companies that can deliver useful technology to the intelligence community. But since it's structured as a non-profit organization, it doesn't need to make money back for outside investors, and is funded by the deep pockets of the "black budget."
A black budget is a government budget that is allocated for classified or other secret operations. The black budget is mostly classified because of security reasons