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Loopholes ultimately built upon government agents willingness to commit perjury when questioned about the truth.


The people who sign affidavits don't commit perjury, because the people who sign affidavits and those who lead parallel construction are at least two links apart. The way it happens like this: X tells Y to look out for A's vehicle on I-15. Y calls another agency to check on A's vehicle. Now another agent C from another agency leads the investigation. X is totally out of picture in these prosecutions.


Odds are they helped develop and encourage it's adoption.

Results of crypto 1. One of the primary attack vectors on gold, one of the main enemies of the dollar and federal reserve.

2. Mass speculation and greed in crypto has led to it's adoption, which has led to the talk that we need a digital currency for several reasons. Results of a fully digital currency? Every dollar is tracked, no need for the $600 bank reporting requirement to catch the RICH

3. I still can't see the developer of Bitcoin not being a large group associated with government. Who could resist the temptation to be one of the richest people in the world from your creation, a group who is utilizing it for another purpose.


Go down the Robert sepehr (has a channel on youtube) rabbit hole my friend. He's an anthropologist who has connected the dots in an interesting way if true.


Or read “A Story Waiting to Pierce You” by classical scholar Peter Kingsley.

He gives evidence for shamanic influences at the origin of western civilization, namely through the friendship of Abaris and Pythagoras. Abaris was from the Steppes—and potentially from as far as Mongolia. He then speculates further about the shared cultural lineage between the Americas, which was populated by the steppe people circa up to 10k BCE, and the emergence of complex society around the Black Sea. A lot of speculation but all grounded in well-cited evidence. A short but fun read.


If nothing else his content generally stimulates my imagination.


One if their main duties is to go after counterfeiting of the currency. In fact it's what they were founded to do

https://www.secretservice.gov/about/history

We are one of America’s oldest federal law enforcement agencies, originally created in 1865 to stamp out rampant counterfeiting in order to stabilize America's young financial system. By the end of the Civil War, nearly one-third of all currency in circulation was counterfeit. As a result, the country’s financial stability was in jeopardy. To address this concern, the Secret Service was established in 1865 as a bureau in the Treasury Department to suppress widespread counterfeiting.


Another bit of trivia: Lincoln signed the bill creating the secret service on the day of his assassination, which is why the Treasury is tasked with executive protection.


Well, they were. Secret Service moved from Treasury to DHS after 9/11.


Will you ever address this counterfeiting?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL


I'm at the point where shows like the sopranos I would love to watch in their entirety in theaters. I could see an era where shows have their weekly premiers in theaters in their later seasons after achieving a certain level of success.


After a season of that it would be cheaper to just set up a home theatre.


Here's what I miss, and it mostly just shows my age, and that's truly huge screens.

Modern flat panels are so large/cheap that they're a no-brainer in place of most modern theatres. OTOH, the peripheral vision-spanning screens that used to exist were really a spectacle. I remember seeing 'Waterloo' (Rod Steiger) when it came out and that was really something on a giant screen.


An eternal truth in cinema/tv. Once fans fall in love with the characters, they will stick around until you drop the ball


Which is why their heavy investments in making high quality films out of the first film for each character is the real key.

Click into each director of the phase 1 films. They were all multi-decade successes, with their biggest films fitting well with what they’re after.

Rudy, Swingers -> Iron Man

Transporter movies -> Hulk

OG Jumanji, October Sky -> Cpt America

They made big bets up front and it’s paid dividends, and then some.


My bet would be on d8 or some derivative there of


In case folks don't know what d8 is: https://www.popsci.com/science/delta-8-thc/


Thank you for the link. I'd not even heard of this before.


Unlikely, but there may still be a contamination or fraud issue like what lead to the horrible lipid pneumonia scare.

∆8 doesn't cause vomiting, even at high doses or when not balanced with CBD. If people are using products that have flavorants and aromatics (including terps) or sweeteners, I'd be much more suspect of those.


It seems very likely. This illness started manifesting itself only recently, and only in the US. Someone is putting something in the dank.


CHS is not new - it was first reported in 2004: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabinoid_hyperemesis_syndro...


So in other words it is new. Cannabis has been used for thousands of years, you’d think someone would have noticed a global trend earlier.


Or do the deed in those convenient 5-8 hour blocks of sleep where you don't use your phone


If he's making a high salary in NYC, or California, why not?


Because the math doesn't work out.


There upside for the powers at be is:

1. that all transactions are no longer left to the honesty of the tax filer to be taxable. There will be a paper trail for the authorities.


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