The case of the bombs that did not go off and the ones that did. Welcome to a big hairy mess that will bring us into CBDC even faster. Wreak enough havoc and throw good enough parties and the government will invite you to the negotiating table.
The unfortunate missile strike in Poland is a great example of why cooler heads are needed in positions of power. I have little doubt the US was able to track those missiles origination fairly quickly. However Zelensky and Lithuania immediately jumped to the conclusion this was an attack on Nato territory and should trigger Article 5. Zelensky KNOWS Ukraine will be defeated in this war with Russia as he has the true details of Ukrainian casualties and equipment losses. Yes Russia may have taken a beating but it is not out for the count and can /has laid waste to Ukraines infrastructure and economy. Can the West afford to continue to bail out Ukraine at a cost of a$1 billion a day? NO they cant and wont for much longer so the war will end one way or the other.
As for the SBF farrago, I am neither shocked nor surprised that the shorts clad mop headed twat turned out to be a crook. Nor, having listened to just one interview with his girlfriend, am I shocked that Alameda was a crooked mess. Our authorities are asleep at the switch and seemingly unable and unwilling to look into obvious "potential" ponzi schemes (witness the abundance of evidence that Madoff's business was crooked and the SEC refusal to investigate Harry Marcopolos evidence). I will warrant SoftBank is somehow another crooked scheme.
Madoff went to prison for a long time and the toll on his family was dramatic. However, will SBF end up in the Big House for any length of time? Or will proceeding be drug out to minimize political blowback?
The public have mostly forgotten about Ghislaine Maxwell already. I am sure some deal was done there too given she knows for certain who all the corrupted bad actors were who visited the "pleasure island." You can bet the authorities already know, and have done deals with, likely public figures in that scandal. But we, the great unwashed, will never hear about it.....at least for another 50 years or so.
I didn't see the bit about reversing coordinates in the video. Was it in the comments? Anyway, reversing the lat/lon coordinates puts the missile in the desert of Saudi Arabia. If you switch the decimal parts, the missile lands in Ukraine, but not Kyiv, more likely some other poor farmer.
Social capital... the (ultimately) dominant form of capital to be used to get things done in this world... apparently, the crypto world, political world, and traditional finance world still run on it. The commonality (and at least some fungibility) of social capital across the three domains allows for "interesting" outcomes. We live in "interesting" times... (sigh). Pippa's perspective prompts perplexing pondering.... predictably so.
as always, by connecting dots you raise more questions than answers, but with respect to these questions, I have a feeling answers will be few and far between. at leas answers that are explicit in any manner. thanks for the head's up
The unfortunate missile strike in Poland is a great example of why cooler heads are needed in positions of power. I have little doubt the US was able to track those missiles origination fairly quickly. However Zelensky and Lithuania immediately jumped to the conclusion this was an attack on Nato territory and should trigger Article 5. Zelensky KNOWS Ukraine will be defeated in this war with Russia as he has the true details of Ukrainian casualties and equipment losses. Yes Russia may have taken a beating but it is not out for the count and can /has laid waste to Ukraines infrastructure and economy. Can the West afford to continue to bail out Ukraine at a cost of a$1 billion a day? NO they cant and wont for much longer so the war will end one way or the other.
As for the SBF farrago, I am neither shocked nor surprised that the shorts clad mop headed twat turned out to be a crook. Nor, having listened to just one interview with his girlfriend, am I shocked that Alameda was a crooked mess. Our authorities are asleep at the switch and seemingly unable and unwilling to look into obvious "potential" ponzi schemes (witness the abundance of evidence that Madoff's business was crooked and the SEC refusal to investigate Harry Marcopolos evidence). I will warrant SoftBank is somehow another crooked scheme.
Madoff went to prison for a long time and the toll on his family was dramatic. However, will SBF end up in the Big House for any length of time? Or will proceeding be drug out to minimize political blowback?
The public have mostly forgotten about Ghislaine Maxwell already. I am sure some deal was done there too given she knows for certain who all the corrupted bad actors were who visited the "pleasure island." You can bet the authorities already know, and have done deals with, likely public figures in that scandal. But we, the great unwashed, will never hear about it.....at least for another 50 years or so.
I think you mean WWlll not 2
I didn't see the bit about reversing coordinates in the video. Was it in the comments? Anyway, reversing the lat/lon coordinates puts the missile in the desert of Saudi Arabia. If you switch the decimal parts, the missile lands in Ukraine, but not Kyiv, more likely some other poor farmer.
Another great article. Thanks, Pippa.
Social capital... the (ultimately) dominant form of capital to be used to get things done in this world... apparently, the crypto world, political world, and traditional finance world still run on it. The commonality (and at least some fungibility) of social capital across the three domains allows for "interesting" outcomes. We live in "interesting" times... (sigh). Pippa's perspective prompts perplexing pondering.... predictably so.
as always, by connecting dots you raise more questions than answers, but with respect to these questions, I have a feeling answers will be few and far between. at leas answers that are explicit in any manner. thanks for the head's up
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