Chance (27 Nov 2022)
"So What's Happening With FTX/Brinkman-Fried and The Digital Dollar"


 
Hello John and Doves,
 
re:  "The Biggest Story That Isn't - FTX"
https://www.fivedoves.com/letters/nov2022/chance1120-4.htm
 
So what's Happening with FTX former CEP Brinkman-Fried - the second largest Democratic donor right under George Soros?  A man who, many believe, should be facing charges for fraud, theft, money laundering, using STX money to fund his life style and private hedge fund, heading a Ponzi scheme, etc.??
 
Seems he's a special guest at the New York Times Annual DealBook Summit scheduled for November 30.  Emmy Award winning Andre Sorkin a Times columnist and DealBook founder and editor will be conducting and broadcasting numerous interviews of various people.  These people have brought about "historic changes taking place in America and around the world."  These interviews will be streamed live on nytimes.com
 
A big eye opener is who else will be interviewed for this:  President of Ukraine, Zelensky, the U.S. Treasurer Janet Yellen, Meta Fonder (Facebook) Zuckerberg, TikTok CEO Shou Chew, former U.S. VP Mike Pence, Amazon C.E.O Jassy, Netflix Co-founder/CEO Reed Hastings, Blackrock chairman and CEO Larry Fink, PM of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, and NYC Mayor Eric Adams and numerous others.
The New York Times to Host Annual DealBook Summit on Nov. 30 | The New York Times Company
 
So Brinkman-Fried is considered a big enough 'mover and shaker' in the world to be compared to Zelensky, Yellen, Benjamin Netanyahu, Janet Yellen, Shou Chew and Larry Fink!
'Someone' is awfully proud of this man and what he's done.  Some think he's a person to be looked up to.  How can that be?  He stolen billions from investors, bankrupted a company that was worth $32 billion at one time.  He should be in jail instead of "celebrated".
 
So how did Brinkman-Fried make  "historic changes taking place in America and around the world" I guess in funding Covid mandates and shutdowns, funding Democrats and RINOs in the U.S. mid-term elections, money laundering U.S. money sent to Ukraine back to Democrat/RINO elections...then bankrupting a $32 billion cryptocurrency company, leaving Maxine Waters and her people to forge ahead with "major" government controls over our future financial system and provide the "needed" push for cryptocurrency control by the Federal government and push the country into a "digital dollar"....I guess he did his job and he's getting "payment" for that.  The Democrats and RINOs will be eternally grateful.
 
"And so, instead of being under arrest, SBF (Sam Brinkman-Fried) will instead be treated like a luminary alongside other such Democrat icons as Zelensky (who according to some may have been intimately familiar with FTX fund flows in the past year) and of course the woman who along with Ben Bernanke and Jerome Powerll, made it all possible by blowing the biggest asset bubble of all time:  Janet Yellen...this "thieving pathological liar and sociopath" will be given "a forum in which to profess his innocence to the entire world, and by association with other Democrat "celebrities" such as this one (Bill Clinton) to boost his standing within the legal system that is clearly as much as a joke as the venue that he will be sharing with the following individuals":  (listed above - plus more at this link)  Many good comments at the link.
Howls Of Outrage After New York Times Confirms SBF To Speak Alongside Zelenskyy, Yellen | ZeroHedge
 
My take is SBF was approached in 2019 by the DNC/powerful Democrats to help fund their campaigns by creating a cryptocurrency company with no accountant and people with zip knowledge in finance/cryptocurrency, etc - that could take in billions of dollars from various people, etc and from the money sent to Ukraine by Biden and Congress and funnel the money back into Democrat/RINO (McConnel/McCarthy) campaigns.  All to win as many seats in the Senate/House as possible in the mid-term elections for Democratic control.  Then, after spending all that money, and just days after the election, Democrat backed hackers hack in and steal the rest, leaving FTX to declare bankruptcy with some $700,000 left in cash after the mid-term election campaigning is over.  Pushing the country into government cryptocurrency control and the digital dollar as the only allowed cryptocurrency.  Genius!
The Biggest Story That Isn't - FTX Part 2
 
SBF spent $10 million "helping get Biden elected in 2020".  His mother, "Stanford law professor Barbara Fried, also is co-founder of left-wing political action committee Mind The Gap, which has raised a reported $140 million to help Democrats win elections through the same "get-out-the-vote" grift."  SBF was worth $16 billion at one point..."his money was built on thin air."  One of the Left's "Effective Altruism" cult members - "a form of socialism, because all the "good" that is done just happens to match up perfectly with the left's obsessions, whether climate change, social justice, equity, banning meat or his favorite, "pandemic preparedness."  He's considered a "role model of altruism for young people"..."He wants to get rich in order to impact the world and change it." 
Sam Bankman-Fried broke crypto bank for Dems
 
Kinda of a Greta Thunberg of "climate change" but for "crypto dollar change".
 
But "getting rich" isn't how you and I would do it - through years of hard, and honest work - he made his in two years -  via deception, lies, manipulation, corruption - and he wasn't smart enough or connected enough to do this on his own.  Not with his incompetent, financially challenged staff.  Who knows, maybe he'll be the fall guy who thinks his Democrat friends will protect him...maybe they will....maybe they won't.  Kinda like Epstein.
 
"SBF certainly "impacted" the midterms, funneling his millions into the Democratic National Committee and Democrat-friendly PACs such as Protect Our Future and Guarding Against Pandemics.  He donated committees aligned with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer to help Democrats win races.  He lavished his largesse on "pro-crypto Democrats" like New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who was sponsoring a bill to lock the Security and Exchange Commission out of regulating the crypto market.  He also visited the White House, meeting with top Biden adviser Steve Ricchetti on April 22 and May 12...No wonder the Biden administration has been weak on regulating the crypto market.  It was the goose that laid the golden egg."  Warren Buffet saw through the charade as Forbes and Fortune had SBF on their covers - The next Warren Buffet?"; Buffet called SBF's product, cryptocurrency, worthless and saying FTX would "draw in a lot of charlatans....It will come to a bad end."  As indeed it has.  "SBF appeared with Bill Clinton and Tony Blair at international crypto summits."  There was even an FTX superbowl ad to draw in unsuspecting Americans "into losing their shirts on what was quite simply a Ponzi scheme."

And for Ukraine, FTX backed "a cryptocurrency donation website launched by the Ukraine government."  And the WEF made FTX a "corporate partner".   Sequoia, a venture capital firm, invested $200 million in SBF, which was mostly invested back into Sequoia - so who is the chairman of Sequoia?  Michael Moritz a big donor of Democrats and the Lincoln Project (anti-Trump hate group) and "reportedly a neighbor of Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco."  A few weeks before FTX went belly up, Sequoia had a piece written about SBF "depicting him as a "future trillionaire"...the author of the piece, Adam Fisher, wrote, "I don't know how I know, I just do. SBF is a winner...I couldn't shake the feeling that this guy is actually as selfless as he claims to be."
 
"The very least the Democratic Party should do is refund the $40 million to the people who were ripped off by their crytpo benefactor."
Sam Bankman-Fried broke crypto bank for Dems
 
And to top this off for the many investors - lawyers for FTX said a "substantial amount of assets" from user accounts have either been stolen or are missing.  They said FTX had faced cyber attacks on the day it filed for bankruptcy, referring to the hundreds of millions of dollars in FTX assets that were moved in unauthorized transactions."
 
And in early November there was a run on deposits that caused a 'liquidity crisis'.  Right about the time of the mid-term elections.  How convenient.
Why FTX Account Holders Are Unlikely To Get Their Money Back
 
You just can't make this stuff up!!!  An $8 billion dollar shortfall with probably nobody getting their funds returned.  
 
Now what?  Seems the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Just Us Department in the U.S. and authorities in the Bahamas are going to "investigate".   Seems SBF moved $10 billion of the FTX customer assets to his own Alameda Research fund.  And to top this off - if it can be topped off - "...the firm's financial records are not reliable at all...That means it could be impossible to determine whose crypto was used, whose crypto was not used and what's remaining."
 
A big issue with all of this is "the unregulated world of cryptocurrencies" - that's outside of traditional banking and finance rules.  There is no FDIC insured funds for cryptocurrencies.
 
"The FTX collapse raises calls for regulators to finally get into the game, of course it does....Sen Debbie Stabenow, a Democrat from Michigan, said FTX's collapse "reinforces the urgent need to greater federal oversight of this industry" and continues to push a measure through Congress."
 
What is this bill in Congress now?  "The Senate Agriculture Committee leaders say they have a solution to the need for more oversight in the cryptocurrency space."  This bill "Grants the Commodity Futures Trading Commission exclusive jurisdiction over digital commodity trades...Prohibits fraud with respect to any digital commodity trade."  Here's the link to this bill:
Crypto Bill Section By Section
 
Why the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and not the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission?  Hmmm.  With a bit of searching, the Chairman of the CFTC is Rostin Behnam, Democrat, with four commissioners: two republican and two democrat. Behnam term expires in June 2026.  "Prior to his service at the CFTC, Behnam, was senior counsel to U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow.  He took the role of Chairman on January 21, 2021 following Biden's inauguration.  He was also nominated by Biden to be 'the permanent chairman." 
Commodity Futures Trading Commission - Wikipedia
 
Probably a lot more to this for wanting the CFTC to be in charge of cryptocurrency....because the Democrats control the CFTC and the SEC...hmmm.
 
Biden et al have directed the federal government to press forward with a "central bank digital currency".
 
So how does this affect the average American?  CONTROL
 
"While a central bank digital currency would offer none of the benefits of Bitcoin, it would offer governments new, unprecedented ways to control citizens.  To call the idea rife for abuse is an extreme understatement.  After all, a central bank digital currency would allow the government to track your every purchase.  It could also be easily used to restrict purchases."
 
"For example, imagine a future government deciding that gasoline must be rationed in order to address climate change.  Your "digital dollars" could be made to stop working at the gas pump once you've purchased a certain amount of gasoline in a week.  In this way, a central bank digital currency would open up new avenues for the government to assert control over our every day lives.  It would make our wealth and incomes less truly our own.  If any of this sounds extreme, fantastical, or otherwise far-fetched...well, just look at China."
 
"So, when the Biden administration publishes its report and advocates for the creation of a digital dollar, the public shouldn't treat the idea merely with intrigue or disinterest.  We need to speak out and oppose this idea - or we may well live to regret it."
 
"The PoC will simulate digital money issued by regulated institutions in U.S. dollars...The PoC will simulate tokens that are 100% fungible and redeemable with other forms of money and will include dialogue with the broader U.S. banking community, including community and regional banks."
 
Is this the start of the U.S. move to the digital dollar?  It certainly could be, as "It could promote financial inclusion and equity by enabling access for a board set of consumers and foster economic growth and stability."
Why a ‘Digital Dollar' Is a Really Bad Idea - Foundation for Economic Education
 
If the use of the WEF's latest buzz words are any indication of the promotion, push and ultimate change over to our next 'currency' - the digital dollars has them all:  "inclusion", "equity", "economic growth", and "stability".  They left out "climate justice" and "racial justice"...but give them time.
 
At the end of this 12-week pilot program with the New York Fed, they will publicize their results.  Meanwhile, members of Congress hope to pass their crypto bill - possibly in 2023.
 
"Wells Fargo, Mastercard, and the Fed Team Up on a digital dollar.  Citigroup, HSBC and PNC will also be involved in the effort to create a digital version of the U.S. currency.  Several big name financial services companies have joined up with the New York Federal Reserve to announce a 12-week digital dollar program....The proof of concept (PoC) project will test a version of the regulated liability network design that operates exclusively in U.S. dollars where commercial banks issue simulated digital money or "tokens" - representing the deposits of their own customers - and settle through simulated central bank reserves on a shared multi-entity distributed ledger.  
 
Biden, back in March, signed an Excecutive Order "calling on the government to examine the risks and benefits of cryptocurriencies  (STX, conveniently, took care of anything positive to say about cryptocurrency).  The Biden administration also wants to explore a digital version of the dollar."  Thus the 12-week pilot program.
Here's what's in Biden's executive order on crypto
 
The Biden administration is moving right along on this....
 
It's good to see so many speaking up against what's going on - but will it be enough to bring someone like SBF to justice?  Or is he yet another highly protected "Democrat" asset  that's untouchable? 
 
And in about 12 weeks, early next year, we will see the report from Wells Fargo, Mastercard, the Fed on this pilot program.  My guess - A +.  How could it not be??
 
This just shows how deep the swamp really is.  And how quickly everything is moving along according to THEIR plans.  How much of this will we see before the Rapture?  I certainly hope we're gone before they do this....controlling our money, total control.  They don't have to ration gasoline, food, electricity separately...they can do it all together, right through everyone's digital account!
 
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
 
Maranatha!
 
Chance