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It's really too much crat reality for most to get. Bankman HYPHEN Freid, Madoff, Epstein, Weinstein, Weiner (Carlos Danger), Enron, Hollywood casting couch ME TOO whistleblowers, (the casting couch thrives even now), Afghanistan, Ukraine, Saudi Prince, $6 gas, $7 dollar diesel, CRIME, CRIME, CRIME on and on and on. An average person is supposed to believe these criminal embracing, plundering, narcissists, liars are legitimately winning elections? And only problems in DIM zones and they win?

It's good to be the VOTE COUNTER!

How much are you going to allow this usurper cabal to rip you off and rule over you?

Let's just talk and share memes? THEY are counting on your fear and timidity. Is this America?

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The number one most important factor for determining quality of life on Earth is this:

What kind of system do you live under?

Think about it. If you tell us what kind of systems you live under - from systems of government, medicine, family, infrastructure, education, community, religion and more - chances are we can predict what kind of life you have.

Let's examine some recent problems: FTX. Voting systems. Medicine. Corruption. War. Homelessness.

It’s our own fault. All of it.

We have embraced the wrong kind of systems that govern over us - centralized ones - and they have become corrupted. It is time to change that. We need to understand and embrace decentralized systems, and fear centralized non transparent ones. And we need to be able to spot the difference.

Can you?

Once we recognize a system has been corrupted, it’s time to bust out the anecdote: TRANSPARENCY and DECENTRALIZATION.

Who wants to be part of a society of problem solvers instead of just complainers? Please, let's talk.

https://joshketry.substack.com/p/embrace-decentralized-systems-fear

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"Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of FTX, sleeping on a beanbag at his trading desk—a habit that was interpreted as evidence of his quirky genius." ..... mental illness... and never trust any adult who dresses like a 5 year old......

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If you don't do your due diligence as an investor you are gambling. You reap what you sew. Many who lost could afford the loss. I have another burning issue which is the twin of the Biden Bucks tracking currency (for surveillance and control of our lives) or the CBDCs, which were tested in 12 NYC banks last week. Fast and furious is Biden moving. Very frightening for us pure bloods, promoters of Early Treatment and free speech. The following excerpt was written by George Freund.

G20 Panel Calls for a Global Digital Health Certificate Acknowledged by WHO to Track Vaccination Status | 15 Nov 2022 | Despite a growing mountain of evidence showing that the experimental Covid vaccines are ineffective at preventing infection and transmission, the Indonesian minister of health called for the G20 to have a global digital health certificate to track the movement of vaccinated individuals. Health Minister of Indonesia Budi Gunadi Sadikin advocated for a global digital health certificate during the B20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia. The two-day Business 20 (B20) Summit 2022 in Bali, Indonesia, gathered global business leaders to offer policy recommendations to the G20 Summit to solve important business concerns... Speaking to the crowd, Sadikin said, "Let's have a digital health certificate acknowledged by WHO. If you have been vaccinated or tested properly, then you can move around. So for the next pandemic [!?!], instead of stopping the movement of the people one hundred percent, which [collapse] the economy globally, you can still provide some movement of the people." If this will pass, those who choose not to get vaccinated will be forced to give up their basic human rights.

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I consider it corruption from those who think they are better than everyone else. They are evil.

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Or one could refer to “The Emporer’s New Clothes”, for a literary example. 😵‍💫

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Speak your truth brother!

Mass stupidity!

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John Leake

You wrote, "obvious scam to anyone of ordinary prudence who conducts twenty minutes of due diligence."

I understand what you're saying, but you have overestimated many "investors." Plenty of average people have "ordinary prudence," and yet would have no idea what the words "due diligence" even mean. They do not know how to find out the information they should learn. They don't even know what they don't know.

I am not saying this critically, at all. I am attempting to explain their naivete. We have elderly women who are scammed by con artists every day. There are older men who were let go by their company at age 63, and they convince themselves that they should invest in order "to somehow make up the money" they'll now never get from their company. A man in his 20s working at Burger King told me excitedly about investing in crypto.

I guess my point is that there are many good, hard working, "average people" who would have been "scammed" by FTX, and I don't think that happening is a reflection of the times. It happns more than you would think because they haven't been educated as to these matters. There but for the grace of God go I. Or my parents. Or my brothers. Or my daughter. We were raised poor.

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Perfect. See https://southsidemessenger.com/bonhoeffer-on-stupidity-entire-quote/

BonHoeffer on stupidity. It's true and you are seeing it right now in real-time. Thanks for the great articles.

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I started to write my essay with Bonhoeffer’s essay as the interpretive framework, but then I thought Idiocracy a bit more punchy.

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This is strange. I just began a book by Eric Metaxas - Bonhoeffer. I had watched Tucker interviewing Metaxas. I became curious about his books, and I ordered Bonhoeffer, If You Can Keep It, and A Letter to the American Church. Bonhoeffer didn't believe that it was worth it to spend too much time trying to reason with and change some peoples' minds about important issues that he felt required immediate attention. I guess those would be the ones he refers to as "stupid."

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Good stuff! Bonhoeffer tried to take Hitler out and failed. Alexander S in "The Gulag Archipelego" argued that if just a few of his neighbors had put up a fight and taken out some of the "law enforcement" officers rounding up people for no reason, things would not have gone so wrong. Faith, not fear.

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Especially if they could have kind of hidden during. We're guns legally allowed in Germany then?

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Good point. I don't think many citizens had guns.

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They would have had to run out in big groups to intimidate the Nazi police. The first ones would have to have been willing to die, because they knew what would happen to the first. It is difficult to act when things are just a little bit totalitarian because people don't think things will degenerate as much as they can.

For our covid emergency, lots of people would have had to refuse to wear masks in March/April 2020, and more small businesses would have had to be willing to join the gym owner in the Northeast who refused to shut down. There would have been fines and prison for some, but I think that large groups doing this, plus some doctors speaking out in March and April 2020 would have done it.

If many doctors had spoken out in February 2020, this would have given business owners more confidence to stay open and fight the closures, so I think a lot of blame on America's doctors is justified. Who else is in a better place to speak about viruses and vaccines than doctors?

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The number one most important factor for determining quality of life on Earth is this:

What kind of system do you live under?

Think about it. If you tell us what kind of systems you live under - from systems of government, medicine, family, infrastructure, education, community, religion and more - chances are we can predict what kind of life you have.

Let's examine some recent problems: FTX. Voting systems. Medicine. Corruption. War. Homelessness.

It’s our own fault. All of it.

We have embraced the wrong kind of systems that govern over us - centralized ones - and they have become corrupted. It is time to change that. We need to understand and embrace decentralized systems, and fear centralized non transparent ones. And we need to be able to spot the difference.

Can you?

Once we recognize a system has been corrupted, it’s time to bust out the anecdote: TRANSPARENCY and DECENTRALIZATION.

Who wants to be part of a society of problem solvers instead of just complainers? Please, let's talk.

https://joshketry.substack.com/p/embrace-decentralized-systems-fear

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Brilliant. Thanks for the link. Had never heard of this before.

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Do we really think more or less money in our coffers will save US(A) from the inevitable?

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There is a legal fund for Dr McCullough created by Mark Brugge: The funds from this campaign will be received by Peter McCullough; goal is $2,000,000. Donations can be made on his website, petermcculloughmd.com with this link https://www.givesendgo.com/G2DR5

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A couple more articles about FTX and its connections to COVID worth reading:

"The Covid/Crypto Connection: The Grim Saga of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried"

- Jeffrey A. Tucker November 18, 2022

- https://brownstone.org/articles/covid-crypto-connection-ftx-and-sbf/

"Sam Bankman-Fried and the Pandemic Industrial Complex"

- Michael Senger November 19, 2022

- https://brownstone.org/articles/sam-bankman-fried-pandemic-industrial-complex/

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The number one most important factor for determining quality of life on Earth is this:

What kind of system do you live under?

Think about it. If you tell us what kind of systems you live under - from systems of government, medicine, family, infrastructure, education, community, religion and more - chances are we can predict what kind of life you have.

Let's examine some recent problems: FTX. Voting systems. Medicine. Corruption. War. Homelessness.

It’s our own fault. All of it.

We have embraced the wrong kind of systems that govern over us - centralized ones - and they have become corrupted. It is time to change that. We need to understand and embrace decentralized systems, and fear centralized non transparent ones. And we need to be able to spot the difference.

Can you?

Once we recognize a system has been corrupted, it’s time to bust out the anecdote: TRANSPARENCY and DECENTRALIZATION.

Who wants to be part of a society of problem solvers instead of just complainers? Please, let's talk.

https://joshketry.substack.com/p/embrace-decentralized-systems-fear

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Ecclesiastes 1:9

What has been—it is what will be; what has been done—it is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun.

John 8:31-John 8:36

To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

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The continuing saga of crypto involves Binance and it's CEO Changpeng Zhao who got tired of SBF goading him and took FTX down via a run on a non-existing bank. Binance has fewer issues at the moment given that brokers win on either side of a trade. Many boys who became a trading wizards as Bitcoin went to $65k don't say much as it fell to $16k. The small guys have lost a bundle. But SBF operated at an entire level of con by buying politicians using client money. Few could resist his apparent rags to riches tale and indeed it was too good to be true.

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I absolutely love this article the movie was almost prophetic🌎🕊❤️🌞🌻🙏😇

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We’ve been watching that movie come true in stages since it came out. Brilliant movie.

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' Give us all your money and we'll give you a password '

'Ok'

STUPID!

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The number one most important factor for determining quality of life on Earth is this:

What kind of system do you live under?

Think about it. If you tell us what kind of systems you live under - from systems of government, medicine, family, infrastructure, education, community, religion and more - chances are we can predict what kind of life you have.

Let's examine some recent problems: FTX. Voting systems. Medicine. Corruption. War. Homelessness.

It’s our own fault. All of it.

We have embraced the wrong kind of systems that govern over us - centralized ones - and they have become corrupted. It is time to change that. We need to understand and embrace decentralized systems, and fear centralized non transparent ones. And we need to be able to spot the difference.

Can you?

Once we recognize a system has been corrupted, it’s time to bust out the anecdote: TRANSPARENCY and DECENTRALIZATION.

Who wants to be part of a society of problem solvers instead of just complainers? Please, let's talk.

https://joshketry.substack.com/p/embrace-decentralized-systems-fear

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