A series of revealing texts and tweets by Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced CEO of FTX, the once high-flying but now belly-up crypto exchange, had the following to say about his image as a do-gooder: it is a “dumb game we woke westerners play where we say all the right shibboleths and so everyone likes us”.
Very interesting. He had the whole game going: a vegan worried about climate change, supports every manner of justice (racial, social, environmental) except that which is coming for him, and shells out millions to worthy charities associated with the Left. He also bought plenty of access and protection in D.C., enough to make his shady company the toast of the town.
As part of the mix, there is this thing called pandemic planning. We should know what that is by now: it means you can’t be in charge of your life because there are bad viruses out there. As bizarre as it seems, and for reasons that are still not entirely clear, favouring lockdowns, masks, and vaccine passports became part of the woke ideological stew.
This is particularly strange because Covid restrictions have been proven, over and over, to harm all the groups about whom woke ideology claims to care so deeply. That includes even animal rights: who can forget the Danish mink slaughter of 2020?
Regardless, it’s just true. Masking became a symbol of being a good person, same as vaccinating, veganism and flying into fits at the drop of a hat over climate change. None of this has much if anything to do with science or reality. It’s all tribal symbolism in the name of group political solidarity. And FTX was pretty good at it, throwing around hundreds of millions to prove the company’s loyalty to all the right causes.
Among them included the pandemic-planning racket. That’s right: there were deep connections between FTX and Covid that have been cultivated for two years. Let’s have a look.
Earlier this year, the New York Times trumpeted a study that showed no benefit at all to the use of Ivermectin. It was supposed to be definitive. The study was funded by FTX. Why? Why was a crypto exchange so interested in the debunking of repurposed drugs in order to drive governments and people into the use of patented pharmaceuticals, even those like Remdesivir that didn’t actually work? Inquiring minds would like to know.
Regardless, the study and especially the conclusions turned out to be bogus. David Henderson and Charles Hooper further point out an interesting fact: “Some of the researchers involved in the TOGETHER trial had performed paid services for Pfizer, Merck, Regeneron and AstraZeneca, all companies involved in developing COVID-19 therapeutics and vaccines that nominally compete with ivermectin.”
For some reason, Bankman-Fried just knew that he was supposed to oppose repurposed drugs, though he knew nothing about the subject at all. He was glad to fund a poor study to make it true and the New York Times played its assigned role in the whole performance.
It was just the start. A soft-peddling Washington Post investigation found that Sam and his brother Gabe, who ran a hastily founded Covid nonprofit, “have spent at least $70 million since October 2021 on research projects, campaign donations and other initiatives intended to improve biosecurity and prevent the next pandemic.”
I can do no better than to quote the Washington Post:
The shock waves from FTX’s free fall have rippled across the public health world, where numerous leaders in pandemic-preparedness had received funds from FTX funders or were seeking donations.
In other words, the “public health world” wanted more chances to say: “Give me money so I can keep advocating to lock more people down!” Alas, the collapse of the exchange, which reportedly holds a mere 0.001% of the assets it once claimed to have, makes that impossible.
Among the organisations most affected is Guarding Against Pandemics, the advocacy group headed by Gabe that took out millions in ads to back the Biden administration’s push for $30 billion in funding. As Influence Watch notes: “Guarding Against Pandemics is a Left-leaning advocacy group created in 2020 to support legislation that increases Government investment in pandemic prevention plans.”
Truly it gets worse:
FTX-backed projects ranged from $12 million to champion a California ballot initiative to strengthen public health programs and detect emerging virus threats (amid lackluster support, the measure was punted to 2024), to investing more than $11 million on the unsuccessful congressional primary campaign of an Oregon biosecurity expert, and even a $150,000 grant to help Moncef Slaoui, scientific adviser for the Trump administration’s “Operation Warp Speed” vaccine accelerator, write his memoir.
Leaders of the FTX Future Fund, a spinoff foundation that committed more than $25 million to preventing bio-risks, resigned in an open letter last Thursday, acknowledging that some donations from the organisation are on hold.
And worse:
The FTX Future Fund’s commitments included $10 million to HelixNano, a biotech start-up seeking to develop a next-generation coronavirus vaccine; $250,000 to a University of Ottawa scientist researching how to eradicate viruses from plastic surfaces; and $175,000 to support a recent law school graduate’s job at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “Overall, the Future Fund was a force for good,” said Tom Inglesby, who leads the Johns Hopkins center, lamenting the fund’s collapse. “The work they were doing was really trying to get people to think long-term… to build pandemic preparedness, to diminish the risks of biological threats.”
More:
Guarding Against Pandemics spent more than $1 million on lobbying Capitol Hill and the White House over the past year, hired at least 26 lobbyists to advocate for a still-pending bipartisan pandemic plan in Congress and other issues, and ran advertisements backing legislation that included pandemic-preparedness funding. Protect Our Future, a political action committee backed by the Bankman-Fried brothers, spent about $28 million this congressional cycle on Democratic candidates “who will be champions for pandemic prevention,” according to the group’s webpage.
I think you get the idea. This is all a racket. FTX, founded in 2019 following Biden’s announcement of his bid for the presidency, by the son of the co-founder of a major Democrat Party political action committee called Mind the Gap, was nothing but a magic-bean Ponzi scheme. It seized on the lockdowns for political, media and academic cover. Its economic rationale was as nonexistent as its books. The first auditor to have a look has written:
Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and such a complete absence of trustworthy financial information as occurred here. From compromised systems integrity and faulty regulatory oversight abroad, to the concentration of control in the hands of a very small group of inexperienced, unsophisticated and potentially compromised individuals, this situation is unprecedented.
It was the worst example of a phony perpetual-motion machine: a token to back a company that itself was backed by the token, which in turn was backed by nothing but political fashion and woke ideology that roped in Larry David, Tom Brady, Katy Perry, Tony Blair and Bill Clinton to provide a cloak of legitimacy.
And you can’t make this stuff up anymore: FTX had a close relationship with the World Economic Forum and was the favored crypto exchange of the Ukrainian Government. It looks for all the world like the money-laundering operation of the Democratic National Committee and the entire lockdown lobby.
I will tell you what infuriates me about these billions in fake money and deep corruptions of politics and science. For years now, my anti-lockdown friends have been hounded for being funded by supposed dark money that simply doesn’t exist. Many brave scientists, journalists, attorneys and others gave up great careers to stand for principle, exposing the damage caused by the lockdowns, and this is how they have been treated: smeared and displaced.
The Brownstone Institute has adopted as many in this diaspora as possible for fellowships as far as the resources (real ones, contributed by caring individuals) can go. But we cannot come anywhere near what is necessary for justice, much less complete with the eight-digit funding regime of the other side.
The Great Barrington Declaration was signed at the offices of the American Institute for Economic Research, which, apparently, six years prior had received a long-spent $60,000 grant from the Koch Foundation, and thus became a “Koch-funded libertarian think tank” which supposedly discredited the GBD, even though none of the authors received a dime.
This gibberish and slander has gone on for years – at the urging of Government officials! – and Brownstone itself faces much of the same nonsense, with every manner of fantasy about our supposed power, money and influence swarming the darker realms of the social media dudgeons. In fact, the actual Koch Foundation (probably unbeknownst to its founder) was funding the pro-lockdown work of Neil Ferguson, whose ridiculous modelling terrified the world into denying human rights to billions of people the world over.
All this time – while every type of vicious propaganda was unleashed on the world – the pro-lockdown and pro-mandate lobby, including fake scientists and fake studies, were benefiting from millions and billions thrown around by operators of a Ponzi scheme based on cheating, fraud and $15 billion in leveraged funds that didn’t exist while its principle actors were languishing in a drug-infested $40 million villa in the Bahamas even as they preened about the virtues of ‘effective altruism’ and their pandemic-planning machinery that has now fallen apart.
Then the New York Times, instead of decrying this criminal conspiracy for what it is, writes puff pieces on the founder and how he let his quick-growing company grow too far, too fast, and now needs mainly rest, bless his heart.
The rest of us are left with the bill for this obvious scam that implausibly links crypto and Covid. But just as the money was based on nothing but puffed air, the damage they have wrought on the world is all too real: a lost generation of kids, declined lifespans, millions missing from the workforce, a calamitous fall in public health, millions of kids in poverty due to supply-chain breakages, 19 straight months of falling real incomes, historically high increases in debt, and a dramatic fall in human morale the world over.
So yes, we should all be furious and demand full accountability at the very least. Whatever the final truth, it is likely to be far worse than even the egregious facts listed above. It’s bad enough that lockdowns wrecked life and liberty. To discover that vast support for them was funded by fraud and fakery is a deeper level of corruption that not even the most cynical among us could have imagined.
Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute, where this article first appeared.
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That is the dumbest thing I’ve read all day and I’ve read a lot of dumb stuff today.
Take the AZ vaxx and get 100% protection from Bruce Springsteen gigs.
It’s the only promotion tag line so far that makes having a jab seem even vaguely OK.
Very good. Didn’t see this before I posted.
You win Joke of the Week Award
Best comment ever…
I have a life long aversion to Bruce Springsteen sadly, after having him inflicted on me at full volume late at night on an almost permanent basis by a flat mate [she thought he was the closest thing to God you could get] so I agree with you on that score.
I have decided henceforth to no longer refer to the gene therapy as a jab. As per Vernon Coleman’s description I will be calling it “death in a syringe”.
100% correct on Bruce and the experimental biological
What a load of BS!
The Boss telling people what to do
LONDON ANTI LOCKDOWN EVENTS https://www.standupx.info/
Sun, 20 Jun, 1pm – Streatham Common, SW16 5TF
Mon, 21 Jun, from 8am – Gather at Speaker’s Corner, Hyde Park
Mon, 21 Jun, from 12pm – Ready to march to Parliament from Speaker’s Corner
Is this just a Covid information website? It NEVER promoted the demonstration in advance. We do’t want to upset Good Ol’ Boris.
Nothing says rock and roll like coercing your audience into genetic engineering.
Springsteen has been a fake from day one.
He’s openly admitted that his, “Boss,” persona is based on his blue-collar, working class father.
Bruce himself is an America-hating vegan who is amazed he’s been able to get over on the rubes for this long.
Personally, I’d need to be genetically-re-engineered, mentally and aurally, to go to listen to this bloke. Can’t stand his music or his “schtick”.
His stuff is flabby, overwrought nonsense, signifying nothing..
One day, they’ll be locked up for this discrimination.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/vaccine-passports-are-business-rights-more-important-personal-freedom
I’d rather/only see Van Morrison or Eric Clapton anyway.
Ian Brown live, even if he can hardly sing.
Watch recordings of his concerts to absorb what he means to his fans.
Van rocks!!
Imagine all those poor deluded AZ victims if this nonsense takes hold and all those who submitted to the AZ death in a syringe are told that it doesn’t count.
Another one of those “rare” blood clotting cases again .- this time a father and his son …
‘There’s no other explanation’: Utah mom blames COVID vaccines after her 17-year-old athlete son and her husband were BOTH hospitalized with rare blood clots after getting Pfizer and Moderna shots.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9695451/Utah-mom-blames-COVID-vaccines-son-husband-hospitalized-blood-clots.html#comments
VAERS may also be deleting entries.
https://mobile.twitter.com/HowardSteen4/status/1405741004095770635
Robert Kennedy’s Children’s defense news (USA) gives a very clear VAERS report each week. Makes for an eye watering read. So far 5,900 dead post vaccine,with nearly a half a million adverse events. Fda postponed their “emergency” meeting to discuss vaccines for children. Guess it really wasn’t an emergency. The deaths and adverse events are occurring around the world. Why has there not been a stop to this nonsense?
Worth reminding ourselves that Moderna has not previously been in the business of developing/supplying vaccines for human usage. The fact people are accepting jabs from this particular brand is astonishing.
That’s OK, they are not being used by humans.
It’s the status shot, don’t you know.
When I was mingling with the venture capital community a few years back, Moderna’s CEO was viewed as “weird & distinctly unpleasant”.
Now, if you’ve ever spent time with venture finance folk, you’ll know that describes the average phenotype anyway, so I’m not entirely surprised.
You won’t know unless told, but this lady is I believe the niece of Mitt Romney.
He hasn’t even called her.
According to a senior US politician I’m in touch with.
I’m gratified to learn that he BELIEVES me & wants to link up. It’s a first step.
So many countries are avoiding the AZ experimental biological. I wonder why? Some countries now telling their vaccinees to avoid long flights, if they have taken the blood clot inducing biological. What on earth is next?
Medical apartheid has already begun. Tough luck if you’re a disabled fan who can not get the non-vaccine even if you wanted it.
Isn’t this medical apartheid!
Yes, but he’s ‘the boss’.
Foo Fighters being the other bunch of cunts enabling this bollox. Kurt Cobain wouldn’t have put up with this shit, despite all the drugs he pumped himself with.
I am deeply disappointed by the Foos over this.
Also disappointed by their last album. Didn’t buy it.
Grohl might be one of the nicest guys in the rock business, but on this he’s a dumb*ss
He also wouldn’t have taken part in the dreadful but doubtless long forgotten ‘Eazy Sleazy’ token anti-lockdown dad-rawk collaboration with Mick le Jagger from two months back, featuring such nuggets as:
“Shooting the vaccine. Bill Gates is in my bloodstream. It’s mind control…”
Quite….
Expecting ‘Street Fighting’ from Jagger is risible..
What comes around will eventually go around.
Or even the other way around
Yet asymptomatic transmission has zero scientific support, and you’re told having the vaccine doesn’t prevent you from contracting, or if symptomatic, spreading the virus!
I think at least some of the vaccine fascism is about rewarding those who have been jabbed. If they see the unjabbed getting the same freedoms, they will wonder why they bothered and feel grumpy. As always, nothing to do with public health.
Zero scientific support?!
44,000 preprint, papers or citations currently.
There are many hundreds of papers if you bother looking.
Well they closed down the auto plant in Mahwah late last month
Ralph went out lookin’ for safe jabs, but he couldn’t find none
He came home too drunk from mixin’ Tanqueray and wine
Tried to go to a Bruce gig; now they call’m Johnny 99
Down in the part of town where when you hit a red light you don’t stop
Johnny’s wavin’ gig tickets around and threatenin’ to blow his top
When an off-duty cop snuck up on him from behind
Out in front of the Club Tip Top. they slapped the cuffs on Johnny 99
Well, the city supplied a public defender but the judge was Mean John Brown
He came into the courtroom and stared poor Johnny down
Well the evidence is clear gonna let the sentence son fit the crime
Prison for ninety eight and a year and we’ll call it even Johnny 99
A fist fight broke out in the courtroom; they had to drag Johnny’s girl away
His mama stood up and shouted, “Judge, don’t take my boy this way”
Well, son, you got any statement you’d like to make
Before the bailiff comes to forever take you away
Now, judge, judge, I take blood thinners every day
The vax is no good for me it could take my whole life away
Now I ain’t sayin’ that made me an innocent man
But it was more ‘n all this, Judge, that put Bruce tix in my hands
Well your honor I do believe I’d be better off dead
And if you can take a man’s life for the clots that’s in his head
Then won’t you sit back in that chair and think it over judge one more time?
And let ’em shave off my hair and put me on that execution line
Love it!
<Insert rapturous applause *HERE*>
Yeah!
Good, but to get a better sense of the range of our brethren, Bowie’s “I’m afraid of Americans” takes sone beating.
Well – I wasn’t going, anyway.
But bang goes a reputation in one easy move!
… a quick jump from hero to establishment zero.
He’s been a fake from day one.
Cringeworthy “get together” with Obama made me suspiscious. Another feature of the “pandemic”….finding out people who you thought might just be ok aren’t. Mr Springsteen joins some of my family, all of my neighbours, and pretty much most of the people I know.
James Corden on the other hand; well I always knew that fat bastard was a waste of space so no burst bubble there.
Yes, I am stunned to be siding with Russell Brand, who knew!
It’s not easy. All my U.K. family are on side & never doubted me.
My three overseas siblings, one with a law degree & another a PhD say I’m a conspiracy theorist.
One brother is a cable TV guy & insists he’s right, discounting to zero my 40 years life sciences training & practise.
Not even any inquisitiveness on why I’ve Taken the stance that I have.
I sent them all a two page summary & a dozen or so references.
Since then, crickets.
i don’t suppose you could let us have a copy of that summary and references?
Dr. Yeadon- Thank you so much for all you are doing to get the truth out! You are a true hero. I followed you on twitter and saved about 40 pages of your tweets and I still share them all over the internet.
Fuck You, Bruce!
I always liked the other Bruce better, have to find out what he thinks.
No Brucie bonus with AZ, not that I ever thought he was worth listening to, let alone watch
BBC
Estimates that 20,000 Scotland fans would travel south for the match have been been described as “very conservative” by a London Assembly member.
A dispersal order has been issued for central London, giving the police extra powers to break up groups of people where they believe their behaviour is causing a nuisance, harassment or distress.
Dear Cressida and your female hating TSG
Very best wishes with your dispersal order
You may find it gets shoved somewhere where the sun doesn’t shine very often, but all the best anyway
Signed
An inmate who is not gruntled
That’s ok Bruce. I’m good with not going.
Is this is anything price wise like the last Broadway run for the “man of the people” you will be a lot wealthier watching the same tired act on Netflix.
Disappointed that musicians of all people are happy with medical apartheid. And to think they were the anti “sun city” generation.
Not really newsworthy as it seems this will become the norm for the forseeable future.
Bruce can go fuck himself, sideways, but I did lol at the AZ ban. In the UK we’ve shitloads of that poison with its extended expiry date to get rid of. They are trying to offload it on anyone when really it needs pouring down the sink.
Think of the poor bloomin’ fish!! Or does this chime with TY chucking his face mask in the river? Cripes ‘The River’, we’re back in Bossland!
If these guys fancy rna are safer, they gottta Big shock comin’, man.
There seems to be a lot of people out there who have had 2 jabs and presumably a third to come this winter who are frightened of catching covid.
And I haven’t had any of them and am not in the least bit concerned. Odd that.
Fuck the boring old woke twat
Bruce is a cuck of epic proportions.
I wouldn’t want to be in an auditorium full of a bunch of sheep shedding spike proteins all over the place anyway.
So there are some upsides to getting the vax then.
Just another load of BS!
And if Bruce Springstein or indeed any other artist continues to perform with these divisive rules in place they are no better than if they were performing in Apartheid south Africa or supporting the Nazi party in discriminating aginst Jews. This is segregation and discrimination. Springstein should refuse to appear under such rules. If he does then we can judge what sort ofperson he is
The good old Beatles would not stand for segregated audiences.
Segregation, who would have thought it, or is it only vaccine coercion
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if there is something else and much simpler behind this, and if this was just the trial balloon or signal for it.
After all, we and the EU do not recognize the Chinese and Russian ‘vaccines’.
So why shouldn’t the Americans not accept the 3 American ones only?!
I would not be surprised at all now, if the AZ jabbed were treated like the unjabbed by and in the US once it reopened.
So much for the special relationship or a fabulous new trade deal.
The New York/New Jersey (note the Bruce/Broadway proximity) based US pharmafia is just calling the shots here (pun intended), and that, as usual, for a single, everything else overwhelming motive: $$$$s!
Because they can.
Yeah, I wouldn’t buy a probably highly overpriced ticket to this dried up, old windbag in the first place.
Totally love it! Anything that shows the faux-vaccines for what they are is ok with me! The fact that some aged wanker wants to be the vessel to do it, even better. Party on dude!
Above all, worse than the laws and regulations and nitwit politicians or scientists with sinister and coercive intent, above these are the scum which breathe life into this shit show by managing their little section of the world, like THIS.
makes me sick
Always thought he was over-rated and his music was crap anyway. Stick it up your rectum Brucey Boy.
Initially we were “all in it together”, clapping the carers, shopping for shielders etc. Then they brought in masks and suddenly there were “others” who went free-faced. Then they brought in the vax, and we split again, vax heroes and un-stabbed scum. Now, it has to be the “patriot vax” or nothing. See where this is going?
Facilis descensus Averno…
I think we can conclude that most celebrities are actually as thick as pig shit. No amount of virtue signalling will protect them from the side effects of the experimental gene therapy. Ah well.
What a cnut.
Contrast the attitude of this overrated entertainer to artist Eric Clapton, who eschews any kind of segregated audience.
Appalling behaviour from the artist.
Be more like Ian Brown & Van Morrison, both of whom will never play to segregated audiences. I respect them both immensely.
“At the direction of New York State, Springsteen on Broadway and the St James Theatre will only be accepting proof of FDA-approved Covid vaccines,” the website says.
It doesn’t say “at the direction of New York State and Bruce Springsteen”…
He was only following orders?
GMAFB.
This is “at the direction of New York State”. We don’t know if Bruce had any say in the matter.
Of course he has a say. “No” would be a good start.
I think it was Voltaire who said something like:
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities”.
Scarily accurate.
New York is in a mess. Ignore. And if Bruce had anything to do with this decision he will have lost many loyal fans including me.
Wheres the surprise?
AZ is not FDA approved. It’s unlikely to be FDA approved due to its extreme lack of efficacy vs other vaccines.
You can expect many other countries to not recognise AZ in the future for the simple fact that is really doesn’t work very well.
Jesus another casualty of adverse vaccination reactions (no I haven’t been taking any gene therapy treatments). I used to love Springsteen NO LONGER. He can go and stick his concerts, music and his vaccines where the sun don’t shine. KNOB.
Think I’ll take a rain check!