I was military intelligence, 35F3O. However, by function, there were many of us that should have been indoctrinated via a welcome brief, given a class by MOS, or read on to what is the nature of psychological warfare. We were not.

I can argue that everyone in the military should have gotten the brief because we’d need to know the ‘signs and symptoms’ of a psychological attack. No one was briefed. Ok, let’s call it MOS specific. Why are the military intelligence MOSs not briefed? I was in a BN S2 shop and my whole battalion staff wasn’t aware of what a psychological attack was, what equipment and vectors would clue us in to an attack, and what we’d look like in that case, to deploy countermeasures. None of it. Can anyone explain this? Am I to assume the entirety of psychological warfare is to be denoted by the presence of leaflets claiming an imminent artillery barrage, should I not surrender? …

I was a military intelligence analyst, one with the fortune of a diverse experience that my own curiosity dragged me through. I am pretty good at it and decided one day to look into that whole government problem; inefficient and harmful with little accountability for either, a problem needing a solution. I will not pretend that my conclusions are remotely where I thought I’d end up. It was more a lesson in self reflection and empathy than problem solving. One’s own biases are the hardest to account for.

My understanding of a problem is that one person’s problem is another’s feature. To avoid this, a problem needs definition. That definition will reveal the nature of the problem and it’s own nature is used as the start point for it’s demise. Simple, until a root cause is not evident and the nature of the problem eludes. …

For anyone bothering to read my articles, it is obvious that I’m not an ideologue. I’m really about leaving people alone and see what they come up with, peacefully, to solve problems. We were all born into several paradigms that are worthy of critical thought, judgment, and abolition. We can pretend the myriad of grievance-study-issues spread by the media are germane or not. We can pretend the New Your times and CNN are good journalism. Twenty-first century America is the land of enchantment. You can pretend your whole life, maybe.

The world is no longer pretending the US Dollar is worthy of reserve status. Based on the actions of the corrupt American politicians during the 4 phases of the dollar, this is best for the human population of Earth, if not good for Americans specifically. The four phases of the Dollar: the old, old standard of 20 dollars an ounce of gold, the old standard of 35 and ounce, the 71–08 oil-tethered and functionally bullshit standard that allows for LEGAL and massive manipulation of the currency without any external metrics to keep the Federal Reserve to a math standard, and the standard we are on since 2008, where the narrative is the only thing keeping the dollar stable. …

“Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.”
― Henry Kissinger

TLDR: Own it. Yes, veterans. He’s right. You’re a dumb fuck, just like me; now get in the van so we can go fix it.

Ladies and gentleman, the warriors of the human species have been deceived. Admitting it will fix it. When goods and services don’t cross borders, soldier will. At this point, we’re behind. We’re deploying into a problem we’re just finding out about now because at some point it was a good idea to put the lawyers in charge to the extent that they now control who drops the ordnance. We failed. We’re so far from the relevant battle space that we can fix it only by admitting total failure of the enterprise of war in toto, regardless of the scoreboard. War is financial and economic and diplomatic and, in and of itself, deception. …

So, the Bitcoin and Libra speculation these days has finally eclipsed tulip-mania and proceeded into the weeds from whenst only black swans return. The news is balderdash and so scarce of substance that the context has become the substance. To that end, I think some things need to be stated aloud. Libra can become the world reserve, in a very technical, real, and highly unlikely way. So can Bitcoin. Then, reality.

The financial environment of 2019 has two thousand white papers worth of rationale to skirt saying the unimaginable aloud: the dollar, as a unit of account, is fraudulent. It’s not a unit of measure with a basis in science and is not an independently reference-able and experimentally-duplicable standard. It’s a controlled medium of exchange that is controlled by a small group. That medium, through methods you and I would not employ, has been financially engineered to a net result of a rise in living standards of 7.5B people. …

This is a brief study into how an expert in their field can behave in a manner to question their ethics and the factors you need to make quality good decisions and avoid fraud.

This is NOT and attack on character of anyone involved. It’s a critique, not judgement. Its tailored for YOUR use and learning, not sparing the feelings of anyone involved. The intent is to formulate that which is germane information versus the sales pitch. Once the expertise is separated from the sale, the sale is evaluated for the same level of expertise already exhibited. You may hold someone accountable and that process makes some people uncomfortable. …

Here’s the link to the announcement…. https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-continues-to-explore-support-for-new-digital-assets-70419575eac4 and welcome to the unexplained wave of coins currently being entertained by Coinbase. My first impressions are “Where did this flock of middlemen and hopefuls come from”? DISCLAIMER: None of this is an accusation. It’s a caveat emptor to the cryptosphere. Odd circumstances deserve scrutiny. I am impuning the circumstances, not the parties.

This is not directed at those companies. As I write this portion of this article, I’ve only started to glance at a these. I mean that there are 50 great projects with 3–5 years of service history and are part of the global blockchain ecosystem. Those can be listed there tomorrow. Instead 17 projects, some incomplete projects some with some coin no one has ever heard of before, with all the buzzwords on their web sites, are being offered to the American consumer by a “trusted source”. I’ll say it: I think that this is the US Regulatory State putting it’s preferred players on the map. Nothing more. …

Binance will be launching a currency to compete with Facebook’s Libra called Venus.

To be clear, competition is ALWAYS good; in currency, especially so. This is about how these unique coins are going to change your world, one way or the other.

Libra

The Facebook crypto Libra is a project based out of Switzerland. So for all of you who believed the Congressional dog-and-pony show mattered at all, it didn’t. 30 governments began huffing into paper bags when Libra was announced. The reason for this is simple; without currency manipulation, those 30 government organizations will not exist. …