[☕️ C&C NEWS ☙ Thursday, November 17, 2022 ☙ STRESS INDUCED 🦠 A giant roundup: election news; the House officially goes red; guess who's on the FTX donor list; the Times is behind the times; bad narrative news shifts for Ukraine; more $$ for Ukraine; and more. Jeff Childers]
...🔥 OpenSecrets.org has published the list of recipients of FTX.COM’s political donations. Here are the top ten:
There are many, many more; again, this is just the top ten. Seven of the top ten were democrat PACs or groups. Three were conservative — but at this point I would suggest a degree of healthy skepticism toward all ‘conservative’ organizations that FTX thought could use some money.
For example, the top “conservative” organization which got $15 million from FTX, American Dream Federal Action, has a super sketchy website that includes “pandemic preparedness” and “biosecurity solutions” as top goals. And it doesn’t seem be actually, well, DOING anything.
So it’s worrisome that the second two largest conservative recipients of FTX’s stolen money were the Republican Congressional Leadership Fund and the Republican Senate Leadership Fund, at $3 million and $2.75 million each. They clocked in at slots six and seven in the top ten.
So, first of all, don’t expect a rigorous investigation of FTX anytime soon. Corporate media is still describing meth-addicted hedonist Sam Bankman-Fried as a delicate, altruistic genius who was ground to hamburger in the devilishly-unregulated crypto market. Never mind about all those trusting folks who credulously handed Sam their money. After all, he MEANT well, which is all that matters.
In what may turn out to be the most hilariously ironic self-own of all time, FTX ran a series of commercials featuring Larry David ‘irrationally’ acting skeptical of FTX’s promises of safety and security.
He’s never wrong!
🔥 “One of these things is just like the others…” You can’t make this stuff up. The Gray Lady, the New York Times, the paper that reports “all the news fit to print,” planned a swanky $2,400-a-plate dinner with four political-celebrity speakers.
A new C&C contest is on! What do all four of these speakers have in common? Put your answers in the comments.
Given the conflicting messaging about FTX, the Times is paralyzed, unable to decide what to do about its lineup. Bankman-Fried remains, right up this morning, first in line on the VIP speaker’s list for the event.
Somebody at the CIA needs to give the Times its new marching orders, because this just looks ridiculous. Nobody even knows where Bankman-Fried is, and if you think he’s coming back to the U.S. to give a talk in two weeks, you’re crazy.
🚀 Uh-oh. More bad news for Ukraine. I smell a narrative shift in the wind. Check out this next headline, reproduced in the original, telegraphing some media psyop sleight-of-hand happening here. Keep your eye on the shell with the pea under it.
That headline came courtesy of the UK Telegraph, which itself was based on a Reuters article widely republished all over corporate media. According to the article, General Milley said, “The probability of a Ukrainian military victory - defined as kicking the Russians out of all of Ukraine to include what they claim as Crimea - the probability of that happening anytime soon is not high, militarily.”
Ouch.
Milley just told the world the Ukrainians aren’t going to win the war on the ground and may not even get their land back. Sure, he said not “anytime soon,” but what he meant was, “unless something big changes.” And Milley doesn’t know what that big thing could be, or he’d have mentioned it.
It’s a funny old world, isn’t it? Because corporate media (and hopeful Ukraine supporters) have been PROMISING for MONTHS AND MONTHS that Ukraine is poised on the very verge of victory, just about — any second now — to give the Russians the special Ukrainian treatment and teach them a lesson they won’t soon forget.
So, who’s lying? Corporate media? Zelensky? Ukraine’s Twitter bots? Or the U.S.’s top general? Or all of them?
Anyway. I’m wondering whether this well-timed narrative shift might have anything to do with the fact that the FTX Laundry Corporation has shut down all its Ukrainian washing machines? I’m just asking. Don’t cancel me. https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/c-and-c-news-thursday-november-17
[☕️ C&C NEWS ☙ Friday, November 18, 2022 ☙ VITAL STATISTICS 🦠 Boebert is back; House Republicans commence investigations; Hawley roasts Wray; Kari won't concede; another Soros DA under fire; the missile came from Ukraine; bad news for babies in Oz; & much more. Jeff Childers]
...🔥 There’s too much FTX news for today’s roundup, so I’ll do that tomorrow. But the government is ON TOP of things. They’ve created a committee to figure out what happened, and you know they mean business, because the new committee will be chaired by intellectual lightweight Maxine Waters.
