“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
A very special thank you goes out to our very own pgroup for alerting me – somewhat accidentally – to this “keystone” article showing that FAKE SCIENCE is gonna have a hell of a time keeping its own “woo-woo patrol” on the reservation.
Yeah. And CRAZY WOLF could not be happier! *wink*
Here was the accidental “tip”:
AND HERE’S THE DOWNLOW on PENCILNECK from SCIENCE AS ENTERTAINMENT:
In case you don’t get the joke about the “sport model”, please check out this video which I must now be shilling for the millionth time, but WHAT THE HECK IT JUST GETS BETTER!
As I told pgroup, the best part of this one is that I don’t have ANYTHING PERSONAL TO ADD. Nope. The SPORT MODEL is OUT OF THE BARN.
Just as an aside, to show you how I’m thinking on this, I realize that Bob Lazar could be complete disinformation under MK, which – as we know from “Two-Door Ford” and her BFF Monica McLean, can even be used to pass polygraph tests with flying colors. However, one of the things that really impresses me here, is that Lazar’s discussion of “sport model” flight dynamics and the engineering of it MATCHES the DoD released video on flight control of the filmed craft completely and in fine detail. Watch closely – Bob’s taking note of the remarkable congruence between his testimony and the video, accompanied with an obvious sense of pure science joy, does NOT strike me as deception – more so given that the DoD would be deceiving us as well with the video release, which I find interesting but unlikely.
Nope. I think we’ve got a live one, and DoD showed us THAT CLIP very intentionally.
This cheerfully and purposefully reposted WWG1WGA SUNDAY
open thread is VERY OPEN – a place for everybody
to post whatever they feel they would like
to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA world.
Say what you want, comment on what other people said,
comment on people’s comments.
Keep it civil. Treehouse rules, but expect lots of QAnon.
Remember – your greatest gift to President Trump is FIVE WORDS: I AM PRAYING FOR YOU
“Two are better than one because they have a more satisfying return for their labor; for if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and does not have another to lift him up.
Again, if two lie down together, then they keep warm; but how can one be warm alone? And though one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.”
The wisdom teacher of Ecclesiastes illustrates the power of companionship in life. The Q Tree has provided much needed support for those of us engaging with a rapidly changing political/economic/social landscape. And for this we are grateful.
Think*3
I am fully confident that you all will keep this Sunday Open lively with discussion while I am away from my computer. I look forward to reading and catching up now that I have returned. God bless. Think*3
I wanted to do this for a while, but kept forgetting or putting it off. No more.
This is a collection of small but powerful ideas – maybe the source of future posts – maybe not.
Some are “waking-up realizations”. Others are “shower ideas”. Still others are “hold that thought” moments where I feel a great post coming, but can’t do it right now.
Others may simply have other purposes. But they’re all GOOD purposes.
Even the howlers!
Even the howlers!
The point is, they are HERE, in a handy collection, listed in the sidebar.
SO – enjoy some tasty wolf bytes, starting not with the FIRST, but with the first that motivated me to do something about them. I will try to recover the earlier ones and add them later.
They’re not exactly poetic, and a bit more like tweet philosophy, but they are sufficiently important that they merit NOT being on Twitter, subject to FAKE NORMAL.
They may actually appear meaningless, misleading, wrong or insane at the moment.
That is the part that makes WOLF smile. Figure it out. And ENJOY!
The DOWNSTREAM LOGIC of a WOLF BYTE is the BEST PART.
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Planetary exclusion was a brilliant choice, but it’s a double-edged sword.
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(Reply to tweet by Dr. Danielle.)
Once I realized that (1) debunking bias is as much a problem as confirmation bias, and (2) that only a working fusion of SKEPTICISM and PROOF-BUILDING creates actual advancement, then (3) it became clear that those who only see confirmation bias enable a WAGON-CIRCLING AGENDA.
This Fortress Q Tree Saturday Open Thread is VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA-KMAG-KAG world.
Come on up and find a comfy spot:
Free Speech is practiced here at the Q Tree. But please keep it civil.
Discussion of Q is not only allowed but encouraged. Imagine that! We can talk about Q here and not get banned.
Please also consider the Important Guidelines, outlined here in the January 1st open thread. Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.
Our greatest gift to President Trump is FIVE WORDS:
WE ARE PRAYING FOR YOU.
Wheatie’s Rules:
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
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For your listening enjoyment, I offer this composition from Daniel James of Epic Score, titled ‘Liberators’:
Visual descriptions for our dear Zoe, and for anyone else who may find them helpful: Header Image: Is an enormous Tree, fortified with an exo-structure around it’s massive trunk. The structures appear to have multiple stories, running up the expanse of the Tree. Flocks of large white birds are flying around the tree. The blue sky is filled with dense white clouds that give the hint of rain coming. In the distance are a couple of other large trees with similar exo-structures. Second Image: Is a stone path leading up to a door set into an archway. There is an ornate frame around the door, with single pillars on either side and a keystone arch above it. The door has an intricate carved pattern of circular medallions. Dense vegetation surrounds the doorway, including some rambling canes of climbing rose bushes sporting bright red blooms. Third Image: Is a deck overlooking a panoramic view of mountains and a valley. There is a wrought-iron table with a lattice patterned top and a large umbrella providing cover over it. Wrought-iron chairs with scroll patterned backs, surround the table. Nearby is a smaller wrought-iron table and chairs. Fourth Image: Is President Trump, facing down a gaggle of press curs. It is outside the White House, where they have been roped into a small area to contain them and keep them from shitting on the lawn. Fifth Image: Is Attorney General Barr, sitting at a Congressional hearing, with his hot body guard behind him. General Barr looks like he is fed up with the congress weasels. Hot body guard is sitting there looking hot, while scanning the room for any threats.
Caption under image says: C’mon General Barr, it’s time for some indictments. Pretty please. We’ve been good.
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C’mon General Barr, it’s time for some indictments. Pretty please…we’ve been good.
The Moon’s distance from Earth varies, but it it generally WITHIN a quarter of a million miles.
Here is the “technical stuff” behind “quarter million”. And one of the best pictorial demonstrations I have yet seen, of why “super moon” is actually a thing.
Lunar distance (LD or {\textstyle \Delta _{\oplus L}}), also called Earth–Moon distance, Earth–Moon characteristic distance, or distance to the Moon, is a unit of measure in astronomy. It is the average distance from the center of Earth to the center of the Moon. More technically, it is the mean semi-major axis of the geocentric lunar orbit. It may also refer to the time-averaged distance between the centers of the Earth and the Moon, or less commonly, the instantaneous Earth–Moon distance. The lunar distance is approximately 400 thousand kilometres (250 thousand miles).[1]
The mean semi-major axis has a value of 384,402 km (238,856 mi).[2] The time-averaged distance between Earth and Moon centers is 385,000.6 km (239,228.3 mi). The actual distance varies over the course of the orbit of the Moon, from 356,500 km (221,500 mi) at the perigee to 406,700 km (252,700 mi) at apogee, resulting in a differential range of 50,200 km (31,200 mi).[3]
Lunar distance is commonly used to express the distance to near-Earth object encounters.[4] Lunar distance is also an important astronomical datum; the precision of this measurement to a few parts in a trillion has useful implications for testing gravitational theories such as general relativity,[5] and for refining other astronomical values such as Earth mass,[6]Earth radius,[7] and Earth’s rotation.[8] The measurement is also useful in characterizing the lunar radius, the mass of the Sun and the distance to the Sun.
Millimeter-precision measurements of the lunar distance are made by measuring the time taken for light to travel between LIDAR stations on the Earth and retroreflectors placed on the Moon. The Moon is spiraling away from the Earth at an average rate of 3.8 cm (1.5 in) per year, as detected by the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment.[9][10][11] By coincidence, the diameter of corner cubes in retroreflectors on the Moon is also 3.8 cm.[12][13]
We’ve come a long ways. We’re still kind of a mom-and-pop operation, but great things happen here.
Hmmmm. Where have I heard THAT before? *wink*
It is a genuine pleasure to spend time with you all here, helping to not only Make America Great Again, and to KEEP Making America Great, but also – very importantly – to Keep America Great! That will be the task of patriots long after we go to those balcony seats for the best view in the house. So let’s keep on making THEIR job as easy as we can.
We watch China more closely since Donald Trump was elected President. Don’t think China, Inc., only includes the Chinese, because it also includes Americans with a penchant for avarice. Every day we learn more about how much America has been abused. It makes us angry. Please, don’t look away. We need full disclosure to even attempt putting our Humpty Dumpty country back together again. Giving up, surrender, it is not an option. We MUST clean up the mess.
I implore you to read the following. I’ve never written anything more important. It’s the biggest problem in our country. Someone like AOC comes on the scene, and yesterday she demanded action on student loan debt. Well, the entire budget for the Dept of Education is about 61 billion dollars (including student loans). The problem with China is about 500 billion in trade imbalance (which gives China the USD needed to purchase raw materials in an open market they desperately need to import), 200-500 billion in annual intel theft, about 40K dead Americans every year from fentanyl, ……… and today, hundreds of billions in outright fraud. If we fix the China problem, Student Loan Debt becomes easy.
Now, we understand why Candidate and now President Trump has been screaming about China.
We have to understand how China’s fraud has grown and become galactic. We need to know how and why Americans assisted in the corruption. We need to stop China.
We may have to do several articles on this because it’s more complicated than we ever imagined and it’s impossible to land in the middle of the storm without reference. Let’s start small and quickly work our way up. Stay with me, please.
Background – A Frame of Reference
Site Visits to Publicly Traded Companies Are Necessary for Confirmation of Representations Made by the Company.Investors must have accurate information.
A publicly traded company creates a series of financial statements to give investors a picture of where they stand. The financial statements are then audited by an accounting firm. These representations are published in a “prospectus” (which no one reads except people like me), kind of like a brochure, on thin paper, with small words, bad fonts, and lots of footnotes. It’s the duty of the brokerage firm or investment banking firm bringing a company public in an IPO to check the company’s representations with site visits or forensic accounting.
Months ago, I wrote a story about a progression of parties at the B&B where the staff, miraculously, over-performed. Laying in bed on Monday morning, my best corporate client demanded my presence, asap. Turned out, he expected reps from brokerage houses which owned about 40-50% of the company’s outstanding stock – the next day. The following day, they expected bond daddies from all over the world who held about 60% of the corporate “paper” or debt. My dear friend, the plant manager, had no idea how important the site visit was. As a former partner in a brokerage firm, trained to inspect property, plant, and equipment…. as well as the financials…… I knew was a big deal. It was a “do or die” two days, which would affect stock price, my friends, and the entire company. So, you have a personal anecdote, a visual, of lots of people running around, clipping trees, making pretty food, dressed in their Sunday best, trying to make a good impression, with ALL lights on and ALL equipment working. THAT’s a site visit.
American Investors Understand the Importance of Due Diligence and GAAP
SEC filings in the USA are serious, and if you misrepresent earnings or commit fraud, your executives end up on CNBC, or in front of a Congressional Committee, or they may land in jail. It’s serious in the USA.
It’s NOT so serious in other countries. The USA, for decades, was the most reliable country in which to do business, less than a 5% corruption expense (yes, we really do have studies for such things). Doing business in South America, I was shocked by my own naivety and our American innocence about the rest of the world and how they operate. The ever-present corruption in South America/Central America/Caribbean was calculated about 30% of expenses. Middlemen had to have their palms greased along the way. Shady payments and odd bank loans were commonplace. We have no grasp of how lucky we are in the USA, how reliable our banking and legal systems are, and how much it helps our GDP.
The Ethics Have Changed Within the USA
Way back when, if a broker advised clients to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into a company, they damn well knew whether or not the company was “as represented”. Any whiff of irregularity was a problem. The ethics of a new generation are not necessarily the same. I was trained in the 1980’s and our local site visit was in the mid-90’s before internet bubble, the Twin Towers coming down, Enron, and the Great Crash of ’08. In the OLDEN DAYS, we all followed the same rules.
Doing Business In Another Country – Expectations vs. Reality
Cashed out of the firm, married and a mom, living in obscurity in rural Mississippi, the world of portfolios and long-term airport parking was far away….. until I met Big T and we decided to build a pool. The tile was too expensive and I decided to become an importer to save money. The company took off from there. I’ve written many stories about importing, but there’s another part which is critical to understanding this whole spiderweb of a story and today’s monumental topic.
More than anything else,it’s about Judeo-Christian ethics in the USA versus ethics in other countries. We expect others to do business as we do, act honorably to develop MORE business, but they don’t. A quick profit is too tempting and the culture consistently promotes cheating on a first order…… because there is a never-ending stream of gullible Americans. Ya’ gotta check what you buy and babysit the order.
Big T and I intended to open a stone yard… just like many others did in the mid-2000’s. You’ve probably seen such businesses, granite and marble slabs, plumbing supplies, kitchen sinks, etc. Yet, mistakes within the first container made me see a problem in the supply chain which no one else was addressing. I ordered stone and might as well have received bikini tops and BIC razors. After a 30K loss, I was mad. Told my sad story to other stone yard owners, and they grimaced and nodded. We spent time commiserating about our similar problems. I decided “reliability” would be my focus. Somehow, I needed to FIX the trustworthiness problem and my clients could become my stone yard friends. If we couldn’t order with certainty, then none of us were safe.
Previously, other stone companies would send someone all the way to China/India/Brazil to approve the material for a container. They often bragged about Mr. XYZ who traveled the world in search of their perfect stone. Truth was, no one can be in all places at one time. It was inefficient. I loved to travel but had the B&B and Gunner was little. Taking off for 4 days to China was not an option and added $5K in expenses to the cost of each order. Plus, Chinese companies were incredibly sneaky about hiding problems while I was standing there. Broad Daylight! I also noticed my American competition would arrive to China, expecting a completed order, and the material was not as advertised, wasting more time, fighting over money/material at the last minute, and the American always lost. What to do?
Solving the Trustworthiness Problem of Overseas Orders
I decided to hire people overseas, fluent in their own language, well educated, well respected men in their communities, ……… and men with specific knowledge about the material I was buying. All of these men spent decades in the business and forgot more than I would ever know. They became my eyes and ears on the ground, and I valued their opinions and judgement dearly.
What I did, innocently, was send my trusted men into places to inspect materials before processing, to oversee the production process, supervise the loading and check for quality, BEFORE shipping. In other words, our guys were inspecting property, plant, and equipment + finished goods, insuring a smooth delivery. No one else in our industry offered a similar service. It worked. The reason I did it was because of past experience in the finance industry – which has nothing at all to do with stone. Pure happenstance. Gotta check before you buy.
Summary for Background: We understand doing business in foreign countries is tough because their culture does not do business as we do in the USA. We have a problem with ethics in the USA, Club Med prison sentences, and no serious repercussions. We understand Investment Banks who represent IPO’s, or brokerage houses, are supposed to do their due diligence to check property, plant, and equipment, and the SEC is supposed to guarantee GAAP procedures and investigate irregularities in corporate representations or a filed prospectus. Yet, …………………..
That’s not what happened on Wall Street with Chinese companies.
What happened in the USA between 2006 until today is economic warfare, pure and simple. It was intentional with malice aforethought. Americans were complicit because of their laziness and greed. Almost no due diligence has been done on Chinese companies which are publicly listed on the NYSE, and the financials are hidden from our SEC, or are easily faked by Chinese auditors who bought a franchise in Deloitte/Price Waterhouse, etc. Billions and billions of dollars has been bilked from US investors. The fraud and corruption are like nothing we’ve ever seen.
This story is the biggest worldwide financial crime of the last 25 years, and almost no one is listening.
“Dan” was a broker selling securities for publicly traded Chinese companies on the NYSE when he got wind of the fraud. Dan got mad, began to investigate, and turned into a short seller, investigating what he thought were fraudulent Chinese companies, and taking them down. Dan tried to get the attention of Senator Toomey, the SEC, Congress, and the media. No one wanted to burst the China bubble. Dan stars in a movie made about the story, “The China Hustle”, in 2018. Here’s the movie trailer….. hold onto your seat.
The movie/documentary is riveting (no wonder they made a movie about it) and about an hour and a half long. Here’s the summary for those who don’t have time: Grab a cup of coffee and a chair. You won’t believe what you’re about to read…………
Here we go:
Roth Capital was a small investment banking company on the west coast. They held terrific “investor conferences” with big name entertainment like Billy Idol, Sting.
Rodman and Renshaw was on the East Coast and a little more highbrow. General Wesley Clark, former NATO Commander, and Presidential Candidate was their CEO. He brought in speakers like former Presidents Bush and Clinton + Colin Powell. All in all Rodman and Renshaw = 40 companies brought to market = 31 billion USD. Assets are either gone, or almost worthless. As companies were exposed, their stock prices tanked and the Chinese company was delisted from the NYSE.
How did they do it? ………. it was easy.
After 2008 crash, everyone was looking for a way to recover, quickly. The USA and EU were dead but China’s economy was growing like a rocketship (allegedly). American Wall St types wanted an invitation to the party, but they couldn’t invest in China Companies on the NYSE……… until Roth Capital figured a way in via the back door.
Roth looked for older and inactive companies, like a mining company, mostly in Nevada, which still was a publicly traded company with NYSE listing (had a ticker symbol). Then, they did a “reverse merger” with a Chinese company, didn’t matter if the sectors were different, and the new company emerged with a new name, maybe with the old ticker symbol or a maybe a new ticker symbol.
Between 2006-2012, 400 Chinese companies were listed on NYSE Stock, and about 80% were reverse mergers. Normally, for a US company, SEC filings are complex and watched closely. Audits and reporting are constant. Therefore, the US investor has confidence in the “prospectus” (balance sheets accounting GAAP representations) of a particular company. But the greed was HUGE and companies were audited by Deloitte/Coopers Lybrand/Price Waterhouse…… in China, which is nothing more than a franchise. From 2009-2010, most reverse merger companies rose 300-400% in value. Everyone wanted in the game….. the champagne flowed…… just don’t be looking for a chair when the music stops.
Everything was fine until an older stockbroker asked his son, who was working in China, to check out a particular company called Orient Paper, Inc. Dad was old school, gotta check it out before you buy…… that’s how we were trained. Dad was doing his due diligence. Well, what the son, Carson Block, learned was extraordinary. It was a paper company, but there was water everywhere in the factory. Half the equipment was broken, and there was no way in hell they were doing 100 million USD/year. The company listed 5 million in inventory on the books, which amounted to a rotting pile of cardboard, outside in the rain. Carson called his dad, asap. Carson also decided to write up a report about his findings and short the stock. Next morning, down 25%, by afternoon, down 55%. The company was a fraud.
Carson’s discovery was the very first ripple or WHIFF of irregularity. Of course, powerful people were angry and sent lawyers, guns, and money……. literally. Roth Capital sent lawyer Nussbaum from Loeb and Loeb, the super-lawyers, to smear young Carson. Yet, Carson was correct. The interview with Nussbaum, years later…….. is…. amazing=no due diligence, the auditor, a rented Deloitte shop “reviewed” docs from the management team and rubber stamped them. No one had any culpability for the false statements on balance sheets. No way to seek restitution against a Chinese company …. and the salesmen had to face the investors with bad news.
Dan was the founder of a little firm in Skippack, Pennsylvania. Dan was at an investor conference for Rodman and Renshaw on the east coast when the report about Orient Paper broke. He was stunned and went back home to discuss with his other partners. One partner sold 21 million dollars worth of shares in Orient Paper and he was furious, “Not As Represented”. He went on an African safari to think about it, came home, and decided to fight back. They became curious about the companies they were selling. They decided to go to China and check on China Green Agriculture. Rumor had it, Nestle was thinking of buying the company, and they were looking to cash in.
China Green Agriculture managed to do 100 million in revenue on paper…. but only had one truck driver. They videotaped the company for about a year and sent in a guy posing as a tea salesmen giving away samples of Chinese tea to figure out how many employees were there. The company was a fraud. Crocker Coulson was the guy on Wall St who pushed companies like China Green Ag., who claimed years later, paraphrasing, “We did a lot of effort/research to flag inconsistencies…. but there was no way to know what was happening”.
These Wall St firms did no background, because one visit was all they would have needed. 113 Million USD ~ Poof! Gone. Dan at Skippack went to the bigger investment banking firm and told them the problem, showed them his year-long research, on a pitch for the investment firms to HIRE him to do the due diligence…. but they threw him out and told him to keep quiet….. which turned Dan into a short seller and an activist to take fraudulent companies DOWN.
Dan and the others were convinced they were onto something bigger. He began to investigate company after company. The “filings” in China were mostly accurate, but enormously inflated earnings were represented in the USA. Dan couldn’t find Chinese auditors who were honest, because, as Dan said, “We can’t find auditors in China that will help us, because let me tell you something, if we do…..find those people…….. the government of China will kill ’em. I mean, they will take their ass out and shoot them in the fucking head.”
Is that who you want to buy Nike T-Shirts and Northface gear from? No, we’re definitely NOT in Kansas anymore.
Word got out and they began to unwind a spider web of deception, purposely funded and promoted by the Chinese government, assisted by Chinese police and bureaucrats. The scale of fraud was enormous and surprised the “smartest people in the room” on Wall Street. Somewhere between 20-50 BILLION dollars from USA investors, for companies that could be worthless. Mom and pop investors, mutual funds specializing in “emerging markets” became victims, even the pension fund of the NYTimes represented by VANGUARD was in on the deal.
Remember what I said at the top about brokers, old school fund managers being trained to inspect property, plant, and equipment? Well, we’re also trained to to look at patterns across multiple pieces of informations to spot trends. For instance, I can look at a couple’s checkbook and almost immediately spot a cheating spouse, and identify within a week, when they started the affair. Their patterns change. MANY short sellers, who are highly trained in forensic accounting can spot a pattern. Today, they look at companies to compare data across a wide spectrum to uncover problems. In this way, the short sellers become the champions of the fraud busters. They become another investigative arm – motivated by incredible profits.
The fraud was simple and could not be perpetrated without a blessing from Chinese bureaucrats, the CCP. A Chinese factory, a CEO who was willing to lie (who would never go to jail in China if caught and who could never be extradited to the USA for crimes), an auditor who was compliant, pre-packaged Chinese legal, and a compliant US investment bank who happened to find an old company in the USA who was still public, but inactive….. and the reverse merger was set.
Another canary in the coalmine began obscure postings on Yahoo chat boards under the name Alfred Little, very similar to the modern day QAnon. He turned out to be one of the few short seller “activists” left in China. He went after Silvercorp with a Chinese national “source”, who was eventually imprisoned and made Chinese Christmas lights for two years……… from prison. Silvercorp called local Chinese constabulary for assistance. Jon Karnes (the real Alfred Little), tried to get help from OUR Securities and Exchange Commission but the SEC bureaucrat in charge told him, “Our phones can’t even dial China.”
Carnes joined Dan, and surfer dude who understood the machinations of the fraud. They decided to keep going, unraveling Chinese companies, along with Carson Block the son of the stockbroker. Dan went as far as hiring a lobbyist and taking the information to Congress – so they would ACT and help Americans. He tried to speak at Congressional hearings, but was rebuffed. Now, hundreds of billions in fraud on Americans, and no one was listening.
As of this movie in 2018, the SEC only busted 1-2 of these companies. All the Chinese CEO’s got away with the money. Only one Taiwanese CEO went to jail in the USA. The little band of misfit short sellers, had taken down about 40-50 companies. Hundreds of companies were delisted as worthless stocks. Yet, over 100 Chinese companies remain, a little bit cleaner, with a market cap of over 1.1 TRILLION dollars, no way to verify if the accounting is real, and no way to investigate or sue them for wrongdoing. Heads or tails, the Chinese win.
The SEC, on this issue, was a farce and cannot protect USA investors. In China, it is not illegal to steal from a foreign company. The USA cannot compel a Chinese “Bernie Madoff” to come to the USA to testify. There’s no way to look at the real books of Chinese companies. If you go to China to meet with the bankers of Chinese companies, often, the bankers will change the books for the Chinese company.
Frustration grew. No one would listen, not Congress, the SEC, his Senator, not the Chinese authorities (who helped the crooked companies). So….. in real robber baron fashion, our misfits decided to steal their money back. Take…. from the thieves. First target was Tech Pro, a 2 billion dollar company. Dan flew to Hong Kong, gave a presentation to analysts on his research about Tech Pro, and drove the stock down 93.66% in two weeks.
Did Dan make money shorting the companies he investigated? Bet your a$$ he did. BUT he also outed the rats. And there are, still, so many rats. In fact, they call it Cockroach Theory. Kill one, but who knows what’s behind the walls?
Public pensions and retirement funds lost an estimated 14 billion…. but the real number is much higher. These folks were lucky to grab a chair when the music stopped. That 14 Billion alone makes China the biggest financial crime of the last 25yrs. There is no way to tell how many private investors were hit, but their stories are heartbreaking.
As Carson Block explains, “China is fundamentally a broken or a f$cked up system. The people who get to the top, get to the top by breaking rules. The little people who want to play by the rules get pushed to the bottom.” As explained earlier, there really is no legal system of any merit in China. A bad guy can always buy his way out of a problem. With no rules or repercussions, of course, our guys on Wall St would do the same thing.
It’s also why the reliability of the legal system in the USA is sooooooooooo important, and why our push for culpability with FBI/DOJ/CIA/State Dept is necessary. If we don’t fix it, and restore order, we become China.
It’s not just these 400 companies either, and this 50 billion (estimated) dollars, we know there is so much more fraud in China.
The credit buildup in China is nothing like we’ve ever seen before, their crash will hit everything. Over 40 Trillion in printed Yuan has been added to the system since 2008 (subject for another article).
Take for example, Alibaba. I joined Alibaba in 2004 as a member. When they went public on the NYSE, my jaw hit the floor. Why were they allowed to trade on the NYSE? In 2016, the SEC started an investigation into Alibaba’s accounting practices……. and Jack Ma is gone from the board….allegedly signed over all his interest and shares…. and not in jail. (Jack Ma’s downfall is the subject of another article)
Today, Roth Capital still has investor conferences with big name entertainment. Rodman and Renshaw were fined and lost their license, but emerged under a new name. The game continues. Remember, over 100 Chinese firms trade on the NYSE, with a market cap over 1.1 TRILLION dollars.
Concerning sidenote: —– Jay Clayton, a lawyer who worked on Alibaba’s IPO, was appointed as head of the SEC by President Trump. It’s interesting how a few guys brought this scandal to the surface. When President Trump started talking about China, it all started to come out. And we sure would like to dig into those 400 companies, most of which were based in Nevada, to find any possible connections to Harry Reid.
And look at Retired General Wesley Clark at the end of this movie. He’s shamed in this movie, barely “able to walk the streets” for his involvement. Yet, he still sits on the boards of 18 publicly held companies.
Here’s the whole movie, The China Hustle, with Spanish subtitles, but the movie is in English. Have fun!
Happy Friday! Are we ready for a weekend? Settle into the Q Treehouse and let’s catch up. Let’s see what our buddies are doing down the street and across the world. Yes, it is Friday the 13th, but bad karma can’t touch us. In fact, this Friday afternoon would be a lovely time for a big info drop from the OIG, especially since it’s the 13th.
We welcome you to the Q Tree, WQTH! Here, you can say what you want, comment on what other people said, and so on. Free Speech is practiced here. ENJOY IT. Use it or lose it. Please, keep it SOMEWHAT civil because most of the people here are our friends. They tried to FORCE fake Orwellian civility on us. In response, we CHOOSE true civility to defend our precious FREEDOM from THEM.
Please also consider the Important Guidelines, outlined here in the January 1st open thread. Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven.
You may have noticed the sun has shifted and the days are getting shorter. Time to get out of our Treehouse for a while and still enjoy the outdoors while we prepare for winter. When we were little, we could watch a caterpillar for hours…….. and in the grand scheme of life, probably more important than our latest text message. Yet, it’s mid-September and time to take that last dip in the lake…….
…… before we stock the pantry, recaulk the exterior doors, and clean gutters. Don’t forget to clean out the birdhouses and bird baths for winter. Might be nice to make a little treehouse, a smaller version of our own, for our fine feathered friends.
Never let the music die, and look for the music in the most unexpected places.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv_Mbssc86s
As we discuss topics of the day, never forget Wheatie’s Rules.
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Our rules began with the civility of the Old Treehouse, later to become the Wolverinian Empire, and one might say that we have RESTORED THE OLD REPUBLIC – the early high-interaction model of the Treehouse – except of course that Q discussion is not only allowed but encouraged, and speech is considerably freer in other ways. Please feel free to argue and disagree with the board owner, as nicely as possible.
SPEAK THE FIVE WORDS BOLDLY TO OUR PRESIDENT, “I AM PRAYING FOR YOU!“
When you’re finished with chores and taken a walk in the forest, come on back to the Q Treehouse. We’ll still be here.
I am in BOOK MODE right now – something that doesn’t always happen. There is a reason.
The GREAT AWAKENING is coming, and I’m trying to GET THERE as an EARLY ADOPTER. I have made HUGE strides of late, thanks to THESE FIVE BOOKS. Only TWO of which I’ve actually READ.
Yup. That’s right. Just the SHOCKER TEASE REVIEWS of two of them, and prior information about the third – as well as personal experiences which MESH WITH THEM ALL – tell me that THESE ARE BIG.
And while I’m likely getting a bit ahead of Q – maybe on an ongoing basis – I hope to drag a few INDIAN SCOUTS with me, into that DANGEROUS TERRITORY. I may end up lost in the “60% that won’t be revealed”, but who knows – I already have so much unfortunate knowledge in that segment, that I’m already there, so to speak.
So all that being said, let me repeat more explicitly.
I believe that it is possible to see the Dawn’s Early Light ahead of us RIGHT NOW – maybe even HIGH NOON – and these FIVE BOOKS together are the LENS through which I can see it coming.
I am going to introduce these five books in roughly the order of my becoming aware of their subjects and importance, and in each case explain the book, the author, the subject, and HOW the subject is going to IMPACT THE FUTURE.
We begin with a book which is not yet published. You can, however, pre-order it NOW.
1st: Dreamland: An Autobiography by Bob Lazar
I have to thank Harry Lime for not just alerting me to this book, but turning me on to Bob Lazar. While Bob’s YOUNGER face seems somehow familiar to me, possibly from television, I don’t think I ever paid SERIOUS attention to him until Harry posted THIS VIDEO by body language analyst Derek Van Schaik:
This video absolutely stunned me. Not because of the “way out” stuff – but because of the SCIENCE.
As Bob talked about Element 115 – an isotope of which is supposedly used to power alien spacecraft – I suddenly realized that Bob and his Area 51 colleagues were likely WORKING with some of the THEORIES I once believed were MISSING from public science, back when I was a young scientist. And beyond THAT, an exo angle would sure explain how the CIA would have gotten involved with my utterly domestic case, which would explain how I got sucked into an ABUSE of MK ULTRA technology, and….
OK – that’s a bit of a side issue – let’s just wait until we get to BOOK FOUR for that discussion.
The main point is, what we have here in Bob Lazar is a kind of “limited leak” – not an authorized disclosure. He’s not even really a whistleblower, in my opinion. In fact, what he did is a bit like what Jim Comey did – a “defensive leak” – except I actually BELIEVE Bob Lazar.
And by the way – I think that Bob was probably SMART to leak enough to make killing him not worth it. Again, more on THAT when we get to BOOK FOUR.
IF what Bob is saying is true – and he has ENORMOUS credibility with me for scientific reasons – then it changes the nature of what is happening right now in an EXTREME but also very SATISFYING and LOGICAL way.
I had suspected, both by the NATURE of what “the Swamp” has been trying to do, and by various dead ends in my political analysis – that there has been a big, invisible element that drives much of the current political turmoil. That element – IMO – is most likely EXO.
Bob Lazar not only confirms this – he fills in much of the details, and connects many of the dots.
Watch the video. It will answer all your questions – and raise ten times as many MORE.
And because of Bob, while looking for more information about him, I picked up a DIFFERENT book, which I thought might have more “reality-based EXO information”.
Tighten your seatbelts and grab the rails. We are accelerating in ALL DIMENSIONS.
2nd: The Day After Roswell by Col. Philip J. Corso
This is an old book (1997), and yet it reads like it was written and published yesterday.
This book covers what I now regard as a limited 50-year disclosure of Roswell by somebody who was involved with “farming out” technology from one or more crashed alien spacecrafts. The fact that Col. Phil Corso was clearly a very loyal and patriotic soldier, and the timing of his highly circumscribed “whistleblowing”, lead me to believe that he had an “orphaned” standing order – likely presidential or from his boss, General Trudeau – to make a limited disclosure of his own role at the 50 year anniversary of Roswell, absent a fuller disclosure already having been made.
His thusly presumed order was presumably carried out, and it certainly helped ME to see see the world more clearly.
“Be sure you’re right, then go ahead.”
Davy Crockett
Read the book. You’ll understand.
Col. Corso handled the ASSIGNMENT of reverse engineering tasks for a variety of technological artifacts recovered from the Roswell spacecraft – as well as pursuing OTHER technologies NOT found, but IMPLIED by the findings of the craft.
The INTERSECTION of these technologies with our own, similar, technologies – which seem to have developed in perfect timing from them – is just too remarkable and correct to be anything but serious reality. Consider this one more shoulder-bump disproof of both the fake news media and its accessory before the fact – the “fictionalizing”, “normalizing”, and “alibi-creating” fake entertainment.
Corso gives a good and very SELECTIVE general recollection of what HE HEARD about the Roswell crash, over the years, in his professional life, as well as what HE himself saw in the shipment of artifacts from the crash which was housed at his fort. Corso is obvious a really good WITNESS – observant, careful, self-understanding, and self-critical – but not too much.
One of the best parts, however, is the degree of political insight Corso shows. Col. Corso had a clear window into not only the real politics of America, where hidden communists and dupes figure prominently, but also into what is often called exo-politics. Not so much between “exos” or “EBEs” (aliens) themselves, but between aliens and humans, and between different nations, militaries, and agencies. Corso reveals very careful and limited knowledge, and THAT is why it is so valuable. When Corso speculates, which is very rare, he clearly labels it as such. Otherwise, he is quite good about sticking to what he actually KNOWS, or was told – all properly differentiated.
Every time I re-read ANY section of this book, I gain a deeper understanding of the past, the present, and the future. I could talk about this book all day, and at some point, I will. But before I do get into it deeply, I STRONGLY urge everybody to read this book. It, like the Bible, will bear RE-READING.
But now lets’ come back to earth, and look at a POLITICAL GUN MURDER – one which I believe is very subtly but DEEPLY connected to exo-politics – a connection which remains just a bit murky for the moment, but will likely be exposed in crystal clarity, sooner rather than later.
3rd: Why Meadow Died by Andrew Pollack (and Max Eden)
You will find no UFOs, communists, or mad scientists in this book – but you will STILL be shocked out of your gourd by this highly revealing work of citizen journalism.
And that is precisely why I can fit this piece of the puzzle so NEATLY into the bigger picture. There are QUESTIONS by the dozen, just WAITING for ANSWERS.
Andrew Pollack – aggrieved father of Parkland shooting victim Meadow Pollack – was able to put together all the evidence needed to prove a shocking and unsettling reality – that there were forces which ENABLED – with what seems like great intention – the Parkland shooter, Nikolas Cruz. People just did the WRONG THING – over, and over, and over. And your mind adds the following: as if they wanted an even BIGGER wrong thing to INTENTIONALLY HAPPEN.
Broward schools put this MONSTER in class with my beautiful daughter.
They knew exactly what he was. They gave him a gun.
PARENTS: Do you know what's really happening in your kid's school?
Andrew Pollack is and has been very smart. He never goes “over the line” in trying to speculate as to “why” people in Parkland did what they did to – quite literally – create the drama of #Parkland. Thus, everybody else is left to figure it out. This is the PERFECT WAY for a public researcher to interface with the issue, because it is utterly unassailable. Nobody can call him a “conspiracy theorist” because he puts no tag on the evidence – and yet – well – for any sane person looking at the bag of evidence he has collected, it’s very clear.
SOMEBODY wanted what happened, to ACTUALLY happen.
Here is another opinion of this book – a “tweet review” that should be heeded. Note that Brian Cates is likewise careful not to speculate openly on causes, despite his own remarkable ability to so speculate with broad accuracy and frequent precision. He doesn’t “go there”, even though we all know he could.
One of the most important books of the last several years has just launched.
— Brian Cates – Political Columnist & Pundit (@drawandstrike) September 10, 2019
I read this book several weeks ago. Before I did, I could see how Andrew was possibly exaggerating when he says "The Parkland school shooting was the most avoidable mass murder in American history".
I discovered much to my horror that Andrew **is not exaggerating** at all.
— Brian Cates – Political Columnist & Pundit (@drawandstrike) September 10, 2019
Parkland's school shooting **WAS** the most avoidable mass murder in American history.
It's no exaggeration to say that.
As you read the book you'll find yourself saying again & again "HOW in God's name did they let that go? Why didn't they DO SOMETHING??!!!"
— Brian Cates – Political Columnist & Pundit (@drawandstrike) September 10, 2019
Don’t you just LOVE the way Brian leaves those questions open?
We are DIVIDED in picking up any of the array of partially true, chaff answers to WHODUNIT and WHYDUNIT – chaff that we all suspect is laid out by the very people responsible.
We are UNITED in simply asking “WHAT THE FUCK? Why didn’t they close off every one of these obvious-as-hell “enabling” dysfunctions, instead of AFTER-THE-FACT asking America to disarm?”
You gettin’ me, brothers and sisters?
Are we 5:5 on this stuff?
Yeah. Pick up that sword that Q laid down for us – the one that says:
“The QUESTIONS slay them before the ANSWERS they want us to grasp at like straws on water.”
Now – I’m going to leave you with a VERY specific question.
If somebody wanted #Parkland to turn out the way that it did – to provide a sure thing and a fitting finale to ALL of those YEARS of extraordinary and curious enabling – who are the TWO PEOPLE whose irrational actions would need to be GUARANTEED?
And HOW would you guarantee them?
Oh, let me tell you – I’m the expert on this shit.
4th: Poisoner in Chief by Stephen Kinzer
This right here is the nuclear trigger for our NUCLEAR FUTURE VISION MACHINE.
Maybe even our NUCLEAR FUTURE FREEDOM MACHINE.
It has taken 72 years for the “night vision” windows of the Roswell spacecraft to appear in the iPhone 11. Something Col. Phil Corso did not live to see, but which I hope to discuss with him at some point.
It has also taken 72 years for the truth about human programmability to reach a point where we are faced with two choices – admit the truth, or suffer an endless series of social, political, historical and (IMO) extraterrestrial manipulations – supposedly in our own interest, but always in the interest of HIDDEN PARTIES more than WE THE PEOPLE.
Well, let’s just say the INDIANS found a CRATE OF GUNS and want a RED NEW DEAL.
Think of Wolf Moon as the universe’s spontaneously triggered antiviral programming, guarding against this garbage, and you will see the beauty of SMART DESIGN.
I am not going to tell you about ALL of the “people” who tried to fuck with me on this, because ultimately that part is unimportant, and all of their sins are forgiven before mine, anyway. In the context of too-hidden truths, people act on hidden orders and end up bumping into other people with hidden orders, or people downstream from them. People who act loyally on old orders, fight with people who act loyally on new orders. None of that is important now. What is important now is REVELATION.
You can be a part of it, or you can fight it. But as Q says….
NOTHING CAN STOP WHAT’S COMING.
So let’s begin.
I have only read TWO REVIEWS of this book, and I am already WAY AHEAD of everybody.
Why would that be? Probably because if there was ever a secret technology that was OVER-USED and then ABUSED, to the point that some guy like me would know about it, it would be “mind control” of various kinds. “Advanced mental science”, let us call it.
You cannot “un-invent” mind control, any more than you can uninvent programmable interfaces to computers. You can PRETEND that individual back-door programmability of computers doesn’t exist, but that is not possible if you actually want to CLEAN STUFF UP.
And there is no “Draining The Swamp” without “Cleaning Stuff Up”. Let’s just be clear about that part.
This book is ALREADY being spun – furiously – by NPR and GOOGLE and the usual CABAL JOKERS, to preserve the Swamp’s moneymaker fiction – part of FAKE HISTORY – that MK ULTRA was not fabulously successful.
Well, that’s news to me, having accidentally remembered an induction and part of a programming session, which enabled me to figure out – almost 40 years later – that Sidney Gottlieb was a WHOLE LOT more successful than he let on. He FOUND HIS HOLY GRAIL – and the system kept it a secret, while USING IT LIKE CRAZY. Including the doing of a lot of very bad stuff, albeit much of it having been done in the name of “good”.
Rather than wasting time HERE trying to convince the FIVE RANDOM PEOPLE I need to convince, I’m just going to leave them some links that will open doors for those who WANT to walk through them:
What is ironic about the NYT review, is that the totally unwarranted conclusion about the failure of the guy whose technology was used to “torture” me, makes me angry enough to DEFEND HIM.
Don’t tell ME his shit didn’t work.
Let’s put this all in perspective. Sidney Gottlieb did the dirty job that he was assigned to do, in the scared-as-all-fuck LAST PLACE position the United States found itself in, relative to both scary aliens and post-Nazi world socialism, in regard to “advanced biological programming sciences”.
Which sciences I will just call “MK” for short. This includes both “control of minds” and “control by minds”. And if you think about things that way, in a very technological fashion, knowing what we know now – as in future proves past – you will see that the whole subject comes STRAIGHT OUTTA ROSWELL. Although some aspects of it are much older. It’s been in use on this planet for a long time. ASK WHY.
The absolute scariest thing found in the Roswell crash was not the astoundingly meager propulsion system. Nor was it the laser tool, nor the particle beam, none of which seemed to be weapons grade, IMO.
No. It was the “headbands” that basically allowed people, used broadly, to share their thoughts. WITHOUT all the CRAP we use now. That allowed the people on the crashed craft to project – in the wrong language and broken speakers – some garbled version of their thoughts to the humans trying to both help and – unfortunately in the confusion – hurt them.
None of this crap should freak us out now. Our scientists all over the planet – even at Mind Control Facebook – are desperately working on this stuff with a gleam in their eyes. The ALIEN bloom is off that rose – LONG AGO. It SEEMS utterly human at this point.
But FAKE NEWS like the Failing New York Times continues to SHILL for the CIA’s FAKE UNIVERSE, pretending the alien origin of this stuff isn’t REAL and that the tech doesn’t halfway WORK now.
I can tell you – based on a desperate attempt to shut me up, that we have the SPEAKER PART working reasonably well, although only a nebbish would think that the result – which is categorically distinguishable from any kind of endogenous “voices”, such as in dreams, is anything but a Model T version of a communications technology.
But this stuff – our weak emulation of the Roswell tech – is not the real Holy Grail of espionage. It’s early, baby Ethernet – it’s not hacking root. No. THAT was discovered by Sidney Gottlieb, and he needs to get credit for what he did. MK ULTRA works FABULOUSLY – within the limits of what it CAN do – something that I personally experienced. And it is enough. ENOUGH TO FUCKING CHANGE HISTORY.
You don’t think they TRIED IT when they HAD IT? Give me a break.
MK ULTRA amnesia is what was used on Barney and Betty Hill. THAT is something we apparently had – thanks to Sidney Gottlieb – working very nicely in 1981. But we also had more – much more. We could alter people’s choices. We could INSURE certain choices. It’s actually quite startling. Particularly if you experience it – and then have creeps of every kind trying to figure out if you accidentally remembered it when you didn’t die, without PROMPTING you to remember it, and then doing something about it anyway.
Trust me – “Wolf” ain’t the cleaner. He was the thing to clean up.
Read the links. You’ll see. MK ULTRA explains not only the stuff that happened to ME and other people – it explains everything that Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and her FBI / DOJ friend Monica McLean were up to, trying to send the latter – presumably a CIA asset – through an FBI polygraph undetected.
Like I said, I have not even read the book yet, and the REVIEWS are confirming everything I suspected – and MORE. Just knowing from these reviews that the REAL story of Sidney Gottlieb was MIND CONTROL and what we would otherwise call TELEPATHY – not mere LSD – fills in all kinds of blanks in the REAL story of MK ULTRA – how it was a phenomenal success that got us caught up to Soviet brainwashing, and even got us a scientific foothold in terms of understanding the mental programming sciences of the EBEs.
NOW – what do we do about dealing with the FACTS of MK ULTRA technology?
For that, I recommend the next book. In MULTIPLE WAYS.
5th: The Bible
Whether you approach what is happening now from the viewpoint of “The Cabal” – our loose term for the corrupted, even SATANIC power-mongers of the world, in loose league to preserve their own riches and control – or whether you approach that part as being [somewhat] downstream of exo-politics, which adds a new level of useful complexity to the known manipulators of humanity – you need the SAME source of understanding to get ahead of ALL THESE JOKERS.
Why? Because, EVERYTHING – even CULTURE – even EXO – is downstream from CREATION, and if you don’t believe that the descent of logic from creation is REAL and CONTROLLING, then you are fighting without a plan.
One of the beauties of the AND LOGIC which these enemies of truth consistently DENY US, is that we can listen to other people holding ONLY ONE REFERENCE FRAME and understand them as “speaking the same TRUTH in a different LANGUAGE”.
That is not just a “higher” specialty. That can be OURS.
This is relativity – which is a much different thing from mere relativism. Relativism is a PROBLEM, whereas relativity is a SOLUTION.
So when people say that SATAN is behind it, I understand. When others say THE CABAL is behind it, I understand. When others say NATURE is behind it, I understand. When others say WE are behind it, I understand. When others say ALIENS are behind it, I understand.
It’s actually rather hilarious, but the character CHURCH LADY is weirdly smarter than the people who created her. Once you can actually SEE THIS – when you can see intelligence in a whole new framework above what THEY tell you intelligence is – you are on a level that not only FIGHTS BACK against those who want to keep humanity down on THEIR farm.
You are on a level that can WIN.
2994 Wake Up People! See Through Their Division Tactics Q!!mG7VJxZNCI7 Mar 2019 – 12:34:41 AM PEOPLE ARE PAWNS IN THEIR SICK GAME OF GLOBAL DOMINATION. PEOPLE ARE DIVIDED TO PREVENT A RISING OF THE PEOPLE. PEOPLE ARE DIVIDED AND TAUGHT TO FIGHT THEMSELVES INSTEAD OF THE RULING CLASS. RACE VS RACE RELIGION VS RELIGION POLITICAL VS POLITICAL CLASS VS CLASS SEX VS SEX WHEN YOU ARE DIVIDED, YOU ARE WEAK. WHEN YOU ARE WEAK, YOU HAVE NO POWER. WHEN YOU HAVE NO POWER, YOU HAVE NO CONTROL. STAY STRONG, PATRIOTS. STAY UNITED, NOT DIVIDED. YOU ARE WHAT MATTERS. YOU, AWAKE, IS THEIR GREATEST FEAR. Q
This Night before Daughn THURSDAY 20190912 Open Thread is very open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA / KAG! / KMAG world (KMAG being a bit of both MAGA and KAG!).
You can say what you want, comment on what other people said, and so on.
Free Speech is practiced here. ENJOY IT. Use it or lose it.
Keep it SOMEWHAT civil. They tried to FORCE fake Orwellian civility on us. In response, we CHOOSE true civility to defend our precious FREEDOM from THEM.
Our rules began with the civility of the Old Treehouse, later to become the Wolverinian Empire, and one might say that we have RESTORED THE OLD REPUBLIC – the early high-interaction model of the Treehouse – except of course that Q discussion is not only allowed but encouraged, and speech is considerably freer in other ways.
Please feel free to argue and disagree with the board owner, as nicely as possible. Please also consider the Important Guidelines, outlined here in the January 1st open thread. Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven.
SPEAK THE FIVE WORDS BOLDLY TO OUR PRESIDENT!
“I AM PRAYING FOR YOU!
I love this pic so I’ll ask of you all to remember Vice President Pence in your prayers!
So, as we head down the path to our branch in the Q Tree (some showed up overnight) please be kind to each other.
Fellow tree dweller Wheatie gave us some good reminders on the basics:
