,,, thinking out loud here. This is an exploration of hypotheses that have been rattling around in my head. I'm certainly open to being wrong.
Consider the following:
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 included a provision for Qualified Opportunity Zones (QOZs). These 8,764 QOZs are low-income areas in the 50 states and five U.S. possessions. What the program does is allow for U.S. investors to sell assets, such as stock, and invest the proceeds in business and capital improvements in areas that need economic rehabilitation—or perhaps some other plan—without incurring immediate capital gains taxes (liabilities). Such tax deferment can substantially increase the number of worthwhile investments Americans can make, so long as they're willing to roll up their sleeves and do it outside of America's already thriving business sectors.
This policy was a big hit politically for the Trump administration. While it was suggested that the government would lose something like $2T in revenue, many people felt that building business would increase jobs and perhaps eventually even make up for that tax shortfall. Understand that I have no interest in running the numbers, and in this moment, the results seem unpredictable to me—unless there was another plan in place.
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... today is the thirteenth anniversary of the first time that Bitcoin traded for $1. If you're wondering, this means that investment in Bitcoin has since averaged 128.7% annual returns with an average doubling time of 10 months, 1 day, 17 hours, 49 minutes, and 19 seconds (at a current price of $46,702).
Trivia aside, the development of the Bitcoin network is a stunning mystery that baits the limber mind into wondering if the psyops of this age extend to the apparent fights over Bitcoin. Do we really know who is pushing it and who is trying to destroy it? Is it possible that bank owners have invested enough in it that they don't care if the banks collapse and die? We should be asking these sorts of questions. At the very least, keeping an open mind allows for us to think about different motivations for strange events.
Over the past couple of weeks we have observed Michael Yon (special forces turned journalist) and Ann Vandersteel reporting from Panama about the constitution of migrants gathering there for the journey north into the United States.
Understand, I do recognize the risks inherent in millions of foreigners crossing the border, though I also believe that most terrorism is invented and controlled by intelligence agencies and that the collective U.S. military-intelligence complex is smart, calculating, and not taken by surprise. This migration could not be engineered without their approval. In fact, I suspect that core American powers have engineered it, and the weird and seemingly engineered AOC-Trump border rivalry is evidence consistent with that theory.
But why? What goal could the powers in the U.S. have in mind that is important enough to important so many foreigners?
Understand that I doubt the "population replacement hypothesis", though I get why people fear the possibility. What the elites would rather handle is a world in which everyone fights with rivals in their neighborhood rather than competing with the status quo oligarchs. Think Middle Eastern map drawing (Sykes-Picot Agreement), while people need to spend all their "money" at the Company Store. The Robber Baron model works better than the Bloody Psychopath model of capitalism.
Also, Western oligarchs are not so stupid that they would risk importing the mafia of their overseas rivals—not without assured control of the situation. The Godfather wouldn't be the Godfather if he let his guard down easily.
I have worried that it's possible that the U.S. is letting enough Chinese men into the country to smuggle in a cell that will conduct a false flag event. Is there a profitable controlled war in our future?
That's quite a risk to take.
While I have absolutely no certainty as to which of numerous hypotheses is correct, I wanted to lay one out that seems at least plausible:
Step 1: Establish QOZs and build tens of thousands of factories in places where few people would see what was going on. Often you can do it in cheaply purchased existing buildings that can be refurbished from the inside (and keep their sometimes brick character on the outside). Build some hotels in these areas. Most people won't blink at a basic room-box hotel popping up in any county.
Step 2: Organize the immigration of millions of foreigners with a wide swath of skills.'
Motivation 1: Pivot from China. I could write a whole article here, but I'll assume that most readers can imagine a range of financial motivations.
Motivation 2: Boot the Bitcoin network. Bitcoin's easiest first use case was in dark markets. This is why the Ross Ulbricht Silk Road story was the first large Bitcoin controversy. But the second major use case is likely remittances. If several million immigrants send $250 billion of their wages back to their families in other nations, they can dodge the vast majority of the $100 billion or so in remittance fees by using Bitcoin. Boom! The Bitcoin network then comes alive. And as soon as Bitcoin pays for oil or gets ships through the Panama Canal, it's the new global banking system.
Motivation 2 makes it clear that there are trillions in gains even aside from Motivation 1. Over time, I have leaned more toward the intelligence (agencies) invention of Bitcoin. After all, the dollar will one day die. All money is a bubble, and the Cantillon theft game has a shot clock.
And if there are some clashes between the new immigrants and Americans—who might be living in a different patchwork of zones for the most part—then the Nazi oligarchs can gather support for biometric ID systems. That's another way you keep people shopping at the Company Store, and keep track of potential new rivals that need buying off with nice appointments into the Mandarin support layer of civilization.
AS CONSERVATIVES, I THINK IT IS ALWAYS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT TRUMP WAS USED TO INTRODUCE THE LOCKDOWNS, AND MASS VACCINATION ...
WHETHER HE KNEW HE WAS BEING USED, OR NOT.
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