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Messy Times
By Christopher Messina
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Messy TimesAug 01, 2022
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Reading Rabbi Lord Sacks on Pesach
Jewish scholars - both religious and secular - discuss in depth the implications of the pagan prophet Balaam's description of the Jewish people:
From the peaks of rocks I see them,
From the heights I gaze upon them.
This is a people who dwell alone,
Not reckoning themselves one of the nations. (Num. 23:9)
In this season of Pesach, I read the essay written by Rabbi Jonathan Lord Sacks of Blessed Memory, in which he discusses the potential meanings of the People that dwells alone.
Not even 80 years after the Holocaust, evil scumbag Jew Haters are tromping around American college campuses, cheering on the murdering thugs of Palestine. No one seems to care.
Have a listen. The Jewish People have survived and left to the dustbin of history numerous Empires who were laser-focused on our eradication. We're not so worried about Leftwing middle class Marxist twits who learned about Israel from TikTok ten minutes ago.
To enjoy your Enlightentaining Host's words of wisdom on a far more prosaic topic - the US Federal Budget - go to Amazon to buy a copy of Messina's Federal Budget: https://a.co/d/hnd8LMI It is Amazon's #1 New Release in Cultural Policy! Who knew that was a thing?
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Concentration Camps, the Constitution and New York State
Civic engagement is a prerequisite if we, the citizens, want to enjoy competent public governance. Ben Franklin warned us that we'd have this Constitutional government if we could keep it. Make no mistake: there are strong Leftist activists whose sole goal in life is to destroy our Western Civilization based in individual rights and responsibilities. They adore Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea and the Chinese Communists' totalitarian control of the population and want to bring that fun misery here to America. Attorney Bobbie Anne Flower Cox has been practicing law for 25 years. Formerly an attorney in Manhattan with the international law firm of Nixon Peabody, LLP, Attorney Cox now heads her own office, Cox Lawyers, PLLC. Attorney Cox has extensive experience in bringing lawsuits against municipalities on behalf of her clients. She has an impressive track record in fighting cities, towns, and villages against unjust and erroneous assessments that the government levies against her clients’ properties. When the government-manufactured Panic took hold under the flimsy excuse of a worse-than-average flu season, Attorney Cox stepped up to represent New York lawmakers and citizens against excessive government overreach, helping to curb the ever expanding arm of the government as it illegally reaches further into all aspects of New Yorkers’ everyday lives. Have a listen to her explain the mad illegal lawmaking by the New York State Executive Branch, how she fought it and why Kathy Hochul and Letitia James are still wasting tax dollars to reinstate a tool of totalitarian terror against the supposedly free citizens of New York. You can keep up with her never-ending fight for Americans' Constitutional rights here: https://attorneycox.substack.com/ and https://coxlawyers.com She is @attorney_cox on Twitter or whatever Elon is calling it now, for those of you inclined to brave that cesspool. To buy a copy of Messina's Federal Budget: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1549949 And of course, LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE - IT DON'T COST NOTHIN' in the immortal words of Senator Bluto Blutarsky, who would support Bobbie Ann 100% were he in the Senate today.
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Latin American Drug Cartels - A Guest from the Formative Years visits the Studios
Today's episode is the epitome of the #Enlightentainment that @MessyTimes was founded to provide in ample portions and frequent doses. Who doesn't love a prurient view into the lives of evil men? Half of Netflix and Hollywood is all about drug lords and mobsters. Ever wonder how much of what you see is fiction and if there is any fact at all?
Brian Dennard spent years in clandestine service to the US and visits the Messy Times studios to discuss the early days in the 1970s when the American government was most concerned about the proceeds of drug money going to foment Marxist revolution abroad and here at home. Tune in for a rollicking tale of Alberto Sicilia-Falcon, La Tigressa Irma Serrano, Mexican President Echevarria, Jose-Lopez Portillo and why the matador Gaston Santos thrust his groin at massive bulls in the ring. You will learn a great deal not only how the Latin American drug trade got its early growth in the 1970s, but also get a sense of how those early beginnings turned into the colossal financial beast full of violence and futile attempts at control we are familiar with now. LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE - IT DON'T COST NOTHIN' in the immortal words of Senator Bluto Blutarsky.
![Halvening is Nigh! Nothing to fear... unless you need Bitcoin payment rails for your business...](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo400/8942146/8942146-1639011464909-499374445ef8b.jpg)
Halvening is Nigh! Nothing to fear... unless you need Bitcoin payment rails for your business...
Kurt Wuckert, Jr., Chief Bitcoin Historian visits the beachside studios of @MessyTimes to talk about #Bitcoin and all its implications. Every 210,000 coins or roughly four years, the block reward of Bitcoin is cut in half. Every infrastructure player in Bitcoin has to find ways to make money on transaction volume instead of the block reward. The bootstrapping subsidy was designed to help the Bitcoin ecosystem develop to the point where a natural economy would take hold.
Fifteen years in, the Bitcoin experiment is getting near the point where real economic transactions need to take the place of subsidy-chasing. Bitcoin (BSV) is no weirder than HTML for the Internet. Most users don't understand how the Internet works, but they use it. Same thing here. Huge businesses can be built using blockchain data and payment rails, without you thinking about it.
Come on in! The #blockchain is fine! Together we will connect another 4 billion people to the economy, providing a path for true freedom and economic liberation which will drive every Leftist, control freak Progressive Statist completely insane - an added if delicious bonus. For more of Kurt's wisdom, check out @Kurtwuckertjr and his weekly show on @CoinGeek .
https://christophermessina.substack.com/ for more details and sheer Enlightentainment.
LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE - IT DON'T COST NOTHIN', to quote the immortal Senator Bluto Blutarsky.
![Samantha Ettus discusses our shared mission to squelch Jew Hatred](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo400/8942146/8942146-1639011464909-499374445ef8b.jpg)
Samantha Ettus discusses our shared mission to squelch Jew Hatred
The evil Gazan Government still holds Israeli hostages - both alive in perpetual terror as well as the rotting corpses of murdered Jews - 138 days after their rape, torture and murder spree of October 7th.Samantha has a robust social media following on Instagram, where she is a consistent voice of reason and advocacy for the safety of Jews in hostile world: https://www.instagram.com/samanthaettus/
What everyone needs to bear in mind is that none of the idiots - whether highly educated or dragging knuckles - yapping and screaming about "Israel" and "Palestine" give a gnat's burp in a hurricane about the geopolitical specifics of the Gaza-initiated war. They hate Jews. Period. And they've found a great, "safe" way to march in the streets calling for another Holocaust - they pretend suddenly they care about Israel and the 75+ years it has been beset by evil hatred.
The message to the Jew Haters of the world - especially in America - is that whether you're a casual weekend hobbyist only going to the "Free Palestine" rally because the cute girl you're trying to get with asked you to come along, or a committed, rabid, ready-to-attack-the-first-Jew-you-see maniac, you will not be tolerated. Jews will not hide and cower from you. We - and all moral people who know you losers for what you are - will push back against your aggressions and stand proudly on the side of Western Civilization.
The evil Islamic death cults - Hamas, Fatah, Hezbollah, the Iranian government - have been lying to their people for 100+ years now. The Jews are not leaving their homeland. There has never in history been a country called "Palestine." These evil morons instead of building a prosperous society alongside their Jewish brothers who had come home after the Romans ran them off their land, chose to worship pointless Hate and claimed they would destroy Israel.
All they know how to do is destroy and frankly, they are not very good at that. They've been trying since 1947 - every war Israel has ever fought , including this one, has been a defensive war in reaction to aggression. This is the point of the spear for Western Civilization. There are not "two sides" to this conflict. There is a rational nation defending itself against evil terrorist chaos.
If you're a Jew, be loud and proud about it. If you're a rational moral human being of any religion - or none - stand strong and decide your Western culture is worth defending against those who want to destroy it.
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Sports Advertising! Jews! And a Pounamu Magen David!
Find out why Stephen Fry’s Alternative Christmas Message landed so well this year, on a channel opposite King Charles’s chat to the Kingdom.
Richard Bermitz has a long and storied career in UK sport advertising. Join us for a fascinating conversation about the history of the business of sport in the UK and then Europe more broadly.
In addition to getting a crash course in the dynamics of sporting clubs, fan loyalty and the commercial reality underpinning your favourite teams, Messy Times fans searching for current affairs insights are in luck!
Richard is a member of the UK's Jewish community. We discuss how the evil events perpetrated by the Gazan Government on 7 October 2023 have impacted communities across the UK, Europe and the US.
![Greg Ward Distributes Ledger Wisdom About Music, Hash Functions and Bitcoin](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo400/8942146/8942146-1639011464909-499374445ef8b.jpg)
Greg Ward Distributes Ledger Wisdom About Music, Hash Functions and Bitcoin
Greg Ward has a tremendous depth of experience in the things that matter most: music and creative coding. He joined our Glittering Host in the Messy Times Studios for a discussion about the true power of blockchain technology.
The original Bitcoin as described in Satoshi's white paper is all about radical economic inclusiveness. The strong uses cases of peer-to-peer micropayments along with the power of immutability to strengthen cyber security are some of the finest applications of free human empowerment ever devised.
Conversely, there are the Forces of Totalitarian Evil in the world like PayPal who are trying to use their dominant technological and market position in combination with the fact that 99.9% of users of technology never read the EULA (End User License Agreement) which can be modified after they've signed up for a service, to demand societal conformity and groupthink.
Greg is a Co-Founder of SmartLedger Solutions and its subsidiary company Certihash, which provides a radically improved cyber security detection service.
Tune in to learn why your best remediation for contractual integrity is either the public blockchain or - second best - an army of 2,000 spear-wielding Kayapo.
![Robert Patrick Joins Us to Discuss Our Very Messy Times - How We Got Here and Some Ideas to Get Out](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo400/8942146/8942146-1639011464909-499374445ef8b.jpg)
Robert Patrick Joins Us to Discuss Our Very Messy Times - How We Got Here and Some Ideas to Get Out
We are living in difficult times, what the glitterati call Messy Times. Sadly, it is looking very likely that we're going to look back on this period in history as being relatively peaceful compared to what is coming down the track at us.
Tune in as Robert Patrick and our Enlightentaining Host ponder the major issues of today, including the horrendous eruption of anti-Jewish hatred in America and Europe "because" evil terrorists of Hamas murdered 1,400 innocent, unarmed people and took another 200 civilians hostage.
While you wrap your mind around that insane illogic, we are delighted for you to have an active listen to our discussion, which we hope will bring some clarity for those confused and some light to pierce the overwhelming darkness so many are experiencing.
Most listeners will know Robert from his excellent career on film and screen. I've had the pleasure of getting to know him from the work we do on behalf of our military veteran community. Your Glittering Host is on the Board of Directors for the Combat Control Foundation and Robert is the CCF's Ambassador. Robert additionally is very active with TAPS Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors.
We urge you after listening to this discussion to immediately go to those websites and make a donation - no matter how small. The connectivity, recognition and support for our veterans matters as much as the dollar amounts you are able to afford.
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Offshore Wind Mills Kill Whales and Blind Radar Defense Systems
Imagine a government plan designed to achieve these wonderful goals:
1. Make electricity SIX TIMES MORE EXPENSIVE.
2. Destroy America's security by removing our radar and missile systems' ability to see over the horizon to detect incoming threats.
3. Deprive people of healthy seafood or at least make it three times as expensive.
4. Take American tax dollars and give them to Scandinavian countries' pension funds for the long-term benefit of Scandinavian companies and workers.
5. Oh, and kill lots of whales by deafening / blinding them while building the magical machines which deliver these wonderful benefits.
In a better - not even perfect - nation, this insanity would not occur. In that hypothetical nation, if someone raised such a bad idea, rational voices in government would tick off all the negative consequences to, say, destroying marine life to build pointlessly expensive electricity generation and the whole thing would stop. Sadly, we do not live in such a nation. Thank Heavens for driven citizens such as Meghan Lapp, who has dedicated thousands of hours to digging deep into this mess - all on her own time - to tell the rest of us how stupidly damaging the fallout from ridiculous political convictions can be. I will not steal her thunder; have a listen to this conversation.
There are myriad lessons to be gleaned from this madness. One is that NOAA and any other agency tasked with delivering analysis to the government must be a purely scientific enterprise, with its staff insulated from budgetary or other concerns. We all watched what happened when "science" became divorced from reality and became one more political plaything. Here is another example of that abuse of the objective scientific process in pursuit of ridiculously damaging political aims.
For those who wish to dig deeper, Meghan provided some helpful links:
Save Right Whales (www.saverightwhales.org)
Responsible Offshore Development Alliance (www.rodafisheries.org)
An Examination Into Offshore Wind Industrialization https://www.youtube.com/live/j9MY7G8pi5M?si=G0_1XsBidT03NGw0
Cape Wind Info | Cape May County, NJ (www.capemaycountynj.gov)
Information on the lawsuit against Vineyard Wind, taken by the Texas Public Policy Foundation- two short videos here: https://youtu.be/vlFwRIWRwf0?si=8XoNdGZMpcZASqgM and https://youtu.be/2F-bBTsK04k?si=QOpChT7k0ZCOx_3o
![Andrew Gutmann is Fighting the Good Fight Against Woke Tyranny](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo400/8942146/8942146-1639011464909-499374445ef8b.jpg)
Andrew Gutmann is Fighting the Good Fight Against Woke Tyranny
Fellow Native New Yorker, now proud resident of the Last Free State in America, Florida, Andrew Gutmann joins us in the @MessyTimes studios for a wide-ranging but focused conversation about the need to root out the insidious evil of Marxism in American life. He achieved accidental fame for penning a letter of protest to his daughter's school in New York City - a private school called Brearley which for decades was a beacon of educational excellence, but during the Wuhan Hysteria and the BLM Summer of Love 2020 turned into a racist, CRT-pushing propaganda factory. That letter went viral.
Andrew cogently sums up the main ills of the Woke Ideological Disease:
1. The woke loathe free speech; their relentless campaign to silence voices they disagree with has become their non-stop obsession
2. The woke hate capitalism, based as it is on personal freedom.
3. The woke's focus on groups, not individuals goes against the entirety of Judaeo-Christian Western civilization and the Constitution.
4. They insist on denying objective reality, hence the nonsense around "dozens of genders;" their power comes from forcing people to say publicly things they know are insane.
5. The woke loathe democracy and our system of meritocracy; their entire focus is on leveling outcomes rather than setting fair conditions for people to compete in.
During our talk - spoiler alert! - we added a 6th symptom of Wokeism:
6. The woke hate religion and hate the family unit, because both resist the godless materialist chaos of Marxist conception.
None of this is new to scholars of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist thought. In the American context, the Marxist Left have taken advantage of Americans' relative ignorance of the true nature of Communism/Socialist to hide behind words like "justice" and "equality," which they have perverted into their exact opposites.
After realizing the same thing I did, that New York has become a Marxist cesspool of illogic and Leftist totalitarianism, he moved his family to Palm Beach County and is now running for Congress (FL-22) to help reverse the horrible radically leftward tide the nation has been suffering under.
To learn more, donate and support this excellent candidate whose sensibility, morality and clear comprehension of the Constitution is badly needed in Congress, please go to: www.andrewgutmann.com. After getting a fresh dose of #Enlightentainment about parents' rights in education and the need to reverse the decades-long impact of Marxist indoctrination on our schools, might we suggest as a palate cleanser that you check out CoinGeek's Bitcoin 101 free course offering? It is more important than ever that you get a clear handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing: https://tpow.app/ebc70fcc
![Offshore Wind Farms Kill Whales - David Blackmon is Angry About That](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo400/8942146/8942146-1639011464909-499374445ef8b.jpg)
Offshore Wind Farms Kill Whales - David Blackmon is Angry About That
In today's episode of Bizarre Leftist Hypocrisy, we find the doyens of the environmental movement so befuddled that they're swearing allegiance to oceanic wind farms which are killing whales by the dozens. David Blackmon came on the show as a follow up to the interview he did with Meghan Lapp, Fisheries Liaison for Seafreeze Shoreside. I will not steal the thunder from that interview, which I urge you to watch at The Energy Question #65 but will summarize her findings to let all the ocean- and whale-lovers out there that all these massive wind turbines and their associated construction and infrastructure are absolutely killing whales.
We'll be offering for sale soon some Messy Times Save the Whales - Ban Offshore Wind Farms bumper stickers. In keeping with the Big Environmental Win brought about in the 1970s by such memorable bumper art as "Nuke the Gay Baby Whales for Jesus!," we at @MessyTimes and @davidblackmon6807 hope to drive a - pardon me - sea change in attitudes about the Energy Absurdity Church ruining our world.
Listen in!
Lunatics are killing the whales while pretending otherwise and are gaslighting the living bejesus out of all of us.
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Messy Times Unbounded Capital Episode!
I had the pleasure of meeting Zach Resnick at the London Blockchain Conference earlier this year. Now that we're both back in the Western Hemisphere, Zach paid a visit to the @MessyTimes studios for a deep dive into his career as an entrepreneur and how his journey has been interwoven with blockchain technology, most recently #BSV, or Bitcoin Satoshi Vision, the bitcoin protocol based on the original white paper, versus #BTC which has diverged from that original vision in myriad ways.
Tune in for a rollickingly enlightentaining discussion. Find out more about Zach and his investment firm at unboundedcapital.com.
![David Blackmon's Visit to Messy Times Recorded Using Organic, All-Natural Gas Fired Electricity](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo400/8942146/8942146-1639011464909-499374445ef8b.jpg)
David Blackmon's Visit to Messy Times Recorded Using Organic, All-Natural Gas Fired Electricity
David Blackmon joined us in the studios for a wide-ranging discussion on the virtues of affordable energy, debating whether insanity or perfidy motivate Apocalyptic Climate Cultists and the general messy madness of our age. David knows of what he speaks - having deep expertise and long experience in the oil & gas industry.
For a fun pre-episode game, try to guess whether our Brilliant Guest or your Glittering Host has more biting calumny to heap on the ridiculous #ESG fraud which has destroyed more value than even Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes-Oxley have combined.
Either way your bet breaks, we promise you sheer #Enlightentainment at its finest!
Added bonus material with sneak previews into the 2024 Election Cycle including educated guesstimates of how many of us will be rounded up and indicted as co-conspirators before the polls open! Enjoy!
![Combat Controller Tom DeSchane Shares his Experience in Special Operations](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo400/8942146/8942146-1639011464909-499374445ef8b.jpg)
Combat Controller Tom DeSchane Shares his Experience in Special Operations
Messy Times is focused on making the American military culture and its people available to a wider audience. Only 7% of Americans are either in the military or family members of our all-volunteer force. Our Enlightentaining Host is privileged to serve on the Board of Directors for the Combat Control Foundation. Tom DeSchane had a 28-year career in Combat Control, retiring as a Chief Master Sergeant, after entering the Air Force for four years to pay for college. He joins us in the studios to give his perspective on CCT as a career, how this Special Tactics group operates with other branches of the military and some guidance for people considering this as a career.
You can learn more about this Special Operations branch of the Air Force at Combat Control Foundation. After this video, hop on over there to enjoy the wealth of information and please leave a donation to support our veterans and their families. A donation of any size is welcome - as important as the dollars raised is the number of people who take the time to donate their hard-earned money as a way of expressing appreciation for the hard, difficult and dangerous work our military volunteers perform on our behalf.
![Etymology! Free Markets! Wozniak's Apple II Inspired a Generation!](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo400/8942146/8942146-1639011464909-499374445ef8b.jpg)
Etymology! Free Markets! Wozniak's Apple II Inspired a Generation!
Jack Pitts and I shared a stage at the London Blockchain Conference. We were mesmerizing. For those unfortunate souls who missed the big event, we bring you this discussion.
He is the founder of SLictionary, a brilliant, blockchain-enabled Web 3.0 version of the processes which created the Oxford English Dictionary. A self-learning dictionary which grows in accuracy and comprehensiveness the richer the user-contributed corpus grows is just the shot in the arm the English etymological industry needs!
Check it out: https://www.slictionary.com/
Be sure to vote for the Messy Times definition of "unicorn" while you're there!
![Connor Matthews Steps into the Messy Times Octagon](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo400/8942146/8942146-1639011464909-499374445ef8b.jpg)
Connor Matthews Steps into the Messy Times Octagon
We are delighted to be joined in the @MessyTimes studios by Connor Matthews ( @TheControllerMMA ) who shared with us a bit about his journey involving an early interest in martial arts, to MMA (mixed martial arts) to accidentally signing up for the Air Force's Special Operations branch after first hearing what the SEALs had to say about a career in the Navy.
Your Enlightentaining Host is honored to serve our military veterans as a Board Member of the @CombatControlFoundation. One of the perquisites of our relationship with the CCT community is being able to participate in events with our phenomenal active-duty military community. Connor was part of a group that spent a great day together with candidates in the current training pipeline recently.
We discuss some of that from his point of view about what it takes to succeed in the rigorous washout machine that is Special Operations training. Every American would sleep better at night if they understood the caliber of motivated volunteers and the rigorous training and selection process they go through, all in order to fight to protect our national interests.
To check out Connor's fights either live or via ESPN, go to his YouTube channel Connor Matthews - YouTube or his Instagram: Connor Matthews ⚡️👊🏼 (@thecontrollermma) | Instagram.
I know I'm going to move mountains to be ringside for his upcoming Las Vegas fights!
After hearing Connor's story, hop over to the Combat Control Foundation website and make a donation to this awesome cause - any amount is welcomed, as part of our support for our veterans is demonstrating by sheer numbers of donors how much we value what they and their families have sacrificed for us: https://www.combatcontrol.team/Donate-to-the-CCF . It's simple; do it now.
![Ray Nayler, Author of The Mountain in the Sea, Visits Messy Times](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo400/8942146/8942146-1639011464909-499374445ef8b.jpg)
Ray Nayler, Author of The Mountain in the Sea, Visits Messy Times
Ray Nayler wrote a great novel, The Mountain in the Sea. The Enlightentaining Host of @MessyTimes was so delighted by the book that he wrote a book review and reached out to Ray to invite him for a visit to the studios.
The conversation that follows is the result of Ray's saying yes to that invitation. Ray is a deep thinker with wide-ranging international experience and a persistent curiosity which drives him to learn more and to express what he learns in his writing. Beyond or as part of his writing, he's spent a great deal of time examining how information flows - or fails to flow - in society, and the implications that has for a healthy town square in which people of goodwill but differing ideas can engage in robust debate. Enjoy!
You can find more of Ray's work at www.raynayler.net.
After getting a fresh dose of #Enlightentainment from our discussion, might we suggest that you check out CoinGeek's Bitcoin 101 free course offering? It is more important than ever that you get a clear handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing: https://tpow.app/ebc70fcc
If you're picking up what Messy Times is laying down, you're welcome to provide whatever support you can via our crypto tip jar: HandCash: $MuddyWaters
![Psychiatrist-Diplomat Ken Dekleva Returns to the Messy Times Studios](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo400/8942146/8942146-1639011464909-499374445ef8b.jpg)
Psychiatrist-Diplomat Ken Dekleva Returns to the Messy Times Studios
We are delighted to have Dr. Ken Dekleva join us for a deep and wide-ranging conversation across his areas of expertise. Ken covers a lot of intellectual and practical ground in his second visit to the studios.
A prolific author as well as a Senior Fellow at the George H.W. Bush Center for U.S.-China Relations, Ken's experience spans the globe. His deep experience is not only represented in historical knowledge, but directly in current international affairs and innovations in healthcare, not only for military veterans but for patients of all kinds. We discuss a few of the #mental_health advances he champions, including #telemedicine which he already uses in his medical practice.
That is just scratching the surface - please grab a soothing beverage and settle in for a great discussion.
In addition to the range of sources discussed in the episode, we remind our listeners to check out The Cipher Brief for the best reporting and analysis on national security issues.
After getting a fresh dose of #Enlightentainment from our discussion, might we suggest that you check out CoinGeek's Bitcoin 101 free course offering? It is more important than ever that you get a clear handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing: https://tpow.app/ebc70fcc
![Bitcoin (BTC) Miner & Lightning Capital Founder Charles Hwang Visits the Studios](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo400/8942146/8942146-1639011464909-499374445ef8b.jpg)
Bitcoin (BTC) Miner & Lightning Capital Founder Charles Hwang Visits the Studios
Florida is already the Last Free State in America. Because of that, it is attracting talent from all over the other 49, which is making it a bastion of free market innovation. It's obviously the best place to be, which is why @MessyTimes would never consider broadcasting from anywhere else.
Aside from hosting rampant innovation in Enlightentainment, up and down the peninsula, many towns have become blockchain and tech boom towns. Charles Hwang shares how he became involved in Bitcoin (BTC), what Lightning Capital is doing with Layer 2 networks and how he sees the cryptocurrency space developing.
In the course of our discussion, Charles provides the most cogent defense of the Small Blocker position your Glittering Host has yet heard. After the usual admonition to hit Like and Subscribe, we'd love it if you provided your thoughts below on the Small Block v. Big Block debate. It's not quite 1990s East Coast - West Coast beef, but potentially far more impactful to us all than Tupac and Biggie were.
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Renminbi v. USD: All the Cool Kids Obsess Over Monetary Policy
China wants the world to accept the renminbi as a reserve currency. What are their reasons for suggesting an alternative to the US Dollar? Was Bretton Woods a mistake? Is Purchasing Power Parity a reasonable way to value a currency? Money is international but a currency is national; how many people care about that distinction?
Has anyone ever gotten a date by using monetary theory as a pickup line? Is the paradigm of a "cold war" drawn from the Soviet-American 20th century headbutting a useful frame to examine the actions of the Chinese government? Has the Dollar's role at the core of the international financial system been a net positive or negative for the United States?
Tune in to hear James Fok's highly informed take on these important issues and Your Enlightentaining Host’s nostalgia over the bezant.
![Architecture! War! Betrayal! Reconstruction contracts for Ukraine! What MORE could you want?](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo400/8942146/8942146-1639011464909-499374445ef8b.jpg)
Architecture! War! Betrayal! Reconstruction contracts for Ukraine! What MORE could you want?
It's a weird thing about history. One can visit, say, ancient European city centers and marvel at the architecture, in full knowledge of horrific war crimes and atrocities committed on the very streets one is currently strolling on, nibbling pastries and snapping selfies. All that happened a long time ago, so - to steal a line - at this point, what difference does it make that babies were snatched from their mothers' arms and dashed to the pavement right here where I'm dropping powdered sugar on my sweater?
When war is happening in the here and now, however, it seems somehow tasteless to express any concern about urban design and respect for tradition. Private-jet-setting-on-the-taxpayer-dime Climate Nag John Kerry in a supreme fit of tone-deaf absurdity urged Vladimir Putin to "be aware of Russia's carbon emission / climate commitments" while he began his evil invasion of Ukraine. This came as Russian planes were bombing a maternity hospital in Mariupol.
So if the Carbon Gadfly can burn jet fuel for thousands of miles while hectoring people about the supposed existential threat posed by carbon emissions and express a preference for clubbing Ukrainian children to death rather than running tanks over them, I think it's okay to ruminate on architectural issues in a postwar Ukraine. Urbanist and architectural traditionalist Michael Diamant joins us in the @MessyTimes studios to discuss his deep convictions about the destruction of Western architecture being caused by the same underlying root cause that leads to the rampant idiocy around "pronouns" and other, bizarre-to-normal-people social phenomena.
How, you might well ask, does a commitment to urban renewal along the lines of building things people like to live in rather than brutalist Soviet silly boxes, play into a consideration of the war ongoing in Ukraine? Tune in to find out!
Afterwards, flush with enthusiasm, peruse Michael's architectural musings: https://twitter.com/michael_diamanthttps://www.facebook.com/groups/Klassisknyproduktionhttps://www.reddit.com/r/ArchitecturalRevival/
After getting a fresh dose of urbanist Enlightentainment, might we suggest as a palate cleanser that you check out CoinGeek's Bitcoin 101 free course offering? In an era fraught with architectural disruption it is more important than ever that you get a clear handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing: https://tpow.app/ebc70fcc
![God Save the King! Will Charles III Go for a Renewal of Empire?](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo400/8942146/8942146-1639011464909-499374445ef8b.jpg)
God Save the King! Will Charles III Go for a Renewal of Empire?
City of London politician Mark Wheatley revisits the @MessyTimes studios for a brisk chat about The Coronation, current Great Power competition and to sort out who is lying to whom the most in the jockeying for geopolitical domination.
Pomp! A really old throne! An MP wielding an impressive sword for hours with nary a wobble! Geopolitical considerations! Snubs and divisions! The manipulation of the Sacred! Golden bracelets that strike fear into politicians' souls!
Tune in! We're even broadcasting north of Hadrian's Wall for this momentous occasion!
![Weaponizing Language / Distorting Meaning](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo400/8942146/8942146-1639011464909-499374445ef8b.jpg)
Weaponizing Language / Distorting Meaning
Statistically normal people are exhausted and bored by the bizarre linguistic preoccupations of a tiny segment of the population, and are baffled by the weird insistence of the chattering classes that they "must" learn 65 new "pronouns" and 97 new "genders." This particular brand of neo-Marxist madness contributes directly to our decidedly Messy Times. In line with the weaponization of language for political control, the government in a wild-eyed, frenzied assault on the First Amendment created a Board of Misinformation, thereby setting even new lows in American political life. Notably, that Board, chaired by a partisan who repeated every lie ever told about Donald Trump, was never actually abandoned. It was just "put on hold."
Amidst the considerably messy maelstrom of modern political screeching - we hesitate to call it discourse - we are honored to have Thomas Buckley visit the studios today for a wide-ranging chat about linguistic distortions wielded for purposeful societal harm and political gain. Thomas is the former mayor of Lake Elsinore, California, a former newspaper reporter and a lapsed bartender. As he says, only one of those jobs made people happy. If you find yourself intrigued by his words, you can read more of his work at: https://thomas699.substack.com/
![Messrs. Mainelli & Messina Dive Deep into the Decades-Old Fundamental Technology Behind Bitcoin](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/8942146/8942146-1639011461234-1ae589136a541.jpg)
Messrs. Mainelli & Messina Dive Deep into the Decades-Old Fundamental Technology Behind Bitcoin
Many early use cases of a technology in hindsight look pretty silly. In 2000, Seventeen "dot coms" spent millions on ads for Super Bowl XXXIV - more web-based companies than have booked ads in the intervening twenty years. Similarly with "blockchain" which I take a delightful hour to kick around with my guest Professor Michael Mainelli, Chairman of @ZYenGroup .
Whenever a tech term becomes marketing faerie dust, look out! #Blockchain and #BTC (which some call #Bitcoin) come under our strict scrutiny. We touch on #CHECKSUM, the accurate and less sexy version of a #hash. If blockchain is not boring, you're doing it wrong! The era of clever techies selling NFTs of monkeys on a sailboat to people for $75,000 is over, but that does not mean that real world NFT uses are not coming to a global market near you. Also, Michael was kind of enough to spruik our Host's upcoming appearance on the City of London's FS Club webinar series: https://fsclub.zyen.com/ webinar series on 15 February.
We'll be discussing how an innovative #RareEarths mine in #Greenland is deploying commercial sales contracts on the blockchain in an #NFT structure. Sign up for the webinar here: https://fsclub.zyen.com/events/forthcoming-events/how-to-nft-a-greenland-rare-earths-mine/ to dive even more deeply into how real adults will be using NFTs for real asset management.
!["Millennials Virtue Signal on Social Media Like They're Getting Paid."](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/8942146/8942146-1639011461234-1ae589136a541.jpg)
"Millennials Virtue Signal on Social Media Like They're Getting Paid."
We are delighted to be joined in the @MessyTimes studios for a philosophical and sociological deep dive seen from the point of view of an American #millennial. Justyna Czekaj is a credit to her generation, an accomplished, educated and thoughtful critic of the foibles which contributed so strongly to the madness we've lived with for going on three years.
Join us for a hearty and wide-ranging discussion. We touch on such minor topics as the rapid decay of the formerly great United States, to the vagaries of friendship when confronted with government propaganda, to the stunning speed with which formerly rational people turned into subservient sheeple at the appalling and irrational whims of government officials.
Like it or not for grumpy Generation X, Justyna's crew and what comes after them are crafting the future, assuming, of course, decrepit Boomers will quit running for office. Sheesh - even Gen X knows when it's time to retire.
Have a listen! She gives it to you straight. Perhaps the Union shall endure. Although a whole lot of remedial education regarding the irreplaceable value of Unfettered Free Speech is in order, if what comes next is to resemble the good bits the Founders bequeathed us.
I'm making book on whether that mild endorsement of Free Speech will get this episode cancelled and censored for "spreading misinformation."
![Air Force Combat Controller Mike West on a Lifetime of Service](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/8942146/8942146-1639011461234-1ae589136a541.jpg)
Air Force Combat Controller Mike West on a Lifetime of Service
Americans are obligated to provide all the assistance we can to our combat #veterans and their families. All who serve in our military deserve our gratitude and appreciation. We owe an especial debt to the members of our Special Operations teams, who go above and beyond the normal risks associated with war.
Those individuals with the drive and commitment who volunteer for the hardships and augmented risks of Special Operations are what differentiates the American military. Their enhanced training and intense qualification process result in highly trained, driven and team-focused warriors.
I am beyond honored and privileged to be a Board member of the Combat Control Foundation, which is the fund-raising vehicle that supports the ongoing mission of the Combat Control Association, dedicated to helping those veterans and their families, whatever the need may be. The Board contains a mix of civilian volunteers and #CCT veterans like Mike West, who took time out of his schedule to visit the Messy Times studios.
Join us for a discussion about the value of service to our nation, and the myriad ways in which all Americans can help foundations like ours to execute our mission, which is to serve those who have sacrificed so much for us all in their military service. To learn more and to donate to the Foundation, please visit: www.combatcontrol.team.
![Jeffrey Tucker and the Brownstone Institute Kick off 2023 with Unwavering Commitment to Honesty in Public Policy](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/8942146/8942146-1639011461234-1ae589136a541.jpg)
Jeffrey Tucker and the Brownstone Institute Kick off 2023 with Unwavering Commitment to Honesty in Public Policy
Messy Times and the Brownstone Institute were both created to fight back against the tsunami of lies about the Wuhan Hysteria. The Administrative State has not ceased in its Orwellian efforts to make everyone mouth insane lies. The key to a complete governmental takeover of power is when a populace has been so beaten, bored and just wearied into mouthing the absurdities, if that is the "pass" to living a normal life.
Lest anyone think that Elon Musk buying Twitter put an end to the bizarrely tight relationship between (mainly) Democrat government officials and the electronic public fora, think again. Countless people are silenced and banned from platforms like LinkedIn (that values publishing rampant antisemitism over the free speech of a Jewish executive who points out the Jew Hatred), Reddit (which squashes anything even remotely endorsing free markets or classic American values) to Google/YouTube who went from "Don't Be Evil" to "Serve Every Leftist Censorship Duty We're Given from the Chinese Communist Party or the US Democrat Party - if One Can Tell the Difference Anymore."
Not as catchy as the original, but certainly accurate.
We can remember a time not so long ago when journalists and public gadflies made it their sacred duty - often at real personal risk - to hold government to account. How did that turn into a hand in glove relationship where the FBI, CIA, NSA and countless others like Representative Adam "Even for a politician, I lie like a drunken sailor" Schiff produced written documents showing how they demanded private companies censor things they didn't like? They have grown so brazen in their lies that Administration officials will tell Congress under oath that "the border is secure" as millions of foreigners break our laws and invade our nation.
Pay attention, kids. These totalitarian clowns locked your kids out of school and yourselves as supposed "free adults" out of work - based on the false claim of "protecting us." It was all a colossal lie. They are still telling the lie and their enforcers are so effective I'm not even posting this episode to YouTube. Not only have they not apologized, they refuse to admit despite the abundant empirical data that they were 100% wrong. Wrong about all of it - the stupid masks mandates, the idiotic plexiglass in store interiors, the random "6 foot social distancing" nonsense which is not a medical or a scientific term, the fake vaccines which did NOTHING to prevent transmission - all of it was crap, pure and simple. Those of us who stood up did so at real cost.
This government has been giving you the Groucho Marx treatment and daring you to object: Whom do you believe? Me or your damned lying eyes?
There is always a prize in the box! As a reward for filling your head with positivity, you get to check out @CoinGeek's Bitcoin 101 free course offering! Astute listeners know it is more important than ever that you get a clear handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing: https://tpow.app/ebc70fcc
![Craig Wright Celebrates Messy Times's FOURTH YEAR of Enlightentainment!](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/8942146/8942146-1639011461234-1ae589136a541.jpg)
Craig Wright Celebrates Messy Times's FOURTH YEAR of Enlightentainment!
Most people know the solar calendar has ticked over to 2023. The cognoscenti are aware that a far more important milestone has been reached - the start of the 4th season of MessyTimes and all the glitteringly brilliant #enlightentainment that entails!
Join #CraigWright and our Glittering Host for a rollicking ride starting with the ignominious and predicted collapse of #FTX and the lying fraud #SBF and ending with a hard binary choice between two competing philosophical systems of deliberate existence. Kantians in particular will want to brace themselves!
For those interested in learning more about real world, critical minerals #NFT applications, please register for Christopher Messina's February 15th lecture in the City of London about using the #blockchain to advance a #Greenland rare earths mine: https://www.zyen.com/events/all-events/how-to-nft-a-greenland-rare-earths-mine/
There is always a prize in the box! As a reward for filling your head with positivity, you get to check out CoinGeek's Bitcoin 101 free course offering! Astute listeners know it is more important than ever that you get a clear handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing: https://tpow.app/ebc70fcc
![When did the Wuhan Virus Arrive in North America? The Answer is in the Blood...](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/8942146/8942146-1639011461234-1ae589136a541.jpg)
When did the Wuhan Virus Arrive in North America? The Answer is in the Blood...
Bill Rice, Jr. joined us in the Messy Times studios on 1 December 2022 for a fascinating dialogue.
His research indicates that the Wuhan Virus was present in the US population much earlier than the 2020 start date claimed by the Government.
Settle back with a mug of spiked eggnog and a plate of chocolate rugelach. Allow us to Enlightentain you during this festive season.
How long do you think blood is stored before being used?
![Jim Hawes Chased Che Guevara off Lake Tanganyika Before a Career in Frontier Markets Venture Capital](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/8942146/8942146-1639011461234-1ae589136a541.jpg)
Jim Hawes Chased Che Guevara off Lake Tanganyika Before a Career in Frontier Markets Venture Capital
MessyTimes is honored to have Jim Hawes visit us to discuss his experience in fighting the free-market capitalist corner over a long and exciting career.
Upon the expiry of his operation's classified status, Jim wrote a wonderful book about his work in Central Africa in 1965, Cold War Navy SEAL: My Story of Che Guevara, War in the Congo, and the Communist Threat in Africa.
We touch on his valuable service to the nation and humanity by shooing Che Guevara out of Africa so the Bolivians could do the world a huge favor by removing this evil murdering sociopathic parasite from amongst the living, before discussing Jim's experience in private equity in then-emerging markets in Asia.
Join us to find out why - among other things - he deserves at least 1/7th of the credit for introducing American fast food to Asia!
![BANNED from YouTube: Dr. Paul Elias Alexander on the Crazy Lies Fauci, Birx, the CDC and WHO Told](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/8942146/8942146-1639011461234-1ae589136a541.jpg)
BANNED from YouTube: Dr. Paul Elias Alexander on the Crazy Lies Fauci, Birx, the CDC and WHO Told
Dr. Alexander shares the Six Main Lies Fauci, Birx and the rest of these clowns told us all about the Wuhan Virus. There are myriad little lies emanating from the big ones, but covering the Big Ones is exhaustive, exhausting and infuriating enough.
He is the author of the recently published book Presidential Takedown, writes for Brownstone and has a great substack called the Alexander COVID News.
He brings an invaluable perspective as a doctor and epidemiologist recruited by President Trump in May 2020 from the Chinese Communist-dominated World Health Organization (WHO). Join us for a fascinating discussion both from the epidemiological point of view and as someone who was abused by the unelected and still unaccountable Administrative State mandarins in the Swamp who tried to refuse to hire a Presidential appointee that the bureaucracy had no LEGAL right to block from being hired.
The importance of his message is highlighted by the fact that YouTube censored the interview within 90 seconds of my posting it AND threatened Messy Times with being banned for life if I continued to "spread COVID misinformation." What is this? 2020?
We at Messy Times take that censorship as a badge of honor.
Quick point: Early on in our discussion (@3:30) I refer to "January February 2022" - I misspoke and meant "2020." The context is clear.
![The Feds Want to Saddle YOU with the Costs of Cyber Attacks!](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/8942146/8942146-1639011461234-1ae589136a541.jpg)
The Feds Want to Saddle YOU with the Costs of Cyber Attacks!
Bruce de'Medici returns to the Messy Times studios to discuss the recent brilliant idea for the US government - meaning YOU, the taxpayer - to backstop massive insurance losses which insurance companies don't feel like paying when a cyber attack causes billions of dollars in damage to American companies.
Bear in mind both the attacked company AND the insurance provider entered into a cyber insurance contract voluntarily in a free market. The insurance company is not offering to share the profits with you, the taxpayer, from a cyber policy which doesn't pay out any claims. They are very interested, however, in having you come to their rescue should a company make a claim for a payout.
After getting a fresh dose of infuriating #Enlightentainment from two non-conflicted observers about one more instance of Leviathan reaching into your pocket to pay off someone else's losses, might we suggest as a palate cleanser that you check out CoinGeek's Bitcoin 101 free course offering? It is more important than ever that you get a clear handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing: https://tpow.app/ebc70fcc
![Energy and Derivatives Market Expert Craig Pirrong Discusses FTX and Bad Government Policy](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/8942146/8942146-1639011461234-1ae589136a541.jpg)
Energy and Derivatives Market Expert Craig Pirrong Discusses FTX and Bad Government Policy
Your Enlightentaining Host trusts a priori Craig Pirrong, Professor of Finance at the University of Houston and blogger https://streetwiseprofessor.com/ on the basis of his undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago.
Beyond that ironclad qualification of intellectual honesty, Craig has demonstrated repeatedly the fortitude to speak truth to power, when power is making serious mistakes in policy and regulatory interpretation.
Join us as we kick around those fraudulent criminals at FTX who deserve the kicking. You'll especially be excited to hear about the Special Unique Prize for Amazing Innovative Thought that Craig has won, along with an exciting new addition to your Host's bucket list.
After getting a fresh dose of #Enlightentainment from two non-conflicted observers, might we suggest as a palate cleanser that you check out CoinGeek's Bitcoin 101 free course offering? It is more important than ever that you get a clear handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing: https://tpow.app/ebc70fcc
![Experienced Bankruptcy Trustee Fred Grede Discusses Intricacies of FTX Collapse](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/8942146/8942146-1639011461234-1ae589136a541.jpg)
Experienced Bankruptcy Trustee Fred Grede Discusses Intricacies of FTX Collapse
There is a great deal to the colossal mess of the bankruptcy of FTX, the almost absurdly mismanaged "crypto exchange" run by Sam Bankman-Fried and, well, apparently no one else.
@Messy Times is honored to host Fred Grede who aside from being a fellow University of Chicago alumnus is a very experienced exchange executive and the former bankruptcy trustee who for a decade worked out the Sentinel Management Group collapse starting in 2007, which featured significant financial fraud. Join us as we touch on a number of the crucial factors which will impact how this whole investigation and bankruptcy process plays out. Legal jurisdiction - Bahamas v. United States - will likely arise very quickly.
Status of creditors, status of customers, the role of equity investors, how Sam's $40 million donations to Democrats in the midterms will impact proceedings are just the tip of the massive mountain of his screw up. There are to be determined complexities around whether any of the groups owned money will form up as a class or whether some larger players will decide to assert claims on their own. All of this and more will be bearing down on Sam and his cohorts living - for now - in the Bahamas.
After getting a fresh dose of #Enlightentainment from two non-conflicted observers, might we suggest as a palate cleanser that you check out CoinGeek's Bitcoin 101 free course offering? It is more important than ever that you get a clear handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing: https://tpow.app/ebc70fcc
![Joshua Henslee and Christopher Messina Kick Around the Insane SBF FTX Fraud](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/8942146/8942146-1639011461234-1ae589136a541.jpg)
Joshua Henslee and Christopher Messina Kick Around the Insane SBF FTX Fraud
Because the impacts from this colossal fraud will be felt for years and the bad news will continue to unfold, Joshua Henslee and your Enlightentaining Host just couldn't resist sorting through the sordid stupidity a bit more.
The new CEO of #FTX is a very experienced workout executive who oversaw the Enron bankruptcy and wrote in his filing for FTX than he has never seen such insane incompetence and lack of operational and financial controls.
Who on earth would give this shlub and his weaselly little meth freak girlfriend a penny, never mind billions of dollars? It's bizarre and stinks to high heaven.
On the plus side, maybe the entire #ESG fraudulent shakedown nonsense will finally be coming to an end. Mussy-haired Sam and his illegal theft machine were given higher ESG ratings than almost any company on earth despite having ZERO governance controls and now we're seeing that they have done massive Social damage.
Tune in for a highly informative discussion and find out why one should never accept "reputation" as a replacement for sound due diligence.
![Weird Fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried Stole Billions. How? Kurt Wuckert, Jr. and I Probe the Mystery.](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/8942146/8942146-1639011461234-1ae589136a541.jpg)
Weird Fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried Stole Billions. How? Kurt Wuckert, Jr. and I Probe the Mystery.
FTX is the most recent example of why good financial regulatory guard rails are a splendid idea. In an ideal laissez-faire world, the market would sort out the criminals from the honest people. In reality, every lying scumbag like Sam Bankman-Fried who stole billions from customers and gave $40 million to Democrats this election cycle (second only to George Soros) destroys confidence in the market and massively impacts the global economy.
Unfortunately, that makes some basic risk management and regulatory oversight a necessary overhead cost for those of us who are not lying criminal fraudsters. A lot of good people just had a lot of money stolen from them by a chubby vegan asshole who just took billions of dollars of customer money to give to his underage-looking, self-confessed amphetamine freak girlfriend Caroline Ellison at Alameda Research to "trade."
This co-conspirator has spoken publicly about having no risk management skills or any interest in acquiring any and gleefully lost all those billions of dollars that Sam gave her illegally.
There is a lot to this evil theft but we suggest you keep a close eye on the $40 million Sam gave to Democrats for the midterm elections. Those politicians must be forced to return that money to whomever is put in charge of clawing back any assets whatsoever to return to injured creditors. Much like people who had just gotten "dividends" from Bernie Madoff before the Ponzi scheme collapsed, that money must be disgorged back to the general creditors' pool.
What can every American do? Call and write your Congressional representatives, the White House and your Governors' offices demanding those "public servants" return that cash.
![Ammo Manufacturer Laura DiBenedetto Talks Freedom, Liberty and Shining a Light on Wannabe Tyrants](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/8942146/8942146-1639011461234-1ae589136a541.jpg)
Ammo Manufacturer Laura DiBenedetto Talks Freedom, Liberty and Shining a Light on Wannabe Tyrants
Freedom, Liberty and the sovereign right to self-defense are the small, unimportant ideas that occupy Laura DiBenedetto's day. We are delighted she visited us in the Messy Times studios for an Election Day discussion covering many things ranging from the insane #Amnesty the Leftists so desperately want, after their destruction of children and damage to society over their manufactured Wuhan Panic, to the dangers posed to free people by an arrogant set of globalist elites.
Tune in for a robust discussion the censors - including those anti-First Amendment weasels at LinkedIn who banned both Laura (temporarily) over an article critiquing this Amnesty nonsense and your Glitteringly Enlightentaining Host (permanently) after he called them out for publishing rampant Jew Hatred - have not yet found a way to ban, although I'm sure they are working on it.
You can find more of her writings on https://lauradibenedetto.com/
You can find her Freedom Seeds 9mm ammo: https://sovereignammo.com/
Once you've gotten a clear picture of how badly the government and the corrupt medical establishment lied to you and continues to lie to you, might we suggest as a palate cleanser that you check out CoinGeek's Bitcoin 101 free course offering? Click here to get a clear handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing.
![Emily Burns has Been Fighting the Wuhan Lie Longer than Messy Times Has!](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/8942146/8942146-1639011461234-1ae589136a541.jpg)
Emily Burns has Been Fighting the Wuhan Lie Longer than Messy Times Has!
Hard on the heels of the ludicrous, offensive and insane article written by a professor at Brown University that we should "all" grant each other "Amnesty" for all the bad things "we" said to each other during the Wuhan Hysteria, Emily wrote one of the best rebuttals to that absurdity. I am delighted to welcome her to the Messy Times studios to discuss why the Left ruined the country, destroyed children's lives and are now trying to get us all to forget their horrendous perfidy.
Those of us who in February 2020 were CORRECT in our assessments of the relative risks posed by the Wuhan Virus and spent the last 2+ years fighting absurd school shutdowns, business lockdowns, kabuki mask theatre and the utter corruption of the medical establishment don't need Amnesty. We were and are right. The awful people who did this to America's children need to be brought to justice. We're looking for Accountability while they are desperate for Amnesty which they are not going to get.
For more of Emily's work, I invite you to join #TeamReality! Check out her phenomenally smart writing at Relamination: https://emilyburns.substack.com/ and her Twitter feed at https://twitter.com/Emily_Burns_V
Once you've gotten a clear picture of how badly the government and the corrupt medical establishment lied to you and continues to lie to you, might we suggest as a palate cleanser that you check out CoinGeek's Bitcoin 101 free course offering? Click here to get a clear handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing: https://tpow.app/ebc70fcc
![Yale Epidemiologist Dr. Harvey Risch Discusses the Corruption of Medical Science](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/8942146/8942146-1639011461234-1ae589136a541.jpg)
Yale Epidemiologist Dr. Harvey Risch Discusses the Corruption of Medical Science
This podcast was begun in the midst of the Wuhan Panic, its main topic being how insanely, blatantly and perniciously were public officials lying to us about nearly every aspect of this disease. We have since moved on to a range of other fascinating topics and guests, but we are especially delighted to have Dr. Harvey Risch join us in the studios to discuss his direct experience with the madness and politicization surrounding a bad seasonal flu, which resulted in appalling damage to the children of this nation (who themselves were and are more likely to die in a car crash than from the Wuhan Flu) and all the rest of society.
His significant experience as an epidemiologist with a PhD from the University of Chicago in the mathematical modeling of infectious epidemics (https://ysph.yale.edu/profile/harvey_risch/) led him to a range of rational conclusions during the entire timespan of the government-cause Wuhan Insanity, conclusions which were ignored and attacked by #Fauci, the #CDC and Big Pharma's other lackeys.
We dive into the enormous financial incentives Big Pharma and the government have for dismissing a treatment, Hydroxychloroquine, which has been used safely for 60 years and costs 40 cents a dose to push very expensive "vaccines" which were rushed into production and often mandated despite their inefficacy at preventing viral spread and without regard to the normal processes of ensuring appropriateness for a given patient and without informed consent.
Tune in and judge for yourself. Harvey provides plenty of references to follow up on to do your own research - something, you'll note, that the establishment voices who spend their time suffocating opposing viewpoints and cancelling those opposed to things like a mandatary "vaccine" which turns out to be transitory in impact and have no value in mitigating transmission never bother to do. They just sling accusations and engage in name-calling and ad hominem attacks.
![Bret Stephens Visits Messy Times](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/8942146/8942146-1639011461234-1ae589136a541.jpg)
Bret Stephens Visits Messy Times
Bret Stephens came by the Messy Times studios for a wide-ranging yet unified theoretical conversation. Wide-ranging because we cover a range of topics from current themes in American censorship, the restriction of "accepted" thought in the public square, January 6th: The Musical! and the enduring uniqueness of the American Project. Unified theoretically because despite holding some opinions in common and some at odds, the proper way to cope in a free society is not to censor speech or refuse to engage but to debate actively.
Free societies thrive when gadflies buzz around the edges of the public square, relatively unmolested. It is why Messy Times stands for absolutely free speech and why every major social advancement in free nations has originated from unexpected and often very annoying (initially) voices questioning the status quo.
Aside from being a fellow alumnus of the University of Chicago, Bret is a Pulitzer Prize winner, was the Editor-in-Chief of the Jerusalem Post before spending more than a decade as an Opinion Columnist for the Wall Street Journal and since 2017 has been the lone conservative voice at the New York Times. He is the author of America in Retreat; the New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder (2014), is the Editor-in-Chief of SAPIR, and is working on a new book you can get a tantalizing glimpse of during our discussion.
After getting a fresh dose of #Enlightentainment from two of the least cancellable thinkers in America, might we suggest as a palate cleanser that you check out CoinGeek's Bitcoin 101 free course offering? Click here to get a clear handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing: https://tpow.app/ebc70fcc
![Craig Wright Joins Us to Ponder the Variable Moral Frameworks Behind People's Economic Assumptions](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/8942146/8942146-1639011461234-1ae589136a541.jpg)
Craig Wright Joins Us to Ponder the Variable Moral Frameworks Behind People's Economic Assumptions
We're delighted to have Craig Wright of nChain back in the studios for some more organic Socratic give and take. Extending beyond the nuances of Intellectual Property, how patents do or do not work and infusing the vicious political fights of our times are the ghosts of thinkers past. It's not just the battles over #Bitcoin as #BTC or #BSV. When you hear people screaming in the public square about what's "fair" or how/if government should intervene in the markets to make things "equal," you're hearing the echoes of religious thinkers extending back 1,000 years to the Dark Ages of Europe.
Purely atheistic thinkers focus on the division of material goods, as there is no higher moral consideration at hand. Those coming from a religious tradition often have clearly developed philosophies on what constitutes "proper" economic activity, including whether usury is a sin, what level or type of interest would constitute usury, whether all lending should be forbidden or just whether lending be made more equity-like in its shared risks. Many people fighting their corner are not even aware of the intellectual traditions that spawned their deepest if inchoate convictions.
Join Craig and Christopher while they kick around the great moral economic fights that inform our times. It's the most fun you can have without a passel of drunk llamas covered in coca leaves and fresh limes.
Once you've let us Swedish massage your brain into fighting shape, might we suggest as a palate cleanser that you check out CoinGeek's Bitcoin 101 free course offering? Click here to get a clear handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing: https://tpow.app/ebc70fcc
![Messy Times Scores its First Scoop! Harvey Silverglate is Running for Harvard Board of Overseers!](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/8942146/8942146-1639011461234-1ae589136a541.jpg)
Messy Times Scores its First Scoop! Harvey Silverglate is Running for Harvard Board of Overseers!
Harvey Silverglate visits the Messy Times studios only to discover there is no daylight between us. Your Enlightentaining Host suspected that would be the case, having read and loved Harvey's brilliant book, Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent. During a wide-ranging conversation between two free speech absolutists, we touch on a few topics of little controversy. Abolish the FBI. Plea Bargaining is Extortion. Harvard is Broken.
The Harvard Corporation runs the University, including the rampant runaway Leftist nonsense which has spread throughout higher education in America, leading to among other things, the erosion of our educational rankings internationally. The Speech Codes and kangaroo courts at Harvard mirror the same neo-Marxist nonsense found at hundreds of colleges across the land.
As an alumnus of Harvard Law School, who grew up with the mantra "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me," he is appalled by the Maoist censorship madness run amok on his former campus. He is running as a write-in candidate for the Harvard Board of Overseers, with a very simple, compelling and clear agenda.
As for the FBI, it's an insanely corrupt institution from its inception and should be abolished immediately. We have all witnessed the recent travesties under Comey and Wray. Tune in to hear a defense attorney's view of this viper's nest. The FBI has never written an accurate Form 302 which is THEIR written recollection of what YOU are supposed to have said during an interview, during which YOU are not allowed to record anything. J. Edgar Hoover is alive and well and the FBI needs to be relegated to the history books as a cautionary tale about the dangers of centralized power in a republic.
Lastly, and in keeping with the proper application of Justice in this country, every single defendant is entitled to a real trial, where the State must either prove its case or drop the matter. Plea bargaining is extortion, does enormous societal damage and should be outlawed instantly.
Once you've heard us bash the living bejeebers out of the parasitic, overreaching Administrative Leviathan, might we suggest as a palate cleanser that you check out CoinGeek's Bitcoin 101 free course offering?
More on Harvey and his books: https://www.harveysilverglate.com/about-harvey
![Joshua Henslee and Christopher Messina Dive Deep into BTC's Ironic About Face with The Fed](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/8942146/8942146-1639011461234-1ae589136a541.jpg)
Joshua Henslee and Christopher Messina Dive Deep into BTC's Ironic About Face with The Fed
#Bitcoin started as a libertarian revolt against central bank fiat currencies and value-detractive rent-seeking from credit card companies and banks for online payments processing. Somewhere along the way, as BTC HODLers accumulated large amounts of theoretical wealth, in large part due to extremely low interest rates from The Federal Reserve, the tone shifted from opposition to begging for help to keep the BTC priced fluffed up. So much for revolution and decentralization as a core principle.
Join us as we dive into some of the myriad factors whipsawing equity, bond and foreign exchange markets, both fundamental and wholly illusory.
Once you've heard us bash the living bejeebers out of "cryptocurrencies" backed by nothing but hot air, might we suggest as a palate cleanser that you check out CoinGeek's Bitcoin 101 free course offering? Click here to get a clear handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing: https://tpow.app/ebc70fcc
![Foreign Affairs: HODLONAUT is Magnus Granath; Guy Hates Craig Wright; Oslo Courts are Polite](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/8942146/8942146-1639011461234-1ae589136a541.jpg)
Foreign Affairs: HODLONAUT is Magnus Granath; Guy Hates Craig Wright; Oslo Courts are Polite
#Bitcoin Historian Kurt Wuckert Jr visits the Messy Times studios fresh off his trip to Norway. He was visiting the oil-rich Scandinavian paradise to report on the defamation case against a Norwegian schoolteacher who likes to spend his time online hurling adolescent insults at people he has taken a dislike to, in this case, the Chief Scientist of nChain, Craig Wright.
So far as I care to bother to discern, this guy Magnus Granath goes by the online moniker HODLONAUT and has spent years sending public and private messages harassing Mr Wright because Granath - the juvenile keyboard warrior trying to hide behind online anonymity - somehow had his ire raised by Mr Wright's authorship of the original Bitcoin White Paper.
Join us as we delve into the bizarre quasi-religious Bitcoin Wars (Squabbles? Skirmishes?) that continue to simmer unnoticed by 99.9999% of the planet's inhabitants but have an impact shaping cryptocurrency markets.
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![Heshy Tischler Visits the Messy Times Sukkah to Discuss Civic Participation](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/8942146/8942146-1639011461234-1ae589136a541.jpg)
Heshy Tischler Visits the Messy Times Sukkah to Discuss Civic Participation
With 30 days before the American midterm elections, Heshy and our Glittering Host dive into the imponderable mysteries around Voter Apathy. The Political Class has managed to be universally reviled AND to keep themselves in power. How is this possible? How can 80% of New Yorkers hate the crime and decay of their city but only 11% of registered voters bother to go to the polls? Get involved, people, it's only your government if you bother to get involved in voting these clowns out of office to be replaced by responsible, respectable people who will actually act in your interests. Go vote; they HATE IT when you do that.
Once you are done with your delighted astonishment at this fresh helping of #Enlightentainment, be sure to do all the right stuff by clicking "subscribe," "like" and sending it to hundreds of your dearest friends.
Check out CoinGeek's Bitcoin 101 free course offering to get a clear handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing. Trust me! There is a strong connection between liberty and the proper application of Bitcoin as originally defined.
![Ed Martin Visits Messy Times to Discuss Phyllis Schlafly and Her Enduring Legacy](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/8942146/8942146-1639011461234-1ae589136a541.jpg)
Ed Martin Visits Messy Times to Discuss Phyllis Schlafly and Her Enduring Legacy
Ed Martin came by the Messy Times studios to talk about his role as the President of the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles and the important work that Phyllis began decades ago which the Eagles continue in her name and spirit.
Grab a soothing caffeinated beverage, settle back and have a listen to what reasoned discussion about principles-driven policy sounds like. It'll be startling to those accustomed to the hysterical lies of the popular media, so if you feel a sense of dissonance or intellectual discomfort, that's just the unfamiliarity of hearing honest people discuss rational ideals of republican governance.
Once you are done with your delighted astonishment at this fresh helping of #Enlightentainment, be sure to do all the right stuff by clicking "subscribe," "like" and sending it to hundreds of your dearest friends.
Check out CoinGeek's Bitcoin 101 free course offering to get a clear handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing; trust me, there's a connection between good policy sound blockchain applications!
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![Messy Times Endorses Unreservedly the Architecture Uprising!](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/8942146/8942146-1639011461234-1ae589136a541.jpg)
Messy Times Endorses Unreservedly the Architecture Uprising!
For those normal humans who prefer to live in an aesthetically pleasing built environment, we're in luck! The #Arkitekturupproret is upon us! Strap in, strap up and fight the New Classical Fight!
Michael Diamant joins us via an encrypted connection from his anti-Modernist bunker in Stockholm, whence he discourses on the horrendous violations of human rights committed on the daily by architectural malpractice. Tune in to find out why he created the awesome website New Traditional Architecture & Urbanism https://newtrad.org/and why he is on a mission to dismantle the dominance in Europe of horribly ugly buildings created by Modernists with shriveled souls and a thorough lack of aesthetic principles.
It's a twisting, turning tale of social ostracism leading to bad design convictions resulting in the sheer horror of nasty looking buildings all around us. Next time you're at the raw bar buffet and turn a cold shoulder to a young architectural student, just think about the repercussions that social slight may bring.
Join the Uprising! Demand objective aesthetics! Eschew relativism! Join us as we push for a return to objective beauty and the types of buildings people enjoy living in and around, rather than simply enduring.
In addition to his website, you can find his gorgeous photographs and architectural ruminations across various platforms:
https://twitter.com/michael_diamant
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Klassisknyproduktion
https://www.reddit.com/r/ArchitecturalRevival/
Once you've gotten your dander up about #Modernism, may we suggest as a palate cleanser that you check out #CoinGeek's #Bitcoin 101 free course offering? Click here to get a solid handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing: https://tpow.app/ebc70fcc
![Satoshi Nakaloco Visits Messy Times to Bash BTC and Stump for Crypto Regulation](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/8942146/8942146-1639011461234-1ae589136a541.jpg)
Satoshi Nakaloco Visits Messy Times to Bash BTC and Stump for Crypto Regulation
Lawyer, engineer and entrepreneur Bob Seeman dropped by the Messy Times studios to share his criticisms of Bitcoin as currently implemented. Bob is a deep thinker as well as the author of Coinmen and an upcoming book written under his pseudonym Nakaloco.
Join us as we dive into the depths of relative versus absolute value, what constitutes an asset, how and if regulators ever add value and other enticing topics! Brace for Category 4 Enlightentainment.
Once you've heard Nakaloco-san bash the living bejeebers out of BTC, might we suggest as a palate cleanser that you check out CoinGeek's Bitcoin 101 free course offering? Click here to get a clear handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing: https://tpow.app/ebc70fcc
![Do Cyber Buccaneers Require Letters of Marque?](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/8942146/8942146-1639011461234-1ae589136a541.jpg)
Do Cyber Buccaneers Require Letters of Marque?
Experienced attorney and cyber insurance expert Bruce De'Medici visits the Messy Times studios for a robust and highly Enlightentaining conversation about the cyber risk ecosystem. Bruce focuses on helping small and medium sized businesses grapple with a very hostile environment, which sees them buffeted on all sides by hackers, nation-states, insurance companies and their "own" - HAH! - government.
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![Kurt Wuckert Jr. Clarifies Bitcoin Even Further](https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/8942146/8942146-1639011461234-1ae589136a541.jpg)
Kurt Wuckert Jr. Clarifies Bitcoin Even Further
We are delighted to have Kurt return to the studios to further untangle the general public's confusion about how Bitcoin actually works. Join us to discover why environmentalists and power grid operators should love Bitcoin miners, what a SHA-256 hash is (you know you were afraid to ask), why a basic laptop used to get you 6 Bitcoins every 10 minutes and how all of this resembles little children hunting for Easter eggs in an overgrown lawn.