WHITE HEAT: The Rise and Fall of Public Enemies
Information launderers for Russia are going all in before they’re hauled in
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Admittedly, the ‘80s is my least favorite decade.
It stunk of greed, Ayn Rand, and preppy dipshits.
Sure, there was some great music. And in San Francisco, where I’m from, we had a kickass football team.
But the high-tone haves acted superior to the humble have-lessers. You should see my face right now, recalling the snobbery. Ugh.
“Hi, my name’s Biff, and I went to Harvard…” teeth gleaming, dad worked for Monsanto, dark bar, Stanford MBA.
“Did I ask where you went to school?” I thought to myself.
Nah.
I was at UC Berkeley training for a future third act as an unpaid Twitter activist — his Harvard/Stanford pedigree didn’t intrigue me.
So of course, we started dating.
This was the ‘80s, and it was Pretty In Pink. That Duckie grew up to become an actorvist married to a friend of mine is another story.
I tried for a minute to be the perfect match for my Harvard/Stanford MBA, Biff, but when we broke up at a campus party, and he went to get my purse and coat and brought the wrong fucking coat, that was it.
I tore home in the rain, called a friend in a ‘loser’ fraternity where I was a Little Sister, and we listened to X all night.
“Sheeee had to leave…. dunt dunt dunt … Los Angeles!”
Punk rock saved my life.
I begin this report here, because I’ve noticed an alarming pattern of stalkers born in the ‘80s. Whenever I identify controlled opposition ‘journalists’ linked to the online cell of stalkers who have tried very hard to force people I love, including myself, to commit suicide, I always note their date of birth. It’s usually — not always, but often — in the ‘greed is good’ decade.
I realize that they missed things like Civil Rights, Gay Rights, Women’s Rights, Human Rights, empathy, decency, and that they likely huffed nihilism somewhere along the way.
I blame the internet.
Although I try very hard to send light to those with spiritual maladies, I still find myself pondering what kind of person would take money to intentionally coordinate the destruction of other people? I understand it more if you’re born in an authoritarian country where gig stalkers earn more than the town mayor, but if you’re born in the USA, there are other options.
I used to think if we ever get serious about addressing online hate cults for hire, we could offer jobs like planting trees, create some sort of diversion program for ex-trolls.
Plant trees, not fakes.
What is happening now since the Tenet Reveal is networks are being exposed, and sociopaths are last gasping.
Information Laundering
Today, in our Happy Hour — Tailgate Party With Marty — Martin Sheil was pure fire. He spent his career following the money, mapping criminal networks, exposing the offshoring game, and working with federal law enforcement to ensure mobsters receive justice.
We talked about Vincent the Chin and the bathrobe shuffle — potentially Trump’s next act, feigning derangement to dupe law enforcement.
But we also talked about Information Laundering and how it works.
I explained to him how Tenet commentators, who took millions of dollar from the Russians, are directly linked to the stalker cell who have caused me and others tremendous harms. I asked him if he could draw a parallel from money laundering to information laundering, and he confirmed.
“What you’ve described is a ‘conspiracy.’ Everyone has different jobs to further the conspiracy, and in a drug conspiracy, there will be — if you look at the cartels — there will be the farmers growing the poppies, the processors who refine it to break it down into a sellable good, there will be the transporters, who drive the product all over the country, and then there will be folks who drive the currency, the money, the profits back. There are the Smurfs, and the Smurfs take the drug profits — the money sold on the street corner — and they’ll try to smurf it into a bank. So for example, they’ll take a hundred thousand dollars and try to put it in various banks, keeping the cash under ten thousand there’s no reporting required… and then they start the laundering process. So the drug money is smurfed through banks.
“There are all different types of levels, and everyone has to get paid, and it’s run like a business, and everyone has their jobs in the business. So if you want to take down the whole cartel, the whole organization, you can do it using the conspiracy statutes, the drug statutes, the racketeering statutes, and the money laundering statutes.”—Martin Sheil for Bette Dangerous
We know from the 277-page doppelganger affidavit that the Russians paid the information launderers in ‘BitPay’, but as Marty noted, he believes cash is still king, and the old ways of money laundering will be with us for awhile. He did caution that Trump’s son getting into crypto will not be good for anyone.
As Jim Stewartson wrote today in his report, The Late Awakening: Russia Russia Russia, where he noted the recent DOJ indictment is the tip of the iceberg:
“On a personal note, as this news broke, there was a new outbreak of stalking and infiltration by people who have been doing it for four years now. I note that the Russians themselves say that part of their ‘algorithm’ involves ‘neutralizing’ and ‘undermining’ counter-propaganda.
“Well, the Russians and their American co-conspirators found out my friends and I are not that easy to get rid of, despite their best efforts. And now, their dirty operations are being outed.”—Jim Stewartson for Mind War
And as our podcast co-host High Fidelity told Bette Dangerous: “What we’re seeing is the ‘final push before the election’ money being spent.”
You know, it’s funny. Everything old is new again — just the techniques and the modes of delivery have been updated.
As James Cagney said in White Heat, the 1949 gangster film he made two decades after he became a star with The Public Enemy:
“Made it, Ma. Top of the world!”
And then he explodes in a fiery inferno.
It feels like one of those moments. A last gasp for gangsters.
I read a lot of history books and am currently reading, The Gravediggers: The Last Winter of the Weimar Republic.
I just learned about Bella Fromm, an author from a wealthy Jewish wine family, who had to take up reporting when she lost everything in the collapsing Weimar economy. She was close to many diplomats and worked her way up from the society pages to a political column, Berlin Diplomats. When she first saw Hitler’s ‘grave, belligerent’ face — a man she called ‘Kaiser Adolf’ among her friends — a single word crossed her mind: Manitu. An evil shaman.
She knew.
She thought “the idea that the Nazis could be neutered by integrating them into government extremely dangerous.”
While Fromm’s banker friend was on his way to meet Hitler at the Kaiserhof Hotel, she asked him: “I’d like to know what he wants there. Surely nothing that bodes well for decent people.”
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An excellent read! It brought back many '80s memories of my own!