Alex Berenson

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/on-damar-hamlin-mrna-shots-and-spin

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After mass protests in China-including reports of a "Quarantine Site" being set ablaze in Lanzhaou. The Chinese Communist Party is ending their Zero Covid Policy. China, the origin of Covid-19, had been one of the last remaining hold-outs of school closures, digital tracking and other failed containment policies. With this change of course, Covid-19 lockdowns are being brushed to the dust bin of history. For th…

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Just a few hours ago, Victoria, Australia, which comes closer than anywhere else in the world to counting actual deaths in real time, reported 3,736 deaths in November. That figure was only about 5 percent above the 2016-2021 average - well below monthly increases from earlier in the year. Last Thursday, a European consortium called EuroMOMO said its most recent weekly estimates “show elevated but decreasing level o…

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mRNA Covid booster campaigns have flamed out. Will lower excess mortality follow? New datapoints suggest yes. A continuing trend will be VERY good news - and even harder for Covid vaccine advocates to explain. New evidence of a link between all-cause mortality and mRNA Covid vaccines is arriving - for an unexpectedly hopeful reason. After a short burst of booster shots earlier this fall, people in highly mRNA vacc…

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Considering that Alameda hugely influenced the price of the FTT tokens, this would be a bit like Citibank simply declaring it had enough “Citidollars” in its accounts to pay off loans to other banks. The Coindesk.com report laid bare how much trouble FTX and Alameda were in, and a run on FTX began immediately as clients tried to pull their deposits. But they couldn’t, because FTX had transferred billions of dollars t…

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By the summer, Cohodes believed he had garnered enough evidence to interest mainstream media outlets. On July 3rd, he approached the cryptocurrencies team at Bloomberg, the financial news service. Bloomberg was not interested: I have a real problem with the mainstream media… I think this whole thing’s been covered up and I think they’ve failed people bad… Bloomberg said if we go to him with these questions, we’ll l…

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But Bankman-Fried wasn’t content to be known as a voice for fairness in cryptocurrency. He claimed to see himself as the 21st century’s savior, pretending that he only wanted to make money… to give it away. In interviews, he called himself a believer in “effective altruism,” a theory that basically claims that very smart people should try to get as rich as possible to become hyper-charitable. A doctor might save 100…

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Yet at the same time, SBF pitched himself as the friend of small investors, a crypto executive who wanted to establish an exchange that would be fair for all. He regularly traveled to Washington to lobby regulators, and he donated more than $40 million to Democratic politicians in 2022 - and one point suggested he might donate as much as $1 billion to Democrats in 2024 race. (He has now claimed he secretly donated $…

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It featured nearly a dozen people - including one who was supposed to be Brady’s plumber - doing little more than saying “I’m in” as Brady and Bundchen supposedly explained the wonders of cryptocurrency investing. In retrospect, the ad looks like nothing more than marketing for a Ponzi scheme on a massive scale. Cohodes: It was a giant Ponzi scheme to try to use customer money to control an agenda… Crypto was a hook…

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With fortunes apparently available for the taking, unsophisticated investors who had little understanding of crypto or its risks began to invest too. Crypto companies encouraged them, explicitly marketing leveraged currency trading - among the riskiest forms of speculation, essentially gambling on borrowed money - as an investment appropriate for average people. FTX was among the most aggressive advertisers, running…

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Cohodes says Bankman-Fried’s behavior is particularly reprehensible because FTX targeted retail investors in the United States and around the world. In 2020 and 2021, as central banks pumped money into the financial system to cushion the effects of Covid lockdowns, the prices of financial assets like cryptocurrencies soared. Developers of and early investors in new cryptocurrencies could make fortunes overnight. Th…

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This defense would be more compelling if Bankman-Fried did not OWN 90 percent of Alameda - and if it had not lent him $1 billion, as the bankruptcy filing revealed. To Cohodes, Bankman-Fried is simply proving to the world what Cohodes has known all along. SBF is a sociopath and a compulsive liar. Throughout, italics are Cohodes’s own words: All these fraudsters that I’ve dealt with over the years, they all have th…

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