On Part 2 of Blindingly Unjust, we look at the way the law, public relations, the media interact with each other in order to manufacture consent. We start by examining the kid-gloves in which Sam-Bankman Fried is treated with and then we move on to examine the larger power structures that allows impunity for some and imprisonment for others.
Show Notes
0:50 - Sam Bankman-Fried Scandal
1:30 - Elizabeth Holmes
2:00 - Sam Bankman-Fried admits to running a Ponzi Scheme
10:36 - Coordinated Pump and Dump
12:42 - FTX’s backdoor: The exchange is supposed to be a safe that cannot cracked, but FTX figured out how to “crack” the safe.
14:19 - FTX being embedded with politicians and appearing with Zelensky
15:13 - Old lady being in jail over Christmas
16:38 - Prosecutorial power
17:30 - Arrested over “a 1000-yard stare”: Racial discrimination where a black person was sitting outside.
19:15 - Prosecutor’s office and Police are extremely comingled which is why we cannot get a single conviction
20:50 - The limits of Law - it is an expression of societal power.
23:12 - Bush Vs Gore and Legal fiction
25:42 - The same power circle within the USA
27:38 - China’s meritocracy
30:22 - The way China works vs the Way the USA works
32:50 - Who owns BMW
36:15 - Media driven blood-lust
38:15 - Korean War Posters
43:17 - Who the us fights a war with..
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