Oddbean

The pinkness of that ball offends me, can it be changed to red, white, and blue, please??? Cuz... Those Capitol Hill more-ons are the ones all over totalitarianism like Wall Street degens snorting coke of a hookers butt crack...

Worries are well founded. Especially as it has been revealed that various three letter agencies are suing the DOJ to prevent them revealing identities of people who used Whirlpool. Apparently Whirlpools biggest customers were three letter agency operatives. DOJ will probably prune the list and just release IDs of teachers, truck drivers, college kids and retirees. I have a relative who was a three letter careerist. He hates the citizenry.

So-called governments (they are actually all private corporations) quite openly launder money. That is because they never disclose the beneficial owner of the bank account on their payment requests they send to us. In addition, they even fail to state a tax ID. So there is also a nice tax evasion going on… That means that whenever we pay their requests for payment (such as fines of any kind) we are actually engaging in money laundering and tax evasion. The responsible international organization for monitoring such illicit financial transactions is the FATF and it very clearly puts great importance to beneficial ownership: https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/topics/beneficial-ownership.html So we have the opportunity to request the beneficial owner of their bank account together with a tax ID from the “governmental” officers. If they fail to provide this information then we can report such illicit activities to the regional subdivisions of the FATF called FIU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Intelligence_Unit Doing so will cause some serious trouble to the “governmental” office that harassed you… It is something that all of us can do.