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This series of blog posts by Overstock Founder and CEO Patrick Byrne reveals the corruption of the law in the USA that is at the heart of both Wall Street’s most corrupt practices, and those of what has come to be called “the deep state.” (The ‘deep state,’ for those unacquainted, is comprised of ‘the portions of the state that don’t change when there’s an election.’) When Donald Trump was elected, armies of bureaucrats remained loyal to internal fiefdoms within the SEC, FBI, OCDETF (I had to look it up, too), etc. This blog, while initially serving as a window into Wall Street’s corrupt practices (2006-2008) now reveals how that corruption has spread outward, to the very foundations of western liberal democracy itself.
In order to keep a security clearance he had previously obtained in good faith, Byrne naively informed the FBI that he had developed a relationship with a Russian gun rights activist named Maria Butina. In a USA that abided by the Bill of Rights, this would have been no big deal. In a deep-state-USA full of Clinton loyalists looking for Russians under every rock and desperately attempting to tilt the political field to favor Hillary Clinton, it signaled to thoroughly-corrupted FBI agents (Strzok, etc.) that Byrne was someone they could manipulate. To what end? Why should you care? If the deep state can entrap billionaire CEOs and a sitting U.S. President, they can entrap you.

A [see Forbes] $16.8 TRILLION “bail-out” would follow the Wall Street crash in 2008, itself worse than 1929. Five insiders saw the crash coming, among them Patrick Byrne — Stanford PhD, acolyte of Warren Buffett, and founder and CEO of Overstock.com.

An enraged Byrne in 2006 witnessed deep capture: The Security Exchange Commission, far from regulating, allowed quality securities bundled with trash, chronic delays in security transfers, short sales not backed by assets, failures to deliver. “Banksters have hijacked not just the regulators and industry self-regulators, but the politicians who oversee them, the academics who serve them, and much of the New York-based financial press.”

As the world spun into the crash, the US middle-man system permitted crimes against humanity like that $16.8 trillion “bail-out” and for-profit lobbying for endless war, shifting unimaginable loss onto everyone — except those who caused it.

Eliminating middle men, Blockchain is the peer-to-peer technology that powers cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. Byrne’s Overstock, the first retailer to accept Bitcoins, invested in blockchain start-ups, then launched tZERO. A self-contained blockchained clearinghouse for each investor’s phone, combined with tradable digital tokens of stock, bond and options, TZERO offered freedom from central clearinghouses: Wall Street, Coinbase, etc. Independence!

By threatening to drop Overstock, insurers forced Byrne’s resignation in 2019. Converting $90 million in Overstock stock to gold, silver and crypto, he refocused. In speeches, on his DeepCapture website, he educates, prods investigative reporters and urges his industry to create a full scale blockchained libetarian financial operating system. Revolution!

Patrick and Maria were sorely used, but the story of “Byrentina” is only relevant insofar as manifesting the shard of truth that illuminates The Problem.

If the Senate Judiciary is “fantastic” and X/Y/Z are outside of, yet capable of directing, the FBI, then X/Y/Z must haunt the DoJ or the Senate, and whose tenure must span
• 2015.07 “greenlight”
• 2016.04 “end it”,
• 2016.07 “rekindle” (X/Y/Z invoked)
• 2017.04 “stand down”

Based on the VERY IMPORTANT STORY from 2006, Schumer’s involved. Based on the timing of the “rekindle” directive, we might also point to Loretta Lynch.

On the FBI side, the legitimate and well-documented fact of foreign election interference has been subsumed by partisan red-scare bullshit, exposed by their “interest” in Hillary’s exposure, and “lassiez faire” for Rubio, Cruz, and Trump. Strzonk’s exposure to “Midyear Exam”, “Hurricane Crossifre” and the Mueller probe, and how those things seemed to spill over into the SEC expose the depth and breadth of the capture.

On the SEC side, their resistance to investigate and enforce against slop pre-dates the Obama administration, but the connections are strong from the newly-promoted associate director Hodgman-Strzonk slow-walking the Clinton Foundation, up through the Debevoise&Plimpton alumni leadership with their clear ties to the Democratic machine.

It’s not political; YOU are being extorted and stolen from. No matter who has capture of the benefits of settlement slop or foreign interference, burn them all down.

“Pattern: 7: a reliable sample of traits, acts, tendencies, or other observable characteristics of a person, group, or institution” -Merriam-Webster

It’s unfortunate that stories of financial mischief, coverups, political espionage and corruption show a pattern that largely goes unquestioned.

But here we are. Again.

In the early 2000’s, Patrick Byrne called out financial mischief on Wall Street and didn’t back down. Shark Town got its power “tools” to make Byrne look a fool, but Wall Street imploded on itself and exploded on the American people. Instead of admitting Byrne was right, many of those “tools” just went into a “Cone of Silence,” something the public largely seems to be okay with these days. When’s the last time you saw a journalist make a correction?

Byrne worked successfully with federal law enforcement in the past. But his latest experience, after meeting Russian national Maria Butina, exposed him to the Deep State once again. When you find bad leadership in positions of power, you’ll find the pattern.

The pattern? Place people who are on your side and sympathetic to your cause in places of power, over time, and within an Establishment. As long as everyone around is okay with this (eye roll), you’re set to change the rule of law so you always win, even at the cost of the American people.

Are we okay with a lack of counterbalancing influences in power?

“A peaceful place or so it looks from space – A closer look reveals the human race” – “Throwing Stones”

In August, libertarian, concerned citizen, and former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne exposed his unwitting involvement in a political espionage scheme involving candidates Clinton, Rubio, Cruz and Trump. Putting everything on the line, his account shows rogue senior officials creating an “insurance policy”, an entrapment scheme targeting future President Trump via a Russian collusion narrative. The prescient Byrne is no stranger to machinations of the deep state. He recognized and exposed stock settlement ‘slop’ underpinning the 2008 financial crisis, and now is fact witness of an attempted deep state coup to overthrow a duly elected President. A sagacious intellectual and three-time cancer survivor, Byrne is a fighter with the discernment to pierce the dissimulation of a shadowy deep state. His mother can be proud of gentlemanly conduct with Russian Maria Butina, and the strength of character to reject bribes, walking the difficult path of a patriot. The salacious story, often misreported by agitprop media, is the tip of an iceberg that will again focus on Wall-Street. The SEC’s Bazoomba! of OSTK’s blockchain-based dividend was a litmus test of their service to trading house wolfs, blocking a crypto-revolution offering fairness to the settlement system. Since September, the Federal Reserve has pumped hundreds of billions to cover a “liquidity” gap. Can Patrick help us navigate the financial restructuring looming on the horizon, to usher in a new paradigm? Thanks to patriots like Patrick Byrne, dawn is breaking everywhere, so light a candle, and let the deep state curse the glare. Be Greatful Again.

Additional References:
[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgUjecJtcOY
Overstock CEO resigns after disclosing romance with Russian agent, Aug 22, 2019; interview with Martha MacCallum, Fox News
[2]https://www.thewrap.com/morning-joe-lauds-deputy-ag-rod-rosensteins-integrity-you-need-a-deep-state/
‘Morning Joe’ Lauds Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein’s Integrity: ‘You Need a Deep State’ (Video)
The surprising admission came from show regular Richard Haas; Jon Levine | May 2, 2018
[3]https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/10/02/richard_haass_self-coup_by_trump_to_delegitimize_government_is_setting_the_stage_for_violence.html
By Tim Hains, October 2, 2019
[4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5J-1rs1LJo
Exclusive: Former Overstock CEO speaks out on his resignation, Aug 22, 2019
[5]https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/12/15/devin_nunes_dirty_cops_at_the_fbi_and_the_department_of_justice_committing_obstruction_of_congress_to_hide_anti-trump_spy_ring.html
[6]https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/overstock-ceo-byrne-resigns-deep-state-interview-butina-russia-spy-relationship.html
[7]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4mmg093qzo
Rosenstein Thought Two Cabinet Officials Would Help Remove Trump From Office | The Last Word | MSNBC, Oct 7, 2019
[8]http://www.europereloaded.com/deep-state-boasts-sabotaging-trump-inside/
Deep State Boasts: We’re Sabotaging Trump From the Inside; January 2, 2018 Pam Barker

Patrick Byrne, founder of billion-dollar retailer Overstock.com, predicted the financial crash of 2008. Like other classical liberals, Byrne warned of the government’s inflation of the money supply. But, unlike others, Byrne had uncovered a parallel danger: the fraudulent inflation of the number of shares of stock through Failure to Deliver (FTD)—whereby bad actors exploited a hole in the system of stock settlement and sold the same share of stock to multiple parties yet never delivered the stock to anyone.

Byrne was rebuffed by regulators and ridiculed in the financial press—until the crash. Then Alan Greenspan named the settlement system as one of the three causes. Nevertheless, the regulators and press remain deep captured.

Byrne long suspected that short-selling through FTDs had depressed Overstock’s market valuation—which should be many times higher to be in parity with competitors.

Overstock had started a blockchain company, tZERO, and announced a stock dividend to be paid in blockchain currency through tZERO. This dividend would reveal the number of Overstock shares that owners thought they owned, compared to the actual number issued.

The SEC stopped the dividend. Byrne wanted to fight, but couldn’t: He had just resigned from Overstock and agreed to sell all his stock! Byrne had gone public about being asked by Men in Black to tryst with a Russian woman who was meeting illegally with four presidential campaigns.

Byrne sold his stock and bought gold and other hedges. What will he do when the next crash comes?

This contest asks us to write 250 words, while I’ve only got one: BAZOOMBA!
The truth must be exposed strategically. You can’t just go around yelling “I helped the Men in Black!” and expect people to take you seriously. Patrick’s siren in this story is Maria Butina, who could write the bible on political networking. She knew people and this aroused Patrick. Names like Trump, Clinton, Putin, regular mentions in conversation. Patrick deciphered mysteries about the 2008-9 financial crisis. You can’t just stumble across mischief and in good conscience stay silent — and yet once you report it, they’ll photoshop UFOs coming out of your brains. And as a result, it’s inevitable to have innocent bystanders.
For more than two decades, Patrick built Overstock.com into a household name. Anyone wanting to shut him up knows that is his Achilles’ heel. At first, Patrick decided to use his weaknesses as his strengths and employ Overstock as a vehicle to build the new paradigm parallel to the dystopia that Butina had helped him uncover. Deep state manipulation over capital markets made Patrick’s ties with Overstock detrimental to the company itself, so he had to jump ship, hoping that his absence would bode a better future for his colleagues. Since tZero could bring capital markets into blockchain, freeing them of the hegemony of the SEC, who unfairly cater to short sellers, it is still unclear whether Patrick’s absence will avert the sabotage, or make it worse. Time will tell.

Wrangling with Wall Street, romancing a Russian Femme Fatale, and exposing FBI corruption. That isn’t the tagline for a new Jason Bourne film. It’s Patrick Byrne’s résumé. Patrick Byrne is the founder of Overstock.com and a self-described “hippie of the corporate world”. Byrne details his adventures on his blog, DeepCapture.com, which has brought him fame and infamy alike. In August of 2019, he released his most explosive story to-date: the FBI tried to dirty up four 2016 presidential candidates by leveraging Byrne’s relationship with a Russian woman named Maria Butina. His involvement in the operation didn’t click until he saw the FBI agent who masterminded the operation testify to Congress. That agent’s name was Peter Strzok. Meanwhile, Overstock.com was attempting to sell its retail business so it could focus on emerging cryptocurrency ventures. The potential buyer walked away because Overstock was bogged down by a bogus SEC inquiry. By some “strange coincidence”, the SEC director in charge of the inquiry happened to be Peter Strzok’s wife. Weeks later, Byrne felt the wrath of Wall St. once again by trying to issue a crypto-backed dividend to Overstock shareholders. The dividend would have exposed millions of counterfeit OSTK shares. Wall St. and the SEC have done their best to squash the dividend. Through it all, Byrne has lost friends, made enemies, and rejected billions in bribes for his silence. Byrne has since decoupled himself from Overstock.com to spare the company unnecessary notoriety—but the story is far from over.

Patrick Byrne, a modern-day Paul Revere, began sounding the alarm in 2004 that our republic was in mortal danger, under unprecedented attack by the oligarchs and their Deep State minions on Wall Street, as well as in the US government, whom he accused of systematically gutting the US economy and undermining the principles enshrined in our Constitution. Recently, Byrne again sounded the alarm, this time about Deep State political espionage related to the 2016 Presidential election. According to Byrne, officials in the Obama administration, including FBI Director, James Comey, began laying the groundwork in July, 2015, for a soft coup psyop later unveiled as the “Russian-collusion” narrative. Toward that end, Byrne was approached by members of the FBI in the months leading up to the election, and asked to rekindle a relationship with ex-girlfriend, Maria Butina, a Russian grad student, who had been meeting with members of various Presidential campaigns in order to establish back channels to peace between Russia and the US on the subjects of classical liberalism and block chain technology. Byrne complied, but became suspicious that Maria were being used as a pawn in some kind of political chess game when the FBI subsequently told him to “back off” and let a proposed meeting between Butina and Donald Trump, Jr., happen. Hypocritically, during Butina’s trial, she was accused of causing great harm to US national security. Ultimately, however, she was found guilty of nothing more than failing to register as a “foreign agent,” i.e. lobbyist. Got that?

Patrick Byrne wrote several seemingly unrelated stories about finance, government, and the media. In reality, the articles were related – and will prepare us for what’s coming.

Reporters misreporting, SEC actions launched at the worst moment, corrupt stock market machinations, even his own people ignoring orders, lying – sabotaging. If random, why’d it always work against Patrick and Overstock? Alone, each can be chance. But accumulated, they are possible indicators of coordinated intelligence activity. It’s what spies operating looks like – not obvious, but consistent and well-timed. Notice, FBI political spying was included.

I’ve seen this machine, and it’s immense. Few would think it even possible. They don’t understand, we’re not the beginning. It’s likely grown over centuries, handed down, mentors to proteges, and infiltrating from empire to empire, and religion – more massive, organized, experienced, and untouchable with each generation. The technology, especially in surveillance and espionage – beyond imagination – and deployed everywhere on almost everyone at some point. The civilian informant network – the biggest secret kept – astounds. “Gangstalking” is real, though it’s really just ever-present surveillance.

It seems impossible, but such a network need form only once. Given enough time, chance makes it inevitable. Once formed, hidden and lacking public scrutiny, growth’s constant and effortless – a black hole of hidden influence and corruption schemes, sucking in power, wealth, and psychopathy – and infiltrating media, business, government, academia, religion, and even culture.

Patrick might not even know how bad things are. But that’s coming.

Financial Justice Warrior Patrick Byrne makes the first cut against the Wall Street Gang grain with a Dutch Auction rather than joining the IPO racket, earns perpetual malice for not falling in line. Despite not being a Good Ole’ Boy Byrne builds a successful company pestered by subtle efforts to pancake progress by those who stand to lose to the truth: the rules aren’t there to protect the public, they are selectively enforced by friends in high places.

Government agencies spend years doing bare minimum to not disrupt the status quo, using Byrne’s talent while retarding his efforts in a bath of red-tape and circumstance.
In a delicate game of Goliath and mouse Byrne spends years coordinating the creation of a brilliant new system to eliminate the sloppy settlement that enables the fraud playground to proliferate unexposed; blockchain opens the book that the SEC asked him to translate while buying Wall Street time to bail water.

Rich crooks chop at the OSTK tree trunk lest the fruit grows. Impairing the company with smear and phantom shares distracts from the overarching plan which is to reinvent truth in assets. Detractors are successful in shaking the easily distracted, Patrick is persona non grata.

While cooking a souffle containing a jail-break chisel, his Sous-Chefs failed to follow the recipe. Now Café Bazoomba is full despite the GSR dine-and-dash, but the executive chef has three Michelin stars for a reason and the patrons are salivating at what he can put on a silver platter.

Former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne has revealed first-hand knowledge of a domestic network of corruption between big finance, multiple federal agencies, and major news companies on his website, deepcapture.com.

This network operates dangerously outside the realm of public accountability, and uses journalism, stock trading, and federal investigations on a large scale to steal money and manipulate public institutions.

His investigation began in 2002, when he observed a dangerous pattern in the financial markets called “naked short-selling,” “slop in the system,” and “a settlement crisis”. These terms all refer to the over-issuing of shares of publicly traded companies, a legal but highly unethical practice.

The SEC first denied Byrne’s allegation, but later admitted that not only was it true, but so widespread that correcting it had become too risky.

Byrne gained knowledge of more corruption after becoming involved with Russian national Maria Butina. In 2016, Byrne saw that Butina, through her personal charm and charisma, was opening backdoor channels between powerful figures in Russia and the major US presidential candidates of both parties.

When Byrne informed the FBI, they enlisted Byrne’s help to encourage Butina to continue the very activities for which she would later be prosecuted and placed in solitary confinement. Neither she nor Byrne were interrogated during Robert Mueller’s investigation on foreign election interference, despite having first-hand knowledge.

The actions these officials chose (and chose not) to take implicate them in the same kind of bureaucratic corruption present in the financial system.

The SEC has turned a blind eye, allowing hedgefunds to loot the pension systems from the bottom, through naked short selling of select stocks, through help of a 3 day settlement system of musical chairs. The proceeds from these action are used to bank roll TV personalities, bloggers, buy-off regulators, and even politicians. You’ve mentioned the Trillion dollar law suit. Your “bringing the house down” is exposing the system to show that OSTKO is perhaps the most manipulated stock in the history of the stock market. They (SEC) tried to act like they were okay finding a solution to naked short selling, the same thing that caused the lockup back in 2009ish, but you came to find out otherwise, that its the same SEC. They were on board with the digital dividend, then not on board because they realized that It was greatly expose and having other companies do the same thing would cause the system to crash something so grave that we’ve ever yet to see. Regulators then attempted to bribe you to not go forward with It. When you continued to leaked info, and like you said the pulled bazoomba to stop It all. The litmus test as you say, and they fell for It

did not check for typos, but you get It.

The establishment’s rigid and archaic finance system is now being chipped away at. With new blockchain technology, the new silk road arises. A trade route for the people, by the people.

Before the great financial crisis of 2008, Former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne sounded the alarm against stock market corruption in Wall Street about their embezzlement through defective stock settlement system. The SEC turning a blind eye enabled the bad actors to engage in what has become the largest financial crime of all time. In the Spring of 2019, Patrick Byrne again sounded the alarm, this time about Deep State political espionage related to the 2016 Presidential election. Byrne gained knowledge of corruption after becoming involved with a Russian national Maria Butina. In 2016, Byrne saw that Butina, through her personal charm and charisma, was opening backdoor channels between powerful figures in Russia and the major US presidential candidates of both parties. Byrne informed the federal officials about Butina and asked for advice. In retrospect, the feds were tracking Butina with the intention of using her as either blackmail against any future president or as a means to remove an unwanted winner of the election. Patrick Byrne made several TV appearances in August 2019 describing how he may have been used in a quasi coup attempt on President Trump. In August of 2019, the CFO of Overstock convinced Byrne that Byrne staying involved with the company made Overstock uninsurable. Patrick Byrne had to abandon his company and leave the country. The sun cannot be covered with mud, and the truth cannot be hidden forever. Dum spiro, spero.