FRIENDS IN THE MIDDLEST PLACES One of the more mysterious articles I've read in recent years was a long 2022 profile of Brock Pierce in The Jerusalem Post. The author 2 Zvika Klein describes many aspects of Mr. Pierce’s colorful history in loving detail but somehow skips over both the pedo stuff and the financial fraud stuff that has made up so much of the man’s life, neither of which is an oversight made by most of the journalists who have written so much as a paragraph about Brock Pierce over the last few decades. You might think that at a minimum a writer who wished to portray “the hippie king of crypto” in a positive light might mention some of that stuff so as to try to minimize it as a “youthful indiscretion” or some such lest the reader decide to use a fancy information tool like the one found at google.com. Not so Zvika Klein. It almost feels like blatant reputation laundering (or perhaps its modern analogue, “search engine optimization”). Brock Pierce, cryptocurrency 'hippie king,' visits Israel ik T e Kb vt o e et e e Toe g “a T | swear something feels different about the hippies of the 21st century compared to the hippies of the 1960s. You may recall that in 2023 there were mass protests in Israel after Bibi Netanyahu attempted to appoint the crypto adjacent convicted felon Aryeh Deri to his cabinet over the objections of the Israeli supreme court. What you may not know, however, is where Netanyahu’s son went just as those protests were beginning 2.

e Haaretz.com & lo @haaretzcom Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Zvika Klein was identified on Tuesday as the journalist questioned as a suspect in the so-called Qatargate scandal, which revolves around financial ties between Qatar and Netanyahu's aides

Goddamn I love being right about stuff years before the public revelations about things like #Qatargate.

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