The Tulsa Forum by TulsaNow

It’s early May and Patrick Byrne has just gotten off the phone with hip-hop artist Akon and is roaming barefoot in the elegant three-room suite on the top floor of the Jefferson hotel, a stone’s throw from Embassy Row in Washington, D.C. He grabs a Diet Coke, a pack of gummy bears and some M&Ms from a minibar hidden in a tasteful armoire, settles on a plush cream-colored sofa and begins to boast about the circumstances around which the Senegalese-American celebrity sought him out. “I hear he’s a musician. We share ambitions for Africa,” says Byrne, popping a gummy bear into his mouth.

Byrne, who bought Overstock.com in 1999 and ran it for two decades, has always been a man of many ambitions. High on his list: transforming the African continent and its 1.3 billion people via blockchain technology. Like an infomercial for the nascent decentralized, distributed ledger technology that underlies cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, he waxes poetic about a future in which corruption is wiped out, people are freed from poverty and developing nations can leapfrog ahead by putting government functions like voting, property records and central banking on the blockchain. Characteristically low on his priority list: The economic interests of the thousands of shareholders in his publicly traded former e-tailing giant.

For the last several years, Byrne, 56, spent no fewer than 220 days a year on the road spreading his blockchain gospel, despite the fact that Overstock was hemorrhaging cash. “Over the next five years, we can change the world for 5 billion people,” says Byrne. “Well, at least a billion. Maybe 5 billion.”

Byrne is vague about why he is in the nation’s capital this week and mentions a meeting with representatives from Africa about his blockchain projects. However, he later reveals that he had been meeting with the Department of Justice. Byrne claims he’s been serving as a government informant, feeding information since 2015 to the “Men In Black,” as he puts it, on Maria Butina, a vivacious Russian grad student with whom he struck up a romantic relationship. She is currently serving an 18-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to conspiring to act as a foreign agent, in connection with her efforts to infiltrate conservative political circles before and after the 2016 presidential election.

In his resignation letter, Byrne cited his involvement in “certain government matters” as complicating “all manner of business relationships from insurability to strategic discussions regarding our retail business.” Byrne says what he has done (exactly what that was remains unclear) “was necessary for the good of the country, for the good of the firm.” Byrne concludes his letter by stating cryptically:

“Coming forward publicly about my involvement in other matters was hardly my first choice. But for three years I have watched my country pull itself apart while I knew many answers, and I set my red line at seeing civil violence breaking out. My Rabbi made me see that ‘coming forward’ meant telling the public (not just the government) the truth. I now plan on leaving things to the esteemed Department of Justice (which I have doubtless already angered enough by going public) and disappearing for some time.”

That is quite the collection of Conmen, Crazies and Crack-heads. Is it a fundraiser for the targets of voting machine lawsuits?

At least they are all in one place so you know how to avoid them.

Couldn't get him, already booked...

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2 million users reached on Brighteon for this event alone hence any of the other streams.

Patrick Byrne, what a waste of human flesh. Shorted his stock in his company Overstock . com and then tanked the company.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/overstock-stock-tanks-after-ceo-statement-on-deep-state-2019-8-1028447389 (https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/overstock-stock-tanks-after-ceo-statement-on-deep-state-2019-8-1028447389)

Also claimed he was working for "The Men In Black" with the CIA.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurendebter/2019/08/22/the-exclusive-inside-story-of-the-fall-of-overstocks-mad-king-patrick-byrne/?sh=474854eb53a5 (https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurendebter/2019/08/22/the-exclusive-inside-story-of-the-fall-of-overstocks-mad-king-patrick-byrne/?sh=474854eb53a5)

Idiots are legion. And what do you think the word "hence" means?

It is only to indicate that there is more where this comes from. 

His last speech was hinting at the possibility of the agent provocateur that other countries understand, but not this country.  That was an interesting point that many of us are thinking, but don't have the words to say it.

2 million users reached on Brighteon for this event alone hence any of the other streams.

That is quite the collection of Conmen, Crazies and Crack-heads. Is it a fundraiser for the targets of voting machine lawsuits?

At least they are all in one place so you know how to avoid them.

TULSA, Okla. (KTUL) — The two-day "Health and Freedom Conference" happening in Broken Arrow will end tonight with a mask burning event.
The conference is being held at Rhema Bible College, and it includes vendors and well-known speakers.

Yesterday, General Michael Flynn, Tulsa Sheriff Vic Regalado, and Jim Caviezel, who played Jesus in Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," were among the speakers.
https://ktul.com/news/local/conservative-conference-to-end-with-mask-burning-event-in-broken-arrow

Did they get the masks to stack in the shape of a cross or just lay them on the street?

So

many

Nazis.

Wow, the farce runs deep with you. Byrne is a box of Granola without all the fruits and nuts.

Can’t say who those 2 million are.   Could have been the world is watching.

Where one idiot goes, two million idiots follow?

Vic Regalado is a Q-Anon moron? Good to know.

Can’t say who those 2 million are.   Could have been the world is watching.

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No Hillary.  He didn’t need the help of Russia to win the election.  It didn’t help you either.  But could you tell us what that whole uranium one scandal was all about?  The Russians.  Remember them?