Justin Pemberton
@justinsight.bsky.social
Documentary filmmaker & co-founder of Anqa Compliance. Exploring where finance, technology, and power collide—on screen and in the real world. 🌍 www.anqacompliance.com
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For a decade, Russia has been seeking to divide Europe and America, to undermine NATO and weaken the transatlantic alliance. This peace plan, if accepted, will achieve that goal.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Murky Plan That Ensures a Future War
Who will benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
For a decade, Russia has been seeking to divide Europe and America, to undermine NATO and weaken the transatlantic alliance. This peace plan, if accepted, will achieve that goal.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Documented for future people.
Exxon funded rightwing thinktanks to spread climate change denial across Latin America, based on hundreds of previously unpublished documents that reveal a coordinated campaign to make the global south “less inclined” to support the UN-led climate treaty process. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal
Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Documented for future people.
Everyone’s watching gold rise.
Nobody’s asking what it’s running from.
I’ve written about the world’s quiet exit from the U.S. dollar —
it’s not a gold rush, it’s an evacuation.
open.substack.com/pub/justinpe...
Nobody’s asking what it’s running from.
I’ve written about the world’s quiet exit from the U.S. dollar —
it’s not a gold rush, it’s an evacuation.
open.substack.com/pub/justinpe...
The Gold Curtain
Inside the global escape plan from the US dollar.
open.substack.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Everyone’s watching gold rise.
Nobody’s asking what it’s running from.
I’ve written about the world’s quiet exit from the U.S. dollar —
it’s not a gold rush, it’s an evacuation.
open.substack.com/pub/justinpe...
Nobody’s asking what it’s running from.
I’ve written about the world’s quiet exit from the U.S. dollar —
it’s not a gold rush, it’s an evacuation.
open.substack.com/pub/justinpe...
Move over tax havens. The real crime thriller is unfolding in plain sight: a private “digital dollar” that launders billions now controls $127B of U.S. debt — and Washington is cheering it on.
open.substack.com/pub/justinpe...
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The $127 Billion Shadow: How a Caribbean Shell Company Bought America
Forget Swiss banks. The real crime thriller is unfolding in plain sight: a private “digital dollar” that launders billions now controls $127B of U.S. debt — and Washington is cheering it on.
open.substack.com
August 23, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Move over tax havens. The real crime thriller is unfolding in plain sight: a private “digital dollar” that launders billions now controls $127B of U.S. debt — and Washington is cheering it on.
open.substack.com/pub/justinpe...
open.substack.com/pub/justinpe...
This is fascinating:
recent YouGov poll says number of UK young people who identify as actively religious has doubled in the past six years from 22% to 45%.
podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/t...
recent YouGov poll says number of UK young people who identify as actively religious has doubled in the past six years from 22% to 45%.
podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/t...
What's going on with young people and God?
Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 01/08/2025 · 40m
podcasts.apple.com
August 1, 2025 at 11:54 PM
This is fascinating:
recent YouGov poll says number of UK young people who identify as actively religious has doubled in the past six years from 22% to 45%.
podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/t...
recent YouGov poll says number of UK young people who identify as actively religious has doubled in the past six years from 22% to 45%.
podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/t...
Fired maths teacher convinced billionaires to pay $158M for "tax advice." Collected eyeballs as mansion decor. Media called him a mysterious genius.
But the Epstein scandal has accidentally created the world's most expensive transparency lesson. Millions are finally learning to read elite impunity.
But the Epstein scandal has accidentally created the world's most expensive transparency lesson. Millions are finally learning to read elite impunity.
The Accidental Revelation: How Jeffrey Epstein Exposed the Elite Protection Racket
A sexual predator's criminal empire accidentally became a masterclass in institutional impunity
open.substack.com
July 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Fired maths teacher convinced billionaires to pay $158M for "tax advice." Collected eyeballs as mansion decor. Media called him a mysterious genius.
But the Epstein scandal has accidentally created the world's most expensive transparency lesson. Millions are finally learning to read elite impunity.
But the Epstein scandal has accidentally created the world's most expensive transparency lesson. Millions are finally learning to read elite impunity.
I got digitally vaporised by LinkedIn for documenting human trafficking.
Who challenged me? Head of compliance at a crypto casino.
The irony? Exquisite.
The rabbit hole? Deep...
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Who challenged me? Head of compliance at a crypto casino.
The irony? Exquisite.
The rabbit hole? Deep...
open.substack.com/pub/justinpe...
The Erasure Protocol
I Posted About Digital Slavery — and LinkedIn Disappeared Me
open.substack.com
July 19, 2025 at 4:44 AM
I got digitally vaporised by LinkedIn for documenting human trafficking.
Who challenged me? Head of compliance at a crypto casino.
The irony? Exquisite.
The rabbit hole? Deep...
open.substack.com/pub/justinpe...
Who challenged me? Head of compliance at a crypto casino.
The irony? Exquisite.
The rabbit hole? Deep...
open.substack.com/pub/justinpe...
Just as romance scam compounds spread to the Pacific, USAID cuts anti-trafficking funding.
300,000 people enslaved in "love factories" typing fake love while their rescuers lose money.
That perfect stranger sliding into your DMs? They might be typing from a cage.
300,000 people enslaved in "love factories" typing fake love while their rescuers lose money.
That perfect stranger sliding into your DMs? They might be typing from a cage.
Digital Slaves and the Love Factory
Inside the Architecture of Automated Affection
justinpemberton.substack.com
July 12, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Just as romance scam compounds spread to the Pacific, USAID cuts anti-trafficking funding.
300,000 people enslaved in "love factories" typing fake love while their rescuers lose money.
That perfect stranger sliding into your DMs? They might be typing from a cage.
300,000 people enslaved in "love factories" typing fake love while their rescuers lose money.
That perfect stranger sliding into your DMs? They might be typing from a cage.
Heard of pig butchering? (not as tasty as it sounds)
A ghost mayor in the Philippines ran a whole scam farm: human trafficking, fake romances, billions laundered.
Oh — she might be a Chinese spy too.
I pulled the whole mess apart.
A true crime rabbit hole that shows just how far reality can bend:
A ghost mayor in the Philippines ran a whole scam farm: human trafficking, fake romances, billions laundered.
Oh — she might be a Chinese spy too.
I pulled the whole mess apart.
A true crime rabbit hole that shows just how far reality can bend:
Alice in Phantom-land
Inside the pig farm fable that became a human trafficking empire — and a spy scandal hiding in plain sight.
open.substack.com
July 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Heard of pig butchering? (not as tasty as it sounds)
A ghost mayor in the Philippines ran a whole scam farm: human trafficking, fake romances, billions laundered.
Oh — she might be a Chinese spy too.
I pulled the whole mess apart.
A true crime rabbit hole that shows just how far reality can bend:
A ghost mayor in the Philippines ran a whole scam farm: human trafficking, fake romances, billions laundered.
Oh — she might be a Chinese spy too.
I pulled the whole mess apart.
A true crime rabbit hole that shows just how far reality can bend:
Right now someone's writing a philosophy paper that's actually a business plan that's actually a crime.
"I'm gonna save humanity," he said, stealing another billion.
The truly wild Sam Bankman-Fried story:
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"I'm gonna save humanity," he said, stealing another billion.
The truly wild Sam Bankman-Fried story:
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THE PROPHET OF NOTHING
Sam Bankman-Fried and the Architecture of Moral Fraud
open.substack.com
June 28, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Right now someone's writing a philosophy paper that's actually a business plan that's actually a crime.
"I'm gonna save humanity," he said, stealing another billion.
The truly wild Sam Bankman-Fried story:
open.substack.com/pub/justinpe...
"I'm gonna save humanity," he said, stealing another billion.
The truly wild Sam Bankman-Fried story:
open.substack.com/pub/justinpe...
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Perfection.
June 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Perfection.
I love a political true crime story... and this one's got everything: fake ship identities, warlords, international naval chases and billions in financial crime!
Weekend reading for my fellow story nerds
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Weekend reading for my fellow story nerds
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When Ghost Ships Become Weapons
How Russia's shadow fleet evolved from sanctions evasion to hybrid warfare—and why a single social media post can trigger international naval chaos.
open.substack.com
June 14, 2025 at 5:12 AM
I love a political true crime story... and this one's got everything: fake ship identities, warlords, international naval chases and billions in financial crime!
Weekend reading for my fellow story nerds
open.substack.com/pub/justinpe...
Weekend reading for my fellow story nerds
open.substack.com/pub/justinpe...
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“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.”
Doechii at the #BETAwards
Doechii at the #BETAwards
June 10, 2025 at 1:01 AM
“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.”
Doechii at the #BETAwards
Doechii at the #BETAwards
Charity operates on beautiful naiveté — pure faith that your dollars will somehow cross oceans and bureaucracies to become bread and shelter — which is precisely what makes NGO fraud so deeply disturbing.
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The Charity Con: How Goodwill Became the Perfect Cover for Financial Crime
What happens when human compassion becomes the ultimate criminal weapon?
justinpemberton.substack.com
May 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Charity operates on beautiful naiveté — pure faith that your dollars will somehow cross oceans and bureaucracies to become bread and shelter — which is precisely what makes NGO fraud so deeply disturbing.
justinpemberton.substack.com/p/the-charit...
justinpemberton.substack.com/p/the-charit...
Just 7 crypto addresses processed over half of all funds linked to illegal content in 2023.
The irony? A system built on the promise of decentralization has created perhaps the most concentrated money laundering bottlenecks in financial history.
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The irony? A system built on the promise of decentralization has created perhaps the most concentrated money laundering bottlenecks in financial history.
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Crypto Crime’s Secret Bottleneck
The shocking convergence where billions in dirty crypto quietly pool
medium.com
May 12, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Just 7 crypto addresses processed over half of all funds linked to illegal content in 2023.
The irony? A system built on the promise of decentralization has created perhaps the most concentrated money laundering bottlenecks in financial history.
medium.com/@justin_9285...
The irony? A system built on the promise of decentralization has created perhaps the most concentrated money laundering bottlenecks in financial history.
medium.com/@justin_9285...
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“It’s time to change the myth and the religion.”
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
May 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
“It’s time to change the myth and the religion.”
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
This is something good 😊
May 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
This is something good 😊
Trump administration sees FACTS as having a left wing bias?
Accuses Wikipedia of ‘propaganda,’ and threatens nonprofit status.
Accuses Wikipedia of ‘propaganda,’ and threatens nonprofit status.
U.S. attorney for D.C. accuses Wikipedia of ‘propaganda,’ threatens nonprofit status
Ed Martin sent a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation accusing it of spreading propaganda
www.washingtonpost.com
April 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Trump administration sees FACTS as having a left wing bias?
Accuses Wikipedia of ‘propaganda,’ and threatens nonprofit status.
Accuses Wikipedia of ‘propaganda,’ and threatens nonprofit status.
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This is all fascinating. I had no idea Ryan Coogler negotiated a contract where he kept final cut, first-line profits, and the rights to SINNERS after 25 years. But the idea of studio execs FREAKING OUT about it ("What if EVERY in-demand creative wants rights over their own work?") is even better.
Hollywood Execs Fear Ryan Coogler’s Sinners Deal ‘Could End the Studio System’
Warner Bros.’ unusual agreement with the director has rival executives sweating, with some saying it sets a “dangerous” precedent.
www.vulture.com
April 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This is all fascinating. I had no idea Ryan Coogler negotiated a contract where he kept final cut, first-line profits, and the rights to SINNERS after 25 years. But the idea of studio execs FREAKING OUT about it ("What if EVERY in-demand creative wants rights over their own work?") is even better.
Timeless
It’s Too Late was released April 16, 1971.
“It’s Too Late” (cowritten with Toni Stern) was
released April
16, 1971
Here is Carole King performing “It’s Too Late” Live on the 10th of February, 1971 with Danny Kortchmar for BBC.
well.
#Music #RockNRoll #CaroleKing #ToniStern
“It’s Too Late” (cowritten with Toni Stern) was
released April
16, 1971
Here is Carole King performing “It’s Too Late” Live on the 10th of February, 1971 with Danny Kortchmar for BBC.
well.
#Music #RockNRoll #CaroleKing #ToniStern
April 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Timeless
Netflix is beta testing on NZers and Australians a new AI powered search engine -
for more intuitive searches based on emotional states.
for more intuitive searches based on emotional states.
April 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Netflix is beta testing on NZers and Australians a new AI powered search engine -
for more intuitive searches based on emotional states.
for more intuitive searches based on emotional states.
Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained.
"the conference organisers very explicitly said, ‘We don’t believe it is safe for everyone to travel to the US'"
"the conference organisers very explicitly said, ‘We don’t believe it is safe for everyone to travel to the US'"
Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained
‘When academics fear travelling or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem,’ one says
www.theguardian.com
April 14, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained.
"the conference organisers very explicitly said, ‘We don’t believe it is safe for everyone to travel to the US'"
"the conference organisers very explicitly said, ‘We don’t believe it is safe for everyone to travel to the US'"