I have now watched the full episode of John Oliver's 'Last Week tonight' comedy show focused on cryptocurrencies and was saddened to see him projecting bias and ignorance onto EOS.
It was challenging for me to watch the episode since for some reason it isn't available on youtube for viewers in Britain, but I worked around that by using the Tor browser. But in any case, here's the episode in full:
One thing I have found with TV shows and 'news reports' in general is that it's not until they focus onto a subject that you yourself know about in depth, that you realise just how biased and wrong they often are. This has been a consistent theme with others I have met who are in the public eye too - they/we all notice that the truth is twisted, sometimes knowingly and sometimes not.
There's something about the high budget and 'pro lighting' of TV sets that gives us an impression of perfection and high quality which we often unconsciously assume means that 'what they say MUST be true' - otherwise they would 'get in trouble'. However, in reality, those on TV rarely get called out for their mis-truth in a way that makes much difference or stops them from continuing. As far as I am aware, it is in no way 'illegal' in America to lie on TV in such ways anyway. Cases for slander and libel could be opened against false claims, but often the false claims are not made against individuals, but instead about products, concepts or ideologies - in other words, the narrative of reality is manipulated in a way that requires others to defend against the attacks outside of the court system and in ways that have similar reach to the reach of the mainstream TV networks. Since the mainstream TV networks rarely hire people who wildly contradict the narrative put out by (allegedly) 'competing' TV networks, we have a consistent status quo whereby false narratives become 'accepted fact' and are not properly challenged.
The media is controlled, the cough 'democracy' is controlled.. So we are left to pick up the pieces.
EOS
In John Oliver's show he picked on Brock Pierce as a key figure in the EOS project as if Brock were the only person involved and as if Brock's abilities are the only factor involved in the potential success of the EOS project. I already wrote about why Brock's quotes were lame and I agree with John Oliver's use of logic to pick them apart, so here I am going to focus more on why John Oliver's position is even more lame.
I'm sure many of us here know that EOS is the new project from 
John Oliver Needs To Find His Roots
It's unfortunate that someone who many consider to be smart and a 'rebel' has apparently (knowingly or unknowingly) got caught up in an agenda that favours the dominator principle that is causing so many on Earth so many problems. By mis-representing the facts about EOS which such lines as:
"Who knows, maybe EOS is going to be the next Google. I don't think it is and I certainly don't think it can be worth over a billion dollars at this point, but I could be wrong - I'm absolutely not (wrong), but I could be."
John has inferred that EOS is overvalued, while providing no evidence for that other than that Brock Pierce is involved. To use John's favoured mode of explanation - amusing metaphors - what John has done here is like... Saying that the US dollar is overvalued because WWE wrestling is fake and uses US Dollars. There is a huge gape of missing logic in the middle here that reveals something of his intention.
His intention was clearly not to get to the full details of EOS, so what exactly was his intention?
My suggestion is that either he is:
a) Lazy.
b) Invested in a technology that is competing with EOS.
c) Wanting to buy into EOS at a devalued price.
d) Following the agenda of the empire builders who run the lamestream media and who don't want EOS to thrive.
It is no secret that every technology or idea that could be used to liberate humanity is swiftly usurped, twisted, duplicated and changed into something that APPEARS to liberate humanity, but which actually continues to enslave them. This is part of why we see so many nonsensical claims made about Bitcoin by the oligarchs and their cronies, claiming that Bitcoin is responsible for everything from terrorism to drug addiction. (I'm looking at you, Bill Gates).
All of this reveals that John Oliver is either hugely ignorant of the reality of power politics and technology today (yet talking loudly as if he is not) or he is wilfully intending to mislead the public for his own reasons. Telling half truths and omitting important details is EXACTLY the methodology used by the BitConnect scammers - yet here we see John doing pretty much the same thing... The question remains, why?
Wishing you well,
Ura Soul
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