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Ace of Baes
Jul 7, 1977

https://twitter.com/weed_rat/status/1386383099634855940?s=19

https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-company-took-over-pentagon-internet-space-comcast-trump-2021-4?amp&__twitter_impression=true

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Ham Cheeks
Nov 18, 2012

Feeling hammy
If you had to sum up the CIA's true function(s) in a sentence or 2, what would you say?

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
"Finding, creating, and exploiting critical vulnerabilities in other nation states to further the hegemonic goals of the United States by any means necessary"

gh0stpinballa
Mar 5, 2019

Deutsche Bank have killed someone else

https://twitter.com/0ddette/status/1386353392444968963?s=19

Ace of Baes
Jul 7, 1977

Ham Cheeks posted:

If you had to sum up the CIA's true function(s) in a sentence or 2, what would you say?

it's the hand of the ruling class, it has plenty of its own tentacles and redundancies and fronts and grey areas, but ultimately it exists to serve the interests of the ruling class, including the pedophiles at the top of the ruling class

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER

Ham Cheeks posted:

If you had to sum up the CIA's true function(s) in a sentence or 2, what would you say?

to be the underground wing of the US high bourgeoisie

Tubgoat
Jun 30, 2013

by sebmojo

Ace of Baes posted:

it's the hand of the ruling class, it has plenty of its own tentacles and redundancies and fronts and grey areas, but ultimately it exists to serve the interests of the ruling class, especially the pedophiles at the top of the ruling class

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Ham Cheeks posted:

If you had to sum up the CIA's true function(s) in a sentence or 2, what would you say?

preempt threats and further US national security objectives by collecting intelligence that matters, producing objective all-source analysis, conducting effective covert action as directed by the President, and safeguarding the secrets that help keep our Nation safe

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Ham Cheeks posted:

If you had to sum up the CIA's true function(s) in a sentence or 2, what would you say?

mafia for wasps

The Saucer Hovers
May 16, 2005

Corporate/Industrial Acquisitions

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/dan_allegretto/status/1386455513878171650

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005

he's worse

Tubgoat
Jun 30, 2013

by sebmojo
^ ^ ^ A worse person??? I guess I don't know who he is.

Epstein if he was filtered through a much younger Will Ferrell.

Inspector Hound
Jul 14, 2003

He's been chill pilled

Happy Thread
Jul 10, 2005

by Fluffdaddy
Plaster Town Cop
The bro rape documentary was real then, we were wrong to laugh

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008


the end of this quote omg

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


Cold Case Hammarskjoeld is bar none the most depressing confirmation of a bunch of intuitions about the world that I had.

I want a better hand than this god drat it.

Mola Yam
Jun 18, 2004

Kali Ma Shakti de!

Ham Cheeks posted:

If you had to sum up the CIA's true function(s) in a sentence or 2, what would you say?

I remember liking the wikileaks documentary "we steal secrets". Hint: it's not a wikileaks person who says that quote.

The Atomic Man-Boy
Jul 23, 2007

Ham Cheeks posted:

If you had to sum up the CIA's true function(s) in a sentence or 2, what would you say?

Wall Street’s private police force. Much like regular police, you pay for them with your tax dollars and a service fee on every illegal drug you buy.

Zodium
Jun 19, 2004

Ham Cheeks posted:

If you had to sum up the CIA's true function(s) in a sentence or 2, what would you say?

first-order control.

QuickbreathFinisher
Sep 28, 2008

by reading this post you have agreed to form a gay socialist micronation.
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Jack Johnson and Diane Warren noooo don't buy an island in the Caribbean haha you're sooo musically successful

Backweb
Feb 14, 2009


lol do we know if he rose to prominence in the same murky way Jared Leto did?

Entorwellian
Jun 30, 2006

Northern Flicker
Anna's Hummingbird

Sorry, but the people have spoken.




Is this the product of Epstein's cloning project?

Inspector Hound
Jul 14, 2003

Entorwellian posted:

Is this the product of Epstein's cloning project?

I'd gamble he had a gazillion kids and some of them knew who their dad was or he tried to get them into a comfortable spot

Or they just look alike, I used to look like a hosed up quentin tarantino

Happy Thread
Jul 10, 2005

by Fluffdaddy
Plaster Town Cop

Ham Cheeks posted:

If you had to sum up the CIA's true function(s) in a sentence or 2, what would you say?

To control people. To fully capture every aspect of democracies, including domestically. To formalize (and print official funds for) the deceptive and unfair practices that wealthy decisionmakers, owners, and leaders already take constant advantage of.

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!

Ham Cheeks posted:

If you had to sum up the CIA's true function(s) in a sentence or 2, what would you say?
To recreate the Schutzstaffel with a bunch of inbred pigfuckers from Yale

Low Desert Punk
Jul 4, 2012

i have absolutely no fucking money

Ham Cheeks posted:

If you had to sum up the CIA's true function(s) in a sentence or 2, what would you say?

1. taking out as many undesirables and possible sources of resistance (by breaking them down mentally and/or physically) as humanly possible

2. gathering intelligence to facilitate #1

edit: also I forgot who posted it but i really enjoyed the Mothman Prophecies post. good poo poo.

Low Desert Punk has issued a correction as of 15:45 on Apr 26, 2021

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

Ham Cheeks posted:

If you had to sum up the CIA's true function(s) in a sentence or 2, what would you say?

Idiot nerd poo poo that fails 99.5% of the time and 0.5% terrifying competence.

nut
Jul 30, 2019

I’d enjoy the brace-Belden-is-an-op twitter crew much more if most of their posts weren’t just cryptic hype for what I assume is their own upcoming podcast or twitter thread

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


anyone have a recommendation for the best/a good doc on the jfk assassination

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

anyone have a recommendation for the best/a good doc on the jfk assassination

read Lamar Waldron's book "the hidden history of the jfk assassination", that'll be all you need

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
also watch Oliver stones JFK because it's fun as hell

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


mdemone posted:

read Lamar Waldron's book "the hidden history of the jfk assassination", that'll be all you need

i’m waiting on “jfk and the unspeakable” from the library, do you know how these two compare?

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

smarxist posted:

also watch Oliver stones JFK because it's fun as hell

yeah it's kinda Mad Libs with all the right characters and themes and intrigues, they're all just a little jumbled and not quite in the right place.

but drat does it have some baller moments by the actors. I can't imagine how much fun Pesci had.

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

i’m waiting on “jfk and the unspeakable” from the library, do you know how these two compare?

nope, not familiar with that one. the main thrust of Waldron's book is based on declassified stuff from the 80s when the FBI put a spy in prison to get secrets out of Marcello.

basically it was mob muscle combined with intel and agents from the CIA's seedier crowd, using an organization template from prior attempts/plots on Castro.

Fiend
Dec 2, 2001

Ham Cheeks posted:

If you had to sum up the CIA's true function(s) in a sentence or 2, what would you say?

Freedom and Peace and America. We need to watch out for the Commies!!

gh0stpinballa
Mar 5, 2019

quote:

The day after Casolaro's body was found, Village Voice editor Dan Bischoff received an anonymous telephone call alerting him to Casolaro's death.[8] By Tuesday, August 13, Ridgeway and Vaughan write, the "rumors were flying,...and by the next day, the crazies started coming out of the woodwork. There were vague unsubstantiated rumors that the Mafia was somehow involved, and the wildest story even suggested that the undertaker was an employee of the CIA, hired to clean up after an agency assassination." Even at the funeral, they write, the family felt "engulfed by mysteries." As the ceremony drew to a close, a highly decorated military officer in U.S. Army dress reportedly arrived in a limousine. Accompanied by another man in plain clothes, the military man approached the coffin just before it was lowered into the ground, laid a medal on the lid, and saluted. No one recognized either man and, to this day, they have never been identified.[1] Further, Casolaro was known to have complained numerous times about threatening or unsettling phone calls directed at him, often occurring late at night, including those received by his housekeeper during his absences from his home.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

anyone have a recommendation for the best/a good doc on the jfk assassination

I'd recommend "Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years", written by thread favorite David Talbot

for something watchable/listenable, here's Michael Parenti on JFK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHYs-8yM70U

Backweb
Feb 14, 2009

When this thread gets into spook territory not directly linked to Epstein I sometimes feel like we're all talking inside baseball.

mdemone posted:

Marcello


Who are these figures?

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mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

Carlos Marcello was a major mob boss in Louisiana & surrounding areas. You'll also hear the name of Sam Traficante who was a big boss in Florida.

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