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Mameluke
Aug 2, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

gradenko_2000 posted:

Gates spent however many billions of dollars to portray himself as a fighter against AIDS in Africa and an education reformer, so while it was definitely about loving kids, I'd also believe he wanted to get the Nobel Prize

it was about both, as well as being a dutiful son, wasn't it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates_Sr.

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Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/xeni/status/1394321926185656328?s=20

DirtyRobot
Dec 15, 2003

it was a normally happy sunny day... but Dirty Robot was dirty

Perry Mason Jar posted:

What's the thread book for CIA drug trafficking, in particular?

Douglas Valentine's The CIA As Organized Crime?

Perry Mason Jar
Feb 24, 2006

"Della? Take a lid"

Perry Mason Jar posted:

This is more tail wagging the dog puppetry nonsense. They'll keep up the allusions to some oh some possible impropriety of the (likely actual child rapist) Bill, without ever revealing anything concrete or actually imprisoning him, to shuffle him off the stage. He proved too unpopular a face for the rights-foreshortening COVID shock doctrine so its girlboss Melinda's turn up at bat with a little #MeToo kicker. Please stop falling for this bad reality TV!

Mameluke
Aug 2, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
holey moley, people give that crank $2600 a month on patreon

MysteriousStranger
Mar 3, 2016
My "vacation" is a euphemism for war tourism in Ukraine for some "bloody work" to escape my boring techie job and family.

Ask me about my warcrimes.

smarxist posted:

people be like "he's donated billions to africa!"

okay?

like even if you 'donated' 10 billion dollars to africa what does that even mean w/r/t the systemic problems resulting from coerced and forced under development of their material production and infrastructure for hundreds of years lmao

drop in the loving bucket! especially if its dwindled down by dilution to various bullshit NGOs and established charities on the ground doing whatever bandaid work

i mean god bless you and more power to you, but Africa needs global intervention in boosting its productive capabilities and infrastructure to start to "fix" anything, and let's see how much traction that ever gets + global warming coming lmao

The vast majority of NGO workers are middle class women with high powered educations who come from families with a lot of money. NGO work is "feel good" work that makes them feel empowered, respected, able to climb the ladder, all while saving the world. It's concentrated in extremely expensive cities that their wages do not keep up with at all. However their parents will supplement their income and being paid sub corporate wages makes them feel they are fighting the good fight. Most them date and end up marrying consultants or legal pros who make bank so it doesn't matter anyways.

These NGOs then scoop up the funds directly from organizations like USAID who actually do some good work so it's the contracting mess again, but that poo poo is boring. On the other hand if you get a Gates Foundation contract that's impressive! Now you have galas, events, speeches to give, books to write! You matter in your little DC/NY bubble. The people on straight government contracts do not have that sort of prestiege.

It's entirely middle class feel good work with amazing social and status perks and that's why they think Gates is Jesus. All while living in a multi million dollar row house their husband and parents bought who made their money loving over those countries.

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

Perry Mason Jar posted:

What's the thread book for CIA drug trafficking, in particular?

Alfred McCoy's The Politics of Heroin, in the expanded edition (not the original, shorter one that focuses on SE Asia).

nut
Jul 30, 2019

DirtyRobot posted:

Douglas Valentine's The CIA As Organized Crime?

this is what I heard too. I read McCoy’s Politics of Heroine and it’s insanely detailed but not focal on the CIA

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



xeni, a whistle blower would have come out about epstein *before* he was arrested and killed

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

The Saucer Hovers posted:

the ONLY reason in the world i can think of that bill fuggin gates would need to solicit sex slaves from JefferyofEpstine is convenience. like im in manhattan, it would be quick and easy to pop over to jeffs house.

none of the motives for interaction between those two boil down to sex- its money or access, and im guessing access since one of those guys was poor as gently caress compared to the other

edit: or epstein did his job and had good enough dirt on bill for him to beck and call

if it's not epstein, it'll be some other demon. you need someone to take care of those details for you, why wouldn't you go for the one who has the high society connections?

Lord of Pie
Mar 2, 2007


mdemone posted:

it all makes sense: NOBEL PRIZE anagrams to BELIZE PORN

i thought that was McAfee

mastershakeman
Oct 28, 2008

by vyelkin

MysteriousStranger posted:

The vast majority of NGO workers are middle class women with high powered educations who come from families with a lot of money. NGO work is "feel good" work that makes them feel empowered, respected, able to climb the ladder, all while saving the world. It's concentrated in extremely expensive cities that their wages do not keep up with at all. However their parents will supplement their income and being paid sub corporate wages makes them feel they are fighting the good fight. Most them date and end up marrying consultants or legal pros who make bank so it doesn't matter anyways.

These NGOs then scoop up the funds directly from organizations like USAID who actually do some good work so it's the contracting mess again, but that poo poo is boring. On the other hand if you get a Gates Foundation contract that's impressive! Now you have galas, events, speeches to give, books to write! You matter in your little DC/NY bubble. The people on straight government contracts do not have that sort of prestiege.

It's entirely middle class feel good work with amazing social and status perks and that's why they think Gates is Jesus. All while living in a multi million dollar row house their husband and parents bought who made their money loving over those countries.

anecdotally this matches up with my cousin . she doesn't come from much money (her mom got pregnant at 17, divorced multiple times, etc) but well educated at a top public school, and importantly, married a college boyfriend who has gone on to have an incredibly successful career while living in a modest area.
so my cousin spends all her time doing anti-opioid advocacy on some national council, including flying out to massachusetts to meet with kennedy foundation people or whatever the gently caress. She also reprimanded me when i said i was using medical weed for pain killing instead of the multiple opioids i got prescribed, because 'the fda doesn't recommend thc for any medical purpose.' but she sure gets to feel important in how she works on such a big cause!!

im still mad about the thc stuff if that isnt obvious

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

xeni, a whistle blower would have come out about epstein *before* he was arrested and killed

she's the opposite of a whistleblower, and she has her wagon hitched to epstein lmao

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
"do you know who I am!? I could have stopped Epstein but was too stupid!"

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


xeni was helping procure girls for epstein but too dumb to realize she was doing it

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

MysteriousStranger posted:

organizations like USAID who actually do some good work
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smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005

Nobel piece-of-underage-rear end prize

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
mods change my username to "the well-connected pervert"

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004


lol

ram dass in hell
Dec 29, 2019



:420::toot::420:

Perry Mason Jar posted:

What's the thread book for CIA drug trafficking, in particular?

It's not specifically drug trafficking the book but Killing Hope is a classic and contains lots of drug trafficking content

Backweb
Feb 14, 2009

Lmao if Ben Garrison turns out to be more or less correct about Gates (and weird creepy motivations).

It's like when the original Men in Black film was like "the tabloids are the most true source of news."

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

ram dass in hell posted:

It's not specifically drug trafficking the book but Killing Hope is a classic and contains lots of drug trafficking content
highly recommend, it's basically the outline of how the US took all the goodwill of the world post-WW2 and used it to gently caress everything up

plenty of CIA and CIA-related stuff in there iirc

nut
Jul 30, 2019

KH owns and is detailed enough to act as an encyclopedia on American clandestine foreign policy. everything I had heard about the overthrow of that Australian PM we talked about weeks ago is from it

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
KH is what i reference whenever someone talks about how "communism has failed every where it was tried" (the CIA having dudes in a farm equipment factory in Europe sabotaging the ball bearings of farm equipment going to Cuba so that it'd fail earlier and gently caress up their ability to produce food, etc)

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
Conspiracy thread iceberg meme but it's a hierarchical list of "who actually runs society" with like "elected officials" at the top working it's way all the way down to like cryptids like whoever inherited the Jeffery epstein identity in the meta game

Sing Along
Feb 28, 2017

by Athanatos

smarxist posted:

Conspiracy thread iceberg meme but it's a hierarchical list of "who actually runs society" with like "elected officials" at the top working it's way all the way down to like cryptids like whoever inherited the Jeffery epstein identity in the meta game

who told you about Titles/Monikers and the meta game?

Tubgoat
Jun 30, 2013

by sebmojo

mastershakeman posted:

She also reprimanded me when i said i was using medical weed for pain killing instead of the multiple opioids i got prescribed, because 'the fda doesn't recommend thc for any medical purpose.'
I really like how liberals are determined to validate absolutely every far-right talking point, including "educated stupid." :(

Backweb posted:

It's like when the original Men in Black film was like "the tabloids are the most true source of news."
This part is shaping up to be a documentary.

nut
Jul 30, 2019

Maybe I just missed it (both on here and in general) but Gaetz' friend Josh Greenberg plead guilty (!) to 6 of the charges against him including sex trafficking a minor

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/florida-republican-matt-gaetz-associate-pleads-guilty-to-sex-trafficking-charges-1.5431123

CTV News posted:

Monday's court appearance marked the first time Greenberg has been seen in court since the Gaetz investigation blew into the public spotlight in March. Outside the courthouse, a plane flew over during the hearing pulling a banner that read: "TICK TOCK MATT GAETZ."

https://twitter.com/RemoveRon/status/1394300878774054917?s=20

An anti-Ron DeSantis movement looks like it's behind the sign?

Anyway, Gaetz is still denying any involvement and all allegations. Presumably it would feel impossible to be safe seeing Greenberg go down, but who knows, crazier things have happened...

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
i feel like the gaetz story isn't getting nearly enough attention, and he's just gone on like normal still doing GOP speaking engagements lmao

Excelzior
Jun 24, 2013

smarxist posted:

i feel like the gaetz story isn't getting nearly enough attention, and he's just gone on like normal still doing GOP speaking engagements lmao

it worked for Cuomo :shrug:

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/UntoldMurder/status/1394765493450518528?s=19

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




the navy is acting in 2021 like they dont know what these ufos are when they've got researchers working at facilities close to the sighting areas publicly patenting designs that claim to have the same capabilities in 2019
no press is talking about the two stories together either.

nut
Jul 30, 2019

maybe this time they are serious...I honestly feel bad for doubting

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Matt Gaetz will dedicate the remainder of his days to finding the real pedophile.

Perry Mason Jar
Feb 24, 2006

"Della? Take a lid"

Real hurthling! posted:

publicly patenting designs that claim to have the same capabilities in 2019

Link!

https://twitter.com/murderwizard/status/1394459904623222785

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




heres the patent. it got a lot of press a few years ago in a lot of like tabloid rags and pop science sites

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10144532B2/en?inventor=Salvatore+Cezar+Pais

Salvatore Cezar Pais is the supposed inventor. since this patent he got a big navy promotion followed by a transfer to the airforce.
he claims hes got room temperature super conductors, fusion reactors, and inertia reduction devices that power his vehicle to move exactly like the ufos sighted
he sounds like a huge crank but the military loves him.

Source4Leko
Jul 25, 2007


Dinosaur Gum

Real hurthling! posted:

heres the patent. it got a lot of press a few years ago in a lot of like tabloid rags and pop science sites

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10144532B2/en?inventor=Salvatore+Cezar+Pais

Salvatore Cezar Pais is the supposed inventor. since this patent he got a big navy promotion followed by a transfer to the airforce.
he claims hes got room temperature super conductors, fusion reactors, and inertia reduction devices that power his vehicle to move exactly like the ufos sighted
he sounds like a huge crank but the military loves him.

Room temperature superconductors alone would be the breakthrough of the century.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
he's an op

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Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




his name "pais" literally means "matter to be proved solely by the testimony of witnesses unsupported by any judicial record, deed, or other written or tangible evidence" according to the dictionary lol

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