The Saucer Hovers posted:

also seen here, also some guy

smarxist posted:

is Mirage Men worth reading?

smarxist posted:

is Mirage Men worth reading?

smarxist posted:

is Mirage Men worth reading?

Puppy Burner posted:

it talks about the silver shirts and other nazi adjacent weirdos inventing UFOlogy, so if you're into that then yes.

smarxist posted:

is Mirage Men worth reading?

fanfic insert posted:

iirc the UFO thread says it is. Not really worth it if youre looking to debunk the current disclosure efforts cause the nature of it is different in a few aspects but if youre looking to get the history of the efforts to confuse and misdirect its worth it

Proust Malone posted:

https://x.com/conzmoleman/status/1306728440196935682?s=46&t=v69FFc9gmilk6I-vYnAGzw

Proust Malone posted:

https://x.com/conzmoleman/status/1306728440196935682?s=46&t=v69FFc9gmilk6I-vYnAGzw

Proust Malone posted:

https://x.com/conzmoleman/status/1306728440196935682?s=46&t=v69FFc9gmilk6I-vYnAGzw

uber_stoat posted:

lmao

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Look her up on Wikipedia and you will find a lengthy entry about her extraordinary life as a pioneer, adventurer and champion of women’s rights.

Yet Haverstick’s work on the film attracted the attention of a Department of Defense official, who befriended her in slightly suspicious circumstances on a camping holiday and later warned her that documents given to her by Cobb for her research were classified.

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What Haverstick found out was that Cobb flew a light aircraft in and out of a private airport in Dallas on the day of the assassination, in such peculiar circumstances that she became convinced she played a role in the murder, possibly as an intended getaway pilot for assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

If that were not startling enough, she also came to suspect that Cobb was a mysterious character known to Kennedy investigators as the Babushka Lady, who was the closest person filming the president at the moment he was shot, but who vanished after the assassination, along with her all-important footage.

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Given June’s presence in the Kennedy archives, Haverstick decided to look for any evidence of Jerrie in the documents, and discovered a reference to a small twin-engined plane, of the kind that Jerrie flew at the time, that witnesses reported standing for hours with its engines running at Redbird private airport in Dallas that day.

“I took a giant guess,” says Haverstick, 63, “and I said to her that I thought June Cobb flew to Redbird. Jerrie broke into almost tears, was extremely emotional and then she told me it had been her.”

Jerrie’s explanation for what she was doing there stretched credibility to the limit: she said she had been hired by Life magazine to fly a reporting team to Dallas to cover the presidential visit, but that when they heard he had been assassinated they abandoned the assignment and left.

FlowPon posted:

https://twitter.com/xntrix2022/status/1726603404049547744

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There may even be a name change. Just as the Latin American Anti-Communist Confederation became the Federation of Latin American Democratic Entities, at the next conference or Executive Board meeting the World Anti-Communist League may cease to exist, to reappear as the International Freedom League or the World Federation for Democracy or some other grand title.

gradenko_2000 posted:

The Military Origins of Facebook

[...]

A few months into Facebook’s launch, in June 2004, Facebook cofounders Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz brought Sean Parker onto Facebook’s executive team. Parker, previously known for cofounding Napster, later connected Facebook with its first outside investor, Peter Thiel. As discussed, Thiel, at that time, in coordination with the CIA, was actively trying to resurrect controversial DARPA programs that had been dismantled the previous year. Notably, Sean Parker, who became Facebook’s first president, also had a history with the CIA, which recruited him at the age of sixteen soon after he had been busted by the FBI for hacking corporate and military databases. Thanks to Parker, in September 2004, Thiel formally acquired $500,000 worth of Facebook shares and was added its board. Parker maintained close ties to Facebook as well as to Thiel, with Parker being hired as a managing partner of Thiel’s Founders Fund in 2006.

[...]

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With only 30 or so employees, Mojang was earning profits that seemed endless. It ended 2012 with about $230 million in sales, with gross profits of more than $150 million--$101 million of which Persson paid to himself in exchange for licenses to Minecraft's intellectual property. (He quickly bought the most expensive apartment in Stockholm.)

Investors circled feverishly. Manneh says he talked with more than 100 venture firms in that time, including blue-chip Silicon Valley outfits Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners, but never considered taking money because Mojang simply didn't need it. There was also a visit from billionaire Sean Parker, who whisked away Persson, Porsér and Manneh on his private jet for a wild night out in London. They still turned down his money.

"It was the first time we ever flew on a private jet," says Manneh. It wouldn't be the last. As a private company with no outside investors, the flush firm commissioned Renaissance-style oil paintings of its Mojangstas. To celebrate 10 million downloads, they took the whole staff to Monaco for three days of champagne-fueled partying and yachting. And while the three founders held all the stock, Persson kept employees lubricated with a $3 million group bonus in 2012.

The Military Origins of Facebook posted:

Parker, previously known for cofounding Napster

maxwellhill posted:

so the money is never theirs in the first place.

BasicLich posted:

oh get a load of this, it's going to be very fun to explain to people who already think of me as an insane person that Napster, the infamous music piracy app has deep intelligence community funding for *~reasons~*

Laterite posted:

epster

The Saucer Hovers posted:

dead gay comedy forums posted:

sincerest thanks to the unknown enlightened mystic, true a master of masters, peerless in their craft and wisom, who managed to execute such a righteous and holy Operation and destroy the abyssal fiend

dead gay comedy forums posted:

sincerest thanks to the unknown enlightened mystic, true a master of masters, peerless in their craft and wisom, who managed to execute such a righteous and holy Operation and destroy the abyssal fiend

Taco Duck posted:

Can I be the admin or whatever of just this thread