The second link I sent is about a gruesome murder perpetrated by 13 year olds in Dublin. If I find any other long reads I'll try to put a decent description.
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Nice. Calling your children “bellends”.Playboy wrote: ↑Sat Jun 22, 2019 11:11 pmI am not a Mod.YaTingPom wrote: ↑Sat Jun 22, 2019 9:28 pmYou know for a mod you’re very precious.
Is it beyond your scope to see we were just yanking your (very short) chain?
Just think “What would Migs’ do?” before you splurge your nonsensical idiocy forth.
(I’ve used some big words tonight, and things. I feel goooood)
My scope is pretty much defined as what I think it should be - capricious whimsy.
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Still greatly enjoying the first link. Made my break time at work fly by yesterday.Lucky Lucan wrote: ↑Sat Jun 22, 2019 11:50 pmThe second link I sent is about a gruesome murder perpetrated by 13 year olds in Dublin. If I find any other long reads I'll try to put a decent description.
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I had telephone support from a telecomms company recently. The CS guy sounded Asian, probably in the Philippines. He told me his name was Hunter.
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This story is HUGE and really isn't getting the coverage it deserves.
‘CRIME BOSS’: Closing Arguments in NXIVM Trial — Satanism, Mexico Child Trafficking, Hillary, Schumer and Gillibrand Ties
Here is Raniere with the Dalai Lama, who NXIVM paid around $1 Million. For what?
Keith Raniere was found guilty of all charges including sex trafficking children from Mexico.
NXIVM Cult’s Daycare Centers: Human Experiments Left Children Damaged For Life
The Rainbow Cultural Garden’s human experiments on children in Albany came to light courtesy of NXIVM whistleblower Frank Parlato, and the state of Florida recently stepped in to shut down the Rainbow Cultural Garden in Miami.
The Cultural Garden is overseen by Hillary Clinton donor and illegal bundler Clare Bronfman, who might face more charges including visa fraud in connection to the NXIVM case.
‘CRIME BOSS’: Closing Arguments in NXIVM Trial — Satanism, Mexico Child Trafficking, Hillary, Schumer and Gillibrand Ties
Here is Raniere with the Dalai Lama, who NXIVM paid around $1 Million. For what?
Keith Raniere was found guilty of all charges including sex trafficking children from Mexico.
Raniere Made Child Porn Featuring Mexican Child Sex SlavesClosing arguments began Monday at Brooklyn federal court in the sex trafficking trial of NXIVM cult leader Keith Raniere, who stands accused of violating young illegal immigrant girls from Mexico and imprisoning them on threat of deportation by the cult.
Human experiments and Satanism-inspired rituals took place at the cult, according to the mountains of evidence exposed by this historic trial of the new century.
“The defendant tapped into a never-ending flow of women and money,” the prosecution said of Raniere Monday, calling him a “crime boss with no limits and no checks on his power.”
Evidence shows how the NXIVM sex cult illegally raised money for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, how it counted Clinton friend Richard Mays and Kirsten Gillibrand’s stepmother as active members and Gillibrand’s father as an employee, and how the cult’s “ally” Chuck Schumer was compromised by virtue of the cult possessing his financial records.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/crime-bos ... rand-ties/[FBI special agent Meagan Rees presented more than twelve images of child pornography allegedly produced by NXIVM cult leader Keith Raniere in Raniere’s trial Thursday at Brooklyn federal court. Raniere stands accused of sex trafficking during his tenure atop the elite upstate New York sex cult, where he was branding female sex slaves.
NXIVM Cult’s Daycare Centers: Human Experiments Left Children Damaged For Life
The Rainbow Cultural Garden’s human experiments on children in Albany came to light courtesy of NXIVM whistleblower Frank Parlato, and the state of Florida recently stepped in to shut down the Rainbow Cultural Garden in Miami.
The Cultural Garden is overseen by Hillary Clinton donor and illegal bundler Clare Bronfman, who might face more charges including visa fraud in connection to the NXIVM case.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/nxivm-cul ... -for-life/“They do the human fright experiments where they subject women to surprise graphic viewings” similar to A Clockwork Orange, Parlato told Big League Politics. The Albany-based Garden hosted Dr. Brandon Porter’s sick experiments.
“The most diabolical experiments that he conducts are experiments where babies are subjected to a constant succession of strangers who take care of them instead of their parents, and the strangers teach them foreign languages,” Parlato said.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_League_Politics
Always a good idea to check the source.
Always a good idea to check the source.
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OMG! The article is on a "far-right" website. Now it's safely been labelled by Wikipedia - "The website has promoted conspiracy theories..." you can dismiss it.henryhungfunny wrote: ↑Sun Jun 23, 2019 3:56 pmhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_League_Politics
Always a good idea to check the source.
ETA: The editor-in-chief is Patrick Howley, former assistant editor of that bastion of "right-wingers" - The American Spectator and his work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal.
Can you define "far-right" for me?
What exactly is your problem with the article? He was found guilty. I'm going to make a guess that it has something to do with implicating the Clintons and other Democrats...
The sources are in the article, including court documents.
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The Dalai Lama has associated with many shady characters over the years. He was associated with SS sergeant Heinrich Harrer. His cult made an endorsement for another insidious cult called Aum Shinrikyo. Aum Shinrikyo is a cult that perpetrated the sarin gas attacks in Tokyo.
The man is a terrorist, plain and simple. The only question is whether he belongs in a prison or an insane asylum.
The man is a terrorist, plain and simple. The only question is whether he belongs in a prison or an insane asylum.
His personal wealth is $150 million, ,not bad for a fake monk, aye Harold.Harold wrote: ↑Sun Jun 23, 2019 4:45 pmThe Dalai Lama has associated with many shady characters over the years. He was associated with SS sergeant Heinrich Harrer. His cult made an endorsement for another insidious cult called Aum Shinrikyo. Aum Shinrikyo is a cult that perpetrated the sarin gas attacks in Tokyo.
The man is a terrorist, plain and simple. The only question is whether he belongs in a prison or an insane asylum.
Spiritual leader. actor and author.
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Well, shouldn't we all be in favour of a thread that encourages folk to read and think - irrespective of how 'long' the 'read' may be (pieces of string come to mind)?
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ThanksLucky Lucan wrote: ↑Sat Jun 22, 2019 11:50 pmThe second link I sent is about a gruesome murder perpetrated by 13 year olds in Dublin. If I find any other long reads I'll try to put a decent description.
"We, the sons of John Company, have arrived"
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How big pharma puts profit over the health of the general public https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/mir ... awbreaker/ "Johnson & Johnson has already settled thousands of cases involving illicit promotion of Risperdal, including Department of Justice civil and criminal complaints, for a total fast approaching $3 billion.
But on the morning of the analysts’ meeting, the company was still manning the battle stations with squadrons of lawyers fighting off another 4,200 cases, apparently willing to risk a few more bad verdicts while hoping to weed out the weakest cases and wear the opposition down in order to save on final settlement costs of the strongest claims.
Yet all of that meant little to the stock analysts. “Oh, they’ve already reserved for that stuff,” one of them told me during a coffee break. He meant that in Johnson & Johnson’s financials, there had been money taken from earnings and put into a column vaguely called “accrued liabilities,” in order to account for the expected billions that might still have to be paid out in verdicts or settlements.
“It’s their cost of doing business,” the analyst added, perhaps unintentionally echoing the view of one senior J&J lawyer who told me that the cases against his company are the unavoidable price of dealing with a litigation system easily abused by those targeting big corporations.
“All the big pharmas” have lawsuits, the analyst concluded, sipping an espresso. “It’s just not a big deal.”
Indeed, with before-tax profits of $20.6 billion for 2014, putting aside $500 million or even $1 billion a year over 15 years to cover payouts for boys with 46DD breasts and other claims that might come along doesn’t put much of a dent in the company’s financials. As Johnson & Johnson declared in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission three weeks before the analysts’ conference, “In the Company’s opinion … the ultimate outcome of legal proceedings, net of liabilities accrued in the Company’s balance sheet, is not expected to have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial position.”
Thus, as Johnson & Johnson’s press materials habitually point out, the company has recorded 51 years of increases in the dividends paid to shareholders.
“All the big pharmas have lawsuits,” the analyst concluded, sipping an espresso. “It’s just not a big deal.”"
But on the morning of the analysts’ meeting, the company was still manning the battle stations with squadrons of lawyers fighting off another 4,200 cases, apparently willing to risk a few more bad verdicts while hoping to weed out the weakest cases and wear the opposition down in order to save on final settlement costs of the strongest claims.
Yet all of that meant little to the stock analysts. “Oh, they’ve already reserved for that stuff,” one of them told me during a coffee break. He meant that in Johnson & Johnson’s financials, there had been money taken from earnings and put into a column vaguely called “accrued liabilities,” in order to account for the expected billions that might still have to be paid out in verdicts or settlements.
“It’s their cost of doing business,” the analyst added, perhaps unintentionally echoing the view of one senior J&J lawyer who told me that the cases against his company are the unavoidable price of dealing with a litigation system easily abused by those targeting big corporations.
“All the big pharmas” have lawsuits, the analyst concluded, sipping an espresso. “It’s just not a big deal.”
Indeed, with before-tax profits of $20.6 billion for 2014, putting aside $500 million or even $1 billion a year over 15 years to cover payouts for boys with 46DD breasts and other claims that might come along doesn’t put much of a dent in the company’s financials. As Johnson & Johnson declared in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission three weeks before the analysts’ conference, “In the Company’s opinion … the ultimate outcome of legal proceedings, net of liabilities accrued in the Company’s balance sheet, is not expected to have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial position.”
Thus, as Johnson & Johnson’s press materials habitually point out, the company has recorded 51 years of increases in the dividends paid to shareholders.
“All the big pharmas have lawsuits,” the analyst concluded, sipping an espresso. “It’s just not a big deal.”"
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This one about Bisons is good:
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-buffaloplight/
An idea may be formed of how many buffalo were killed from 1868 to 1881, a period of only thirteen years, during which time they were indiscriminately slaughtered for their hides. In Kansas alone there was paid out, between the dates specified, two million five hundred thousand dollars for their bones gathered on the prairies, to be utilized by the various carbon works of the country, principally in St. Louis. It required about one hundred carcasses to make one ton of bones, the price paid averaging eight dollars a ton; so the above-quoted enormous sum represented the skeletons of over thirty-one millions of buffalo.
Sometimes when far away from camp a blizzard would come down from the north in all its fury without ten minutes’ warning, and in a few seconds the air, full of blinding snow, precluded the possibility of finding their shelter, an attempt at which would only result in an aimless circular march on the prairie. On such occasions, to keep from perishing by the intense cold, they would kill a buffalo, and, taking out its viscera, creep inside the huge cavity, enough animal heat being retained until the storm had sufficiently abated for them to proceed with safety to their camp.
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-buffaloplight/
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http://multimedia.scmp.com/week-asia/article/2174634/narcos-hidden-drug-trafficking/
Raquel Carvelho and Marcelo DuhaldeAs Chinese gangs, Latin American cartels and Nigerian brokers widen their international networks, a rising number of vulnerable women and children are being tangled in their web
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