News Briefs – 08/22/2022

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Follow Don Jr on twitter here.

“Make sure those you follow talk about the surveillance, because everyone who is in the game knows. Make them either damage the machine by saying it, or reveal they are part of it by staying silent. Demanding our side talk about the surveillance is really the closest to a Xanatos gambit our side has.”

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DFT – As Europe Heads To Recession, ECB Likely To Hike Big

DFT – Russia Continues To Stockpile Forex Reserves

DFT – Natural Gas Supplies Tighten As Winter Approaches

DFT – ‘Big Short’ Investor Buys Into Prisons Instead Of Stocks

A cache of Russiagate documents President Donald Trump wanted released during his final days in office contained never-before-seen text messages between ex-FBI special agent Peter Strzok and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page disparaging Trump, according to a new report. Didn’t Q say, “How do you introduce evidence into a trial?”

Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz emphasized on Fox News Channel’s “MediaBuzz” that he voted against Trump twice and was “looking forward” to doing it again but said the FBI engaged in an “improper search” to obtain documents.

Appeals court temporarily stays order for Sen. Lindsey Graham testimony in Georgia 2020 election probe.

Unhinged New York AG Letitia James threatens Christian church for hosting Trump-friendly event.

Zuckerberg’s meta rolling out 40 teams to ‘protect’ midterm elections by disrupting groups and censoring content.

Facebook fact-check censors the factual claim that the IRS is arming agents to use deadly force.

FBI affidavit misled a magistrate judge on a search warrant in plot to seize and forfeit contents of safety deposit boxes.

I have written here several times, if you present a spike protein on the surface of your own cell, right next to cell-surface proteins, there is a heightened chance your immune system will see that and you will teach your immune system your own cells are a part of something foreign that needs to be attacked. Now comes a paper which shows, 20% of vaccine recipients who were negative for autoimmune antibodies became positive within 12 months of vaccination and those who were already positive showed increased antibody levels. This fits with the mechanism. and if this spike concentrates in the ovaries and testes, like in rats, that autoimmunity will be to your own reproductive system. And the real question is, how long do you produce the spike protein for?

On Monday, nine military officers from across all the branches sent a whistleblower report to Congress claiming of the vaccines they were delivered, although labeled as Pfizer’s fully-FDA approved Comirnaty vaccine, the vaccine does not appear to have been manufactured in Belgium as is legally required per its FDA approval letter, according to the whistleblowers, and may actually be the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine that’s under emergency use authorization.

Rand Paul on monkeypox: “The government looks like they’re going to screw this up the same way they did COVID.”

Anons on 4Chan found something interesting. Throughout Texas, there are “Aquariums” in small towns, all of which have names that consist of two letters, followed by “Aquarium,” like “EH Aquarium.” But the aquariums when searched on Google do not pop up a business page, and the pins on the map disappear. There are reviews for the aquariums which are reminiscent of those old weird pizza-place reviews which seemed to be talking about something other than pizza. If you search the actual street addresses, they put a pin in the middle of the street in isolated neighborhoods. There is one of the earlier threads here. Another thread popped up today, and I jumped in with a couple of quick surveillance analyses of two places(those places are blanketed, Ed Buck style), and they then bumped the thread off /pol to /bant. I think somebody in Cabal may have even offered me an Asian girl in code to shut up down in the thread. I am not sure if it was a temporary thing, or if she was going to be a more permanent sidekick type of thing, like Chewbacca was to Han Solo for saving his life. Shortly thereafter, the thread was nuked. But they are definitely on to something that somebody was hiding in plain sight.

Slightly older article on San Diego installing street lights with cameras in them.

Another article showing they hide cameras in traffic barrels, and those digital speed signs which tell you how fast you are going.

A chief advisor to the U.S. Department of Agriculture during the presidency of Barack H. Obama recently headlined an event sponsored by a Chinese Communist Party influence group targeting American farmers and farmland.

Border crossers awarded healthcare, free cellphones upon arrival in NYC.

Immigrants use cell phones to tell other immigrants where there are freebies, so New York’s freebies may turn into thousands of more illegals scrambling on Abbott’s busses.

Border Patrol agents caught three illegal immigrants wearing ghillie suits meant to help them blend into the New Mexico desert, the federal agency reported last week.

Licensed Texas attorney and federally appointed immigration magistrate Timothy Japhet arrested on suspicion of human smuggling and resisting arrest.

A former caseworker for the New Jersey Department of Children and Family Services, Division of Child Protection and Permanency, was indicted Thursday on charges of possession and transportation of child pornography and attempted sex trafficking of a minor.

American farmers are killing their own crops and selling cows because of extreme drought.

Somebody getting physical delivery before they think something is happening:

A woman in Houston says she was sent to the hospital after touching a napkin on her car door that was apparently poisoned.  No real info at the article. She threw the napkin away, and some think it may have been pimps trying to kidnap a girl to use her as a prostitute.

SWAT team sent to arrest Atlanta man who spray-painted swastikas on LGBTQ rainbow crosswalk.

Harvey Weinstein was used as inspiration for an orc in Lord Of The Rings, Elijah Wood says. The funny part of the article was they would never have revealed this if Weinstein was still out free. It was only because he was in jail they said it. From the piece, Elijah Wood said, “This was recently spoken about because Dom [Monaghan] and Bill [Boyd], (who played hobbits Merry and Pippin) were talking to Sean Astin (who played Sam) about his first memory of getting to New Zealand. He had seen these orc masks, and one of the orc masks – and I remember this vividly – was designed to look like Harvey Weinstein as a sort of a f*** you.  I think that is okay to talk about now – the guy is f****** incarcerated. F*** him.”

Gary Busey is living his best life, on a park bench, looking at porn on his phone, with his pants around his ankles, smoking a cigar and… doing things… in public. I thought this was a Babylon Bee, but it turns out to be legit. And while not necessarily NSFW, it is horrific in its own way.

Dennis Rodman says he is going to Russia to try and secure Brittney Griner’s release.

The Swiss may be heading toward riots because of a mere 10% shortfall in electricity this winter.

A secret government power grab is revealed in Australia where the former prime minister quietly made himself minister of everything.

Imran Khan, Pakistan’s former prime minister, has been charged under the country’s anti-terrorism act, in the latest chapter of the tense struggle for power with Pakistan’s current government since his ouster.

Reporter of Pakistani TV channel Capital TV says that preparations for Imran Khan’s arrest are complete and he could be arrested in the next couple of hours. There was some sort of scandal over there they never explained completely, where a foreign entity appeared to have taken control of their government.

Pakistani police surround Imran Khan’s home.

A regional head of Ukraine’s SBU intelligence services has been found dead at his home in central Ukraine, the prosecutor general’s office said on Sunday. Wife heard gunfire and found him, so maybe suicide? Death picture here.

The UK’s top ‘other ranks’ soldier has said that British troops must be ready to fight Russia, and should prepare their families for the prospect of an “extended” deployment as the UK’s new head of General Staff said that British forces must become capable of “defeating Russia in battle.”

Zelensky warns of ‘nastier’ phase of war as Russia says Dugin car bombing was a ‘contract killing.’ I have said I can look at Google streetview, and see that Russia does not have the type of ground surveillance you see blanket entire regions in the United States, and the western world. Somebody left me a message saying a friend under this in the US moved to Russia, and it took six months to see that pervasive feeling of being watched and followed by some hostile entity wear off, but it did. And they could not see any surveillance ever bother with them. Notice you could not do a car bomb like this in the US. If you were about to bomb any semi-political figure, from Peter Strzok, to Ed Buck (before he was locked up), the surveillance would see you coming a mile away, and you would never get near planting a bomb, and you would certainly never kill anyone. Dugin was out and about, and he had no followers, because if he did they would have been sitting on his car, and nobody would have gotten near it. I find that just insane. At this point I cannot imagine that level of freedom.

Aftermath of the blast is here, and I have to wonder if this was being filmed by Ukrainian surveillance support for the hit, sent in to document the aftermath.

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Sunday that if any Ukrainian trace in the murder of journalist and political analyst Darya Dugina is confirmed by competent authorities, then Kiev will be held on charges of implementing a policy of state terrorism.

US Navy takes delivery of tactical Lockheed Martin laser weapon.

Court rules taxpayers can sue IRS for violating Constitutional rights on data collection.

Two new polls of the U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania suggest that the race may be closer than previous polls — and pundits — have suggested. Fetterman 46.3%, Oz 45.9%.

Ohio Senate Republican candidate J.D. Vance leads his Democrat rival, Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), by seven points, according to a poll released Sunday.

NBC anchor Chuck Todd said Sunday on “Meet the Press” that a new NBC News poll finds “Americans are angry” with a graphic showing 74% of those polled say the country is on the wrong track.

Trump calls McConnell a ‘broken down hack’ after he doubted GOP chances in 2022.

Selection Code the movie, is right here.

Spread r/K Theory, because the GOP needs fewer broken down hacks

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beekay
beekay
1 year ago

“A secret government power grab is revealed in Australia where the former prime minister quietly made himself minister of everything.”

Underlined, but no link. Quick search shows many articles talking about Scott Morrison secretly grabbing power over many agencies during the pandemic

beekay
beekay
1 year ago

Very frustrating show last night:

The Next Revolution with Steve Hilton

Breathlessly stating what is superficially obvious, and not talking about that which really matters.

And I like Hilton….

beekay
beekay
1 year ago

A Potential Republican Club Midterm Strategy – Nationalize the January 2021 Georgia Outcome

Everything said in the article is true (and infuriating), but what is left unsaid boggles the mind

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teo toon
teo toon
Reply to  beekay
1 year ago

Both parties then are engaged in fraud and are denying the people the right to vote for their preferred persons who would advance the people’s interests. The principle of one man one vote becomes a mockery. The parties do not represent the interest of the American voters. Voting is a form of petitioning the government.
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Nothing restricts the parties which are corporations – private businesses – from allowing non-citizens to vote; and nothing restricts the parties from being foreign owned. Nothing restricts the board of trustees of USA, Inc. from hiring a foreign CEO – Chairman Xi, anyone? Corporations do this all the time.
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Once enough people realize even the government is a corporation which can be owned by other corporations and foreign governments – Vatican anyone, IMF anyone; then….
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The states are also corporations.
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When was this all put to vote? This being revealed what have we the people to do with these corporations put in place of the Law of the Land without our consent?
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What is treason? It is only a person deciding to do business with another corporation: can Macy’s charge me with treason if I decide to do business with Sears even though I have been a long-term Macy’s customer? Am I a traitor to North Carolina if I decide to business with – Heaven forbid! – New Jersey?

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Farcesensitive
1 year ago

Saskatchewan warns Trudeau’s federal Nitrogen agents could be arrested

https://thecountersignal.com/trudeau-officers-threatened-with-arrest/

Max Barrage
Max Barrage
Reply to  Farcesensitive
1 year ago

It looks like someone is down voting every comment you make.

Farcesensitive
Reply to  Max Barrage
1 year ago

Two somebodies.

It doesn’t bother me, it validates me.
Don’t trust anyone who has no enemies.

beekay
beekay
1 year ago

The Sociopathic Democratic Party
ANOTHER essentially correct article which, however (willfully?) misses the deeper point.

Political Science masturbation.

Maniac
Maniac
1 year ago

‘Dennis Rodman says he is going to Russia to try and secure Brittney Griner’s release.’

Here’s to hoping they detain him too for his crossdressing past. The Russians are far less tolerant of those DIATRIBES than the West tends to be.

beekay
beekay
1 year ago

Very Vox Day-ian:

Geopolitics: The World Is Splitting In Two

The comments are priceless – including this:

Those people are still in the background.
The dance is still in place.
The only difference is that RU has now left the dance hall.

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Anonymous
Anonymous
1 year ago

Gamer youtuber and Christian father who goes by the name Truth Behind the Lies is claiming he is being harassed by something unknown to him. In one video he details how he was apparently accused of random crimes by Taco Bell employees during his regular food delivery gig in a rouse to get him fired from the delivery service and more recently via a possible sound weapon while driving.

https://youtu.be/-nN4aPiNd5k

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
1 year ago

It took me while to realize how evil they are and much they hate good and caring people…..I couldn’t imagine someone having that kind of rot in their soul.

Macaque Mentality
Macaque Mentality
1 year ago

A secret government power grab is revealed in Australia where the former prime minister quietly made himself minister of everything.

This text is not linked. Link to article is below:

https://www.economist.com/asia/2022/08/18/a-secret-government-power-grab-is-revealed-in-australia

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Macaque Mentality
1 year ago

It is reported that the Governor General had/has the power to declare a medical national emergency. Once declared the Federal Health Minister would assume dictatorial power over all levels of Australian government and everyone in Australia.
The Health Minister is one Greg Hunt. He returned to Australia and a successful political career after a stint as a senior executive at the World Economic Forum.
The Prime Minister’s action eliminated that possibility.
Coincidence?

phelps
phelps
1 year ago

Gary Busey is living his best life, on a park bench, looking at porn on his phone, with his pants around his ankles, smoking a cigar and… doing things… in public. I thought this was a Babylon Bee, but it turns out to be legit. And while not necessarily NSFW, it is horrific in its own way.

Clotshot dementia. He’s 78.

Ingot9455
Ingot9455
Reply to  phelps
1 year ago

Gary Busey is well-known to have brain damage from an old motorcycle accident that has drastically reduced his self control. That plus old age plus clotshot.

B.Chiclitz
B.Chiclitz
Reply to  phelps
1 year ago

My thought as well…”dirty old man” not uncommon behavior for later stage dementia or alzheimers. He also famously suffered brain damage from a motorcycle accident back in the day.

Atavisionary
Atavisionary
1 year ago

>The funny part of the article was they would never have revealed this if Weinstein was still out free.
How much of feminist hysteria about sexual harassment is just misplacement of targets from tribesmen like Weinstein and other cabalist scum promoted up to a random powerless guys. Shit flows downhill they say.

Atavisionary
Atavisionary
1 year ago

>Aftermath of the blast is here, and I have to wonder if this was being filmed by Ukrainian surveillance support for the hit, sent in to document the aftermath.
Yesterday I was wondering about something. There are a lot of movies, books, shows, etc etc semi-based on true stories on some seriously sick individuals. Serial killers et al. For example, psycho is based on a guy called ed gein. I guess a lot of other media has got various levels of influence thereof as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein
The real ed gein was actually substantially worse than norman bates. But anyway, as you say cabal likes to document their handywork with pictures and videos but I was thinking/wondering how much of their fiction is loosely based on their own MK-ultra-esque windup toys. Even or especially the ones that broke and acted out in ways that couldn’t be readily covered up. Or at least made them be not very useful for the conspiracy. Ted Bundy was seemingly being primed for politics before he broke. Psycho itself is actually a pretty loose adaptation of Gein and maybe a lot of these other thrillers and gore films are also very loose adaptations of real cabal activities. Not really whole stories but particular elements, like geins obsession with his mother but not his tendency to rob graves and make leather products out of human skin. That later element did however appear in a lot of other serial killer movies like silence of the lambs and Texas Chainsaw massecre.
Needless to say, I tend to think it is not a great idea to watch much or any of these films based on sadism and gore. Its a possibility its just another way for cabal to gloat and glorify their bullshit.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Atavisionary
1 year ago

In real life those monsters exist to be killed and wiped off from all existence.

Farcesensitive
Reply to  Atavisionary
1 year ago

They make and promote those movies to manipulate the public in some way.
For the same reason they have normalized telling ghost/monster stories to children for centuries.

I think they want to ingrain a debilitating fear response in the public.
Don’t watch ANY of them or let your children watch them.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Farcesensitive
1 year ago

Better to be trained to lock and load and annihilate them by any means necessary.

Farcesensitive
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

That’s what crime dramas and war movies are for.

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 year ago

Aftermath of the blast is here, and I have to wonder if this was being filmed by Ukrainian surveillance support for the hit, sent in to document the aftermath.

The fact that cameras were on the scene so quickly and even caught her father’s distraught reaction were interesting. And while, yes, everyone has a phone these days it’s worth noting that not everyone gets these videos to major western media so quickly.

There’s definitely something odd here. Particularly how someone felt they had enough cover to approach the vehicle and install the device. It will be interesting to know if it was detonated by a timer or by a remote control.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

“Western Media justifies Dugin car bombing” (Steve Turley)

https://www.bitchute.com/video/IlzACqRp7tU/

Most important are 3.00-6.30 and there’s also a bit about the BBC starting at 7.45.

phelps
phelps
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

It’s developing fast, with a fuckton of implications.
(tl;dr version of below: Ukraine screwed the pooch, went terrorist, and are dragging us and Europe with them)
Russian State Dept went public saying that if it turned out to be Ukraine, then they would be declared a terrorist state by Russia. A few hours later, FSB dropped the video receipts showing the Azov agent, a woman, entering the country in a car, following Darya (not the father) in the same vehicle with multiple plates from multiple countries, entering Darya’s building where she lived, and then fleeing to Estonia through another checkpoint after the bombing. They published the agent’s Azov military ID.
So, implications. Russia will declare Ukraine a terrorist state, most likely. The thing is, I doubt that Kiev actually ordered it, because I don’t think even our glowies are stupid enough to assassinate the daughter of a guy that Putin likes. It’s just too shitty even for us. We control Kiev, so Kiev wouldn’t order it.
So if they did, it means that we have lost control of Kiev. I think it is more likely that Kiev has lost control of Azov (what little it had, anyway.) Terrorism is part of the asymmetrical spectrum, below guerilla, which is below separatist/insurgent and full military. The purpose of terrorism is to provoke a disproportionate response. You KNOW that you will pay an inordinately heavy price for it, so it is a desperation move to rally people to your side (by ruining their lives.)
So the question is, who no longer considers themselves to even be at the guerilla level of force, much less actual state actor? Azov, considering themselves to be seperate from Kiev, is likely. They’ve been virtually wiped out by the Russians, they likely feel like Kiev left them out to hang, and now they are striking with what they have (which isn’t much.)
If it is Kiev, then Ukraine is even worse off than I thought. The grift is over, the end is near, and they are going terrorist as a last ditch effort to maybe be able to throw the Russians off in 20-30 years (ala Afghanistan.) Good luck with that. Estonia is going to feel the bus wheels as well, because whoever made this decision threw them under it. The Russians are going to tell them, “hand this person over, or we will declare you to be harboring terrorists and therefore a terrorist state as well.” I expect the border to Estonia to be closed for a while in any event, opening only after they turn over the agent or Russia feels like they have suffered long enough and learned their lesson.
If it’s us, then the world is fucked, because our leaders are too stupid to realize how the asymmetrical warfare spectrum even works. Russia will start offing our journalists and billionaires with gusto, which frankly is a blessing for the US people, but not the people running the US. Say hello to WW4 — or rather, start learning how to say hello in Russian.
Edit/update: Russian talking heads are saying that they don’t believe that this could have been done without CIA/US.mil support.
BOHICA.

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Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  phelps
1 year ago

I’ll explain to you why I think it’s high level western intelligence, and you tell me what you think.

The first big red flag: there was a flurry of reporting of Dugin not long ago in the western media. And it was all tremendously dishonest, setting him up as “Putin’s Brain” and really hyping him and making him seem like a frothing fascist lunatic.

Now why was any of that in the news? I’d suggest that it was about preparing the audience for his assassination. Otherwise news of it would be received like, “who is that guy?”

Secondly, Dugin is not a strategic target for Ukraine.

But he is a strategic target for the West! Notice that immediately the news media piled on with a coherent narrative of Dugin as a dangerous fascist, genocidal lunatic, architect of the invasion, Putin’s close confidant, etc., etc., It’s a real narrative of “this guy is beyond the pale.” The standard liberal commentators and bots on Twitter were all universal in the condemnation. “Monster who got what was coming for him..” etc.

In my view, Dugin’s attacks on the US and the West are really an intellectual attack on Cabal. Basically the crimes he attributes to the US are in fact cabal crimes. He writes powerful, intellectual arguments that completely undermine globalist assumptions.

I suggest to you that is why he was offed. And that points to Western intelligence agencies and possibly CIA.

phelps
phelps
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

Possible, but I consider it a lower probability. First, the father wasn’t the target. This was a command detonated bomb, meaning they knew he wasn’t in the car when they intentionally detonated it. Russia is portraying it like a killing of opportunity, but they could have just left the bomb in place (or retrieved and replaced it later) if they wanted to get him. There’s no evidence that they thought they were burned and had to go.
So the daughter was the target, and that just doesn’t make sense for the West. It might make sense for the cabal, but a random disappearance or a heart-attack shot is more their style. This feels like Azov.

phelps
phelps
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
1 year ago

FSB did a press conference, same time they released the footage. Said it there (adding that it was doubly cowardly to kill the daughter knowing that the father wasn’t in the car because they saw the car to detonate it.)

SteveRogers42
SteveRogers42
Reply to  phelps
1 year ago

How would FSB get ahold of her Uke military ID? Doesn’t seem like the kind of thing a clandestine agent would bring along on a bombing run.

Farcesensitive
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
1 year ago

She was told to drop it to provoke Russia into some kind of reaction they think will serve the narrative.

Zelensky, Azov, the CIA/cabal, or all of them could be behind it.

SteveRogers42
SteveRogers42
Reply to  Farcesensitive
1 year ago

Interesting.

phelps
phelps
Reply to  SteveRogers42
1 year ago

The date on it is September 2020, so it might be a scan from a pre-war border crossing. It’s her passport, she’s just in uniform for the photo.

Farcesensitive
Reply to  phelps
1 year ago

Da=Yes
Nyet=No
Tovaritch=Comrade

wlindsaywheeler
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

Having a camera on scene is nothing—everybody has a cellphone with a camera. That guy was probably driving down the road to in the same direction and saw the explosion and pulled over. You read too much into the situation. Nothing is odd here.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
1 year ago

Spot on.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  wlindsaywheeler
1 year ago

You read too much into the situation. Nothing is odd here.”

Nothing is as it seems.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

Especially the commenter…

Lowell Houser
Lowell Houser
1 year ago
Anonymous
Anonymous
1 year ago

AC, have you seen or discussed <i>Terminal List</i> yet? Started watching last week. I don’t know what to think about the fact that Amazon put this out, but the whole storyline is… interesting.

Lowell Houser
Lowell Houser
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
1 year ago

It’s worth watching for entertainment value, but there’s an element of gatekeeping present. It features that close cousin of the false “slippery slope fallacy” about “the road to hell being paved with good intentions” instead of truth which is that they lied and always planned to pave a road straight to hell intentionally. You’ll understand what I mean if you watch it. And no, I doubt Amazon makes it available on physical media because they need to shore up Prime viewership. So if you don’t want to do that, you’re stuck with bittorrent.

Farcesensitive
Reply to  Lowell Houser
1 year ago

Some roads to hell are paved with good intentions.
They are built by useful idiots under the manipulation of those with intent to build a road to hell.

wooderson
wooderson
1 year ago

Everyone in entertainment has an agent. The agent takes 15%. The really successful entertainers have managers. The managers take 15% to watch the agent. That is how Rob Lowe explains it.

A really astonishing amount of entertainers get fleeced. Three of the four Beatles, for instance, had their fortunes misappropriated. We can thank crooked management for the impetus for the Rolling Stones to be on tour constantly. Paul McCartney, quite famously, married his manager’s daughter. Then he treated her very well. Her family had an interest in keeping McCartney in lettuce. Brian Epstein is famous 70 years later for being an honest manager who only took 25%.

Music and math and physics are kind of in the same mental area, apparently. White musicians seem to have children who come up as physicists or accountants or engineers. Some musicians are physicists- Queen’s Brian May, most famously. Duff, from Guns& Roses, is about a year short of a finance or accounting degree. He runs an investment firm for musicians. Geo Harrison’s son did engineering design work with McLaren, the premium car company, before resigning himself to becoming a music producer. Lionel Richie’s children taught him business.

A musical genre quits getting promoted when the musicians hire accountants to audit their management company. David Lee Roth says the most life-changing day of his life is when his recording contract expired, some twenty years after he had been famous. He had worked as an EMT, not just for kicks, but because he needed to earn a living.

Right now, I can’t think of any famous black musicians that have children who are accountants. Their offspring seem to follow in their footsteps as entertainers, rather than back office. That’s why we have this abundance of black entertainers in media: they are getting fleeced, one way or another.

Consider, if you will, Britney Spears versus Jessica Simpson. Both put out bubble gum pop. Britney was all over the news as the best entertainment ticket, while I don’t know anyone who knows Jessica Simpson’s last album. Jessica owns her billion dollar company. She worked very hard while she was poor. She was promoted all over the place, when she was at the mercy of entertainment executives. When she freed herself, more or less, she was not promoted. Britney was promoted as very entertaining, a good ticket, up to the day she was freed from her conservatorship- someone was making money off of her. She wasn’t free.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  wooderson
1 year ago

With black entertainers in recent decades, I also think that there’s been a strong effort to promote the entire gangsta image and generalized degeneracy. It’s a very, very long fall from Louis Armstrong, Herbie Hancock, and the Motown Sound to Ice Cube and Flavor Flav.

phelps
phelps
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
1 year ago

What do you mean “if”?

Lowell Houser
Lowell Houser
1 year ago
Anonymous
Anonymous
1 year ago

Th is comment struck me at the Sakers site http://thesaker.is/faina-savenkova-it-is-impossible-for-such-a-site-to-exist/ comment Tony_0pmoc on August 22, 2022 · at 2:18 pm EST/EDT

This story just did my head in….A girl and her teenager daughter, move into the same building as a 30 year old girl – obviously talented…they presumably make friends with her – each other – much the same age – maybe slight differences in accents…but basically the same..similar to eg, me and my girlfriend moving from Manchester to London, when we were about 30, and making new friends, and going to festivals together.

I can’t imagine any “friend” moving into the house where we live, and going to a festival together, and sticking a bomb under my car seat at the festival, so that it explodes with my Dad witnessing it in the car behind.

Sound familiar?

TRX
TRX
1 year ago

> Court rules taxpayers can sue IRS for violating Constitutional rights on data collection.

And then an IRS judge in an IRS court will make you very sorry you disrespected they authori-tay.

Farcesensitive
Reply to  TRX
1 year ago

SCOTUS just ruled another agency can’t have its own private courts.
Now they can do so for the IRS too.

Farcesensitive
1 year ago

Brazilian Police Seek to Indict President Bolsonaro over Coronavirus ‘Disinformation’

https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2022/08/21/brazilian-police-seek-to-indict-president-bolsonaro-over-coronavirus-disinformation/

Felix
Felix
1 year ago

Just found that yandex.com has cached copies of webpages like google used to. Very handy!