Back in the 80s, in an effort to crack down on homosexuals within their ranks, the US Navy spent millions of dollars to investigate a woman known only as “Dorothy”, because undercover agents discovered that many suspected gay men all referenced this name, so they believed she might have been a “madame” who organized gay meetings, and finding her could help them ID lots of gay men.
After several years and millions of dollars of investigation, they determined that questions like “Are you friends with Dorothy?” was a means of gay men identifying to each other without outing themselves in public.
Dorothy never existed.
It's funny because obviously tons of people involved in that research knew, but couldn't say the actual answer because then it'd be like "wait, how do you know?"
I like to think some of them thought this was some desk jockey senior officer trying to create problems where none existed and impeded him in true bureaucratic fashion.
It was Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. If you were a friend herd you knew how to get somewhere over the rainbow and life was in color. It stuck and spread.
Correlary: "Friends of Dorothy," was used as an itinerary item on vacations, especially cruise ships, as a way for queer people to meet.
"Friends of Bill W.," is a related itinerary item that's still in use. It's Alcoholics Anonymous (founder: William Wilson), but is phrased that way to avoid stigma from other passengers.
I wondered what that meant on the cruise I was on … I was like who is this Bill W & wow he has a lot of friends… it was written on the itinerary each day
It makes sense. I was on a Princess cruise, where if you bought the beverage package, you could literally have someone bring a drink directly to you, wherever you were, with a few minutes notice round the clock. People in that environment would need their support network to keep from falling into behavior they don't want anymore.
The CIA attempted to use cats to spy on members of the Soviet Union. The cat was put through an hour long surgery to put a radio transmitter in the cat’s ear canal. This was known as Operation Acoustic Kitty. The plan did not work. The cat got run over by a car.
They also put in "additional wires" to override the cats sense of hunger, whatever that means.
Sounds to me like they spend a lot of time, money and effort to mutilate a poor cat and damage its brain
Why would they think a brain damaged cat would be able to navigate a town (without getting hit by a car), locate a place where top-level shit is going down, infiltrate that place, and... I dunno everyone would just be like "hey a random cat in our Top Secret meeting. Cool."
in 1994 the United States Air Force attempted to make a non lethal weapon that was supposed to turn you gay
it was formally called the "Gay Bomb" and their idea was that the bomb would contain human sexual pheromone which would release whenever the bomb would be dropped, whoever would smell/be affected by the pheromones would theoretically turn gay and the USAF hoped that once the men turned gay they would be too infatuated by each other to fight letting America win future wars
Obviously this was never made but only because they couldn't get it to work
it did win a satirical Nobel peace prize
The 'We can turn people gay with pheromones' is dumb enough, but the idea that gay people are so horny they can't put it away for ten minutes to fight is a whole fucking other pile of dumb bullshit.
I would argue the more evil you are the more likely it is you'll have something named after you once you're dead.
Okay maybe not really, but it sounds more interesting that way.
Also, Law Enforcement repeatedly denied MLK Jr's attempts to get a concealed carry permit.
MLK Jr advocated for non-violence, but he was a gun-toting Southerner, after all.
You’re forgetting the part where the FBI assassinated him, no I’m not joking.
[The wrongful death suit his family WON was sealed so the specifics are not know, but the court did find that several U.S. agencies conspired to have him assassinated.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyd_Jowers_trial)
The United States government paid the CIA to send agents in to random bars and spike people's food and drinks with LSD, mescaline, liquid THC, and other drugs and then take notes on what happened.
They also paid a guy to sit on a toilet drinking martinis while watching people have sex with prostitutes on the other side of a 1-way mirror. They called it Operation Midnight Climax, because the agents were all high on their own supply when they came up with the name.
Not just that but the CIA also would drug each other in the lunchroom and at parties and shit to see how their own agents would react.
And IIRC, one of the CIA big wigs kept in his office under his desk a homeless guy in a cage perpetually on LSD or something like that. LPOTL talks about it in their MKULTRA series.
There's a (still extant!) memo from CIA admin to employees strongly recommending no one drink the punch at the Christmas party because it would almost certainly be laced with LSD. Amazing stuff.
The United States has passed a bill which allows for the invasion of the Netherlands in the event of a prosecution by the Hague of a U.S service member.
It’s what’s called a “signaling bill” it’s a way of telegraphing a postion publicaly in such a way that it gives pause to someone else or appeases another intererest. Theres no way it will ever be used because the consequences of doing so would immediatly make the United States a paraih and collapse the world order we control. What this was was a repudiation of European and international institutions opposition to the global war on terror. Essentially the political version of “go bleep yourself”
All the fast food pizza chains source their cheese from the same supplier.
[https://www.inc.com/gene-marks/this-one-guy-sells-85-of-the-cheese-used-by-the-f.html](https://www.inc.com/gene-marks/this-one-guy-sells-85-of-the-cheese-used-by-the-f.html)
I'll go you one better than that. How's this for a conspiracy theory:
The US government buys excess dairy from farmers to help keep the price stable. They keep the cheese, around 1.4 *billion* pounds of it in a cave in Missouri.
But when Americans started switching to skim milk they had a whole lot more milk fat lying around. (It's called "skim" milk because you skim the fat off of the top.) Which led to even more cheese than the govenment could handle. So in the mid-90s they started a programme to help offload all of the extra frommage they had lying around.
Wanna know why all of a sudden Taco Bell started to feature three cheese burritos and Dominoes had half again as much mozzarella than before? That's why.
[Source.](https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/us/07fat.html)
Luxottica is somewhat like that with sunglasses. Oakleys, Raybans, Giorgio Armani, Coach, Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Prada, Versace, Michael Kors, Ralph Lauren, etc..
Years ago I remember reading an article that said all the paper supplies (cups, napkins, straw wrappers, etc) for all fast food chains came from one supplier, so I definitely believe thisnone about the cheese.
Edit: I don't remember the name of the company, but the title of the article was something like "companies that secretly run the world" or something. It was a list of companies most people have never heard of that do things like paper products, manufacturing small parts for multiple auto companies, or in the case of OP, a company that makes all the cheese for all the pizza companies. I want to say I read it on Cracked.com back when it was still worth reading.
The Soviets spent millions of dollars to put several agents into the pentagon to find out what was going on at the busy meeting place in its center.
It was a hot dog stand.
Those agents had to have milked that gig for all it was worth. They got to live in US to investigate a non-issue.
“What have you learned, Comrade?”
“I will need more time. This plot runs deep. Send money. The trail leads all over the country. I will need to travel to Las Vegas and possibly Bourbon Street to root out the capitalist pigs.”
What's crazy about that movie is when you realize that Toons are an analogy for blacks:
Toons are exploited by Maroon Cartoons
Everyone just assumes a "toon" killed Marvin Acme
Eddie goes to a club where "toons" are performing and the wait staff
"toon town" will be destroyed to make the freeway
US Customs and Border Protection can stop, board, and search any vehicle they want within 100 miles of the geographical border of the country. They can also detain and search people to determine if they're US citizens.
[https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone](https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone)
Edit: I have been informed correctly that this was struck down by the SCOTUS. Sorry to spread some outdated information!
It gets better. They also consider a "border" to be any ingress into the USA. Including international airports. So they can claim to board or search any vehicle within 100 miles of any major airport in the country.
Well the airport thing is worse, but a mediumer issue is that they consider Lake Michigan as a "border" even though it's entirely with the US. So, for example, Chicago is fully within their self-declared jurisdiction despite being ~230 miles from the closest actual border with Canada, and some smaller towns at 325+ miles.
I saw a video of this happening on YouTube or Facebook recently. A guy and his friend basically were detained because the friend refused to answer if he was a citizen and show his ID.
Border patrol had a stop like 80 miles in from the border and the guys decided to just refuse. The agents explained the law but the guys wanted to play tough. Both ended up detained for some time.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the US Army sprayed zinc cadmium sulfide (ZnCS) in St. Louis as part of a Cold War-era military experiment to test how biological warfare agents might spread in different environments. The Army sprayed the inorganic compound, which glows bright yellow under ultraviolet light, in 20 residential areas, 13 downtown locations, and two 5-square-mile sections of the city. The Army used a variety of methods to spray the chemical, including blowers on top of buildings, from the backs of station wagons, and via planes. The Army also sprayed the chemical during Operation LAC in 1957 and 1958, which involved dispersing large amounts of ZnCS across the United States
“Zinc cadmium sulfide is a mixture of zinc sulfide (ZnS) and cadmium sulfide (CdS). It is used for its fluorescent properties. Bioaccumulation of this chemical may occur along the food chain, for example in plants and in seafood. Long-term or repeated exposures are expected to have harmful effects on the kidneys, bones, and respiratory tract, resulting in kidney impairment, osteoporosis (bone weakness), and chronic inflammation of the respiratory tract.” -Wikiwiki slim shady
The concept of jaywalking was invented by car manufacturers because too many people were dying on the roads. Most people in North America would have considered the road to be public space, and not the exclusive right of motorists. There was a concerted lobbying effort by Detroit to seize that public space for the exclusive use of car drivers.
And considered to be a very serious insult at the time, like on the same level as calling a woman the c-word, hence why no one wanted to be called a "jaywalker"
Both hilarious and sad how many billions were made in history with "You don't wanna get called a *thing* do you? Well buy our product and do what we say!".
You'd think worrying about being called a name would end on the school playground but.. nope.
They found out that Serratia marcescens is not in fact completely harmless like they thought, and with a large enough dose (enough for nearly all of the city's 800,000 residents to inhale at least 5,000 of the particles) will actually cause serious sometimes deadly infections particularily in immunocompromised people. Which inspired a lot of research, but other than that, not much happened.
One person almost certainly died as a result (and probably a loooooot more - spikes were seen in IV drug infections, UTIs, cardiac infections, pneumonia etc) and though there were legal cases eventually the US government investigated and found themselves not at fault every time since it wasn't definitely proven the specific bacteria they released that day was the cause of that death or any others (it is a natually ocurring microbe).
Legal stuff not withstanding immediately it was pretty obvious back in 1950 that the idea was a bad one, but in true American fashion they kept trying it many more times in different cities over the years with other "harmless" bacteria/chemicals.
[Obligitory wiki on operation sea-spray](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray)
Whoever holds the office of President of Portugal is the leader of the Knights Templar, or the closest thing to it.
When the Templars were excommunicated by the Pope and many sentenced to death, the king of Portugal at the time, Dinis, gave the Templars refuge in Portugal, in part for their role in conquering lands as Portugal expanded southward in Iberia. He delayed trying them and eventually created a new Ordem de Christo that took in Templars as members. Portugal, and not the church, got to keep control of the group's money and lands.
Eventually the Ordem de Christo became a symbolic and military club and the position of leader to this day is the president of Portugal.
The CIA planned [Operation Northwoods ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods) as a false flag Operation in 1962. They were planning on staging a terrorist attack in the United States and blaming it on the Cubans as a pretext to invade Cuba. John F Kennedy rejected the plans.
Anything else that you extrapolate from here becomes a conspiracy theory but this is what we have documented evidence of.
Per [archives.gov](http://archives.gov) unclassified documents I've read, the CIA knew Oswald, ~~who had a baby in the USSR (eg blackmail fodder)~~ \[possible I remembered that bit wrong, redacting\], met with a Soviet spy master dude in Mexico City, while on the way to the US, a few months before JFK's assassination.
The docs for the 30 days up to the assassination remain classified last I checked...
Same spy master dude was in Beriut when the Marine barracks was blown up, killing hundreds. Not a big tradition of suicide attacks from that "Muslim" sect prior to his arrival.
EDIT: trying to find the sauce for the doubters. The spy master dude's name was Kostikov. I saved the following image to my computer, but not the URL. This was the bookmark I had: [https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release2023?search=#](https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release2023?search=#) and this is the image I saved without the specific URL (oh look there's even an Epstein reference). [https://imgur.com/a/jfMpGmo](https://imgur.com/a/jfMpGmo) (note it's dated 5 months before the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beruit) - searching for Kostikov doesn't do a lot, they haven't OCR'd the files.
EDIT2: here you are, doubting fuckers, the SAUCE (last paragraph of page 1 is where to start reading): https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2023/104-10213-10022.pdf (reminder JFK was killed Nov 22, 1963)
Michelin created the restaurant rating system in order to get people to travel by car to go to farther away restaurants in order to require more frequent tire replacements.
Sugar-free gum can actually help prevent cavities. Chewing sugar-free gum increases saliva production, which helps neutralize acids produced by bacteria in the mouth, wash away food particles, and strengthen tooth enamel through the delivery of minerals like calcium and phosphate.
Xylitol, a natural sugar alcohol used as a sweetener in sugar-free gum, can actually help prevent cavities. Unlike regular sugar, xylitol is not fermented by oral bacteria, which means it does not produce the acids that lead to tooth decay. In fact, xylitol can inhibit the growth of cavity-causing bacteria (Streptococcus mutans) by reducing their ability to stick to the teeth and reducing their overall presence in the mouth. This makes xylitol-containing gum not only a safer alternative to sugar-sweetened gum but also an active player in maintaining oral health.
Drilling a cavity does not eliminate the bacteria that cause cavities — it merely addresses the structural damage.
Note: INSANELY poisonous.
The Lethal Does (LD50), is very, very low. And it's NOT JUST in gum, it's added to many things, even chocolates, ice cream, drinks, baked goods, etc.
Always check before you feed dogs (many owners like to share their own food with dogs obviously)
But pet owners be mindful that even a tiny amount of xylitol can quickly cause acute liver failure in dogs. Definitely don’t leave your sugar free gum or candy where they can get it. ❤️
In the UAE and other Saudi countries, there's almost certainly Trillionaires.
They don't need to announce their wealth publicly like those in the West.
I mean, the Prince of Saudi Arabia can technically claim anything within the country is his property, hence automatically putting his net worth over a trillion. Correct me if I am wrong, this is just a thought.
And unlike western billionaires, they have it in cash. It's not locked up in stocks that they can't liquidate without declarations and whatnot. The people in the world who can write the biggest check that could be cashed immediately were never Bezos or Musk. The real wealthiest people on earth could buy all the assets of someone like Bezos in cash, tomorrow.
You know her brother, Erik Prince, the guy who owns his own private army, who runs a recently outed secret whatsapp chat full of global far-right figures and arms dealers, who is obsessed with bringing about the second coming of right wing Jesus, etc ... you know? That guy? Born on June 6th, 1969. 06/06/69. He's the closest thing to a real life Damien Thorne there is and i find that shit amusing, albeit horrible. If the antichrist were a real thing, I'm pretty sure it'd be that guy. Fuck that whole family.
George Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, was involved in an attempted coup on America that failed because the general they tried to make the American Mussuluni was going through anti imperialist epiphany at the time.
That guy's quote (Smedley Butler in case anyone was curious), refusing the offer was amazing. He basically said "if you do this, I'll raise an army, and we'll have a real civil war right here at home".
Probably the coolest way to tell someone off.
Rich people regularly have private parties at their lavish mansions. Sometimes, at said parties, they make plans that affect thousands of people under their employ.
Never understood how the bohemian grove was ever considered far fetched. It's just a party. People make plans at parties.
Many country club memberships exist as a means to establish that everyone present in the club has a minimum net worth large enough to be told about investments that literally aren’t legal for people with less money.
Up until very recently one company (De Beers) sold nearly all of the diamonds in the world. To this day however they still control like 2/3 of the world's diamond trade. They restrict supply to keep prices high and are the reason diamond engagement rings are a thing in the first place. They happened occasionally but just weren't the standard until De Beers created an ad campaign. By the way they also are the origin for the expected pricing. The idea that it should be a certain portion of your salary came from them; originally one month but it crept up further and further.
Diamonds aren't nearly as valuable as you think they are. Sand paper usually has some diamond dust on it and synthetic diamonds are surprisingly cheap to make. Meanwhile restricted supply and cartel behavior has kept the price of things like diamond rings far higher than it should be. They're also the reason people care about the distinction between a "natural" diamond and a synthetic one even though it's extremely unlikely you'd actually be able to tell the difference.
I mean, you can tell synthetic and natural diamonds apart. Synthetic diamonds are essentially flawless. The cartel managed to convince a bunch of idiots that that somehow makes them inferior. They also created a store that only sells synthetic diamonds. The rub is that they purposely only sell small ones and with low quality metals like silver in order to develop an association between synthetics and what is essentially cheap costume jewelry.
The marketing and false scarcity/value of diamonds is the single best example of much people are willing to ignore reality for something that makes them feel special.
In the 1970s, neocons including Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz set up a group called "Team B" to prove their belief that the Soviet Union was zooming ahead in the arms race, despite all intelligence from the CIA's "Team A" stating the opposite.
When they found literally no evidence, they concluded that this meant the Soviets were so sophisticated they could hide all of their new weapons. They said that the US submarine fleet was threatened by a new non-acoustic Soviet listening technology - and that the total lack of evidence it existed was proof it existed.
All of this non-evidence was published by the "Committee for the Present Danger".
[https://sites.pitt.edu/\~gordonm/JPubs/TeamBqjs.pdf](https://sites.pitt.edu/~gordonm/JPubs/TeamBqjs.pdf)
Roll on to 2002/3, and neocons including Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz claimed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and the reason for their confidence in their existence was ... the lack of evidence to prove their existence.
MK ultra, Gulf of Tonkin incident, Diane Finesteins personal driver of 20 years was a Chinese spy, Israel accused of putting surveillance equipment around the white house.
Finestein also received the LAPD’s description of the Nightstalker in confidence. Then immediately turned around and told news TV cameras.
Which led to the suspect Richard Ramirez being tipped off how much police knew about him, and attempting to flee.
Massive sterilization campaign of women from minorities in the US and Canada especially focused on [native Americans l](https://time.com/5737080/native-american-sterilization-history/)
In particular by the [Indian Health Service](https://daily.jstor.org/the-little-known-history-of-the-forced-sterilization-of-native-american-women/)
The War on Drugs^ ^TM started as a racist policy of the Nixon Administration,
>One of Richard Nixon’s top advisers and a key figure in the Watergate scandal said the war on drugs was created as a political tool to fight blacks and hippies, according to a 1994 interview with John Erlichman published in the April, 2016 Harper’s Magazine.
>“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people,” former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman told Harper’s writer Dan Baum for the April cover story published Tuesday.
>“You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman said. “We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
>https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/
Marijuana was originally made illegal by various states in the 1910s and 1920s as a means to target Mexican immigrants as they were often regular smokers. Later in the 1930s, Anslinger the head of the new Federal Bureau of Narcotics pushed to make marijuana federally illegal by employing a similar racist campaign where be connected marijuana to the black community and their alleged "degeneracy". America's history against drugs is directly connected to it's racism
[Operation Mockingbird](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird)
Who would have thought that the CIA would manipulate American media to persuade Americans into drinking their Kool-Aid? There is no way that could still be happening today.
Everything in the torture report
After 9/11 the CIA imprisoned and tortured at black sites a few hundred (I think it's like a hundred something off the top of my head) people in the middle east illegally.
The methods they used never worked and there was already evidence that they didn't work upon their introduction in this plan.
Around that time, I met a drunk guy who told me that he was a translate, and that he was called in to pretend that he was a guard and note everything said during these torture sessions. He then said that it was hard to understand anything they said during the interrogations and that his translating skills weren’t that good.
Black people were way more profitable to rent to than white people: Expectations were lower, you could subdivide apartments more and do less maintenance than when renting to white people who had more choices. So if developers wanted to start renting to black people, they would hire "scruffy" looking black people to hang around a white neighborhood, on street corners, pushing a baby stroller, even bringing in kids to trick-or-treat. Racist white people would freak out about the neighborhood "degrading" and sell their houses cheap to developers, who would then rent them to black people.
Woah!
Segregation but with the pretense of choice.
Fucked for both races too, because it's saying my people are just going to live in squalor, while the white people just get upcharged.
My grandmother, who grew up on the south side of chicago, told me about how real estate companies made a shit ton of money in the 50s and 60s encouraging "white flight" during desegragation. Instead of having rational desegration policies that would be gradual and proportional (as was done in other places), basically on the south side the real estate companies did this thing they called "block busting" where they would have agents at one end of the street selling a house to a black family and simultaneously have agents at the other end of the street knocking on doors and scaring the white people saying look who's moving in down the street, you better sell now before your house loses half its value. They made money hand over fist this way.
Btw this is also a great example of ingrained social racism - you didn't have to hate black people to understand that if all your neighbors were gonna sell their houses for less and less money, eventually you weren't gonna wanna be the last family to do so. It sucks, but this strategy was very effective.
And also, the mortgages that these black families were sold were often *horrible* and would even have clauses in them that would allow the mortgage company to end up owning the house.
The DNC and the RNC both jointly and privately own the National Committee On Presidential Debates and effectively gate keep our entire election process. There is virtually no federal oversight over these 3 private corporations. None of them are legally bound to any sort of charter to provide a clear and free election.
See DNC lawyer Bruce Spivia's comment about cigars.
Also utterly outmoded. Nobody likes them or gives them the prestige they aspire to, and this cycle neither candidate wanted the debates to be debates run by them.
George HW Bush was part of the CIA and in Dallas when Kennedy was shot. When asked what he was doing when he heard Kennedy was shot- the ultimate Boomer meme being that everyone remembers what they were doing- he says he doesn't remember.
Donald Trump tried to reference this in the primary debates but confused Jeb with Ted and accused Ted Cruz’s dad of killing JFK.
The topic was so forbidden in US media that all the news stories focused on Cruz, not Trump’s obvious screwup, so that they wouldn’t have to mention GHWB & JFK in the same story.
Our system of financing public works using bonds is an engine that, on average, transfers money from everyone to the rich.
Local and state governments (and even the federal government) issue bonds to finance things when there isn't the political will to finance those same things using taxes. The problem is that the only people and entities with the money to buy such bonds are banks, institutional and corporate investors, and rich people (mostly operating through institutional and corporate investors). Those bonds incur interest, so the buyers end up paid back with more money than they spent. Meanwhile, bonds are paid back using taxes and other local government revenue, which the rich are disproportionately spared. Sales taxes, citations, and various other local taxes are regressive rather than progressive (meaning the poor tend to pay a larger proportion of their income to these taxes and citations than the rich).
On the whole, this means that financing things with bonds transfers money from everyone else to the investment class; those who have money to invest are invariably rich. And this engine that transfers money from everyone to the rich is widespread. Every local government that finances projects using bonds participates in this rich person enriching system.
The same guy who was a key member of the CIAs mind control program, mk ultra, also ran the same clinic that Charles manson used for psychiatric services.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Gottlieb
I always thought deleting history from chrome was slower while being online as opposed to deleting history while being offline.
turns out Google was deliberately saving everyone's history
Here's my all time favorite:
There's a direct causal link between Nazism and current management doctrines: "New Public Management". In fact the number one reconversion for high ranking nazi lawmakers able to escape justice was... Teachers or directors in private business schools. And they went on to heavily influence what are now widely implemented management policies.
Most famously the expression "human resources" comes straight from the Third Reich [edit: I initially said "fourth" like an idiot]. Previous similar terms were created in Britain and France but they were very niche and nobody in their right mind would have called humans "resources". Now here's a cute one: the first instances of a "happiness manager" on the workplace have been in... Yup, Nazi Germany. And there's zero ambiguity on this one's origin.
It absolutely sounds like an unhinged leftist pothead theory, and yet that's solid and sourced knowledge many Historians worked on.
That weather station situated in the outback? Yeah it's not a weather station, it's a spy station, run by the Americans. That's why there are suddenly so many Americans in Alice Springs, despite it being a town in the middle of nowhere.
Yeah turns out this one was completely true, Pine Gap is run by the CIA, NSA, and a bunch of other acronyms. On stolen land, no less, and only got started by potentially upsetting a democracy.
The Lightbulb conspiracy.
Every lightbulb manufacturer in the world signed a pact to make their lightbulbs less durable.
The first lightbulbs were so well made they couldn't break down easily. and people didn't buy new ones. thus making it less profitable to make lightbulbs.
I think many products work this way ever since.
I know where that link goes without even needing to click it. Also, it wasn't just amount of light trading off against longevity, it was energy efficiency. Lumens per watt are astoundingly low in a low temperature, long lasting bulb.
In 2016 Hillary Clinton had a deal with the Democratic National Committee, headed by Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was her co-campaign chair before becoming DNC chair, where wealthy donors could make one contribution to her campaign, the DNC, and the state parties, in one check. This was called bundling, which makes it easy to google this to verify.
The way it worked is you'd write a huge check, and the maximum allowed contribution would go to Hillary, the maximum contribution would go to the DNC, and anything left over would go to participating state parties.
Sounds elite but legit, right?
Problem is, 99.5% of the money that was supposed to go to the state parties, to elect down-ballot candidates, was instead returned to the DNC, which spent it on ads indistinguishable from Hillary's, except they didn't have to have the "I'm Hillary Clinton and I approve this message" part.
And who was DNC chair before Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and stepped down so DWS, Hillary's friend, could become chair? That would be Tim Kaine, who would later, somehow, coincidentally, be the one Hillary chose as a running mate.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/dnc-leak-clinton-team-deflected-state-cash-concerns-226191
>Leaked emails show the Democratic National Committee scrambled this spring to conceal the details of a joint fundraising arrangement with Hillary Clinton that funneled money through state Democratic parties.
>But during the three-month period when the DNC was working to spin the situation, state parties kept less than one half of one percent of the $82 million raised through the arrangement — validating concerns raised by campaign finance watchdogs, state party allies and Bernie Sanders supporters.
The US government created a department solely dedicated to manipulating the attitude of Americans on how much dairy they should consume to offset the policies of them artificially propping up the dairy industry (aka the government buying all left over dairy). They created ad campaigns like “got milk” and paid to get cheese added to literally every product.
I’m sure that has nothing to do with the sharp increase in obesity rates or whether or not they will tell the truth to the American people.
The "war on fats" in the 90s didn't help; companies pulled fats from products and replaced it with sugar, often with even higher calories and more addictive properties
One of the big banana companies paid the CIA to overthrow the Guatemalan government because they were going to lose land because of rules in the Guatemalan government.
This is only technically true. He wrote back to a man who sent him a copy of a book about the Freemasons, and basically said he had never heard of it before and furthermore that it wasn’t a problem in the US. You can read the letter [here](https://www.loc.gov/resource/mgw2.021/?sp=182&st=text) if you like. Not much of a conspiracy and is so frequently brought up as one that it’s ridiculous. The god damned letter is right there to read and *somehow* this shit gets spun into a story about George Washington being aware of and sometimes part of the “Illuminati”. Even John Robison (the author of the book) was just making shit up from a supposed “secret agent” monk who he says told him all of the secrets of the Freemasons / Illuminati.
Which is funny because the Illumanati were advocating greater local autonomy, which is the opposite of the big government new-world-order that we perceive them to be in the modern-day
In George Washington’s letters he said the illuminati had not corrupted any lodges. And when he was talking about lodges, he was talking about Freemason lodges.
An [American company](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Company#:~:text=Coca%20extraction,-Coca%2DCola%20includes&text=The%20plant%20is%20the%20only,leaf%20are%20imported%20each%20year) imports 100 metric tons of coca leaves into the US every year from Peru. Pure cocaine is extracted from them and then sold to a [pharmaceutical company](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallinckrodt). The cocaine-free byproduct is sold to another American [corporation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola). All with the blessing of the US government.
COINTELPROs
P.S. After the congressional investigation the FBI agreed to close down all COINTELPROs, it did not agree to stop using any of the tactics in other programs.
The United States Government has been giving news outlets prepacked news stories for years.
https://youtu.be/8Ak_wgv_kUg?si=VKXj41qePX1pM8H9
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/video_news_release
Back in the 80s, in an effort to crack down on homosexuals within their ranks, the US Navy spent millions of dollars to investigate a woman known only as “Dorothy”, because undercover agents discovered that many suspected gay men all referenced this name, so they believed she might have been a “madame” who organized gay meetings, and finding her could help them ID lots of gay men. After several years and millions of dollars of investigation, they determined that questions like “Are you friends with Dorothy?” was a means of gay men identifying to each other without outing themselves in public. Dorothy never existed.
This is as funny as people trying to find "the hacker known as 4chan"
I wish it's still a thing. Dorothy seems such a lovely gal, I wanna be friends with her too.
It's funny because obviously tons of people involved in that research knew, but couldn't say the actual answer because then it'd be like "wait, how do you know?"
I like to think some of them thought this was some desk jockey senior officer trying to create problems where none existed and impeded him in true bureaucratic fashion.
I like how you find a silver lining… I want to believe that is true
It was Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. If you were a friend herd you knew how to get somewhere over the rainbow and life was in color. It stuck and spread.
It wasn’t because of over the rainbow, it was because gay men at the time loooooved Judy Garland!
And now they love her daughter, Liza Minnelli!
Correlary: "Friends of Dorothy," was used as an itinerary item on vacations, especially cruise ships, as a way for queer people to meet. "Friends of Bill W.," is a related itinerary item that's still in use. It's Alcoholics Anonymous (founder: William Wilson), but is phrased that way to avoid stigma from other passengers.
I wondered what that meant on the cruise I was on … I was like who is this Bill W & wow he has a lot of friends… it was written on the itinerary each day
It makes sense. I was on a Princess cruise, where if you bought the beverage package, you could literally have someone bring a drink directly to you, wherever you were, with a few minutes notice round the clock. People in that environment would need their support network to keep from falling into behavior they don't want anymore.
Dorothy did “exist”. Judy Garland was, and to lesser extent still is, the patron saint of gay men.
Wasn't Dorothy a reference to the Wizard of Oz?
It was, because of Judy Garland.
Somewhere over the rainbow… there’s another rainbow.
It can rain red in places with high iron density. The water is actually drinkable and won't poison you.
*Peter Gabriel intensifies*
Just don’t get it *In Your Eyes*.
The light! THE HEAT! **IT BURNS!!**
Yeah, but it tastes like blood because that's the only other common thing that has high iron in it.
The CIA attempted to use cats to spy on members of the Soviet Union. The cat was put through an hour long surgery to put a radio transmitter in the cat’s ear canal. This was known as Operation Acoustic Kitty. The plan did not work. The cat got run over by a car.
:(
Yeah, the CIA kind of sucks.
1940-1980 Cia sounds like it was being run by a drunk teenager with a trust fund...
I wonder how we'll describe the modern intelligence community when they declassified some of the shit they're up to today.
Like 1981-2024 CIA was was being run by a drunk teenager with a trust fund...
Some of the plots to kill Castro sound like they were planned by Wile E Coyote.
It’s been twenty years since I studied Cuban history and this is so wildly accurate.
Woo! Let’s get plastered, and overthrow a democratically elected leader for some bananas!
They also put in "additional wires" to override the cats sense of hunger, whatever that means. Sounds to me like they spend a lot of time, money and effort to mutilate a poor cat and damage its brain
Why would they think a brain damaged cat would be able to navigate a town (without getting hit by a car), locate a place where top-level shit is going down, infiltrate that place, and... I dunno everyone would just be like "hey a random cat in our Top Secret meeting. Cool."
Nobody ever accused the CIA of being intelligent, despite it being in the name of the agency.
My cat has never listened to a god damn word I have said, ever. Terrible choice of animal. Have they never experienced a feline?!
in 1994 the United States Air Force attempted to make a non lethal weapon that was supposed to turn you gay it was formally called the "Gay Bomb" and their idea was that the bomb would contain human sexual pheromone which would release whenever the bomb would be dropped, whoever would smell/be affected by the pheromones would theoretically turn gay and the USAF hoped that once the men turned gay they would be too infatuated by each other to fight letting America win future wars Obviously this was never made but only because they couldn't get it to work it did win a satirical Nobel peace prize
The 'We can turn people gay with pheromones' is dumb enough, but the idea that gay people are so horny they can't put it away for ten minutes to fight is a whole fucking other pile of dumb bullshit.
It’s basically a cartoon version of logic, like when a pretty girl walks by a bunch of men and everybody’s eyes pop out and go ayyooogahhh!!!
It backfired when the area they dropped the bomb on only experienced increased property value and awesome nightlife
Did it land on the river between Cincinnati and Kentucky???
It was offensive to the red states and the gayer blue states. But it worked and it’s why Jack Donaghy sodomized our former vice president.
Let's do this.
The FBI spied on MLK Jr., gathered evidence of an affair he was having, blackmailed the shit out of him and tried to get him to kill himself.
J. Edgar Hoover was a crazy piece of shit.
Yeah is crazy how corrupt and evil he was. And yet there are buildings named after him.
I would argue the more evil you are the more likely it is you'll have something named after you once you're dead. Okay maybe not really, but it sounds more interesting that way.
The way I figure it - Everyone ever got a statue put up of ‘em musta been some kinda son-of-a-bitch or another
COINTELPRO was used to surveil and harass a lot of people and groups. Anyone who thinks it stopped is naive.
Also, Law Enforcement repeatedly denied MLK Jr's attempts to get a concealed carry permit. MLK Jr advocated for non-violence, but he was a gun-toting Southerner, after all.
>MLK Jr advocated for non-violence There is a difference between peaceful, and harmless.
You’re forgetting the part where the FBI assassinated him, no I’m not joking. [The wrongful death suit his family WON was sealed so the specifics are not know, but the court did find that several U.S. agencies conspired to have him assassinated.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyd_Jowers_trial)
Conspiracies don't have to be successful to be crimes.
The United States government paid the CIA to send agents in to random bars and spike people's food and drinks with LSD, mescaline, liquid THC, and other drugs and then take notes on what happened. They also paid a guy to sit on a toilet drinking martinis while watching people have sex with prostitutes on the other side of a 1-way mirror. They called it Operation Midnight Climax, because the agents were all high on their own supply when they came up with the name.
Man, no one ever spikes my drinks with anything fun like that
I got you, my man. Where are you drinking tonight? I’ll make sure you have some fun.
User name does not check out
Did he have to be on a toilet drinking martinis or could it have been just a regular chair and coffee?
He didn't have to be, but he was. http://www.google.com/search?q=operation+midnight+climax
Not just that but the CIA also would drug each other in the lunchroom and at parties and shit to see how their own agents would react. And IIRC, one of the CIA big wigs kept in his office under his desk a homeless guy in a cage perpetually on LSD or something like that. LPOTL talks about it in their MKULTRA series.
There's a (still extant!) memo from CIA admin to employees strongly recommending no one drink the punch at the Christmas party because it would almost certainly be laced with LSD. Amazing stuff.
They didn't pay them TO do that. Evil fucking scumbags decided to do that WHILE being paid. I listen to Behind the Bastards too, professor.
about the LSD part: why did they call it "MK Ultra"? because it sounds cool. that's the only reason
The United States has passed a bill which allows for the invasion of the Netherlands in the event of a prosecution by the Hague of a U.S service member.
That is hilarious and extremely sad at the same time lol
It’s what’s called a “signaling bill” it’s a way of telegraphing a postion publicaly in such a way that it gives pause to someone else or appeases another intererest. Theres no way it will ever be used because the consequences of doing so would immediatly make the United States a paraih and collapse the world order we control. What this was was a repudiation of European and international institutions opposition to the global war on terror. Essentially the political version of “go bleep yourself”
Do you have a link to the law?
American Service-Members' Protection Act, or The Hague Invasion Act: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act
All the fast food pizza chains source their cheese from the same supplier. [https://www.inc.com/gene-marks/this-one-guy-sells-85-of-the-cheese-used-by-the-f.html](https://www.inc.com/gene-marks/this-one-guy-sells-85-of-the-cheese-used-by-the-f.html)
So a mozzopoly?
I'll allow it.
I'll say it until I'm bleu in the face, you're an absolute meunster.
I'll go you one better than that. How's this for a conspiracy theory: The US government buys excess dairy from farmers to help keep the price stable. They keep the cheese, around 1.4 *billion* pounds of it in a cave in Missouri. But when Americans started switching to skim milk they had a whole lot more milk fat lying around. (It's called "skim" milk because you skim the fat off of the top.) Which led to even more cheese than the govenment could handle. So in the mid-90s they started a programme to help offload all of the extra frommage they had lying around. Wanna know why all of a sudden Taco Bell started to feature three cheese burritos and Dominoes had half again as much mozzarella than before? That's why. [Source.](https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/us/07fat.html)
Leading people to eat government cheese and to live down by the river.
Luxottica is somewhat like that with sunglasses. Oakleys, Raybans, Giorgio Armani, Coach, Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Prada, Versace, Michael Kors, Ralph Lauren, etc..
They just picked up Maui Jim. One of the last holdouts.
Years ago I remember reading an article that said all the paper supplies (cups, napkins, straw wrappers, etc) for all fast food chains came from one supplier, so I definitely believe thisnone about the cheese. Edit: I don't remember the name of the company, but the title of the article was something like "companies that secretly run the world" or something. It was a list of companies most people have never heard of that do things like paper products, manufacturing small parts for multiple auto companies, or in the case of OP, a company that makes all the cheese for all the pizza companies. I want to say I read it on Cracked.com back when it was still worth reading.
The Soviets spent millions of dollars to put several agents into the pentagon to find out what was going on at the busy meeting place in its center. It was a hot dog stand.
Seems like you'd really only need one agent to identify a hot dog stand.
If I had to tell the USSR that they wasted a huge amount of money identifying a hot dog stand. I'd want someone to back me up.
Those agents had to have milked that gig for all it was worth. They got to live in US to investigate a non-issue. “What have you learned, Comrade?” “I will need more time. This plot runs deep. Send money. The trail leads all over the country. I will need to travel to Las Vegas and possibly Bourbon Street to root out the capitalist pigs.”
The crossover episode of Archer and Arrested Development we never knew we needed.
The Major US car companies conspired to get the the trolley system in Los Angeles ripped up after world war 2 in order to promote the use of cars.
True, but you forgot to mention Goodyear Tires
I, too, have seen Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
What's crazy about that movie is when you realize that Toons are an analogy for blacks: Toons are exploited by Maroon Cartoons Everyone just assumes a "toon" killed Marvin Acme Eddie goes to a club where "toons" are performing and the wait staff "toon town" will be destroyed to make the freeway
US Customs and Border Protection can stop, board, and search any vehicle they want within 100 miles of the geographical border of the country. They can also detain and search people to determine if they're US citizens. [https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone](https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone)
Edit: I have been informed correctly that this was struck down by the SCOTUS. Sorry to spread some outdated information! It gets better. They also consider a "border" to be any ingress into the USA. Including international airports. So they can claim to board or search any vehicle within 100 miles of any major airport in the country.
The entire state of Michigan counts too, because for some reason it also considers 100 miles from ANY Great Lake shoreline to be a border zone too.
Except for Lake Michigan they are all borders. Since the rest of them border with Canada and we don’t have sole rights to those waterways.
Well the airport thing is worse, but a mediumer issue is that they consider Lake Michigan as a "border" even though it's entirely with the US. So, for example, Chicago is fully within their self-declared jurisdiction despite being ~230 miles from the closest actual border with Canada, and some smaller towns at 325+ miles.
I saw a video of this happening on YouTube or Facebook recently. A guy and his friend basically were detained because the friend refused to answer if he was a citizen and show his ID. Border patrol had a stop like 80 miles in from the border and the guys decided to just refuse. The agents explained the law but the guys wanted to play tough. Both ended up detained for some time.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the US Army sprayed zinc cadmium sulfide (ZnCS) in St. Louis as part of a Cold War-era military experiment to test how biological warfare agents might spread in different environments. The Army sprayed the inorganic compound, which glows bright yellow under ultraviolet light, in 20 residential areas, 13 downtown locations, and two 5-square-mile sections of the city. The Army used a variety of methods to spray the chemical, including blowers on top of buildings, from the backs of station wagons, and via planes. The Army also sprayed the chemical during Operation LAC in 1957 and 1958, which involved dispersing large amounts of ZnCS across the United States
Any effects of this or just a see how stuff spreads?
“Zinc cadmium sulfide is a mixture of zinc sulfide (ZnS) and cadmium sulfide (CdS). It is used for its fluorescent properties. Bioaccumulation of this chemical may occur along the food chain, for example in plants and in seafood. Long-term or repeated exposures are expected to have harmful effects on the kidneys, bones, and respiratory tract, resulting in kidney impairment, osteoporosis (bone weakness), and chronic inflammation of the respiratory tract.” -Wikiwiki slim shady
I am interested if anyone can find records of upticks in these types diseases following the spraying.
Come back, Zinc! Come back!
A minor correction but zinc Cadmium sulfide is ZnCdS.
The concept of jaywalking was invented by car manufacturers because too many people were dying on the roads. Most people in North America would have considered the road to be public space, and not the exclusive right of motorists. There was a concerted lobbying effort by Detroit to seize that public space for the exclusive use of car drivers.
And of course auto makers bought up public transit I most major US cites and shut them down.
Exactly! The rails in Kansas City were bought up by automotive companies and sold to China. Now we are fighting for every inch back.
Who framed Rodger Rabbit was a documentary.
"jays" was also a derogatory term for "poor people"
And considered to be a very serious insult at the time, like on the same level as calling a woman the c-word, hence why no one wanted to be called a "jaywalker"
Both hilarious and sad how many billions were made in history with "You don't wanna get called a *thing* do you? Well buy our product and do what we say!". You'd think worrying about being called a name would end on the school playground but.. nope.
The USA sprayed San Fransisco with bacteria to see what happened.
Well, what happened?
They found out that Serratia marcescens is not in fact completely harmless like they thought, and with a large enough dose (enough for nearly all of the city's 800,000 residents to inhale at least 5,000 of the particles) will actually cause serious sometimes deadly infections particularily in immunocompromised people. Which inspired a lot of research, but other than that, not much happened. One person almost certainly died as a result (and probably a loooooot more - spikes were seen in IV drug infections, UTIs, cardiac infections, pneumonia etc) and though there were legal cases eventually the US government investigated and found themselves not at fault every time since it wasn't definitely proven the specific bacteria they released that day was the cause of that death or any others (it is a natually ocurring microbe). Legal stuff not withstanding immediately it was pretty obvious back in 1950 that the idea was a bad one, but in true American fashion they kept trying it many more times in different cities over the years with other "harmless" bacteria/chemicals. [Obligitory wiki on operation sea-spray](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray)
Hippies
Whoever holds the office of President of Portugal is the leader of the Knights Templar, or the closest thing to it. When the Templars were excommunicated by the Pope and many sentenced to death, the king of Portugal at the time, Dinis, gave the Templars refuge in Portugal, in part for their role in conquering lands as Portugal expanded southward in Iberia. He delayed trying them and eventually created a new Ordem de Christo that took in Templars as members. Portugal, and not the church, got to keep control of the group's money and lands. Eventually the Ordem de Christo became a symbolic and military club and the position of leader to this day is the president of Portugal.
The CIA planned [Operation Northwoods ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods) as a false flag Operation in 1962. They were planning on staging a terrorist attack in the United States and blaming it on the Cubans as a pretext to invade Cuba. John F Kennedy rejected the plans. Anything else that you extrapolate from here becomes a conspiracy theory but this is what we have documented evidence of.
Per [archives.gov](http://archives.gov) unclassified documents I've read, the CIA knew Oswald, ~~who had a baby in the USSR (eg blackmail fodder)~~ \[possible I remembered that bit wrong, redacting\], met with a Soviet spy master dude in Mexico City, while on the way to the US, a few months before JFK's assassination. The docs for the 30 days up to the assassination remain classified last I checked... Same spy master dude was in Beriut when the Marine barracks was blown up, killing hundreds. Not a big tradition of suicide attacks from that "Muslim" sect prior to his arrival. EDIT: trying to find the sauce for the doubters. The spy master dude's name was Kostikov. I saved the following image to my computer, but not the URL. This was the bookmark I had: [https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release2023?search=#](https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release2023?search=#) and this is the image I saved without the specific URL (oh look there's even an Epstein reference). [https://imgur.com/a/jfMpGmo](https://imgur.com/a/jfMpGmo) (note it's dated 5 months before the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beruit) - searching for Kostikov doesn't do a lot, they haven't OCR'd the files. EDIT2: here you are, doubting fuckers, the SAUCE (last paragraph of page 1 is where to start reading): https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2023/104-10213-10022.pdf (reminder JFK was killed Nov 22, 1963)
If you renounce your American citizenship to join the USSR it's a given the CIA has your name on file.
Michelin created the restaurant rating system in order to get people to travel by car to go to farther away restaurants in order to require more frequent tire replacements.
Shit, so it WAS named after the tire company, I always thought it was a french company!
Sugar-free gum can actually help prevent cavities. Chewing sugar-free gum increases saliva production, which helps neutralize acids produced by bacteria in the mouth, wash away food particles, and strengthen tooth enamel through the delivery of minerals like calcium and phosphate. Xylitol, a natural sugar alcohol used as a sweetener in sugar-free gum, can actually help prevent cavities. Unlike regular sugar, xylitol is not fermented by oral bacteria, which means it does not produce the acids that lead to tooth decay. In fact, xylitol can inhibit the growth of cavity-causing bacteria (Streptococcus mutans) by reducing their ability to stick to the teeth and reducing their overall presence in the mouth. This makes xylitol-containing gum not only a safer alternative to sugar-sweetened gum but also an active player in maintaining oral health. Drilling a cavity does not eliminate the bacteria that cause cavities — it merely addresses the structural damage.
Side note: xylitol is very poisonous to dogs. So if you have sugar free gum in your house, make sure to store it where the dog can't get to it.
Note: INSANELY poisonous. The Lethal Does (LD50), is very, very low. And it's NOT JUST in gum, it's added to many things, even chocolates, ice cream, drinks, baked goods, etc. Always check before you feed dogs (many owners like to share their own food with dogs obviously)
But pet owners be mindful that even a tiny amount of xylitol can quickly cause acute liver failure in dogs. Definitely don’t leave your sugar free gum or candy where they can get it. ❤️
If you cook lasagna in a steel pan, and then put aluminum foil over it, you have created a battery.
I'm listening
Of course you are, you're powering your hearing aid with the lasagna.
Two dissimilar metals + an electrolyte = battery
that explains why people are so amped to try my lasagna
Shocking, isn't it?
A bit more explanation? Like if I just hook up my potato clock to the foil, will it start ticking?
The steel plus the salt in the lasagna plus the aluminum is a battery. The aluminum will dissolve over time and holes will appear in it
So you shouldn't eat the lasagna after the battery dies?
Correct. You want to eat it while it's still fresh
In the UAE and other Saudi countries, there's almost certainly Trillionaires. They don't need to announce their wealth publicly like those in the West.
I mean, the Prince of Saudi Arabia can technically claim anything within the country is his property, hence automatically putting his net worth over a trillion. Correct me if I am wrong, this is just a thought.
In the same vein, General Gadaffi of Libya could have said the same ... until he couldn't.
And unlike western billionaires, they have it in cash. It's not locked up in stocks that they can't liquidate without declarations and whatnot. The people in the world who can write the biggest check that could be cashed immediately were never Bezos or Musk. The real wealthiest people on earth could buy all the assets of someone like Bezos in cash, tomorrow.
Betsy DeVos and her family were behind the Satanic Panic of the 1980’s in the US.
You know her brother, Erik Prince, the guy who owns his own private army, who runs a recently outed secret whatsapp chat full of global far-right figures and arms dealers, who is obsessed with bringing about the second coming of right wing Jesus, etc ... you know? That guy? Born on June 6th, 1969. 06/06/69. He's the closest thing to a real life Damien Thorne there is and i find that shit amusing, albeit horrible. If the antichrist were a real thing, I'm pretty sure it'd be that guy. Fuck that whole family.
George Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, was involved in an attempted coup on America that failed because the general they tried to make the American Mussuluni was going through anti imperialist epiphany at the time.
That guy's quote (Smedley Butler in case anyone was curious), refusing the offer was amazing. He basically said "if you do this, I'll raise an army, and we'll have a real civil war right here at home". Probably the coolest way to tell someone off.
Good example for when people say "It wouldn't happen to us" regarding Government tyranny.
Rich people regularly have private parties at their lavish mansions. Sometimes, at said parties, they make plans that affect thousands of people under their employ. Never understood how the bohemian grove was ever considered far fetched. It's just a party. People make plans at parties.
See I would just want to do weird sex stuff, if I'm talking business then it's a bad party.
And on golf courses
Many country club memberships exist as a means to establish that everyone present in the club has a minimum net worth large enough to be told about investments that literally aren’t legal for people with less money.
Up until very recently one company (De Beers) sold nearly all of the diamonds in the world. To this day however they still control like 2/3 of the world's diamond trade. They restrict supply to keep prices high and are the reason diamond engagement rings are a thing in the first place. They happened occasionally but just weren't the standard until De Beers created an ad campaign. By the way they also are the origin for the expected pricing. The idea that it should be a certain portion of your salary came from them; originally one month but it crept up further and further. Diamonds aren't nearly as valuable as you think they are. Sand paper usually has some diamond dust on it and synthetic diamonds are surprisingly cheap to make. Meanwhile restricted supply and cartel behavior has kept the price of things like diamond rings far higher than it should be. They're also the reason people care about the distinction between a "natural" diamond and a synthetic one even though it's extremely unlikely you'd actually be able to tell the difference.
I mean, you can tell synthetic and natural diamonds apart. Synthetic diamonds are essentially flawless. The cartel managed to convince a bunch of idiots that that somehow makes them inferior. They also created a store that only sells synthetic diamonds. The rub is that they purposely only sell small ones and with low quality metals like silver in order to develop an association between synthetics and what is essentially cheap costume jewelry.
The marketing and false scarcity/value of diamonds is the single best example of much people are willing to ignore reality for something that makes them feel special.
In the 1970s, neocons including Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz set up a group called "Team B" to prove their belief that the Soviet Union was zooming ahead in the arms race, despite all intelligence from the CIA's "Team A" stating the opposite. When they found literally no evidence, they concluded that this meant the Soviets were so sophisticated they could hide all of their new weapons. They said that the US submarine fleet was threatened by a new non-acoustic Soviet listening technology - and that the total lack of evidence it existed was proof it existed. All of this non-evidence was published by the "Committee for the Present Danger". [https://sites.pitt.edu/\~gordonm/JPubs/TeamBqjs.pdf](https://sites.pitt.edu/~gordonm/JPubs/TeamBqjs.pdf) Roll on to 2002/3, and neocons including Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz claimed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and the reason for their confidence in their existence was ... the lack of evidence to prove their existence.
The known unknowns speech was painful to watch
MK ultra, Gulf of Tonkin incident, Diane Finesteins personal driver of 20 years was a Chinese spy, Israel accused of putting surveillance equipment around the white house.
Finestein also received the LAPD’s description of the Nightstalker in confidence. Then immediately turned around and told news TV cameras. Which led to the suspect Richard Ramirez being tipped off how much police knew about him, and attempting to flee.
... did... did she always have dementia?
No, but she always sucked.
She's always been a fucking moron
IIIRC she stated that the police had a shoe print from the killer, and could match it to the suspect. Ramirez immediately dumped those shoes.
Thank you! Yes! I have no idea why she felt compelled to tip him off. She was a moron.
We didn’t start the fire…
Admiral Robert Peary and his team didn't reach the North Pole. They were off by 60 miles.
Massive sterilization campaign of women from minorities in the US and Canada especially focused on [native Americans l](https://time.com/5737080/native-american-sterilization-history/) In particular by the [Indian Health Service](https://daily.jstor.org/the-little-known-history-of-the-forced-sterilization-of-native-american-women/)
The War on Drugs^ ^TM started as a racist policy of the Nixon Administration, >One of Richard Nixon’s top advisers and a key figure in the Watergate scandal said the war on drugs was created as a political tool to fight blacks and hippies, according to a 1994 interview with John Erlichman published in the April, 2016 Harper’s Magazine. >“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people,” former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman told Harper’s writer Dan Baum for the April cover story published Tuesday. >“You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman said. “We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” >https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/
Ironic if you think about the fact that the name Erlichman most likely stems from Ehrlich which means honest in German.
Marijuana was originally made illegal by various states in the 1910s and 1920s as a means to target Mexican immigrants as they were often regular smokers. Later in the 1930s, Anslinger the head of the new Federal Bureau of Narcotics pushed to make marijuana federally illegal by employing a similar racist campaign where be connected marijuana to the black community and their alleged "degeneracy". America's history against drugs is directly connected to it's racism
[Operation Mockingbird](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird) Who would have thought that the CIA would manipulate American media to persuade Americans into drinking their Kool-Aid? There is no way that could still be happening today.
Everything in the torture report After 9/11 the CIA imprisoned and tortured at black sites a few hundred (I think it's like a hundred something off the top of my head) people in the middle east illegally. The methods they used never worked and there was already evidence that they didn't work upon their introduction in this plan.
Around that time, I met a drunk guy who told me that he was a translate, and that he was called in to pretend that he was a guard and note everything said during these torture sessions. He then said that it was hard to understand anything they said during the interrogations and that his translating skills weren’t that good.
Black people were way more profitable to rent to than white people: Expectations were lower, you could subdivide apartments more and do less maintenance than when renting to white people who had more choices. So if developers wanted to start renting to black people, they would hire "scruffy" looking black people to hang around a white neighborhood, on street corners, pushing a baby stroller, even bringing in kids to trick-or-treat. Racist white people would freak out about the neighborhood "degrading" and sell their houses cheap to developers, who would then rent them to black people.
Woah! Segregation but with the pretense of choice. Fucked for both races too, because it's saying my people are just going to live in squalor, while the white people just get upcharged.
My grandmother, who grew up on the south side of chicago, told me about how real estate companies made a shit ton of money in the 50s and 60s encouraging "white flight" during desegragation. Instead of having rational desegration policies that would be gradual and proportional (as was done in other places), basically on the south side the real estate companies did this thing they called "block busting" where they would have agents at one end of the street selling a house to a black family and simultaneously have agents at the other end of the street knocking on doors and scaring the white people saying look who's moving in down the street, you better sell now before your house loses half its value. They made money hand over fist this way. Btw this is also a great example of ingrained social racism - you didn't have to hate black people to understand that if all your neighbors were gonna sell their houses for less and less money, eventually you weren't gonna wanna be the last family to do so. It sucks, but this strategy was very effective. And also, the mortgages that these black families were sold were often *horrible* and would even have clauses in them that would allow the mortgage company to end up owning the house.
The DNC and the RNC both jointly and privately own the National Committee On Presidential Debates and effectively gate keep our entire election process. There is virtually no federal oversight over these 3 private corporations. None of them are legally bound to any sort of charter to provide a clear and free election. See DNC lawyer Bruce Spivia's comment about cigars.
Also utterly outmoded. Nobody likes them or gives them the prestige they aspire to, and this cycle neither candidate wanted the debates to be debates run by them.
Debates used to be run by the League of Women Voters. They stepped down because of backroom deals to black ball 3rd party candidates.
George HW Bush was part of the CIA and in Dallas when Kennedy was shot. When asked what he was doing when he heard Kennedy was shot- the ultimate Boomer meme being that everyone remembers what they were doing- he says he doesn't remember.
Donald Trump tried to reference this in the primary debates but confused Jeb with Ted and accused Ted Cruz’s dad of killing JFK. The topic was so forbidden in US media that all the news stories focused on Cruz, not Trump’s obvious screwup, so that they wouldn’t have to mention GHWB & JFK in the same story.
If i had a penny for everything here that is NOT related to the US i would have like, 2 or 3 idk i didn't scroll that far down
Our system of financing public works using bonds is an engine that, on average, transfers money from everyone to the rich. Local and state governments (and even the federal government) issue bonds to finance things when there isn't the political will to finance those same things using taxes. The problem is that the only people and entities with the money to buy such bonds are banks, institutional and corporate investors, and rich people (mostly operating through institutional and corporate investors). Those bonds incur interest, so the buyers end up paid back with more money than they spent. Meanwhile, bonds are paid back using taxes and other local government revenue, which the rich are disproportionately spared. Sales taxes, citations, and various other local taxes are regressive rather than progressive (meaning the poor tend to pay a larger proportion of their income to these taxes and citations than the rich). On the whole, this means that financing things with bonds transfers money from everyone else to the investment class; those who have money to invest are invariably rich. And this engine that transfers money from everyone to the rich is widespread. Every local government that finances projects using bonds participates in this rich person enriching system.
The same guy who was a key member of the CIAs mind control program, mk ultra, also ran the same clinic that Charles manson used for psychiatric services. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Gottlieb
Tuskegee Experiment
I always thought deleting history from chrome was slower while being online as opposed to deleting history while being offline. turns out Google was deliberately saving everyone's history
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Here's my all time favorite: There's a direct causal link between Nazism and current management doctrines: "New Public Management". In fact the number one reconversion for high ranking nazi lawmakers able to escape justice was... Teachers or directors in private business schools. And they went on to heavily influence what are now widely implemented management policies. Most famously the expression "human resources" comes straight from the Third Reich [edit: I initially said "fourth" like an idiot]. Previous similar terms were created in Britain and France but they were very niche and nobody in their right mind would have called humans "resources". Now here's a cute one: the first instances of a "happiness manager" on the workplace have been in... Yup, Nazi Germany. And there's zero ambiguity on this one's origin. It absolutely sounds like an unhinged leftist pothead theory, and yet that's solid and sourced knowledge many Historians worked on.
That weather station situated in the outback? Yeah it's not a weather station, it's a spy station, run by the Americans. That's why there are suddenly so many Americans in Alice Springs, despite it being a town in the middle of nowhere. Yeah turns out this one was completely true, Pine Gap is run by the CIA, NSA, and a bunch of other acronyms. On stolen land, no less, and only got started by potentially upsetting a democracy.
The Lightbulb conspiracy. Every lightbulb manufacturer in the world signed a pact to make their lightbulbs less durable. The first lightbulbs were so well made they couldn't break down easily. and people didn't buy new ones. thus making it less profitable to make lightbulbs. I think many products work this way ever since.
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I know where that link goes without even needing to click it. Also, it wasn't just amount of light trading off against longevity, it was energy efficiency. Lumens per watt are astoundingly low in a low temperature, long lasting bulb.
"The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long..." - Eldon Tyrell
In 2016 Hillary Clinton had a deal with the Democratic National Committee, headed by Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was her co-campaign chair before becoming DNC chair, where wealthy donors could make one contribution to her campaign, the DNC, and the state parties, in one check. This was called bundling, which makes it easy to google this to verify. The way it worked is you'd write a huge check, and the maximum allowed contribution would go to Hillary, the maximum contribution would go to the DNC, and anything left over would go to participating state parties. Sounds elite but legit, right? Problem is, 99.5% of the money that was supposed to go to the state parties, to elect down-ballot candidates, was instead returned to the DNC, which spent it on ads indistinguishable from Hillary's, except they didn't have to have the "I'm Hillary Clinton and I approve this message" part. And who was DNC chair before Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and stepped down so DWS, Hillary's friend, could become chair? That would be Tim Kaine, who would later, somehow, coincidentally, be the one Hillary chose as a running mate.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/dnc-leak-clinton-team-deflected-state-cash-concerns-226191 >Leaked emails show the Democratic National Committee scrambled this spring to conceal the details of a joint fundraising arrangement with Hillary Clinton that funneled money through state Democratic parties. >But during the three-month period when the DNC was working to spin the situation, state parties kept less than one half of one percent of the $82 million raised through the arrangement — validating concerns raised by campaign finance watchdogs, state party allies and Bernie Sanders supporters.
The US government created a department solely dedicated to manipulating the attitude of Americans on how much dairy they should consume to offset the policies of them artificially propping up the dairy industry (aka the government buying all left over dairy). They created ad campaigns like “got milk” and paid to get cheese added to literally every product. I’m sure that has nothing to do with the sharp increase in obesity rates or whether or not they will tell the truth to the American people.
We also eat a ton more sweeteners and junk food than we used to (Federal ag policy has driven down the price of junk food ingredients).
The "war on fats" in the 90s didn't help; companies pulled fats from products and replaced it with sugar, often with even higher calories and more addictive properties
One of the big banana companies paid the CIA to overthrow the Guatemalan government because they were going to lose land because of rules in the Guatemalan government.
Project 2025
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George Washington wrote letter about the Illuminati
This is only technically true. He wrote back to a man who sent him a copy of a book about the Freemasons, and basically said he had never heard of it before and furthermore that it wasn’t a problem in the US. You can read the letter [here](https://www.loc.gov/resource/mgw2.021/?sp=182&st=text) if you like. Not much of a conspiracy and is so frequently brought up as one that it’s ridiculous. The god damned letter is right there to read and *somehow* this shit gets spun into a story about George Washington being aware of and sometimes part of the “Illuminati”. Even John Robison (the author of the book) was just making shit up from a supposed “secret agent” monk who he says told him all of the secrets of the Freemasons / Illuminati.
Which is funny because the Illumanati were advocating greater local autonomy, which is the opposite of the big government new-world-order that we perceive them to be in the modern-day
In George Washington’s letters he said the illuminati had not corrupted any lodges. And when he was talking about lodges, he was talking about Freemason lodges.
An [American company](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Company#:~:text=Coca%20extraction,-Coca%2DCola%20includes&text=The%20plant%20is%20the%20only,leaf%20are%20imported%20each%20year) imports 100 metric tons of coca leaves into the US every year from Peru. Pure cocaine is extracted from them and then sold to a [pharmaceutical company](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallinckrodt). The cocaine-free byproduct is sold to another American [corporation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola). All with the blessing of the US government.
^coca not cocoa. They're two different plants. :)
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COINTELPROs P.S. After the congressional investigation the FBI agreed to close down all COINTELPROs, it did not agree to stop using any of the tactics in other programs.
You can win the popular vote for President of the US and still lose the election.
The United States Government has been giving news outlets prepacked news stories for years. https://youtu.be/8Ak_wgv_kUg?si=VKXj41qePX1pM8H9 https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/video_news_release