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originally posted by: IAMTAT
Looks like Felix Sater was Buzzfeed's 'Deep Throat'
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John Podesta ✔ @johnpodesta
Stone’s expectations met! Doubt he’s happy about it. FBI arrests Roger Stone
originally posted by: Aallanon
a reply to: IAMTAT
My point exactly! Deepthroat was a legitimate source, while this guy is a political operative.
More accurate to call him Valerie Jarrett.
ETA look at those RED glasses what an @ss
Secretive upstate group had Gillibrand’s dad on payroll
Nxivm — a secretive group headquartered in Albany — has had countless well-connected power brokers on its payroll, including the father of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.
Rutnik was just one of several lobbyists and power brokers Nxivm has hired, including Roger Stone, Joe Bruno and Arkansas Judge Richard Mays.
A spokesman for the senator said, “Sen. Gillibrand had never heard of this group until she recently read about them in the newspaper.”
Illegal Immigrant Who Voted Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison
Ortiz used a stolen identity to vote in the 2016 presidential election. The name on the stolen ID was Jesse Vargas Jr.
Election Officials Encourage Noncitizen Voting
Several election officials in Texas were caught on hidden camera suggesting that noncitizens can vote and are voting, while some Ohio, Georgia, and New Jersey poll workers instructed undercover reporters on who or what to vote for.
NXIVM is a company whose mission is to raise human awareness, foster an ethical humanitarian civilization, and celebrate what it means to be human.
“With 200,000 sales people, sometimes things are said that are improper,” said Raniere. “If that was the case, we terminate them as affiliates.” He said the company’s lawyer would be sending Maine officials a reply within days “that should make them very happy.” Raniere noted that “with traditional multi-level marketing, states do worry about consumers being defrauded.”
“Our basic business is to sell memberships, through multi-level or direct sales,” said Raniere.
How frightened Raniere must be that he sues old lovers, attacks those he once trusted, denies his own son, frightened the mother into hiding, locked the defiant in rooms for years, deceives his followers about his sexual affairs, loses millions of others’ money, has to hide behind a cloak of secrecy, all the while maintaining he is some sort of divinity. It’s laughable to an outsider, of course; people mostly laugh at Keith Raniere.
But men and women of sympathetic natures will feel sorrow for this sadly pathetic creature. And for the many women whose lives he has shaped into caricatures of what they might have been. Women who have lost years of their lives who will one day wake up (as others have done) and marvel at how they misspent their youth following a madman. One can only feel sorrow. We should have mercy for Keith Raniere. And for the women who follow him. He is afraid
He hides in shadows. Using women to shield him. Some whom he has hurt have ascribed this to pure evil. I do not. He is frightened, as all bullies are. He is evil because he can be – thanks to the Bronfman million
During Canada’s prohibition (1915-19), Sam Bronfman, with brothers Abe, Harry and Alan, turned their hotel and prostitution operations into “boozeriums.” Business was brisk until 1918, when a law was passed that prohibited the manufacture or importation of alcohol.
There was a loophole that permitted distribution by pharmacists of alcohol for “medicinal” purposes. The Bronfmans went into the mail order business putting labels on their whiskey such as “Rock-A-Bye Cough Cure” and Dandy Bracer–Liver and Kidney Cure; it contained sugar, molasses, bluestone, 36 percent alcohol, and tobacco. With the passage of the Volstead Act in 1919, making and drinking liquor illegal in the United States, Sam and Harry opened export houses along the Saskatchewan-North Dakota border.
Sam and his brothers cut distribution deals with Arnold Rothstein, Meyer Lansky, Charles “Lucky” Luciano, and Arthur ‘Dutch Schultz,’ Flegenheimer. In Detroit, the “little Jewish navy” of Morris Dalit ferried Bronfman booze into the U.S. In Chicago, “Big Jim” Colosimo alienated Bronfman by showing little interest in patronizing his liquor, preferring to focus on drugs, prostitution and loan-sharking. When Big Jim passed away suddenly, his nephew, John Torrio, took over, and soon enough, Bronfman liquor flowed into Chicago.
Torrio’s lieutenant Al Capone ran Bronfman booze from Saskatchewan to Minneapolis then to Chicago using cars, trucks and the Soo line. Benjamin “Bugs” Siegel and Lansky protected Bronfman liquor shipments across the border against hijackers. To meet demand, Bronfman bought up stretches of farmland along the border and built an underground pipeline to pump “Seagram Chickencock” a mixture of pure alcohol, sulfuric acid. caramel, water and aged rye whiskey, into the USA.
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Raniere’s losses soared, he would tell people that Sara and Clare’s father was responsible. According to Bouchey, he said that Edgar Bronfman “had figured out a plot with the commodities clearing firm” to steal Raniere’s money. From January 2005 to late 2007, according to court filings, Raniere, trading through First Principles, a company registered in Nancy Salzman’s name, would lose close to $70 million—and the Bronfmans would cover $65.6 million of it. Between them, they would also spend close to $1 million to buy and refurbish Salzman’s house in Halfmoon; Clare would pay $2.3 million for a 234-acre horse farm outside Albany that nxivm would use; and Sara would buy a $6.5 million apartment in the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Manhattan that Salzman would use. They would also “lend” about $1.7 million to buy nxivm’s headquarters.
originally posted by: Aallanon
Secretive upstate group had Gillibrand’s dad on payroll
originally posted by: tiredoflooking
Come on Q just give us Tony Podesta, at least, to tide us over.
Just one morsel.
originally posted by: MindBodySpiritComplex
Minaret (/ˌmɪnəˈrɛt, ˈmɪnəˌrɛt/;[1] Persian: مأذنة ma'thena, Azerbaijani: minarə, Turkish: minare[2]), from Arabic: منارة manarah,[3] also known as Goldaste(Persian: گلدسته), is a type of towertypically found built into or adjacent to mosques. Minarets serve multiple purposes. While they provide a visual focal point, they are generally used for the Muslim call to prayer (Adhan).
The spire—designed with a twisting, geometric dome shell to encase the functional broadcast antenna—is intended to bring the tower's height up to a symbolic 1,776 feet, which would make it the tallest building in North America.
There was no letter U in the alphabet. Well, that’s not the entire story. There was the sound for the letter we call U, but it didn’t look like U. It looked like V. The Classical Latin alphabet had only 23 letters, not the 26 that we have today. (This is why the W looks like a double V but is pronounced like a double U.
Forget about the Sunken Place — are you ready to meet The Tethered?
The trailer reveals a big plot twist about the creepy figures dressed in red — they are The Tethered, doppelgängers of the Wilson family.
I feel like the beat in that song has this inherent cryptic energy, almost reminiscent of the Nightmare on Elm Streetsoundtrack
Who are The Tethered?
I think the main idea that went into writing this film is that we’re our own worst enemy,
I think rabbits and scissors, they’re both scary things to me,
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Her spokesperson Glen Caplin issued the following statement: “Senator Gillibrand had never heard of this group until she recently read about them in the newspaper”. Many people – including her opponent in this election, Chele Farley – have challenged Sen. Gillibrand’s claim because her father, Albany lobbyist and attorney Doug Rutnik, once worked for NXIVM and was even sued by them. In order to end that lawsuit, Rutnik paid back every penny he ever earned from NXIVM and signed a Non-Disclosure Agreement that prevents him from saying anything about NXIVM or Raniere.
But according to a former NXIVM insider, Sen. Gillibrand has even more family connections than Rutnik. That would be her step-mother, Gwenn Belcourt – who, according to the source, was personally targeted by NXIVM President Nancy Salzman for inclusion in the cult.
“Nancy pulled out all the stops to get Gwenn involved in NXIVM activities. She spent an enormous amount of time with her and we all thought that Gwenn was hooked,” the source said. “Had it not been for Rutnik’s efforts to get Gwenn out, she would have quickly become part of the inner circle. Keith had spotted her early on and wanted her to become NXIVM’s inside attorney.”