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I want to talk about UFOs some more and the $$ that Harry Reid probably grifted for his buddy. First we start with Robert Bigelow. Son of rich white dude, Bigelow is now a richer white dude who made his fortune off real estate and owning Budget Suites of America. He uses his money to fund Bigelow Aerospace (mainly making inflatable habitats for the ISS) , and paranormal research. His paranormal fever was fueled by the death by suicide of his two sons. More importantly for this story he founded and funded The National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDSci). NIDSci is a "defunct (as of 2004) group for scientific study of paranormal phenomena. The NIDS performed research in the area of cattle mutilation and black triangle reports." He (through NIDSci) bought the famous "Skinwalker Ranch" known for "anecdotal sightings of UFOs, bigfoot-like creatures, crop circles, glowing orbs and poltergeist activity reported by its former owners." Now on to Bigelow's buddy Harry Reid (D) NV Senator from 1987 to 2017. We know from campaign finance records that Bigelow, gave Reid at least $10,000 from 1998 to 2008. In 2007 Reid with the help of Senators Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) and Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), started the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). with funding of $22 million over the five years until the available appropriations were ended in 2012. The program was first made public on December 16, 2017. Next lets talk about the leadership of the AATIP. The project was run by a mysterious man named Luis Elizondo. He has popped back up lately in the news with that 60-Minutes report.  quote:Luis “Lue” Elizondo is the former director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (ATTIP), the secretive Pentagon unit that studied UFOs. As a senior counterintelligence officer for the Department of Defense, he operated throughout Afghanistan, the Middle East and Latin America. He’s a trained Special Agent who has led countless tactical and strategic missions both during wartime and times of peace. He also conducted sensitive source operations against some of America’s toughest adversaries. Lue is the team’s lead field investigator, continuing in the civilian world the work he did inside the Pentagon’s AATIP program. It is unclear how much of that is true. We are not even sure he lead the project. quote:the only official statement that he ever worked for the Department of Defense at all was made just once, by a briefly-employed Pentagon spokesperson named Dana White. Multiple Freedom of Information Act requests have failed to find any connection between Elizondo and AATIP. All we know for sure about Elizondo is that he now works for Tom DeLonge's (Blink 182) film production company, called To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science (TTSA). Although TTSA makes grandiloquent claims of doing research and so forth, they're registered as a film production company with the Securities and Exchange Commission and their only significant project to date is a UFO series for the History Channel. Deputy Administrator for AATIP from 2008-2011 was Colm Kelleher, who was the former head of Bigelow's NIDSci. After leaving he joined the same TTSA film company. Ok so the AATIP was lead by Bigelow's UFO research buddies who all joined the same UFO documentary company after the project was finished. But again where did the money go? It went to a contract to Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS). That is right the majority went to Bigelow. So now we ask what did they produce with that $22 mil 1. 494-page report. CLASSIFIED 2. Monthly reports sent to the Pentagon. ( Elizondo says he quit the program because his reports were not being taken seriously) 3. Funded and Published 38 studies. One of these studies was “Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy,” led by Eric W. Davis of EarthTech International Inc. Now who founded EarthTech International? Harold Puthoff, who also co founded .... the film production company To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science.... So Harry Reid basically gave $22 million to Bigelow who funded his old UFO research buddies projects, and History Channel UFO shows. In closing eat the rich.
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haveblue posted:Cause exactly the kind of leftist infighting that's starting ITT There's no leftist infighting ITT.
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Mischievous Mink posted:You keep reducing it down to "not answering a question from a politico reporter" but that's not really what people are taking issue about at all, quit being so dishonest. If the total of Trump's anti free press behavior had been not answering a question from a politico reporter and making a joke about standing in front of his car, I still wouldn't have cared. It's two separate things, I wish the administration did more in response to Israeli war crimes but almost nothing could get me to care about Biden making the car joke.
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Historical events like election outcomes can have more than one proximate cause and Nader's campaign absolutely cost Gore Florida. Nader did it on purpose, which is what really discredited the Greens for a generation, he had some real momentum and could have built a base for the Party in the Pacific Northwest but he chose to campaign in swing states to play spoiler.
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James Garfield posted:If the total of Trump's anti free press behavior was refusing to answer one question from a politico reporter I wouldn't think that was a problem either Vorik posted:If that's all Trump did then I wouldn't care. That journalist will be alright. I'm sure he's a big boy and can take a light joke. So does that mean that the first time that Trump did something like this you were OK with it?
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Willa Rogers posted:That reminds me: Have there been any constitutional challenges to the anti-BDS laws in some states? Because I don't know how that poo poo can fly under the First. There’s one in Georgia. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/2/10/civil-rights-groups-sue-over-us-states-israel-boycott-law
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Fister Roboto posted:So does that mean that the first time that Trump did something like this you were OK with it? I don't actually remember Trump doing anything like that (not saying he didn't) but if he did it still wouldn't really matter to me? Trump did a lot of more substantial things w.r.t press freedom. I'm not sure what your end goal is here.
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Didn't Obama pick Biden as his running mate specifically to get the Israeli vote? That's how I remember it...
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ram dass in hell posted:There's no leftist infighting ITT. There's nothing but leftists ITT
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DynamicSloth posted:Historical events like election outcomes can have more than one proximate cause and Nader's campaign absolutely cost Gore Florida. Nader did it on purpose, which is what really discredited the Greens for a generation, he had some real momentum and could have built a base for the Party in the Pacific Northwest but he chose to campaign in swing states to play spoiler. Greens should be discredited forever.
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The libs are getting better at comedy and it's making the right worry.
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Vorik posted:Actually he looks like someone we're more recently familiar with Herstory Begins Now posted:Butthead and Butthead is all I can see here More like 
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Handsome Ralph posted:IDK about anymore, but he was driving as late as 2013 or so. I recall someone here posting some video of him driving himself, Melania, and Baron back from some event in a Bentley or something. Too lazy to go digging for it though. I would totally be ready to believe he can't drive to save his life but   That poo poo's no joke
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Jaxyon posted:There's nothing but leftists ITT Is this why there’s all these weird spin-off forums like Kiwi-Farms or SASS? I’m assuming most of the right wing people decided to leave rather than reconcile with their beliefs?
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a) i think the gas prices there give away how old that picture was 2) i literally kicked that guys rear end in yakuza 0
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jet sanchEz posted:Didn't Obama pick Biden as his running mate specifically to get the Israeli vote? He did a bad job, because Obama never won a seat in the Knesset.
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Kraftwerk posted:Is this why there’s all these weird spin-off forums like Kiwi-Farms or SASS? I’m assuming most of the right wing people decided to leave rather than reconcile with their beliefs?
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Turnout for the Pennsylvania election was 7%. Krasner is looking in good shape. The mayor of Pittsburgh got primaried.
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Raenir Salazar posted:Almost as good as that track record in the Senate that meant Biden would embrace austerity? Am I missing some sort of context to this statement? Biden has explicitly supported Israel multiple times in the past few days.
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May 19, 2021 03:37
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Turnout for the Pennsylvania election was 7%. yeah i voted today after going to gettysburg for the first time in decades(loving amazing, go if you can, the museum is great and its facinating to be at the high water mark of the confederacy). i am happy the two GOP amendments are probably gonna lose. did the mayor suck?
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Dapper_Swindler posted:yeah i voted today after going to gettysburg for the first time in decades(loving amazing, go if you can, the museum is great and its facinating to be at the high water mark of the confederacy). Current Mayor was an old white progressive and he was primaried by a young black moderate.
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jet sanchEz posted:Didn't Obama pick Biden as his running mate specifically to get the Israeli vote? *Jewish vote - I know you didn't mean to but please don't conflate Jewish and Israeli, most Jews have no connection to the country apart from the propaganda we got in Hebrew school and maybe going on aliyah in college as a result of said propaganda. That didn't work, my super Orthodox relatives fell into the Obama's a secret Muslim/Muslim sympathizer poo poo with bonus proxy racism due to the rift between Jewish and black residents in New York City. Everyone apart from the ultra-Orthodox was/is voting Democratic regardless.
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Nessus posted:I believe those two were more about their inalienable right to say various slurs. I'm not sure where all the right-wing people went - perhaps they just stopped posting in political threads (it would be difficult to spot a chud in a cooking thread if they weren't aggressive), perhaps they got wise. Who knows. A bunch of them got perma'd in 2008 due to toxxing for McCain lol
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Dapper_Swindler posted:did the mayor suck? I can't find much about him, but Gainey looks like a standard Dem, from his voting history. Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Krasner is looking in good shape. I was a bit worried earlier when I saw how hard the cop unions were going in on trying to get Krasner out, even if I don't live in Philadelphia or even Pennsylvania; what does "good shape" mean here?
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It’s good to see cops eat poo poo and Krasner looks to be winning by a landslide. The cop union went all out trying to discredit Krasner. loving owned lol. Pedudo lost because of his handling of the protests last year. Cops were tear gassing and shooting rubber bullets at people.
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Rea posted:I can't find much about him, but Gainey looks like a standard Dem, from his voting history. He's winning by about 30 points with 55% of the vote in. All the mail-in ballots that were for him came in and were counted, so his vote share is most likely going to go down from here. He'd need to lose really bad in the remaining area (which are his opponent's strongest areas) in order to actually lose by a reasonable amount, but if he gets beaten by less than 66/33 there, then he is fine. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 03:50 on May 19, 2021 |
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Kraftwerk posted:Is this why there’s all these weird spin-off forums like Kiwi-Farms or SASS? I’m assuming most of the right wing people decided to leave rather than reconcile with their beliefs? I thought Kiwifarms was a spin off of 4chan tbh, since the average user there reminds me of like what passed for "edgy" posting in like 2007. It does have a very "Helldumpy" feel to it though Did those people just never grow up or something?
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https://twitter.com/cruickshank/status/1394842924735627265?s=20 I saw someone say that the new Pitt mayor is a moderate, but this one's saying they're a progressive. Anyone have anything specific to cite about the guy one way or the other?
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Kiwi Farms grew out of a forum for people who were obsessed with Chris Chan, as I recall.
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Those Yinzers in Pittsburgh need to redd up and shake down their gum bands. 7% voter turnout is dippy low. Jeet Jeet? I'm aht.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Current Mayor was an old white progressive and he was primaried by a young black moderate. Not going to pretend I'm an expert on local PA politics but I'm shocked to see the "moderate" in the race endorsed by DSA reps Lee and Innamorato. Can you elaborate on your description of Gainey? Eta: Lee also picked up a Bernie endorsement in 2020 as she fought off a pro-fracking primary challenge
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Jaxyon posted:There's nothing but leftists ITT No, there's like 5 of them, and they seem largely in agreement.
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Vorik posted:It’s good to see cops eat poo poo and Krasner looks to be winning by a landslide. The cop union went all out trying to discredit Krasner. loving owned lol. Pedudo lost because of his handling of the protests last year. Cops were tear gassing and shooting rubber bullets at people. yeah the cops being cops this summer mixed with all the recent poo poo(i believe there were like 2 murder by cops in philly as well as the MOVE bombing coming back into news because the kids bones were in the Penn museum).
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:He's winning by about 30 points with 55% of the vote in. All the mail-in ballots that were for him came in and were counted, so his vote share is most likely going to go down from here. He'd need to lose really bad in the remaining area (which are his opponent's strongest areas) in order to actually lose by a reasonable amount, but if he gets beaten by less than 66/33 there, then he is fine. Checking Philadelphia's election results website, looks like 64% of districts have reported in, and Krasner is at 64% of the vote—is that the 55% of the vote you were referring to, or is the race over by this point?
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Spiritus Nox posted:https://twitter.com/cruickshank/status/1394842924735627265?s=20 Both are pro-police reform, but the new guy is friendlier to the police and thinks they need to expand community policing programs instead of talking about defunding the police. New Mayor also has a bunch of NIMBY policies to prevent construction in black neighborhoods to keep property values higher. He's also religious and has a few bad votes along those lines. He's got a 21% rating from an evangelical political group and the incumbent mayor had 0%. They are probably on the same page for 95% of issues. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 04:03 on May 19, 2021 |
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Rea posted:Checking Philadelphia's election results website, looks like 64% of districts have reported in, and Krasner is at 64% of the vote—is that the 55% of the vote you were referring to, or is the race over by this point? Yeah, he was at that level earlier. And if they are down to 1/3 of the vote left, then Krasner has won unless he starts losing 85-15 in all remaining districts.
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