What's my conspiracy?

[some seeing eye]

A former high-level FBI agent faces charges for aiding a sanctioned Russian oligarch

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/23/11507972 ... -deripaska

[Simon of the Playa]

A former high-level FBI agent faces charges for aiding a sanctioned Russian oligarch

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/23/11507972 ... -deripaska

While there is a lot we still don’t know, we do know that in 2018, Comey told Congress he worried that officials in the FBI’s New York field office had given Trump ally Rudy Giuliani sensitive information in the last days of the 2016 election, after Giuliani had said so in front of television cameras. Giuliani made that claim in October, after McGonigal took over that office.

We know that Comey told investigators that he released news of the reopened investigation of Clinton’s emails—against Department of Justice policy, right before the election with voting already underway—out of concern that “people in New York” would leak that information. Former acting attorney general Sally Yates was clearer. She told the inspector general that Comey and other FBI officials “felt confident that the New York Field Office would leak it and that it would come out regardless of whether he advised Congress or not.”

We also know that after McGonigal left the FBI, he went to work for Brookfield Properties, the multibillion-dollar real-estate company in New York that handled the bailout of Jared Kushner’s 666 Fifth Avenue by a $1.1 billion, 99-year lease—all paid up front—thanks to the Qatar Investment Authority.

https://open.substack.com/pub/heatherco ... ry-23-2023

[some seeing eye]

Through Their Attorneys, Election Denier Group Denies Fraud in Ukraine Fundraising

Promoters of Election Lies Also Hyped a Hospital for Ukraine. That Never Happened Either.

https://www.propublica.org/article/ukra ... ngelbrecht

[Lonesomebri]

...so... that MOOP map...
You'd figure they made the final sweep of the playa. Was there a final sweep? Is the BLM out of here checking with a boat now? Go to the official Burn MOOP archive page, click on the years. Can you spot one unlike the others? MOOP as an official sacred principal is dead

[Elorrum]

Moop map. I wonder about not seeing first hand accounts, no blog beyond early October. No bitching, no snitching. Could you actually tell a group of burners, “mum’s the word?” It is the end of January, and they promised a map by now.

[Sham]

Moop map. I wonder about not seeing first hand accounts, no blog beyond early October. No bitching, no snitching. Could you actually tell a group of burners, “mum’s the word?” It is the end of January, and they promised a map by now.

In my time zone, it just turned to February 1st. Has anyone see DA around? We need to send up a bat signal for him.

[lucky420]

Good morning lovelies!
Came here bright and early to find info on our beloved moop map.

WHERE THE FUCK IS IT BMORG??

So if we were all to buy tix in good faith, but bmorg knows there may be a problem with the permit because of BLM and the moop map, and the permit is denied, do we get a refund? Probably not, right?

[Elorrum]

Good morning lovelies!
Came here bright and early to find info on our beloved moop map.

WHERE THE FUCK IS IT BMORG??

So if we were all to buy tix in good faith, but bmorg knows there may be a problem with the permit because of BLM and the moop map, and the permit is denied, do we get a refund? Probably not, right?

Mmmm fomo registration starts today. Fomo sale on the 8th. Seems we should know inspection results and permit status by then.

[lucky420]

So we can get ticket insurance through a 3rd party vendor now…
TICKET INSURANCE
This year, participants will have the option to purchase ticket insurance for the tickets and vehicle pass in their order from FanShield powered by Protecht, a third-party insurance provider, for an additional fee during the checkout process. If your ticket and vehicle pass is protected by insurance and you are unable to join us in Black Rock City because of one of nearly twenty life events covered by the policy for participants in your area, FanShield will reimburse you for the full cost of your ticket and vehicle pass (including any taxes and fees).
Premium costs vary by location but are roughly 6.5% of the face value of all items in your order and are non-refundable. FanShield has a dedicated support team to guide you through

Ok
I wonder if a life event would include bm not getting the permit?

[Elorrum]

Good sleuthing, Lucky. Terms and conditions item 15 has language I never noticed before. Read the fine print. Get the insurance, especially if you want a fomo ticket, and there is no inspection report for 2022 before Feb. 8, when they go on sale.

I agree that BMP is not liable for acts of God, the weather, health outbreaks, epidemics or pandemics (including worsening of the current COVID-19 pandemic), strikes, protests, or actions taken by government agencies and similar causes. I understand that tickets and vehicle passes are non-refundable even if the Event is terminated early or canceled, or entry conditions are modified, due to weather, acts of nature, governmental regulation, the failure to obtain required governmental permits, or conditions beyond BMP’s control.“

[ygmir]

interesting insurance offering. I'd be curious about who owns the company, and how old it is?
I can see what would drive the idea, considering the last few years and most peoples view of an uncertain future.
Considering, usually, insurance providers are very smart, and know the numbers, it's almost like it's an indicator they don't think anything will go wrong but see a way to prey on misgivings of the future and peoples fear, to get those premiums. They don't do things like that to be nice, they do it because they see profit potential. And, at what seems to be a pretty low rate/percentage, I'd think they're pretty confident...
yeah, I'm cynical...

[Elorrum]

The insurance looks more like flight insurance, covering a specific list of reasons why an individual is unable to attend. (In which case selling a ticket will likely be still not difficult) Event cancellation for nearly any reason is not covered. (I checked the Nevada policy terms.) Conditions may vary depending on the purchaser’s state. https://www.fanshield.insure/policy-map
It doesn’t seem to be a permit related item, but they do spell out conditions excluded, including government permits, pandemic, and nuclear radiation .
“GENERAL EXCLUSIONS

No coverage is provided for any loss arising directly or indirectly out of or as a result of the following:

9.  The Event being cancelled by the venue or promoter for any reason (including bad weather), unless covered herein;
10.  Prohibition or regulation by any government.”

Some skim money for the org perhaps for including it as a ticket package option, but yeah, insurance companies know the numbers.

[Simon of the Playa]

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64489147


https://www.reuters.com/business/energy ... 023-01-31/

[some seeing eye]

Xi: Stupidity has reached the Blinken/Biden level responding to stupid media stirring of stupid citizens. The US can't even contemplate industrial policy because China controls Wall Street with fake returns and Walmart, Best Buy, and Amazon with our cheap products used to destroy Main Street. Putin: All according to plan. Stupidity and chaos.

[Simon of the Playa]

i hope they wash them first.

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[some seeing eye]

Kremlin-Linked Group Arranged Payments to European Politicians to Support Russia’s Annexation of Crimea

For years, a secret organization run from inside Russia’s parliament successfully interfered with European policies on occupied Ukraine. Leaked emails give a new overview of the operation and show how European Union politicians who helped push Moscow’s agenda were offered cash and perks.

Key Findings

-Leaked emails show how a Duma insider built a network of analysts, journalists, and others who helped him push the Kremlin’s interests abroad.

-His group offered cash to European politicians to propose pro-Russian motions in their local legislatures, and paid far-right activists to publish pro-Kremlin articles in European media outlets.

-The network arranged trips to occupied Crimea for European politicians and businessmen, with travel and accommodation covered by Russian state-funded organizations and honoraria apparently offered to some individuals.

-It also helped bring European political figures to Russia to act as election observers, with a 68,000-euro budget allocated to the project.

https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations ... -of-crimea

[Simon of the Playa]

War Profiteering

[lucky420]

Moop map

[Elorrum]

Moop map

Fomo tickets go on sale tomorrow. Would it be fraud, or just wishful, if there is no permit?

[Lonesomebri]

Man, this weird burying of the moop map is the greatest Burn conspiracy since the meteorite left in the Temple Burn. We know the crews did the sweeps. Every year they release the progress as they cross the remnants of Black Rock City. It's not Rocket Science, which happens just north of BRC the week after. My guess is they don't want the moop footprints to influence anything. They have the info, the BLM has probably signed off. The results show the same thing it shows every year. Big sound camps catering to the festival crowd leave a shit ton of moop. Plug and plays leave lots of crap. Good intentioned camps that are disintegrating leave gear. But the goal is selling out heavy, driving demand, prices, expectations. It's a killer rave in the desert, not shaming douches who are polluting the desert. Toss some tickets to people who will clean up the mess. Base the placement and ticket entitlement on entertainment provided, get rid of the moop issue, as that's just an acceptable side product of the festival camping crowd. We know, some of that on playa entertainment is paid for, ha, THAT'S OUR JOB, so paying others to clean up is simply part of that trajectory. Anyway, the fix is in. The absence of info. Conspiracy.

Ahhh, the meteorite left in the Temple Burn... My absolute favorite playa conspiracy, as I observed it up close. Where a simple answer would suffice, like the moop map. I was told that there was a meteorite hanging in the Temple, I saw that. After the Temple burned I was told by Burner hippies that the meteorite was left in the Temple, not taken out with all the other things removed before torching, and that the fragment was worth big money, from the BMorg, the same folks who left it in the Burn? I figured it was taken out along with the other stuff they take out. The delusions that flowed that night around the ashes of the Temple, while hippies raked the coals searching for that payout. There was this hippie shared love in searching that I felt would vanish once one of them held the fragment in their own individual hand. I heard so much talk of the hoped for value, money, cash, while girlfriends cried that this was the last night to hit the pulsating sounds of Black Rock City in it's glory. "No baby I'm gonna rake the ashes some more..."
To prove the meteorite was left, I was told meteorites exist, therefore the hippies win. China exists, meteorites are found there, so of course... I was supposed to take this serious. I was told a Burn icon watched hippies search, therefore the dream they searched for is as credible as the Burn icon who watched them search, or something. I'm pretty sure I talked to Danger Ranger that night about letting people live their dream, versus shitting reality on them. Loved it!!!

Where's that damn moop map!!! It exists way more than any meteorite left in the Burn. The great people of restoration swept the playa. What are the results?

[The Rod]

The MOOP map, whatever and wherever it is, doesn't influence the permitting process. The site has to pass its BLM inspection, which apparently it has. The MOOP map is merely a conjuration of the Resto Team to either refute or reinforce preconceived notions about what kind of people go to the Black Rock Desert to eat ecstasy vs the kind that journey all the way out there to leave their garbage everywhere. Or maybe it's the same people engaging in both activities..

They did say MOOP was a lot worse than usual in some blog reports, maybe its just so bad and everybody just did such a horrible job they're embarrassed to acknowledge and talk about it. BMORG will do just about anything to avoid bad press. Who really knows what sorta things Resto is really up to in the weeks they spend in the desert alone? They could be doing, or burying, all sorts of things...

[Simon of the Playa]

They could be doing, or burying, all sorts of things...

that's a beautifully long set up for a jimmy hoffa joke.

[Elorrum]

There has also not been an after event medical services report\summary.

[lucky420]

The MOOP map, whatever and wherever it is, doesn't influence the permitting process. The site has to pass its BLM inspection, which apparently it has. The MOOP map is merely a conjuration of the Resto Team to either refute or reinforce preconceived notions about what kind of people go to the Black Rock Desert to eat ecstasy vs the kind that journey all the way out there to leave their garbage everywhere. Or maybe it's the same people engaging in both activities..

They did say MOOP was a lot worse than usual in some blog reports, maybe its just so bad and everybody just did such a horrible job they're embarrassed to acknowledge and talk about it. BMORG will do just about anything to avoid bad press. Who really knows what sorta things Resto is really up to in the weeks they spend in the desert alone? They could be doing, or burying, all sorts of things...

Do you know where I can find the info that the site has passed the BLM inspection? I missed that, thanks

[The Rod]

Just an assumption based on the fact that they are selling tickets and moving forward with the 2023 event

Here’s the post where they talk about all the MOOP. Looks like the inspection was done back in October

https://journal.burningman.org/2022/10/ ... aps-it-up/

[The Rod]

Medical report probably looks like this: a fuck-ton of people caught COVID.

Like I said, they’ll do anything to avoid bad press.

[lucky420]

Just an assumption based on the fact that they are selling tickets and moving forward with the 2023 event

Here’s the post where they talk about all the MOOP. Looks like the inspection was done back in October

https://journal.burningman.org/2022/10/ ... aps-it-up/

But did it pass? I know the inspection was done…

[lucky420]

Medical report probably looks like this: a fuck-ton of people caught COVID.

Like I said, they’ll do anything to avoid bad press.

[some seeing eye]

A Russian Mole in Germany Sows Suspicions at Home, and Beyond

A director at Germany’s spy service was picked up on suspicion of passing intelligence to Russia. German officials and allies worry just how deep the problem goes.

A few days before Christmas, a convoy of security vehicles invaded a quiet corner of Weilheim, a quaint Bavarian town of pastel squares and fastidiously kept cobblestone streets. Their target seemed as unassuming as the setting: a local children’s soccer coach.

The coach, a 52-year-old former German soldier, worked for Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service, or B.N.D., as a director of technical reconnaissance — the unit responsible for cybersecurity and surveilling electronic communications. It contributes about half of the spy agency’s daily intelligence volume.

As a Russian mole, he would have had access to critical information gathered since Moscow invaded Ukraine last year. He may have obtained high-level surveillance, not only from German spies, but also from Western partners, like the C.I.A.

The case has already led to a second arrest — that of a Russia-born accomplice, who acted as a courier, and, according to one official, brought some 400,000 euros in cash to Mr. Linke from Moscow for his information.TThe authorities believe the men were put in touch by a German military reservist who is a member of the far-right populist party, the Alternative for Germany, or AfD.

For years, as German politicians pushed economic ties with Moscow — in particular, buying its gas — they closed down many intelligence units focused on Russia.

Yet President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, who started his career as a K.G.B. agent in Communist East Germany, took the opposite tack: He made Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, a priority target.

“They have highly specialized experts who speak fluent German, who know their way around very well, and who launch very targeted operations in Germany,” said Nico Lange, a former German Defense Ministry official, who is now a senior fellow at the Munich Security Conference. “On our side, you actually have almost no one left who knows Russia, speaks fluent Russian, and watches the other side closely.”

Investigations so far suggest that Mr. Linke’s connection to Moscow predated the invasion of Ukraine last February. The question plaguing German officials, should the accusations be confirmed, is what would drive an intelligence officer, a nationalist who spent years in the military serving his country, to then turn against it?
No clear financial incentives have been found, nor was Mr. Linke in debt.

A search of his home and offices, two people familiar with the investigation said, found fliers from the far-right AfD party. At work, Mr. Linke had openly told colleagues he felt the country was deteriorating, and he was particularly disdainful of its new center-left government, one of those following the inquiry said.

Over the years, far-right groups have grown increasingly sympathetic to Russia, enamored of Mr. Putin’s nationalistic rhetoric. Germany has struggled to root out far-right sympathizers in its security services, including in the military, even dismantling part of its special forces.

Ottendorf is home to a thriving “Reichsbürger” scene. The Reichsbürger, a loosely aligned far-right group, believe in a conspiracy that the modern German state does not actually exist. Some of the group’s followers were behind a coup plot that German police foiled late last year.

To Germany’s allies, such concerns may seem familiar. Since the days of the Cold War, Germany’s intelligence agency suffered from Russian infiltration among them was the 1961 case of Heinz Felfe, a K.G.B. mole who revealed B.N.D. operations across Europe. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Germany learned that a top director, Gabriele Gast, who worked closely with the chancellery, spied for the Stasi, the East German secret police, for 17 years.

“The B.N.D. has been considered by all partner services to be a complete molehill. The information available to Mr. Linke was vast: internet espionage, German surveillance stations, mobile listening devices in southern Ukraine, and the German Navy’s reconnaissance ships observing the war from the Baltic Sea.

On top of that, Mr. Linke would have had access to reports from allied American services like the C.I.A. and the National Security Agency, as well as from Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters. Mr. Linke appeared to use that to his advantage, having requested reports related to Russia or the war from an employee who herself was investigated. Mr. Linke had been promoted to head personnel security checks. The damage he might have done there would have been far greater: He could have passed on tips about agents vulnerable to blackmail or bribes.

An accomplice, Arthur Eller, 31, was detained by the F.B.I. in Miami. After an interrogation, he was put on a plane to Munich, where he was arrested by German investigators.
A naturalized citizen, Mr. Eller was born in Russia and moved to Germany with his parents in the 1990s. He also served in the German armed forces.

Mr. Eller worked more recently as a businessman with ties to companies in Germany and Africa, including a Nigerian-registered petroleum trading company he ran alongside a Swiss-based gold dealer and a Nigerian businessman.

He and Mr. Linke were put in touch by one of Weilheim’s local members of the far-right AfD party who once served in the military with Mr. Eller and remains a reservist.

Travel logs and flight records found by a Russian investigative group, the Dossier Center, show Mr. Eller took hundreds of flights to New York; Los Angeles; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Baku, Azerbaijan; Belgrade, Serbia; Tbilisi, Georgia; Prague; Doha, Qatar; Shanghai; Geneva; and countless Russian cities. Many trips to his native country were very short, but he usually stayed in the best hotels in Moscow and St. Petersburg, according to the Dossier Center. He also made trips to surprisingly obscure Russian locations, like Nizhnekamsk.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/17/worl ... spies.html

[Simon of the Playa]

"have you seen what the drag queens are doing to the Soil?"