What's my conspiracy?

[Simon of the Playa]

oh Tucky, the Sociopath is You...

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https://www.theguardian.com/culture/202 ... e-night-tv

[Simon of the Playa]

[some seeing eye]

Ultra-conservative group with successful track record plans to undo human values: everything everywhere all at once

https://www.propublica.org/article/leon ... -documents

The group was cofounded by famous "running man" Josh Hawley, and funded by "water world" Peter Thiel.



https://www.wired.com/2008/05/peter-thi ... -colonies/

[Simon of the Playa]

The U.S. government seized more than $630 million from multiple bank accounts as well as other assets purchased with illicit money. If convicted, Guo faces up to 20 years in prison. Guo has attracted donors by developing the idea that he is a principled opponent of the Chinese Communist Party, but Dan Friedman, who writes on lobbying and corruption for Mother Jones, points out that this persona appears to be a grift.

Guo is close to sometime Trump ally Steve Bannon, who was reading a book on Guo’s yacht, Lady May, when federal officers arrested him in 2020 for defrauding donors of $25 million in his “We Build the Wall” fundraising campaign. Rather than constructing a wall, Bannon and three associates funneled that money to themselves. Trump pardoned Bannon for that scheme hours before he left office.

https://open.substack.com/pub/heatherco ... ch-15-2023

[Simon of the Playa]

[Simon of the Playa]

air bnb prices for monday night in palm beach area just tripled.

[some seeing eye]

For more than two decades, Justice Clarance Thomas has accepted luxury trips virtually every year from a billionaire Dallas businessman without disclosing them, documents and interviews show.

https://www.propublica.org/article/clar ... gifts-crow

[The Rod]

Big Famous Expensive Mutant Vehicle Burns Down on Way to its Own Fundraiser.


Why do you need a fundraiser when you have cartel money? You bet your ass they had a hefty insurance policy on a beast like that. Surely those donations will come rollin in after a "tragedy" à la Notre-Dame...


Stay tuned out for an even bigger display of the most expensive LEDs on the planet and swirling crowds of douche-douche-douche party people asking where they can fill their water bottles.

[Simon of the Playa]

[some seeing eye]

Et tu Antonin?

"Retired federal Judge Charles Pickering, Scalia’s frequent hunting facilitator, explained: “After it got out that if you took him hunting or fishing that he would come speak, he started getting invitations all over the place.” For example: hearing that Scalia would “do anything if you take him hunting,” Texas lawyer and Republican mega-donor Mark Lanier chartered a plane to take Scalia boar hunting on a private ranch following a speech he gave at Lanier’s alma mater, Texas Tech. As was typical, Scalia’s financial disclosure revealed only that he had received “transportation, food, [and] lodging” for “Lectures,” with Texas Tech as the sole reimbursing party."

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/202 ... calia.html

[Zona]

Did you see me. It's a figure, a notice, a conversation, we know is there.
I hated that, really, hated that.


So, what say you?

Looking for smart people to make something of it.

WE are Going to take over the solar system.

[Simon of the Playa]

[some seeing eye]

Russian ship spotted near Nord Stream pipelines days before sabotage

There are 26 photos of the SS-750 Russian navy ship, which carries a small submarine that is designed to carry out underwater operations.

It is not the first time the FSB (may) have attacked themselves for effect - https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publicatio ... yazan-1999

https://www-information-dk.translate.go ... r_pto=wapp

https://www.politico.eu/article/russia- ... ore-blast/

[some seeing eye]

Hearing tomorrow, live: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/commit ... ics-reform

[Simon of the Playa]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrwRkDmghml/

[Simon of the Playa]

[Elorrum]

"The billionaires who called me out to the desert to evaluate their bunker strategies are not the victors of the economic game so much as the victims of its perversely limited rules. More than anything, they have succumbed to a mindset where “winning” means earning enough money to insulate themselves from the damage they are creating by earning money in that way. It’s as if they want to build a car that goes fast enough to escape from its own exhaust."

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/s ... ual_pubble

[some seeing eye]

^ Weirdly fascinating

[Simon of the Playa]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Epshteyn

""In October 2013, Epshteyn moderated a panel at the investment conference "Invest in Moscow!". The panel was composed mainly of Moscow city government officials, including Sergey Cheremin, a city minister who heads Moscow's foreign economic and international relations department.[18]"


https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-l ... aid-2023-5

[Simon of the Playa]

"An image of black smoke billowing next to a bureaucratic-looking building spread across social media Monday morning, with the claim that it showed an explosion near the Pentagon.

The posts sent a brief shiver through the stock market and were quickly picked up by news outlets outside the U.S., before officials jumped in to clarify that no blast actually took place and the photo was a fake.

The image and claim was spread by outlets including RT, a Russian government-backed media company formerly known as Russia Today. It was also widely shared in investment circles, including an account bearing Twitter’s signature blue verification check mark that falsely suggested it was associated with Bloomberg News."

https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-exp ... e81b5ed6a4

[some seeing eye]

Interview: The 'War Of Clans For Putin's Throne Has Begun'

What a mess: https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-clans-war ... 25962.html

RFE published, wonder how many in the article will read it? It's almost like an HBO drama!

[Simon of the Playa]

: never eat the borscht...


"According to the information we have, which requires additional confirmation, Lukashenko after a meeting with Putin behind closed doors, was urgently taken to the Central Clinical Hospital of Moscow, where he is currently staying.

"The best specialists were sent to return him from a condition assessed by doctors as critical."

https://www.newsweek.com/lukashenko-hos ... ys-1803064

[Simon of the Playa]

Tara Reade, a former Senate staffer who in 2020 accused Joe Biden of sexual assault, said on Tuesday she had defected to Russia.
“I’m still kind of in a daze a bit but I feel very good,” Reade told Sputnik, a Russian press outlet supportive of President Vladimir Putin, while sitting with Maria Butina, a convicted Russian agent jailed in the US but now a member of parliament in Russia.


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ssia-biden

[some seeing eye]

RFK Jr at 70 has some strange ideas (Politico)


This was supposed to be Ron DeSantis’ turf.

When the Florida governor appeared last month in a Twitter Space with Elon Musk to announce the launch of his 2024 presidential campaign, it was arguably the high water mark (technical difficulties aside) for a new strain of techno-libertarian right-wing politics embodied by Musk and his ilk — the coronation of an appropriately youthful standard-bearer for their progress-oriented conservatism.

So… what was the nearly 70-year-old heir to one of America’s most enduring political dynasties — and a contestant in the 2024 Democratic presidential primary — doing in the same place on Monday?

Seemingly in a flash, the DeSantis-friendly tech crowd has bear-hugged Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the gadfly Democratic presidential candidate heretofore known for being one of America’s most prominent spreaders of false information about the effects of vaccines. Quote-tweeting a Fox News segment where RFK Jr. made the claim that he could beat both the former President Donald Trump in a primary and his successor Joe Biden in a general, Twitter co-founder and Bitcoin-loving social media obsessive Jack Dorsey said: “He can and will.”

RFK Jr.’s appearance on Twitter Spaces was a stemwinder, cracking the two-hour mark and covering everything from the Project For a New American Century to the death of the gold standard. At times it was more like Kennedy was interviewing Musk instead of the other way around, praising him for the release of the Twitter Files and his outspokenness against the U.S.’ military support of Ukraine. At one point he asked Balaji Srinivasan, the Chicken Little-like venture capitalist and economic doomsayer, to be his secretary of the treasury should he win the presidency. These guys really hit it off.

Why? Superficially, Kennedy would seem to embody everything this crowd loathes: a Northeasterner and the scion of a dynasty that puts the Clintons or the Bushes to shame. Hell, he even supports Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal. But rather than what he is, it’s what he’s not, or rather what he’s against, that has earned him the adoration of the Musk-Balaji-David Sacks cadre. Kennedy’s connection to an imagined American past, combined with his facts-be-damned insistence on an elite conspiracy to engineer its future, creates the perfect messaging platform for Musk et alia’s vision of national decline.

The Kennedy name is synonymous in the American imagination — at least for those above a certain age — with a misty-eyed view of national ascendance, the post-World War II status quo that saw a lordly, stylish Jack and Jackie presiding over Camelot and an age of miracle and wonder. Kennedy’s “New Frontier,” referenced in his 1960 DNC acceptance speech, was the appropriately optimistic domestic agenda to match it — a promise to eradicate poverty and supercharge the space program, so appealing it’s still invoked today by technological and political entrepreneurs alike.

That’s the sunny side of the program. Every conservative, after all, needs something to look back at fondly and conserve.

As JFK’s actual nephew, RFK Jr. stands in all too neatly as an embodiment of the conspiratorial baby-boomer worldview popularized by Oliver Stone’s (extremely) quasi-historical 1991 film “JFK”: That this American utopia was once within reach, until a bloodthirsty defense industry intervened to have Kennedy killed and replaced by a vice president more eager to escalate the war in Vietnam and fill their coffers.

And make no doubt about it, a huge part of the Musk set’s attraction to RFK Jr. has to do with his foreign policy. Massive chunks of their discussion Monday were dedicated to the U.S.’ alleged provocation of Russia and China, with Kennedy echoing Sacks’ repeated remarks that the U.S. is encouraging the war in Ukraine to bolster its domestic agenda. Their guiding heuristic is that any action the United States takes internationally, regardless of the details, should first be assumed a nefarious manifestation of that shadowy deep state’s tentacles.

And then, of course, there are the vaccines. Musk has been opposed to them since the beginning, and Kennedy’s anti-vaccine activism long predates Covid-19. The actual science of vaccination or virology here is less important than the philosophical stance being taken: that especially when it comes to personal health, the state — and the companies making the vaccines — should automatically face the harshest possibly scrutiny, if not outright suspicion of malicious intent.

One could also note that new medicines are already the most tightly regulated part of the American economy. But then you get into collusion between the government and corporations, and further down the rabbit hole — through the looking glass, if you will.

As has been noted extensively by political commentators since Donald Trump’s own policy-heterodoxical 2016 campaign, this kind of thinking was once primarily the province of the left. Kennedy is running, after all, as a Democrat, and performing surprisingly strongly in (albeit limited) polling.

Rather than surprising, that’s what makes the right-leaning tech set’s embrace of him so totally consistent. A nominally populist, conspiratorial version of can-do American optimism doesn’t map easily onto our previously existing view of partisanship, but it’s been one of the most ascendant new forces in American politics over the past decade. Kennedy might be a longshot for the presidency, but if he wants it, there’s probably a spot on the “All-In” podcast for him long after the ‘24 ballots are counted.

[some seeing eye]

The Paranoid Style in Tucker Carlson’s Home Office
The lo-fi “Tucker on Twitter” finds the former prime-time host at the intersection of Fox News and Fox Mulder.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/arts ... itter.html

[some seeing eye]

Justice Alito claims he is not corrupt

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/2 ... d-00102874

[burner von braun]

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Interview: The 'War Of Clans For Putin's Throne Has Begun'

What a mess: https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-clans-war ... 25962.html

RFE published, wonder how many in the article will read it? It's almost like an HBO drama!

[some seeing eye]

^
What a huge PITA it must be to be dictator? The great curse of the post-Soviet republics is no sons to continue a dynasty. France offers former dictators of its colonies and their families protection and an estate in France to step down.

https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-p ... ing-2023-6

https://www.loveproperty.com/gallerylis ... ake-valdai

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-in ... -llcinvest

Lukishenko is old. I wonder if Putin is giving the country to Wagner/Prigozhin? Wagner is reputed to be about 50,000, but many are convicts. Blackwater (Trump Education Secretary Betsy DuVos' brother Erik Prince was the founder) is said to have 3-5000.

[some seeing eye]

Insights by early drinking buddy of Chinese leader



The manufacturing knowhow in main China came from Taiwan entrepreneurs. Foxconn would be an example. Main China really really wants TSMC, the world's leading chip maker. Controlling TSMC, they can block exports to US and allies and inject defects and spyware.

[Simon of the Playa]

“What’s most concerning to me is that this is kind of like the one main piece of evidence that’s been part of this case for the last six-plus years and it’s false,” he added. “Nobody’s checked it. Anybody can pick up the phone, write an email, send a text, to verify whether that was correct information.”


https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/ju ... y-colorado