a case study in why rich guys fund think tanks

"Singer has donated over $10 million to Manhattan Institute since 2011 ... The Manhattan Institute has produced a steady stream of papers and reports calling for Maduro’s ouster ... The attack created a financial windfall for Singer [who bought $5.9 billion worth of distressed Venezuelan assets]."

the gladiator spent years & years talking non-stop about how the Epstein files contained the names of innumerable powerful pedophiles and vowed that he would expose them and then got into power and immediately told everyone the Epstein files didn't exist

This is a terrific, tragic history of the Venezuelan oil saga, with US involvement. Puts the events of this weekend into an honest, informed perspective that will wow your friends and family.

This is free, not mine, and I don't know the author, but it is really good, very helpful.

Venezuelan Historical Primer: Friend, Foe, Vassal
open.substack.co/pub/endtropy/p…

Paul Singer has donated a total of $3 million to AIPAC since 2022, making him tied for third largest donor. This matters here because the court-appointed special master who forced the sale of Venezuela's state-owned oil company to Singer sits on the board of directors for AIPAC.

Yes and Gold Reserve, who bid 2 billion more for Citgo, is challenging the forced sale to Amber (Elliot management) over this egregious conflict of interest

There are lots of articles out today about how Paul Singer, owner of #FreeBeacon, is set to profit billions from Venezuela’s collapse.

I think mine is the best.

chrisbrunet.com/p/the-biggest-…

In the month between Paul Singer's Venezuela asset deal being approved and Trump's regime-change operation, the @FreeBeacon -- Singer's personal mouthpiece -- published at least five articles portraying Maduro’s regime as a narcoterrorist threat linked to Hezbollah and drug cartels. This media barrage framed intervention as a security necessity, without disclosing that Singer, who was pushing the intervention, would profit billions:

1. Hezbollah, Short on Support From Iran, Turns to Drug Trafficking in Venezuela To Fill Its Coffers

freebeacon.com/national-secur…

2. Bill Barr Defends Legality of Trump Boat Strikes and Describes Danger of Maduro Regime: Hezbollah’s ‘Anchor in Our Hemisphere’

freebeacon.com/national-secur…

3. Dealing With Maduro Is No Distraction. It’s a Necessity.

freebeacon.com/columns/dealin…

4. Biden Admin Prosecuted Leader of Venezuelan Drug Cartel That Mainstream Media Now Say ‘Doesn’t Exist’

freebeacon.com/media/biden-ad…

5. Ben Shapiro Savages Tucker Carlson’s Defense of Commie Drug Lord Nicolas Maduro

freebeacon.com/media/beastmod…

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Paul Singer is Americas most feared investor, and Helen Joyce omitted his decades of transgender activism from her book, and then welcomed in his Manhattan Institute damage control to deflect from his complicity in funding a rainbow eugenics program that sterilized kids.

Coups, collapses, and revolutions are usually framed as moral dramas: heroes and villains, tyrants and liberators, peoples rising against power. What receives less attention is the market for distressed assets that forms in their wake. When states fracture, assets do not vanish. They are liquidated quietly, legally, and at a steep discount. Crisis creates opportunity, and into that vacuum move investors whose entire business model depends on chaos being just orderly enough to exploit.
In the language of global finance, these actors have a name: vultures.
They circle distressed states, wait for the moment of maximum weakness, then swoop in to buy debt and assets for pennies, only to extract full value later through courts, sanctions, or political leverage. Or, in this case, at gunpoint.

My alma mater, #WesternU, is advertising a tenured medical-school job that bars men from applying.

"Only applicants who self-identify as a woman will be considered ... this includes individuals who self-identify as transgender, gender-fluid, non-binary and Two-Spirit."

Keep moving towards the Capitol, we are taking the Capitol. Keep marching and don’t relent. Never relent. Break down the barriers and disregard the police!”

-Nick Fuentes, Jan 6, steps of the Capitol, never charged

the Capitol. Keep marching and don’t relent. Never relent. Break down the barriers and disregard the police!”

-Nick Fuentes, Jan 6, steps of the Capitol, never charged

One of @TuckerCarlson's best monologues, on the topic of Paul Singer:

“Feeding off the carcass of a dying nation is what Singer and his firm Elliott management have done in this country and to this country … Bloomberg News once described Singer as “the world’s most feared investor” and that tells you a lot. No one’s even pretending Paul Singer's tactics are good for anyone but Paul Singer ... this kind of behavior it bears no resemblance whatsoever to the capitalism we were promised in school, it creates nothing, it destroys entire cities, it couldn’t be uglier or more destructive. So why is this so allowed in the United States? The short answer is because people like Paul Singer have tremendous influence over our political process. Singer himself is the second largest donor to the Republican Party, he’s given millions to a super PAC that supports Republican senators. In Washington he is rock star famous, and that may be why he’s almost certainly paying a lower effective tax rate than your average fireman.”