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TIL the Pulitzer Prize winning book of poetry in 2014 sold less than 400 copies
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🇺🇸🏴☠️🇺🇦Harassment and embezzlement flourished at the Sean Penn Charitable Foundation, Bloomberg journalists found out.
They closely followed the activities of CORE, a charity that Penn founded in 2010, but under a different name. Renamed in 2019.
Last year, the fund raised $1.6 million (more than 112 million rubles) in one evening in Miami, ostensibly to help Brazil in the fight against COVID-19. True, the money never reached the republic. It turned out that the day before the charity event, CORE… curtailed its activities in Brazil.
According to the audit, the company spent huge sums on renting luxurious hotel rooms, gala receptions and flights on business jets.
Photographers were a separate column. They recorded the work of volunteers around the world for big sums.
This was also the case during Sean Penn's trip to Kyiv, where he presented Zelensky with an Oscar (pictured). Bloomberg found that there was no large-scale financial support for Nezalezhnaya. Only three volunteers worked in the fund in this direction, two of which have never been to Ukraine.
In addition, former employees told reporters that sexual harassment flourished in the organization, but management ignored all complaints. For public criticism, some even received threatening letters from Sean Penn himself.
https://news.1rj.ru/str/rt_russian/144939
They closely followed the activities of CORE, a charity that Penn founded in 2010, but under a different name. Renamed in 2019.
Last year, the fund raised $1.6 million (more than 112 million rubles) in one evening in Miami, ostensibly to help Brazil in the fight against COVID-19. True, the money never reached the republic. It turned out that the day before the charity event, CORE… curtailed its activities in Brazil.
According to the audit, the company spent huge sums on renting luxurious hotel rooms, gala receptions and flights on business jets.
Photographers were a separate column. They recorded the work of volunteers around the world for big sums.
This was also the case during Sean Penn's trip to Kyiv, where he presented Zelensky with an Oscar (pictured). Bloomberg found that there was no large-scale financial support for Nezalezhnaya. Only three volunteers worked in the fund in this direction, two of which have never been to Ukraine.
In addition, former employees told reporters that sexual harassment flourished in the organization, but management ignored all complaints. For public criticism, some even received threatening letters from Sean Penn himself.
https://news.1rj.ru/str/rt_russian/144939
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В благотворительном фонде Шона Пенна процветали домогательства и растраты, выяснили журналисты Bloomberg.
Они внимательно следили за деятельностью CORE, благотворительной организации, которую Пенн основал в 2010 году, но под другим названием. Переименовал…
Они внимательно следили за деятельностью CORE, благотворительной организации, которую Пенн основал в 2010 году, но под другим названием. Переименовал…
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The next step in the COVID psy-op is going to be "cooling the mark out."
In any con, the most dangerous part is AFTER the mark has been successfully deceived and defrauded and it begins to dawn on the mark that they've been defrauded. What if the mark gets mad and lashes out? Or worse, goes to the authorities and threatens to call out the con artists and disrupt their operations? There are a variety of techniques con artists employ to avoid these undesirable outcomes.
First, the con is structured so that the mark is complicit in illicit activity. The operation that was going to turn a quick buck for the mark was shady to begin with, so the mark will be reluctant to approach the authorities and admit they were involved in an attempted fraud. For instance, the mark "knew" the horse race they were betting on was to be "rigged" in their favor and when the rigging "falls apart" and the mark loses their money, it's hard for the mark to go to the police with their suspicions that they were defrauded while in the process of trying to commit a fraud themselves.
In the vaccine context a great many victims of the COVID vaccine fraud were encouraged to pressure their friends, family, employees, and coworkers to get vaccinated. Some even injected their children. It's very hard to complain about vaccine wrong doing when so many of the victims were complicit in the wrong doing.This is a trick totalitarian governments know well. If all the police and authorities are complicit in the persecution of undesirables, there will be no untainted authorities left to bring the wrongdoers to justice without risking exposure of their own wrongdoing.
But the key technique is something called "cooling the mark out." A critical element of the con is that one of the conspirators stays close to the victim to manage the mark after the "blowoff," after the "mistake" or "accident" that costs the mark all his money and most of the con gang have departed for greener pastures. One conspirator, called the "cooler," may also appear to have lost money, too, and be in the same boat. The cooler consoles the victim to accept the loss stoically and not cause trouble.
The mark's ego has taken a bruising. The mark thought they were a clever person able to make good decisions and turn a fast buck, or in this case, make smart decisions about their health and medical treatment. The mark thought they were shrewd, but must face the fact that they were in fact an easy mark.
The cooler must provide the mark with a set of face-saving explanations to restore in some way. The mark really was very shrewd, it just didn't work out for circumstances beyond anyone's control. The mark made an extremely clever decision - based on what they knew at the time and who could possibly have predicted things could have gone wrong like that?
The mark was going to give a portion of their winnings to a worthy charity. Or was acting to help keep the community safe by accepting the potential risk of the vaccine. So even though the decision doesn't look so smart in retrospect, the mark's heart was in the right place, and they are truly a virtuous person.
The mark may be allowed to rant and rave as a cathartic release with the cooler assuring them that they "feel their pain." The cooler stalls the mark allowing time for the mark to emotionally distance themselves from their loss.
Another tactic is secrecy. In the classic con, the mark is usually an out-of-towner, the rural hayseed come to the big city and far away from friends, family, and associates. Thus, the mark's shame and humiliation can be private, unknown to the mark's social circle.
In the case of the vaccinated, in many cases their vaccinated status can remain a secret, and they will not have to publicly face the shame and humiliation of making a poor decision.
The cooler may generously throw a token sum to the mark to make them feel better - money for train fare home, for instance.
In any con, the most dangerous part is AFTER the mark has been successfully deceived and defrauded and it begins to dawn on the mark that they've been defrauded. What if the mark gets mad and lashes out? Or worse, goes to the authorities and threatens to call out the con artists and disrupt their operations? There are a variety of techniques con artists employ to avoid these undesirable outcomes.
First, the con is structured so that the mark is complicit in illicit activity. The operation that was going to turn a quick buck for the mark was shady to begin with, so the mark will be reluctant to approach the authorities and admit they were involved in an attempted fraud. For instance, the mark "knew" the horse race they were betting on was to be "rigged" in their favor and when the rigging "falls apart" and the mark loses their money, it's hard for the mark to go to the police with their suspicions that they were defrauded while in the process of trying to commit a fraud themselves.
In the vaccine context a great many victims of the COVID vaccine fraud were encouraged to pressure their friends, family, employees, and coworkers to get vaccinated. Some even injected their children. It's very hard to complain about vaccine wrong doing when so many of the victims were complicit in the wrong doing.This is a trick totalitarian governments know well. If all the police and authorities are complicit in the persecution of undesirables, there will be no untainted authorities left to bring the wrongdoers to justice without risking exposure of their own wrongdoing.
But the key technique is something called "cooling the mark out." A critical element of the con is that one of the conspirators stays close to the victim to manage the mark after the "blowoff," after the "mistake" or "accident" that costs the mark all his money and most of the con gang have departed for greener pastures. One conspirator, called the "cooler," may also appear to have lost money, too, and be in the same boat. The cooler consoles the victim to accept the loss stoically and not cause trouble.
The mark's ego has taken a bruising. The mark thought they were a clever person able to make good decisions and turn a fast buck, or in this case, make smart decisions about their health and medical treatment. The mark thought they were shrewd, but must face the fact that they were in fact an easy mark.
The cooler must provide the mark with a set of face-saving explanations to restore in some way. The mark really was very shrewd, it just didn't work out for circumstances beyond anyone's control. The mark made an extremely clever decision - based on what they knew at the time and who could possibly have predicted things could have gone wrong like that?
The mark was going to give a portion of their winnings to a worthy charity. Or was acting to help keep the community safe by accepting the potential risk of the vaccine. So even though the decision doesn't look so smart in retrospect, the mark's heart was in the right place, and they are truly a virtuous person.
The mark may be allowed to rant and rave as a cathartic release with the cooler assuring them that they "feel their pain." The cooler stalls the mark allowing time for the mark to emotionally distance themselves from their loss.
Another tactic is secrecy. In the classic con, the mark is usually an out-of-towner, the rural hayseed come to the big city and far away from friends, family, and associates. Thus, the mark's shame and humiliation can be private, unknown to the mark's social circle.
In the case of the vaccinated, in many cases their vaccinated status can remain a secret, and they will not have to publicly face the shame and humiliation of making a poor decision.
The cooler may generously throw a token sum to the mark to make them feel better - money for train fare home, for instance.
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What's the equivalent for vaccine victims? In the 2017 pandemic planning document, SPARS Pandemic Scenario 2025-2032, pandemic response planners explicitly considered the vaccine injury problem. The planned response is to wait until public pressure builds, call for an inquiry to further stall, and ultimately hand out token sums to the subset of victims who can "prove" their injuries were vaccine-related. At no point will the pharma execs or regulators responsible for the debacle ever suffer any consequences for it, if the pandemic planners have their way. See Chapter 17, page 59.
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/pubs_archive/pubs-pdfs/2017/spars-pandemic-scenario.pdf
Isn't the cooler - or in this case the authorities responsible for the COVID vaccine debacle - nice and generous people after all, trying to make things right and help out the mark?
Want to learn more about cooling the mark so you can keep an eye out for it happening around you? This article is a bit dry and long winded, but it goes into the topic in detail:
https://www.sci-hub.wf/10.1080/00332747.1952.11022896
For an excellent and readable discussion of con games, check out The Big Con by David W. Maurer.
https://archive.org/details/the-big-con-the-story-of-the-confidence-man-pdfdrive/page/n79/mode/2up?q=cooling
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/pubs_archive/pubs-pdfs/2017/spars-pandemic-scenario.pdf
Isn't the cooler - or in this case the authorities responsible for the COVID vaccine debacle - nice and generous people after all, trying to make things right and help out the mark?
Want to learn more about cooling the mark so you can keep an eye out for it happening around you? This article is a bit dry and long winded, but it goes into the topic in detail:
https://www.sci-hub.wf/10.1080/00332747.1952.11022896
For an excellent and readable discussion of con games, check out The Big Con by David W. Maurer.
https://archive.org/details/the-big-con-the-story-of-the-confidence-man-pdfdrive/page/n79/mode/2up?q=cooling
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By David Maurer
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🐣 ♀️ "Banning the Pill will be back in the Overton window. And the shift will be driven by women." - Mary Harrington
https://nypost.com/2023/01/30/young-women-abandoning-birth-control-pills-for-mental-health/
https://nypost.com/2023/01/30/young-women-abandoning-birth-control-pills-for-mental-health/
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Why more women, like me, are abandoning the pill over emerging health concerns
More Gen-Z women are abandoning the birth control pill — even in the wake of Roe v. Wade being overturned — because of research correlations between the pill and a decreased sex drive as well as...
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🇷🇺🇩🇪🏴☠️ Berlin's decision to supply Kyiv with Leopard 2 tanks is extremely dangerous, it takes the conflict to a new level of confrontation, the Russian embassy said.
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"To see how much technology has improved, consider that the 6300 PROM chip cost $70 in 1971 and stored 128 bytes. Now you can get a 128 GB flash drive for under $20: a billion times the storage, plus you can write it more than once."
https://www.righto.com/2019/07/looking-inside-1970s-prom-chip-that.html?m=1#:~:text=The%20MMI%205300%20was%20a%20memory%20chip%20from,fuses%20and%20then%20it%20held%20that%20data%20permanently
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Looking inside a 1970s PROM chip that stores data in microscopic fuses
The MMI 5300 was a memory chip from the early 1970s, storing 1024 bits in tiny fuses. 1 Unlike regular RAM chips, this was a PROM ( Progra...
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Hashima is an island in the East China Sea, about 15 kilometers southwest of the city of Nagasaki. Belongs to Japan.
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The island was settled in 1810. In Hashima, coal was mined at mines going to a depth of 600 meters below sea level. For 50 years, the island has been one of the most densely populated places on Earth. On the territory of the island with an area of 6.3 hectares, 5259 people lived.
In the 1970s, coal mining on Hasima declined, residents left the island due to the depleted minerals, and the city turned into a ghost town.
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The island was settled in 1810. In Hashima, coal was mined at mines going to a depth of 600 meters below sea level. For 50 years, the island has been one of the most densely populated places on Earth. On the territory of the island with an area of 6.3 hectares, 5259 people lived.
In the 1970s, coal mining on Hasima declined, residents left the island due to the depleted minerals, and the city turned into a ghost town.
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BREAKING: Footage of what could possibly be a downed Chinese spy balloon has surfaced.
https://twitter.com/dschlopesisback/status/1621690250002137098?s=46&t=mtN9xEZij9CG0kNb3rrzlg
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"The traditions of humanity support humanity and the central one is this tradition of Marriage. And the essential of it is that a free man and a free woman choose to found on earth the only voluntary state; the only state which creates and which loves its citizens. So long as these real responsible beings stand together, they can survive all the vast changes, deadlocks, and disappointments which make up mere political history."
- G.K. Chesterton
- G.K. Chesterton
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"...McCarthy, R-Calif., told reporters on Thursday, "I think the police officer did his job."
They hate you
They hate you
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The magpie uses Archimedes law to reach the coveted water.
The law states that any body completely or partially submerged in a fluid at rest is acted upon by an upward force the magnitude of which is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the body.
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The law states that any body completely or partially submerged in a fluid at rest is acted upon by an upward force the magnitude of which is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the body.
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SOLIERI DID NOT KILL MOZART
MOZART IS KILLED BY WAGNER😎
🇺🇸🏴☠️ PMC "Mozart" failed in Ukraine due to addiction to alcohol and Kyiv strip clubs, writes NYT.
Columnist Jeffrey Gettleman recalls how company founder Andrew Milburn told subordinates that "the group is dead." One of the reasons for the collapse was financial difficulties.
If at first "Mozart" collected donations in the amount of more than $1 million, then the money began to run out, civil strife and desertion began in PMCs. In addition, it recently emerged that the head of the company was accused of misappropriation of funds.
‼️🇷🇺💥🇺🇸🏴☠️ In fact, this is only half the truth and justification for the fact that Wagner killed most of Mozart in Soledar and Artyomovsk.
MOZART IS KILLED BY WAGNER😎
🇺🇸🏴☠️ PMC "Mozart" failed in Ukraine due to addiction to alcohol and Kyiv strip clubs, writes NYT.
Columnist Jeffrey Gettleman recalls how company founder Andrew Milburn told subordinates that "the group is dead." One of the reasons for the collapse was financial difficulties.
If at first "Mozart" collected donations in the amount of more than $1 million, then the money began to run out, civil strife and desertion began in PMCs. In addition, it recently emerged that the head of the company was accused of misappropriation of funds.
‼️🇷🇺💥🇺🇸🏴☠️ In fact, this is only half the truth and justification for the fact that Wagner killed most of Mozart in Soledar and Artyomovsk.
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He wanted to test the new Gender Awareness in Academia (GAIA) Act, but high-school biology teacher, Mike Andrews, got more than he bargained for.
Arrested and thrown in jail for the crime of teaching the biology of sex determination and for refusing to affirm a student’s gender identity, Mike faces a show trial amid a media circus.
Now the jury is seated, and the media are busy spinning narratives about what they are calling the "Andrews Transphobia Trial."
https://wiseofheart.substack.com/
Arrested and thrown in jail for the crime of teaching the biology of sex determination and for refusing to affirm a student’s gender identity, Mike faces a show trial amid a media circus.
Now the jury is seated, and the media are busy spinning narratives about what they are calling the "Andrews Transphobia Trial."
https://wiseofheart.substack.com/