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SEO Company CEO Contracts Murderers to Kill Competition, Client Exposes All

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Coming from a post-Soviet period, I am surprised a bit that this doesn't happen more often. Company owners would be killed seemingly without much worry if they crossed anyone powerful. I was doing homework one night and felt the house shake, I thought it was an earthquake. It turns out a bomb went off in a 5 story apartment building nearby. Someone was trying to kill a banker so they left a bomb by their door.

Yes, I'm surprised how celebrities and CEOs of big corporations live so long... In spite of the bodyguards. It's hard to appreciate the sheer number of people that exist in the world... Surely there are enough crazy people to populate an entire city. Is it possible that intelligence is inversely correlated with insanity? I thought it was the opposite.

Insanity is related to the ego mind. The more control the ego mind has then the less input and influence the heart has - the less empathy exists and the more willingness to cause harm as a valid survival mechanism. It's really quite a scary proposition to go against the wished upon status quo of people and organizations who are like this - who become comfortable with this.

This behaviour seems only steered away through fear of getting caught. If there is little fear of being caught or of being prosecuted, then this behaviour will be as rampant as it can be without calling too much attention - or those like journalists who do call attention to it will also make the list to be assassinated/murdered in the most extreme cases. There are more covert things people could do to simply ruin someone's life by doing actions indirectly.

Re: SEO Company CEO Contracts Murderers to Kill Competition, Client Exposes All

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post #11

>... does very little to enhance our web presence in the first place and then never does anything further to improve our results. Complaints are met with excuses. In other words, ... ... a company that makes false promises and delivers little value. SEO agencies in a nutshell. Disclaimer: I'm a SEO.

digital snake-oil, idiots will always fall for it.

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post #11

>... does very little to enhance our web presence in the first place and then never does anything further to improve our results. Complaints are met with excuses. In other words, ... ... a company that makes false promises and delivers little value. SEO agencies in a nutshell. Disclaimer: I'm a SEO.

digital snake-oil, idiots will always fall for it.

Don't confuse idiocy and being non-technical. SEO's confusing enough to many of us, let alone someone who's running a little family diner or something.

Re: SEO Company CEO Contracts Murderers to Kill Competition, Client Exposes All

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post #7

I was very suspicious when I read the article. It didn't seem to link to any government websites or newspapers, but I did find a story about the activity in the LA Times [0]. [0] http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ceo-murder-for-h...

It links to court document.

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post #6

Coming from a post-Soviet period, I am surprised a bit that this doesn't happen more often. Company owners would be killed seemingly without much worry if they crossed anyone powerful. I was doing homework one night and felt the house shake, I thought it was an earthquake. It turns out a bomb went off in a 5 story apartment building nearby. Someone was trying to kill a banker so they left a bomb by their door.

While the US is by no means perfect, it has a functioning justice system that isn't corrupt enough that people feel like they can get away with murder.

Re: SEO Company CEO Contracts Murderers to Kill Competition, Client Exposes All

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post #6

Coming from a post-Soviet period, I am surprised a bit that this doesn't happen more often. Company owners would be killed seemingly without much worry if they crossed anyone powerful. I was doing homework one night and felt the house shake, I thought it was an earthquake. It turns out a bomb went off in a 5 story apartment building nearby. Someone was trying to kill a banker so they left a bomb by their door.

I think it probably does happen fairly often. This banker(1) was killed a few miles from me in his upscale neighborhood in Germany when I was a kid. My friend heard the bomb as he lived only a few blocks away.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Herrhausen*

Re: SEO Company CEO Contracts Murderers to Kill Competition, Client Exposes All

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post #6

Coming from a post-Soviet period, I am surprised a bit that this doesn't happen more often. Company owners would be killed seemingly without much worry if they crossed anyone powerful. I was doing homework one night and felt the house shake, I thought it was an earthquake. It turns out a bomb went off in a 5 story apartment building nearby. Someone was trying to kill a banker so they left a bomb by their door.

In many ways, Shadowrun is coming to life. Corporate espionage and hits are becoming literal. It's rather scary in thought.
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