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FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home

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Post by pyuser583 »

wombat-man wrote: post #274
pyuser583 wrote: post #239

I read a book by a CIA officer. A big part the job is carrying around tons of cash for shady people. It’s understood that if you take the cash for yourself, you go to prison. The ironic thing is the money usually goes missing. It gets given to some VIPs brother, who is supposed to give it to VIP, but doesn’t. The important thing is it not go missing while you are watching it. It can go missing later - just not on you…

interested in knowing what book, if it was good.

It was an anecdote from “First In.” It is about the CIA officers who arrived first in Afghanistan: with gigantic bags of cash.

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Post by buildsjets »

sys32768 wrote: post #346
DonHopkins wrote: post #103

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Or a huge gold statue of Trump and Epstein partying and raping children.

^ This person jokes about raping children.

Donald Trump has aided and abbeted the rape of children, is actively preventing child rapists from being prosecuted, and has set up a multi-billion dollar legal defense fund to protect his criminal associates.

And what offends you is that someone made a joke to point that out? Pathetic. You should be offended by the criminals, not the clowns.

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Post by IAmBroom »

alphawhisky wrote: post #386
aj_hackman wrote: post #356

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As outlined in John 1:1, Jesus is in fact God himself, and God is something far greater and more magnificent than a humanist. The message of the Bible is a total inversion of humanism, teaching us to believe in God alone rather than ourselves for deliverance from the necessary and ultimately temporary problems of evil and suffering. It's full of stories of human beings attempting to fix things on their own and failin…

Forgot the holy spirit, doofus. The God in you and me. The reason Jesus told us to love one another. You will never be righteous with such a shallow and disconnected interpretation of God's will.

I am an atheist, and have been for over 50 years.

You are a childish embarrassment.

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Post by IAmBroom »

prewett wrote: post #347
vladms wrote: post #342

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In medicine, placebo was proven to have a positive effect. Maybe we will learn about similar effects about other things. Now, if only we would convince everybody that those supernatural beings don't work through representatives that everybody must listen, that would already be an improvement!

Why wouldn't supernatural beings work through representatives? For one thing, they are presumably only going to work through people that are committed to their (the beings') agenda. And why would supernatural beings necessarily be populist? Until the Christian revolution, the dominant thought was that the supernatural beings were elitist; all of the heroes in Greek mythology were nobility of some form.

A myriad Christian monarchies have believed in Divine Right. The Christian revolution had no effect on this idea.

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Post by IAmBroom »

saghm wrote: post #167
bawolff wrote: post #99

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I imagine a big difference is at most jobs the worst that will happen is you get fired, at the CIA you go to jail for the rest of your life.

I think that if you embezzled $40M at just about any job, you'd be looking at some serious jail time

I can think of exactly one exception, in the US.

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Post by cindyllm »

IAmBroom wrote: post #413
alphawhisky wrote: post #386

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Forgot the holy spirit, doofus. The God in you and me. The reason Jesus told us to love one another. You will never be righteous with such a shallow and disconnected interpretation of God's will.

I am an atheist, and have been for over 50 years. You are a childish embarrassment.

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Post by thephyber »

rithdmc wrote: post #269
thephyber wrote: post #252

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I suspect the 1960s was chosen because it was before the Church Committee. Back then, the CIA had fewer restrictions about working within the USA.

Got it, thanks. The CIA's cocaine was still ending up on the streets of America during Iran-Contra, though, so I (in my very uninformed opinion!) don't feel like the CIA cared that much.

That’s debatable.

It’s likely the cocaine originating from Colombia was going to end up in the US with or without the CIA’s help.

Also, it’s worth reading about the journalist who broke the story about Contra-sourced cocaine making it to LA. That journalist is very often misquoted and when he was still alive he tried to fix the missing several times.

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Post by LEDThereBeLight »

wat10000 wrote: post #328
randusername wrote: post #287

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> like that would have any effect on their lives Prayer is more than begging favors from imaginary friends, even if that is the stereotype and there is some truth in it. Like meditation, journaling, and other contemplative practices, it is a mechanism for putting the day-to-day in proper context of some larger narrative. In a theological framework, then, it's about a narrative in which you aren't alone in your joys a…

It may be more than begging favors from imaginary friends, but it does include begging favors from imaginary friends. How many people would agree with the statement "prayer works"? How many of them consider that to mean actual concrete effects taking place outside the person making the prayer? It's a lot . Maybe prayer is, for some people, just a way to organize your thoughts or whatever. But for a huge number of peo…

Prayer does work, through the mechanism of putting your thoughts in perspective and context and sharing them outside yourself. Whether or not people understand the reason “why” it works doesn’t matter.

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Post by alphawhisky »

aj_hackman wrote: post #387
alphawhisky wrote: post #386

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Forgot the holy spirit, doofus. The God in you and me. The reason Jesus told us to love one another. You will never be righteous with such a shallow and disconnected interpretation of God's will.

I have offered you a theological counterpoint to your claim, and you may take it or leave it, but you may not call me names and continue in any kind of meaningful dialogue here. It is beneath us both. "For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven." - Matthew 5:20

Nah I just wanna ragebait you. You have to respect someone to debate them.
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