Posted on 03/22/2018 1:17:33 PM PDT by bitt
Sometimes we see him as other hotel guests would have seen him: as the tall gambler intent on the video poker machine across the casino floor, or as the customer standing in line in front of you at the gift shop, buying snacks, or as the guy you briefly glance at as he waits for you to get off the elevator — polite, unhurried, unmemorable.
Sometimes we see him as the employees would have seen him, as the casually dressed V.I.P. with the many suitcases who jokes with bellhops, chats with valets and gives out tips along with handshakes. And sometimes we see him as only the surveillance cameras saw him — riding the elevator alone.
Within a few days, he would use the arsenal he had moved upstairs in those suitcases to shoot and kill 58 people from his 32nd-floor suite at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.
(Excerpt) Read more at mobile.nytimes.com ...
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Wow. Some highly-placed employee at MGM must have leaked this footage, because they’ve certainly been trying to keep a lid on it all this time!
There is a video that shows him filling his suite with guns?
Really?
But, oddly, no video of his hallway up to the time of the shooting.
I am still not convinced he was alone, or that we have the whole story.
There are some interesting theories about an Arab prince being escorted out of ANOTHER casino at the same time (with video) and rumor that it was really an assassination attempt gone wrong.
regardless of everything,
it doesn’t make sense for him to have more than, say, 2 firearms (the second as a spare), plus of course as much ammo as he planned to use
and his Islamic, Middle-Eastern girlfriend has apparently dropped out of the news coverage (such little coverage as there is)
(I hate to say it but) it sure appears like we are being jerked around again by the Corporate Mass Media, that there’s another coverup going down on this. For one thing, the moment there’s a serious-looking Muslim connection the mass media (government included, remember Geo Bush and his Saudi Arabian pals just after 9/11?)..... cover everything up as much as they possibly can
BFL
“There is a video that shows him filling his suite with guns?
Really?
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Quite an assumption on the part of the “journalist”-——lots of big suitcases. Period.
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You can easily call this bullshit right now, that cart the employee was pushing would have weighed in at Hundreds of Pounds and he would NOT have pushed it with 2 fingers, NO WAY IN HELL!!!
Still something funny going on. If he was bent on mass murder there’s no way he would risk getting caught by hauling all those guns up there. It wouldn’t take nearly that many to do the job. Something else was going on.
“rumor that it was really an assassination attempt gone wrong.”
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A hitman aiming to off an Arab prince and instead hits 59 country music fans. If that’s the case, I’d say something indeed must have gone wrong.
Don’t know what to think of all of that yet.
google it.
it is a compelling theory, suitable for a good book if nothing else.
Yeah, there appears to have been a hitch or two.
Before you call bovine excrement, you may wish to actually read the article.
"Over and over in the clips, Mr. Paddock is seen leaving the Mandalay Bay for his home in Mesquite, returning with a dark minivan loaded with suitcases. Over and over, valets take his keys; over and over, bellhops stack his luggage on gold carts, helping him transport at least 21 bags over the course of seven days. As they take the service elevator upstairs, Mr. Paddock chats with them. He cracks a joke. He tips."
The CIA/Brennan controlled NYT flexing it’s muscles and disseminating BAD PROPAGANDA.
Hitler’s Basic Principles
These principles are abstracted from Jowett & O’Donnell.
Avoid abstract ideas - appeal to the emotions.
Constantly repeat just a few ideas. Use stereotyped phrases.
Give only one side of the argument.
Continuously criticize your opponents.
Pick out one special “enemy” for special vilification.
Goebbels’ Principles of Propaganda
When reading these propaganda principles, keep in mind that they were applied in wartime (WWII) and involve issues that don’t arise otherwise. It’s a long list, but Goebbels was dealing with the complexity of an all-out war. While reading them you may realize that some of the principles are generally applicable and not limited to wartime. Some might be quite familiar today. It is interesting to note that Goebbels’ principles derive from Hitler’s own ideas of propaganda.
Propagandists must have access to intelligence concerning events and public opinion.
Propaganda must be planned and executed by only one authority.
It must issue all the propaganda directives.
It must explain propaganda directives to important officials and maintain their morale.
It must oversee other agencies’ activities which have propaganda consequences.
The Propaganda consequences of an action must be considered in planning that action.
Propaganda must affect the enemy’s policy and actions.
By suppressing propagandistically desirable material which can provide the enemy with useful intelligence.
By openly disseminating propaganda whose contents or tone causes the enemy to draw the desired conclusions.
By goading the enemy into revealing vital information about himself.
By making no reference to a desired enemy activity when any reference would discredit that activity.
Declassified, operational information must be available to implement a propaganda campaign.
To be perceived, propaganda must evoke the interest of an audience and must be transmitted through an attention-getting medium.
Credibility alone must determine whether propaganda output should be true or false.
The purpose, content, and effectiveness of enemy propaganda; the strength and effects of an expose’; and the nature of current propaganda campaigns determine whether enemy propaganda should be ignored or refuted.
Credibility, intelligence, and the possible effects of communicating determine whether propaganda materials should be censored.
Material from enemy propaganda may be utilized in operations when it helps diminish that enemy’s prestige or lends support to the propagandist’s own objective.
Black rather than white propaganda must be employed when the latter is less credible or produces undesirable effects.
Propaganda may be facilitated by leaders with prestige.
Propaganda must be carefully timed.
The communication must reach the audience ahead of competing propaganda.
A propaganda campaign must begin at the optimum moment.
A propaganda theme must be repeated, but not beyond some point of diminishing effectiveness.
Propaganda must label events and people with distinctive phrases or slogans.
They must evoke responses which the audience previously possesses.
They must be capable of being easily learned.
They must be utilized again and again, but only in appropriate situations.
They must be boomerang-proof.
Propaganda to the home front must prevent the raising of false hopes which can be blasted by future events.
Propaganda to the home front must create an optimum anxiety level.
Propaganda must reinforce anxiety concerning the consequences of defeat.
Propaganda must diminish anxiety (other than that concerning the consequences of defeat) which is too high and cannot be reduced by people themselves.
Propaganda to the home front must diminish the impact of frustration.
Inevitable frustrations must be anticipated.
Inevitable frustrations must be placed in perspective.
Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.
Propaganda cannot immediately affect strong counter-tendencies; instead it must offer some form of action or diversion, or both.
These would be principles guiding the conduct of propaganda operations.
Learned more about the shooting from that one video than I have from all other news sources.
“Yeah, there appears to have been a hitch or two.”
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Never trust a 5 dollar scope from Hong Kong, I always say.
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>> “Within a few days, he would use the arsenal he had moved upstairs in those suitcases to shoot and kill 58 people from his 32nd-floor suite at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.” <<
Still promoting the false narrative I see!
He wasn’t a shooter, he was a salesman stocking his showroom.
He got paid bigtime by the Saudis that night!
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