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Normality1 ago

About 4chan:

Mods are taking payments and deleting the threads because an insider posted how the ring works

*basically art is used to launder $ for 3 letter agencies. Photos and kids are a cash currency basically and the this helps fund black budget projects that need to be off the record.

There was something about ManhattanKnights gallery, don't have screencaps.

VieBleu ago

speaking of art, Tony Podesta is "addicted" and circles the globe tirelessly for his "art" habit -

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2004/apr/20/usa.world

"Most people in their positions would spend their leisure time unwinding. Instead, they make what Miller calls "Herculean" trips to Europe and further afield to buy art. It is perfectly normal for them to leave Washington on Friday evening and return the following Monday morning, having visited more than one European capital in the meantime."

I would like to see an IRS audit (a genuine one) on that person.

ZalesMcMuffin ago

So the "art" that Podesta so proudly displays is just random crap which he "bought" along with the kids he was really after? The paintings make the trip appear legit and are the stalking horse for the kids? I could buy that.

VieBleu ago

All of the following is meant as an ironic parody of what allegedly could happen in theory, of course.

He probably digs the perverted art but all the traveling isn't necessary for it, he travels to set up the deal in person, maybe negotiates, takes the order and makes sure the network is in place for obtaining and moving children/drugs/weapons/exotic animal parts/organs.

So where money payments are needed to pay off people, bribes, transport costs like shipping crates and the captain of the ship, its transfered through art sales. Embassy personnel who have diplomatic immunity and who can move around without being searched may serve as dispatchers and receivers, and it is nice if you can sell your port to your best friend the Shiek of Saudi Arabia (who does take his payments in sex slaves) like Bush tried to do, but no problem if that fails you can be bribe buddies with the port operator who will look the other way when your crates come in. Apparently only about 20% of all US shipping arrivals are ever even looked at. But the goods are also a currency themselves. So a crate of shark fins may be worth 4 crates of drugs, and etc. I can't bring myself to discuss children in that manner.

And think of the billions that could be laundered through art auction houses all at once. How many times do we hear of some anonymous dude setting a new record for spending gazillions for one painting - guess where the painting ends up? given away to a museum. The guy doesn't care about hanging it on his wall, he has just completed the circuit of laundering a huge sum of drug money or whatever.

Of course, all of this could just be my wild imagination, but if I can think of it, gee, can international cartels, businessmen, CIA, Heads of State, State Department Heads, and all shady operators eventually think of facilitating their various interests in this way?