history of the middle east
1200 white fundies invade arab fundies
1400 ottoman empire
1920 ottoman empire defeated and state of Palestine or whatnot
1967 Israeli six day war
of course this is only (not all) fundie wars, and not wars for natural resources. so we have 800 years of fundies fighting fundies. it seems to me the problem might be fundies. this is only relevant in light of abu dhabi gay bar arrest
The son of a bank robber and a secretary, Mr. Paddock grew up lower middle class in Southern California in the 1960s. From an early age, he focused on gaining complete control over his life and not having to rely on anyone. He cycled through a series of jobs he thought would make him rich, Eric Paddock said.
“He went to work for the I.R.S. because he thought that’s where the money was, but it turned out the money wasn’t there,” the younger Mr. Paddock said. “He went to the aerospace industry but the money wasn’t there either. He went to real estate and that’s where the money was.”
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Mr. Paddock spent his 20s and 30s trying to escape the unpredictability of poverty. He worked nights at an airport while going to the California State University, Northridge, his brother Eric said, and then at jobs with the Internal Revenue Service and as an auditor of defense contracts. But it was real estate that ultimately lifted Mr. Paddock to financial freedom.
Last year, a Reuters article brought renewed scrutiny to the budgeting practices of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), specifically the U.S. Army, after it was revealed that the department had “lost” $6.5 trillion in 2015 due to “wrongful budget adjustments.” Nearly half of that massive sum, $2.8 trillion, was lost in just one quarter. Reuters noted that the Army “lacked the receipts and invoices to support those numbers [the adjustments] or simply made them up” in order to “create an illusion that its books are balanced.”
Officially, the DOD has acknowledged that its financial statements for 2015 were “materially misstated.” However, this was hardly the first time the department had been caught falsifying its accounting or the first time the department had mishandled massive sums of taxpayer money.
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The report, which examined in great detail the budgets of both the DOD and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), found that between 1998 and 2015 these two departments alone lost over $21 trillion in taxpayer funds. The funds lost were a direct result of “unsupported journal voucher adjustments” made to the departments’ budgets.
According to the Office of the Comptroller, “unsupported journal voucher adjustments” are defined as “summary-level accounting adjustments made when balances between systems cannot be reconciled. Often these journal vouchers are unsupported, meaning they lack supporting documentation to justify the adjustment [receipts, etc.] or are not tied to specific accounting transactions.” The report notes that, in both the private and public sectors, the presence of such adjustments is considered “a red flag” for potential fraud.
Im very aware of the stats. I just cant fathom the resistance to banning semi automatic rifles. Why not bring the amount of people murdered down? If 2% less people die a year from guns isnt that a good thing? You can still go shoot your glock or whatever.
ITS UNRAVELING BROS
DELETE THIS THREAD QUICK
Why don't they just look at video. This isn't a dollar store, its a premier vegas hotel, thet has cameras everywhere but the rooms. I find it hard to believe there isn't some kind of video of who came and went to his room
First three shots start at 3:00. Some people were smart enough to run before the automatic fire started.
Police have identified the woman they say was with the Las Vegas shooter just days before last Sunday’s massacre, adding another twist to the profile of an already confusing criminal.
According to KABC-TV, police have said the woman is a prostitute. Police did not release the woman’s identity.
pics of muzzles in room? Might be effective flash suppressors
Haven't seen that video before.
Interesting, clear shots of his room windows and yet no Muzzle flash.
Sounds to me like he knew how this was going to end. Got a really good room, hooker, sent the gf home with $100k, had a nice meal, then went to work