Scientology just bought city hall in clearwater. We are still fighting to get the tax exempt status removed!

@daviecrocket9160

Ай бұрын

Lol

@leopandelos9231

Ай бұрын

i lived in clearwater for 40 yrs and noticed that everytime a non member is downtown pictures are taken of then to keep track,

@johnhough7738

Ай бұрын

@@leopandelos9231 You could try asking for a print to frame? Just don't give them your address to "send it". I had a much enjoyed but too brief war with some of them once. Aaaahhh, happy days. And Mormons; not everyone can truthfully claim they had Mormons run shrieking from their house, I can. My dream was to invite Mormons and Scientologists together in for coffee and beers, then sneak out and watch from the other side of the road. (But not even I can be quite that mean ...)

@hannahp1108

Ай бұрын

Clearwater sounds so dystopian now

@rockstar-kp2jy

Ай бұрын

It’s America, your not gonna get it. While yes they are cult, they still get the rights

I started smoking in 1972 after enlisting in the US Army. I tried to quit when I was 38 years old but failed. Several attempts later I managed to succeed by the use of nicotine gum, and angry determination. I was 42 years old when I finally quit for good. It was a damn hellish struggle, but I managed to overcome the desire to smoke. Even to this day, I still find myself wanting a cigarette and often in my dreams find myself smoking a cigarette. I know I will never light up, but the desire is always there. I am 70 years old, but that desire still lingers. Nicotine is a very addictive drug! To be honest, I do find myself breathing deeply whenever I pass a smoker. The aroma of the smoke is that enticing.

@codyhensley640

Ай бұрын

The scent of the tobacco, and the feel/aroma of the actual smoke is what keeps me smoking. I'll be 38 in a couple months and I picked up my first cigarette when I was 9. Up to at least a pack a day by the time I was 14. I think about quitting sometimes, but I'm literally stress in human form, so.. it's difficult to say the least.

@Maderyne

Ай бұрын

@@codyhensley640 If you decide to quit, do so because you really want to, otherwise you will fail. I speak from experience.

@dalemason8418

Ай бұрын

​@@Maderynethat's the same thing I always tell everyone. I smoked for fourteen years before putting them down for good. I went cold turkey when I was 26. Haven't touched the things in six years.

@HistoryFacts10

Ай бұрын

I had the same struggle with heroin. 8yrs clean and I still get dreams often of using. I wake up pissed of and sweating lol

@yessumyecrad

Ай бұрын

I'm extremely impressed with anyone who quits any addictive substance even if the addiction is primarily psychological and minimally chemical. We are a creature very susceptible to seeking the comfort of anything that can dull the pain, stress, or even tedium of everyday life. I'll never judge someone who's dealing with an addiction negatively. I wish anyone looking to quit a smooth transition with plenty of support and understanding!

How different would the world have been had the Greek Navy made good on its threat to sink L. Ron Hubbard's yacht when he initially refused to leave Greek soverign waters.

@dancingdingo

Ай бұрын

Amen!😜

@johnhough7738

Ай бұрын

Hubbard ... wasn't he a religious guy? And doesn't God find it easier to squash camels through needles than admit rich folks into His holy kingdom/s? So if ol' Hubbie was rich, things could look a bit grim for his future prospects, no? (His, and the Pope's, and the heads of any other religions that aren't mine ...* ) * Mine-? I'm an Orthodox Atheist. Ya wanna join?

@davidtal523

Ай бұрын

it wouldnt have been any differnt at all truth to tell. or if minuscully different, not enough to really notice

Between the tobacco companies, the gas companies on lead, and so many more, it totally makes sense that we regular people can't trust corporations or the government.

@vetinaris1297

Ай бұрын

Stop electing the politicians in the hands of rhe corporations who only pass laws to help the corporations then. Countries all over the world have much better politicians who work for the people not big business.

@Visitor7474

Ай бұрын

or a bald man that sells keeps

@captainspaulding5963

Ай бұрын

​@@vetinaris1297 bold of you to assume that the votes of Americans matter in anything higher than the local mayor.

@vetinaris1297

Ай бұрын

@captainspaulding5963 we have 2 powers. Our vote and our money. Who we vote for and what we spend our money on, which corporations we support, so it does.matter if enough people do the same thing

@albertchurchill4845

Ай бұрын

Or any of us.

You got ballls to call out Operation Snow White. People have been fair gamed for just admiting that there was such a thing. Bravo

@grbggaming6885

Ай бұрын

It's not that brave. There's much darker things that would be brave to mention.

@murder.simulator

Ай бұрын

......and the scientologists have arrived

@theisofthe-sr4hf

Ай бұрын

​@grbggaming6885 he could have mentioned fortnight

@guydude5323

Ай бұрын

@@grbggaming6885such as?

@user-nu8in3ey8c

Ай бұрын

@@theisofthe-sr4hf The Tuskegee experiments, Wuhan Lethality Hardening Virus Leak with funding from certain governments in the west, Tick borne diseases spreading out from Plum Island Research Facility, Research projects which likely created and or spread both HIV and Ebola, the list of conspiracies we have a little, or a large amount, of evidence for goes on and on and on. That being said the COS has really, allegedly, been involved in a lot of shifty behavior, and doing things that are ethically questionable.

We need an “Into the Shadows” episode on operation Snow White

@brendanwoodey7961

Ай бұрын

And then a brain blaze?

@mljacobs3

Ай бұрын

@@brendanwoodey7961 Yes!

@gamerjaqi7873

Ай бұрын

But make sure if they do that they speak to actual ex-Scientologists who know what was going on like Janis gilham Grady from peeling the onion. She was one of the messengers on the Apollo with lrh from the age of 12. I call her the historian.

"The USA has no principles: Only interests." Henry Kissinger.

@Hillbilly001

Ай бұрын

Yes, indeed and you're on the list. Allegedly.

@nickpaine

Ай бұрын

Same can be said for him. And has been.

@someonebald2022

Ай бұрын

@@Hillbilly001 "They've got a little list, and not one will be missed.", to paraphrase The Mikado.

@Hillbilly001

Ай бұрын

@@someonebald2022 Paraphrasing Gilbert and Sullivan will only get you a one way trip on the Pinafore. IMO. Allegedly.

@someonebald2022

Ай бұрын

@@Hillbilly001 Well, when they hear me sing they'll realise what a mistake they've made! 😁

The movie "Thank you for smoking" was a fine movie about the tobacco industry.

@jasonwomack4064

Ай бұрын

That movie was financed by Pfizer, to remind people "smoking is bad". A few months later, they released their stop smoking pill Chantix.

@adamredwine774

Ай бұрын

Yes, super entertaining. And in the entire film there isn't a single image of a person smoking.

@podiatryexplained5768

Ай бұрын

Thank you for vaccinating

@onemorechris

Ай бұрын

it’s a brilliant film! great title sequence too. it’s a shame more people haven’t seen it

@Nick-gj6je

Ай бұрын

Elon Musk produced that movie

A more impact full version, "Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean there not out to get you ".

@mirrage42

Ай бұрын

They’re There Their Three different words, three different meanings and spellings, even though they sound the same.

@dielaughing73

Ай бұрын

"Just because you're paranoid Don't mean they're not after you" - Kurt Cobain, _Territorial Pissings_

0:40 - Chapter 1 - Operation berkshire 5:25 - Chapter 2 - Operation snow white 9:35 - Chapter 3 - Operation condor

@prayasbasnet9055

Ай бұрын

thanks

“Multiple acts of crimes against humanity.” Meh “Tax fraud” THAT MONSTER

Speaking of Scientology you should make a video on into the Shadows about the sea org

@adamredwine774

Ай бұрын

And "the hole."

"After Augusto Pinochet was overthrown in 1978" Are you sure about that? Last I heard he left office in 1990.

@vetinaris1297

Ай бұрын

This channel is full of inaccuracies, myths, debunked conspiracy theories and just very poorly researched writers. Its a real let down compared to Simon other channels, especially Decoding the Unknown where this shit would get ripped apart.

@albertchurchill4845

Ай бұрын

Operation Condor was about opposing international revolutionary communism. It met with limited success.

@brianarbenz1329

Ай бұрын

Bullshit, bullshit, *bullshit!* Operation Condor was about protecting corporate profits. Nothing more.

Yeah even the Nazis were like smoking is bad for you LOL

@langreeves6419

Ай бұрын

Soviet Russia banned lobotomies because they considered the surgery barbaric The US continued doing lobotomies for decades after that.

Coughing and hacking your lungs out makes you look cool. NOT !

The influence and reach of the tobacco industry cannot be mentioned enough. I recall watching several years ago, in the early 2000s, an episode of the Penn & Teller show, where they talked about all the arbitrary and weird security measures taken by airports after 9/11. One such measure (I have no idea if this is still a thing), was that it was completely forbidden to get aboard a plane with any bottled breast milk. But then, to call attention on how perplexing and weird this security step was, they mentioned how it was perfectly normal for people to board planes carrying matches (Again, no idea if this is still a thing, it could have changed since then, this episode aired like 20+ years ago). The reason why matches were allowed? Several passengers liked to light up a smoke after the plane landed and they got out. And tobacco companies lobbied HARD to make sure there was no law banning the carrying of smokes and matches into planes. Hell, we can take this even further, before 9/11, you were actually allowed to smoke WHILE INSIDE THE DAMN PLANE. Something so unfathomable and unimaginable today, we'd have an easier time imagining the house of representatives running their sessions completely nude. That's how much power is behind the tobacco industry. The worst part is that lawmakers know they can't outright ban tobacco as that will go over about as well as the alcohol prohibition did. The best we can do to fight that poison is just to demonize it as much as we can and shun the practice for the disgusting harmful death sentence that it is.

@eddietat95

Ай бұрын

The industry is going the other direction and advocating for "smoker's rights" (see the Smokers Rights Movement). It's the same thing as fat acceptance and trans rights, just repackaged for the needs of Big Tobacco - the classic "my body, my choice" and "you can't judge me" argument. To their credit, no one is challenging them out of fear of looking bigoted. It's the future of the tobacco industry and it cannot be stopped.

@TrineDaely

Ай бұрын

You used to be able to smoke everywhere before the Clean Air Act. Planes, cars, movie theater seats, grocery stores - there were ashtrays *everywhere*. Yes, you can have a lighter and cigs with you on the plane. I'm a smoker and do carry-on luggage exclusively.

@itsROMPERS...

Ай бұрын

I remember flying when planes had smoking sections. It was horrible, absolutely disgusting. I also worked in a normal office where smoking was unrestricted. The guy at the next desk, who was also my best friend, was a smoker. He just said "sorry, I gotta smoke." When a got a small fan to blow to smoke away from me, I caused an uproar for my rude and selfish behavior.

@Cloud30000

Ай бұрын

Back when restaurants allowed smoking, I would keep a pack of Clove cigarettes on me; for some reason, most smokers found the smell rancid. When they lit up, so did I. When they asked if I could put it out, I would take a puff and turn to them, saying “I’m sorry, but it’s my right to smoke” while blowing it in there face. They usually left without getting their food and never returned; I slowly but surely reduced the occurrence of smoking at my regular restaurants.

@itsROMPERS...

Ай бұрын

@@Cloud30000 funny, I always found cloves to be less objectionable. But there were definitely open conflicts between smokers and others at that time.

simons british really coming through on that berkshire huh.

@bandit5875

Ай бұрын

Barksheer!

@ABC1701A

Ай бұрын

@@bandit5875 Why would anyone pronounce it any other way given the meaning of 'berk' (Berkshire Hunt = c??? :) ) always makes me laugh when I hear them,

@___MilkMan___

Ай бұрын

Barkshare

@dbach1025

Ай бұрын

I heard "BS", but I am old.

The funniest part of Operation Berkshire’s concern of tobacco sales falling off a cliff was that it was inevitable. Most of the cigarette smokers now -suck on a USB stick- vape.

@Pavlos_Charalambous

Ай бұрын

That are produced by the same tabacco companies 😏

@tylercarrell

Ай бұрын

Yeah tobacco companies bought a few ecig brands but tbh most of the popular ones are Chinese owned

@adamredwine774

Ай бұрын

Capitalism for the win?

@alphagt62

Ай бұрын

Have you noticed that anti smoking ads have shifted their focus to vaping? Paid for by the tobacco industry

Today's conspiracy theory is tomorrow's spoiler alert

@tripsaplenty1227

Ай бұрын

That is true for 0.05% of conspiracy theories. Most are just the mad ramblings of hermits.

@jjlpinct

Ай бұрын

​@@tripsaplenty1227 you throwing out percentages is mad ramblings

@tripsaplenty1227

Ай бұрын

@@jjlpinct That was rhetorical.

@jjlpinct

Ай бұрын

@@tripsaplenty1227 yes rhetoric

@billbostabbins4262

Ай бұрын

Everyone can make up numbers that prove their point. 76.2% of people know that.

It's a conspiracy theory that Simon is a Lizard Overlord. He's not. He's an agent of the Lizard Overlords. Allegedly. Cheers

@CubicSpline7713

Ай бұрын

What's his commission?

@Hillbilly001

Ай бұрын

@@CubicSpline7713 To search out intelligent life. He's not had much luck. His rank is Agent First Grade. Allegedly. Although he also is tasked with controlling information. Allegedly. Cheers

@dcptiv

Ай бұрын

The lizard people are controlled by highly intelligent Koalas all named Barry.

@Hillbilly001

Ай бұрын

@@dcptiv Allegedly.

@Hillbilly001

Ай бұрын

@@dcptiv That's what the Lizard Overlords want you to think.

quited smoking after 30 years of using it.......... one of the biggest mistakes i made was starting smoking.

@pioneercynthia1

Ай бұрын

My dad started smoking when he was 12. He only quit when the woman who turned out to be my mom said she'd never date a guy who smoked!

@Maderyne

Ай бұрын

I gave up smoking after waking up gasping for air in the middle of the night. It was a wakeup call that gave me the urge to quit. Nicotine patches, and nicotine gum helped so much in that effort. It was a struggle but one worth the effort. Now at 70 years old, I can walk up a flight of stairs and not find myself gasping for breath! That is its own reward.

@pharao010

Ай бұрын

@@Maderyne it`s never to late to make a change for the positive , well done

What a strange world when Pinochet is shown as a bigger villian than Kissinger due to "three HUNDRED unresolved charges against him" when most fair minded historians say that due to the fact that Henry Kissinger existed on earth "three hundred MILLION civilians worldwide were killed"... Kissinger literally was responsible for more civilian deaths than Hitler. And the fact that he wasn't brought into court matters why? I mean how many times has Bibi been charged in UCC? It doesn't matter. All that matters is your values.

@vetinaris1297

Ай бұрын

Pinochet ordered the murder of political opponents and anybody he didnt like. What did Kissinger do? And either way doesnt diminish what Pinochet did. He was still evil either way.

@ABC1701A

Ай бұрын

So was Stalin and he never gets blamed either

@brianarbenz1329

Ай бұрын

Stalin never gets blamed? On what planet do you live?

It can't be a coincidence that Berkshire is Cockney rhyming slang 😂

Simon, you are among the most gifted voice talents working today. Bravo!

In a Business Blaze video Simon says "Berkshire" fine. In this one it's suddenly "BARKshire." I love it!

last time I was this early, smoking was cool

What's worse to know: alchol is actually worse for you if consumed at a similar rate to smoking. Not actual 1 to 1, but if you are a sever alcholic and a severe smoker, the alchol will kill you first. But alchol is both harder to regulate and way more profitible so you know, you wont ever see a real drinking kille campaign like you see for tobbacco.

@jjlpinct

Ай бұрын

You would sound smarter if you could Spell alcohol

@morsumbra9692

Ай бұрын

​@@jjlpinctdon't be that jerk. Typos happen. Give grace in interpretation.

@morsumbra9692

Ай бұрын

That and the fact that alcohol has a MUCH longer and intertwined history with humanity. Tobacco was largely a "new world drug" vs beer or wines being humans main clean drink for majority of history...

@turtleanton6539

Ай бұрын

​@@morsumbra9692yes😮

@jjlpinct

Ай бұрын

@@morsumbra9692 no that wasn't a typo they clearly didn't know how to spell the word

Well... The biggest risk is over consumption. Also a lot of "Big Tobacco" bought heavily into "Big Food" 😳

You should do a full episode on operation Snow White! Great stuff as always everyone!

You got a twin on another channel.. he looks exactly like you!

A bunch of competing tobacco company executives having a clandestine meeting to plan a grand conspiracy? The ultimate smoky room.

Episode(s) on Scientology and its secret operations, especially Operation Snow White please!

Asterisk - The American Medical Association is not a government agency. It's run by its medical professional members.

operation Condor sounds like something Relno the Storykeeper would tell a spooky story about

And, as I know from first-hand professional experience, state legislatures spent the proceeds on whatever fluff that suited their fancy. Shameful.

Hey Simon! Pl make a detailed video on Operation Snowhite

I started smoking young, around 10. I quit around age 30. F tobacco. Except a good cigar wrap to wrap my greenies in sometimes.

Good video 👍

The correct quote is: "Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you."

True, they do put you in a refrigerator when you die.

Simon should Brain Blaze Operation Snow White 😂

Just like not releasing the NK video, I'm surprised Simon cover scientology. They are nuts.

As more and more conspiracy theories turn out true dale dribble from the tv king of the hill is starting to look like nostradomas

@pioneercynthia1

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂

How this horrible terror group still exists is beyond my ability to comprehend. Wait, doorbell just....

The tobacco one is also the template the fossil fuel industry used to more or less create and promote modern climate change denialism.

@albertchurchill4845

Ай бұрын

Paul Ehrlich, Michael Mann, Al Gore, and Greta Thunberg all use the same method used by the government to manipulate public perception. If you wonder why we can't all get on the same page, it's because of the lies everyone tells.

i have a conspiracy theory, that you intentionally filmed yourself out of focus so you would get comments talking about it. if so, it worked

"Smoking makes you cool" is why I started smoking. Then I smoked like a chimney for 30 years, until I was spending the first hour of my day 'hacking up a lung', as we used to say. Then I quit cold-turkey (because that's how you quit something). And now my motto is, "Cool is the Fool".

i was in scientology for 6 yrs as staff in east grinstead [ the bug HQ uk , i was a chef, gardner buikder painter , slave ...... etc

Yo Simon, what's up with the lighting/shading of this vid? Over exposed much? But still, enjoyed

@ApathyBM

Ай бұрын

Probably forgot the ominous filter

The queen Is a lizard? 🦎

@jjlpinct

Ай бұрын

Dead lizard

@s.henrlllpoklookout5069

Ай бұрын

The lizard is dead, long live the lizard

@K_End

Ай бұрын

Is ?? 🤨

Ik I'd be interested in a full video on Operation Condor and The one dealing with Scientology

Simon is hysterical. His channels would have been the ones emphatically saying there isn’t a conspiracy when everything was originally going down. Between that and the bearded slurping between each breath, he’s getting tougher to listen to. 😂

My conspiracy theory is that Taco Bell is part of the legalized marijuana movement in an effort to increase sales after 12am😂

"Downright Peculiar" is an odd way of saying 'Batshit House Insane Evil"...

The current government of Argentina - with strong links to the military, both today and from the Dirty War era - are trying to rewrite the history of that period in Argentina.

Do u expect anything different from these companys? They dont give a fuck about you, just your money you give them

Amazing, smoking has taken a huge cut in America, it is very high in Asian countries, where even children are smoking.

@vetinaris1297

Ай бұрын

Western Tobacco companies have made sure there are little to no regulations on tobacco in other countries. They have bought the govts. But hey its profits right and thats what matters?

@ABC1701A

Ай бұрын

Same in any country at war, civil or otherwise

i wonder how you would do on ' why files ' it would be interesting to see how you handle heckle fish...............

Interesting video.😉

"Kissinger wanted to warn them" LMFAOOOOOO WTF Just fyi this is a quote from him :" The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves."

L Ron Hubbard's book "Battlefield Earth" is a gripping sci-fi story, but serves to show how intelligent Hubbard was, and how well he understood "manipulation" to one's own ends.

I’d love a long deep dive episode on the scientology cover up and spies “conspiracy”

Our Factboi has a closet... full of books. Lol who does that? I can't stop watching to see what happens next! xD

Bro dropped a nirvana quote on a video that came out on the 30th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death in 1994

"An effort to ridicule the American justice system by planting bizarre information." More than the actual stuff that happens now?

My father wasn't a 'heavy" smoker but he still ended up with all of his veins scarred so when he had his quadruple-bypass the doctor had to take small pieces of veins from his legs and a small bit from the vein across his chest to make a vein to the heart where he needed it. It was a success but the doctor said he had NEVER seen such scarred veins in BOTH legs until my father. The problem...the smoking from when he was in his teens to literally the day before the operation. He hasn't smoked since but he still says that it wasn't the smoking that caused it. Sure, dad, sure. Yet, he still hasn't smoked since then so I don't think he truly believes that.

An unusual number of mixed up words. Is Simon ok? Hope it's just that he's overworked. Corporate documents aren't 'declassified'. They were discovered in an investigation or handed over during discovery in a court case. And the companies didn't "conclude." They "colluded." 1:55

I learned in grade school, in Montana, in 1970, that smoking was bad for you. It was a very small school, and the teacher brought in a smoking dummy.

@ABC1701A

Ай бұрын

We were ALL taught that from the 60s onward, every couple of years the anti smoking group visited with a dummy, slide sections of smokers lungs and graphic images where I was in NZ

0:29 No wonder Simon is always happy.

👍👍 Yes, I subscribed and liked it.

People who find their conscience shocked by their employers tend not to be promoted to higher positions, and often leave. The result is that large organizations end up being lead by the true believers. They have no trouble denying that smoking harms health, burning fossil fuels contributes to global climate change, and so on). Add to that the fact that positions of power are correlated with loss of empathy.

Last time I was this early I had to find a new GF

in the UK, tax on tobacco brings in about £10.5 billion a year... smoking related illness costs the NHS about £2.5 billion a year.In an aging nation that is facing a demographic timebomb of for pensions and elderly care provision i would say we smokers are the heroes - checking out early after more than paying our way!

What’s ironic is that the people who would argue that the US should’ve gotten involved and stopped Operation Condor are the same people who typically argue that the US gets involved too often in foreign affairs and needs to leave other countries to their own business. 🤦🏻‍♂️

You forgot to add that the operation condor was backed by the us govt from the beginning

What about operation Northwards? I know it never came to fruition but the proposals were outrageous.

So an Into the Shadows episode on Operation Snow White when?

“46 American States brought a combined Medicaid lawsuit…” … … $206billion or something like that? Sucks for the actual victims. They got screwed twice.

The smoking one is similar to that of the oil and opiod industry. Same campaign, just fewer deaths.

Most of those 'baccy companies are based in Norf Caroliiiiiner. Winston Salem. I grew up in rural NC my closest neighbour was 5 miles away and all in between was nothing but wood land and 'baccy fields and the house belonged to the farmer of the tobacco fields

Classification in this context is something that governments do. The documents weren’t declassified, they were released.

With Gratitude.🙏🕊️

No entry more ruthless than a corporation trying to protect profit? Yes there is. A government trying to acquire and keep power.

Omg, I am agog at your information. How are the horrors still operating?

@itsROMPERS...

Ай бұрын

Your problem is your idea of earth as a place where horrors are intrusions. The truth is horrors are integral to the fabric of the world.

I guess it's good we didn't just "trust the science" when the tobacco companies put out "studies" that said it was safe 😂

The fact that they're doing the exact same thing with fossil fuels, sugar and probably about 50 other things should give everyone a serious attitude problem about corporations.

Strange how tobacco companies have ties with a lot of vape producers, I personally think that a few decades along the line, vapes will cause a lot of health problems.

The tobacco companies lobbied the government to ban vaping as many smokers were able to quit with help of vaping. I was never able to quit until vaping, and it was astonishingly easy. Lowered nicotine levels and quit with ease.

Keep on telling the world, Kevin! Keep on reading 'em, fact boi!

Very few people had ever heard of Scientology before South Park. Unless you lived in LA they had zero impact on anyone other than ads for Dianetics and no one knew what that was.

It's Berkshire, not Barkshire.

another known conspiracy: Los Angeles Red Car vs Auto, Gas and Tire companies. (loosely referenced by Who Framed Roger Rabbit).

Supposed scientology didn't get labeled a terrorist group after snow white, lol

So... Scientology did a Hydra?

Watching the first 5 minutes of the video while smoking a cigarette. 😂

The tobacco companies’ actions are interesting. Some lies can last longer than everyone involved’s life, some last long enough that by the time the truth comes out no one cares. Their lies were never going to last long enough and when discovered, guaranteed the courts would come down on them like a ton of bricks - which they did to the tune of billions of dollars.

@jameydunne3920

Ай бұрын

The accountants and lawyers probably mathed out the earnings minus the future potential fines and realized they would still be ahead. They also probably diversified as they saw the lie wasn't working anymore, as others pointed out. In general, I am for capitalism. But when the machines driving capitalism get too big, they can become as bad as the bad governments capitalism fights against. The "Big (insert industry here) I'm presently most worried about is Big Pharma and Big Psychiatry. Especially after 2020, there is a lot of money being spent to make people feel bad so they can help you feel good. Beware any salesman who tries to fix a problem he/she created only to suddenly have the magical cure-all solution

I believe there is an error in this video. Pinochet was removed from power in 1990, not 1978. Had he been removed from power in 1978, Sting would not have sung about him in the present tense in the 1980s song, “They Dance Alone.”

@chapps80

Ай бұрын

Pinochet kept (he gave it himself) a lifetime Senator charge till 1990, but wasn't overthrown at all on 78.

Scientology was raided by the FDA?!?! How you gonna say that and not explain why!?

@vetinaris1297

Ай бұрын

Bad writing, Simon just reads it out.

I swear all the bad press that tobacco has ever gotten has probably given them more business than all the advertising they've ever done.

i remember people smoking in the doctors surgeries in the 80s

@dielaughing73

Ай бұрын

"People", as in the doctors themselves