I don’t have any additional insight into or commentary to add, other than to note that it’s wild to start making investigations some 30 years after the event.

Alternative sources:

The Telegraph

The BBC

The Independent

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    It’s wild to start making investigations some 30 years after.

    My conspiracy brain. Some of the people that might have literally pulled the trigger were so rich and powerful that the UN, etc dismissed any mention of sniper tourists as ridiculous tabloid-level rumor even though there were clear grounds to investigate.

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    In all seriousness - how did this news not break decades ago? Also - begin the countdown clock for breaking news that Hollywood is making Sniper Tourists - a movie based on real events.

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      It isn’t a conspiracy. Rich people have been doing crazy evil shit and keeping it out of the news since there have been rich people. They have always owned the news which is why consistent narratives didn’t start breaking down until the dawn of widespread internet use.

      Perfect example: Look into the Vegas mass shooting.

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          It’s wild how the way the word “conspiracy” got devalued from being “there is a criminal agreement to do crimes happening behind closed doors” to sit alongside “yall heard the aliens working with bigfoot to sap and impurify your precious bodily fluids for Ivan?” was a literal conspiracy by the CIA to boost crank shit in the counterculture and delegitimize any talk of the actual crimes the feds were actually, more or less openly, doing.

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        I don’t know about the vegas shooting as it relates to rich people doing crazy evil shit and suppressing it from the news. Can you say more and/or point me to resources pls? Thanks

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              Do you mean it was erased from news archives? Or just that it stopped being covered in new reporting once new info stopped emerging? Yes, it was a huge incident when it happened, and then there were some updates as they found out some things about the perpertrator. But after that, it stopped being news, I would have expected. The Wikipedia article has a lot of info and I remember looking at it a while back for some reason. Is anything important missing from it?

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      My conspiracy brain. Some of the people that might have literally pulled the trigger were so rich and powerful that the UN, etc dismissed any mention of sniper tourists as ridiculous tabloid-level rumor even though there were clear grounds to investigate.

      I recall a video Bad Empanada did that talked primarily about Gaza but brought up the Bosnian genocide; he mentioned that Clinton knew there was a genocide for years, but the French government at the time wanted it to continue because they viewed a muslim country in Europe as an abomination. It stands to reason the UN dismissed it because the victims were muslim and they didn’t care, or simply didn’t see the perpetrators as criminals, or even that since the perpetrators were other Westerners that it looked bad and so decided to be quiet about it.

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      begin the countdown clock for breaking news that Hollywood is making Sniper Tourists - a movie based on real events.

      Bacurau (2019) is a Brazillian movie about rich tourists trying to wipe a rural town off the map for sport. It was a great movie and I would recommend it.

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        Controversy breaks out when DiCaprio yells at the director and producers - “My leading lady will not be over 30!” The director and producers are more than pleased. This is exactly what they hoped would happen so their shitty movie would get tons of free media.