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cbabe

(4,155 posts) Wed Mar 2, 2022, 02:10 PM Mar 2022

Jack Sweeney tracking oligarch jets.

Teen who tracked Elon Musk’s jet turns his attention to Russian oligarchs

Jack Sweeney has amassed 162,000 Twitter followers on a new account monitoring the private jets of billionaires and tycoons

Theguardian.com
March 1

Hope he also posts addresses of oligarch palaces. We could chalk their sidewalks.🌻

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Jack Sweeney tracking oligarch jets. (Original Post) cbabe Mar 2022 OP

Could the pitchforks FINALLY be coming after them? Fritz Walter Mar 2022 #1

Little people. Secretaries. Maids. Gardeners. Dishwashers. cbabe Mar 2022 #2

a partner at Vedder Price and a former FAA and DOT attorney mastanikhan Apr 2022 #3

Fritz Walter

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1. Could the pitchforks FINALLY be coming after them?

Reply to cbabe (Original post)

Wed Mar 2, 2022, 02:33 PM

Mar 2022

That's the prediction in a TED-Talk video recorded in 2014.

The problem is that inequality is at historic highs today and it's getting worse every day. And if wealth, power and income continue to concentrate at the very 'tippy-top,' our society will change from a capitalist democracy to a neo-feudalist, rentier society like 18th Century France. That was France before the revolution and the mobs with the pitchforks.

Rentier: a person who lives on income from property or securities

My only question: do I sharpen the tines on my pitchfork for maximum penetration, or leave them dull for inflicting pain?

cbabe

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2. Little people. Secretaries. Maids. Gardeners. Dishwashers.

Reply to Fritz Walter (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 2, 2022, 03:28 PM

Mar 2022

Invisible. Access unquestioned.

May not need a pitchfork. A paper clip in the copy machine could be quite effective.

mastanikhan

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3. a partner at Vedder Price and a former FAA and DOT attorney

Reply to cbabe (Original post)

Tue Apr 12, 2022, 02:23 AM

Apr 2022

David Hernandez, a partner at Vedder Price and a former FAA and DOT attorney, doesn't believe Sweeney's initiative to track Oligarchs is more than a PR ploy. While banks may end up repossessing private jets owned by Russians, he says, they won't need help from hacker sites.

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