Portugal's Elite Pedo Network Illustrates Tip of the Iceberg

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Re: Portugal's Elite Pedo Network Illustrates Tip of the Ice

Postby Project Willow » Wed Mar 12, 2014 6:17 pm

He did indeed used to post here.

:whisper: He's also my first interview subject in my role as co-editor of a new online magazine coming this summer.

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Re: Portugal's Elite Pedo Network Illustrates Tip of the Ice

Postby Plutonia » Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:11 pm

Wombaticus Rex » Wed Mar 12, 2014 1:21 pm wrote:Yes, the visceral hatred many critics levelled at McCarthy's film seemed like nothing so much as rage at being inconvenienced by confrontation with reality. To me, that was the best film of 2013 by miles.

"But here’s what is true. If whole nations are capable of love and hate and greed and envy—which they are—then it’s just more than possible that murder itself can become a collective enterprise. Murder as a national pastime...

The point, Counselor, is that you may think there are things that these people would simply be incapable of. There are not."

It is a testament to the power of the State, even in our, uh, modern age, to dictate the parameters of objective reality that we are so often driven to cinema & fiction for references and guideposts for actual crimes in the real world.


Absolutely.

Of note: Unlike True Detective, in the end, we do "meet" the "monster" and he turns out to be wealthy, gracious, thoughtful and paternal.

No surprise that it has been much better received by Latin American audiences. Guruilla wrote a long essay about it that is running in 4 parts in Spanish at Pijama Surf, if anyone is interested:
Part 1: http://pijamasurf.com/2014/03/el-realis ... ejero-iiv/
Part 2: http://pijamasurf.com/2014/03/el-realis ... rnos-iiiv/

Parts 3 & 4 pending

The pdf in English is available by email or PM: https://auticulture.wordpress.com/2014/ ... age-movie/
[the British] government always kept a kind of standing army of news writers who without any regard to truth, or to what should be like truth, invented & put into the papers whatever might serve the minister

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Re: Portugal's Elite Pedo Network Illustrates Tip of the Ice

Postby seemslikeadream » Tue Aug 15, 2017 8:16 pm

bump
Mazars and Deutsche Bank could have ended this nightmare before it started.
They could still get him out of office.
But instead, they want mass death.
Don’t forget that.
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