I saw this article on the Epstein sub and wanted to recap it because it is a doozy and should be widely read.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/14/teen-models-powerful-men-when-donald-trump-hosted-look-of-the-year
Elite Model Management was founded by John Casablancas in 1972. John Casablancas is the father of Julian Casablancas, lead singer of the Strokes.
From 1983 to 1995, Elite Model Management hosted an annual show and competition called โLook of the Year.โ The show is still running under the name โElite Model Look.โ Contestants are as young as 14.
This show was and is a big deal - contestants have included Gisele Bรผndchen, Tom Bradyโs wife, even Melania Trump. It has stared many modeling careers. The grand prize of the competition is a $150,000 contract with Elite.
The Look of the Year contests were used as a cover to get young girls away from their parents and in an environment where they can be preyed upon by wealthy men.
For example, Casablancas was sued by a former Look of the Year contestant. According to the lawsuit, when she was 15 and Casablancas was 46, at Look of the Year 1988 in Japan, Casablancas said he was โfalling in loveโ with her. At the end of the competition, the lawsuit states, โcontestants drank and partied late into the eveningโ and Casablancas told the teenager to come to his hotel room. There, Casablancas sexually abused the girl โseveral times over the eveningโ. The abuse allegedly continued the following year; when the girl became pregnant, Casablancas told her โshe would be having an abortionโ. The abortion was allegedly โarranged and paid forโ by Elite.
Trump was a large part of these early competitions. In 1991, he was a sponsor and a judge, and hosted the event in Trump Plaza near Central Park. David Copperfield, who is also in the black book, was a judge in 1988 and 1991.
One of the judges in 1991, Gรจrald Marie, raped one of the contestants when she was 13:
โLee says the #MeToo movement has emboldened her to talk about what happened next. It was her first sexual experience. โI just froze,โ she says. โI really didnโt know what to do.โ Looking back 30 years later, she feels she was taken advantage of. โI just felt really pressured,โ she says. โI was really young and I was manipulated.โ She told a friend what had happened, and this soon got back to Eliteโs agents. โThey all knew something went down, but they downplayed it,โ says Lee, who is now 42 and works as a makeup artist in Toronto. โIt was ju
... keep reading on reddit โกTo me, trophy ceremonies are a very visible illustration of what's wrong with capitalism. Every year, after a team wins the Super Bowl, some old man who didn't play in any of the games, coach or train any of the players, manage the roster, or actually do any work comes out and receives the trophy from the commissioner. Why does he get it? Because he owns the team. Why does he own it? Because he was rich and bought it.
The Major League Baseball lockout also seems to make it clear that teams don't actually need owners. A third of the owners do nothing but ensure their team loses every year anyway, but refusing to pay competitive salaries.
Are there good examples of sports leagues run differently?
While I was studying for my Finance 101 course I came to the realization that when Melvin Capital had GME at 4$, most likely their risk models made it look like it was a sure bet to drive GameStop to bankruptcy. Not only did they not account for the tsunami of smooth-brains YOLOing FD's, (spearheaded by big dick big brain ape kings like DFV) they're going bankrupt for it.
From this day forth, every hedgefund (especially ones that short) will have to account for the Retard Factor โข. There will always be the risk of the Robinhood Autists taking their Little Johns to tendietown!
I for one can't wait to see it in retard Jr's finance textbook in the future.
Positions: 270 Shares @ 14.48
I've added a new segment for the Tin Foil Hat Model Portfolio that contains the tickers that people have claimed to see in recent tweets. As always, do your own research as well as your own critical thinking. Perhaps consider this wiki as a starting point before you hop into any of the Tin Foil Hat Model Portfolio positions.
Of note, there are two potential high conviction Burry plays in the Q2 Scion Portfolio sitting a good clip below the best price that he could have entered in Q2 2021:
- DISCK (Ranked #5 in Scion's portfolio now sitting 5% below the Q2 Low)
- TLT (Ranked #3 in Scion's portfolio now sitting 9.8% above the Q2 High (don't forget this is a PUT option play))
- Anything highlighted green is also attractive relative to the best possible Q2 price. I called out DISCK and TLT specifically because the rest are relatively small in comparison.
Want to chat or see what people are saying about any of these tickers? Drop into the discord!
Total Estimated Portfolio Value as of 6/30/2021: $431,605,730.00
https://preview.redd.it/n5nl726se2o71.png?width=1417&format=png&auto=webp&s=263f19f3ca97a527d84a286cb0672dd3ac4f7fdb
Tin Foil Hat Model Portfolio (stocks that have no proof of Burry ownership but that people think he's referenced in tweets):
https://preview.redd.it/7t3gqusxe2o71.png?width=1257&format=png&auto=webp&s=db3e150e83e14a1930ee4622388651760524c1ff
Green = current stock price < the quarterly low for Q2 2021 (which is when Burry made the purchase)
Blue = current stock price > Q2 2021 low AND current stock price < Q2 2021 high
Red = current stock price > Q2 2021 high
Column Details:
- Contracts/Shares
- For options contracts, this number should represent the number of contracts he purchased. Otherwise, it is the total number of shares.
- Estimated Q2 2021 Market Value
- For share-based positions, I kept the Market Value as reported by Whale Wisdom.
- For options-based positions, I used today's market prices as a proxy for the prices back in Q2. If anyone knows how to obtain historical options contracts data without spending a bunch of money, I'd love to hear from you.
- Options estimates follow this logic:
- Exp Date: closest date to ~1 year away from buy date
- Strike price: A few notches ITM for CALL and PUT
- % of Portfolio
- Estimated Current Market Value / Total Estimat
finally went in at work to be a front end manager. just found out yesterday i did not get it because of the very same reasons they keep calling me a model employee.
how the hell do you refuse to make me a manager with the excuse "well we would hate to lose you on the floor." no the thing is you won't want to loose the only damn person who does his job. i f-ing hate the fact i can't get into even a entry level management position.
anyone else have this bs done to them?
CSE: PDFI
Prophecy DeFi was formed for the purpose of acquiring and investing in companies that operate in the decentralized finance industry. They have a market cap of $25.767 million and a share price of $0.46. They used to be called Bucephalus Capital Corp., CEO, John McMahon findโt like the direction of the company and at the start of this year completely revamped the board and management of the company to point it in a new direction, DeFi.
Share price has been performing great all year and I think theyโve got all the right pieces to keep improving, theyโre really exciting for a few reasons and all the recent news has been positive.
They recently closed the acquisition of 100% of Layer2, a business focused on liquidity provisioning & market making, cross-chain protocol arbitrage, network staking and validation and infrastructure. Layer2 is providing strong returns for Prophecy DeFi and is helping them continue their growth through acquisition strategy by providing them strong revenue streams and additional capital.
Another reason I really like this company is because their management team recently got bolstered by a co-founder of Bancor and a huge name in the blockchain and crypto world, Galia Benartzi. Sheโs got tons of experience and lends credibility to Prophecy DeFi, sheโs spoken at the UN and TEDx on monetary theory and innovation and been called a leading lady in crypto by Forbes. Sheโs a pioneer in the industry and will be part of the evolving financial landscape moving forward. I think see will provide this company with a lot of experience and insight into the future of the industry.
They also added Peng Zhong, CEO of Tendermint to the advisory committee just a few days ago. TenderMint is a core contributor to the Cosmos ecosystem, The Cosmos houses over 250 blockchain projects and secures overย $100Bย in digital assets including Binance Chain, Terra, Crypto.com, ThorChain and Osmosis.
The DeFi industry is growing quickly, Total Value Locked, a measure of DeFi transaction value grew by 14x in 2020, TVL has already more than tripled again this year to a total of USD$81.85 billion. Consider the value of traditional financial derivatives, it's many times larger than global GDP. When considering DeFi derivatives only total about $3.35 billion the growth potential in the industry is astronomical. Most of DeFi adoption and growth is happening on Ethereum and the increase in usage has led to a 20x increase in the network costs of using Ethereu
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