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Originally posted on Consortium of Defense Analysts:
The initials TPTB stand for The Powers That Be — an expression of the helplessness and alienation of some people who believe that the world is controlled by a group of elites, both public and in the shadows.
(See “Secret Group Controls the World” for a sober and sobering view of TPTB.)
Now, populist resentment against TPTB has found disturbing expression in a website that, in the guise of a dead pool (1), invites bids to assassinate world leaders, including U.S. president Barack Obama.
Andy Greenberg reports for Forbes, Nov. 18, 2013, that he received an encrypted email from an individual using the alias Kuwabatake Sanjuro (2) about a website he’s created called Assassination Market, which enables anyone to put a bounty on the head of any elite by using bitcoins.(3) If someone on Assassination Market’s hit list is killed, the assassin collects the accumulated…
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