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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 12:08 AM Mar 2018

Facebook Peter Thiel funded Cambridge Analytica to use data of FB users

While Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg is apologizing for allowing Cambridge Analytica (CA) to use and abuse its members private information, he's not the only one who is deserving of scrutiny. Why is no one looking into Peter Thiel? After all Thiel is still on Facebook's Board, he donated to Trump and according to this article, he has bragged about having unlimited access to Trump.

And then there's Thiel's involvement with the Make America #1 PAC. Peter Thiel gave $1 million. As Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) pointed out on Twitter, Erik Prince and Peter Thiel were both major donors to the Make America #1 PAC after Trump became the Republican nominee.





https://crooksandliars.com/2018/03/prince-thiel-behind-funds-pac-used-pay

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Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
1. Thiel bailed to New Zeland where he got a fresh new citizenship
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 12:19 AM
Mar 2018

..for donating $1million to a Church Relief Fund.

Wonder what New Zeland's extradition is like with the US?

http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/01/technology/peter-thiel-new-zealand-citizenship/index.html

Tanuki

(14,918 posts)
4. He seems to have obtained that as a backup plan, but he still lives in the US
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 01:17 AM
Mar 2018

and is in the process of relocating his operations from Silicon Valley to Los Angeles.

UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
2. It is amazing how all of the pieces are fitting together.
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 12:30 AM
Mar 2018

It is almost as if it were a plan designed to take down Hillary’s campaign. (Sarcasm)

OnDoutside

(19,956 posts)
7. Yes and as a gay man, he'd be in danger in a totalitarian USA. Funny though how he drifted out of
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 05:59 AM
Mar 2018

the spotlight (like Ghouliani), once it became clear how much the Intel services knew about what was going on.

Cha

(297,206 posts)
8. Peter Thiel has a house in New Zealand and as it turns out..
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 06:08 AM
Mar 2018

he's built himself a panic room.. Also a citizen of NZ since 2011.

Billionaire Peter Thiel is building a panic room into his house in New Zealand — and it could be part of a new Doomsday trend

http://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-is-building-a-panic-room-into-his-house-in-new-zealand-2018-2

Thiel should know all about Doomsday.. getting trump rigged in.

He's more selfish than I imagined.. being a gay man and throwing LGBT to the wolves with his Billions of Dollars.. to secure his tax cuts.

Wonder if NZ has an extradition treaty with USA? Why yes it does..

https://internationalextraditionblog.com/2011/05/25/new-zealand-extradition-treaty-with-the-united-states/

OnDoutside

(19,956 posts)
9. Yes, all of that. "It'll be different for me....". I've come to the conclusion that we won't have to
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 06:14 AM
Mar 2018

wait too long before all this comes to a head.

Cha

(297,206 posts)
10. I hope so.. trump has been
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 06:44 AM
Mar 2018

getting away with being a criminal for so long.. it will be the epitome of The Bigger they are the Harder they Fall.

Cha

(297,206 posts)
12. Yes, I don't think about
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 07:03 AM
Mar 2018

the worst.. I think about ways of getting the hell out of the Twilight Zone.

I can only imagine the frustration, and yet determination of the Democratic Leaders.. those who are fighting on the Front Lines, and all over the country!

OnDoutside

(19,956 posts)
13. Maybe it's "glass half empty" but the courage of Democrats stand in stark contrast to
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 07:26 AM
Mar 2018

Republicans. Even the likes of Corker and Flake, who are heading out the door, are as cowardly as the rest of them (worse in fact). At the very least they should be putting pressure on McConnell that they would caucus with the Democrats if he doesn't get a handle on this now. We all put great hope in November but things are moving at such a pace, this may all explode a lot sooner, and what then ?

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