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Al-Qaeda Calls For the Execution Of Bill Gates and Others To 'Damage the US Economy' (betanews.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Al-Qaeda's official online propaganda magazine, Inspire, contains a montage of violent images -- things like guns and blood -- next to an image of Bill Gates. The terrorist group is urging its followers to murder successful business folks, such as Gates, which is absolutely sickening. The terrorist group says that murdering high ranking people can damage the U.S. economy.
While I wish no harm upon Bill Gates - in spite of being vehemently anti-Microsoft myself - I don't see what Al-Qaeda could expect to accomplish by killing him. He stepped down how many years ago from the top of Microsoft? This seems about as logical as watching too many reruns of ER and then deciding to kill George Clooney to harm our health care system.
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...to murder influential people to advance your socio-economic agenda. Right? What was that passage again?
Now we know what the B stands for and why he has a beard.
Top people in Western society are completely replaceable, next runner-up would be 99.99% as good. Our society isn't driven by genius, but by merit (aside: unfortunately merit also happen to include a lot of sociopathic behavior).
They've been spewing this bullshit for decades. This isn't news. Let's not give these fuckers the attention they desire. I guarantee that the terrorists are burning in Hell, where they belong. Fuck Al-Qaeda and fuck ISIL.
In the case of someone like Gates, the train's already left the station. He has enough things in progress to help people using his money that if he were to be murdered, those things would probably not only keep going, but be strengthened by others wanting to keep his legacy going.
In the case of someone who is not giving much to others....well, the wealth was not circulating in the economy already, so it would be passed along to others who either will continue to not circulate the wealth (meaning no change) or will blow it all/give it away (meaning it'll add more to the economy).
Either way, this isn't a very good plan. Killing the wealthiest people will range between no change and a positive change, economically speaking.
Obviously I wish no ill will on anyone, but let's be honest, there are a number of "successful" people who's loss would improve the economy.
I guess Al Qaeda woke up to find their Windows 7 had been automatically upgraded to Windows 10 then? That's got to piss them off.
I must have that number blocked. O well.
Can you take care of the bank execs, Koch brothers, politicians, and oil execs? Oh and how about the insurance industry too. These people are the ones waging war on you.
Are you sure it was Al Qaeda and not the FSF?
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Why Bill Gates? He doesn't even run Microsoft anymore. Now he just runs his charity fighting aids and stuff. These guys are so out of touch it's like Dr. Evil. Hold the whole world hostage for "One Million Dollars"! Bwaahh Haa Haa Haaa!
Can anyone remind me why it's bigoted to point out that most of the terrorism in the world is Islamic? Also, why is it bigoted to point out that the Qur'an calls for violence against nonbelievers but the New Testament says to love your enemies? Why is it acceptable to condemn the Westboro Baptist Church for their hatred but wrong to condemn Islam for their hatred and violence?
"We had something, you guys, something special, what does ISIS have that we don't? :( :( :("
Bill gates shot dead
Now they're appealing to lone wolf attacks. They must be hurting. Damn ISIS hogging all the glory! Why don't they just take a shortcut to heaven and all blow themselves up now?
And they might be on to something.
Sheldon Adelson, Charles G. Koch, David H. Koch, Donald Trump, Peter Peterson, Stephen Schwarzman, Rupert Murdoch, Gina Rinehart, Christy Walton, Jim Walton, Alice Walton, S. Robson Walton, Anne Walton Kroenke, Nancy Walton Laurie, Silvio Berlusconi, and Carl Icahn?
I admit that not all of these people are Americans, but they all pull the strings of the US economy.
Al-Qaeda killed thousands on 9/11 and is calling for more attacks. ISIL is also carrying out tremendous amounts of violence in the Middle East. Yet anyone who points out that Islam is inherently violent is called a bigot.
However, Christians who refuse to bake a cake for a gay wedding are put out of business and have threats made against their lives. Somehow society thinks it's okay to threaten Christians and claim that Christianity isn't a religion of peace.
Why is there a double standard?
Islam is inherently violent. Christianity is inherently peaceful. Christianity says to love your enemy. Islam says to kill Jews and Christians.
But anyone who points out these facts is labeled a bigot.
He probably sits on a dozen or more boards of directors, but everyone knows that boards of directors don't actually do anything.
So... they want to kill off rich people in the hopes of *hurting* the economy?
Can I assume that people are already tweeting them suggestions on who to go after, so that all the money that is currently being sequestered by all these rich people will finally be released back into the economy?
Back in the 90's, for non-standards compliance alone I would have enjoyed seeing a random manager from Microsoft hung by their wrists and flogged. Daily. But bullets and bombs I'd reserve for the terrorists themselves, the bastards.
They are trying to "take focus" away from ISIS and get back in the spotlight.
They know they are outdated and trying to get back up to speed in this Apps and Social driven reality.
Up next:
They are going to threaten Steve Jobs.
We play the game with the bravery of being out of range
Let Bill serve as a decoy, because if they bag Larry Ellison, Tim Cook or Jeff Bezos it'll totally be game over.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Slashdot users will have a hissy fit if we apprehend these bastards and demand their iPhones be decrypted so we can discover their plots and thwart them.
I mean, if they're going after Gates, might as well try to take out Apple too...
Instead of blowing up buildings and killing people (which for some sick reason boosts the economy) they would all get jobs as investment bankers and mortgage brokers.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation should change its objectives from eliminating Mosquitoes to eliminating Al Qaeda
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Those terrorists sound like idiotic schoolchildren that have no idea how things work.
Talk about moronic... They couldn't make themselves appear dumber if they tried
I don't know the meaning of the word 'don't' - J
Alqueda_Propaganda_KillBill_Collage.wmv *Made with Windows Movie Maker
"which is absolutely sickening"
Thanks again, news, for not being news, but instead being how I should feel *about* the news.
They've been reading waaaaaaay too much Ayn Rand.
Lacking <sarcasm> tags,
ppl like gates and Welch, immelt, fiorina, romety, etc would actually help America. problem is, that they will be the most protected ppl going.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
This is obviously sick. But... Does Bill Gates even matter to the economy anymore? They are dumb on so many levels from human rights to current events, methinks.
Harm a guy that spends his fortune on helping the poor and developing countries..
Can we eradicate these fools already? Ban their version of islam.
Running a terrorist organization just doesn't feel right when you have to click on a stupid dancing square to bring your sinister plans up.
The Al-Qaeda spokesman was able to issue the statement because he hadn't died from malaria.
Most linux users don't know this, but the man pages were named after Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris fsck'ing hates noobs!
I remember when most terrorism we got to hear about was from the Irish -- should we condemn all Irish for the actions of a few wackos?
There's a Christian Pastor, can't remember his name right now, but he's famous for holding a "Kill the Gays" rallies. The Klu Klux Klan considers itself a Christian organization, and if I can Godwin this conversation, Hilter was not a Muslim, and yet you're defending Christianity?
From an atheist viewpoint, *all* your damn religions are about violence against others.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
will backfire.
This is why Islam needs to die.
"Al-Qaeda Calls For the Execution Of Bill Gates who Damages the US Economy"
That would have been a good move some 25 years ago.
These jackasses only have the one hammer (murder innocent people and recruit the mentally deficient to murder innocent people) pretty much everything looks like a nail to them.
Sample terrorist conversation:
Terrorist 1: "Derp, Computers are hard."
Terrorst 2: "Derp, Meybe we can fix it by killing innocent people"
Terrorist 1: "Derp, If we became more educated and intelligent in order to solve our problems it might negatively impact our core belief system of murdering innocent people"
Terrorist 2: "Right... So murder some people?"
Terrorist 1: "Yup"
I see there's a lot of this fake neocon propaganda on here lately.
I think Windows 98 is a better reason to whack Bill Gates
Liberal media have to account for the fact that there are millions of muslims that are peaceful and claim to be following the Qur'an. These people live in a state of contradiction but somehow that's not a problem for them. Avoiding contradictions is a western value.
We don't negotiate with terrorists, come at the 1% bro!
You may not agree, but some people hold the opinion that Steve Jobs was a visionary and that Apple has been going downhill ever since he died and as Apple uses up the ideas he bulked up before abandoning us to the afterlife. In theory, a sudden and unexpected death of Steve Jobs would have had a measurably impact on Apple’s performance.
But these other people? Bill Gates hardly plays a role at Microsoft anymore, and most major companies have contingency plans to recover from losing their CEO anyhow. So killing major business people would have no measurable effect on the US economy.
But keep in mind that terrorists are not rational people. If your world view clashes with the mainstream, going around killing people isn’t going to make you any new friends or drive people to join your cause. It’s just going to demonstrate that you’re an evil person. Basically, only people brainwashed into liking the Islamic State actually like the Islamic State. Everyone else (including most other people in the middle east) fear and loathe the Islamic State for being yet another group of extremists who make all Muslims look bad.
Darnold Trumpet will build a wall all the way aroung the USA and make Al-Qaeda and ISIS and the Canadians and Mexicans pay for it. We will all be safe then :P
Bill Gates? What for? If Bill Gates were to die, I'm sure the economy would improve, lol! Why can't they do something useful like put a hit on Trump, or Clinton? Damn idiot terrorists.
Killing Bill Gates would only affect his gardener and the pool cleaning staff.
I suppose it's possible that the local Ferrari dealership may see a slight drop in sales. Other than that, no impact on the US economy.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Ali-Kabali-Kashini-kabob should look out.
Those "high level targets" can buy their countries out from under them and bring in enough Russian nukes to "redecorate" their new possessions.
Or as underwriters... those people whose job it is to make it absurdly difficult to get a loan.
"The underwriter came back with 3 conditions. 1) They need another months history for your bank account. 2) They need evidence of your 401k balance. 3) They need evidence you've converted, or are starting to convert, to radical Islam."
I clicked through on this BS made up story created by fiction writers trained to get people like me to click on a link and up comes a current picture of Bill Gates. Has anyone noticed how old he looks now? Time affords no mercy even for billionaires.
Which terrorist gentleman do I send money to in order to get Lennart Poettering's name on this list?
This is the one and only time that fear of terism should inform your daily life and decisions, when they single you out by name.
Perhaps this is why our politicians constantly tell us that we should all be afraid of terists... because they are all personally afraid of them...
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
while this would help the economy can we get Larry Ellison added to this list ?
It just goes to show that the bad guys don't do their homework. Bill and Melinda Gates are the biggest philanthropists of all time, their generosity extends the world over, and they have a Middle East Team specifically to benefit Arab countries.
Real estate (by which I mean a home on a plot of land) hasn't been in reach of the common (wo)man for decades. Most real estate is owned not by the common man, but by the banks, mortgage companies and so on. Actual ownership, if it occurs at all, happens so late in life as to be irrelevant for most people (and of course, even when it's paid off, if you fail to pay your taxes, or happen to be somewhere someone with money wants to build something [see Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469], you'll find out who really controls ownership... protip: it's not you.)
Does this stop anyone? No. They just saddle up with (more...and more... and more...) debt, hang out on the property the bank owns (as long as that is convenient for the 1%-ers), and life goes on; the rich get richer, because the poor pay more and more to them, both in base price and in interest.
There's no ceiling to real estate prices. We're a huge distance past the "I own it" point for most people. But there is illusion. Would you like another slice?
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
In the West, we have built very strong enduring institutions. For people who grew up in the USA, they seem to be slowly decaying becoming corrupt. But only when you come in from a different society, after growing up there, you would see the difference. The level of honesty and trust in the government, in the institutions, private or public, is very high in America. It would take India a century or more to build such institutions of integrity. I told my bond broker cousin in Bombay, "As the Watergate scandal was picking up steam, IRS audited the sitting President of the USA, found him in violation of tax code, and assessed half a million dollars in taxes and penalties. It cut Nixon's net worth by half. Nixon paid without complaining or creating a ruckus. Nixon!". He was stunned beyond belief. Such things do not simply happen there. Despite all the insider trading and the banksters becoming fraudsters, SEC and Wall Street is light years ahead of regulation and disclosure of Indian capital markets.
Here in USA we build mountains. Someone is on top of the mountain, but there are several who could replace him/her, and that person, single handedly does not achieve any thing big. In the Middle East and in India, probably China, it is all personality cult. Build one pedestal, put a flag pole on it, and put their leader on top of the flag pole. Leader goes down, there is no one to step and continue the system. The leader actively undermines and sabotages the career of anyone who could replace him. Surrounded by sycophants and flatterers, the leaders live in bubbles. India is way better than Pakistan in this respect, and Pakistan is better than Bangladesh and the Arab countries. But none of them even come close to USA, Canada, Western Europe, Australia and NZ in terms of governance and public integrity.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
His philanthropy may even be what is irritating them, who knows?
Actually given how out of date they seem I suspect that it may be because they have only just upgraded to Vista.
> Actually every decade we should kill off the top .01%. That by itself will keep the economy flowing as their cash will keep being moved instead of just sitting there.
I hope you're being sarcastic, but in case you're just young or woefully uninformed, I'll explain it for you. You don't get rich by putting cash under your mattress. You get rich by owning productive capital. The office you're sitting in, the computer you're using at work, and those glossy flyers advertising your company's products are the rich people's money (and our retirement savings). They get and stay rich by having their MONEY work for them rather than them just working for wages. Their money is your office, it's the Tesla factory, their money is the grocery store you shop at. You COULD take their money and use it buy Obama-phones. It is then no longer available build offices, upgrade your office equipment, or print more marketing materials to sell the company's product, or to maintain the grocery store building and equipment. You end up with a "free" phone, but you'd no loner have an office, a computer on your desk, or grocery store with working refrigeration.
They use $4,000 of their money to get you, their employee, training for a new certification and then they have an employee worth $8,000. We could let politicians decide how resources are allocated based on contributions they recieve, or we could do this:
Everybody who finds ways to cause money to increase, to use resources in a way that generates more resources, can then manage some of the new resources they created in order to create even more. They can also take a portion of the increase (profit) and distribute it to people who build good things, like cars, houses , and low-power SOCs. The first option (government control of resources) is how Cuba works now and Russia used to work, until it collapsed. The second option (people who efficiently multiply resources manage the resources to create even more and pay people to make stuff) is called capitalism.
Btw, the corollary to the first part is that if you're stuffing your money under your mattress, or spending on Starbucks, you probably won't get rich, or even particularly compfortable. To do well, you'll want to be an owner of productive capital. The easiest way to do that is to share ownership of a company like General Mills or Union Pacific. You can buy shares (part ownership) for as little as $80. To reduce risk, it's best to buy shares in 100 different companies at once. That's called a mutual fund. The best ones have low expenses. IVE and UMBIX are examples of good choices.
They're too late. Obama's long-term plan to ruin the U.S. economy is already having an effect.
Obviously al-Qaeda is working for the Trump campaign. Those comments about what refugees should be admitted seemed so far out just last fall. Then followed Paris, Cologne, Brussels, and now this. Our military couldn't kill al-Qaeda, but now we can set our lawyers on them. Better call for heavenly mercy!
Next time they'll just extend a sudo-pod.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Is this next for them? There are plenty of wackos that would give them money for a hit list, and that's just a sad commentary on our society.
That should do enough to damage the U.S. economy. I wonder if they already thought of that and donated to the Clinton Foundation a few years ago.
Did Al-Qaeda recently upgrade from MS DOS to Windows 3.1 and they pissed off?
Doogie Howser?
"Shall we play a game?" -W.O.P.R.
The Bible also has some rather violent suggestions. Such books are kind of like a Rorschach test: you see what you want in them. They both have tolerance and violence.
After clobbering each other bloody for a hundred odd years, Christian factions finally saw a giant clue-stick built out of caskets and learned to coexist peacefully. It's not Bible passages, but reality that changed them.
Unfortunately, Islam is repeating history.
Table-ized A.I.
I don't think getting rid of the marketer Bill Gates would hurt the US economy much. Here are better ways to hurt the US economy:
1) Along with the symbolic buildings they have attacked, they could attack economically significant, but more easily damaged, infrastructure. For example, an oil pipeline can carry $15 billion of oil each year. Destroying a major one would SEVERELY damage the economies of both the areas with refining and reprocessing plants (such as plastics makers) and the economy of the areas producing the oil at the inputs to the pipeline, who would then have to pay much, much more to ship the oil to market in individual train cars.
2) They could do many small attacks, completely unpredictably, but always focused against economic activity (business). Pick new businesses at random - the day a new store opens, blow it up or just light it on fire. As a matter of fact, focusing on new businesses, but otherwise being random would be great - the unpredictability would scare potential entrepreneur and few people would open new businesses.
3) Even better - when they do simple arson against a new business owned by a white person, leave Black Panther markings behind and conversely leave KKK markings when they burn or bomb a business that a black person is starting. That would get US fighting among ourselves, hurting ourselves a lot more than foreign terrorists could hurt us directly.
4) I'm pondering things that drain the economy. The US wastes a trillion dollars ($6,300 per US worker) every year just paying INTEREST on money its federal government has borrowed. If terrorists could influence US policy to double that number, that would take another $6,300 from every American family every year. Can you think of any ways terrorists could get the government to waste a shit load of money?
I didn't just come up with all these on my own, of course. Leaders of radical anti-American groups have been doing them. Especially #1 and #4, along with a weakened version of #2 have been quite effective for the single most dangerous critic of America.
such a thing. Al Queda and their like have a lot of vocal critics in the US who actually succeed in bringing war against the Middle East. Yet not one assassination, or assassination attempt even, against any of those big mouths. Makes me think it is all about munitions manufacturing.
.. is too busy making sure that north Pakistani and Afghan children never get polio, to be available to be killed.
they are just a front for Saudi and US interests.
I mean c'mon, the average Arab and/or Muslim isn't stupid enough to attack 'weak' targets like Bill Gates (who wouldn't do ANY economic damage, given that he's retired. The only damage that could be done is against the B&M G Foundation, and it would be easier to hit their outreach programs in Africa than the 'faces' of it directly.) The only ones stupid enough to attack these targets are 'true believers/jihadists' worked under the leadership of people who are basically the Muslim equivalent of the KKK (as depicted in Sons of Anarchy/Banshee/etc.) They aren't ACTUALLY trying to fight for White/Arab/Muslim liberation, whatever they will say, but rather to advance their own financial or political agendas, often entailing the weaking of economic markets they have a stake in or wish to depress enough to make a significant investment in taking over.
Follow the money and it all coalesces.
> And yet they don't do any of those really simple things.
They don't? It seems to me that SOMEONE who vowed destroy the US as we knew and "fundamentay transform" it has been destroying or blocking economically important infrastructure such as pipelines, doubling the debt, vowing to "relentlessly go after" business owners while creating uncertainty for entrepeneurs, and spreading race-based propaganda. Maybe it wasn't a terrorist per se, maybe that was somebody else who blames the US for the fact that the middle east has been at war for 3,000 years.
Gates has done the most damage he could and done the best he could. No point doing anything to him now. Like Jobs he literally is history.
is circular logic to blow your mind, then circular logic is all it takes to blow your mind.
So now the world has one less AC.. woohoo!
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
considering how many lives the U.S. has ended to both keep their own economy and the Dollar afloat, and negatively impacting other economies to the same end.
1) Along with the symbolic buildings they have attacked, they could attack economically significant, but more easily damaged, infrastructure. For example, an oil pipeline can carry $15 billion of oil each year.
In the U.S. they would be shot, Alaska in particular they would get shot and then eaten by grizzly bears and/or a Moose.
Pick new businesses at random - the day a new store opens, blow it up or just light it on fire.
Again, shot.
when they do simple arson against a new business owned by a white person, leave Black Panther markings behind
Pretty obvious from the bodies that have been shot they are no Black Panthers.
I'm pondering things that drain the economy. The US wastes a trillion dollars ($6,300 per US worker) every year just paying INTEREST on money its federal government has borrowed. If terrorists could influence US policy to double that number,
Oh, you guys and your *crazy* Obama "H" theories!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
We could get rid of you. Problem is, nobody would notice or care.
then Gates is safe. That software has universally sucked since MS took it over.
Certainly the near constant war in the region has been well documented since at least the wars with Rome around 100 BC, then the Persian empires and the Sasanians, the Seljuq Turks, the Mongols, the Ottomans, the Safavid ...
> Funny the same thing can be said for the US the entire time of it's existence.
That's only because of Montenegro has been doing. If it weren't for Montenegro, the US would have eternal peace and harmony.
Maybe Vista users.
-Syirrus
Is their plan to destroy the US by ensuring the solvency of Social Security? How's that supposed to work?
We don't pay down any PRINCIPAL to pay it off. The INTEREST is a significant portion of what your tax dollars pay for. It comes out to $6,300 per year per worker, or about $500/month.
Per net taxpayer, it's about $9,000 per year. (Net taxpayer meaning people who pays more then zero taxes. Doesn't include someone who is charged $3,000 in taxes and gets a $4,500 credit, thereby receiving $1,500 from taxpayers.)
Becuase there is no such thing as al CIA dub
al-Quacka is a laugh a minute.
Al Qaeda was created by our government and those elite globalists who own our government, to carry out false flag Hegelian dialectic acts (9/11) in order to scare the plebs (you) into accepting attachment of further slave chains / tax / debt to you and accept the death of your soldiers / sons...in order to pay for military based conquests that benefit the global elite while at the same time consolidating their power further by taking away your constitutional rights (Patriot act.....ect).
This bogeyman / zeitgeist / Al Qaeda / ISIS strategy has been successfully used by Kings, tyrants and now globalist NWO Oligarchs for hundreds of year.........wake up and smell your slavery!!! Would not be the first time these pycho's assassinated a world leader.....Lincoln, Kennedy....basically anyone who threatens their flimsy source of power....the goal banking system pyramid scheme.
The only issue is that Humans are not really designed to be subjugated by fear into some kind of global technological Orwellian cast system...that is why "the more they tighten their grip... the more star systems will slip through their fingers"......the concept of centralized power is antiquated silly psychopath
human stuff and will never compete with the way nature really works..... decentralization.
Why doesn't some billionaire or coalition of billionaires fund some mercs to go cripple Al Qaeda and Daesh, unless these terrorist groups are somehow good for their version of the economy?
As Americans it is our duty to protect the rich from terrorists. Rich people good. Terrorists bad.
Al-Qaeda could do more damage by putting successful business leaders in U.S. Public Office. oh wait that's already about to happen...
USA could have prevented https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... had it rolled out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... in 1971 when OPEC Oil is pegged to US dollar http://www.zerohedge.com/print...
Casteism
They must be fans of Reagan and trickle down economics if they think killing billionaires will hurt the US economy. If anything the only thing that might hurt is investment in China, India and various other places where everything is outsourced.
If they really want to tear down the USA economy, given recent history, their best bet would either be:
A) Go to school, get a business degree, start/buy a bank on Wall Street, and start making ridiculous investment vehicles for hedge funds to bet on. Of course they will have to compete with all the Americans actively trying to do the exact same thing anyway.
B) Get into US politics, and enable A).
Racist countries
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Casteism
...this is the same tactic the current U.S. drug policy enforcers have been using for some time...