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Apr 26Liked by Jack Poulson

This really needs to be made into a limited series t.v. show. It has it all- an arrogant unscrupulous boss, a paranoid and hostile work environment, spite firings, infidelity, arrests, vindictive lawsuits to scare people into keeping quiet, threats to journalists, attempted bribery, and now telephone and dm eavesdropping. You can’t make this stuff up. And the bad guy gets fired in the end. Everyone loves a juicy true story. I’m sorry for the innocent people who got ensnared in this mess, though. If the author doesn’t want to write the screenplay- at least could he shop the idea out to someone else? Maybe the person who wrote, “She Said?”

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Apr 26·edited Apr 26Liked by Jack Poulson

What date are the unsealed Blackman deposition papers listed under for the SC court site? Having a hard time finding them and my session keeps restarting.

Somewhat related: Sometime in early-mid June 2016 there was a huge conspiracy about Premise Data posted on Reddit. It was largely untrue and had ties to “Pizzagate”, but it garnered thousands of comments and was really a site to behold. There were “internet sleuths” that were hiding behind trees near the Premise office, recording employees entering and leaving. The recorders were claiming they were likely to be “disappeared” by the company— maybe they weren’t too far off! It was deleted some years later, presumably due to a lawsuit, but maybe your search skills can dig something up. It’s a real fun read.

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Sorry, I misread this in my first reply. The depositions are published in a few places in the recent April 17th filings. There are about 10 with that date and the second from the bottom is where you should start.

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Wow, great work! You're a disrupter for poor Mr. Blackman and Orbital, truth to power works. And, so does incompetence - what a maroon Mr. Blackman is!

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What a greasy slimy business! Smedley Butler called it almost a century ago.

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My tracking of Monsanto began in 1997 and from about 2005 Rockefeller Green Revolution & NGO fronts and frauds were transitioned to Gates Foundation so their funding always raises a red flag. No connection is without toxic fingerprints nor any shortage of plans involving dying for profits.

No surprise the crew at Premise have deep roots in places where Biotech Mafia flourish and what luck they were poised to do data reporting for Bill Gates funded WHO pandemic data, but hey Larry Summers wouldn't fudge numbers and tarnish the sterling reputation of FED Banksters!

Bloomberg - September 9, 2015

"Premise, a startup that gathers global economic data, raised $50 million in a funding round led by Valor Equity Partners.

The San Francisco-based company, whose board includes former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, works with organizations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank and Standard Chartered Bank to gather economic information in the developing world. The company expects to end 2015 with annual recurring revenue of more than $10 million.

The 40-person company plans to use the money to expand its engineering team, boost marketing and increase its capacity to collect data. Premise, which declined to disclose its valuation, had previously raised $16.5 million from the Social+Capital Partnership, Google Ventures and other investors.

The company pays people in countries such as the Philippines and Nigeria to collect information on everything from cigarette prices to personal preferences about hygiene. Premise is betting that it can efficiently gather such statistics around the world through this network of people -- currently at more than 25,000 -- who are paid to tap their findings into smartphones, creating a data set that will become more valuable as it grows." https://web.archive.org/web/20150927070950/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-24/data-gathering-startup-premise-raises-50-million-led-by-valor

September 5, 2018

Premise to empower Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with real-time data in eleven countries to support service delivery optimization.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210422000951/https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/premise-data-tapped-to-collect-ground-truth-on-health-facilities-worldwide-300706704.html

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