I know there's.. 'bad people' in here. I think it's important, speaking from experience, that lost sheep who've never been shown the light their entire lives are not at fault. Dis-info agents and such. Thankfully I was shown the light early.. but not all have been..

Obviously, that doesn't apply to all.. but crazy people aren't aware that they're crazy. That's the effed up thing with mental illness. We don't make excuses for them, but we don't execute them either. They're literally not sane.. as in.. reality escapes them. Sometimes heavily abused people 'lose it'. They 'appear' normal, but they're completely nuts.

So I'm just going to throw that out there. God talks about forgiveness.. though pure and intentional evil… Hmmm…

http://www.deadseriousnews.com/anderson-cooper-uses-child-as-human-shield/

Here's one to meme

Gannett - why does the CIA have this doc?

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88-01314R000100580002-0.pdf

I keep thinking of the lords prayer now.. "Lead us not into temptation….."

Who's leading who into temptation? Hmmmm??

>>94017

HOly shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiza! The troll of all trolls. King troll. Kek!!

>>94034

I haven't watched television or read the news really in decades, knowing it's bullshit and aimed at 'creating' a reality that shouldn't exist. ("Lead us not into temptation..")

A bunch of fake bullshit for sleeping normies to swallow while I walk around like Roddy Piper in 'they live'. lol

>>94064

^^^ I hope so. lol holy crap. When they got on tv and started talking about pokemon go in the 'Russian Collusion' crap, my sides hurt.

>>93985

The first letter is likely a G but could also be a stylized C or E. The final two characters are a slightly different color or weight than the rest. It's unlikely that they are Ts as the center line of the character is too far to the right, even if it is in italics. The bottom of the final character is different from the preceding one, so they are not likely to be the same character.

In the middle of the word there are two characters that look similar, but they are unlikely to be Ns because there is too much mass in the center of each; they could be Ms or stylized Ws. The rest are tough to see.

7 is one of my roulette numbers. ;)

>>93985

Gannett Company, Inc. is a publicly traded American media holding company headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia, near McLean in Greater Washington DC.

GANNETT founded: 1906 (111 years ago)

But also, I looked into William Morgan who was an anti-freemason and was killed on Sept 11, 1826 (so they say) That date stuck out to me when 9/11/2001 happened.

(can't upload files, so https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Morgan_(anti-Mason))

>>94247

Gannett has CL{}WN finger prints and Mock1ngbird written all over it.

>>94034

Ever hear a news day where a key buzzword is used in EVERY media outlet….. This is why.

Acquisition of Belo Corporation

On June 13, 2013, Gannett announced plans to buy Dallas-based Belo Corporation for $1.5 billion and the assumption of debt. The purchase would add 20 additional stations to Gannett's portfolio and make the company the fourth largest television broadcaster in the U.S. with 43 stations.[22][23] Because of ownership conflicts that exist in markets where both Belo and Gannett own television stations and newspapers, the use of a third-party company (Sander Media, LLC, owned by former Belo executive Jack Sander) as a licensee to buy stations to be operated by the owner of a same-market competitor and concerns about any possible future consolidation of operations of Gannett- and Belo-owned properties in markets where both own television stations or collusion involving the Gannett and Sander stations in retransmission consent negotiations, anti-media-consolidation groups (such as Free Press) and pay television providers (such as Time Warner Cable and DirecTV) have called for the FCC to block the acquisition.[24][25]

On December 16, 2013, the United States Department of Justice announced that Gannett, Belo, and Sander would need to divest Belo's station in St. Louis, KMOV, to a government-approved third-party that would be barred from entering into any agreements with Gannett, in order to fully preserve competition in advertising sales with Gannett-owned KSDK.[26] The deal was approved by the FCC on December 20,[27] and it was completed on December 23.[28] On February 28, 2014, Meredith Corporation officially took over full control of KMOV.[29]

Acquisition of London Broadcasting Company stations

On May 14, 2014, Gannett announced the acquisition of six stations from the Texas-based London Broadcasting Company in a $215 million deal, including KCEN-TV (NBC) in Waco-Temple-Bryan, KYTX (CBS) in Tyler-Longview, KIII (ABC) in Corpus Christi, KBMT (ABC/NBC) in Beaumont-Port Arthur, KXVA (FOX) in Abilene-Sweetwater and KIDY (FOX) in San Angelo. The company's COO Phil Hurley will also join Gannett to continue his leadership role at the six stations.[30] The acquisition was completed on July 8, 2014; in total, Gannett stations now serve 83% of households in the state.[31] Post acquisition, Gannett now outright owns and operates their first Fox affiliates, KIDY & KXVA.

Split and further deals

On August 5, 2014, Gannett announced that it plans to split into two independent publicly traded companies, one focusing on its newspapers and publishing, which will retain the Gannett name, and one on broadcasting. Robert Dickey—who currently leads Gannett's newspaper group—will serve as CEO of the former company, leaving Gannett's remaining broadcasting and digital operations under the leadership of Martore. In a statement, she explained that the split plans were "significant next steps in our ongoing initiatives to increase shareholder value by building scale, increasing cash flow, sharpening management focus, and strengthening all of our businesses to compete effectively in today's increasingly digital landscape." Additionally, the company announced that it would buy out the remainder of Classified Ventures—a joint venture between Gannett and several other media companies, for $1.8 billion, giving it full ownership of properties such as Cars.com.[32][33] On April 21, 2015, Gannett announced that the publishing arm would continue to use the Gannett name, while the broadcasting and digital company would be named Tegna—an anagram of Gannett.[34] The split was completed on June 29, 2015. The split was structured so that the old Gannett changed its name to Tegna, and then spun off its publishing interests as a "new" Gannett Company.

On October 7, 2015, Gannett struck a deal to buy the Journal Media Group for $280 million, giving it control of publications in over 100 markets in the Midwestern and Southern U.S. Similar to what Gannett had earlier done with its broadcasting assets, the Milwaukee-based Journal had separated its publishing and broadcasting arms in April 2015, with the E. W. Scripps Company acquiring the television and radio properties owned by the former's technical predecessor Journal Communications and spinning out their respective publishing operations into Journal Media Group.[35] In December 2015, Gannett announced that its local newspapers would be branded as the "USA Today Network", signifying a closer association with the national USA Today paper.[36]

In April 2016, Gannett made an unsolicited bid to acquire the Tribune Publishing Company for $12.25 per-share, or around $400 million. This deal was rejected by Tribune's shareholders in May 2016; in turn, Gannett increased its offer to around $15 per-share (around $800 million). Although the two companies held talks during the summer and into the fall of 2016, disappointing earning reports for Gannett for the second and third quarters of 2016 caused Gannett to pull out of talks on November 1.[37][38][39][40]

Acquisitions

1906 - Elmira Gazette

1912 - The Ithaca Journal

1928 - Democrat and Chronicle

1959 - Courier Post

1969 - Pensacola News Journal[41]

1971 - Federated Publications

1971 - Honolulu Star-Bulletin

1972 - Pacific and Southern Company, Inc (Taken over by Combined Communications)

1976 - Tucson Citizen[42]

1977 - The Poughkeepsie Journal

1977 - Speidel Newspapers[43]

1978 - Combined Communications, owner of newspapers, television stations, radio stations and outdoor advertising[44]

1979 - The News Journal Company, from DuPont[45]

1979 - The Tennessean[46]

1982 - Mississippi Publishers, owner of The Clarion-Ledger[47]

1983 - WTCN-TV (now KARE) from Metromedia and WLVI from Field Communications

1985 - Des Moines Register and Tribune Co.[48]

1985 - Family Weekly, from CBS[49]

1986 - Courier-Journal and Louisville Times Company[50]

1986 - Evening News Association and the Detroit News[51]

1986 - Arkansas Gazette

1990 - Great Falls Tribune

1992 - The Honolulu Advertiser

1995 - Multimedia, broadcaster and publisher[52]

1997 - Army Times Publishing Company[53]

1997 - Asbury Park Press and Home News Tribune[54]

1998 - Daily Record

1999 - Newsquest, newspaper and trade publisher in the United Kingdom. Websites include the Glasgow-based job board s1jobs.com[55] and Exchange and Mart.

2000 - News Communications & Media, newspaper publisher in the United Kingdom[56]

2000 - Central Newspapers, six daily newspapers[57]

2001 - 21 newspapers from Thomson Newspapers[58]

2001 - Surrey & Sussex Publishing, Horley Publishing, and Dimbleby Newspaper Group; newspaper publishers in the United Kingdom

2003 - Clipper Magazine[59]

2003 - Three newspapers from Scottish Media Group

2005 - Detroit Free Press and Tallahassee Democrat from Knight Ridder[60]

2006 - WATL from Tribune Company[61] &KTVD From Newsweb Corporation.

2013 - Belo: 20 TV stations in 15 markets, plus 4 regional cable news networks

2014 - 6 TV stations in Texas from London Broadcasting Co.[62]

2015 - Acquired remaining (56.36%) ownership in Texas-New Mexico Newspapers Partnerships, acquiring control of eleven papers in three states[63]

2015 - Romanes Media Group, UK regional publisher

2015 - Company renamed to Tegna, spin-off of print assets to new company retaining Gannett name

2016 - Journal Media Group

2016 - ReachLocal

2016 - North Jersey Media Group

2016 - Golfweek

List of Gannett Co. assets

Main article: List of Gannett Company assets

Gannett's media properties include the following newspapers among the top 100 (by circulation—figures are approximate) in the United States:[64]

Print media

USA Today of Tysons Corner, Virginia (2,278,022; 1st)

Detroit Free Press of Detroit, Michigan (329,989; 20th)

The Arizona Republic of Phoenix, Arizona (188,467; 21st)

The Journal Sentinel of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (154,763; 30th)

The Indianapolis Star of Indianapolis, Indiana (127,180; 41st)

The Cincinnati Enquirer of Cincinnati, Ohio (104,354; 51st)

The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Kentucky (102,895; 54th)

The Tennessean of Nashville, Tennessee (83,645; 61st)

The Record of Bergen County, New Jersey (170,408; 62nd)

The Des Moines Register of Des Moines, Iowa (146,050; 71st)

Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester, New York (154,599; 66th)

The Commercial Appeal of Memphis, Tennessee (146,252; 70th)

Asbury Park Press of Neptune City, New Jersey (73,194; 71st)

The News Journal of Wilmington, Delaware (60,620; 78th)

The News-Sentinel of Knoxville, Tennessee (119,172; 85th)

The Journal News of White Plains, New York (50,699; 89th)

>>94271

go to meme threads

Owned (now) by Gannet:

Belo Corporation /ˈbiːloʊ/ was a Dallas-based media company that owned 20 commercial broadcasting television stations and two regional 24-hour cable news television channels. The company was previously known as A. H. Belo Corporation after one of the early owners of the company, Alfred Horatio Belo, now the name of the newspaper company spun off from Belo early in 2008. Belo had its headquarters in the Belo Building in Downtown Dallas, designed by Dallas architects Omniplan and constructed between 1983 and 1985.[3]

Former Belo-owned Television Stations

Stations are arranged in alphabetical order by state and city of license.

Notes:

(**) - Indicates a station owned by Dun & Bradstreet subsidiary Corinthian Broadcasting prior to its acquisition by the original A.H. Belo Corporation in 1984.

(++) - Indicates a station owned by The Providence Journal Company prior to its acquisition by the original A.H. Belo Corporation in 1997.

City of license / Market Station Channel

TV (RF) Years owned Current ownership status

Phoenix, AZ KTVK 3 (24) 1999–2013 Independent station owned by Meredith Corporation

KASW 61 (49) 2000–2013 The CW affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group

Tucson, AZ KMSB-TV ++ 11 (25) 1997–2013 Fox affiliate owned by Tegna

(Operated through a SSA by Raycom Media)

KTTU 18 (19) 2002–2013 MyNetworkTV affiliate owned by Tucker Operating Co., LLC

(Operated through a SSA by Raycom Media)

Sacramento - Stockton - Modesto KXTV ** 10 (10) 1984–1999 ABC affiliate owned by Tegna

Honolulu KHNL ++ 13 (35) 1997–1999 NBC affiliate owned by Raycom Media

Boise, ID KTVB ++ 7 (7) 1997–2013 NBC affiliate owned by Tegna

Twin Falls, ID KTFT-LD ++

(satellite of KTVB) 7 (20) 1997–2013 NBC affiliate owned by Tegna

Fort Wayne, IN WANE-TV ** 15 (31) 1984 CBS affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group

Indianapolis WISH-TV ** 8 (9) 1984 The CW affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group

Louisville, KY WHAS-TV ++ 11 (11) 1997–2013 ABC affiliate owned by Tegna

New Orleans, LA WWL-TV 4 (36) 1994–2013 CBS affiliate owned by Tegna

WUPL 54 (24) 2007–2013 MyNetworkTV affiliate owned by Tegna

St. Louis, MO KMOV 4 (24) 1997–2013 CBS affiliate owned by Meredith Corporation

Santa Fe - Albuquerque KASA-TV ++ 2 (27) 1997–1999 Telemundo affiliate owned by Ramar Communications

Charlotte, NC WCNC-TV ++ 36 (22) 1997–2013 NBC affiliate owned by Tegna

Tulsa KOTV ** 6 (45) 1984–2000 CBS affiliate owned by Griffin Communications

Portland, OR KGW-TV ++ 8 (8) 1997–2013 NBC affiliate owned by Tegna

Chattanooga WTVC 9 (9) 1980–1984 ABC affiliate owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group

Austin, TX KVUE 24 (33) 1999–2013 ABC affiliate owned by Tegna

Beaumont - Port Arthur, TX KFDM-TV 6 (21) 1969–1984 CBS affiliate owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group

Dallas - Fort Worth, TX WFAA-TV 8 (8) 1950–2013 ABC affiliate owned by Tegna

Houston, TX KHOU-TV ** 11 (11) 1984–2013 CBS affiliate owned by Tegna

San Antonio, TX KENS-TV 5 (39) 1997–2013 CBS affiliate owned by Tegna

Hampton - Norfolk - Portsmouth, VA WVEC-TV ** 13 (13) 1984–2013 ABC affiliate owned by Tegna

Seattle - Tacoma, WA KING-TV ++ 5 (48) 1997–2013 NBC affiliate owned by Tegna

KIRO-TV 7 (39) 1995–1997 CBS affiliate owned by Cox Media Group

KONG 16 (31) 2000–2013 Independent station owned by Tegna

Spokane, WA KREM-TV ++ 2 (20) 1997–2013 CBS affiliate owned by Tegna

KSKN 22 (36) 2001–2013 The CW affiliate owned by Tegna

Cable networks

Availability Station, Channel No. Acquired/

Introduced Notes

Seattle, Portland, Spokane, Boise NWCN (Northwest cable news), Channel Numbers Vary 1997 Acquired from part of the King Broadcasting Group from merger with The Providence Journal Company. Defunct as of January 6, 2017.

Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Corpus Christi, Laredo, Texarkana, Port Arthur/Beaumont, Waco, El Paso, Wichita Falls, Rio Grande Valley TXCN (Texas Cable News), Channel Numbers Vary 1999 Composed of news teams from: WFAA, Dallas; KHOU, Houston; KENS, San Antonio; KVUE, Austin. Defunct as of May 1, 2015.

Greater Houston News 24 Houston 2002 A joint venture with Time Warner Cable serving the Greater Houston area. Defunct as of July 23, 2004.

Greater San Antonio News 9 San Antonio 2003 A joint venture with Time Warner Cable serving the Greater San Antonio area. Defunct as of July 23, 2004.

Boise 24/7 (news channel)

KTVB sub-channel: 7.2 / 26.2, 28, KZAK-LD: 49 2003 Composed of the KTVB news team. Originally a 24/7 news channel, it airs a general entertainment format. Owned by Tegna.

New Orleans metropolitan area, Baton Rouge, Acadiana Region NewsWatch 15 15 1988 Composed of the WWL-TV news team, jointly owned with Cox Communications. Partially owned by Tegna.

Hampton - Norfolk - Portsmouth, VA Local News on Cable (LNC) 5 1997 24-Hour News channel that was only available on Cox Cable. Defunct as of December 31, 2010.

“A president who'd all but call a senator a whore is unfit to clean toilets in Obama's presidential library or to shine George W. Bush's shoes,” USA Today's Editorial Board wrote…

I guess POTUS is closing in…

Wonder who is gonna be looking for new jobs soon, if not in jail.

Bye Bye Mockingbird…

Don't Fuck with the Don…

>>94281

Are you not baking next bread?

If nobody else can, I can do a couple loaves probably. But only if nobody else is..

>>94293

Adding "there is no obumma library toilet" these people ARE stupid!

Huh. Always wondered why all the news was fake, all the same, and barely different. Operation Mockingbird, anyone?

>>94301

Yes, I will get it ready unless someone else steps in and says they want to do it.

>>94303

Jon Stewart did a slew of news montages of outlets repeating . He's one of the worst libtard source out there. Guess it makes it seem like you are not involved when you do that.

>>94202

Looking for other angles of attack here…

This is a printout of a website that has a menu along the left side. The sections of the menu have red backgrounds. The box on the right of the article where the publication name appears again is probably one of those "no fair you use ad block" cry boxes.

This is going to be tough but what could be done is to find the image of the two people in the article. Background is a white male with dark short hair wearing a black shirt or blazer, maybe a black tie also? Foreground is a female with darker skin than the male, brown or red long hair, wearing a white blouse or dress with green arms, possible light color stripes or pattern on the arm. They are posing for a photo with some sort of light colored background behind them, maybe a movie premiere red carpet situation?

Then, once that image of the couple is found reverse search it and look for the website.

>>94315

That was pasted quote from usa today.

Just to clarify; I'm not a libtard, I know what he meant.

And so do they…

Its fodder.

>>94319

The DATE of the photo is key to finding article.

>>94328

I say it's/he's BRILLIANT!

>>94330

The logo matches with my eyes, and if you are a "subscribing partner" you will have access to login to website as seen in printouts. I spent 2years as broadcast engineer.

>>94342

NOT news PAPER, but news "FEED" agency…

>>94351

Booms of freedom, I hope… :)

>>94352

For the hard conceptualism here, there are news agencies like the "associated press" that "SELL" stories to stations who are wanting to pick up on national "Feeds"- these are NOT end media outlets, but like distributors. Like the company that distributes beer to the corner market (aka the "tv station or newspaper printing facility)

THIS is how operation mockingburd works… Its at the TOP.

Now does it make sense (to those who didnt get it)

Does Gannett run a wire service under their own branding? Like AP Wire, etc. If they always publish using the names of the newspapers they own rather than the name of their conglomerate then we can probably rule that out.

>>94360

It's a print out from a printer in his office, he used a web browser to LOG IN to a "news agency" called GARNETT to "see", "select", and "print" the days news stories that he needs.

The paper is irrelevant. its inkjet like yours at home…

>>94351

<God's boom-stick

Notice inside that Rothschild coat of arms star is a inverted pyramid.

ADONI AND LUCIFER symbology there.

(mostly lucifer however)

>>94377

Checked. It might even un-plug your toaster, so do use an extension cord.

>>94366

Precisely!

There are hundreds of these companies.

Some conservative ones too I'm sure.

Been out of the broadcast biz since TV went digital.

But I want to point out that the logo is not a huge factor - when logged into many of these sites the font can be variable. In fact I remember some weather service the station used where your logo could be inserted into the weather data "product" you paid for.

News, weather, same difference in the directive of the corporate feeds.

Try to find out WHEN the photo was taken, and search for news of that day. It will reveal the story on the page. If that is the goal.

>>94389

LIBERAL news said a single word about Obummer blowing the debate (not that he does not blow other things hah).

But that's hard to believe.

Was there any missing children type stories that day?

>>94394

There is no station WRWY.

So your possibly right about that.

Thanks.

This whole thing is playing out creepily like the book 'the da vinci code' including me sitting here at my computer trying to decipher codes from the elites and ancients from centuries ago.

I read that book in ~2006. It's a crazy book, goes into the Vatican, and hidden codes in paintings and illuminati (who, in the movie, is an albino dude I think). Crazy… I never thought 11 years ago I'd be doing this.

It has a happy ending though, so I'm just hoping for that.

>>94402

I got it and am on it unless someone jumps in at the last minute. Got the pastebin re-loaded.

>>94397

Honey BooBarf has a satanic family.

There is all kinds of sex related legal issues with that family in addition to being libtards.

(if my mammies serve me)

Might be worth a deep healthy lurk into why that booboo would be in his orifice..

>>94412

will do. Any idea what one it might be?

>>94418

>jason chaffetz

Nevermind. Lol. I got it. ;)

>>94416

I would think that too, but that's the obvious.

Yet I would not assume he is watching in a bad way. Just lurking and smiling at his MAGA million-minions doing the deed.

>>94409

I'd recommend it to anyone. The movie probably sucks.. haven't seen the whole thing, but saw parts of it. It's a little late NOW.. but.. it'll give you deja-vu I would bet, if you've been following this for any length of time..

>>94426

Im about tired of trying to make that point.

Ready with a bottle of jack d. and gonna sign off…

Ok. I made this bread very pre-emptively, because I always have a problem with the VPN and posting. It takes a few tries sometimes. Plus I have to switch to firefox so I can upload an image. Wanted to give myself time to see whether it was going to work or not.

Anyways..

It's here..

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>>94465

Migrate at thread count

>>94482

>WTF drugs are these people on?

Coffee, lack of sleep, and a seriously effed up sense of humor that's necessary to even comprehend this.. stuff…

..and the occasional bottle of vodka.

>>94536

Yeah, they 'didn't think she was going to lose' and 'YOU FUCKING IDIOTS IF THAT MAN GETS ELECTED WE'RE ALL GOING TO HANG!' tells me that.. all the news for the past.. oh.. 26 years or so.. all connected in some way to making 'this' happen. Been going on for longer than that, but the last quarter century has been the big push.

'It's all connected..'

>>94569

Laurence Douglas "Larry" Fink (born November 2, 1952)[1][2] is an American financial executive. He is the chairman and CEO of BlackRock, an American multinational investment management corporation.[3] BlackRock is the largest money-management firm in the world with more than $6 trillion in assets under management.[4]

Early life and education

Fink grew up in a Jewish family[5] in Van Nuys, California, where his mother was an English professor and his father owned a shoe store.[4] He earned a BA in Political Science from UCLA in 1974.[2] Fink is also a member of Kappa Beta Phi.[6] He then received an MBA in Real Estate at the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management in 1976.[2][7]

1970s

Fink started his career in 1976 at First Boston, a large New York-based investment bank. Eventually taking charge of First Boston's bond department, Fink was instrumental in the creation and development of the mortgage-backed security market in the United States.[8] At First Boston, Fink was a member of the Management Committee, a Managing Director, and co-head of the Taxable Fixed Income Division; he also started the Financial Futures and Options Department, and headed the Mortgage and Real Estate Products Group.[9]

Fink added as much as $1 billion to First Boston’s bottom line. He was successful at the bank until 1986, when his department lost $100 million due to his incorrect prediction about where interest rates were headed.[4] The experience influenced his decision to start a company that would invest clients' money while also incorporating comprehensive risk management as well.[4]

In 1988, Fink co-founded BlackRock under the corporate umbrella of The Blackstone Group and became a Director and CEO of BlackRock. When BlackRock split from Blackstone in 1994, Fink retained his positions (as Director and CEO), which he continued to hold after BlackRock became more independent in 1998. His other positions at the company have included Chairman of the Board, Chairman of the Executive and Leadership Committees, Chair of Corporate Council, and Co-Chair of the Global Client committee.[4][9] BlackRock went public in 1999.[10]

2000s

Fink, third from right, receiving a Woodrow Wilson Award in April 2010

In 2003, Fink helped to negotiate the resignation of the CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, Richard Grasso, who was being widely criticized for his $190 million pay package.[4] In 2006 Fink led the merger with Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, which doubled BlackRock’s asset management portfolio.[2] That same year, BlackRock's $5.4 billion purchase of Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village, a Manhattan housing complex, became the largest residential-real-estate deal in U.S. history. When the project ended in default, BlackRock clients lost their money, including the California Pension and Retirement System, which lost about $500 million.[4] The U.S. government contracted with BlackRock to help clean up after the financial meltdown of 2008. Although BlackRock is widely believed to have been the best choice for the cleanup job,[11] Fink's longstanding relationships with senior government officials have led to questions about potential conflict of interest regarding government contracts awarded without competitive bidding.[4]

In December 2009, BlackRock purchased Barclays Global Investors, at which point the company that Fink co-founded 22 years previously became the largest money-management firm on the planet.[4] Despite his great influence, he is not widely known for that influence, apart from his regular appearances on CNBC.[4] BlackRock paid Fink $23.6 million in 2010.[12] By 2016, BlackRock had $5 trillion under management, with 12,000 employees in 27 countries.[13][14]

Most recently, Fink received the 2016 ABANA Achievement Award in New York City. The ABANA Achievement Award recognizes an individual who exemplifies outstanding leadership in banking and finance and who has displayed a proven commitment to positive professional cooperation between the US and the Middle East and North Africa. ABANA Chairperson Mona Aboelnaga Kanaan pointed out that this is only the second time in thirty years that ABANA, founded in 1983 as the “Arab Bankers Association of North America,” has given the award to a non-Arab recipient.

Community involvement

Fink serves on the board of trustees of New York University, where he holds various chairmanships including chair of the Financial Affairs Committee. He also co-chairs the NYU Langone Medical Center board of trustees and is a trustee of the Boys and Girl's Club of New York. Fink is also on the board of the Robin Hood Foundation.[16] Fink founded the Lori and Laurence Fink Center for Finance & Investments at UCLA Anderson[17] in 2009, and currently serves as chairman of the board.[citation needed]

In December 2016, Fink joined a business forum assembled by then president-elect Donald Trump to provide strategic and policy advice on economic issues.[18]

Robin hood foundation?? Gonna look into that next..

Oh.. it's a "venture philanthropy" org. Nice name.

History

Founded in 1988, Robin Hood was conceived by hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones. Peter Borish was also a founding board member of the organization.[6][7]

The foundation combines investment principles and philanthropy to assist programs that target poverty in New York City. In 2006, the board of directors included such names as Jeffrey Immelt, Diane Sawyer, Harvey Weinstein, Marie-Josee Kravis, Lloyd Blankfein, of Goldman Sachs, Richard S. Fuld, Jr., formerly of Lehman Brothers, Glenn Dubin, of Highbridge Capital, Marian Wright Edelman and actress Gwyneth Paltrow.[8]

Funding for the organization's activities comes from donations and fund raising efforts. In 2009, George Soros gave the foundation a US$50 million contribution. The money reportedly helped the organization raise significantly more than that amount.[9] In 2001 The Concert for New York City provided funds for the organization. After Hurricane Sandy, the 12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief concert also provided funds for the foundation's efforts.[10] Artists including The Rolling Stones, Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation, Shakira, John Legend, The Black Eyed Peas, Lady Gaga, The Who and Aerosmith have performed at the group's annual fund raising galas.

In 2017, Robin Hood appointed author and veterans advocate Wes Moore as its CEO. Moore grew up in poverty in the Bronx before becoming a Rhodes scholar at the University of Oxford, a paratrooper and captain in the 82nd Airborne, and investment banker at Citigroup. Moore succeeds David Saltzman who was the Executive Director since co-founding the organization.[11]

Citigroup..

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So this one time, at band camp..

..there I was, drinking vodka and having phone sex with some lady in canada, when her husband walked in.

Sorry sir, wrong number.

Ohmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmgg. I apologize. I thought everyone was going to wake up and get on at once.

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