Tim A.

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• sleepingroutine commented on Publishing: A Slice of Life
  Saudis are also closely involved in certain areas in Syria, so I fully expect a titanic effort to sweep the cause under the rug ASAP. Though experts now wonder what's Turkey's game in this situation, we got to see. your last half-sentence is not true How little do you know. I did not say that NATO was successful in blocking humanitarian aid to "wrong" people, but I can say they applied every humane effort to sanction as much aid as possible. https://theintercept.com/2016/09/28/u-s-sanctions-are-punishing-ordinary-syrians-and-crippling-aid-work-u-n-report-reveals/ Apparently, people think that Syrian citizens weren't starving enough to abandon their president. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/syria/2018-09-20/how-un-humanitarian-aid-has-propped-assad And I'm not even...
• elfey1 commented on Publishing: A Slice of Life
  I mean its not much stranger than the CIA's Congress for Cultural Freedom....
• elfey1 commented on Publishing: A Slice of Life
  I mean potentially it could be about trend analysis, with someone finding popular writer X is about to do Y monsters, and thus we need to start buying Y now to ride the coat tails, or prep merch. Way easier to just get drunk with some middle managers though....
• P commented on Publishing: A Slice of Life
  Profit could be made by shortselling publisher's stocks.....
• Jean Lamb commented on Publishing: A Slice of Life
  One parenthetical note--the manuscript of DEATHLY HALLOWS (the final Harry Potter book) was really quickly scanned and distributed worldwide. The really sad part is that over half of the fandom who looked at it thought it was a bad fanfic scam......