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Merged ReThink911 - a Richard Gage ad campaign

JSanderO said:
They are or were... But... it's somewhat understandable. Gage has no experience in anything remotely related to political organizing or advocacy, fund raising etc. He was off and running before he read the rule book.

Now most people jumping into the public's awareness and the IRS as well might think....whoa..I need to get some advice here and do this right. How do you set up a non profit advocacy group to lobby for something, raise money and so forth? There are books about such things! Sort of How To... Self help kinda things.

Gage had none of it. He was off and running with his idea and new career and aware of all the anger to exploit for volunteer work and then donations to support his organization and pay his bloated salary and every expense he has.. including his rent!

Most around him simply trust that he's an above board stand up guy who says what he does, does what he says, is a consummate pro... you know Richard Gage AIA... (AIA is probably pissed off big time and want little to nothing to do with him... witness they refused to let him use their headquarters in SF for his 1000 press event. Smart move. But transparent effort on his side to use the appeal to authority ruse.. Look we're associate with real architects the AIA.

It's a cult and cults rarely follow the rule book... they just go after idiots.
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Did the "go after idiots only" policy apply before or after you joined?
 
JSanderO said:
I didn't learn much about Michael except he parted ways with AE and had disagreements and had been trying to clean up their act and do a biz plan of sorts. When I came there books were a mess and they couldn't get the 501c(3) until they cleaned up the mess. I don't know how they did it. I do know that Tom Spelman one of their board members was in charge of finances and he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer. I have no idea why he was even on the board... Same thing with Justin Keough. My sense is Gage keeps some people which key responsibilities on the board so he has more control over them... a plumb perk with effectively no power. and The better to spy on them. Being in the inner circle makes them feel special and more loyal. JK wasn't even a college grad at the time, a computer nerd who did the web stuff.

They are not the least bit transparent because they have stuff to hide... obviously. Like having all their so called tax deductible contributions funneled through some group the name of which I think was Agape or something like that.... because they were not a 501c(3) at the time.
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Actually it's standard practice for emerging nonprofits to go under the umbrella of an existing 501 (c) (3) organization until they get IRS approval. Nothing unusual about that. Nor is it unusual to have sloppy bookkeeping in a start-up nonprofit until someone gets their act together. They want to advocate for 9/11 Truth, not perfect bookeeping, which often comes later. Other things you say may be true, I don't know. But having funds go through Agape or whoever is very common and says nothing about the way they manage their books in and of itself.
 
chrismohr said:
Actually it's standard practice for emerging nonprofits to go under the umbrella of an existing 501 (c) (3) organization until they get IRS approval. Nothing unusual about that. Nor is it unusual to have sloppy bookkeeping in a start-up nonprofit until someone gets their act together. They want to advocate for 9/11 Truth, not perfect bookeeping, which often comes later. Other things you say may be true, I don't know. But having funds go through Agape or whoever is very common and says nothing about the way they manage their books in and of itself.
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With close to a half million in annual income and with Gage's salary of 85K plus living expenses, I wonder what their incentive is to stop? Who would want to solve 9/11 when calling for a new investigation pays so well?

With that kind of money they could have funded the whole Crash Test project, so it's no wonder they were so hostile to the idea. I was threatening to take food out of their babies' mouths.
 
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yankee451 said:
With close to a half million in annual income and with Gage's salary of 85K plus living expenses, I wonder what their incentive is to stop? Who would want to solve 9/11 when calling for a new investigation pays so well?

With that kind of money they could have funded the whole Crash Test project, so it's no wonder they were so hostile to the idea. I was threatening to take food out of their babies' mouths.
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Gage is making money off of 911 truth fantasy he plagiarized to fool nuts, you are spending money making up fantasy, rejected by Gage. Irony.

You got this right, but you can't figure out 911. Irony.
 
JSanderO said:
They are or were... But... it's somewhat understandable. Gage has no experience in anything remotely related to political organizing or advocacy, fund raising etc. He was off and running before he read the rule book.
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I doubt he figured it would last this long. He was at the end of the school project and between jobs. He figured he could run with this while he geared up for more jobs(it was slow at that time). Then he found he could actually make a living at this. That's when "truth" went out the door and marketing took over.

AE 911 truth (as seen today) was born.
 
From 19 December 2013:

Muc said:
This is getting beyond bizarre: They renewed the New York Times billboard, which had no effect whatsoever so far and which was probably forgotten even by most of Gage's minions by now. As far as I can see, there wasn't even a fundraiser this time. They just dished out the money.
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The news on their FB page:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...365.1073741830.581078305246370&type=1&theater

The response from the NY Times?....

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A pathetic result from a pathetic effort.
 
That billboard is visible from zero, count 'em, zero TV remotes from Super Bowl media row. Too bad.
 
Isn't it interesting that they started a (paying) Membership Drive basically the moment the ads finished? That was probably supposed to be the time in which they were going to cash in on the ad campaign.

Btw., according to Gage in a recent podcast (I think it was with Pamela Senzee at the inevitable "No Lies Radio"), it was a total of around 1000 people who paid for all the ads of the ReThink911 campaign. So much for the "broad support".
 
Muc said:
Isn't it interesting that they started a (paying) Membership Drive basically the moment the ads finished? That was probably supposed to be the time in which they were going to cash in on the ad campaign.
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Cashing in on cashing in.

I wonder how long they can keep this up...

Muc said:
Btw., according to Gage in a recent podcast (I think it was with Pamela Senzee at the inevitable "No Lies Radio"), it was a total of around 1000 people who paid for all the ads of the ReThink911 campaign. So much for the "broad support".
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...perhaps their few supporters are getting increasingly desperate and are willing to pay more.

But for how long?
 
Orphia Nay said:
Cashing in on cashing in.

I wonder how long they can keep this up...



...perhaps their few supporters are getting increasingly desperate and are willing to pay more.

But for how long?
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My guess is they can keep it up 2000 years. They may need their own Nicene creed first, however they seem to have the basics in place: "We believe in Nanothermite", etc.
 
Over on Flogger, they're desperate for supporters there and at Reddit r/conspiracy to pimp the ReThink911 Canada Tour:

http://911blogger.com/news/2014-02-14/rethink911-canada-tour-promo-video

Robert Rice said:
The reason i'm asking for assistance is so that it will show up and occur on reddit as a real movement, and not just one guy doing it all, which will add credibility.
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http://911blogger.com/news/2014-02-14/rethink911-canada-tour-promo-video#comment-260844

Robert Rice said:
I could use a little more support with the reddit r/canada posting, if anyone's out there or has the time. It's kind of quiet around here, isn't it?
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http://911blogger.com/news/2014-02-14/rethink911-canada-tour-promo-video#comment-260848

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Looks like 120 people turned up yesterday in an 800 capacity venue on Gage's "ReThink911 Canada Tour" stop in Victoria, BC. They had been advertising the event with bus ads for a month and ticket prices ($10) were the cheapest on the entire tour. Probably they were hoping for impressive pictures and videos for marketing purposes.

The previous two stops in Prince George and Vancouver had capacities of 550 (up to 2,000, depending on room partition) and 800. No reports about them so far. Today is Edmonton, one of the smallest venues of the tour (cap. 250, tickets still available).

Looks like Canada does not care quite as much as they expected.
 
Muc said:
Looks like 120 people turned up yesterday in an 800 capacity venue on Gage's "ReThink911 Canada Tour" stop in Victoria, BC. They had been advertising the event with bus ads for a month and ticket prices ($10) were the cheapest on the entire tour. Probably they were hoping for impressive pictures and videos for marketing purposes.

The previous two stops in Prince George and Vancouver had capacities of 550 (up to 2,000, depending on room partition) and 800. No reports about them so far. Today is Edmonton, one of the smallest venues of the tour (cap. 250, tickets still available).

Looks like Canada does not care quite as much as they expected.
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Either does Dicky Gage......as long as there is enough to cover his travel vacation expenses. :rolleyes:
 
I can believe that there are 120 people in Victoria with fringe anti-establishment beliefs. With that many students, it could have been many more. He should have held it at the Strathcona and offered free beer.
 
Apr 20, 2008
St. John the Divine Anglican Church
Victoria, BC
Attendance: 251

Mar 26, 2012
Alix Goolden Hall
Victoria, BC
Attendance: 135

Mar 15, 2014
Alix Goolden Hall
Victoria, BC
Attendance: 120 (preliminary)
 
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