I am predicting this will be censored from /r/todayIlearned within 6 hours "TIL Coca-Cola was accused of hiring hitmen from a prominent paramilitary group between 1990 and 2002 to kill at least 10 trade union leaders."

662  2018-01-31 by AssuredlyAThrowAway

The current top post on /r/todayIlearned has this title; ""TIL Coca-Cola was accused of hiring hitmen from a prominent paramilitary group between 1990 and 2002 to kill at least 10 trade union leaders.""- https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Colombia-Coca-Cola-Accused-of-Funding-Terrorist-Paramilitaries-20160901-0005.html

I am predicting the submissions will be censored within 2-3 hours. If it ends up censored it should end up on /r/undelete.

I will update this post should that censorship occur.

It is now 5:47 am and the post is currently up on /r/todayilearned- https://i.imgur.com/3HYmtOb.png

Still up as of 12:15PM EST, I will edit again at the end of the day. If my prediction ends up being incorrect then so be it, I am not upset at having been proven wrong.

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It probably will be removed because of the source and their subreddit rules

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur_(TV_channel)#controversies

It’s been there for 8 hours

"Better leave this one up Jack, we have to send a message"

Knock it off

I see this early in the morning sometimes, most TIL removals of top posts occurs right around 8-9am EST.

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, anyone who has watched undelete for years know It's their SOP.

Anyone who watches undelete for years probably takes reddit to seriously.

Maybe, at least I don't try to belittle or marginalize other people's interests.

Not sure how long you've been on Reddit but this has been posted, many, many times through the last 5 years, across a plethora of subreddits.

This isn't new information.

Oh I see, sadly its my first day here. Nice site though I guess :).

  • its not actually my first day here lol

AssuredlyAThrowAway

first day

I'm on to you buddy. ;p

Now I want tacos and a coca-cola.

Well apparently you had your head in the sand, because this has been all over reddit through the years. Congrats that it isn'tyour first day, maybe do a basic search before you act like this is breaking news from 10 years ago...

News to me :-)

I didn't know about it, Mr God Of All Hitman Experts! Reposts don't happen so much in /r/conspiracy. This isn't /r/funny, y'know.

Maybe do a basic search sometime, Mr. I am new to the internet and haven't heard of corporate corruption.

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/7u6rtz/til_cocacola_was_accused_of_hiring_hitmen_from_a/

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1b6hix/cocacola_hired_paramilitary_hitmen_to_murder/

https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/7u6mp5/never_forget_when_cocacola_hired_hitmen_from_a/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/comments/2wfquq/the_cocacola_case_2010_southamerican_workers_who/

https://www.reddit.com/r/assassinscreed/comments/rlkpc/calling_it_now_assassins_invented_cocacola/

Hey look, 35 seconds of work.

How many users to you think come to reddit just to subscrbime to r/conspiracy

Everything on reddit is a repost, of a repost, of a repost.

And to counter-argue that there are not many reposts on r/conspiracy, well than completely validates your inexperience with r/conspiracy. r/conspiracy is a never-ending circlejerk of the same shit, just regrugitated to fit the narrative.

sigh I knew I should've put the /s

12 hours now and 42,000 upvotes.

Are you implying the TIL mods are coca cola shills?

What does this mean in relation to the dash shilling thread about Ben Swann in the conspiracy forum right now?

I predict that post will stay up.

Don't forget to buy some dash coins we should all support this.

Will you also update this post if the censorship doesn't occur and reevaluate the possibilities?

Absolutely, if it ends up not being censored I will update the OP; part of making a prediction is a willingness to accept that one may be incorrect.

Hip hip, hooray! That's the spirit.

It's 11:45 eastern time. It's still up.

I think it's time to edit your post.

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I will edit it now and again at the end of the day, if I'm proved incorrect in my prediction so be it.

It's been 11 hours. Sounds like time to suck it up.

It's still up. You should probably delete this post or edit it.

Why did you think they might delete it?

It's time.

I posted this, do you really think they are going to censor it?

I would be surprised if it lasts past 10am EST, but I hope to be pleasantly surprised and see it stay up :).

I hope not.. I think its pretty important and will get people to look into the companies they use everyday.. Will I get notification of them deleting it or do I just have to keep my eye on it?

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/r/undelete will also track it.

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DUH -Shell oil company also killed Ken Sero WiWa in Nigeria in order to control the govt.

And Coca Cola has long been accused and occasionally convicted of being a convenient cover for CIA spying and other covert operations around the world and giving CIA operatives a place to hang their hat and set-up shop.

Moreover, when CIA operatives are documented and listed as so-called "employees" of Coca Cola their real activities are conveniently shielded from any FOIA requests. Microsoft is another among numerous others in that particular club.

Sherman Skolnick wrote a 16 part series on Coca-Cola, the CIA and the courts. One item of interest in that worth mentioning is that the original Coca Cola formula really did contain cocaine which was removed around the turn of the last century. Not as well known, however, is that the base syrup is still made with cocoa leaves that cocaine just happens to be by-product of that the company that makes it for Coca-Cola claims that it sells to the pharmaceutical companies.

Interesting information. Thanks for posting. Just a small correction, which may just be a typo. It's coca leaves. Cocoa is made from a different plant.

Uh-"o", not sure how hat got in there but it isn't now. lol

At this point, I'm of the belief that any significant American* company/organization would have been at least approached by the CIA. I mean, it would be silly for the CIA not to.

If it weren't so nefarious and wrong, the level of strategic thinking they employ would almost be fun.

*Does it even have to be American?

What the CIA does outside of the US is patently "illegal". You run an honest business that makes a good profit for you in a foreign country the last thing you'd want would be to have anything to do with the CIA or anything it gets up to having anything to do with you.

Unfortunately the exploitative nature of too many US businesses and multinationals abroad already depends on the US government using or having used whatever political, economic and financial pressure was necessary to pave the way for them, and that includes CIA activity to stir-up plenty of local trouble for them, too.

Let's not forget that Allen & Co who employs former CIA director George Tenet plays a major part in Coca Cola's board of directors.

“It’s the Real Thing”

It was the "real thing" in Nazi Germany and made money all through WWII until they couldn't import any more coke syrup so they doctored-up the formula and created a new soda pop for the Third Reich from what was available that they called "Fanta"... now you know where that trade name actually originated.

One of the great aspects of American corporate prevalence is the ability to insert assets pretty much anywhere around the world with an American corporate presence.

It's called "Full Spectrum Dominance" and it shows no respect for anyone else, friend or foe.

Everyone gets pushed to wall in order for the US to take the lion's share of the profits. Sooner or later there's going to be a price to be paid due to all the built-up resentment that has caused and is continuing to cause.

The Russians and Chinese continue to grow by striking fair and even generous deals as a matter of policy knowing that it only encourages more of them that their trading partners can better afford to engage in.

A win-win philosophy that is paying off by steadily raising their own and their trading partners standards of living while the US pursues a course of keeping their partners down as much as possible to more easily exploit them.

good tune:

"Some folks say its the nectar of the gods,

but Coke is the drink of the death squads."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HFZ3cH1UAI

That's a story that's been going on for a while. There's a wikipage about it. they aren't the only company that does this kind of shit in the 3rd world either.

OP is a Pepsi shill.

The best part about this post is that the first top 70+ comments are childish meanderings down a meaningless fluffy rabbit hole. They don’t need to remove it. The sheeple have already self censored it.

The top comments I saw were discussing this story and others like it, from the Pinkertons to Chiquita Banana.

Holy shit man. You're right.

Reddit's vote system working as intended. Normies get to joke and downplay the seriousness of the issue, and tomorrow after you've forgotten you're back to buying Coke.

I've read similar accusations for Nestle. I've heard some extremely cruel shit about Nestle and what they do to people that oppose them.

I've read similar accusations for Nestle

Their bottled "water" stinks of Clorox and chlorine, even tastes like it too. Rather drink my own piss.

Please video yourself drinking your own piss and post it here.

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Coca-Cola isn't alone in this, as other corporations participated in financing paramilitary groups, that really were death squads, and sometimes worked with the colombian army to massacre peasants accused of helping the guerrillas.

People defending environment/natural resources against corporate interests, and restoration of land rights (lot stolen by criminals through the years of war/conflict) are the top targets these days.

Also, don't forget the top comment that show the issue of publicly denouncing these issues:

[–]michiforjoy 8750 points 8 hours ago

Someone came to my college towards the end of that period and gave a speech/presentation about this through a translator. They had gone after his daughter.

This is the kind of shit that belongs here. I love it

11:00 EST and it’s still up.

Maybe this post should be deleted...

Considering anything anti US and anti US corporation gets removed quite fast or downvoted, having coke TIL up on front page for so long is impressive. But the core of the problem is that systematic destruction of unions in US has led to sucah a shit economy for the workers. The corps and rich are doing great! They even get tax cuts, but everyone else is suffering.

So? Anyone can accuse anyone else of something. That doesn't mean it's true.

"Ok, I'm gonna get your money for you, but if you don't get the president of united states on that phone you know what's gonna happen to you?"

"What?!"

"You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola© company"

Remind me why trade unions are better than working to improve the labor laws across the board?

Because organization.

Collective bargaining

Why would that be necessary with good labor laws?

Because those don't exist

Seems like that'd be the more effective goal.

I agree, but corporations have more rights than people these days

nope, its been 14 hours

It's not a conspiracy if it's true

I can't tell whether you're making a joke. I expected your post to read "It is not a groundless accusation if it's true."

Good

My question for OP is this. Does this cause you to reassess your belief in manipulation in the til sub?

Didn't cocacola take advantage of ww2 so that they could have factories at a lot of the American bases - after the war finished these factories remained?

What? I was just at coke world in Atlanta recently, not a mention of this, I cannot believe it!

20hrs and 45k

TIL Coke gave trade Union bosses a taste of their own medicine.

Yup. Thus their nickname "Killer Coke."

http://killercoke.org/

Thus my long time boycott of Killer Coke.

This is fucking insane.

Not only Columbia...

MB: There have been pockets of people around the world that have tried to hold Coke accountable -- Mexico, Indonesia, Russia, Turkey, here in the United States and also in Europe.

author Michael Blanding only 300 pages to tarnish that gleam. In his new book, The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World's Favorite Soft Drink,

I'm not surprised. In the Western world we live in societies run by crooked politicians; basically an organized crime network of globalists looking to open the borders, create chaos and eventually monetize a single currency.

Capital punishment is alive and well in the Western World, sadly it only affects the innocent while the murderers walk free amongst the elite.

JFK was killed by soft drink companies because of the embargo on Cuba that caused sugar prices to rise. Nixon lied about where he was during the assassination, and was on the board of directors of Pepsi in a meeting the day before the assassination in Houston.

http://scalar.usc.edu/works/colawars/president-nixon-pepsis-man

http://johnfitzgeraldkennedy.net/thenixonbushconnectiontothekennedyassassination.htm

https://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/pepsi-official-soda-of-the-cold-war/

Kennedy was on his way to Dallas, but on November 21 Richard Nixon was already there, to attend a meeting of the American Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages. After losing the 1960 presidential race to Kennedy, Nixon had lost the 1962 California gubernatorial race to Pat Brown. Now he was a partner in the New York law firm of Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, Alexander, & Mitchell, where Nixon’s friend Donald Kendall, president of Pepsi, was a client. Also in attendance at the bottlers meeting was the actress Joan Crawford, widow of Pepsi’s former chairman.

On the morning of November 21, Nixon met with reporters at the Baker Hotel in downtown Dallas. He noted that Kennedy had lost support in Texas, which was true; indeed, that was Kennedy’s main reason for visiting the state with his Texan vice-president, Lyndon Johnson.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/america-the-day

oh really, merchant? I could have swore the Jews killed JFK

I would be surprised if it lasts past 10am EST, but I hope to be pleasantly surprised and see it stay up :).

I hope not.. I think its pretty important and will get people to look into the companies they use everyday.. Will I get notification of them deleting it or do I just have to keep my eye on it?

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I will edit it now and again at the end of the day, if I'm proved incorrect in my prediction so be it.

It was the "real thing" in Nazi Germany and made money all through WWII until they couldn't import any more coke syrup so they doctored-up the formula and created a new soda pop for the Third Reich from what was available that they called "Fanta"... now you know where that trade name actually originated.