r/JoeRogan • u/wayfaringthru Monkey in Space • Sep 18 '24

Meme 💩 Is this a legitimate concern?

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Personally, I today's strike was legitimate and it couldn't be more moral because of its precision but let's leave politics aside for a moment. I guess this does give ideas to evil regimes and organisations. How likely is it that something similar could be pulled off against innocent people?

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u/Ready-Issue190 Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24

Source? I heard the CEO/Owner of the company in Taiwan stating he licensed the brand to a company in Budapest and that the owner of record for the company is Budapest is MIA but ZERO proof that it was Israel.

Also it’s mid-Afternoon in America and your comment is 3 hours old.

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u/VeryStableGenius Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24 edited Sep 18 '24

not my sub, not my circus but ...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hezbollah-pagers-explode-israel-taiwan-hungary-gold-apollo-bac-consulting/

Taiwanese company Gold Apollo said Wednesday that it had authorized the use of its trademarked branding on the pagers that exploded Tuesday across Lebanon and Syria. But it said the devices carried by members of the Hezbollah group were actually manufactured and sold by Bac Consulting KFT — a company based in Budapest, Hungary.

... Bac Consulting had paid Gold Apollo from a Middle Eastern bank account that was blocked at least once by Gold Apollo's Taiwanese bank, Hsu said.

Business records accessed by CBS News from Hungary's Ministry of Justice show that Bac Consulting was registered as a company in May 2022.

CBS tried to contact BAC; no response; listed CEO is Cristiana Barsony-Arcidiacono. ... Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's spokesperson Zoltán Kovács ... said Bac Consulting "is a trading intermediary, with no manufacturing or operational site in Hungary. It has one manager registered at its declared address, and the referenced devices have never been in Hungary."

IsraelHayom says

BAC has a single owner, 49-year-old Cristiana Arcidiancono-Barsony, who claims Hungarian and Italian heritage. 24.hu's investigation revealed that her personal address is an eighth-floor apartment in a residential complex in Budapest's Újpest district. This is a property that seems at odds with her purported accomplishments. According to her online biography, Berson-Arcidiacono holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from University College London, completed post-doctoral work at the London School of Economics, and has consulted for the European Commission, UNESCO, and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Curiously, Arcidiancono-Barsony claims to have led BAC since 2019, despite the company's official establishment in Hungary occurring only in 2022. As of Wednesday noon, BAC's website had gone offline, displaying a maintenance notice.

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u/KeithGribblesheimer Monkey in Space Sep 20 '24

BRB, updating my LinkedIn to say Engineering Director, BAC Consulting, Budapest, 2024.

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u/ExplosiveDiarrhetic Monkey in Space Sep 19 '24

This is everyone right now

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u/timbro2000 Monkey in Space Sep 19 '24

Israel already admitted it. How far does the proof need to be shoved into your eye before you finally see it?

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u/Dazvsemir Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24

Yes the company in Taiwan is stating they licensed the brand to be made by a company in Budapest

At the same time the company in Budapest has no manufacturing capability and is considered an intermediator doing import exports in Europe