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[–] Narcissism 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

"....On the way to Mandalay Hill we saw the large and lavish Mandalay Novotel Hotel, all ready for the hordes of tourists who will doubtlessly flock here for Visit Myanmar Year 1996!" Not sure the point you are making? 1996 turned out to be a promo disaster for Burma almost no tourists turned up.

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[–] letsdothis3 [S] 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

For the sake of brevity I probably removed much of the context..so that link: (does this help?)


Further to my previous comment on the Route 91 Harvest and the Las Vegas shooting (Mandalay Hotel)

The top floors of Mandalay are owned by Alwaleed bin Talil, the same billionaire that was arrested. It is alleged that he is part of a human trafficking operation run out of these top floors and that he might have had a hand in supplying guns to Stephen Paddock.

The Road to Mandalay - Robbie Williams ...laden with messages and metaphors

ENLIGHTENED SOCIETY FOR GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION trademark by MANDALAY RESORT GROUP. WTH is this ??!

https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/2193406/10800465

Did a search on opencorporates on both of the names listed, Michael McCue and Jennifer Van Kirk. Links to education, summer camps, a foundation and a youth theater group.

Boris Johnson recites lines from the Kipling poem "The Road to MANDALAY" 2 days ago !

The Road to Mandalay and Back:

On the road between Tagaung and Meiktila, we saw "butterflies of the night" visiting truck drivers resting by the roadside. Burma does not have the reputation for prostitution that Thailand has. But several Burmese friends told me that the sex "industry" was becoming a major problem because there were so few other opportunities for poor women to find decent employment. The sexual habits of cross - country truck drivers are especially important since, if they acquire the AIDS virus, they can transmit it to sexual partners in widely disbursed areas of the country, to say nothing of infecting their wives or girlfriends at home. The promiscuity of Indian long distance truck drivers has given that country one of Asia's worst and fastest-growing AIDS epidemics.

Along Mandalay's back streets, little boys ran back and forth flying simple kites made out of paper, Their skill in keeping them up in the air was matched by their courage in dodging the heavy traffic. On the way to Mandalay Hill we saw the large and lavish Mandalay Novotel Hotel, all ready for the hordes of tourists who will doubtlessly flock here for Visit Myanmar Year 1996!

Novotel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novotel:

Novotel is an upscale hotel brand within the AccorHotels group, typically slotting between the Grand Mercure and Pullman brands. Novotel has close to 400 hotels and resorts in 60 countries.

Related voat posts:

The Royal honeymoon and a Saudi hotel chain that takes us from the City of London back to the Podestas and the Acorn Group:

AccorHotels today [December 2015] announces the signing of an agreement with the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), Kingdom Holding Company (KHC) of Saudi Arabia and Oxford Properties, an Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) company for the acquisition of FRHI Holdings Ltd (FRHI), parent of Fairmont, Raffles, and Swissôtel.

This transaction is subject to the regulatory approvals of the antitrust authorities. Rothschild and Zaoui & Co are acting as financial advisors and Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier and Proskauer Rose LLP are acting as legal advisors to AccorHotels on this transaction. Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC are acting as financial advisors and McCarthy Tetrault LLP and White & Case LLP are acting as legal advisors to FRHI on this transaction.

Kingdom Holding Company is owned by the recently arrested Alwaleed Talal (he also owns the top floors at the Mandalay Hotel, Las Vegas). He says he plans to give away his vast fortune to charity and is close to the Gates Foundation. Exclusive: Inside Alwaleed Philanthropies' new global strategy

Prince Alwaleed in June last year pledged his wealth to the foundation, $32 billion according to Princess Lamia, after signing the “Giving Pledge,” an initiative launched in 2010 by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett that urges wealthy individuals to give the majority of their wealth to charity during their lifetimes. Since its founding in 1980, Alwaleed Philanthropies has spent almost $4 billion.

More on Princess Lamia: https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1945612/9575680

Laura Biancolini began traveling on Khashoggi’s yacht, along with what is known in some circles as a bevy of lovelies, at the age of seventeen. She converted to Islam, changed her name to Lamia, and became Khashoggi’s second wife before giving birth to her only child and Adnan’s fifth son, Ali, now nine, in West Palm Beach, Florida. Marriage to a man like Adnan Khashoggi cannot have been easy for either of his wives. Women for hire were part and parcel of his everyday life, and he often sent girls as gifts to men with whom he was attempting to do business.

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[–] Narcissism ago  (edited ago)

I still don't get what you are on about....? The Novotel hotel on Mandalay Hill in Mandalay Burma has got nothing to do with The Mandalay Hotel in Las Vegas its just a name. For example Vegas also has a copy of the Effel Tower but its nothing to do with Paris. I had a friend who for years was a tour operator in Burma I never heard him mention that the Novotel was some kind of trafficking operation. He did mention that the rent boys (guys) hang out at the corner of the moat opposite the Sedona Hotel though.

Understand that Accor is a franchise - anyone who has a hotel building that qualifies can join up with Accor and allow them to brand and manage the hotel. Burma is/ was very strict on allowing foreign ownership likely the actual Mandalay hotel building is owned by a rich Burmese with military connections.

I don't dispute that a lot of heroin has passed through that region, but I believe that the elite who run that business saw fit to open/ reopen up a more reliable source and that was Afghanistan.

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[–] septimasexta 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

"1886 The British acquire Burma's northeast region, the Shan state. Production and smuggling of opium along the lower region of Burma thrives despite British efforts to maintain a strict monopoly on the opium trade." https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heroin/etc/history.html