I always see lots of r/K related stories I think might interest the readers here, but I only have time to blog about a few, so here are some additional news stories that might be of interest. You can skim the titles and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of the Fake News, so although they will be what people are hearing and talking about, there is no guarantee any one of them is necessarily correct, and we have had cases of outright lies make it onto these pages, especially about President Trump.
Q is going again. The format for Q’s posts will be a screenshot image of Q’s post, and immediately below each post will be any links reprinted as text hyperlinks so you can click them, and then my comments in bold. As always, you can see Q’s posts aggregated live, and new ones which may have gone live after our print deadline at http://www.qanon.pub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2qIXXafxCQ
https://twitter.com/SaraCarterDC/status/1148643612521054210
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/us/politics/flynn-testimony-turkey-lobbying.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trumps-fed-pick-judy-shelton-gold-standard-explained/
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/09/joe-biden-releases-tax-returns-during-2020-democratic-primary.html
I write a lot of crazy shit on here. But note how often I say something you see later borne out as true. Book selling, particularly the ghostwritten, boring boilerplate bullshit in a book by some airheaded imbecile like Biden does not sell period, let alone at levels that would yield millions of dollars as a small portion of the larger gross profit (with the publisher taking the majority). And nobody is giving away millions of dollars. Those profits are a payoff, and he did something that generated much more in cash return to get that little bit siphoned off back to him. Now think about all the really crazy shit I write, and understand it may be dead on.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNue92Gta3s&feature=youtu.be
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That is the end of Q’s posts as of now.
20 year old decade-long Disney star who died in his sleep has no known cause of death. These things can always be legitimate, but statistically, it seems you are seeing a lot of them of late. As Randy Quaid said, how often does this happen in your social circle?
Left-leaning Obama judge denies government’s bid to replace the Census-Question-Case lawyers. Who’s is this Obama judge’s mother? Gail Furman (dead April 17, 2019) was a psychologist and a wealthy Democratic party activist and donor. Furman is President of the Furman Foundation, Inc. The foundation is a major donor to the Tides Center and the Media Matters for America, a left-leaning center for journalism founded by author David Brock… She… has a PhD in Psychology from New York University. In 1973, she worked as the psychologist at the Ivy Preparatory School League Fieldston and the Dalton Schools until 1990 His brother was Obama’s economic advisor. Oddly enough, Epstein taught Calculus at Dalton, despite not actually having a college degree, back in the 70’s when I assume high schools were not regularly teaching Calculus the way they do now. Why was an elite preparatory school leaving education of its students to a non-degreed teacher in such an important and technical area? The first few weeks of Calculus is a very complex mathematical derivation of integrals and derivatives based off of more primitive math using divided sums of areas as the numbers of them approach infinity. It is very, very complex. Not that a high school grad with a brain couldn’t teach themselves, but what elite school would chose an early 20-something HS grad over a degreed math major? Something weird there. Maybe just a CIA show using CIA actors.
Iowa, Nevada to launch caucus voting by phone for 2020. Bernie scared them, so they needed something easier to hack.
France announces “Eco-tax” for all flights entering the country. Cabal needs some way to re-up.
Britain using drones to catch dangerous drivers. Have no illusions – those are surveillance drones, tracking targeted citizens, and the traffic shit is just a cover.
Scabies, Chickenpox, and Shingles being brought up to border facilities by migrants.
WaPo pushes McConnell’s challenger, a female Marine pilot running against him as a Democrat. Q had warned about her being CIA-linked, IIRC. She doesn’t have it on her resume, which means, I assume, she grew up in the Secret Society and was some sort of source/informant/follower all of her life who is now graduating to open political operative. It is important going forward that our kind realize there is this parallel society drifting around us without any overt way of spotting them, as they try to move our kind like chess pieces into inferior positions, at the behest of some all seeing, totally unknown command structure that wants to dominate in a dictator-like style, just without actually fighting to get the position honestly.
Over-leveraged, Chinese businesses are beginning to default on obligations, as cracks begin to show in the Chinese economy. Is this what the Roths mean by paper is worthless? They conjure it out of air, spread it around, and then it is devalued as they produce more. Only what the paper buys has value, and only the ability to produce the paper has more value than what it buys?
Facebook OKs calls for violence against people they say are bad.
NY Mag says Q anon looks like it was right, but it was all just by chance and an illusion.
Reminder – Borat actor doing comedy about child-molestation networks stumbles on a hotel concierge who helps cover up problems like that and connect people to networks that supply children – he notifies the FBI and FBI takes in the info and doesn’t bother with it. At least as far as he knew. They definitely would have checked it out. But if it was a protected network, and it sounds like it would have been, they weren’t about to get into it. The bottom line was Cabal’s network is extensive, all over the planet and whether you see it or not, it has you clocked. If you are a pedophile, I would be surprised if it is not in your file by the time you are twenty. From there, they choose who will get positions of power, and who will be sacrificed to the criminal justice system to perpetuate the meme that our government frowns on such behavior. Until Trump, there really was almost no chance for most people to do anything about it. God help you if you had a cute little girl, the machine saw her, and somebody important decided they wanted to take her.
Twitter to ban tweets ‘dehumanizing’ religious groups. How do you get “Christian Crusader” classified as a religion?
Turkey is rounding up soldiers it accuses of a coup attempt.
15 year old Rothschild heiress dies in a quad accident. No idea the significance, if any. But if they are as committed to the bloodline/culling/selective-breeding thing as they say, her mom did take off with American rapper Jay Electronica. No idea how deep the evil runs in these shadows, but there does seem to be a belief that if you kill your own child, some evil entity will give you what you want. And Cabal is pretty desperate right about now.
Biden made more than $15 million in the last two years. I’ve said all along, the book deal thing is just a cover for payoffs. It sounds good. They make books, people buy them, big pool of potential buyers, publicity, yada yada. And it is all bullshit. The big sellers are payoffs, and everyone else is just salaries for the up and coming Cabal mouthpieces and cover for the big payoffs. It is mind-blowing just how much of the world we saw was an illusion designed to keep the public weak and controlled.
Michael Isikoff is producing a 6-part Yahoo News podcast series debunking conspiracy theories. CIA-status confirmed.
Epstein’s jet was outfitted with a bed where passengers had group sex with young underaged girls. You can bet there were hidden cameras as well.
GOOGLE BIAS: I decided to test out searching Jeffrey Epstein's relationships. The results confirm what @Project_Veritas previously revealed regarding Google's leftist political agenda.
Epstein + Trump = SUGGESTIONS
Epstein + Clinton = ¯\_(?)_/¯ pic.twitter.com/ts0gv0PruS— NewsChute (@NewsChute) July 9, 2019
Amazing picture (taken by @CamEdwards) of a sign brought to Virginia State Capitol today pic.twitter.com/xiKlWg8Ddb
— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) July 9, 2019
Investigative journalist Conchita Sarnoff, who has done extensive reporting on Jeffrey Epstein, on Bill Clinton: “Almost every time that Clinton's name is on the pilot logs there are underage girls, there are initials and there are names of many many girls on that private plane” pic.twitter.com/YbWDPkkKMx
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) July 9, 2019
BREAKING: Google photos of Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Clinton, previously available on Google Images, appear to have been scrubbed – report
— BNL NEWS (@BreakingNLive) July 9, 2019
BREAKING: What Lurks Behind The Dam Of Withheld SpyGate Docshttps://t.co/eqNzz5LOVP
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) July 10, 2019
How about this, researchers. The deal that forced Epstein to resign from the Bear Stearns investment bank (where he was on the Board, I believe) was an allegation of insider trading on a M&A deal with an alleged tip from none other than………..Edgar Bronfman. 1981.
— Jeffrey Peterson?? (@realJeffreyP) July 8, 2019
US Customs seizes a ship owned by JPMorgan after authorities found $1 billion worth of drugs on it. This was the Philly bust.
Obamacare’s Individual Mandate about to be struck down by a Federal Appeals Court again.
CNN notes, Donald Trump may be closer than ever to bringing peace to Afghanistan.
Trump says he will look closely at Acosta’s involvement in the Epstein plea deal. Trump says he feels “very badly” for Acosta because he’s been a “very good” secretary. Might be more than that. Acosta may have been given the McMaster deal – do what we tell you and give Epstein this deal, or we will kill your mother in the nursing home she is in. Cabal was completely above the law, and wholly embracing of Mafia tactics. At the very least, Acosta was given a hint going near Epstein was bad news – “Is the Epstein case going to cause a problem [for confirmation hearings]?” Acosta had been asked. Acosta had explained, breezily, apparently, that back in the day he’d had just one meeting on the Epstein case. He’d cut the non-prosecution deal with one of Epstein’s attorneys because he had “been told” to back off, that Epstein was above his pay grade. “I was told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone,” he told his interviewers in the Trump transition. My guess is Epstein was raised in the machine from a kid. Acosta’s parents were Cuban Refugees. They may have been brought into the machine on immigrating, he was raised in it, and knew you didn’t push back. My guess is if he had any tendency to push back he’d have been pushed into a corner and they’d have spent the rest of his life trying to contain him, and he would never have gotten near any power or made any real money so he couldn’t resist. People didn’t really grasp how it worked with those allowed to work in those positions of authority. You’ll know if the Storm is real, based on how shocked you are at how massive the machinery of control was all around you specifically. If you aren’t shocked and horrified and the fact it was everywhere, nothing meaningful changed. If you are still blown a away a decade later and can’t believe it, then you are living in a new nation, now like the one you were told it was when you were growing up. Regardless, I would not rely on Acosta, if he looked at the Epstein case and was fine with no punishment.
Iran threatens to enrich uranium to 20% purity as tensions rise.
Mexican Finance Chief steps down.
U.S. appeals court to take up constitutionality of Obamacare.
Ross Perot dies. Amazing how many of these blasts from the past are suddenly popping up in the news feeds dead. I supported him at the time, as G. H.W had just banned import of 19 different types of semi-auto firearms. What I did not know was the whole thing was likely scripted. Cabal needed to drive things to the clown world, and you couldn’t do that credibly under a bespectacled elderly geek statesman like H.W.’s cover portrayed him. They needed Clinton, but he was unelectable without Perot jumping in, jumping out, and then jumping in again. He is a good example of how Google has clamped down on the history of things though. I can tell you two things for certain – one, there was a raft of 80 or 90 phone calls between the Clinton Campaign and Ross Perot’s campaign. The media asked Perot if there were all those calls and what they were about, and his response to the question was, in a thick twang, “Well wouldn’t it be something if there were?” The second thing I definitely read all over back then, before Google clamped down, was that Clinton’s bodyguard said Clinton and Perot were old friends from way back, and whenever Clinton swung through nearby Texas he would stop by Perot’s place for dinner. Good luck tracking that down on Google. The touchstone which really tells you he was playing his role for the puppetmasters is he threatened Cabal’s hold on the Presidency twice, and then just went about his life without getting fully Martha-Stewart-ed, and relieved of all his wealth as he was investigated into oblivion and suicided as an example. No way do they not make an example of you if you go that far. Still puzzling is they claim he supported Trump at the end. Whether that is more smoke, or he had a change of heart, or something else is impossible to know.
Trump gets another 9th Circuit appointment confirmed, despite both California Senators being vehemently opposed. Every time he tells evil to go get fucked, I somehow find a way to love him just a little more. So far Harris and Feinstein have opposed all Trump’s 9th circuit nominees. A big sign something is very different going on in this Presidency.
Barr won’t recuse himself from New York case against Jeffrey Epstein.
So by this precedent Twitter is legally classified as a public communications service and the 1st amendment applies to this website if the President can't block users. This also opens the door to federal oversight and regulation to ensure the 1st amdt is being applied to US users https://t.co/2zsQZIjP86
— Tribunal Report ? (@TribunalReport) July 9, 2019
#HANNITY TONIGHT: Fox News’ Catherine Herridge will give us a report on the revelation anti-Trump dossier author Christopher Steele was grilled by Inspector General Horowitz’s team for hours! Tune in at 9PM ET.https://t.co/XMVjBvtGwp
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) July 10, 2019
Spotted entering the Justice Department: Connecticut US Attorney John Durham, who’s assisting Attorney General Bill Barr with what Barr calls a “spying” review of intel before the 2016 election.
— Carrie Johnson (@johnson_carrie) July 9, 2019
'America First' GOP Congressional Candidate Joey Saladino Files Lawsuit Against AOC For Blocking Him on Twitter @CassandraRules
https://t.co/mqr9aDdJZ4 via @gatewaypundit— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) July 9, 2019
BREAKING: Judge Slams Government Argument That #MichaelFlynn Is ‘Coconspirator’ In Former Partner’s Trial | https://t.co/Pk3AjhdJhj
— Sara A. Carter (@SaraCarterDC) July 10, 2019
JUST IN: Border Apprehensions Plummet 28 Percent Following US-Mexico Partnership – https://t.co/KU8bzMZOr0 pic.twitter.com/q4DvvEnv0m
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) July 9, 2019
BREAKING: Trump kicked Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago Club after a spa manager told him Epstein was acting "inappropriately" w girls there, according to Epstein's neighbor James Patterson, which may explain what Trump meant by his having a "falling out" with Epstein 15 years ago
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) July 9, 2019
Best-selling author James Patterson on the Jeffrey Epstein case as it relates to President Donald Trump: “There were some complaints about Epstein at Mar-a-Lago. I spoke to the head of the spa there. … She said she went to Trump and he threw [Epstein] out of the club.” pic.twitter.com/kNDK4MdrEd
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) July 9, 2019
.@JudicialWatch discovery just uncovered:
Clinton warned on email use–twice
Clinton lawyer who deleted the 33k emails got immunity
Obama WH orchestrated email coverup.
FBI found Clinton emails in Obama WH
More w/JW senior attorney Ramona Cotca. https://t.co/yOQdXUGD3D pic.twitter.com/usjjGOq3zQ
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) July 9, 2019
Congratulations to @DrGregMurphy1 on winning the Republican nomination in #NC03! Dr. Murphy is a strong #MAGA conservative in the mold of my friend @MarkMeadows. Look forward to heading down to NC to hit the trail with you before the General Election in September!
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 10, 2019
Barr is absolutely right about the Mueller testimony being a public spectacle… that’s all it ever was.
Democrats' Mueller messaging isn’t breaking through because no one cares—they want focus on their lives, not on the political collusion fantasy that was dead long ago. https://t.co/6ZBHp0DthK
— Mark Meadows (@RepMarkMeadows) July 8, 2019
This was amazing news from over the weekend — 224,000 jobs created in June, blowing away expectations of 160,000 jobs! That's over 6 million jobs created since @realDonaldTrump's election 2 1/2 years ago.
The American worker has been unstoppable. https://t.co/FVJaRxYBo2
— Mark Meadows (@RepMarkMeadows) July 8, 2019
The wacky Ambassador that the U.K. foisted upon the United States is not someone we are thrilled with, a very stupid guy. He should speak to his country, and Prime Minister May, about their failed Brexit negotiation, and not be upset with my criticism of how badly it was…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2019
…handled. I told @theresa_may how to do that deal, but she went her own foolish way-was unable to get it done. A disaster! I don’t know the Ambassador but have been told he is a pompous fool. Tell him the USA now has the best Economy & Military anywhere in the World, by far…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2019
….and they are both only getting bigger, better and stronger…..Thank you, Mr. President!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2019
“I agree with the President, the Supreme Court got it wrong. There should be a question about Citizenship on the Census. A.G. Barr sees a pathway to add the Citizenship Question.” Steve Doocy @foxandfriends Working hard on something that should be so easy. People are fed up!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2019
Outrage is growing in the Great State of Minnesota where our Patriots are now having to fight for the right to say the Pledge of Allegiance. I will be fighting with you! @foxandfriends
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2019
India has long had a field day putting Tariffs on American products. No longer acceptable!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2019
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 10, 2019
“The reality is that this was a plot from the very beginning to frame Trump….” @RudyGiuliani pic.twitter.com/tMyNEPppm6
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 10, 2019
“FBI’s Christopher Steele (FAKE) Story Falls Apart: False Intel & Media Contacts Were Flagged Before FISA.” John Solomon, The Hill. @seanhannity
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 10, 2019
Democrats are coming after our great Kentucky Senator, Mitch McConnell, with someone who compared my election to September 11th….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 10, 2019
….Why would Kentucky ever think of giving up the most powerful position in Congress, the Senate Majority Leader, for a freshman Senator with little power in what will hopefully be the minority party. We need Mitch in the Senate to Keep America Great!!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 10, 2019
Recent “strained” decisions by the United States Supreme Court, some so simple as allowing the question, “Are you a citizen of the United States” on our very expensive Census Report, or the even more strained decisions (2) allowing the world’s most expensive & pathetic……
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2019
….healthcare (Obamacare) to stay in place, when it would have been replaced by something far better, shows how incredibly important our upcoming 2020 Election is. I have long heard that the appointment of Supreme Court Justices is a President’s most important decision. SO TRUE!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2019
So now the Obama appointed judge on the Census case (Are you a Citizen of the United States?) won’t let the Justice Department use the lawyers that it wants to use. Could this be a first?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 10, 2019
A truly great, patriotic & charitable man, Bernie Marcus, the co-founder of Home Depot who, at the age of 90, is coming under attack by the Radical Left Democrats with one of their often used weapons. They don’t want people to shop at those GREAT stores because he contributed….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 10, 2019
….to your favorite President, me! These people are vicious and totally crazed, but remember, there are far more great people (“Deplorables”) in this country, than bad. Do to them what they do to you. Fight for Bernie Marcus and Home Depot!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 10, 2019
More and more the Radical Left is using Commerce to hurt their “Enemy.” They put out the name of a store, brand or company, and ask their so-called followers not to do business there. They don’t care who gets hurt, but also don’t understand that two can play that game!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 10, 2019
Food Stamp participation hits 10 year low. Wow! @OANN
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2019
“With President Trump at the helm, not only is America getting great again, but he’s going to make our estuaries, our rivers, our water – everything better – the things he is doing, and done, are just helping America tremendously.” Thank you to Bruce Hrobak @foxandfriends
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2019
Very good numbers on the economy. Much potential for growth. Trade deals being negotiated or being set up for negotiation. We have been treated very unfairly (to put it mildly) by other countries for many years, but that is changing!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2019
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 10, 2019
After a wonderful dinner at the @USTreasury last night with the Amir of Qatar, @TamimBinHamad, it was my great honor to welcome him to the @WhiteHouse this afternoon! pic.twitter.com/SB9DGA7dgo
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2019
Spread r/K Theory fast, because I want these cocksuckers to hear about it before they get suicided.
That’s an interesting insight on the Perot/Clinton friendship. I never knew that. Shame since I always really liked Perot. His rapid ascent in the IT field always seemed strange to me though.
There is more to Perot in the run. If he was cabal, he wouldn’t have said why he quit out loud. He said (in the media and to anyone in Dallas who would listen) that his intel guys at EDS (remember that this is the guy who sent mercenaries to Iran to get His People out) discovered a plot.
He said that the GOP was planning to sabotage his daughter’s upcoming wedding before the election. He didn’t say how, but he said it was serious and credible enough that he would drop out of the race to keep them from carrying out the plot.
He did NOT sacrifice his daughter’s happiness (and maybe her life) just to gain power.
One thing Alex Jones is right about is that Dallas is an odd, odd place in certain shadows.
Acosta’s explanation of his sweetheart plea deal is that he ‘was told’ that Epstein belonged to intelligence and to back off. All of it in passive tense. I want someone to ask him who told him that. Name the names.
If he is going to pawn off responsibility for the evil plea deal to someone else, he has to pin it on someone else, not into the amorphous ether of ‘was told’
Merkel seen visibly shaking AGAIN, this time as she welcomes Finnish PM
https://www.rt.com/newsline/463822-merkel-seen-shaking-again/
American molecular biologist killed in Greece:
https://news.yahoo.com/greece-body-believed-american-died-160454604.html
Eaton was a U.S. citizen and a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany.
https://news.yahoo.com/american-scientist-greece-died-asphyxiation-authorities-171200370–abc-news-topstories.html
As Trump closes US doors to migrants, Latin Americans look to Europe
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-closes-us-doors-migrants-061017921.html
Attorney for ex-presidents in Mexico ordered to stand trial
https://news.yahoo.com/attorney-ex-presidents-mexico-ordered-173336226.html
You wrote: Book selling, particularly the ghostwritten, boring boilerplate bullshit in a book by some airheaded imbecile like Biden does not sell period, let alone at levels that would yield millions of dollars as a small portion of the larger gross profit (with the publisher taking the majority). And nobody is giving away millions of dollars. Those profits are a payoff, and he did something that generated much more in cash return to get that little bit siphoned off back to him.
True, but sometimes a book is just a book.
No author gets a book published, at least by the biggies in NYC, unless that author has an agent. Agents oversee contract terms as they cut themselves a sweet percentage. The myth of a slush pile to which aspiring agents are assigned to find a literary diamond in the rough — supposedly grad students in journalism or English – is just that, a myth. There are no slush piles. None.
Only books with agents get published.
Here’s the sequence. Books with agents are not sent to an in-house editor initially but have already been edited, another hoop an author has to go through before s/he is published. These secret editors have the agent’s ear; just as agents have the publisher’s ear. That’s how it works. No editor … no agent; no agent … no publisher.
It gets weird with unsigned ghosted stuff. The editor is now both editor and secret writer, and thus one layer has been removed. The name on the book is just a name. Ghosting is a quick way to get ideas out there if making a name for oneself isn’t the goal. In the rarified world of biggie publishing, most ghosters are known. And respected, by the way. I’d imagine that 80 percent, of so, of ghosters are never acknowledged in forwards, etc., but still are well-known to publishers.
So, are publishers conduits of big money? Yes and no. Books by a name are rarely written by the name. They’re ghosted, of course. The ghoster gets a set fee … everything else goes to the name or publisher. Money flows when the name has “friends” who want to help him sell books … in theory. If the name is being courted by those friends, a way to ingratiate oneself to the name would be to buy, say, 20,000 copies of the name’s book. Those copies are either given away, or more than likely, destroyed. The name still gets the contracted percentage. It’s a nice, clean pay-out. Plausible deniability is preserved. After all, the name never knew his friend had bought all those copies, in one swoop, right?
But you’re hinting at something a bit more nefarious, something usually associated with an author advance. For most, it’s pretty small – less than 25k – but for names, it’s pretty big. This is standard stuff. If you’re a name and worried your book won’t produce royalties, your goal would be to reduce the percentage of royalty and increase the advance. That’s the hope, anyway. Advances are supposed to be advances against royalties, but when royalties don’t materialize, names walk away with their advances anyway. It’s a good gig.
What about those huge advances, those million dollar advances. It would be cleaner, and easier, to simply print books, have someone buy them, and then throw them away. This is legal, too. If you’re suggesting that publishers take outside money and somehow channel it to a name, as an advance … well, maybe, but I doubt it. Why take that risk? It would show up in the annual audit, wouldn’t it? How could a million dollar advance be hidden? Publishers don’t have the kind of money. I suppose where there’s a will there’s a way, but when it’s possible to buy a million dollars worth of physical books and then destroy them, thus giving the name about half of that amount, why take the risk of an illegal advance?
All publishing companies have to profit. They can’t lose on those huge advances or they’d go under. Profits are hard to come by these days because people don’t buy books like they used to, sadly. Throwing away a million dollars which can’t be recouped doesn’t make sense. It would be possible, though, for a publisher to have a quiet little lunch with the friend of the name, who informs the publisher of his intent to buy those 20k books. As the friend is speaking the publisher’s mental calculator would be clicking away– he’d be calculating how much he can spend on that advance.
This may be how it’s done, but again, I don’t know.