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Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓 Profile picture
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Dec 12, 2021 • 20 tweets • 13 min read • Read on X
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1. Macau Junket Laundry

“you can have a premium player make US$200,000 or US$250,000 a single bet. A typical gambler - we're talking US$50,000 to $US200,000 per trip. And these guys make anywhere between 10 to 25 trips a year"

gamblinginsider.com/in-depth/14175…
2. "Old School"
“However, again, you can for example go old school and wear an expensive watch, pay for it in Shanghai, get across the border & go to a jewellery store and get a refund or maybe get 97% of the money back"
3. "God help the Casinos"

"Perhaps we're going to go that way until the government of China will force the casinos to go use the digital renminbi, in which case, God help the casinos.”
4. Corrupt Officials VIP Gamblers

According to a 2018 study by the Macau Polytechnic Institute, Chinese government officials & executives of state-owned enterprises account for 1/2 of Macau's VIP gamblers, contributing to 2/3 of Macau's gaming revenue.

5. Well worth watching that video for insights

The cross-border “crime syndicate” led by Chau had 199 shareholders, 2000 promotional agents & more than 80,000 gamblers across China, many of them state officials..

Maybe the list will be leaked...

thinkchina.sg/macaus-junket-…
7. 80,000 list members tracked down via QR codes?

Gamblers transferred bets via QR codes
if QR codes traced individually, civil servants & employees of state-owned enterprises will be exposed

Every gambler leaves behind a trace, even if it's a shit stain in their red underpants
8. Broken Tooth Koi

I didn't realise Alvin Chau was an acolyte of 14K's Wan Kuok-koi, but that certainly makes sense.

1998 movie Casino (aka Ho Kong Fung Wan)

imdb.com/title/tt015558…

'Broken Tooth' sent to jail

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-paci…
9. "Media investigations revealed that Chau’s family history is linked to Macau triad boss Wan Kuok-koi, known as Broken Tooth Koi (崩牙驹)"

thinkchina.sg/macaus-junket-…
10. A Gurkha Anecdote

Back in 1999, Macau hired Gurkhas for its high security prison in Coloane, as they couldn't trust the local ones to not be bribed by Triad convicts!

Macau Hires Gurkhas As Guards
apnews.com/article/2738ce…
Settlement Rights of Gurkhas
publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cm…
11. Coloane Prison

This was where, in 1999, Broken Tooth Koi was jailed for 13 years for illegal gambling, loan-sharking and the attempted murder of chief of police Antonio Marques Baptista with a car bomb

Top-security unit for Macau's triad kingpins

archive.ph/iBBQX
12. As there is only one prison in Macao...

Macao tycoon Alvin Chau sent to Coloane Prison for detention after being interrogated for more than 14 hours

dimsumdaily.hk/macao-tycoon-a…

and

asgam.com/index.php/2021…

Map

virtualglobetrotting.com/map/macau-pris…

Coloane Prison

dsc.gov.mo/siteen/work_in…
13. "World Hongmen History & Culture Association"

From Coloane to Cambodia, Palau and Malaysia, Broken Tooth Koi now heads the "Hongmen Association"

macaubusiness.com/macau-broken-t…

macaubusiness.com/macau-former-1…

Last heard of in Malaysia in April 2021

macaubusiness.com/associates-of-…
14. Placed on a US Sanctions List a year ago

Treasury Sanctions Corrupt Actors in Africa and Asia

"Wan Kuok Koi,“Broken Tooth,” is a member of the CCP, Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and is a leader of the 14K Triad"

web.archive.org/web/2021012513…
15. What has former 14K triad boss ‘Broken Tooth’ Wan Kuok-koi been up to since leaving prison?

The present whereabouts of Broken Tooth are unknown. As for the future, there remains a purpose-built prison in Macau waiting for him.

archive.ph/JX9RA
16. Nicky Liow and Koi

Who is Malaysian fugitive Nicky Liow and what links him to ex-Macau triad boss ‘Broken Tooth’ Wan Kuok-koi?

scmp.com/week-asia/expl…
17. Broken Tooth Koi has Galactic Friends

Galaxy Casino, Macao

Macao VIP-room operations are still dominated by triads to date (2016)

academic.oup.com/bjc/article-ab…

"But, of course, I can say that greater China is our major client source.”

news.worldcasinodirectory.com/jinmen8-in-hou…
18. Sincity and Suncity

Alvin Chau Cheok-wa was the chairman of Macau’s biggest casino junket operator Suncity Group Holdings, which operated VIP rooms in all 6 of Macau's licensed casino operators, Wynn Macau, Sands China, MGM China, SJM Holdings, Melco Resorts & Galaxy
19. Debt Collecting

“It’s not possible, in practical terms, to do away with the triads when it comes to Macau’s casino industry.
20. A bedtime gambling story, chop, chop...

"According to the rules, useless legs and hands!"

lujuba.cc/en/608868.html
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If you see a snake today..🐍

1. Based on the Parsi calendar conversion and the text of the Persian Mar-Nāmeh (THE BOOK FOR TAKING OMENS FROM SNAKES), seeing a snake today means you should not look at it, otherwise you will soon have a cause to be sorry.
2. Rule 7 cruelly says:

"If you see a snake on the day of Merdad (Amerdid) do not look at it, (or otherwise) you will soon have a cause to be sorry"

According to the Parsees, today is Roj Amardad (also spelled Merdad or Amerdāt).
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By President-Surgeon-Major G. Waters.

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very ancient. The people of antiquity associated with the snake various peculiar ideas"
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1. The morning breaks on human backs

Across the centuries & the tracks,
Where bone & muscle give their all,
To answer to the master's call.
And in the pocket, pouch, or hand,
A secret comfort rules the land.
A cheap escape from sweat & pain,
To dull the mind or spike the brain.
2. In London’s fog, the engine roars

And laborers crowd through palace doors,
To drown the shift in burning gin.
While in the slums, for just a penny,
The laudanum drops are shared by many,
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And quiet the children crying there.
3. Across the sea, the jungle steams

Where coolies chased their broken dreams.
The shovel bites, the fever burns,
Until the evening sun returns.
Then in the bunkhouse, dark & small,
Sweet smoke rises on the wall;
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A pain-free haze, a perfect rest!
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as they pulled you apart?
A poet speaking for us all
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What a price, John Ball,
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3. the scarlet grave goods
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and hope for better times,
when those barons’ grandchildren,
so viscous, reptilian,
are thrown from their seat
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🧵Explanation Thread

Here is my attempt at a simple summary of what @JasperFarlake & @dr_louwen claim (July 2026)

1. In early 2020, Chinese scientists published the first big paper on the COVID virus using fluid samples taken from patients’ lungs in Wuhan in December 2019.
2. They uploaded the raw sequencing data to public databases so others could check their work, which is great.



@JasperFarlake & @dr_louwen went back & carefully re-examined that raw data

They say they found several strange things that don’t look right.zenodo.org/records/213119…
@JasperFarlake @dr_louwen 3. You can see their findings in the readme.md text which you can see if you download their zip file and extract it.

or here directly on their @github repository

github.com/jasper-cmyk/PR…
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