Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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(THREAD) New evidence suggests Rick Gates' plea has much more to do with Russia than we thought.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) March 23, 2018
And that's because it may have more to do with Trump advisor Erik Prince and Trump fundraiser/RNC deputy finance chair Elliott Broidy than we thought.
Hope you'll read on and share. pic.twitter.com/TGqLdgXmx9
The intra-Palestinian meeting in Moscow has precedent
— Hanna Notte (@HannaNotte) February 29, 2024
Russia's hosted such meetings in the past, most recently Feb 2019
Russia has long lamented the US' "monopolization" of the peace process & tried to carve out a niche for itself: mediating among the disunited Palestinians/2
Here's what I told them: https://halginsberg.com/vote-for-jill-stein-again/
Controversial Brazil law curbing Indigenous rights comes into force https://t.co/pCoDg05irX
— Gareth Harris (@garethharr) December 28, 2023
Location: U.S. Embassy and residential compounds
Events: Heavy gunfire is occuring around the area of the U.S. Embassy and residential compounds adjacent to the Trutier area of Tabarre. All Embassy personnel have been instructed to remain indoors and shelter-in-place until further notice. All others should avoid the area.
Actions to take:
- Avoid the area;
- Avoid demonstrations and any large gatherings of people;
- Do not attempt to drive through roadblocks; and
- If you encounter a roadblock, turn around and get to a safe area.
By The Editorial Board @ Bloomberg.com, December 8, 2023
A mass expulsion of Afghan migrants could destabilize the region and fuel radicalization. The West should pressure Islamabad to change course.
All eyes on #Chad right now
Chad has two internet trunks coming into the country: One from the Red Sea via Sudan; the other from Cameroon. Not possible for the totality of the country's internet network to be shut unless done centrally. A lot of rumors swirling; few facts. https://t.co/N6bDJZ2ixO
BREAKING: Three loss prevention employees in Macy’s across the street from Philadelphia City Hall stabbed, one of them has died from stab wounds, @PhillyPolice sources tell me. Police converged on the store as the three workers were rushed to Jefferson Hospital. pic.twitter.com/4U1eKycL4W
Former US Ambassador Arrested, Charged With Working As Secret Agent For Cuba https://t.co/LDwo4ZJI1K
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) December 4, 2023
[Chapter I news is HERE, Oct. 7 til today]
You don’t get it.
— George Deek (@GeorgeDeek) December 2, 2023
It’s not about an UNRWA teacher who held an Israeli kid hostage in his house.
It’s all about how for 75 years you have destroyed the future of generations of Palestinians, including my family.
My cousins in Arab countries are still not citizens - not even the… https://t.co/nv6anubGhc
Note 'Community Notes' attached to UNWRA's statement.
Imperialism for me but not for thee?
It's wild that Venezuela is now holding a vote on whether 2/3 of Guyana actually belongs to them! Analysts suggest that Modoru may want military action to pump up his sinking popularity.
Could we have a war in South America?!?
"The people who live in Essequibo are largely… pic.twitter.com/QvMEjkkgwy
The lack of a cohesive delegation has allowed attention-seeking lawmakers to act on their own.
McCarthy: “You have [Rep. Matt] Gaetz, who belongs in jail…”
Gaetz: “Tough words from a guy who sucker punches people in the back. The only assault I committed was against Kevin’s fragile ego.”https://t.co/LctPuz6Pcf
By Martinn Pengelly in Washington DC for TheGuardian.com, Nov. 30
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells Ryan Grim life in Congress ‘completely transformed’ after Democratic leader stepped down
"Both the AU and the intl community place more weight on whether elections are held than whether they are free and fair. Sanctions/expulsions occur when there is a coup but not necessarily when elections are rigged or if an “institutional coup” occurs." https://t.co/m9dNimJP0D
— Cameron Hudson (@_hudsonc) November 28, 2023
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Ane traditional military ambitions too.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 03/24/2018 - 6:10am
by Peter (not verified) on Sat, 03/24/2018 - 10:12am
Messenger: As I did stand my watch upon the hill, I looked toward Birnam, and anon, methought the wood began to move.
[Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5]
by moat on Sat, 03/24/2018 - 11:09am
Presumably you were in a coma the week Congress rushed its investigation "results" out, and simply are reciting the Fox Concordia of All Things Partisan and Scripted. Really, nothing to even give serious pause here - more kneejerk propaganda that you do so "well".
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 03/24/2018 - 1:15pm
by Peter (not verified) on Sat, 03/24/2018 - 3:49pm
No begging - Mueller's already flipped a number of Trump aides and indicted others, even as this funny ineffectual House Committee waved its hands wildly to claim "nothing to see here" while running to the White House in dead of night to leak its daily misdeeds. All of this is prosecutable, which is what I mainly care about. You can play yout charade forever, but there's nothing much laughable when the jail cell slams shut. So laugh on. But you certainly won't laugh last. Perhaps smirk.
So here's some more from Marcy on Papadopoulos with direct quotes for you to somehow wish away - how is it WaPo and other news outlets beeak these stories every day, but a House Committee could work on this a year and even deny Trump knew Russians? Let's just say "compromised" is too nice a word.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 03/24/2018 - 5:17pm
by Peter (not verified) on Sat, 03/24/2018 - 7:43pm
The fake news will continue to produce spin and empty threats and unless talking to Russians becomes illegal retroactively there will be no prosecution for thought crimes.
So your defense is that although they "talked to Russians", whatever they talked about isn't prosecutable because their "crimes" can't be proven as going any further than "thought". Gotcha.
by barefooted on Sat, 03/24/2018 - 9:12pm
A year ago Trump was saying he didn't know any Russians and that women just wanted him to do whatever with them. Now we find out it's just one big paid Russian porn party, but your job, Peter, is just to keep ignoring dick pics, bank ttansactions, indictments and plea deals and pretend nothing ever happened. If a tree falls in the woods but it isn't reported on Fox, well, it's still standing.
So while you're gearing up for Stormy Danirls' Sunday night interview-com-DVD, here's a Chris Cilizza piece documenting how the White House keeps blatantly lying and getting caught. Immediately. Like you, in a smaller way.
So here's some more from Marcy on Papadopoulos with direct quotes for you to somehow wish away - before we get distracted with gibberish - yes, Papadopoulos had a much bigger role in Trump's campaign, had numerous hugh-level talks with Russians, has pleaded guilty to crimes and is cooperating with the prosecutor. Exactly like Gates and Nadir. On the Russian side, we have Nastya Rybka providing videos of oligarchs with Putin aides despite another set of denials if nothing there, along with international fallout from Putin's latest poisoning. It's all closing in. Must suck to be you.
[BTW, Guccifer 2.0 that hacked Hillery's emails was Russian GRU and Trump campaign best bud Roger Stone was talking up them and Wikileaks. How do you explain that one? Or is it snowflake imagination to think that trading in stolen emails with a foreign power is not prosecutable?]
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 03/24/2018 - 9:47pm
by Peter (not verified) on Sun, 03/25/2018 - 12:18am
If Flynn and Scaramucci were so great why did Trump fire them? Either Trump is such an ass he hired a couple of idiot clowns so bad he had to get rid of them or we forced him to fire two great cabinet members. Either way we won.
by ocean-kat on Sun, 03/25/2018 - 2:09am
Too funny - he put his daughter and son-in-law as high special advisors, Flynn who lasted a few weeks as NSA, know-nothing Betsy de Vos to run Educationand her international gun-runner mercenary brother to set up back channels with Russia & UAE, the buffonish Sessions ("I don't rightly recall") as AG, and now trying to put Larry Kudlow of coke addiction and horrible predictions in at Treasury.along with too many other awful picks to remember. (Sheriff Clarke? Oil exec Rex at State? the old Cyprus Bank money-laundering guy who falls asleep at meetings? The wife beater who resigned? ). So yeah, a 3rd rate drunk to handle Putin sounds as right as Carter Page and Lewandowki - a basket full of incompetent, illicit, self-serving deplorables.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 03/25/2018 - 3:32am
Peter... the meat of the matter... chew it real slow...
Makes no matter what the congressional investigation Monkey show on the Hill had to say...
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/977241306211803138
26/ Trump (and Jared) are surrounded by a horde of fundraisers and advisors who are trying to lobby Trump not just about private military contractors in the Middle East but, more significantly, about *nuclear power* in the Middle East. Specifically, gifts of U.S. nuclear tech.
27/ Rick Gates is part of that horde. And so is another man Mueller has in his pocket due to a plea: Michael Flynn. Trump pal Thomas Barrack is also in that horde. So is Bud McFarlane, who was a VIP at Trump's Mayflower Speech in April 2016. So is Broidy.
28/ So now we have a story involving Gates, Flynn, Prince, Broidy, Barrack, McFarlane, Kushner, Nader, and Donald Trump. But guess what: it all comes back to Russia and the UAE, the two parties Prince secretly met with and lied about meeting with while under oath before Congress.
29/ If you read the ProPublica story, you'll see the UAE can only get U.S. nuclear tech if we give it to Saudi Arabia first. Trump's pals are all either working to get that tech to Saudi Arabia or lobbying on behalf of the UAE—which, as to nuclear tech, amounts to the same thing.
30/ What does this have to do with Putin and sanctions? That's a reasonable question to ask.The answer: Moscow wants the contracts to build all new nuclear power plants in the Middle East, and stands to make *hundreds of millions* doing so. Just one thing stops them: sanctions.
31/ Yesterday the Saudi Crown Prince, who wants our nuclear tech, which would allow it to flow also to the UAE, which would make Putin hundreds of millions—but only if sanctions are dropped—said this about Jared Kushner: he's "in my pocket." Process that.
32/ Does this change your view of why Kushner secretly met the Russian ambassador at Trump Tower in December 2016—he smuggled him in the back door—to discuss setting up a secret backchanel to Putin? While Gates and Broidy were running the inaugural committee and lobbying Trump?
33/ Does this change your view of the pending (unanswered) question about where the "extra" tens of millions of dollars raised by Gates and Broidy for the inauguration went?
34/ Does this change your view of today's news about Broidy allegedly helping Moscow companies lobby Trump on sanctions? Does it change your view of whether Mueller wanted Gates under plea for reasons (as the White House says) entirely unrelated to Trump?
35/ Gates and Flynn have a lot to tell Mueller, and we should assume they've told all of it. We should further assume Broidy and Kushner are in Mueller's path and that at least one will roll on Trump. We should assume all pending UAE-Saudi Arabia scandals are equally about Putin.
36/ I've said this from the day I first read Chris Steele's dossier 14 months ago: Trump sold U.S. policy on Russia for money, and he did it before the campaign started (2013 in Moscow), during the campaign (his 2015 Trump Tower Moscow deal) and while in office post-January 2017.
37/ Yesterday's big news from the New York Times is of course part of all this, as it underscores that Trump's clandestine arrangement with Moscow flowed (much if not all the time) through negotiations with the UAE and Saudi Arabia—often via his top aides.
38/ Trump is toast. Not because he's an asshole, though he is; not because he's a Republican, which (in fact) he isn't; he's toast because he's one of the biggest traitors in the history of the U.S. and Mueller has *at least* three key witnesses *already* who can testify to that.
39/ Now you know why Trump hired Joe DiGenova—who wanted Comey prosecuted and will pull the same BS on Mueller. You know why he's hiring DiGenova's wife Victoria, who spread the Uranium One hoax—he's going to go after Clinton. You know why he hired Bolton—he's going to go to war.
40/ Trump knows he's toast, which is why he's preparing for two wars: a war on the rule of law here at home, and a senseless war abroad, in either North Korea or Iran. All of it is to save himself—he thinks—by delaying what at this point is inevitable: his fall from power. {end}
UPDATE/ I was one of the louder voices online outlining why DiGenova and Toensing had too many conflicts to work with Trump—due to other Trump-Russia clients and DiGenova's alleged role in blackmailing Comey to reopen the Clinton case. Well, look at this:
NOTE1/ What Joe DiGenova and his wife are learning, which most of us lawyers learned in law school, is that a client can waive an *apparent* conflict of interest, but an *actual* conflict of interest must be avoided by a lawyer at all costs—per the Rules of Professional Conduct.
NOTE2/ Representing Clovis, Prince, and Corallo is an *actual* conflict of interest for DiGenova and his wife that can't be waived by the clients and can't be allowed by DiGenova and Toensing. Their clients (and they) have info on facts and strategy Trump wants and needs to know.
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~OGD~
by oldenGoldenDecoy on Sun, 03/25/2018 - 3:50am
OGD, so 10 secs ago. Kushner bro/pop hit Qatar up for cash just before US-supported embargo - pay-to-play never so explicit.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 03/25/2018 - 5:20am
by Peter (not verified) on Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:13am
Well, Peter, you have a complete fucking inability to reference anything objective & concrete, just the vagaries of your brain and your wish-it-all-away fantasy world. Did you get through school by just making shit up? Perhaps if you were a world expert on something, anything, your peerless navel contemplation and paeans to conservative Valhallas might carry some weight, but no, you're just an anonymous 1-trick pony.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 03/25/2018 - 12:06pm
by Peter (not verified) on Sun, 03/25/2018 - 2:59pm
No, these are breaking news stories weekly. We didn't have near this amount of info Nov 2016, and it wasn't until the Steele Dossier was released by Buzzfeed that we started to get a first inkling of just how dirty it'd been. But the details don't come out overnight - a ton of investigation has gone in.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 03/25/2018 - 3:12pm
Are you conceding that all these "little stories" are true?
The cascade of "little stories" over the last year has already shown that Trump surrounded himself with cronies whose interest in making a buck was integral to their motivations to work in the administration. The "little stories" have revealed that these cronies have lied multiple times about their tiny actions. Some of these miniscule lies were told while under oath.
So, if you are in agreement about what has been revealed through all these reports, your argument that Trump himself could never have had anything to do with these nefarious actors is kind of amazing. The poor fellow really fell into a bad crowd.
Maybe Clinton made him do it.
by moat on Sun, 03/25/2018 - 4:11pm
by Peter (not verified) on Sun, 03/25/2018 - 5:35pm
Proving charges is hard to do. It is a good thing that there is a Special Prosecutor on the job to work on that problem.
Which incidents are you referring to? Your waving of the arm doesn't indicate what you would like to dismiss.
by moat on Sun, 03/25/2018 - 6:04pm
Do you realize that you have described the former (most Americans - the 99%) and the latter (the entire trump administration and the Republican members of Congress). Yes, you described them to a tee.
by CVille Dem on Sun, 03/25/2018 - 7:44pm
Notice what numbnuts said here?
And numbnuts has maintained a manic mood all these months trying to spin that horseshit...
~OGD~
by oldenGoldenDecoy on Tue, 03/27/2018 - 2:06am
And Trump has maintained that manic mood for decades, which I didn't care about until people started taking him seriously for president, and here he is into his 2nd year still ranting like a madman - with 42% approval. I'm supposed to ignore this threat, focus on football or frisbee or tabloid singer/social media grudges instead?
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 03/27/2018 - 3:39am
by Peter (not verified) on Tue, 03/27/2018 - 9:53am
You're obviously ignoring his Twitter feed. Nothing "rested and strong" about it - it's about a man who's at the end of his wits, and didn't have a lot to start out with (only orneriness and chutzpah, certainly different from his self-congratulatory "smart").
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 03/27/2018 - 10:26am
by Peter (not verified) on Tue, 03/27/2018 - 1:12pm
In 2017 Trump had 31m followers of whom 51% were believed fake, so 15 million. More than his inauguration but still...
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 03/27/2018 - 1:51pm
..Trump has harnessed this medium for communication with his supporters..
What Peter says here is true, and it's the point of everything Trump does that befuddles the majority of us. His supporters get it, feed off of it and in turn feed him.
by barefooted on Tue, 03/27/2018 - 9:02pm
My goodness. Baghdad Bob Lives!
by moat on Tue, 03/27/2018 - 1:24pm
by Peter (not verified) on Tue, 03/27/2018 - 5:01pm
I see dead people
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 03/28/2018 - 1:34am
Sorry, this tweet on Sunday looks embarrassingly pitiful to me, same with this one.
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/27/2018 - 8:50pm
I'm relieved that peter is so happy with Trump. From my point of view he's done nothing he promised and campaigned on. The republicans and the democrats in congress have stopped him. If his base is still supporting him in spite of achieving so little they're less likely to push him to try to accomplish the truly destructive policies he claimed he was going to do. This isn't sarcasm I'm serious. I'm still worried especially with the appointment of Bolton but so far we've dodged the bullets. Let's just hope Trump continues to be as incompetent and ineffectual as he's been the last year.
by ocean-kat on Tue, 03/27/2018 - 10:21pm
Also Trump's log for work as president is less than 2 hrs. a day for the last 4 business days.
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/28/2018 - 1:03am
Hmmm, wonder what he's working so hard on.
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 03/28/2018 - 6:48am