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February 9, 2025

Will the current musk coup define our future?

I stumbled onto this article, which has a number of highly relevant links to other articles worth reading, after reading an article about plutocracy and the Super Bowl in Common Dreams ( link also included below).

https://inequality.org/article/will-the-current-musk-coup-define-our-future/]

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/super-bowl-pluto]


September 3, 2024

If Trump is Laundering Russian Money, Here's How It Works: This 2018 headline is still relevant

I just googled “Donald Trump money laundering” and found this Wired article from 2018 that basically puts into words everything I have thought about DonOLD Dumpster and his “organization” since the 1980’s.

https://www.wired.com/story/if-trump-is-laundering-russian-money-heres-how-it-works/]

How It Works
Shell companies, pseudonyms, shady lawyers, and secrecy: The president’s and his lawyer's business practices match the classic pattern of suspicious activity.


Other relevant articles ( there are plenty out there):
https://www.propublica.org/article/liu-tao-trump-meeting-china-investigation]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/05/media/pro-trump-epoch-times-money-laundering-charge/index.html]


July 21, 2024

I wanted our President, Joe Biden, to stay in the race. But now, ...

I wanted Joe Biden to stay in the race. I wrote to the White House and the President expressing my satisfaction with him and his efforts to make our country a better place for us all. I wished him a speedy recovery from his latest bout with COVID. But now, since the dear man who is our President has dropped out and passed the torch, VP Kamala Harris must be our nominee in order for us to win. She has worked right along side President Biden in her role. She is more than qualified and she should be the first woman president in the history of our country. I am all for a “primary” for the VP spot on the ticket but if we have an open convention, I completely agree with Rep. Clyburn that we will most certainly lose this race. Anyone who would refer to such a scenario as a “coronation” is aiding and abetting Trump and the Republicans.

I am convinced, like most here at DU, there are nefarious forces at work here. Now that Biden has succumbed to the pressure, we cannot give anymore. We need to all come together around VP Harris immediately!

That said, does anyone have thoughts (besides Josh Hawley and Allen Lichtman) about President Biden resigning and giving the VP the incumbency? I don’t really know what to think about that idea at this point.

I thank Joe Biden for everything he has done in his life to make our country a better place.

August 29, 2020

Chadwick Boseman Dies at 43

Source: Vanity Fair

Devastatingly, and almost unbelievably, Chadwick Boseman, the star of Marvel’s Black Panther, has died at the age of 43 after a private four-year battle with colon cancer.

Despite a life cut tragically short, Boseman amassed a tremendous filmography. His legacy might be summed up in one word: Pride. In addition to the fictional T'Challa, leader of utopian nation of Wakanda in the Marvel movies, he was known for his powerful, dignified, and humanizing portrayals of pioneering Black American leaders such as baseball great Jackie Robinson in 42; future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall in the legal drama Marshall, about one of his early cases as an NAACP attorney; and soul star James Brown in the musical biography Get On Up.

Read more: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/08/chadwick-boseman-dies-black-panther



Terrible news.
January 26, 2020

'You Think Russia Ever Goes In and Gets Ukraine, or No?': The Wildest Things Trump Said...

Source: Vice News

WASHINGTON — President Trump was even more blunt, crass, and unfiltered during a private dinner in 2018 at the Trump Hotel than he normally is in public.

While the big standout of the meal was his demand to fire the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, his transactional approach to geopolitics, total lack of concern for helping America’s international allies, and openness to letting businessmen convince him to back specific policies that’d benefit them illustrates just how the leader of the free world operates behind closed doors.



Read more: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/g5xv7j/you-think-russia-ever-goes-in-and-gets-ukraine-or-no-the-wildest-things-trump-said-at-a-private-2018-dinner-revealed



Trump has never met Lev Parnas yet he talks to him a number of times during the dinner about Ukraine (including specifically about Marie Yovanovitch)and the marijuana industry. He is representing a few small interests at our expense. I'm sure we, as taxpayers, paid for that dinner.
January 6, 2020

Severe childhood deprivation reduces brain size, study finds

Children who experience severe deprivation early in life have smaller brains in adulthood, researchers have found.

The findings are based on scans of young adults who were adopted as children into UK families from Romania’s orphanages that rose under the regime of the dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu.

Now experts say that despite the children having been adopted into loving, nurturing families in the early 1990s, the early neglect appears to have left its mark on their brain structures.

“I think the most striking finding is … that the effects on the brain have persisted,” said Prof Edmund Sonuga-Barke, a co-author of the study from King’s College London, who added that the results showed neuroplasticity had limits.


https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jan/06/severe-childhood-deprivation-reduces-brain-size-study-finds]

And the U.S. is doing the same thing to immigrant children.
January 4, 2020

'If You Are Wondering Who Benefits':

Weapons Makers See Stocks Surge as Trump Moves Closer to War With Iran
"Stocks for weapons manufacturers began to rise as soon as Soleimani was killed," said Rep. Ro Khanna.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/04/if-you-are-wondering-who-benefits-weapons-makers-see-stocks-surge-trump-moves-closer]

Weapons makers, oil producers... the worst for the planet in every single way that matters.

December 27, 2019

Trump Pushes Out Tweet Naming Alleged Whistleblower

Source: Daily beast

On Thursday evening, Donald Trump pushed out on Twitter the name of the alleged whistleblower whose complaint led to the president’s impeachment.


Trump’s personal Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump, retweeted a post by the re-election campaign’s official “war room” account that was aimed at the whistleblower’s attorney Mark Zaid. “It's pretty simple. The CIA ‘whistleblower’ is not a real whistleblower!” reads the tweet, which links to a Washington Examiner item. That piece, published Dec. 3, includes the alleged whistleblower’s name in the headline. The Daily Beast is declining to publish the name and has not independently verified the identity of the whistleblower.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-pushes-out-tweet-naming-alleged-whistleblower

November 23, 2019

Far From the Front Lines, Javelin Missiles Go Unused in Ukraine

I have not heard or read this before. How did this go unmentioned throughout the public impeachment hearings??

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/03/far-from-the-front-lines-javelin-missiles-go-unused-in-ukraine/]

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