I find it bizarre/suspicious that two men who have zero issue with enabling Russia at the expense of America, and are both in Opus Dei, and worked for the same employer.
Nicholson was recruited to commit treasonous acts to benefit Russia during the Clinton admin, some time from 92-94.
Among the materials he passed along to Russia was a report on Chechnya.
An act that likely contributed to the end of Chechen independence in 1999.
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Russia is interested in Russian interests. America is interested in American interests.
They are not the same and are usually directly at odds.
We do not share a world view.
We do not have shared values.
Russia used these men, and Giuliani to advance Russian interests.
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A scary possibility is that Barr/Trump, who have an authoritarian view of the American Presidency do not agree with the government that was established at the Constitutional Convention and the precedent set by George Washington.
They would have divided power differently.
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Why do you think Russia is so interested in Ukraine? The same reason they were interested in Chechnya. They want it to be part of Russia, & they are willing to wage war to do so.
Like Nicholson helping Russia to crush Chechnya, @RudyGiuliani is helping Russia crush Ukraine.
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Nicholson assisted Russia in crushing Chechen independence for $300,000 USD.
At his trial where Ames was given a life sentence, he admitted that he had exposed"virtually all Soviet agents of the CIA and other American and foreign services known to me.”
Since its creation, the United States of America has sought to find a balance between federal power and state power. All with the belief that a government EXISTS to protect the rights of the PEOPLE. This was a radical concept.
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After the failed fractured government of the Articles of Confederation, men like Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington knew that the country needed a national leader and a federal government.
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At the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, the framers argued ferociously over how to strike a balance between state and federal powers, while maintaining that government exists to protect individual rights.
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On sorting machines: DeJoy claims no knowledge of disassembly of sorting machines being sold for scrap.
@SenatorHassan: "You are really sabotaging the Postal Service's ability to sort mail efficiently..." #DeJoy
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@SenatorHassan wants to make sure that postal workers are not retaliated against, asks for #DeJoy's commitment to NOT retaliate, to which he says, "Yes Ma'am."
This has to do with Flynn, who lied to the FBI about subverting the acting President’s foreign policy, which he also did not take notes about because he knew what he was doing was problematic.
I would like to see @DonaldJTrumpJr answer some questions about this:
"Documents provided by the NRA show that at least one unidentified person had misgivings about the interaction. The NRA provided copies of two text messages dated May 23, 2016..."
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"...showing an unidentified individual warned [@DonaldJTrumpJr] to avoid “a Russian gal” he’d met that weekend.
“I understand that someone introduced a Russian gal to you this week. I’ll fill you in this week but I would steer clear if she tries to reach out to you.”
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Correcting an earlier tweet: This is NOT the same person who was charged, this is Bob Woody, NOT Wilson Woody Phillips.
"The #NRA party was Wayne sheet's gathering of roughly 30 donors...Ollie North, Woody and Don Trump were counted amount the members present.
"Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., in February 2018 began an inquiry of
the NRA following public reporting of potential improper activities related to financial contributions and
its role in the 2016 presidential election."
Images of anonymously uniformed federal agents arresting protestors in Portland feels like fascism. We are witnessing the ground level of something terrible.
It reminds me of a deeply disturbing book called Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning.
Ordinary Men describes the descent of average German citizens to murderers who would say things like, "It was supposed to be...soothing to my conscience to release children unable to live without their mothers," describing how they rationalized murdering children.
"...it was desirable at the time that platoon leaders were also party members, I entered the party shortly before the outbreak of the war." - Nazi Lt. Drucker, reflecting on his time in a mobile killing squad.