Rather than gaining power by asking segments of the electorate for their support, they cynically attempt to “manage” democracy, by manufacturing a loyal voting bloc through emotional/psychological manipulation, and disinformation.
It’s important to understand that Russia didn’t just unilaterally attack the U.S. in 2016. They were *invited* to attack our elections by the GOP (the RNC was in the loop on the wikileaks dumps).
The GOP made yet another desperate “deal with the devil.”
A watershed of Trump’s legacy will be that he publicly exposed the Republican Party, in this desperate gambit for total power, for what it already was.
Perhaps that is why many GOP members so desperately wanted to prevent Trump from becoming the nominee.
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As tens of thousands were dying of opioid overdoses, McKinsey worked with Purdue and the Sackler family on strategies to “turbocharge” OxyContin sales.
They planned counter strategies against drug enforcement agents - and against mothers of o/d victims. nytimes.com/2019/02/01/bus…
The above article is from Feb, 2019, but new information has recently come to light with more details.
Recall that originally, McKinsey initially tried to hedge on the extent of their involvement, making claims that implied the information may be 2nd- and 3rd-hand & unreliable.
But today, we learn damning details exposing the advice that McKinsey offered the Sacklers - even suggesting that Purdue could offer pharmacies/distributors *rebates* for every overdose, to give them incentives to continue selling OxyContin.
This is an important question, and one that needs to be taken seriously.
The GOP has broken a "123-year tradition against voting on judicial nominees of an outgoing president of the defeated party during a lame duck session.”
Netanyahu quietly took a trip with the head of Mossad for a “clandestine” meeting with MBS, at the same time that Mike Pompeo was there meeting with him.
h/t @FauxbotSupreme
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, people began discovering documentation of the secretive outflows of money from the USSR.
An even bigger dark money channel was the use of “Friendly Firms” - groups that other companies had to pay, in order to do business in the USSR.
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One of those firms, it was discovered, was Robert Maxwell’s Pergamon Press - a large publishing company that was used to sell the Soviets’ science books to the West.
Maxwell was found dead just days before this list was published.
-from Putin’s People, by Catherine Belton
As it turns out, the communist party was selling goods and materials to foreign companies at incredibly low, fixed internal Soviet prices.
The companies would reap huge profits, and then use that money to finance active measures campaigns to destabilize other nations.