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8 Dec, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Me: No, this can't be real...
*Verifies date, checks multiple sources, references official websites*
Me: Do I really want to go down this rabbit hole? Image
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Well... That's enough internet for me today. ImageImageImageImage

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9 Dec
At the turn of the century, Johann Galtung identified 12 things that the media does wrong when reporting violence.

It's painful how much worse the coverage has gotten since.

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 1) Decontextualizing violence: focusing on the irrational without looking at the reasons for polarization.

2) Dualism: reducing the number of parties in a conflict to two, when often more are involved.
2/
 3) Manicheanism: portraying one side as good and demonizing the other as evil

4) Armageddon: presenting violence as inevitable, omitting alternatives

5) Focusing on individual acts of violence while avoiding structural causes like poverty, government neglect, and repression
Read 6 tweets
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20 Sep
@patribotics I think the #FinCENFiles prove that FinCEN has done nothing to effectively enforce the money laundering done through shell companies in US real estate for years.

They've actually inhibited investigations by hoarding a lot of this documentation themselves without investigating.
@patribotics Russia compromised the Treasury in 2015. Several whistleblowers were silenced.

So a Transnational Crime Syndicate takes over FinCEN, hopes to install Trump in power and hits the hail-mary.
@patribotics They install their people at the Treasury first, then take over DOJ, and they're laughing.

They employ the "Catch and Kill" strategy.

They use FinCEN to gobble up all the money laundering crimes, become strangely tight with all the records, and just sit on it.
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18 Sep
You know what's interesting?

Laundromats.

occrp.org/en/azerbaijani…
The Azerbaijani Laundromat used a neat little tactic.

They opened accounts in the name of a low-level bank employee, in this case a driver, and transferred more than $1.7 billion into other countries and open shell companies.

occrp.org/en/azerbaijani…
You know who else uses these sorts of Laundromats?

Corrupt Russian businessmen. Seems to be popular with Ukraine criminals too.

occrp.org/en/laundromat/…
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21 Jul
The Trump Admin's "Secret Police" tactics are right out of the Authoritarian's playbook.

There are examples of these forces throughout history, but one of the most recent (and cruel) isn't well known in the West:

The Securitate.

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1/ From 1965 - 1989, Romania was ruled by a brutal dictator named Nicolae Ceaușescu.

He stole millions while people starved, demolished cultural buildings to build a gaudy palace, and maintained control through a cruel secret police force.

history.co.uk/article/the-fa…
2/ They weren't just a blunt instrument. The Securitate were designed to breed paranoia.

Every phone in the country was tapped. It was rumored that one in four were part of their vast network of secret informants.

The actual figure was closer to one in thirty. Image
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12 Jun
Wichita State University (WSU) gets a lot of money from the Koch Brothers.

They're from Wichita so the philanthropy makes sense, but that generosity is being used to shape the policy of public institutions.

That's not charity. That's something else.
WSU recently made headlines after cancelling Ivanka Trump's virtual commencement speech. Koch surrogates were furious.

For people who pretend to distance themselves from Trump, the #KochNetwork sure seemed to care about this empty gesture.

kansas.com/news/local/edu…
This was the first loyalty test for the new WSU President Jay Golden.

His predecessor, John Bardo, was quite the Koch ally before he retired for health reasons:

“The Kochs never had any real confidence in the presidents... Then we finally got John Bardo in there"
Read 17 tweets
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8 Jun
Apropos of nothing, I thought I should learn more about Hitler's Cabinet.

I found it helpful to think of the equivalent positions in the US today. Helps provide context.

I'm not suggesting any US officals are Nazis.

However, some do actual Nazi things. 🤷

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Title: Chancellor of the German Reich

Role: Head of government and chief executive of the nation.

Held by: Adolf Hitler

Current US equivalent: President Donald J. Trump
Title: Vice-Chancellor of the German Reich

Role: Second highest ranking cabinet member. Effectively, a back-up should the Chancellor be unavailable.

Held by: Franz von Papen; Hermann Göring

Current US equivalent: Vice President Mike Pence
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