The things I had to do to chase down a footnote in 1986.😅
I’ve been going through some old boxes & came across this letter from Gen. Andrew Goodpaster. I remember interviewing him for about 45 minutes. I recorded it on an old Walkman that had a built-in microphone. When I reviewed the tape, I realized I had it set to record AM radio.🤦🏻♂️
That time in 1986 when I wrote a college paper about the handiwork of Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, et al. in representing kleptocratic Angolan butcher Jonas Savimbi (one of Ronald Reagan’s terrorist “freedom fighters”).
Manafort has been repping butchers for my entire adult life. He was also worked for the ridiculously corrupt Viktor Yanukovych, Putin’s lackey who was literally chased out of Ukraine in 2014.
It all comes back to Manafort — Russia, Trump, Ukraine, dictators. Four decades of Manafort’s slimy, corrupt trail. Watch this great @alexwagner interview of @FranklinFoer.
“Manafort did quite well during his time in Ukraine. He was paid tens of millions of dollars by pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych and other clients, stashing much of the money in undeclared bank accounts in Cyprus and the Caribbean.”
Important thread on why Russian vehicles could soon suffer catastrophic tire failures (if they haven’t already). If the mud thaws soon, those Russian columns are even more screwed. Let’s hope for warm weather front.
Apparently, Beijing cynically asked Putin to delay hostilities until after the Winter Olympics. That (and global warming) could help Ukraine more than a no-fly zone. The mud will turn the countryside into a giant tank trap — a no-move zone. Great timing!😬
Mind boggling thread. See below for translation. Even more shocking is that Russian soldiers are using unencrypted civilian radios to communicate (Chinese Baofeng walkie-talkies captured). Did some oligarch get the contract and swapped cheap radios to pocket the difference?
Good thread on how scandalously easy it is to eavesdrop on Russian forces. It’s becoming clearer why US intelligence officials were so confident in their “predictions” about Russian intentions. Even amateurs can listen-in & troll or jam the invaders. I’m positively slack jawed!😱
It was a wannabe oligarch. Slap a Russian label on Chinese equipment and pocket the difference!🧵👇
Did it not occur to anyone to replace the equipment before going to war? I mean inside Russia — western & Chinese intelligence agencies obviously knew they hit the jackpot.
The amount of far-right lies @Facebook promotes is staggering and this fake news machine will explode in volume Tuesday night and onward. #DeleteFacebook
This is exactly the Trump media game plan. The avalanche of lies will explode Tuesday night. Be prepared to fact check your crazy relative when they drink the KoolAid by the gallon.
Are the National Guard being deployed to protect vote counting centers in swing states? Trump will send his mobs to intimidate vote counters. Unlike the Florida Preppy Riot in 2000, these won’t be tame GOP staffers. These will be armed mobs. No doubt arson will be attempted.
Stanford researchers looked at 18 Trump rallies held btwn June 20–Sept. 22 and analyzed Covid-19 data the weeks following. They found that the rallies ultimately resulted in more than 30,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 & likely led to more than 700 deaths. cnbc.com/2020/10/31/cor…
This is the *massive* county where Republican Governor Greg Abbott said they could have only one absentee ballot drop box for the entire county. Looks like he failed at voter suppression in Harris County!
The White House got the 1st formal notification of the outbreak of the coronavirus in China on January 3. It took 70 days for Trump to sound the alarm. “That more-than-two-month stretch now stands as critical time that was squandered.”