Another great letter that gives me hope for democracy. 🙏
A few notes from reading a lot and paying close attention to add some more depth.
GHW Bush was also CIA director before Reagan’s VP. That’s a lot more loyalty and power from the intelligence community to inform of foreign meddling than a redneck Congressman from Bakersfield could ev…
Another great letter that gives me hope for democracy. 🙏
A few notes from reading a lot and paying close attention to add some more depth.
GHW Bush was also CIA director before Reagan’s VP. That’s a lot more loyalty and power from the intelligence community to inform of foreign meddling than a redneck Congressman from Bakersfield could ever muster. McCarthy should be scared of what Liz has learned from Her dad’s and GHW Bush’s loyalists.
D. Firtash, Ukrainian oil Money. Big time $ launderer. part of Putin’s cash cow. It works like this as explained by Stanford MBA and hermitage capital founder Bill Browder and Yale’s Tim Snyder: the ‘stan’s gas and oil are bought by Russian firms from the ‘stans way below market price with the Russians paying the ‘Stan strongmen a cash cut under the table. The gas and oil are brokered into Ukraine at a mark up, but again a % under the table. Firtash or other stooge, the brokers take some of those profits, and uses them to buy elections and judges to become pro Russian and the president Mide to get rich. The Ukraine suffers under this scheme, and forces Europe to pay even more than they should have to fit gas and oil. This keeps Ukraine and other countries under Putin’s influence and keeps Ukraine from joining the EU. Lots of ways to launder Money there. When you have more than half a government on the take, the possibilities for corruption become endless. Putin steals from Russian industry’s via his Oligarghs, and has to export that illegal cash in order to launder it, before bringing it back to Russia as his own money.
This scheme has found its way to corrupting Western Europe and the US. G. Shroeder. V. Orban. Silvio Berlesconni. LePenne. Brexit. Maga. All of these right wing movements are fueled by greed, graft, payoffs, quick riches promised by Putin or his Oligarghs. It begins as barely legal, but once on the take, corruption snowballs. These are the characters and methods of the “Thieves of State”, Sarah Chayse describes. Lev Parnus is a little fish of D. Firtash. Firtash funded Lev to Turn Guilanni, by creating the illusion he is a “donor” gatekeeper, this is a classic con. Poor Rudy just could not resist the promise of riches, and becoming important again within the Republican donor machinery.
What’s a new one, is that so blatantly, TFG is also using a scheme to skim in a way that was made famous by the Russian Mafia and Oligarchs after the fall of the USSR. They have been doing this for decades since the fall of the USSR. The shell company stock “pump and dump” and arbitrage schemes were common place as Eastern Europe tried to transition from communist to free market economies. Semion Mogilevich is but one Russian Mafia boss that added these schemes as a revenue stream, and Boss Putin always gets a cut. D. Firtash is just another front man, controlling the purse strings to bribe politicians everywhere. He is a wanted man in the US, for bribing a titanium mining operation that hurt Boeing’s ability to source the metal in India. Firtash has access to billions to buy influence for Putin. If he is wanted in the US, he could possibly make the Titanium bribery charges go away. This is why Lev Parnus was giving so much of Firtash cash to the GOP
In this way, you can begin to see the National Security implications. This is where Liz Cheney’s family contacts are helping her.
To succeed, these schemes need a lax rule of law. The organized crime bosses need to buy off the political leadership to shield them from prosecution. Part of that would be to fire the top leadership at the FBI, Comey, Strzok, McCabe. To my understanding, this is but one of the threats and feeling corruption TFG represents and has dragged us in deeper.
MaryPat, I just got a reply from Gary, who wrote: "What a wonderful note from MaryPat! She and Jack are a golden couple, two genial-types merging. I’m not even surprised that Jack is still playing baseball." I hope this brings sunshine to your day.
I'm positive Gary would love to hear from you and Jack: gdorrien@uts.columbia.edu. I met Gary at a lecture he gave at my then church: All Souls UU in NYC. I had no idea what I was going to do with this scholarship I was given - the school year hadn't begun . Literally on the spot I asked him if he would be my advisor. He said yes. The rest is history... btw: I'm rozgnatt@gmail.com.
Rosalind, Jack says he would love to send Gary a note. Would it be okay with Gary for you to private message his email to me at my facebook site? (Same name as posted here). Understand if this isn't kosher. Thanks. MP
THANK YOU ROSALIND!! And Thanks to Gary! Sunshine to me in Michigan, and to Jack swinging his bat in Vegas! Jack says, "Holy smokes! Heck of a guy, and a really nice note." What a sweet and thoughtful thing you did Rosalind. I'd call it a home run!
This is excellent, Ted! Putin has his hand in everything. Clever, devious, but extremely dangerous man. He trained TFG for many years right under everyone’s noses. Bribed and prepped him, hook, line, and sinker.
Thank you! You have provided an answer to a question I have had for a long time: Why do the ultra-wealthy continuously strive to acquire more and more and more money? What can they buy that they don't already have?
"American billionaires have more in common with Russian Oligarchs than they do with regular everyday American people"-Tim Snyder. And the same could be said about Asian and Middle Eastern Oligarchs too. The whole world is watching how this plays out.
I think American Oligarchs want now what Putin and his Oligarchs have, "Politically protected and secure" oligarchy, less disruption from law enforcement ( agency enforcement like EPA, SEC, etc) and less uncertainty that fair elections always bring to them. Racism plays a role here, as increased equality and justice is called for in our Policing and policies, the people entrusted to uphold the law are more engendered toward MAGA Populism, Q, and anti Public Health, than they are to the Constitution. This only emboldens the Oligarchy as they can more easily keep the police in their back pocket after they have them secured in their false ideology. The American Oligarchy wants MORE freedom for themselves. They want to do as they please and do not care about democracy, justice, the rule of law, or the earth for future generations.
TFG and McCarthy represent Billionaire Libertarian's. The split is not just with Liz Cheney and about Jan 6th. The divide now sheds a light on the split between her backers and loyalists.... the Military Industrial Complex, CIA, Intelligence Community & Energy (oil and gas), but also maybe the American finance and banking community. This collation may be in the minority in quantity of people, but their quality is that of the deepest pockets and homegrown legal profit generation. But how can legal businesses of military manufacturing, oil and gas, banking and financial services keep up with unlimited foreign capital flowing into American politics? ( most of this capital comes from the competing oil nations.....Middle East, Russia, maybe Brazil too, these are competitors to Western energy company's).
Robert Mercer's front man, Bannon, has the quantity of people that is MAGA Populism. Maga and Q are just mass market products for confusion, white rage, a con man's front for hiding and keeping the focus off the real issue, this new American Oligarchy. But fear of political violence is a real threat at every level to maintain decency and good faith. TFG and McCarthy represent more than Maga and Q. They represent the influx of foreign capital to fund, meddle, assist in the rigging to win elections, to produce the political and legal cover to sustain themselves at the expense of Law, Order, and equal opportunity.
The biggest challenge from the last recession wasn't the slowness of the economic recovery, its is how the recovery made us vulnerable to foreign investment rescuing our country from lack of oversight, accountability, and common sense. The foreign capital saved the wrong people, and with it, the tying of pollical strings in trade. For TFG, it was Deutsche Bank, and dark sales of his overpriced commercial real estate and empty condo buildings saved by dark foreign states shelled up as "investors" after the real estate and credit crash of 2007-2008. And now this pump and dump Media stock scheme by a former US President? All while enriching themselves at the expense of the American middle class and American itself. Maybe McCarthy can only see the $ in TFG's hands and is just playing to get some of that for his Tea Party Wing?
The previous Letter was about building good. I sure Merrick Garland is building something special, because American democracy needs it soon.
Ted, 👏🏻👏🏻 your analysis. May I have your permission to forward your comments to a non member (but active Dem) who has been struggling to understand just who/what makes Bannon such a constant public figure? “He’s a nobody, wo significant position, and he is always being talked about…”. I see B as a fomenter of click bait messages….the machine to keep the caged lions continually fed and yet always hungry for more. Liked your take…”Mercer’s mouthpiece” (BTW…Not dire…is it even appropriate to make such a request?)
Another great letter that gives me hope for democracy. 🙏
A few notes from reading a lot and paying close attention to add some more depth.
GHW Bush was also CIA director before Reagan’s VP. That’s a lot more loyalty and power from the intelligence community to inform of foreign meddling than a redneck Congressman from Bakersfield could ever muster. McCarthy should be scared of what Liz has learned from Her dad’s and GHW Bush’s loyalists.
D. Firtash, Ukrainian oil Money. Big time $ launderer. part of Putin’s cash cow. It works like this as explained by Stanford MBA and hermitage capital founder Bill Browder and Yale’s Tim Snyder: the ‘stan’s gas and oil are bought by Russian firms from the ‘stans way below market price with the Russians paying the ‘Stan strongmen a cash cut under the table. The gas and oil are brokered into Ukraine at a mark up, but again a % under the table. Firtash or other stooge, the brokers take some of those profits, and uses them to buy elections and judges to become pro Russian and the president Mide to get rich. The Ukraine suffers under this scheme, and forces Europe to pay even more than they should have to fit gas and oil. This keeps Ukraine and other countries under Putin’s influence and keeps Ukraine from joining the EU. Lots of ways to launder Money there. When you have more than half a government on the take, the possibilities for corruption become endless. Putin steals from Russian industry’s via his Oligarghs, and has to export that illegal cash in order to launder it, before bringing it back to Russia as his own money.
This scheme has found its way to corrupting Western Europe and the US. G. Shroeder. V. Orban. Silvio Berlesconni. LePenne. Brexit. Maga. All of these right wing movements are fueled by greed, graft, payoffs, quick riches promised by Putin or his Oligarghs. It begins as barely legal, but once on the take, corruption snowballs. These are the characters and methods of the “Thieves of State”, Sarah Chayse describes. Lev Parnus is a little fish of D. Firtash. Firtash funded Lev to Turn Guilanni, by creating the illusion he is a “donor” gatekeeper, this is a classic con. Poor Rudy just could not resist the promise of riches, and becoming important again within the Republican donor machinery.
What’s a new one, is that so blatantly, TFG is also using a scheme to skim in a way that was made famous by the Russian Mafia and Oligarchs after the fall of the USSR. They have been doing this for decades since the fall of the USSR. The shell company stock “pump and dump” and arbitrage schemes were common place as Eastern Europe tried to transition from communist to free market economies. Semion Mogilevich is but one Russian Mafia boss that added these schemes as a revenue stream, and Boss Putin always gets a cut. D. Firtash is just another front man, controlling the purse strings to bribe politicians everywhere. He is a wanted man in the US, for bribing a titanium mining operation that hurt Boeing’s ability to source the metal in India. Firtash has access to billions to buy influence for Putin. If he is wanted in the US, he could possibly make the Titanium bribery charges go away. This is why Lev Parnus was giving so much of Firtash cash to the GOP
In this way, you can begin to see the National Security implications. This is where Liz Cheney’s family contacts are helping her.
To succeed, these schemes need a lax rule of law. The organized crime bosses need to buy off the political leadership to shield them from prosecution. Part of that would be to fire the top leadership at the FBI, Comey, Strzok, McCabe. To my understanding, this is but one of the threats and feeling corruption TFG represents and has dragged us in deeper.
Wow Ted. Thank You. I think.
MaryPat, I just got a reply from Gary, who wrote: "What a wonderful note from MaryPat! She and Jack are a golden couple, two genial-types merging. I’m not even surprised that Jack is still playing baseball." I hope this brings sunshine to your day.
I'm positive Gary would love to hear from you and Jack: gdorrien@uts.columbia.edu. I met Gary at a lecture he gave at my then church: All Souls UU in NYC. I had no idea what I was going to do with this scholarship I was given - the school year hadn't begun . Literally on the spot I asked him if he would be my advisor. He said yes. The rest is history... btw: I'm rozgnatt@gmail.com.
Wonderful!!! Thanks!
P.S. Gary may want to follow Jack's hysterical facebook daily play-by-play of the tournament!
Rosalind, Jack says he would love to send Gary a note. Would it be okay with Gary for you to private message his email to me at my facebook site? (Same name as posted here). Understand if this isn't kosher. Thanks. MP
THANK YOU ROSALIND!! And Thanks to Gary! Sunshine to me in Michigan, and to Jack swinging his bat in Vegas! Jack says, "Holy smokes! Heck of a guy, and a really nice note." What a sweet and thoughtful thing you did Rosalind. I'd call it a home run!
Radix omnium malorum est cupiditas.
Radix omnium malorum est amor pecuniae.
Both of them!
Cupidity - greed for money or possessions.
sigh!
This is excellent, Ted! Putin has his hand in everything. Clever, devious, but extremely dangerous man. He trained TFG for many years right under everyone’s noses. Bribed and prepped him, hook, line, and sinker.
Thank you. This makes sense.
Thank you! You have provided an answer to a question I have had for a long time: Why do the ultra-wealthy continuously strive to acquire more and more and more money? What can they buy that they don't already have?
"American billionaires have more in common with Russian Oligarchs than they do with regular everyday American people"-Tim Snyder. And the same could be said about Asian and Middle Eastern Oligarchs too. The whole world is watching how this plays out.
I think American Oligarchs want now what Putin and his Oligarchs have, "Politically protected and secure" oligarchy, less disruption from law enforcement ( agency enforcement like EPA, SEC, etc) and less uncertainty that fair elections always bring to them. Racism plays a role here, as increased equality and justice is called for in our Policing and policies, the people entrusted to uphold the law are more engendered toward MAGA Populism, Q, and anti Public Health, than they are to the Constitution. This only emboldens the Oligarchy as they can more easily keep the police in their back pocket after they have them secured in their false ideology. The American Oligarchy wants MORE freedom for themselves. They want to do as they please and do not care about democracy, justice, the rule of law, or the earth for future generations.
TFG and McCarthy represent Billionaire Libertarian's. The split is not just with Liz Cheney and about Jan 6th. The divide now sheds a light on the split between her backers and loyalists.... the Military Industrial Complex, CIA, Intelligence Community & Energy (oil and gas), but also maybe the American finance and banking community. This collation may be in the minority in quantity of people, but their quality is that of the deepest pockets and homegrown legal profit generation. But how can legal businesses of military manufacturing, oil and gas, banking and financial services keep up with unlimited foreign capital flowing into American politics? ( most of this capital comes from the competing oil nations.....Middle East, Russia, maybe Brazil too, these are competitors to Western energy company's).
Robert Mercer's front man, Bannon, has the quantity of people that is MAGA Populism. Maga and Q are just mass market products for confusion, white rage, a con man's front for hiding and keeping the focus off the real issue, this new American Oligarchy. But fear of political violence is a real threat at every level to maintain decency and good faith. TFG and McCarthy represent more than Maga and Q. They represent the influx of foreign capital to fund, meddle, assist in the rigging to win elections, to produce the political and legal cover to sustain themselves at the expense of Law, Order, and equal opportunity.
The biggest challenge from the last recession wasn't the slowness of the economic recovery, its is how the recovery made us vulnerable to foreign investment rescuing our country from lack of oversight, accountability, and common sense. The foreign capital saved the wrong people, and with it, the tying of pollical strings in trade. For TFG, it was Deutsche Bank, and dark sales of his overpriced commercial real estate and empty condo buildings saved by dark foreign states shelled up as "investors" after the real estate and credit crash of 2007-2008. And now this pump and dump Media stock scheme by a former US President? All while enriching themselves at the expense of the American middle class and American itself. Maybe McCarthy can only see the $ in TFG's hands and is just playing to get some of that for his Tea Party Wing?
The previous Letter was about building good. I sure Merrick Garland is building something special, because American democracy needs it soon.
Ted, 👏🏻👏🏻 your analysis. May I have your permission to forward your comments to a non member (but active Dem) who has been struggling to understand just who/what makes Bannon such a constant public figure? “He’s a nobody, wo significant position, and he is always being talked about…”. I see B as a fomenter of click bait messages….the machine to keep the caged lions continually fed and yet always hungry for more. Liked your take…”Mercer’s mouthpiece” (BTW…Not dire…is it even appropriate to make such a request?)
Sure!
Thank you.
Yes. Everything you said.
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Yeah!
Thank you, Ted.