I was one of the architects of the Financial Institution Development Program funded by the World Bank for the capitalization and modernization of the Russian banking system back in the early 1990s. We analyzed/assessed approximately 350 banks across Russian to determine which 125 would receive World Bank funding/capital infusion. I was…
I was one of the architects of the Financial Institution Development Program funded by the World Bank for the capitalization and modernization of the Russian banking system back in the early 1990s. We analyzed/assessed approximately 350 banks across Russian to determine which 125 would receive World Bank funding/capital infusion. I was the architect of the Scorecard used to qualify and rank these banks. This team of dedicated international development experts, hired and directed by World Bank "management" objectively scored and identified the 125 banks. In the eleventh hour, World Bank "management" added two banks - which did not even yet exist - to the list of awardees. Both of these "banks" were directly linked to Putin. Alpha Bank was one of these banks. This is VERY TELLING....
Ah yes, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Granting development loans to poor countries who subsequently find themselves crushed by debt. No wonder people mistrust government.
You are most certainly not a "dummy"! I don't know if you know of Greg Olear, who has a substack called "Prevail," but I am thinking your post would be something he could jump on. He's quite an expert in all the Russian subterfuge and the shady dealings of just about everyone you name here - and more. I have long held the belief that, dumb as he may appear, TFG and his entire family are not just Mobsters, but intricately involved with the Russian Mafia and therefore Russian Mafia themselves.
Off topic a bit, but would really like to know if Rupert Murdoch involved with Russian mob. Read a while back that his ex Wendy is Putin’s current squeeze. She and Ivanka were reportedly BFFs. On the “gossipy” side but such connections can be dark but important.
Dawna, having followed your posts I do think dismissing you as a "dummy" is a dumb mistake. Projection again! And thank you for casting light on the Mercers. They seem to scuttle away like cockroaches.
Who will hold the legislature and the executive branch?
A Guardian headline (Oct. 5) states that the investigation into Trump in Georgia is “gathering steam”. It notes later that any charges “may take some time” in coming.
A lawfareblog article (https://www.lawfareblog.com/jan-6-investigation-ramping-will-it-matter) takes a close look at the House Investigation’s strategy and efforts to do something coherent and significant about 1/6. Its headline is not encouraging. “The Jan. 6 Investigation Is Ramping Up. Will it matter”?
Any charges the House Committee recommends have to go to the Department of Justice. At some point when it is not busy issuing Solomonic dictates preserving its own independence from partisanship, such as the one in which it scrupulously promised that it would continue to defend TFG in his legal entanglements with E. Jean Carroll, it may start to consider whether to indict conspirators associated with the seditious events of January 6. No doubt it will do so in a way that reassures the Red States that it is not prejudiced against the MAGA crowd. So far DOJ prosecutors have been scrupulously faithful to that task, asking for sentences so lenient to rioters of the day that judges hearing the cases are left blinking in astonishment at this gentle approach. One was even moved to sentence a conspirator to *more* than the DOJ asked for.
The probability that Stephen Bannon will live out the remaining years of his natural life without being charged for ignoring a subpoena is, I will concede, slight.
On the other hand It looks like His Trumpness could live to be 100 and engage in God knows how many more presidencies before the DOJ will lay a finger on him.
In the meantime your country, the shining city on the hill, the land that gave the world Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali, Ida Tarbell, Franklin Roosevelt, Sully Sullenberger and hundreds of other exemplars for humanity, is fucking folding up faster than the proverbial five dollar suitcase.
Last week a pilot other than the one mentioned in the paragraph above, ended his pre-flight welcome to his passengers with the phrase, “Let’s go Brandon”.
Southwest Airlines is said to be investigating.
In the light of such outrageous behavior not generating a national flameout, I’d have to say that getting to a treason charge against Trump may be a ways off.
Like Eric said below...does anybody seriously think anything will come of all these revelations? The American public is basically tuning all this out in order to try and get on with their lives. We're like..."oh look...another outrage du jour...*yawn...*", and this feeling that "it doesn't concern me..." The apathy in this country is going to be its downfall.
And then...once Republicans take over Congress again in '22 and the Presidency again in '24 (with T***p or someone even worse) all of these investigations will be shut down with everything allowed to then be swept under the rug. This will, IMO, all largely be the fault of Democrats. I am SO hugely fed up right now with this party and the lack of any concerted will to try and save this country. All this in-fighting over the budgets is exacting an enormous toll on their perceived ability to govern. And each group--I name myself as a Progressive--can only see as far as their own respective agendas and acting like a bunch of spoiled children. Meanwhile, the Republicans, who are themselves also being split apart, but are doing so less under the public spotlight, make political "hay" hand over fist. This is a party with no longer any substance to it whatsoever, and is only a reflection of its so-called leader and everything he stands for. This is what the American people are going to get again, and they deserve it because they don't give a you-know-what. Not voting is NOT a viable political strategy, because it might make one feel better in the short term, but what one is then enabling is a far worse alternative.
I agree with you that the problems lay with the people. I don't call them sides because to be a side in my mind requires honestly owning a position. Like with voting fraud really being about suppression which is really about replacement fears. The point? At least the messy debate between progressives and moderates is authentic.
But isn't it true that for all of recorded history the issue has been about how the elite placate and direct the masses. This is true now, only in pseudo-liberal society it happens more discreetly. That is what i feel you are describing. Nothing rational about it.
"At least the messy debate between progressives and moderates is authentic."
"Authentic" alright, but what is it accomplishing? Progressives don't seem to recognise the current political realities of Congress. The numbers to accomplish all they want to do are simply NOT there, and the differences are simply not going to vanish. "We're not going to vote for what YOU want until you vote for what WE want." Such intransigence shows a large degree of political naivté. So what do we have? Stalemate. Who suffers? The American people. Nothing gets done. It's all about grandstanding political positions. The divides in the Democratic party appear insurmountable. There are increasing rumblings that lack of funding for social programs and such will mean more and more women and Independent voters will simply turn their backs on the Dems and just not vote in '22 and '24. Wow. That'll work to everyone's favour, won't it? Such short-sightedness will be our undoing. And all the while, the Republicans are sitting back, watching, and laughing their asses off. They'll sweep into power and ANY talk of Jan. 6th investigations or voter reforms will be silenced, maybe for good.
"...for all of recorded history the issue has been about how the elite placate and direct the masses." For sure...it is happening right before our eyes and we--some of us--seem powerless to stop it. The Democratic party, in its current incarnation and with no more legislative power at its disposal than it has, can certainly not do anything about it for a broad range of reasons. The infighting is only making us appear more impotent. I wish I could feel better about the future, but trends are trends, and they don't look very promising right now.
I'll appreciate your thoughts on this: A great many more of our politicians know the balance of things. Their 'facing' has everything to do with our dissonance...if they want to get elected they, like the Pastor, cannot prophesize, but endorse. The dopamine releases when a sentiment is affirmed not criticized.
So they are a reflection of us. But we have been changing. Someone has learned how to monetize designer, emotional packets and distribute them en masse. The notes work like cattle prods, herding us into easily managed pens.
Ted Cruz knows better. Isn't he Princton and Harvard educated? He is fully aware of how this horde has been formed and what it is capable of. History has other examples of it. Steve Bannon understands this as well, the public has been zombiefied. .
Liberalism ultimately fails under the weight of the relativity it engenders. With no reliable message, the loud voices that understand our cravings will win.
off topic, but the rump is a necessary and often beautiful part of the human body. The buttocks enable H. sapiens to run (other primates that don't run don't have them).
Excellent ex parte reply, David. In addition to not throwing a lot cases together, some covering different areas of the law, you handily addressed a crucial aspect of escape by defendants. Bravo!
Great Points Dawna. I have been totally exasperated how impotent every policing agency we have is in investigation of “Pandora Box” like revelations of off-shoring, secret accounts and money laundering. Is it any wonder that pedophile Epstein (maybe) hung himself rather than open the international cartel of oligarchs to scrutiny?
I was one of the architects of the Financial Institution Development Program funded by the World Bank for the capitalization and modernization of the Russian banking system back in the early 1990s. We analyzed/assessed approximately 350 banks across Russian to determine which 125 would receive World Bank funding/capital infusion. I was the architect of the Scorecard used to qualify and rank these banks. This team of dedicated international development experts, hired and directed by World Bank "management" objectively scored and identified the 125 banks. In the eleventh hour, World Bank "management" added two banks - which did not even yet exist - to the list of awardees. Both of these "banks" were directly linked to Putin. Alpha Bank was one of these banks. This is VERY TELLING....
Ah yes, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Granting development loans to poor countries who subsequently find themselves crushed by debt. No wonder people mistrust government.
Wow!
You are most certainly not a "dummy"! I don't know if you know of Greg Olear, who has a substack called "Prevail," but I am thinking your post would be something he could jump on. He's quite an expert in all the Russian subterfuge and the shady dealings of just about everyone you name here - and more. I have long held the belief that, dumb as he may appear, TFG and his entire family are not just Mobsters, but intricately involved with the Russian Mafia and therefore Russian Mafia themselves.
Off topic a bit, but would really like to know if Rupert Murdoch involved with Russian mob. Read a while back that his ex Wendy is Putin’s current squeeze. She and Ivanka were reportedly BFFs. On the “gossipy” side but such connections can be dark but important.
Dawna, having followed your posts I do think dismissing you as a "dummy" is a dumb mistake. Projection again! And thank you for casting light on the Mercers. They seem to scuttle away like cockroaches.
This raises a good question. How much does the role of money play in the delay in charging trump with . . . anything.
When the extent of Russian involvement and tfg’s actions to support Putin are verified, I think then the definition of treason will be met.
And then what will happen?
How much older will we be?
Who will hold the legislature and the executive branch?
A Guardian headline (Oct. 5) states that the investigation into Trump in Georgia is “gathering steam”. It notes later that any charges “may take some time” in coming.
A lawfareblog article (https://www.lawfareblog.com/jan-6-investigation-ramping-will-it-matter) takes a close look at the House Investigation’s strategy and efforts to do something coherent and significant about 1/6. Its headline is not encouraging. “The Jan. 6 Investigation Is Ramping Up. Will it matter”?
Any charges the House Committee recommends have to go to the Department of Justice. At some point when it is not busy issuing Solomonic dictates preserving its own independence from partisanship, such as the one in which it scrupulously promised that it would continue to defend TFG in his legal entanglements with E. Jean Carroll, it may start to consider whether to indict conspirators associated with the seditious events of January 6. No doubt it will do so in a way that reassures the Red States that it is not prejudiced against the MAGA crowd. So far DOJ prosecutors have been scrupulously faithful to that task, asking for sentences so lenient to rioters of the day that judges hearing the cases are left blinking in astonishment at this gentle approach. One was even moved to sentence a conspirator to *more* than the DOJ asked for.
The probability that Stephen Bannon will live out the remaining years of his natural life without being charged for ignoring a subpoena is, I will concede, slight.
On the other hand It looks like His Trumpness could live to be 100 and engage in God knows how many more presidencies before the DOJ will lay a finger on him.
In the meantime your country, the shining city on the hill, the land that gave the world Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali, Ida Tarbell, Franklin Roosevelt, Sully Sullenberger and hundreds of other exemplars for humanity, is fucking folding up faster than the proverbial five dollar suitcase.
Last week a pilot other than the one mentioned in the paragraph above, ended his pre-flight welcome to his passengers with the phrase, “Let’s go Brandon”.
Southwest Airlines is said to be investigating.
In the light of such outrageous behavior not generating a national flameout, I’d have to say that getting to a treason charge against Trump may be a ways off.
Lordy, my fears put into words that cannot be misunderstood.
Like Eric said below...does anybody seriously think anything will come of all these revelations? The American public is basically tuning all this out in order to try and get on with their lives. We're like..."oh look...another outrage du jour...*yawn...*", and this feeling that "it doesn't concern me..." The apathy in this country is going to be its downfall.
And then...once Republicans take over Congress again in '22 and the Presidency again in '24 (with T***p or someone even worse) all of these investigations will be shut down with everything allowed to then be swept under the rug. This will, IMO, all largely be the fault of Democrats. I am SO hugely fed up right now with this party and the lack of any concerted will to try and save this country. All this in-fighting over the budgets is exacting an enormous toll on their perceived ability to govern. And each group--I name myself as a Progressive--can only see as far as their own respective agendas and acting like a bunch of spoiled children. Meanwhile, the Republicans, who are themselves also being split apart, but are doing so less under the public spotlight, make political "hay" hand over fist. This is a party with no longer any substance to it whatsoever, and is only a reflection of its so-called leader and everything he stands for. This is what the American people are going to get again, and they deserve it because they don't give a you-know-what. Not voting is NOT a viable political strategy, because it might make one feel better in the short term, but what one is then enabling is a far worse alternative.
I agree with you that the problems lay with the people. I don't call them sides because to be a side in my mind requires honestly owning a position. Like with voting fraud really being about suppression which is really about replacement fears. The point? At least the messy debate between progressives and moderates is authentic.
But isn't it true that for all of recorded history the issue has been about how the elite placate and direct the masses. This is true now, only in pseudo-liberal society it happens more discreetly. That is what i feel you are describing. Nothing rational about it.
"At least the messy debate between progressives and moderates is authentic."
"Authentic" alright, but what is it accomplishing? Progressives don't seem to recognise the current political realities of Congress. The numbers to accomplish all they want to do are simply NOT there, and the differences are simply not going to vanish. "We're not going to vote for what YOU want until you vote for what WE want." Such intransigence shows a large degree of political naivté. So what do we have? Stalemate. Who suffers? The American people. Nothing gets done. It's all about grandstanding political positions. The divides in the Democratic party appear insurmountable. There are increasing rumblings that lack of funding for social programs and such will mean more and more women and Independent voters will simply turn their backs on the Dems and just not vote in '22 and '24. Wow. That'll work to everyone's favour, won't it? Such short-sightedness will be our undoing. And all the while, the Republicans are sitting back, watching, and laughing their asses off. They'll sweep into power and ANY talk of Jan. 6th investigations or voter reforms will be silenced, maybe for good.
"...for all of recorded history the issue has been about how the elite placate and direct the masses." For sure...it is happening right before our eyes and we--some of us--seem powerless to stop it. The Democratic party, in its current incarnation and with no more legislative power at its disposal than it has, can certainly not do anything about it for a broad range of reasons. The infighting is only making us appear more impotent. I wish I could feel better about the future, but trends are trends, and they don't look very promising right now.
I'll appreciate your thoughts on this: A great many more of our politicians know the balance of things. Their 'facing' has everything to do with our dissonance...if they want to get elected they, like the Pastor, cannot prophesize, but endorse. The dopamine releases when a sentiment is affirmed not criticized.
So they are a reflection of us. But we have been changing. Someone has learned how to monetize designer, emotional packets and distribute them en masse. The notes work like cattle prods, herding us into easily managed pens.
Ted Cruz knows better. Isn't he Princton and Harvard educated? He is fully aware of how this horde has been formed and what it is capable of. History has other examples of it. Steve Bannon understands this as well, the public has been zombiefied. .
Liberalism ultimately fails under the weight of the relativity it engenders. With no reliable message, the loud voices that understand our cravings will win.
And emotion wins over reason, no?
I can’t get the pic of Putin and trump at Helsinki out of my mind. Obvious who was in charge
off topic, but the rump is a necessary and often beautiful part of the human body. The buttocks enable H. sapiens to run (other primates that don't run don't have them).
Excellent ex parte reply, David. In addition to not throwing a lot cases together, some covering different areas of the law, you handily addressed a crucial aspect of escape by defendants. Bravo!
Alpha Bank was the other - as yet to exist - "bank" that World Bank "management" added to the list of Russian banks to receive capitalization/funding.
Great Points Dawna. I have been totally exasperated how impotent every policing agency we have is in investigation of “Pandora Box” like revelations of off-shoring, secret accounts and money laundering. Is it any wonder that pedophile Epstein (maybe) hung himself rather than open the international cartel of oligarchs to scrutiny?