71/ Page returned to Moscow Dec 2016 as a back channel to Trump campaign & echoed Medvedchuk/Putin’s Ukraine stance euromaidanpress.com/2016/12/13/why…
75/ Reason I detail Akhmetov in this thread about Manafort & Page is because of the reality that the scapegoating of Manafort & Page may well be coming from Putin—in other words, the US going after associates of Putin enemies is exactly what Putin wants. bbc.com/news/world-eur…
76/ The period between 2010-2015 was one of great transition in Ukraine. Many of the Ukraine oligarchs who were Putin-friendly are now Putin enemies. Manafort’s dalliances in Ukraine were bound to land him on Putin’s bad side, regardless of his alliances. news.vice.com/article/ukrain…
77/ There is something else to consider, and that is that Akhmetov knows where the bodies are buried, so to speak. This alone places him in Putin’s sites. (Id)
78/ There’s an old saying: “Don’t tell others your secrets because you will grow to despise them for it”. Well, it’s true. (Id).
79/ So when you read about Manafort or Page being linked to “pro-Russian Ukrainian oligarchs”, be aware the Ukraine oligarch Russia alliances change, daily. politifact.com/global-news/ar…
80/ Ask why the Manafort story emerged when it did in 2016. Recall, Manafort resigned after leaks from Ukraine about cash payments made to him. All the while, Putin forges ahead in Ukraine, unseating Manafort’s prior Ukraine funders. irishtimes.com/news/world/eur…
81/ The question is not so much who paid them, but whether Manafort, Page and others were acting on behalf of deposed Ukraine Putin puppet president Viktor Yanukovych, and against US interests in the region. They undoubtedly were. theguardian.com/world/2014/jan…
82/ February 12-14, 2014 was a pivotal turning point for Akhmetov and for Putin in Ukraine. It marks a dividing line, after which pro-Putinist in Ukraine went through Putin directly or via Russian oligarchs, rather than through Ukraine oligarchs. uawire.org/news/investiga…
83/ “Yeah, yeah Sarah, why are you blabbering about a Ukraine oligarch’s falling out w Putin in 2014?”, you might ask. Well, here’s why. Read this thread to see where Trump and Ivanka were February 12-14, 2014. G’head. I’ll wait. twitter.com/i/moments/8888…
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Senator Collins is waning on about interest groups against Kavanaugh but IGNORES dark money interest groups in support of Kavanaugh.
Senator Collins references Kavanaugh’s judicial record. She disagrees w notion he will eliminate ACA protections, pointing to his dissent in Holder. She argues that his views on severability is narrow.
She addresses the concern about Kavanaugh protecting the POTUS. She argues that Kavanaugh defers to legislative authority. She argues Clinton got 2 justices confirmed while under Whitewater investigation and 3 Nixon appointees ruled against Nixon ruled against Nixon.
1/ Here is what really bothers me about Kavanaugh: he feels he deserves everything he has and will have because he has earned it. This is a uniquely Calvinist-origin ideology. It is also precisely one of the things which **theologically** distinguishes Catholics from Protestants.
2/ The implications are enormous if one considers the reverse scenario: those to whom life has brought hardship are unworthy, lazy, and have not “earned” their way. Protestant-Calvinist thinking is deeply entrenched in American culture, especially at Yale. christianity.com/church/denomin…
3/ If Kavanaugh adhered to Catholic teaching, he would have by this age internalized that it is mandatory we give a preferential option to the poor. He would practice the Corporal Works of Mercy. He would NOT insist that his success is due to his own merit or worth.
A new article discussing Deripaska, Steele, Waldman, and Assange by @IgnatiusPost requires some serious unpacking. Christopher Steele worked for Deripaska in 2012. (washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-gop…)
Deripaska was interviewed by the FBI in 2015, 2016, and possibly in 2017.
In 2009, while Mueller was FBI Director, the FBI conducted a covert outreach to Deripaska to locate missing CIA contractor Robert Levinson. (I believe this was accomplished through John McCain).
), and dissect the “Kavanaugh Catholic” — with the caveat I, too am a Catholic.
2/ First, we all witnessed Kavanaugh last night make several public pronouncements, to wit:
“I was a virgin.”
“I was busy studying.”
“I was the Captain of my football team.”
“I have never sexually assaulted anyone, ever.”
3/ Kavanaugh had his wife by his side, who vouched for him throughout. He also claimed to have spent his career as a champion for women and women’s issues. Neither Kavanaugh nor his wife (whom he met after high school) addressed the bevy of mounting evidence against him.
In accordance w the Violence Against Women & Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2013 (“VAWA 2013”), officers and/or investigators may not require victims of sexual assault to submit to a polygraph test or other truth-telling devices.
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE SEXUAL ASSAULT RESPONSE
POLICY AND TRAINING CONTENT GUIDELINES — The Senate Judiciary Committee is doing everything WRONG.
The unwarranted exertion of control by @ChuckGrassley over a putative sexual assault victim violates every single guideline recommendation of the Intl Assoc of Chiefs of Police.