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Mike 03's JournalThat's my speculation too. Remember how his first public appearances after the "visit"
he didn't move one of his arms normally? That got me to thinking about the possibility he had undergone Transradial catheterization and either his arm was still sore (it would be sore for about a week) or he didn't want to lift his arm and risk raising his sleeve to expose bandages, bruises or related tube marks.
Just speculation!
Transradial catheterization?
Just speculating. But remember how during his first public appearances after that visit he didn't move one of his arms normally? It was like either his arm was sore or he was trying to keep his sleeve from rising up and exposing a possible bandage.
Is it just a coincidence that both Putin and Erdogan are upping their acts
of provocation and military aggression in the lead up to this election? We know from so many of the recent books that Trump idolizes both of these dictators (and compares Erdogan favorably with Hitler, and finds his diction and delivery mesmerizing and can't get enough of it), and they both owe him favors.
These are Trump's two very favorite authoritarians.
Or maybe my imagination is working overtime.
Good article, except this case is unrelated:
The article says Santa Muerte didn't re-arise until after the turn of the millenium. This (famous) case happened in the late 80s, before the rise of Santa Muerte. It's a notorious case and I'm bewildered the author tosses it in there. Those cult leaders practiced a mixture of Palo Mayombe and Santamaria, but made up a lot of stuff too (and threw in tarot cards for good measure). Constanzo is classified as a serial killer. Totally different.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Mark_Kilroy#Profile_of_cult_leaders
Hmm. So it was Rosenstein who cut Mueller off at the knees:
According to Schmidt, in the hand-off of the FBI investigation to Mueller, in the aftermath of the firing of Comey, Rosenstein deliberately narrowed the special counsel’s remit. The deputy attorney general directed Mueller to concentrate on criminality. Whether Trump was a Russian agent was not on the special counsel’s plate.
According to Schmidt, Rosenstein “had foreclosed any deeper inquiry before investigation even began”.
This is an actual strategy named "Firehose of Falsehoods"
The article below credits Putin's Russia with developing it, but Goebbels and other autocrats used something similar:
The Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" Propaganda Model
Why It Might Work and Options to Counter It
High-volume and multichannel
Rapid, continuous, and repetitive
Lacks commitment to objective reality
Lacks commitment to consistency.
https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html
(Rand Corporation)
I don't think so.
Reading the book A WARNING, it seems to be someone with a background possibly in history and international relations and someone who works in one of the agencies, like DHS. Anonymous might already be out in the public eye, just not saying he/she is Anonymous. This sounds bad, but I don't think Conway is smart enough to write a book like "A WARNING." (I'll apologize if she turns out to be Anonymous)
Miles Taylor is a possibility. Like Anonymous, he claims to speak for a small group of "Others" who will come forward.
It's possible Anonymous has come forward, but just hasn't announced that he/she is Anonymous.
Someone else came forward this week too from DHS, a woman whose name I can't recall.
Some people think it's Kirstjen Nielsen. I was leaning towards Dan Coats, but now I'm having doubts.
EDIT: It's not necessarily "White House staff"; it's an official in the administration.
In the Second Volume of 'Hitler,' How a Dictator Invited His Own Downfall (Timely book review)
New York Times
By Jennifer Szalai
Aug. 26, 2020
But anyone who thought the Nazis would be content with their share — that Hitler would rise to the occasion or be hemmed in by it, becoming a dignified statesman who sought compromise — was summarily purged from the system that conservatives assumed they controlled. An utter impossibility had become the indomitable reality. The Weimar Republic had become the Third Reich. It would take another world war, a genocide and millions of dead before the dictatorship finally collapsed in 1945, a full 12 years after Hitler was invited into power.
In the second and final volume of his biography of Hitler, Volker Ullrich argues that the very qualities that accounted for the dictator’s astonishing rise were also what brought about his ultimate ruin. “Hitler: Downfall, 1939-1945” arrives in English four years after the publication of “Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939.” It’s a biographical project that consumed eight years of Ullrich’s life and “took a definite psychological toll,” he writes in his introduction to the second volume. Like the British historian Ian Kershaw, who divided his own two-volume biography of Hitler into “Hubris” and “Nemesis,” Ullrich suggests that the Hitlerian regime was capable of only two registers: euphoria and despair. Hitler was shrewd about seizing power, but he was too restless and reckless to govern. A Third Reich that cultivated peaceful stability was simply unfathomable.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/books/review-hitler-downfall-volker-ullrich.html
Some quotes from the review:
And on and on. I hope you understand why I posted this in GD.
The book:
Hitler: Downfall, 1939-1945
By Volker Ullrich
Translated by Jefferson Chase
Illustrated. 838 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $40.
Others have characterized Russia as a gas station with nuclear weapons.
Or, as I prefer, a third world gas station with nuclear weapons.
I agree that first world countries embarrass themselves by treating Russia as a serious international player. But nations need to cooperate to put Putin back in his box. He remains dangerous because his only purpose is to destroy other democracies to deter his own citizens from an uprising.
Kyle Rittenhouse, IMO, belongs grouped with these three people:
Dylan Roof
Cesar Sayoc Jr.
Robert D. Bowers
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