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I'm not sure why this has not gotten more attention until now. It was reported before the GOP Convention that while Trump's campaign had very little involvement in scripting the GOP platform, the one area they did insist on having changed was softening the stance on Russia's involvement in the Ukraine. That's pretty dicey stuff. Where has the media been on this? Glad this is finally coming out. "Follow the money" was Deep Throat's mantra to Woodward and Bernstein and is ultimately what led to Nixon's resignation and almost impeachment. I hope this gets picked up everywhere.

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I read most of that and skimmed the rest. I try not to waste my empathy on poor little rich girls, but I feel sorry for the little girl Ivanka once was. Beyond that she is like most of the elite. It's a small circle of people who's main goal is to protect their own interests. It's really disturbing how much influence they have over our government, that is when they aren't directly running it. That's one of the problems I have with our country drifting towards oligarchy. In a county of 300 million people we don't need to keep electing the same families into power. I really hope that trend ends for awhile after HRC.

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Unfortunately, throughout American history, at the very top of the government has usually been run by people who closely resemble oligarchs. The founding fathers were wealthy landowners who owned slaves and had very patrician and paternalistic mindsets. They believed in the equality of man who were of their ilk, of course. They did not believe in the equality of all.

There are exceptions, of course, in terms of men who were not from the moneyed class who became President but those look more like exceptions rather than the rule.  Money in politics has always been there, it is just that now, it is not just the political elites with money who have entrée but any idiot with his own company or access to media empire/conglomerate and millions of $$$ to spare that can wield influence in shaping political opinion.

 

 

Very interesting side effect of the Brexit vote: British Jews applying to restore their family's German citizenship, so that they can have dual citizenship and maintain access to the EU:

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/16/world/europe/once-unthinkable-more-british-jews-seek-german-citizenship.html?_r=0

 

 

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I saw that dumbass Rick Perry saying just because your child is lost in the "war on terror," that doesn't mean you have to speak. Funny how no one said that to the Benghazi relatives...

 

Anyway, another example of just what a false media construction "tough prosecutor" Chris Christie was. 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/17/us/politics/trump-chris-christie-casinos.html?_r=0

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