Oligarchs

Friday, DFA announced their endorsement of Kaniela Ing in the crowded congressional primary for the open seat in Hawaii's first district. DFA's chairman, Jim Dean, made the classic case for the candidate:

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union many of the former republics found their legal systems unable to cope with the confused transition from state control to a free market economy. As a result, it became relatively easy for those corrupt individuals in control of state assets to “privatise” them, generally at hugely beneficial terms for themselves.

William “Bill” Browder is an American born, naturalized British financier who has been convicted of fraud in Russia twice. He was detained in Geneva just recently while on the run from the Russian FSB.

How this Trump thing is going to finally end is anybody's guess. The worst and most destructive way would be a second American Civil War. Too far-fetched? He and his inner circle-- including his children-- are headed for indictments, possibly prison sentences for the cronies and kids. Is a plateful of them headed to Russia seeking political asylum more far-fetched? Unimaginable?

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Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) was elected to represent the people of Connecticut.
But it seems now he thinks backing war crimes and anti-Russian genocide in Ukraine is a better allocation of his time – and the people’s money.

News that the Republicans and the Democrats in the House of Representatives have agreed on a new sanctions package against Russia will be deeply unwelcome news, and not just or even primarily in Moscow.

(MPN) — America’s rich just won’t quit getting richer, according to a new study released in mid-June by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a global management consulting firm.

21st Century Wire says…
Does the American ideal of a egalitarian meritocracy really live up to the reality? Did it ever?
The world’s political and financial elite are currently operating in an epoch which features the greatest wealth gap in human history, and in a financial environment which is the most unrestrained in modern times – all controlled by a relatively small tribe of hereditary elites.
It’s high time to question and reexamine the post-modern concept of ‘democracy’…

Homage to Blade Runner?