This image should be enough to shock anyone into taking action against the spigot of dark money that flows directly from billionaire donors into the court.
— Read on slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/clarence-thomas-broke-the-law-harlan-crow.html
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Faced with a new regulatory push, the industry spent over $65 million lobbying Congress and federal agencies in 2022.
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Harlan Crow also has a garden full of dictator statues.
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Latest news from Ukraine today. Heavy losses among Wagner group force Russia to deploy elite army units to storm Bakhmut – Ukrainian military. Follow updates on Euromaidan Press.
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www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/04/08/ukraine-russia-war-slovakian-mig-29-jets/
Slovakian MiG-29 fighter jets given to Ukraine are faulty and can’t fly combat missions because Russian technicians sabotaged them, Slovakia’s defence minister has said.
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Russian prosecutors have blamed Ukrainian secret services (for the assassination of Tartarsky) but other commentators have said that the FSB may have organised Tatarsky’s murderas a warning to Mr Prigozhin (head of the Wagner Group who has recently been critical of the russian military).
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Crimea will never return to Ukraine
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If someone with the power I wield were not meant to accept these heavy burdens, surely we as a court would have adopted a formal ethics code. But there is no need: It is understood that I take no pleasure in any of this. The American people need not worry. The yachts were suffering enough.
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www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/04/06/world/europe/russia-offensive-maps.html
After months of pouring soldiers into eastern Ukraine, Russia’s progress essentially adds up to this: three small settlements and part of the city of Bakhmut, a high-profile battlefield with limited strategic value.
Moscow’s inability to gain substantial ground in the Donbas shows how little its offensive has achieved and how much its military has struggled to efficiently capture urban areas throughout the war.
Russia’s grinding advances in Bakhmut have been led by the Wagner private military company, which recruited tens of thousands of convicts from Russian prisons in exchange for the promise of freedom.
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The secret history and unlearned lessons of the Cuban missile crisis.
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www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/04/04/why-the-saudis-are-siding-with-putin-to-drive-up-oil-prices/
During his presidential campaign Joe Biden pledged to make Saudi Arabia an international pariah. Then came sky high inflation and a war. In July, Biden swallowed his words and travelled to Jeddah to meet the Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman.
the Saudi-led Opec cartel of oil producing countries slashed output by two million barrels per day to drive prices higher. Now – heedless of an angry US president who has threatened unspecified “consequences” – it is cutting production again.
As Biden looks on powerlessly, one of the biggest winners is likely to be Vladimir Putin.
