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  117. I wrote this comment elsewhere, but seeing so many complaints about NO Pushback, I hope it will explain some of what is going on instead of addressing each one. I don't mind him inviting NED useful idiots on if he does what the name of his show is, push back. I too didn't see much push back and it suggests to me that Aaron is becoming very sensitive to the amount of criticism he's getting from his friends and possibly family. It's a shame, but we all have our breaking point. I'll just trust him a little bit less now, but I'll still read and watch. That said, It's hard for him. If he's still in Canada, it's really hard to take. My son's school last Friday gave them the full indoctrination, with films, that Russia is evil. His best friend in the class is Russian, so my son complained it was bullying because his friend was afraid, and my son got suspension. He's only 12 years old. Now I'm proud of my son, but scared for him at the same time. I don't know exactly what I can do but accept one day he may come home bloody, or maybe even not come home. People think Canadians are peaceful, but you just have to see what they do to the 1st Nation water protectors, and there is a monument to the SS-Freiwilligen Division "Galizien" only 20 miles from our home in Ontario. Our deputy PM, Chrystia Freeland, goes to this monument every year with the local Banderite Party to celebrate their "nation", some of them send their kids to local schools here. Now, imagine Arron having to face that pressure as an adult. He's probably not even aware of his self-defense mechanisms kicking in. His father is a post WW2 refugee from East Europe, so one can guess the circles his parents run in, even if they don't say anything to him.
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  392. "The Spanish war has finished us reformers. The blare of the bugle drowns the voice of the reformer. Who gets the benefit of the war? The bond seekers, the capitalists, the railroads. National bankers will profit by this war. The new bonds give them the basis for new banks, and their power is prolonged. The privileged classes all profit by this war. It takes the attention of the people off economic issues and perpetuates the unjust economic system they have put upon us. Politicians profit by the war. It buries issues they dare not meet.  What do the people get out of this war? The fighting and the taxes." "What is the United States doing in this war with Spain in the first place? True, Spain is oppressing Cuba, but so is England oppressing Ireland, Egypt and India. [This is 1898.] France is oppressing Siam and Madagascar, Turkey is oppressing Armenia. Should we then take up arms against the oppressors of the world? We would more likely end up by becoming oppressors ourselves. "The Spaniards and Cubans were bushwhacking one another and killing from three to five men at a battle. We have gone down there and killed more people in three months than they would have killed in 13 years. If they were starving before, who feeds them now? What are we going to get out of this war as a nation? Endless trouble, complications and expenses. Republics can't go into the conquering business and remain republics. Militarism leads to military domination, military despotism. Imperialism smoothes the way for the emperor."
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  563. Pompeo … was sometimes known as “the congressman from Koch.” Indeed, Pompeo is a creature of Koch. It’s an insufficiently appreciated fact, however, that so is Mike Pence, Kellyanne Conway, and, at this point, about two-thirds of the Trump administration. Conceivably, Trump is too obtuse to have noticed it. A little history of Conway and Pence, taken together, casts light on how the Koch machine works Conway, before becoming Trump’s campaign manager in August 2016, was a consultant for the Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity’s national foundation, as well as for that group’s Ohio and Michigan chapters, and the Kochs’ Freedom Partners. She was, similarly, a board member of the Koch-funded Independent Women’s Forum, which promises to “reduce government red tape and return resources and control to people, so healthy communities and people can pursue their own visions of happiness.” Mike Pence, now Vice President, was previously Governor of Indiana and employed Kellyanne Conway in his two gubernatorial campaigns there. Here’s how that worked. By law, the Koch nonprofit, Americans for Prosperity, can’t support political candidates; its spinoff Americans for Prosperity Action, as a PAC, isn’t so restricted, but still can’t collaborate directly with candidates’ campaigns. However, an individual consultant like Conway, acting as a nominally independent coordinator between nominally separate organizations within the Koch network, enables Koch to sidestep all these legal restraints. Besides such funds as Mike Pence got from the Koch network this way, the Republican Governors Association received $10.8 million from Koch and Koch Industries from 2003 onwards, and passed $4.2 million of that on to Pence in 2012 and 2016. Meanwhile, David Koch personally donated $300,000 to Pence and Mark Holden – Koch Industry’s senior vice president and general legal counsel, and a board member of the Koch network’s Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, and several other Koch political organizations – gave Pence $202,500. Pence has been a mainstay at Koch events, including their secretive donor conferences, and as Vice President has met privately with Charles Koch, Holden, and other senior Koch network figures. Pence is now chairman of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. My claim that about two-thirds of Trump’s administration are effectively people who’ve directly worked for Koch or taken money from one of Charles Koch’s front organizations would take too long to document here. Go look for yourselves, if you’re interested. If it initially seems unlikely, recall that Trump had no political machine at all when he started. Conversely, Charles Koch had spent decades building out his machine. Thus, when Trump needed competent operatives to run his campaign and then to fill his administration, it was unavoidable that many of the most competent potential hires out there were or had been Koch employees and affiliates. Specifically, the rise of the Tea Party in 2010-12 as a response to the Obama administration’s criminal complicity with Wall Street meant that Koch had the opportunity to fund Tea Party candidates as insurgents in the Republican party and thereby largely take it over. Mark Meadows, the current White House chief of staff, is typical in that respect. So, something else to thank Obama for: giving Charles Koch the major opportunity he mightn’t have had otherwise. A couple of final points on how this has played out. [1] Whenever working for Trump has become too much for an old-school establishment Republican to stomach, their replacement has usually been an individual affiliated with the Koch network. Thus, Pompeo for Tillerson, Meadows for John Kelly, and so on. [2] The political resources that the Koch network brings to bear go beyond funding. Charles Koch is a highly intelligent individual with two Masters Degrees from MIT, in chemical engineering and nuclear engineering. He’s expanded the business he took over from his father by something like 100 orders of magnitude and one of the ways he did that was that Koch started using computers and data analysis far more extensively and long before most American businesses. Same thing with politics. Basically, Koch set up a IT company for political campaigning, i360, which was doing everything for which Cambridge Analytica was attacked five years before Cambridge Analytica. Yes, factions exist in the Trump administration that aren’t Koch-affiliated, like the Mercer-Bannon faction — and Mercer was part of the money behind Cambridge Analytica. In a way, though, that can be construed as merely an attempt to catch up with what Koch already had in i360. One of the things that Kellyanne Conway might have brought to the Trump campaign was access to i360’s resources. I’m not on the inside and don’t know about that.
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