<p>With Lots Of Love (another kind of LOL, haha!!) for you, my dear Juan! :)</p>
<p>I love to annoy you. Take care and have a lovely night, fool. The Fool is Mirimir's favorite tarot card, but mine always will be The World, dear.<br></p>
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Date: Jul 24, 2016 11:30 PM<br>
Subject: [ PFIR ] Off-Topic: Donald Trump's and Vladimir Putin's Shared Agenda Should Alarm Anyone Concerned About Democracy<br>
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<p>Off-Topic: Donald Trump's and Vladimir Putin's Shared Agenda Should Alarm Anyone Concerned About Democracy</p>
<p><a href="http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a46984/donald-trump-vladimir-putin/">http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a46984/donald-trump-vladimir-putin/</a></p>
<p> In brief: In his business dealings, He, Trump seems<br>
increasingly dependent on money from Russia and from the<br>
former Soviet republics within its increasingly active sphere<br>
of influence. This is because most of the big banks on this<br>
side of the pond won't go near him without HazMat suits. (Gee,<br>
could it be that his sudden emergence as a Warren-esque<br>
crusader against the "rigged system" of the banksters is less<br>
of a principled opposition and simply pure animal vengeance?<br>
Unpossible!) As Marshall points out, this isn't exactly a deep<br>
corporate secret ... Marshall presents a judicious but<br>
comprehensive bill of indictment as regards He, Trump's<br>
relationship with Putin. He doesn't allege direct complicity,<br>
only a mutuality of interest that should alarm anyone<br>
concerned about the stability of American democracy. He also<br>
carefully traces the connections to Russia of several of He,<br>
Trump's crucial advisors. (I knew about Paul Manafort's<br>
connection to Putin's Ukrainian marionette, but the<br>
relationship that Carter Page, one of the campaign's key<br>
foreign-policy advisers, to Gazprom, the Russian energy<br>
behemoth that Putin controls, was a new one for me.) He shies<br>
away from the more baroque conspiracy theories, although I<br>
don't think the notion that Russian intelligence was behind<br>
the hack-and-release of 20,000 internal DNC e-mails at exactly<br>
the right time is that far-fetched. This should be the only<br>
story about the Trump campaign until he comes clean.</p>