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Revision as of 16:08, 24 March 2018

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John R. Bolton

"I think Americans like most people are mostly concerned about their own country. I don’t know how many Iraqi civilians were killed. But I can assure you that the number is the absolute minimum that is possible in modern warfare….One of the stunning things about the quick coalition victory was…how low Iraqi casualties were..[Pilger asked if 10,000 civilian casualties in Iraq would be a “quite high” amount. Bolton answered] “I think it is quite low if you look at the size of the military operation that was undertaken."

— John R. Bolton, under secretary of state for arms control, documentary on the Iraq war. 2003

[1]

References

  1. ^ David Corn, A No-Compassion Conservative?, The Nation, November 11, 2003.

Jon D Michaels [1]Constitutional Coup: Privatization's Threat to the American Republic[2][3] [Notes 1]

References

  1. ^ https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16667277.Jon_D_Michaels
  2. ^ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34787994-constitutional-coup
  3. ^ Michaels, Jon D. (October 23, 2017). Constitutional Coup: Privatization's Threat to the American Republic. Harvard University Press. p. 312. ISBN 0674737733.

Deep state in the United States Michael J. Glennon[1][2][3]

Alfred W. McCoy author of In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power[4]

Alfred W. McCoy states that the increase in the power of the U.S. intelligence community since the September 11 attacks "has built a fourth branch of the U.S. government" that is "in many ways autonomous from the executive, and increasingly so."[5]

References

  1. ^ Ambinder, Marc; Grady, D.B. (2013). Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry. Wiley. ISBN 978-1118146682.
  2. ^ Michael J. Glennon (2014). "National Security and Double Government" (PDF). Harvard National Security Journal. 5.
  3. ^ Review quote: "Admiration of JSOC and others, and a subtle contempt directed at those who would question “official stories,” trickles through, forming two overarching themes. The first is an Orwellian feat of circular logic that states that no secrets really exist, because if they did, we would already know about them. The second defensively posits that neither the government nor American citizens can stomach the truth about what it really takes to keep us safe. Despite some insights in a chapter on the NSA’s controversial wiretapping program, the majority of the book details the players, rationalizes their actions, and, ironically, keeps their secrets."
  4. ^ In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power. Haymarket Books. August 15, 2017. p. 280. ISBN 1608467732. Good Reads description: "n a completely original analysis, McCoy explores America’s rise as a world power, from the 1890s through the Cold War and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar, space warfare, trade pacts, and military alliances. McCoy then analyzes the marquee instruments of American hegemony—covert intervention, client elites, psychological torture, and worldwide surveillance."
  5. ^ Scahill, Jeremy (2017-07-22). "Donald Trump and the Coming Fall of the American Empire". The Intercept. Retrieved 2017-07-29.

Christopher Wylie[1][2] Cambridge University’s Psychometrics Centre[2] Aleksandr Kogan built app to harvest Facebook data[2]

Alexander Nix CEO Cambridge Analytica[2], the chief executive of Cambridge Analytica, Julian Assange[2], Robert Mercer, Stephen K. Bannon,[2] Facebook[2], psychographic messaging[2] Micheal Flynn[3]

References

  1. ^ The Cambridge Analytica Files "'I created Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower" The Guardian "For more than a year we’ve been investigating Cambridge Analytica and its links to the Brexit Leave campaign in the UK and Team Trump in the US presidential election. Now, 28-year-old Christopher Wylie goes on the record to discuss his role in hijacking the profiles of millions of Facebook users in order to target the US electorate." by Carole Cadwalladr
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions New York Times By Matthew Rosenberg, Nicholas Confessore and Carole Cadwalladr March 17, 2018
  3. ^ Michael Flynn to disclose advisory role linked to Cambridge Analytica: Former national security adviser prepares amended public financial filing revealing ties to data firm funded by Trump backer Robert Mercer The Guardian Associated Press in Washington. August 4, 2017

flexicurity

[1]

References

uranium one

Uranium One

Find list of Trump's regulatory rollbacks

[1]

References

  1. ^ Betsy DeVos guts school disability rules that once “confused” her. Betsy DeVos guts school disability rules that once "confused" her By Noah Kulwin Oct 23, 2017

Shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith

Shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith webliography...

Perfluorooctanoic acid

In May 2017, newly appointed Nancy B. Beck at the E.P.A.’s Office of Water, rewrote regulations making it harder to track the health consequences of the Perfluorooctanoic acid, and therefore making it harder to regulate.[1]

Nancy Beck took office on May 1.

References

  1. ^ Lipton, Eric (October 21, 2017). "Why Has the E.P.A. Shifted on Toxic Chemicals?". The New York Times. Washington. Retrieved October 21, 2017. An Industry Insider Helps Call the Shots: A scientist who worked for the chemical industry now shapes policy on hazardous chemicals. Within the E.P.A., there is fear that public health is at risk.

Nancy B. Beck

Nancy B. Beck was appointed as ... of the E.P.A.’s Office of Water in May 2017. From 2012, she had been an executive at the American Chemistry Council, the "chemical industry’s main trade association".[1]

Nancy Beck took office on May 1.

References

  1. ^ Lipton, Eric (October 21, 2017). "Why Has the E.P.A. Shifted on Toxic Chemicals?". The New York Times. Washington. Retrieved October 21, 2017. An Industry Insider Helps Call the Shots: A scientist who worked for the chemical industry now shapes policy on hazardous chemicals. Within the E.P.A., there is fear that public health is at risk.

DeAndre Harris

Separately at the rally, "a man was captured on video shooting at the ground in the direction of an African-American counterprotester."[1] Richard W. Preston, the self-identified imperial wizard of the Confederate White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, was arrested on August 25 and charged with discharging a firearm within 1,000 feet of a school.[2]

References

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference RoblesMenArrests was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference JackmanWaPo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

DeAndre Harris

Twenty-year-old DeAndre Harris, a "former special-education instruction assistant"[1] from Charlottesville, was brutally beaten by white supremacists in a parking garage close to Police Headquarters in an assault that was captured by photographs and video footage.[2][3] The footage showed a group of six men[4] beating Harris with poles, metal pipe, and wood slabs,[2][5] as Harris struggled to pick himself off the ground.[5] Harris suffered a head laceration requiring stitches, a concussion, a knee injury, a fractured wrist, and a spinal injury.[6][1][7]

The attack was investigated by Charlottesville police, with help from the Virginia State Police and FBI.[3] On August 27, Daniel P. Borden was arrested and charged with malicious wounding in connection with the assault.[4][8] Another man, Alex Michael Ramos, was also charged with malicious wounding in connection with the attack,[4] and was arrested the following day.[9]

Public relations spokesman for the League of the South, Hunter Wallace and others, had gathered video evidence that he said showed that prior to being beaten,[10][11] According to a October 12 Washington Post article, "online footage shows Crews trying to spear another counterprotester with the pole of a Confederate flag, prompting Harris to fight back. Harris swung his flashlight at Crews, appearing to hit him."[6][1] Crews is a Kernisville-based lawyer and North Carolina's League of the South chairman.[12][13] Neither the Charlottesville Police nor the commonwealth attorney were interested in Wallace's video evidence, so Wallace and Crews took it to Merlyn Goeschl, a local magistrate.[6] Goeschl—based on Crew's testimony and the video—signed a warrant on October 9, 2017 for the arrest of DeAndre Harris on a felony charge of unlawful wounding,[13] which is "punishable by up to five years in prison and a $2,500 fine."[14]

On October 12, Harris was released on an unsecured bond by a magistrate after he had turned himself in to Charlottesville Police.[6][13] The case is scheduled for a court hearing October 13 at Charlottesville General District Court.[6]

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Add content from these sources to Trump SoHo, Ivanka, Donald Trump Jr., The New Yorker, Bayrock Group Manhattan District Attorney's Major Economic Crimes Bureau, Marc Kasowitz articles.

Possible content with added sources. I am in the process of compiling details that can be spread across related Wikipedia articles. Only part of this can be used in the Marc Kasowitz article.Oceanflynn (talk) 16:05, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

"1991, Sater, then a stockbroker, got into a bloody bar fight with a commodities broker, stabbing him in the face with a broken margarita glass. The resultant wounds caused nerve damage and required 110 stitches."[15]

A "federal complaint" was brought against Felix H. Sater in a "1998 money laundering and stock manipulation case was filed in secret and remains under seal."[16]

citation?A subsequent indictment in March 2000 stemming from the same investigation described Mr. Sater as an “unindicted co-conspirator” and a key figure in a $40 million scheme involving 19 stockbrokers and organized crime figures from four Mafia families.citation needed "Then, in 1998, Sater pleaded guilty to participating in a “pump and dump” stock fraud. The maneuver, which was tied to the Mafia, involved laundering money, and eventually defrauded investors of $40 million. This checkered history appeared to catch his latest partner by surprise. “We never knew that,” Bagli quoted Donald Trump as saying about Sater’s criminal past. “We do as much of a background check as we can on the principals. I didn’t really know him very well.”[16][15]

In 2001, Tevfik Arif, a former Soviet official who was originally from Kazakhstan, founded the Bayrock Group[17]

In 2001, Trump's lawyer, "David Friedman, a senior partner at Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman" began talks to restructure Trump's $1.3 billion in debt on Trump Atlantic City, which is backed by two of Trump's Atlantic City casinos, the Trump Taj Mahal and the Trump Plaza.[18][19]

According to an article in Business Insider, Russian-born Felix H. Sater of Bayrock Group/Bayrock Group LLC, who is the co-founder of Bayrock Group LLC, began advising the "Trump Organization on real estate deals from the early 2000's and into late 2015."[20]

According to June 21, 2017 Bloomberg article "Bayrock partnered with the future president and his two eldest children, Donald Jr. and Ivanka, on a series of real-estate deals between 2002 and about 2011, the most prominent being the troubled Trump Soho hotel and condominium in Manhattan."[21]

[Bayrock was the major developer behind the Trump SoHo project.citation]

New York Times business investigative journalist, Timothy L. O'Brien's book entitled TrumpNation was published in October 26, 2005. Kasowitz filed a $5 billion lawsuit against O'Brien, alleging that O'Brien's statements that Trump was not a billionaire, were false. O"Brien claimed Trump's net worth was about $150 million to $250 million.[22][23] The lawsuit was dismissed in 2009;[24] The trial had been scheduled to begin on October 13, 2009.[25] in 2011 an appeals court affirmed the 2009 decision.[26]

In 2006, Sater "escorted Ivanka and Don Jr. around Moscow in 2006 when their father was scouting real estate in Russia. They stayed for several days at the Hotel National Moscow opposite the Kremlin, according to The New York Times."[20]

In September 2007 an official unveiling of Trump SoHo was held while the project was still under construction. A photo of Donald Trump with Bayrock Group LLC and for possibly "misleading prospective buyers" of units in the Trump SoHo development, 46-story luxury condominium-hotel,[27] a collaborative project between the Trump Organization, Bayrock Group LLC, The Sapir Organization, FL Group and overseen by Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Sean Yazbeck.[28]

A December 17, 2007 article by veteran New York Times reporter Charles Bagli's uncovered Felix Sater's past.[15][16]

On January 21, 2008 Bayrock's lawyer, Julius Schwarz, sent an e-mail to Sater and other Bayrock staff warning them about the upcoming meeting with the Trumps. "I think it is a trap. [The meeting] was a "a royal ass fucking." After a phone call with Trump about the crisis, Sater sent an email saying, "I agree with all but we can’t cancel the meeting. They will still show up and tear is [sic] apart. . . . Go to the meeting but stand our ground and be prepared."

By 2008 then-31-year-old Donald Trump Jr. and "his siblings" were working with the Trump Organization "buying, selling and franchising prime commercial real estate including hotel towers spanning the entire globe, from the US to Dubai." Donald Jr. [29] In an interview with the Real deal in the spring of 2009, Donald Trump Jr. said that "sales for the Trump Soho condo-hotel project had hit 55 percent" when only "15.8 percent of units were in contract by March 2010."[30]

In 2010, "former finance director, Jody Kriss, and another Bayrock employee, Michael Ejekam, sued [Bayrock] and its principals for $1 billion.[15] "His complaint alleged that Bayrock was “covertly mob-owned and operated,” “backed by oligarchs and money they stole from the Russian people,” and “engaged in the businesses of financial-institution fraud, tax fraud, partnership fraud, human trafficking, child prostitution, statutory rape, and, on occasion, real estate.” The suit claimed that Bayrock had defrauded Kriss and Ejekam and “never intended to honor” promised payments. Instead, the real purpose of the company, it said, in addition to marketing expensive condos bearing the Trump brand, was “to launder many millions of dollars and evade taxes.""[15][21]

In August 2010, Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. firm filed a law suit with Manhattan federal district court on behalf of 15 plaintiffs, Trump SoHo condo unit prospective buyers against the "Trump Soho’s sponsor and other individuals and companies involved in developing and marketing the condominium" alleging that the "false statements about Trump Soho sales constituted fraud."[31] In a 2010 article in the The Wall Street Journal, it was reported that buyers had been offered partial refunds on their deposits by Trump SoHo owners if they agreed not to participate in the lawsuit.[32]

In 2011 "Kasowitz filed a launched a $5 billion lawsuit against Timothy O’Brien, arguing that the author of TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald had libeled Trump by understating the businessman’s wealth. Trump lost the case in 2011.[19]

In a 2016 letter Kasowitz, name partner of the Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman firm, threatened the The New York Times because they published 1995 documents related to Trump's tax returns. The letter led to the NYT revealing Kasowitz's law firm's extensive legal work for Donald Trump since at least 2001.[33]

On November 2, 2011 AL Bauley, P.C. sent the memo entitled Trump SoHo Condominium to Cyrus Vance Jr. at the office of the District Attorney of New York County,[30] in which he listed the defendants as Bayrock/Sapir Organization, DJT, Alex Sapir, Tevfik Arif, Julius Schwarz, Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, Rodrigo Nino, Shaun Osher, and Thomas Postilio. He stated that the Defendants and the Plaintiffs had "amicably settled the litigation under a settlement in which [they] acknowledged that the Defendants have not violated the criminal laws of the State of New York or the United States. For this reason, it is our view that in the offering of Trump Soho hotel condominium units to our clients none of the Defendants have engaged in any conduct that has violated any criminal laws of New York or the United States."[30] The Real Deal, a real-estate publication, published the letter in full in 2017.[30] Several years later, however, the case has been described as "a watershed case in the world of condo litigation". citation? [C]ondo attorneys said that developers are now far more reluctant to disclose sales information to buyers’ attorneys, for fear of legal repercussions if they turn out to be wrong."citation? The case went to court in February 2011 claiming developers had "tricked" potential buyers with "deceptive" sales figures and by ""fraudulently misrepresent[ing]" the number of apartments sold. Ultimately the suit was settled, with plaintiffs recovering 90 per cent of their deposits.[34]

Initially the buyers of the Trump SoHo units had been helping with the Manhattan DA's Major Economic Crimes Bureau investigation into Bayrock, the Trump Organization and the Sapir Organization. However, as part of their November 2011 lawsuit settlement, they notified prosecutors from the Manhattan District Attorney's office that they no longer wished to do so.[27] In November 2012, Kasowitz donated another $50,000 to Vance's campaign which Vance said he would also return following the ProPublica, WNYC and The New Yorker 2017 report.[35] According to an article in Business Insider, by October 4, 2017 Vance had not returned Kasowitz' $50,000 campaign contribution.[20]

According to an October 5, 2017 article in the New York Times, based on a joint investigation by ProPublica, WNYC and The New Yorker, until the intervention of Kasowitz—who had been President Trump's personal lawyer for a decade—the Manhattan District Attorney's Major Economic Crimes Bureau had been building a legal case against Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. from 2010 to 2012[35][36] for possibly "misleading prospective buyers" of units in the Trump SoHo development, 46-story luxury condominium-hotel,[27] a collaborative project between the Trump Organization, Bayrock Group LLC, The Sapir Organization, FL Group and overseen by Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Sean Yazbeck.[28] On May 16, 2012 Kasowitz attended a meeting at Manhattan DA's Cyrus Vance Jr.'s at One Hogan Place along with Dan Alonso, and Adam Kaufmann but no one from the Major Economic Crimes Bureau.[35] Kasowitz had contributed $57,000 to Vance's political campaigns in the past, including a $25,000 donation in 2012 but Vance returned the $25,000 to Kasowitz before May 2012. In August 2012, Vance overruled his district attorney prosecutors and directed them to drop the case. Vance "acknowledged that he dropped the case against Trump's children" following Kasowitz's visit explaining, "I did not at the time believe beyond a reasonable doubt that a crime had been committed. I had to make a call and I made the call, and I think I made the right call."[37][38][36][35]

In an April 6, 2016 article in the New York Times, investigative reporter Mike McIntire wrote about the Manhattan district attorney's office "previously unreported" criminal investigation "into whether the fraud alleged by the condo buyers broke any laws."[27] November 2011, Donald Trump, Donald Jr and Ivanka settled the case brought against them by buyers of Trump SoHo units who had argued that they had been "defrauded by inflated claims." The defendants agreed to "refund 90 percent of $3.16 million in deposits, while admitting no wrongdoing."[27] McIntire also reported that "besides the fraud accusations brought by the SoHo buyers and the Major Economic Crimes Bureau, there was a separate lawsuit claiming that "Trump SoHo was developed with the undisclosed involvement of convicted felons and financing from questionable sources in Russia and Kazakhstan." The photo at the Trump SoHo in September 2007 featured Mr. Trump, Tevfik Arif and Felix H. Sater of Bayrock Group—the major developer.

In December 2016, a federal judge in New York said that assertion made by a former Bayrock insider, Jody Kriss in his original lawsuit in 2008, that "Bayrock was a criminal operation during the years it partnered with Trump"—from 2002 to 2015—was "plausible enough" that the judge ruled that Kriss "could proceed as a racketeering case."[21] In the federal case Kriss et al. vs. Bayrock Group LLC et al., two former Bayrock employees, former CFO Jody Kriss and Michael Chudi Ejekam, filed a suit in the U.S. District Court in New York in 2010.[39] The suit alleged that Bayrock executive Felix Sater’s criminal past was concealed and that the company was "substantially and covertly mob-owned and operated."[40][41]

And hovering over it all was a criminal investigation, previously unreported, by the Manhattan district attorney into whether the fraud alleged by the condo buyers broke any laws, according to documents and interviews with five people familiar with it

Timothy L. O'Brien published his article "Trump, Russia and a Shadowy Business Partnership: An insider describes the Bayrock Group, its links to the Trump family and its mysterious access to funds. It isn't pretty" on June 21, 2017 in Bloomberg.[21]

On August 13, 2017 Vanity Fair published "Why Robert Mueller has Trump SoHo in his Sights: The Russian money trail leads right through the president’s troubled project in downtown Manhattan. A series of e-mails reveals new details." [15]

In 2001, Trump hired Kasowitz to restructure debt on his firm's Atlantic City casinos. [42]

The Trump Organization has retained Kasowitz in connection with the potential restructuring of $1.3 billion in bondholder debt on its Atlantic City casinos. David Friedman is quoted in a November 22,2001 article in The New York Times [19]

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  1. ^ Americans: love-hate relationship with government, Reject bureaucracy--but want goods and services the welfare state provides; demanded government run like a business. privatization revolution Michaels: "separating the state from its public servants, practices, and institutions does violence to [US] Constitution, and threatens the health and stability of the Republic." Constitutional Coup "legal theory that explains the modern welfare state as a worthy successor to the framers' three-branch government" Welfare state legitimized by "its recommitment to a rivalrous system of separation of powers, in which political agency heads, career civil servants, and the public writ large reprise and restage the same battles long fought among Congress, the president, and the courts". Privatization is successor to an administrative state that Americans no longer want. Welfare state is a "constitutional usurper". "Privatization dismantles ....commitment.. to separating and checking state power by sidelining rivalrous civil servants and public participants". Constitutional Coup "cements the constitutionality of the administrative state, recognizing civil servants and public participants as necessary--rather than disposable--components. Casting privatization as an existential constitutional threat, it underscores how the fusion of politics and profits commercializes government--and consolidates state power in ways both the framers and administrative lawyers endeavored to disaggregate. It urges--and sketches the outlines of--a twenty-first-century bureaucratic renaissance."
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