15 DAYS TIL MUELLER BUT READ THE BACKSTORY AND FORESTORY
If you have not read or listened to The Mueller Report, time is running out. Special Counsel Mueller has agreed to speak to Congress https://youtu.be/xS6oC-NU-Ws about his report. However, in the meantime as a citizen, you should be prepared to understand what Mueller and Congress are commenting on.
In the preamble, Mueller explains his task was to investigate any links between the Russian Government and anyone associated with the Trump campaign, also with any other matters that arose from his investigation.
He declares, the Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion. Evidence of Russian government operations began to surface in mid-2016. In June the Democratic National Committee and its cyber response team publicly announced that Russian hackers had compromised its computer network. Releases of hacked materials-hacks that public reporting soon attributed to the Russian government began that same month. Additional releases followed in July through the organization WikiLeaks, with further releases in October and November.
However the June 28 G-20 https://youtu.be/Br-p2Pe9fcY tells another story.
The report describes actions and events that the Special Counsel’s Office found to be supported by the evidence collected in [its] investigation. In some instances, the report points out the absence of evidence or conflicts in the evidence about a particular fact or event. In other instances, when substantial, credible evidence enabled the Office to reach a conclusion with confidence, the report states that the investigation established that certain actions or events occurred. A statement that the investigation did not establish particular facts does not mean there was no evidence of those facts.
More important is to understand that in spite of its redactions, The Mueller Report still reads coherently and it contains over 2,000 notes. Listening to CD or on eBook: The Mueller Report: The Washington Post / introduction and analysis by reporters Rosalind S. Helderman and Matt Zapotosky ; Peter Finn, national security editor, is like listening to a thriller—that even Tom Clancy would be proud of.
However, if you find The Mueller Report too much of a dry read, I recommend Luke Harding’s Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money And How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win (2017), published two year prior to The Mueller Report (2019). https://youtu.be/FlwbrtMHmxQ
President Trump has tasked Attorney General Barr to investigate the investigators. According to the conclusions drawn in Collusion, this is a big mistake on Trump’s part. Deutsche Bank and its dealings with Trump and Russian oligarchs is a very interesting story in itself, whose expose can be heard on Fresh Air on May 19, 2019, in an interview with NY Times editor David Enrich, as well as on The Daily May 23, 2919. And Harding’s’ validation of former MI6 officer Christopher Steel and Steel’s now-famous dossier which kicked off the Russian-Trump scandal, is enlightening.
Or if you decide on a more updated version that The Mueller Report explores, read Oliver Bullough’s Moneyland: the Inside Story Of The Crooks And Kleptocrats Who Rule The World (2919). Bullough posits that John Tobon, deputy special agent in charge of the Miami office at Homeland Security Investigations, told his in February 2017 that “If you have some time off, go to Bayside (Miami), get on one of those boat rides and you can actually see Al Capone’s home, It’s still there, it’s still?’ And he was like, have you not seen the house, the Al Capone house? This is where it started, this isn’t new.”
Of course, a majority of the investment in Miami still originates in the United States, and much of the foreign money is legal. The trouble is that, thanks to the obscuring effect of the non-transparent companies used to hold the property, we have no way of knowing what is legal and what isn’t. In the early hysteria over President Donald Trump’s Russia ties, a Reuter’s investigation into Russian investment in the Trump Organization found sixty-three Russians among the owners of 2,044 units in seven different Trump-banded developments in Florida.
Are more remarkable was the fact that fully 703 of the units were owned via corporate vehicles, meaning there were no real people attached to their title deeds at all, and their ownership was completely obscure. They might have belonged to Vladimir Putin, for all anyone else could know.
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07/03/2019 @ 2:45 pm
Congratulations on putting up an excellent first post. Content aside, you seem to have gotten it right the first time.
Some technical comments:
In terms of layout and design, it is better not to insert images (or videos) before the body of the article. When you do that, what happens is that your byline gets sandwioched between the featured image and the first image in your article.
My personal rule is not to insert images until after the first two inches in the finished article. Of course, you might have to preview the article to see where that two inch line falls.
On several occasions in this article, you inserted a URL directly into the article. I checked, and you actually used the hyperlink tool but you didn’t insert any anchor text.
The best practice is to highlight a section of the text, then click the hyperlink tool, and insert the hyperlink in the space provided. Example: In your first paragraph, you mentioned the Mueller Report…but that wasn’t really the source of the clip. It’s actually from CNBC This is how I would do it this way:
If you have not read or listened to The Mueller Report, time is running out. Special Counsel Mueller has agreed to speak to Congress, AS DOCUMENTED BY THIS CLIP FROM CNBC. (capitalization for emphasis only.)
Here, you would highlight “as documented by this clip fro CNBC” and use that as the anchor text because the clip actually belongs to CNBC not to youtrube, but your link appears to give credit to Youtube.
I also caught this:
Bullough posits that John Tobon, deputy special agent in charge of the Miami office at Homeland Security Investigations, told his in February 2017 that “If you have some time off, go to Bayside (Miami), get on one of those boat rides and you can actually see Al Capone’s home, It’s still there, it’s still?’
I think that “his” in line two of the clip should be “him” not “his.”
07/03/2019 @ 3:47 pm
Thank you. Your posting instructions are much more complicated than Our Salon’s were. But I will continue to try. I got help from two lab techs at the Iowa City Public Library.
07/03/2019 @ 5:01 pm
I am working on simplifying them. I will also be doing a series of videos. It is actually much easier than it sounds if you watch it being done once or twice.It’s a work in progress.
07/03/2019 @ 7:36 pm
Glad you came and glad you’re using this format. I’d rather read you than your guest writers and this is of the right length to get read.
07/05/2019 @ 4:10 pm
I am glad to be back. But I am having trouble posting because it is more complicated than our salon. Simple is better. But I can’t live in the past.
07/08/2020 @ 10:09 pm
:Right Now: !Lionel Hampton! everylittlethingwillbe ALRIGHT{{{{{{{LO;}}}}}}} !hand on Heart! Midnight Train Fulton County Blues Mary Mary Quite Here comes the night
:Right Now: !Lionel Hampton! everylittlethingwillbe ALRIGHT{{{{{{{LO;}}}}}}} !hand on Heart! Midnight Train Fulton County Blues Mary Mary Quite Here comes the night and don’t let’s not get started on Faust albeit IT chimes so well with joUst . Hey where’d we go Ms Mary Gravitt(darling~dearest)land of the FREE & don’t let’s not get started on Faust albeit IT chimes so well with joUst . Hey where’d we go Ms Mary Gravitt(darling~dearest)land of the FREE
jpHart
please pardon the disambiguation I’d attempted translation to Maltese
(whatever that means)
just invested another humid afternoon with my back turned toward the sun
haggling with SummerGest over my deal for the World’s Largest Bic Lighter
sure, sure all this red tape !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Notwithstanding what I had and lost with my Goodnight Irene Tours (!yowser.yikes!)
we keep gettin’ richer xox we’ve also some old school simultaneous
((((((((((((BANGLADESH))))))))))))
[@ 23:55 later this eve]
For darn sure:
?WHAT’S THAT SOUND?
07/09/2020 @ 1:32 pm
I keep trying to post but can’t get beyond posting a picture–no text.
Marygrav
02/20/2021 @ 11:58 am
Recollect our conversation on adages Ms. Marygrav? Curious if you know what the etymology is regarden’ learning curve? Should not LEARNING be linear? Illustratively: curve (n.) 1690s, “curved line, a continuous bending without angles,”
vs.
linear (adj.)
“resembling a line, of or pertaining to lines,” 1640s, from French linéaire, from Latin linearis “belonging to a line,” from linea “string, line”
Here’s how Urban Dictionary details // learning curve: “learning curve like a spirit level — Description of someone extremely slow to pick things up. Jim’s been losing at three-card monty for 3 hours now – damn he’s got a learning curve like a spirit level!”
[whereas]
// learning line (urbanized):
“Sorry, we couldn’t find: learning line”
Yikes you know, that baseball analogy ‘…brush-back curve…’ ‘…rainbows’ curve…’ vs. ‘…bee-line….’ ‘…hey that’s a good line…’ ‘…hairpin curve…’ ‘…horseshoe offramp…’ ‘…missiles curved over the trench…’
My observation is tautological — as I’m so frequently using words that?which compel my imaginary readers to look stuff up…and, making ends meet, I almost got killed as a ‘gypsy’ CDL driver during a horizonal sleet whiteout over the PA Turnpike. Student ‘pays the piper’ with either numerological or semantic deficiency especially nowadays enduring this ‘Stasi’ phase overtly cautious due to our bifurcated polarized systemic. It’s as though silence is golden. Silver an unsafe soliloquy scrap. REM cost prohibitive … so I need to challenge the ADAGE learning curve particularly alert as this Boris Pasternakian weather encapsulates the soul. Ham-handedly, if calculus were not presented to me as a ‘learning curve’ I would not ‘sound’ like one of those protracted BOGO configurations. On the other hand que sera sera — perhaps the rubber has hit the road — our venerable grid squirming like a squid — quid pro quo — soon we’ll see the melting snow.
Trust your weekend is safe and sound:
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