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