#corrupt

mlansbury@despora.de

Key corruption index sees Ukraine improve, Russia worsen in 2023

After the #EuroMaidan Revolution ousted pro-Kremlin President Viktor Yanukovych in 2014, Ukraine launched extensive but challenging #anti-corruption efforts.

According to the recently published index that includes 180 countries, Ukraine went from the 144th least corrupt country in 2013 to 104th last year. It has also improved its score from 25 points to 36 over this period, with the higher number signifying less corruption.

In comparison, Russia's ranking went from the 127th least corrupt country in 2013 to 141st 10 years later, while its score dropped from 28 to 26. In 2022, Russia ranked 137th with a score of 28.

https://kyivindependent.com/key-corruption-index-sees-ukraine-rise-russia-drop-in-2023/

#Russia #corruption #crimes #dictatorship #authoritarian #corrupt

diane_a@diasp.org

In 2019, a panel of US judges permanently dismissed all 83 ethics complaints filed against Brett Kavanaugh around the time of his confirmation hearing without considering their individual merit.

EIGHTY-THREE ethics complaints filed against Brett were not investigated.

What crimes did he commit? Whose rights did Brett violate?

EIGHTY-THREE PERSONS BRAVE ENOUGH TO FILE THE COMPLAINT. #corrupt #scotus

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brett-kavanaugh-ethics-complaints-dismissed_n_5d4442a1e4b0acb57fcb6356

psych@diasp.org

2/2

1st US Rep Daniel Goldman accused #GymJordan of criminal obstruction/collusion in obstructing #justice in sovereign NY State. As we saw on live TV, around #Jan6, Jordan is again acting as chief #GQP clown in service of Dark Lord StableGenius, on the offense AGAINST justice & state sovereignty too. While he has yet to respond to lawful subpoenas himself. He may have to now.
No doubt he may try to invoke privilege; though he's not a lawyer by training; he's a gym coach inclined to 'see no evil', but to do it.
On behalf of the biggest criminal anybody's ever seen before, certainly a 'President' engaged in #sedition, #corruption, #fraud & #obsttruction.

Manhattan DA Bragg sues GOP House Judiciary chairman to prevent interference in Trump case

And. now, after Jordan takes his #Jan6 clown show on the road, violates NY law (in addition to Federal) and makes demands of a sovereign state's justice system, now prosecuting Jordan's puppeteer...District Attorney Alvin Bragg has sued #JimJordan!

Legally, Jordan MUST provide documents, email, phone records etc. relative to the 'discovery' & prosecution of his numerous crimes (along with some other #corrupt #GQP seditionists) related to Trump's continuing interference of, & collusion in obstruction of, the legal process within NY State, Specifically, he will need to provide records to prove or disprove his acting directly on behalf of Trump in wheeling out a full-court assault on the legal process and officials in NY, following the indictment. If he stonewalls, criminally - again - Jordan could/should be charged with obstruction of a legitimate NYS legal proceeding, whether he thinks it is or not. Pathetic, and maybe funny to watch from a safe distance, but at the heart of America's struggle to see some slight return to #accountability & #truth.

psych@diasp.org

Breaking News!

Super important, perhaps the most hopeful and tangible action since the beginning of #TrumpVirus #corruption, #sedition, and collusion across multiple high crimes with the #GQP bloc of #seditionists in the House (and a few in the Senate). Notably, #GymJordan. (Remember him? The guy who stoked #Jan6 and defended Trump, ignored lawful subpoenas to testify on this, and now playing Clown King of the #GQP cult, on the offensive against actual law enforcement or #justice for the insurrection aided and abetted by HIM. As we saw on live TV. As the record shows.

Earlier on Tuesday, before the announcement of DA Bragg's suit against Jordan:

Dan Goldman Says Trump Ally Jim Jordan Has ‘Clearly Crossed Over’ The Line To ‘Criminal Obstruction’ Of Bragg Case

Now Jordan, reportedly at the behest of his master, Dark Lord StableGenius, has gone on the offensive AGAINST justice, and state sovereignty too. He's coming with his road show to New York, to distract and obstruct justice, on the offensive (which he knows how to be!) and where former impeachment manager, now Rep. Dan Goldman has said he was/is "not welcome". Now it's gone to another level, with Goldman speaking of Jordan's criminality, and - this is the just 'breaking' news - now District Attorney Alvin Bragg has sued #GymJordan!! Legally, Jordan must provide documents, email, phone records etc. relative to the 'discovery' and prosecution of his numerous crimes (along with some other #corrupt #GQP seditionists) specifically related to Trump's continuing interference of, and collusion in obstruction of, the lawful legal process within NY State, where Jordan has ZERO right to be interfering. The idea that Jordan is acting as Trump's surrogate is both substantive, rather obvious, and repulsive. But it could lead to a House Cleaning, beginning with Jordan, and maybe some pals like MTG, Boebert. Gaetz and so many others.

Imagine - Trump will be gone, to jail or asylum, Jordan will be expelled &/or jailed, and people are now watching the corruption of our 3rd branch, the Thompsons' SCOTUS. Trifecta, to restore integrity, and sanity to the proceedings and functioning of US Government. We the People - are guaranteed a government by, of, and FOR the people, all the people, including the sane/'woke' majority, whether the billionaire oligarch class likes it or not. USA is truly at a tipping poing. Hopefully this helps tilt us towards rational, representative government by 'representatives' of the good people, everyday people who live by time-worn values like #truth & #justice.

artsound2@diasp.eu

“It is very bad in America to be right too early,” writes @sarahkendzior. “It is considered a sin in journalism to tell the public what you have learned in real time...mostly because it destroys plausible deniability for the corrupt and powerful.”

In northern Arkansas there is a town called Eureka Springs, where no streets meet at a right angle. The town is built into the bedrock, captive to ancient geology, its buildings carved into curving cliffs and its trees erupting through layers of sloping sidewalks. There are no traffic lights in Eureka Springs because there is no clear way to turn, no bearings to get, no center to hold. You can enter the ground floor of a building and walk a straight line out the back door only to discover you have just left that side’s fifth floor. The topography dictates your journey: renames it, replaces it. It’s reassuring in this day and age, such reliable disorientation. No one comes to Eureka Springs for certainty anyway. They come for the magic and the ghosts.

Before the pandemic hit, every December my family would drive from St. Louis, Missouri, to Dallas, Texas, to celebrate Christmas with my sister and her family. Every year we would stop in Arkansas and spend a night in Eureka Springs. The official reason was to break up the ten-hour drive, but the real reason was to stay at the Crescent Hotel, and the reason we wanted to stay at the Crescent Hotel was that it’s haunted. This is not our opinion, but the hotel’s calling card. Since 1886, the Crescent has loomed over Eureka Springs, attracting travelers seeking miracle cures in the town’s waters, which are said to possess magical healing powers. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the famous and infamous passed through as the Ozarks became a gangsters’ paradise and a politicians’ retreat. The hotel changed hands and identities: a luxury resort, a women’s conservatory, a junior college. Then the Great Depression hit and it became a place where people literally died of false hope.

full article

https://twitter.com/mlcalderone/status/1568197595515813890
#journalism #news #conartists #powerful #corrupt

psych@diasp.org

#TrumpVirus contagion still alive & well in #DeathSantis/#GQP land. Sad. Sick.
Finally we are returning to #truth and #law and so the #seditionist choir are screaming to stop, & that the enemy is OUR FBI. Law.

Liz Cheney blasts GOP's 'sickening comments' about FBI's Mar-a-Lago search warrant

I can't believe I'm saying this but G-d Bless Liz Cheney! She has nothing to lose & has gained a lot of respect, regardless of history, affiliation. etc. She sees #truth and speaks it to #corrupt power, AKA the #GQP / #Fox disinformation, division, & hate machine.

#MakeAmericaSaneAgain #truth #accountability #law #TruthToPower #denial #mindfulness #disinformation

tpq1980@iviv.hu

The big #problem with #British #politics is that it doesn't exist. #Read some #political #history and #philosophy and you'll soon realise there is a de facto one party state in the #UK.

#Conservatives = neoliberal-globalists.
#Labour = neoliberal-globalists.
#LibDems = neoliberal-globalists.
#Green = neoliberal-globalists.
#ScotsNats = neoliberal-globalists.

The only real choice is the #colour.

The Conservatives #conserve nothing, grow #government, permit mass #immigration, support #speech crime, support thought #crime, increase #regulations, support "#multiculturalism", support "LGBTQIA+", hate #autochthonous British people, borrow #money at interest, print #currency, support #globalism, support foreign #wars, support net zero, support offshoring #industry, take part in #cronyism, don't support free market #capitalism, want to give illegal #migrants #amnesty, support the #corrupt #Ukraine puppet government, supported illegal #lockdowns, supported illegal #medical #mandates, supported #unscientific mask wearing, support illegal on-the-spot #fines, support #biometricID, support ignoring #paedophilia, support ignoring crime #statistics regarding #race, support the World Economic Forum, support #agenda2030, support "the great reset", support low #birthrates, support #miscegenation and support #depopulation.

Labour support everything the so-called Conservatives do and they don't support the #working classes and in-fact appear to hate the autochthonous British working classes and consider them, in the words of Jack Staw, a people "not worth saving."

Lib Dems are neither #Liberal, in the classical sense, or #Democratic. They wanted to overturn the #EU #referendum and reject the Democratic #vote on membership and they're #neoliberals, which is a philosophy that includes attacks on classical Liberal concepts like free speech, free thought and free inquiry. They also support everything the so-called Conservatives and Labour party do.

#Greens support the the reduction of #CO2 from the current 400ppm to zero, which will kill all life on #Earth as it will prevent #photosynthesis occurring, therefore preventing #plants growing and eliminating them as a food for #humans, #insects and #animals, destroying the food chain and the Earth's #biosphere. They don't understand how the #climate or biosphere works and are ostensibly useful idiots for plutocratic #elites and big #corporations. They also support everything the so-called Conservatives, Labour party and Lib Dems do.

The #SNP wants to take #Scotland out of the UK union and give the Scots "#independence" by signing them up to EU union. Essentially all this does is transfer dependency from #London to #Brussels and exchanges the #English for the Franco-Germans. Scotland will be no more independent and in some ways even more dependant. The SNP also support everything the other neoliberal-globalist parties do too.

In short, there is no political #choice beyond colour because there is no meaningful differentiation between political philosophies, or outcomes of voting. Whatever party you vote for, you get the same policies, the same lies, the same #corruption, the same #cronyism, the same #sophistry, the same national trajectory, the same everything, only with some minor and ostensibly superficial differences in packaging and delivery.

British politics is a total #farce that doesn't even engage in any recognisable political #debate because other than faux ad hominems, jeering and lip-service to non-existent political #principles there's nothing to debate, because they all agree...

steelnomad@diasp.org
The great Jewish scholar Yeshayahu Leibowitz, whom Isaiah Berlin called “the conscience of #Israel,” saw the mortal danger to Israel of its #colonial project.
He warned that if Israel did not separate church and state and end its colonial #occupation of the #Palestinians it would give rise to a #corrupt rabbinate that would warp Judaism into a fascistic cult.
“Religious nationalism is to religion what National Socialism was to socialism,” said Leibowitz, who died in 1994.
He saw that the blind veneration of the #military, especially after the 1967 war in which Israel captured the #WestBank and #EastJerusalem, would result in the degeneration of the Jewish society and the death of democracy.

#Palestine #Palestinian #apartheid #genocide #violence #evil #HumanRights

Source

psych@diasp.org

So #Fox /#GQP #Disinformation network has made itself perfectly clear: It not only is NOT news, but they forbid #Truth Telling.

Fox = Cancel Culture

Fox has colluded with the #seditionists in Congress (#GymJordan, #MTG, #CancunCruz, etc.) to send the message direct from the source: January 6 did not happen as we saw it ("Trust what the cult of Lord #TrumpVirus says, not your eyes"). We did not see the riots and hear the anguish, we did not see Congress people shocked and briefly acknowledging the truth, only to return to "nothing to see here, folks". Jan 6 conspiracy never happened, we didn't see and hear what we did, and #history is re-written and cancelled daily.

And today, in an historic public hearing to clear the air, tell #truth (even to power), and seek both #accountability and mitigation...
Fox and Fiends decided it did not happen (Jan 6) or is nothing to learn from or address... so see a movie or watch #Hannity spout delusional dribble laced with hate - just for Fox viewers/cultists who are intentionally ignoring (like ostriches with heads in sand) or just disinterested, as the Fox PR suggests is the case for all its viewers (i.e., #MAGAts). Fox IS #CancelCulture. Fox IS 99% #BigLie -
#CancelCulture and #hypocrisy on display, supported bigly by the #Corrupt Congress members who were complicit. #BigLie for all.

#MakeAmericaSaneAgain