#dictators

mlansbury@despora.de

A 4-year cruise or a €1 house in Italy: Inside the schemes helping Americans skip #Trump’s presidency

Following the recent US election result, Google searches for ‘how to move to Europe’ increased by more than 1,000 per cent in some countries.

Searches by #Americans for moving to Canada and Australia soared by 1,270 and 820 per cent respectively in the 24 hours after the first polls closed, according to Google data.

https://www.euronews.com/travel/2024/11/20/a-4-year-cruise-or-a-1-house-in-italy-inside-the-schemes-helping-americans-skip-trumps-pre

#tyrants #authoritarian #dictators #escape #election

psych@diasp.org

To the point... From The Lincoln Project

Donald Trump is openly copying Nazi language, advocating for a ";unified Reich"

Link 2 (In case pora* refuses to preview!) - https://x.com/MarkHamill/status/1793353826277425222

"We made this ad pre-2020 election, thinking that we would never have to release it. After Trump’s latest embrace of fascism, we feel it’s important to post,: #Bloodlines

#TrumpVirus #fascism #cult #Reich #GQP #authoritarian #DJT #truth #history #propaganda #dictators

mlansbury@despora.de

Russia’s descent into #totalitarianism: How it happened

It is difficult to pin down the exact moment that Russia began morphing into a totalitarian state, but the transformation didn’t take long.

For over a decade, the #Kremlin was taking away civil liberties and feeding the population a revamped and increasingly more aggressive version of #nationalism. For nearly a decade, most Russians didn't seem to care.

In 2012, the Kremlin ruthlessly ended the wave of #demonstrations known as the #Bolotnaya protests. Named for the square in Moscow where demonstrators gathered, the rallies began in December 2011, when thousands of Russians flooded the streets to protest against election fraud.

https://kyivindependent.com/russias-decade-long-fall-into-totalitarianism-explained/

#Imperialism #dictators #Putin #RussianAggression

mlansbury@despora.de
mlansbury@despora.de

Author Timothy Garton Ash: 'Vladimir Putin is the Adolf Hitler of our day'

[Video interview]

Renowned author and Oxford Professor Timothy Garton Ash blames the "hubris" of past European leaders for many of the current struggles on the continent, including the war in Ukraine.

He says he's spent five decades "travelling, worrying and writing about Europe".

Ash met authoritarian leaders like Russia's Vladimir Putin and Hungary's Viktor Orban at the start of their political careers and assesses their rise to power in his latest book "Homelands: a Personal History of Europe". He spoke to FRANCE 24's Gavin Lee in Perspective

https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/perspective/20240125-author-timothy-garton-ash-vladimir-putin-is-the-adolf-hitler-of-our-day

#Europe #history #leaders #books #dictators #war #democracy

psych@diasp.org

One for weekend conspiracists (&/or anti-conspiracists)...

On the creeping and ever-darker resurgence of authoritarian, bubbling up from the underworld, globally. (Guardian story)
And referencing one of my personally banned buzzwords, "neoliberal". [poisoning the actual word AND prefix!]

What links Rishi Sunak, Javier Milei and Donald Trump? The shadowy network behind their policies

The Atlas Network’s dark-money junktanks are behind neoliberal policies around the world. And you may find its leaders on a resignation honours list near you

#authoritarianism #fascists #dictators #neoliberalism #geopolitics #DarkMoney

birdsong@diaspora.linuxlusers.com

#miami #beach #banking #dictators

Mercantile National Bank of Miami Beach, Florida
420 Lincoln Road

By the time I moved to Miami Beach, got an apartment and a job at a bank, Batista was long gone from Cuba and had escaped to Portugal, and died in Spain.
I learned about him, the Cuban revolution and Fidel Castro while working at the bank. Batista had looted Cuba, and was also heavily involved in organized crime. He stashed the money in the bank where I worked. During the upheaval of the revolution he sent many relatives and friends to Miami Beach to get the best of jobs, including in the bank. He had also purchased beautiful mansions there, and other properties in Florida.
In many ways, Florida became an extension of Cuba with people fleeing their county for one reason or another.