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Wow, never heard a word of this from anyone else. You keep your finger on the pulse of - everything. The earth is one, like it or not. There is no enclave where some will be safe if all do not have a modicum of safety. We are falling way short of that possibility.

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Thanks for keeping the Baku story in people’s minds. It would make me happy to see FCPA take them down.

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You nailed it! Just one more example of the global cabal of deplorables. Thanks for digging up this s*storm.

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I’d heard of this but it was too confusing to figure out the history - much less the thump-putin-aliyev corruption connection.

Thanks for making it clear. What a mess.

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Greg. This writing is the best drill down naming a fiendish corrupt group threatening several societies. Ftrump fits right in. I am counting out Trump as a survivor this time around. I would like to see you cover Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. I am voting for him this next election.

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😱 He's a Trojan horse for trump funded by Bannon and Stone, and dark money on the right to steal votes from Biden.

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Prove that.

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I hope Greg will respond to that.

Greg, please take it from here.

(There's no secret to any of this, by the way. Many of Kennedy's talking points are arguments made by Putin, especially in regards to Ukraine. There's conspiracy after conspiracy. I do not know how to be concise here. )

I hope Greg will shed some much needed light .

Peace.

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I don’t understand how any American can side with Putin. But we have seen and heard it, and will do everything to beat them at the polls.

- Hillary Clinton 🗳

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You really are dumber than dirt.

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Prove he is not 😉

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Oct 3, 2023·edited Oct 3, 2023Liked by Greg Olear

I would also like to see Greg cover Robert F. Kennedy. Jr., so you can be convinced NOT to vote for him. Dangerous screws loose in that Kennedy.

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Not convinced M.P. by uniformed conspiracy theories.

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MaryPat. my posting was October last year 2023. I did like his platform then, minus inuendo by others. With no traction by Kennedy, he devolved into security votes from the right. I no longer support RFKjr.

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Thank you.

I was hoping to avoid writing about RFK Jr., as he's such an obvious Kremlin "clueless tool" that it approaches the axiomatic.

But even if he wasn't...in a two-party system, a vote for a third party candidate is the same as a vote for the candidate you like the least. I wish it weren't that way, but that's how it is. It's baked into our political system. I voted for Nader in 2000. I've been down that road before. Never again.

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Well, now you HAVE to write about RFK, Jr., if for no other reason than to slow down his father, who has been spinning in his grave like a dumbbell-shaped nanoparticle over his wayward and quite lunatic son. The SHAME RFK, Jr. brings to the Kennedy name and especially to those initials is incalculable.

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Disrespectful.

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It's not my job to be respectful or disrespectful. It is an opinion and I expressed it, just like you did. That's America.

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Thank you for your opinion

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Steve. You are right. I did like the (published) platform last year. And, dem and Maga candidates both sucked. Query: is there a dumbbell shaped nonoparticle?

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Thank you!

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You're dumb enough to vote for Robert Fringe Kandidate Jr, serial liar about everything, and you come here to worry about Trump?

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You must want a republican to win then; be he the crime boss or some other nincompoop on that side of whatever aisle they think they’re on.

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Please reconsider that vote for RFKjr. I listened to him on Air America some years ago. I don't think having a famous family makes him presidential material.

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Silvia following conspiracy theories. Sorry.

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It is quite amazing that all of these people are able to keep track of each other through all the corruption, backroom deals, and grift -- especially the grift. Putin will be 71 on Saturday and you'd think that at some point he'd want to retire and try to enjoy his ill-gotten riches. But no. He's going to keep bringing death and destruction wherever he wants to, it seems until he dies. What's more amazing is that Greg finds them in their little rat holes and exposes them!

And a reminder: today is 1000 days since January 6, 2021. 1000 days of Trump still waddling around free. Yeah, it looks bad for him, but I won't rest until he's in prison and has lost the election, AGAIN. Then, maybe we can put him behind us and work on fighting against the fallout of his presence in our politics. THAT'S going to take decades, but HE has to go first.

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Thanks for this in- depth history lesson. Trump finds and participates in corruption all around the world doesn’t he? Yes we need to send him packing out of our lives in 13 months by voting, if he isn’t in jail for all his criminal cases before then🙏

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"When people tell you who they are, believe them the first time." - Maya Angelou

In the meantime, the over-educated, under-intelligent, otherwise unemployables continue to say anything from Trump is "Trump being Trump" and therefore no heed must be paid - this despite the fact one of his minions recently released a list of MSM journalists they intend to arrest and imprison at Guantanamo when they return to power in 2025.

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My sister went to Armenia this summer with a friend, renting a house overlooking Mt Ararat. They tried to get into Azerbaijan but only allowed to enter with guided 3 language group tours with hardly any free time, which was not an option for them. She is a linguist and says that the Armenian language is almost illegible compared to her many other known languages, including Russian, Greek, Bulgarian and Albanian. The grammar is similar but the words are totally different. Their rented home will probably be refugee housing now. Poor Armenia 🇦🇲

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Just mention trump and putin in the body of your story along with religious intolerance and you get an instant disaster read. Horrible to go along with all the other horrible in the world. Bah humbug!

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Thank you for all your hard work explaining the world to me. I’m amazed at the depth of your research and ability to clarify the situation for those of us who have been focused elsewhere.

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