Things are moving so fast over the last few days it seemed important once again to get some of it set down ... at least as a snapshot of several moving parts.
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3/3. "petulant wars waged by mendacious hydrocarbon oligarchs, racial violence instead of the pursuit of human survival via technology, shortages and famine in much of the world, and catastrophe in parts of the global South."https://t.co/L0PdZlU59r
— Timothy Snyder (@TimothyDSnyder) September 9, 2022
Advances in the last week by Ukrainian troops in the southern Donbas region of Ukraine and the quick retreat of Russian forces there give rise to much acclaim in the west. Meanwhile in now both St. Petersburg and Moscow reports of deputies and ministers in various bodies there have asked for Putin's removal. It's now Wednesday morning there and verifiable reports - in a war zone - should of course be treated with more than the usual extreme scepticism regarding sources and frames and basic veracity.
With that caveat, an article from yesterday's Moscow Times (moscowtimes.ru) has stated that Putin has cancelled a meeting with his generals overseeing the war in Ukraine. By evening there electrical power generation and distribution has been cut in Kherkov region, the scene of the heaviest fighting in the last few days.
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In the US a video has surfaced of the former US President purportedly from May 2022 boarding a plane that includes aides delivering boxes to the plane on the runway with him in attendance and boarding. Said plane took the former President from his club at Mar-a-Lago in FL to his club in Bedminster, NJ, where most recently, in July his former wife, and mother of his most known children, Ivana Trump was buried. Calls in the press for investigations into these matters stem from the recognition this week that some of the classified materials kept by Trump and then seized last month by the FBI have to do with foreign nation's nuclear secrets. This last poses all sorts of problems for the US and the world in ways that range from bad to worse in ever increasingly bad, but yet untold ways. The worst frightening dramas of course are the ones you can't predict how they might turn out.
Granted a Special Master to oversee the 11000 plus set of documents seized last month by the FBI, the former president is now reportedly in negotiations with the US Department of Justice over who that person might be and who will pay them to oversee the many kinds of materials stolen and then kept hidden at Mar-a-Lago by the Trump team. The lawyers representing his various cases are reportedly again having trouble finding lawyers of their own to represent themselves.
Last Thursday, on the 8th of September, Steve Bannon turned himself in to NY prosecutors over charges of fraud, money laundering and conspiracy. He was paraded before the press in handcuffs.
DJT himself left Florida and went to his golf club in Virginia and met with a number of men on the fairway of his golf course there, the Trump National Golf Club, outside Sterling. Although he mentioned on his own social media network that he would be travelling to DC on a 'working trip', members of the press were surprised to find him deplaning at Dulles looking dishevelled and in golf attire. This prompted some to guess he was instead coming to DC having been called out of his normal routines to appear in court or answer some legal summons. Instead he just met a bunch of associates at the golf course and they talked yet no one seemed to be carrying golf clubs.
BREAKING NYT: The Justice Dept. has issued about 40 subpoenas over the past week seeking info about the actions of Trump and his associates related to Jan. 6.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 12, 2022
Two top Trump advisers, Boris Epshteyn and Mike Roman, had their phones seized as evidence. https://t.co/O9EikiLepZ
