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Trump and New York City Investigations

Keeping Lev Parnas Alive

In 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald was accused of shooting President Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. Oswald was shot several days later, he did not kill Kennedy and knew too much who actually did it. Lev Parnas is the Lee Harvey Oswald for Trump’s impeachment. Hopefully history will not repeat itself in 2019 and Lev Parnas will live to tell his story. The situation is identical.

The Kennedy Motorcade was scheduled to pass by the Texas School Book Depository at 12:25pm. The time was 12:15pm on November 22, 1963. Lee Harvey Oswald was having lunch on the first floor of the Texas School Book Depository (confirmed by witnesses) as President Kennedy’s limousine approached Dealey Plaza in Dallas Texas.

At 12:32pm, Oswald was still in the same lunchroom only 2 minutes after shots rang out from the 6th floor (on the other side of the 100 ft wide building) by two gunmen. Oswald was approached by a police officer. Oswald appeared relaxed and composed when the officer spoke to him.

No one saw Oswald run up and down the stairs (elevator was broken) in the 17 minutes that Oswald does not have an alibi. Oswald allegedly fired three shots during this time kneeling down since the windows were near the floor. Oswald also had to navigate through a maze of boxes on the 6th floor to hide his gun on the other side for some strange reason. There is quite a bit of contradictory information supporting Oswald’s innocence that is available upon request.

Current information disputes the Warren Report on the Kennedy Assassination and any reasonable person would also disagree with it.

Republican Senators McConnell and Graham along with others have received millions of dollars of illegal foreign aid through the years to influence their decisions for the benefit of the oil industry.

Speed forward to 2019. Lev Parnas is involved with a major channel of money from Russia to influence Republican United States Senators. He also was involved with the Impeachment of Trump. Because of this minor Impeachment story Parnas could go down in history as the Lee Harvey Oswald of the 21th Century.

Lev Parnas was born in the Ukraine in 1972 when it was still part of Russia. One of his first jobs was selling Trump Co-op’s. Parnas failed in most business ventures he was involved with throughout his life, leaving a trail of unpaid debt behind.

In 2019 he was a translator for one of the Ukraine’s richest oligarchs with mob connections.

He paid Rudy Guiliani one half million dollars, the Trump political campaign over 300,000 dollars, and nine republican congressman $ 2,500 each (when he was arrested they gave the money back to charities) despite his limited means. Where did Parnas get the money? Ask Putin, he knows.

Parnas has met with Trump and Giulani on numerous occasions. Trump claims he never knew him despite 10 confirmed photographs with each other. When Trump said he did not know Parnas decided that he would cooperate with the southern district of New York and the congressional impeachment hearings.

Republican senators would throw trump under the impeachment bus rather than expose the Russian money they received through the years

McConnell and Graham have received over five million dollars through the years in Russian oil Money to influence their votes. This has been very successful.

Parnas has agreed to provide information to congress about trump’s illegal dealings with the Ukraine. However he is not saying anything about what he is being accused of. Illegal political contributions. It appears that the senate republicans will be throwing trump under the bus to save their own careers.

The real story is what Parnas knows about Russian money flowing into the campaigns of united states senators through several decades to influence their vote on oil related issues. Will Parnas live to tell about it.

BIRTHPLACE OF DRED SCOTT DISCOVERED

Dred Scott 1800 – 1857

Many historians consider the Dred Scott decision of 1857 a primary cause of the American Civil War.

There are two sources that connect Dred Scott’s birthplace on the Ridley Plantation known as Rock Springs and Southampton County Virginia.

The March 1781 Will of Henry Taylor as found in records room of the Courthouse in Southampton County Virginia. Will Book 3 pages 326-327. Additionally described in Dred Scott’s Virginia by Jeffrey Allen Hines, Publisher Services, Chicago, Illinois, 2012, pages 142 – 146. The Blows of Yesteryear and America Saga by John and Ashton Le Bourgeois, Charlestown, South Carolina, 2012, page 4. Included in this book are the letters of Charlotte Blow, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Taylor Blow.

Synopsis

Peter and Elizabeth Taylor Blow owned Dred Scott as a slave in Southampton County Virginia for the period 1800-1818, before moving to Alabama and later to St. Louis, Missouri.

Jeffrey A. Hines indicated that the Ridley family of Southampton County owned 6 plantations in the 18th Century that are all located and identified by the Southampton County Historical Society Bulletin 7 Part B page 7, October 1997.

Rock Springs, was described as being located near Gum branch. Gum branch was part of the land where Peter and Elizabeth Blow lived in Virginia. Henry Taylor’s Will describes a Ridley Plantation on Gum branch. Henry was most probably the grandfather of Elizabeth Taylor Blow and the Etheldred was her father. Additionally, included in Henry’s Will were two slaves (Hann and Hannah) most likely the Mother and Grandmother of Dred Scott.

Charlotte Blow, was the daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (married 1800). Dred Scott, the son of Hannah and Solomon, was born around the time of Peter and Elizabeth Blow marriage. Charlotte described her mother and father as Peter brought no land to the marriage. Elizabeth inherited land from her father Etheldred and Uncle Henry, a well improved plantation about three miles north of the town of Capron.

Jeffrey A. Hines indicates that Rock Springs was the only Ridley plantation located in the area described in both the Will of Henry Taylor and Charlotte Blow’s letters.

Rock Springs

Legal description: adjacent to Gum Branch which is included in the legal description of one of the 7 parcels of land Peter Blow purchased between 1805-1817.

Built in the 18th century, at the time one of the grandest in Southampton County with large chimneys, ten rooms, four on the first floor with a large hallway. The hallway featured two circles on the ceiling with grape designs and lamps hung from each. On the second floor there were six rooms with a front stair leading to four and the back stair leading to the other two. The structure is no longer standing

Henry Taylor left his son Etheldred a Ridley Plantation. Etheldred died 1791. At that time, the Ridley Plantation, Rock Springs reverted back to Henry Taylor’s wife. Henry Taylor’s wife died before the wedding of Peter and Elizabeth Taylor Blow which allowed the transfer of Rock Springs to the owners of Dred Scott.

Trump vs Arnold

A comparative analysis

The federal bribery statute, 18 U.S.C. Section 201 makes it a crime for a public official – including a “person who has been selected to be a public official” — to directly or indirectly corruptly seek or receive anything of value in return for being influenced in the performance (or omission) of any official act.

In mid 2016, a Russian spy asked Trump about his future policy about her country at a Trump campaign rally in Las Vegas. Keep in mind that reporters were shocked that they were in America when they attended these Trump rallies.

Trump announced to the crowd that he liked Russia and Putin and indicated that he would ease sanctions against Russia because of his admiration for this threat to the United States. The crowd cheered.

Trump didn’t tell the crowd that he was in the process of negotiating with Russia to build a Trump Tower in Moscow with a free 50 million penthouse for Putin. Putin might not he impressed since he already stole 200 billion from the Russian people.

More importantly Trump didn’t tell the crowd that financing for the project was going through a Russian Bank that the United States had sanctioned. The sanctions were a problem for Putin.

However, this was against the law but that did not deter Trump and his family who could benefit financially from building the tallest tower in Russia. His family members and attorney who pleaded guilty this week knew Trump was lying. But worst of all Russia and Putin knew Trump was lying and used this to compromise the highest office in the United States to their advantage.

BENEDICT ARNOLD VS. DONALD TRUMP

TRUMP WINS!!!!

In the eighteenth Century Benedict Arnold was used to a lavish lifestyle and borrowed heavily to maintain it. Arnold was described as “Money is this man’s God, and to get enough of it he would sacrifice his country”. His father was a successful businessman. When the Americans declared Independence, Arnold decided there was a great deal of money to be made giving the British key information about the American defenses.

Arnold was a difficult personality, extremely ambitious and jealous, making many enemies, and getting into troubles wherever he went in the United States, Britain, or Canada.

In 1778, General George Washington made one of the worst decisions of his career, appointing Arnold as military governor of the rich, politically divided Philadelphia. No one could have been less qualified for the position. Arnold had amply demonstrated his tendency to become embroiled in disputes, as well as his lack of political sense. Above all, he needed tact, patience, and fairness in dealing with a people deeply marked by months of enemy occupation.

Arnold was eventually discovered but escaped to the British lines before he could be hung as a traitor. His young wife was a British spy. Later in life Arnold created an uproar with a series of bad business deals and petty lawsuits.

Sound like Trump? Trump is more effective at being a traitor.

The Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) prohibits any foreign national from contributing, donating or spending funds in connection with any federal, state, or local election in the United States, either directly or indirectly. It is also unlawful to help foreign nationals violate that ban or to solicit, receive or accept contributions or donations from them. Persons who knowingly and willfully engage in these activities may be subject to fines and/or imprisonment.

In the twenty-first century evidence has been recently uncovered that the Russians under the dictatorship of Putin have attacked the most important feature of the United States of America democracy. The right to fair and open elections. Russia used the internet, one of the ten greatest inventions of mankind (most invented by the USA) to alter and attempt to destroy our democracy. They had the assistance of Donald Trump and his political organization.

Almost all of Trump’s political organization, from his manager to his son have been indicted or have lied to federal investigators.

In mid 2016, a Russian spy asked Trump about his future policy about her country at a Trump campaign rally in Las Vegas. Keep in mind that reporters were shocked that they were in America when they attended these Trump rallies.

Trump announced to the crowd that he liked Russia and Putin and indicated that he would ease sanctions against Russia because of his admiration for this threat to the United States. The crowd cheered.

Trump didn’t tell the crowd that he was in the process of negotiating with Russia to build a Trump Tower in Moscow with a free 50 million penthouse for Putin.

More importantly Trump didn’t tell the crowd that financing for the project was going through a Russian Bank that the United States had sanctioned.

This conflict of interest by Trump is not how you make America great again.

However, this was against the law but that did not deter Trump who could benefit financially from building the tallest tower in Russia. His family members and attorney who pleaded guilty this week knew Trump was lying. But worst of all Russia and Putin knew Trump was lying and used this to compromise the highest office in the United States to their advantage.

Trump is about to be indicted. His attorney, Michael Cohen, recently indicated that Trump authorized an illegal meeting with Russians and key personnel in Trump’s political organization in Trump tower in June 2016.

Cohen’s claim is confirmed with there were three telephone calls made or received before the Russian meeting by Trump’s son, two to the Russians in which Trump Jr. does not remember what was discussed. The middle telephone call was to a blocked number (in which Trump has) lasting four minutes which Trump Jr. does not remember who or what was discussed. Around this time Trump indicated that he had a major announcement on dirt on Clinton in a few days. The calls were undoubtedly Trump telling his son to proceed with the illegal meeting with the Russians.

Mueller probably has information on the second call connecting Trump Jr. with Trump.

Donald Trump to save his own lavish lifestyle has sold his soul to the corrupt state of Russia ruled by a ruthless dictator. History has repeated itself four centuries later on a grander more dangerous scale.

TRUMPS ATTEMPT TO DESTROY OUR DEMOCRACY

In the late 60’s an affluent young con man did not want to serve his country. He was a healthy lad (described as a gifted athlete by his teammates) who played football, baseball and tennis in College. His Dad, a rich real estate developer in New York had several foot doctors who rented from him. Fred Trump asked them to diagnose his son Donald with bone spurs and wrote letters to the draft board so Trump did not have to go to Vietnam. Simply put if you play College sports you can serve.

The doctors saw the benefit of having the landlord beholding on them so they agreed and received rent concessions and preferential treatment repairing their units. The son began his life of a con artist. Trump claimed he could not march for our country but could throw a baseball, carry a football, and serve a tennis ball. The Con has begun.

The Donald through the years received almost a half a billion dollars from his dad Fred. The Donald sold the public on another lie that his father loaned him one million and the Donald paid it back. The Donald blew through all of the half billion with extremely poor business decisions, buying real estate at inflated prices when other business people knew better.

Within 20 years the Donald lost all but had residual bankruptcies and lawsuits. No honest banker or investor in the United States would bail the Donald out. All the Donald had was his mouth that could con the dress off a southern belle.

At the turn of the 21st century, after blowing his father’s fortune of half a billion, this con mans financial life was over. Enter Vladimir Putin and his rich Russian bankers with nowhere to put their money since Russia was too unstable to invest. They couldn’t invest in the United States because the government was on to them.

Enter Donald Trump and Putin’s bankers agreed that Trump would receive vast sums of money to save his financial empire in return the bankers money would be safe and Putin would have a vehicle to destroy the United States. This was done outside of the regulatory channels.

When Trump decided to run for President Putin was there with vast sums of money to sway the uneducated in the United States to vote for this puppet tied with Russian money. Putin used Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. In Facebook there were more Russian Ads to elect Trump then American Ads. Russian money also went to the NRA with Republican Senators the beneficiaries. Manafort, Trump’s campaign manager was pressure by the Russian Dictators bankers to pay them the millions Manafort owed them or provide political favors in the form of Treason against the United States.

In August 2016, two months before an election he could not win honestly, Trump sent Cohen to Prague with cash in hand to give the Russians for invaluable assistance in the upcoming Presidential election. Putin got his puppet Trump and created Kaos within the thriving Democratic world structure.

Remove Con Artist Trump and the Russian funded Republicans in 2019.

Face of Love: Symposium on the Common History of German and African Americans in Missouri

is on February 23, 2019 and will include three components: a) educational, b) cross-cultural engagement and 3) an arts component.

Location: German Cultural Society of St. Louis Hall, 3652 Jefferson Avenue, St. Louis, 63118

Time: 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.

The educational program will be delivered by historians and will focus on the significant role of German abolitionists in Missouri and their contributions to the African American community. The historians will be joined by community leaders on the panel who will connect history to the present offering perspectives on where we are today and what is needed.

Southampton County, Virginia – 21st Century racism thrives in the shadows

A commemorative statue re-dedicated in the 21st Century under the shade of beautiful trees sounds like a nice place to visit? This American Civil War Confederate Statue located near the Courthouse in Courtland, Virginia heralds…honoring those who fought the Invaders in the War of Northern Aggression. Nearby confederate battle flags fly, men pay homage to the confederate flag, and a historical society plots to keep things Lily white. The South has a most devious and deceptive way of maintaining the status quo.

Analysis by the staff of Walk With You Production LLC. November 18, 2018

This is the first part in a thirty-one part series. If you want the whole series please email walkwithyou2017@gmail.com

A Collaboration for the Ages

At the end of the American Civil War the emancipation proclamation freed an entire race from the shackles of slavery. A bondage that was accurately described as the master treating the slave slightly better than the masters pigs…but not nearly as good as his prized horses.

An integral part of Southern Slavery laws prevented Blacks from accessing education available to the whites, a requirement to live and work successfully in the United States of America.

Virginia´s law books considered slaves property. The family structure could not exist since each individual was sold separately…often to meet the masters financial obligations.

The emancipation proclamation afforded the African American their physical freedom but they were not provided the money and education to access the tools required to live here. They were wedged between a rock and a hard place.

This situation changed in the early 20th Century when two of the most influential men in United States history, one black and one white, conspired to change a seemingly unwinnable situation.

A second generation German Jew was born in Springfield Illinois in 1862, just one block from where Abraham Lincoln had lived. But at the time Lincoln was occupying the White House and fixing the country as few were capable of doing.

Julius Rosenwald rose to become one of the wealthiest men in America as President of Sears Roebuck and Company. Rosenwald, like many influential whites before and after, considered African American education paramount to the future success of the United States of America.

His words of 1911 echoed: “The horrors that are due to race prejudice come home to the Jew more forcefully than to others of the white race, on account of the centuries of persecution which they have suffered and still suffer.”

Julius Rosenwald established the Rosenwald Fund in 1917 for the well being of mankind. Unlike other endowed foundations, which were designed to fund themselves in perpetuity, this multi-million dollar fund was intended to use all the money for philanthropic purposes.

As a result, the fund was completely spent by 1948. While the money was gone, its lasting effect continues to live on in the African American community.

Booker T. Washington was born a slave in the fields with pigs and other farm animals. His mom cried when the emancipation proclamation released them from physical bondage in 1865. But did she cry tears of joy, or perhaps sorrow, for the hardships they would soon endure since they did not have the skills needed to survive in the free world?

In the coming years the educational part of Washington’s life would make his ex-master jaw drop in astonishment. At a very young age Booker taught himself to read. Later in his pre-teens he worked in the Salt and Coal mines of West Virginia.

He saved enough to attend what was to become the current day Hampton Institute, a school to educate freedmen, where he worked to pay for his studies.

In 1881, the President of Hampton Institute was so impressed with this ambitious young student that he recommended Washington to lead the newly created Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

When Booker T. Washington arrived in Alabama there was money for teachers salaries but there were no buildings.

He quickly secured a run down shanty, within weeks classes for 30 students had begun. In the next year he purchased 100 acres that was once a slave plantation.

We could only imagine his feelings signing a document for ownership for land that his family was considered only property on years earlier.

The earliest college buildings were constructed by students that Washington taught as part of a work study program.

From this most humble start, today Tuskegee University has grown to over 3000 students located on 5200 acres of land. More importantly it is consistently ranked among the best educational facilities across this nation.

Up until this point it is hard to imagine a success story better than what was just said, however the best is saved for last.

Although Rosenwald and Washington came from vastly different backgrounds and were miles apart geographically, they were brought together for an historic luncheon in Chicago, Illinois in 1911.

This must have been a shining moment for Booker T. Washington. Having the opportunity to sit down to a lunch at a table with a white discussing the future of education of the African American race.

He might have thought back to his Virginia Plantation where his family was forced to eat from the vines in the fields among the field animals. Washington recalled that his Virginia family was never afforded the opportunity to sit down at a table together to have a meal.

When I read this to you I can only recall the lie that southerners perpetrated which went something like this ¨we treated our slaves just like family.¨

At this meal, Rosenwald suggested to Washington that if he would provide the architects, Rosenwald would provide the funds to build more colleges like Tuskegee.

Booker T. believed that he had a better solution. He suggested that they collaborate to build primary schools for blacks throughout the south. A test program of six schools was started.

After a successful pilot program, over 5000 schools were built to educate young African Americans in the south where there was no money reserved for their education.

This two story schoolhouse built in courtland in 1928 was one such example. It was built with the assistance of local funds. A requirement that Rosenwald set.

Studies have indicated that these schools have upgraded the African American dramatically. Unfortunately this was not enough to compete with white funding which averaged five times more per student.

In 1881, President Garfield gave one of the finest speeches ever spoken in this country. He said, My friends, we stand upon an eminence overlooking 100 years of natural life. Over one century crowded with perils, but crowned with triumphs of liberty and law.

Before proceeding down the pathway that our people have chosen, let us pause on this height to strengthen our faith and renew our hope by a glance at the road on which our people have traveled.

The elevation of the negro race from slavery to full citizenship is the greatest political change we have known since the adoption of the constitution in 1787. No thoughtful man can fail to see its beneficent effect upon our institutions and our people. It has liberated the master as well as the slave from a wrong that has enfeebled both.

African Americans have risen quickly to the top of the United States government. Since the civil war, the law books have erased their names as property and replaced them with the names Obama, Marshall, and other high positions in our Executive, Judicial, and Legislative branches of government. The United States defining moments reflect this transition.

Working hand-in-hand with other ethnic groups we are now an 18 trillion dollar superpower unlike what the world has ever known, a beacon of democracy emulated throughout the world which owes its strength to the diversity of its culture.

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Ethan Sonneborn is a thirteen year old that appears to be more qualified than Trump is running for governor in Vermont with eventually setting his sights on the White House. Mr. Sonneborn is highlighting gun control in his platform. Representing a new generation that sees the National Rifle Association as the main problem that needs to be fixed, Ethan is calling for stricter gun control in his home state. He told newspapers recently that the national conversation on guns in the aftermath of the Florida school shooting presents a “good opportunity to make change.”

“I wish it didn’t take a tragedy for us to become involved in a national dialogue about how we move forward, but we can’t go back in time and make it that Parkland didn’t happen. And while we’re in this moment, I think it’s a good opportunity to make change.” Obviously the current administration that receives millions of dollars from the National Rifle Association is too corrupt to make some common sense changes.

Ethan emphasized that he is respectful of the state’s prominent hunting culture. “It’s a culture that I respect,” he said. “But if it’s making the decision between letting my friends have a good time at a firing range and them possibly being involved in a school shooting, I’m choosing legislation to protect them from that school shooting.”

Ethan’s biggest obstacles are balancing campaigning with school, and not having a driver’s license since he is dependent on other people for rides to statewide events he speaks at. There are currently no age requirements for gubernatorial candidates in Vermont, and Ethan is the youngest ever to seek the office. Young people have been at the forefront of the gun control conversation following the February shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. Survivors of the shooting have been in the national spotlight and organized the “March For Our Lives,” the anti-gun violence march that drew least a million people including Paul McCartney to cities around the nation last week.

Trump was playing golf while the protests occurred. Trump has also met with the National Rifle Association who contributed thirty million to his ill advised rise to the greatest country in the world in 2016.

Joseph Kennedy part of the Presidential Kennedy family tree returns to the Politics limelight last night

Joseph Kennedy – grandson of Robert Kennedy

Dred Scott’s Virginia – Kindle Version

The Kennedy Family Returns to the national limelight. Just in time.

The grandson of Robert F. Kennedy responded last night to Trump’s warped and racist vision for America.

Here is his speech. It is an absolute privilege to join you all tonight. We are here in Fall River, Massachusetts, a proud American city, an American city built by immigrants.From textiles to robots, this is a place that knows how to make great things. The students who are with us here this evening from the auto tech program at Diman Regional Technical School, carry on that rich legacy.

Like many American hometowns, Fall River has faced its share of storms. The people here are tough. They fight for each other, they pull for their city. It is a fitting place to gather as our nation reflects on the state of our union. This is a difficult task.

Many have spent the last year, anxious, angry, afraid, we all feel the fractured fault lines across our country. We hear the voices of Americans who are forgot in and for sake and — forgotten and for sake and — forsaken. Corporate profits fall but fail to give their workers their fair share.

A government that struggles to keep itself open. Russia, knee deep in our democracy. An all out war on environmental protection. A justice department rolling back civil rights by the day. Hatred and supremacy proudly marching in our streets.

Bullets tearing through our classrooms, concerts and congregations, targeting our sake — safest and sacred places. This nagging and thinking feeling, no matter your political beliefs, this is not right, this is not who we are.

Folks, it would be easy to dismiss this past years chaos. Partisanship as politics, but it is far, far bigger than that. This administration is not just targeting the laws that protect us, they are targeting the very idea that we are all worthy of protection.

For them, dignity is not something you are born with, but something you measure by your net worth, your celebrity, your headlines, your crowd size. Not to mention, the gender of your spouse, the country of your birth, the color of your skin, the God of your prayers. their record has rebuked our highest American ideals, the belief that we are all or the, we are all equal, that we all count in the eyes of our laws, our leaders, our God, and our government. That is the American promise.

Today, ladies and gentlemen, today that promise is being broken by in administration that decides who makes the cut and who can be bargained away. they are turning American lives into a zero-sum game. For one to win, a nether must lose. We can guarantee America’s safety if we slash our safety net.

Where we can extend health care in Mississippi if we get it in Massachusetts. — gut it in Massachusetts. We can cut taxes if we raise them on families to model. We can take care of sick kids if we sacrificed rumors.

We are bombarded with one false choice after another. Coal miners or single moms, rural communities are inner cities. The coast or the heart line. The daycare worker in Birmingham, bitter rights rather than mutual casualties of a system forcefully rigged towards those at the top.

The parent who lies awake terrified that their transgender son or daughter will be beaten and bullied at school. Nothing is more shattering been a daughter in the grips of an opioid addiction. Here is an answer that Democrats offer tonight. We choose both.

The fight for both, because the greatest, strongest, richest nation in the world should not have to leave anyone behind. We choose the better deal for all who call our country home. We choose a living wage and a paid leave, affordable tried your — a formal childcare that your family needs to survive.

Trade tax that are fair, roads and bridges that will not rust away. A good education that you can afford, a health care system that offers you mercy whether you suffer from cancer, or depression, or a addiction. We choose an economy strong enough to post record stock prices, and brave enough to admit that top CEOs making 300 times their average worker is not right.

We choose Fall River. We choose that thousands of Americans communities whose roads are not paid with power or privilege, but with an honest effort of good faith, and the results to build something better for your kids.

That is our story. It began the day our Founding Fathers and mothers set sail for a new world fleeing oppression and intolerance. He continued with every word of our independence, the audacity to declare that all men are created equal. An imperfect promise for a nation struggling to become a more perfect union.

It grew with every suffrage at step, every freedom writers voice, with every weary soul we welcome to our shores. To all the dreamers watching tonight, let me be absolutely clear, you are part of our story, we will fight for you and we will not walk away— we will not walk away.

America, we carry that story on our shoulders. You swarmed to Washington last year to ensure that no parent has to worry if they can afford to save their child’s life. you probably marched together last weekend, thousands on the streets of las vegas, philadelphia and nashville. You set high atop your mom’s shoulder and held a sign that read “build a wall in my generation will tear it down.”

You bravely say, “me too.” you steadfastly say, “black lives matter.” you wade through flood waters, battle hurricanes, brave wildfires and mudslides to save a stranger. You battle your own quiet battles every single day. You drag your weary bodies to that extra shift so that your families will not feel the sting of scarcity.

You leave loved ones at home to defend our country overseas, patrol our neighborhoods at night. You serve, you rescue, you help, you heal. That, more than any law or leader, debate work disagreement, that is what drives us towards progress. It may leave a mark — bullies may punch and it may leave a mark, but they have never managed to match the strength of stash strength and spirit of the people united— strength and spirit of the people united.

Politicians can be cheered for the promises they make. Our country will be judged by the promises we keep. That is the measure of our character. That is who we are.

Out of many, one. Ladies and gentlemen, have faith. Have faith. The state of our union is hopeful, resilient, and enduring. God bless you. God bless your family’s. And May God bless the United States of America. Thank you.

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Donald Trump

If I were to run I’d run as a Republican.

They are the dumbest group

of Voters in the country.

They love everything on Fox News.

I could lie and they’d eat it up.

I bet my numbers would be terrific…Donald Trump

FBI investigates Russian-linked Cyprus bank accused of money laundering

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has asked officials in Cyprus for information about a now defunct bank that was used by wealthy Russians with political connections and has been accused by the US government of money laundering.

The request for information about FBME Bank comes as Cyprus has emerged as a key area of interest for Robert Mueller, the US special counsel who is investigating a possible conspiracy between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Kremlin. People familiar with the FBI request told the Guardian that federal investigators and the US Treasury approached the Central Bank of Cyprus in November seeking detailed information about FBME, which was shut down this year.

Paul Manafort indicted in November 2017

Paul Manafort

One person familiar with the FBI request said it appeared to be connected to Mueller’s ongoing examination of Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign manager who was indicted in October, and money that flowed between former Soviet states and the US through Cypriot banks. The Central Bank of Cyprus, which in 2014 placed FBME under administration in a direct response to US action and obtained full access to the bank’s data, declined to comment. The US special counsel’s office also declined to comment.

Federal Bank of the Middle East

Federal Bank of the Middle East

FBME has vigorously denied accusations that it has been a conduit for money laundering and other criminal activity. Expectedly, the owners of FBME Ayoub-Farid Saab and Fadi Michel Saab have issued statements denying all wrongdoing.

FBME the subject of two investigations

FBME was the subject of two US investigations. The one most interesting is about the alleged laundering of money from Russia. The Russia-related investigation, which is being led by the US attorney’s office in New York, was connected to a flow of illegal Russian funds into the New York real estate market possibly linking Donald Trump with Putin’s bankers.

FBME, previously known as the Federal Bank of the Middle East, was based in Tanzania but about 90% of its banking was conducted in Cyprus.

The US Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network in 2014 said the bank was an institution of primary money laundering concern. The report found that the bank was evading efforts by the Central Bank of Cyprus to supervise its activities. It also indicated that FBME was facilitating money laundering, terrorist financing, transnational organised crime, fraud, sanctions evasion, weapons trading and political corruption.

A report by the Central Bank of Cyprus about FBME found that FBME had banking relationships with several Russians who were considered to be politically sensitive clients and that about half of the bank’s clients were Russian nationals, including Vladimir Smirnov, who is close to Putin, and Aleksandr Shishkin, a member of Putin’s political party.

Trump and Deutsche Bank

Manafort has pleaded not guilty to charges that he laundered millions of dollars through foreign banks as part of a scheme to hide his work for political parties in Ukraine. He is accused of funnelling the funds through foreign shell companies, including many that were based in Cyprus. Manafort’s attorney, Kevin Downing, has called the charges, including those related to his use of offshore accounts, “ridiculous”. A spokesman for FBME bank told the Guardian that Manafort was never a client of FBME. Mueller’s team has separately issued a subpoena for information from Deutsche Bank. According to a person close to the bank, the subpoena was issued in the autumn. The German bank is Trump’s biggest lender.

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John Olivers analysis of the end of the world

Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze

The now famous painting of George Washington standing in a boat while his men were guiding it across an icy river was painted in 1850 by Emanuel Leutze.

Two Paintings

The truth is that he painted two: one that stayed in Germany and the one Americans see in the United States. The painting captures a vital period of history: The Christmas Eve crossing of the Delaware River in 1776 when thousands of Washington’s men crossed under the cover of darkness and launched a surprise attack on German mercenaries at Trenton, New Jersey.

So why were there two paintings? Students, intellectuals, and peasants in Germany longed for Democratic reforms in 1848, so the artist hoped that the rebels would be inspired by the Washington painting and succeed in their desire for democracy; however, this did not happen.The first painting of Washington crossing the Delaware stayed in Germany and was destroyed during the war when Americans dropped bombs during an air raid.

General George Washington and his men

Public Display

Washington Crossing the Delaware was first revealed to the public in the early 1850s. It was very well received as it toured major cities, drawing huge crowds. Leutze quickly painted a second version to be exhibited abroad.It isn’t hard to see why art historian Barbara Groseclose calls it “the very emblem of patriotism for Americans.” The enormous canvas depicts perhaps the most crucial moment in the War of Independence, Gen. George Washington’s crossing of the Delaware River on Christmas night in 1776. After months of embarrassing failures, Washington ordered thousands of troops to stealthily cross the icy waters under cover of darkness. The next morning, in Trenton, N.J., their surprise attack on the Hessians (German mercenaries fighting for the British) provided a much-needed morale boost.

Leutze Reasoning behind the painting

In the painting, Washington stands proudly in a boat, seemingly certain of America’s destiny. In the second version that was sent abroad to the United States. In fact, when Emanuel Leutze started his masterpiece, his intention was not to ignite the patriotic passions of Americans, but to inspire his fellow Germans to be as patriotic as he knew Americans already were.

Rebellion

In 1848, a wave of rebellion spread across Europe. It started small with a revolution in Sicily, and then grew. In Denmark, protesters demanded a formal constitution. French citizens forced the creation of the Second French Republic. In London, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published “The Communist Manifesto.” At the time, the German Confederation comprised dozens of independent states, dominated by two monarchs jockeying for control. During the revolutions of 1848, demonstrations of peasants, students and intellectuals sprang up throughout the states, demanding democratic reforms and touting pan-Germanism. It was in this cauldron that Leutze decided to paint Washington.

Emanuel Leutze

Leutze had spent his formative years in Philadelphia before returning to Germany for art school. Leutze had seen firsthand the power of seemingly disparate groups uniting for the cause of freedom, and he hoped his painting would inspire his countrymen to act like, well, countrymen. Unfortunately for Leutze, the revolution dissolved faster than he could paint. An attempt at a national assembly called the Frankfurt Parliament collapsed under the weight of its intellectualism, and many “Forty-Eighters,” as they came to be known, were forced to emigrate.

The first version

After its German tour, the first version of “Washington Crossing the Delaware” ended up in the Bremen art museum. In an odd twist of fate, it was destroyed by Allied bombing during World War II.

The second version

Leutze went with the second version to the United States, where the response was even greater than in the German states. A magazine review called it the best painting yet executed of an American subject. A newspaper said it was the grandest, most majestic, and most effective painting ever exhibited in America.

Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Mark Twain, ever the satirist, had a different view, calling it a “work of art which would have made Washington hesitate about crossing, if he had known what advantage would be taken of it.”

Tens of thousands stood in line to see it at exhibitions in New York and the Capitol Rotunda in Washington. According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the painting now resides, within a year nearly every home had a print, engraving or needlework version displayed on the mantel.

Eventually, Leutze resettled in New York, where Congress commissioned him to paint another American classic, the massive “Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way,” which still hangs in the Capitol.

Even with his reputation as a painter of American patriotism cemented in history, Leutze still hoped that someday his birth country would be as unified as his adopted one.

James A. Garfield (1831 – 1881)

Garfield, a minister and attorney, was probably the most qualified of all the United States Presidents. He was the 20th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1881, until his assassination which occurred later that year.

Garfield had served nine terms in the House of Representatives, and had been elected to the Senate before his candidacy for the White House, though he declined the Senate seat once he was elected President.

Garfield is the only sitting House of Representatives member to be elected president.





January 2018

Donald Trump Indicted

Trump soon to be indicted on Conspiracy against The United States and Money laundering. Here’s what he did.

This is for everybody who has trouble understanding how 2 extremely wealthy men came to power in two of the wealthiest countries in the world despite one working as a poorly paid KGB agent and the other facing financial ruin by declaring multiple bankruptcies and having more lawsuits filed against him than there are intelligent words in his vocabulary.

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Russia is in turmoil. Putin seizes power and riches by putting the wealthiest person on trial, in a cage. The other wealthy people of Russia, especially bankers see this and decide to work with Putin agreeing to share their profits of their businesses 50/50. Because of this relationship by the end of the decade Putin is one of the wealthiest men in the world, worth billions.

During the first decade of the 21st Century Putin and his bankers used the only foreign bank that would work with Russia, Deutsche Bank of Germany. At the same time Trump facing financial ruin could not find capital to maintain his businesses in the United States. He met with Deutsche Bank (Putin’s bankers) who agreed to provide loans and investors for his real estate properties. Trump indicated to these devious men his ambitions to run for President.

Trump and Putin probably never met although the Russian Bankers met with Trump and his representatives. They formed an alliance that circumvented the existing laws and sanctions against Russia. The terms were Deutsche Bank would loan Trump millions and provide Trump with Investors to purchase his properties. The illegal investor money flowed through the Bank of Cyprus offshore accounts (similar to how Manafort structured his deals). This is included in Trump tax returns which he refuses to disclose but Mueller now has a copy and has subpoenaed Deutsche Bank for Trumps banking history with that institution.

Trump received a Russian bailout of his failing Real Estate Empire. Additionally, Putin agreed to assist in gaining Trump the highest office in the United States, spending millions to use the social media platforms. In exchange Trump would remove the Russian sanctions that include some of Putin’s money once he gained office. Trump attempted to do this when he became President but failed when Congress stopped him. This is why Trump refuses to criticize Russia. If he did Putin would tell his bankers to call in Trump’s Deutsche Bank loans. This would ruin Trump’s real estate business and Trump personally. At least half of the Republican Senators in the United States Congress are aware of above now.

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