MONEY Plays. CORRUPTION Reigns, RULING OUT any semblance of substantive qualification or assurance of democratic participation, practice, or process

If democracy can be bought (which it most assuredly cannot be), what is manifest is fraudulence (deceit, dishonesty, duplicity), total absence of democracy.

US Elections, Contenders, Public Office Bought by Multimillionaires, Billionaires

2024 to date (or reported by August 2024)

Raised by candidates estimated at $1,240.5 million

Kamala HARRIS	Donald TRUMP
CANDIDATE COMMITTEE MONEY: $685,107,477	CANDIDATE COMMITTEE MONEY: $306,776,892
OUTSIDE MONEY: $278,146,052	OUTSIDE MONEY: $310,408,623

From Agribusiness

Donald Trump	$9,910,015
Kamala Harris	$2,734,984

2024 election cycle and based on Federal Election Commission data released electronically on 08/21/24, https://www.opensecrets.org/2024-presidential-race/sector-totals

From Casinos/Gambling

Kamala Harris	$4,501,653
Donald Trump	$501,629

https://www.opensecrets.org/2024-presidential-race/industry-totals?highlight=y&ind=N07

From Accountants

Kamala Harris	$1,560,264
Donald Trump	$1,001,011

https://www.opensecrets.org/2024-presidential-race/industry-totals?highlight=n&ind=F11&src=a

From Small Donors (total raised)

Kamala Harris	$685,107,477
Donald Trump	$306,776,892

https://www.opensecrets.org/2024-presidential-race/small-donors

                            Big Buyers “largesse”

SOROS

Multi-billionaire (Approx 7 - $32 B) Native of Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary George Soros founder of Soros Fund Management LLC and Open Society Foundations currently chaired by his son Alexander Soros

From Soros (Soros Fund Management) to 14 and 8 Members of 

US House of Representatives:           $59,710

US Senate:                                         $52,500

2024 election cycle, figures released by the Federal Election Commission for the current election cycle based on data released on August 21, 2024. https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/soros-fund-management/recipients?id=D000000306

MELLON

Multi-billionaire (approx $14.1B) Grandson and heir of American banking industrialist and businessman Andrew William (AW) Mellon two decades tenure as trustee of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Founder & Majority Owner of sold or defunct rail transport, manufacturing and energy, transportation related brand industries, uncertain birthplace, Timothy Mellon as of August 2024 (during the 2024 US election cycle) had reportedly handed out

… “$165 million” to politicians, candidates or their conduits

In the period January 2020 through June 2024” … “to federal candidates and political committees $227 million”

Open Secrets reports “Mellon has pumped over $165 million into the 2024 election, making him the top donor fueling outside spending groups this year. In July, Mellon made a $50 million cash infusion to pro-Trump super PAC ‘Make America Great Again, Inc’” (source new Federal Election Commission filings show). “This brings his total contributions to the group (‘Make America Great Again’) to $125 million this election cycle, including a $50 million check he wrote to the super PAC the day after Trump was convicted of 34 felonies.

“Mellon’s latest $50 million contribution accounts for over 90 percent of what MAGA, Inc. raised in July. The super PAC ended the month with about $124.5 million cash on hand.”

Before suspending his campaign for the US presidency, the junior Robert F. Kennedy’s “hybrid PAC ‘American Values 2024’ (had) received $25 million from Mellon. Compared to the 2016 election period, as July 2024, “Timothy Mellon (had) increased his spending more than 5,000-fold.”

 

Top all time recipients of Timothy Mellon's political donations 

Table with 2 columns and 10 rows.
Recipient	Grand Total
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN INC	$126,500,000 $126,500,000 $126,500,000
CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP FUND	$55,000,000 $55,000,000 $55,000,000
AMERICAN VALUES 2024	$25,003,300 $25,003,300 $25,003,300
SENATE LEADERSHIP FUND	$20,000,000 $20,000,000 $20,000,000
AMERICA FIRST ACTION	$20,000,000 $20,000,000 $20,000,000
SENTINEL ACTION FUND	$11,000,000 $11,000,000 $11,000,000
WISCONSIN TRUTH PAC	$5,000,000 $5,000,000 $5,000,000
AMERICAN POLICY FUND	$4,000,000 $4,000,000 $4,000,000
CONNECTICUT PATRIOTS PAC	$2,500,000 $2,500,000 $2,500,000
EVERGREEN PRINCIPLES PAC	$2,200,000 $2,200,000 $2,200,000

Billionaire Timothy Mellon has poured $165 million into 2024 elections by Maia Cook, August 23, 2024 https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2024/08/heir-to-andrew-mellons-fortune-spends-over-165-million-to-support-trumps-reelection
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Mellon
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/06/21/who-is-timothy-mellon-trumps-biggest-donor-is-a-secretive-billionaire-banking-scion-who-paid-53-million-for-border-wall/
https://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/a-wyoming-billionaire-with-roots-to-one-of-americas-richest-old-money-fortunes-has-provided-98-of-the-funds-to-build-texas-border-wall/

ADELSON

SUPER Multinational Multi-Billionaire (estimate $40 B) Founder, Chair and CEO of Casino / Resort Las Vegas Sands and related resorts under various names stretching from Nevada USA to a special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China; Ukrainian roots via Boston, Sheldon Gary Adelson had “donated More Money to Politicians Than Anyone Else…” In the 2020 election cycle alone, Sheldon and Miriam (husband and wife) Adelson shelled out to US politicians or candidates: “$173 million,” more than doubling the next highest buyer who came in at “$59 million.”

During the 2020 election cycle, “the Adelsons donated $172.5 million to Trump PACs and Republican causes.” Article by Amy Lamare posted December 9, 2020,   https://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/billionaire-news/sheldon-adelson-has-donated-more-money-to-politicians-than-anyone-else-by-a-mile/

Celebrity Net Worth reported in 2020 that the Adelsons, during the 2012, 2016, and 2018 cycles, handed out “$93 million,” “$82.58 million,” and “$123.25 million,” respectively, to US politicians and political candidates.
https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/richest-billionaires/sheldon-adelson-net-worth/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Adelson

THE TRUMPS (Net Worth Estimates)

• Billionaire real estate developer, businessman, television personality, 45th US President previously affiliated with at least three political parties and no prior experience in national or military service or public office before 2016 Donald John Trump: $3 Billion (Salary $400,000)

• Ivanka Trump: $800 Million
• Donald Trump Jr : $350 Million
• Eric Trump: $350 Million
• Jared Kushner (Trump in-law): $800 Million

Last Updated: September 3, 2024
https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/richest-billionaires/donald-trump-net-worth/
https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/ivanka-trump-net-worth/
Last Updated: August 15, 2024
https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/business-executives/donald-trump-jr-net-worth/
Last Updated: June 27, 2024
https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/business-executives/eric-trump-net-worth/
Last Updated: August 26, 2024
https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/jared-kushner-net-worth/

Harris:

Presumed Democratic Party Candidate for US Presidency

Multimillionaire (approx 8M, salary $218,000) American lawyer, City and State of California and US public official, current US Vice President, Oakland, California, native Kamala Devi Harris

During 2024 Election Cycle
Funds Received from Industries and other Entities

Future Forward USA	$46,342,900
Bloomberg LP	$19,086,997
American Bridge 21st Century	$14,229,315
Greylock Partners	$10,022,600
Euclidean Capital	$9,106,600
Sequoia Capital	$7,806,625
Democracy PAC	$7,650,000
Newsweb Corp	$7,010,485
Dragoneer Investment Group	$5,013,200
Federated Indians Of Graton Rancheria	$4,108,844
Alphabet Inc	$3,857,495
Arista Networks	$2,905,485
Democracy Matters	$2,800,000
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers	$2,343,344
Laborers Union	$2,120,745
Microsoft Corp	$1,882,602
University of California	$1,732,637
American Federation of State/Cnty/Munic Employees	$1,346,782
National Education Assn	$1,344,604
Priorities USA	$1,320,356

2024 election cycle, based on Federal Election Commission data released electronically on 08/21/24 OpenSecrets: info@opensecrets.org,
https://www.opensecrets.org/2024-presidential-race/kamala-harris/contributors?id=N00036915
Celebrity net Worth last updated: July 31, 2024, https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-politicians/democrats/kamala-harris-net-worth/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris

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Mental and Moral Defect evidenced in Singular-Option Acquiescence (PARTICULARLY TO FORCE)

Afoot across the world is a Ruthless Campaign against Cultures, Countries, People’s 

• Freedom of Enterprise and Industry, 
• Development and Advancement, 
• Association. 

Americans’ Acquiescence to Washington & Co’s Lethal Brew of Sanctions-Blockade-Defamation-Destabilization Wars on the World, on Nations' Sovereignty Ensures Permanence of the Unacceptable.

Case in Point 

Sanctions

A Limited Chronology of 

USA’s anti-Russian Madness

View from Beyond the Beltway

Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2010s

“The introduction of anti-Russian sanctions stretches back (at least to) to 2014…”

December 24, 2016, US sanctions against Russia … (extension) the second in the past three days… will not force us to change our views….”

August 4, 2017 (Russia) … deeply regret[s] the decision by Brussels to include a number of Russian officials and companies in the EU sanctions.”

September 30, 2019 “We are puzzled by the latest sanctions adopted … arbitrarily … by the US administration …. [W]e urge American politicians to stop the useless and self-defeating sanctions game.”

2020s

February 23, 2022, “Make no mistake, we will respond strongly to these sanctions, not necessarily in a symmetrical manner”

June 9, 2022, those imposing sanctions fail to mention that “anti-Russian unilateral sanctions are still distinctly detrimental (to many countries) ….”

July 21, 2022, question: “Why do the EU countries adopt sanctions that backfire on them?”

September 5, 2022, response to the constantly expanding list of personal sanctions against Russian nationals…, Russia imposed “personal sanctions against US citizens.”

Last Year

April 19, 2023, … (into 2024) “… about 1,500 Russians and over 1,000 Russian businesses and companies were put on the sanctions (lists)….”

May 19, 2023 (The United States Government) … regularly imposes personal anti-Russia sanctions on Russian officials…. In response to the toughening of sanctions…, “Russia is denying entry to 500 Americans… consistently apply[ing] the principle of inevitable punishment….”

June 15, 2023 “Let me remind you that the Westerners have been churning out sanctions against our country throughout… (and) they were introducing (anti-Russia) sanctions as Russia was out to ensure a peaceful future….”

June 17, 2023 “In our case, the issue is about 15,000 sanctions, which is a one-of-a-kind scenario…. The sanctions are far from anything new in the toolset the West uses to punish the disobedient…. Statistics show that one in every four countries in the world is under sanctions….”

September 5, 2023 “anti-Russia position” threatens “participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in the 2024 … Olympic and Paralympic Games … among other things… years of illegitimate sanctions against Russia and its people; … also long-term sanctions against our country and people, and companies.”

November 8, 2023 “We would like to talk about the sanctions issue in a general form....The number of anti-Russia sanctions is over an unprecedented 17,000…. The Western sanctions against Russia have exacerbated the crisis in the global economy….”

This year 

January 26, 2024 (blackmail) “Western countries themselves destroyed all the liberal foundations of the economy by imposing sanctions….”

February 14, 2024 “It was not from the East that sanctions and trade wars came…. This happened with anti-Russia sanctions that caused … unprecedented inflation ….” Yet “it is multiplying packages of unlawful sanctions, fueling Russophobic (and) militaristic attitudes….”

March 2024, “restrictive anti-Russia measures were extended once again.”  

March 20, 2024, “The weaponization of science as a sanctions mechanism to escalate geopolitical confrontation is monstrous….”

April 25, 2024, asks “How do sanctions— illegal methods of market competition such as protectionism, unilateral restrictions, illegal sanctions…,” attempts “to hold back the growing cooperation between China and Russia—how do these impositions “against states correlate with human rights and freedoms?”

May 1, 2024, the “US announced sanctions against nearly 300 companies and individuals”

June 26, 2024, US imposes sanctions against Kaspersky Lab ….” 

June 26, 2024, Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova in St Petersburg

Negative consequences of 

anti-Russia sanctions for 

socioeconomic situation in 

Countries that imposed these restrictions

Not every country gave its approval; “but the collective West pressed on. … Despite the apparently exorbitant cost of the sanctions for those who have adopted them, the West continues with its suicidal anti-Russia policy.”

“I do not mean the West as an association of people but as the regimes that have joined hands to line their pockets while pushing their people towards the abyss. The so-called leaders of the ‘free world’ are ruling in a world that is free from conscience and, now, money. While prioritizing political considerations to the detriment of common logic and economic expedience, not to mention liberalism and economic freedoms, they are eroding the foundations of their own socioeconomic stability and the prosperity of their citizens.…

“In the past, the EU countries’ future was linked to the price of Russian energy and pricing trends, stable deliveries and Russia’s reliability as an oil and gas supplier. That link has been destroyed. What does the EU have now? It is being blackmailed by Washington’s decision or refusal to supply LNG, which may depend on weather. If the weather is colder than usual, the United States may send more LNG. But if the weather is fine, people might be recommended to move more briskly so as to warm up.…”

• “Anti-Russia sanctions have seriously affected the automotive industries in Germany, Great Britain and Japan.”

• “Anti-Russia sanctions have driven inflation way above the planned figures in many EU countries and in the United States and Canada.”

• “The growth of food prices in Europe has been compounded by the problems the EU authorities created for the Russian producers of agricultural products and fertilizers.” Yet the West continues to talk “about its concern for the future of the Global Majority and needy countries and ways to help deliver food products to them.”

• Inflation pressure has increased the burden on state budgets because of compensation subsidies to producers, which has further aggravated the debt problem in Western countries. … “The US debt has become ridiculously large, $34 trillion dollars, or over 130 percent of GDP. Yet these people claim that they are exceptional, dominant, civilized and highly developed leaders of the world.”

March 2024 Response Sanctions against citizens of the United States of America

“This list designates specific persons from the executive branch, as well as the business community, the media industry and academia who have regularly made hostile statements or spread far-fetched allegations and outright slander about Russia’s domestic and foreign policy.”

“This list supplements the designation of several American non-profit organizations specializing in humanitarian affairs as undesirable in the Russian Federation for using the United States Embassy in Moscow to recruit agents of influence. It is designed, among other things, to make sure that Washington understands the simple truth that any aggressive move will not go unpunished and will face a resolute response.”

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at UN July 2024

“Last century, George Orwell predicted the essence of the rules-based order in the novel Animal Farm: ‘All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.’ It means that you are allowed to do what you wish if you follow orders from the ruling leader. But if you dare to protect your national interests, you will be declared an outlaw and beleaguered by sanctions.”

“The Americans, having called the entire collective West to arms, are expanding the trade and economic war with the unwanted actors, having unleashed an unprecedented campaign of unilateral coercive measures that are backfiring, primarily, on Europe and further fragment[ing] the global economy.”

“The countries of the Global South in Asia, Africa and Latin America are suffering from the neo-colonial practices of Western countries. Illegal sanctions, numerous protectionist measures, restrictions on access to technology directly contradict genuine multilateralism and create serious obstacles to achieving the goals of the UN development agenda.”

Who Defines 

“Openness,” “Freedom” “Transparency”?

The “Washington strategy” consistently consolidates “US-centric bloc initiatives of anti-Russia and anti-China orientation in Asia under the banner of a ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’ concept— how can an entrenched fortress of “military-political blocs” armed to the teeth “with command and administrative systems … be ‘free’ or ‘open’?”

Underlying concepts enshrined in the doctrinal documents of US-centric bloc rule out (or preclude) any notion or actualization of “Freedom, openness and transparency.”




Sources

Russian Foreign Ministry June 26, 2024 “Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, St Petersburg” 1219-26-06-2024 https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1959673/

Russian Federation Foreign Ministry March 14, 2024, “Foreign Ministry statement on personal sanctions against US citizens.” 482-14-03-2024 https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1938555/

Lavrov, Sergey Russian Foreign Minister July 16, 2024 “Statement by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during the UN Security Council meeting on multilateral cooperation in the interest of a more just, democratic and sustainable world order,” New York, July 16, 20241342-16-07-2024 https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1962040/

Russian Foreign Ministry “Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow” July 24, 20241400-24-07-2024 https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1963220/#Q07

Russian Federation “Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow” “Personal sanctions against representatives of UK think tanks.” August 21, 20241562-21-08-2024
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1966295/

“These organizations disseminate misinformation discrediting Russia in the world information space via publicly available media and the Internet thereby trying in vain over many years to create conditions for destabilizing the internal political situation within Russia and the countries friendly to the Russian Federation ….”

RT News August 23, 2024, “Moscow charges CNN journalist with illegal border crossing:
Nick Paton Walsh traveled to the Russian city of Sudzha while embedded with Ukrainian troops.”
https://www.rt.com/news/602967-cnn-reporter-charged-russia/

Tereschenko, Mikhail August 28, 2024, TASS News “Russia permanently bans entry to 92 US nationals including reporters — MFA: The ban applies to some reporters from the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the New York Times, according to the statement” https://tass.com/politics/1835355

RT News August 28, 2024 “High-profile US media names on Russia’s latest sanctions list
Purveyors of “fake news” were among the almost 100 blacklisted Americans.” https://www.rt.com/news/603222-russia-sanctions-american-journalists/

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BREAK FREE of Chamber of Echoes—

Hear! Hear!

“Today, the very foundations of the international legal order—strategic stability and the UN-centric system of international politics—are put to the test.” 

    “We will not be able to resolve mounting conflicts unless we understand the root causes of conflicts…; and restore faith in our ability… to unite … for the common good, and justice for all.” (excerpt from UNSC Statement by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov) 

    The exclusionist and capricious “… notorious ‘rules-based order’ … presents a direct threat to multilateralism and international peace.” 

Illegal sanctions, numerous protectionist measures, restrictions on access to technology directly contradict genuine multilateralism and create serious obstacles to achieving the goals of the United Nations development agenda.

Talk and more Talk 

    For well over a quarter century men and women meeting in places from Brazil to South Africa to the United States of America have talked about the world’s most populous nations and peoples’ languishing in want for a few nations and their holders of power and influence to end to their selfishness, plunder, and aggression. 

    

    In 1992, more than 178 countries met in beautifully exotic Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and signed on to talk about “a comprehensive plan of action to build a global partnership for sustainable development to improve human lives and protect the environment.” 

    In 2000, UN Member States meeting in the fashionable New York City home of Wall Street signed on to talk “of eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to reduce extreme poverty by 2015.” The latest talk of an end date to human want and suffering is 2030. 

    The focused talk has been around “17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)” calling on developed and developing countries to cooperate in “ending poverty and other deprivations” together with taking decisive actions to “improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.”

17 UN Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere.	Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries.
Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.	Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.	Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.	Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.	Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.
Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.	Goal 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.	Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.	Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development.
Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.

    “… Major fundamental changes are necessary in other institutes of global governance if we want them to work to the benefit of all,” Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. “This primarily concerns the United Nations Organization, which remains the embodiment of multilateralism against all the odds, with unique and universal legitimacy and universally recognized broad competencies.”

    But strengthening the “foundations of multipolarity” requires active support “not only by the United Nations;” but also “by other international organizations (including the ‘Group of Twenty’ where all countries of the Global Majority and the West are represented) ….” Also important are the BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s interactions (representing different regions and civilizations) “… based on equality, mutual respect, consensus and mutually accepted compromises”— “the golden standard of multilateral cooperation involving great powers.” Regional associations (including the CIS, the CSTO, the EAEU, ASEAN, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the Arab League, the African Union and CELAC) have practical significance for the development of multipolarity.”

 

CIS - Commonwealth of Independent States; CSTO - Collective Security Treaty Organization; EAEU or EEU - Eurasian Economic Union; ASEAN - Association of Southeast Asian Nations; GCC - Gulf Cooperation Council; The Arab League - formerly League of Arab States; AU - The African Union; CELAC - Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños or Community of Latin American and Caribbean States)

    

Together with the potential of the United Nations, Lavrov said, “…it is important to develop multifaceted ties between these associations….” The United Nations is comprised of (from 1945) fifty-one Founding Members and 193 current Member States. https://www.un.org/en/library/unms.

Foreign Minister Lavrov concludes

    First and foremost is the necessity of reinstating “professional diplomacy, the culture of dialogue, the ability to listen and hear and to retain the channels of crisis communications… (bearing in mind that the) … lives of millions of people depend on the ability of politicians and diplomats to formulate something like a common perception of the future.”

    With its UN Charter as “our foothold” and “everyone, without exception, honor[ing] the letter and spirit of the Charter…, the body Nations “… will be able to overcome current disagreements and to reach consensus on most issues….”

“Let us work together in the interests of launching the history of genuine multilateralism that reflects the entire wealth of cultural and civilizational diversity of the world’s nations.”

“We invite everyone to join …” in “completely honest discussion.”

Source

“Statement by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during the UN Security Council meeting on multilateral cooperation in the interest of a more just, democratic and sustainable world order” New York City, USA, July 16, 2024 (Foreign policy News The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation 1342-16-07-2024) https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1962040/

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Portrait of False Patriots: Who are These people?

How did They get to the Senate? The White House? Number One Observatory Circle, the VP's Quarters?

Making Headline News is another made-for- media Spectacle: a man with aliases (not unlike Barack Hussein Obama II-Barry Soetoro, Bill Clinton-William Jefferson Blythe III men with aliases). Middletown, Ohio born (sometime California resident) James Donald Bowman aka James Hamel Vance aka James David (JD) Vance takes center stage.

Yalies and Aliases Rule

Hillary Rodham to JD Vance

Congresses 107th - 111th, 118th
Hillary and JD were elected to the US Senate with no prior public service or elective office experience

Rodham: United States Senator from New York (Illinois native, Arkansas resident: carpetbagger)
107th – 111th Congresses (2001 – 2009)

Alias Vance: United States Senator from Ohio (California resident in 2010s: dabbler)
118th Congress (2023 – Present)

Hillary Rodham and Bowman-Vance-Hamel (JD Vance) have in common no substantive, pertinent qualifications for being seated in public office positions whether executive, legislative, or judicial, elective or appointive.

Mister 

Donald Bowman aka

James Hamel Vance aka

James David (JD) Vance

Rank Corporal public affairs office military reporter attached to the US Marines (2003–2007 presumably while taking a baccalaureate degree, or fast-tracking, at Ohio State, graduating in 2009, before taking a law degree at Yale).

Prior to 2017, Alias Vance worked for Sidley Austin LLP, a transnational law firm with twenty-one offices in commercial and financial centers across the United States, Europe, and Asia Pacific, representing “clients in more than 70 countries” (https://www.sidley.com/en/ourstory/aboutsidley). Is he registered as a foreign agent?

San Francisco, California (2016-2017) Alias Vance worked as a “principal” at Peter Thiel’s firm, Mithril Capital.”

Cincinnati, Ohio (2019) Alias Vance, with financial backing from Peter Thiel, Eric Schmidt, and Marc Andreessen, cofounded Narya Capital (2020 “raised $93 million” for Narya Capital); investor in Canadian online video platform Rumble along with Peter Thiel and founder/managing director of Colt Ventures, Darren Blanton (headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona , Blanton, reportedly connected also with Donald Trump, holds membership on the “Board of Colt Oil and Gas, The SMU Cox School of Business Venture Fund, Esping Family Foundation, and the SM Wright Foundation.”

Net worth, Elective Office

Money Plays

Forbes reporting  

MARC LOWELL ANDREESSEN/ Investor, Andreessen Horowitz $1.9B $1M (0.07%) Real Time Net Worth as of 7/16/24 #1764 in the world today “Andreessen runs influential Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, whose successful bets include Instagram, Oculus VR and GitHub.” https://www.forbes.com/profile/marc-andreessen/

ERIC EMERSON SCHMIDT

$26B

$264M (1.00%)

Real Time Net Worth

as of 7/16/24

#72 in the world today

Eric Schmidt was Google’s CEO (2001 to 2011) after holding stints as CEO of Novell and chief technology officer at Sun Microsystems; then board member of Google parent company Alphabet (June 2019 after 18 years), and technical advisor thru February 2020. Cofounder of Innovation Endeavors, a venture capital firm invested in Uber, SoFi, and Zymergen, among others. Family investment vehicle I May 2015 bought a 20 percent stake in hedge fund firm D.E. Shaw & Co. for an undisclosed price. https://www.forbes.com/profile/eric-schmidt/

(Bloomberg: Eric Schmidt Ranked 45: Total Net worth $35.6B)

PETER ANDREAS THIEL

Investor, Founders Fund

$7.9B

$25M (0.32%)

Real Time Net Worth

as of 7/16/24

#342 in the world today

Peter Thiel is cofounder of PayPal and CIA-backed big data startup Palantir (2020 public via a direct listing); first big investor in Facebook (ended board membership in 2022); general partner (involved in firm strategy and large investments) of venture capital firm Founders Fund; investor in “Stripe and SpaceX, two of the most valuable unicorns in the world.” https://www.forbes.com/profile/peter-thiel/

[(Bloomberg: Peter Thiel 215: Total Net worth $11.2B)]

DONALD JOHN TRUMP $6.1B $413M (6.33%) Real Time Net Worth as of 7/16/24 #501 in the world today   Former US President (without prior elective office service or experience) Donald Trump owns residential places Trump Tower in New York City and Mar-a-Lago in Florida; heads a  New York City real estate empire; owns transnational golf courses, a winery; and has “a stake in the parent company of Truth Social” https://www.forbes.com/profile/donald-trump/

(Celebrity Net worth reporting)

ALIAS J.D. VANCE Net Worth $5 Million

Vance is a venture capitalist cofounder and partner “in a venture capital firm called Narya Capital” taking in a private sector annual salary of $327,000 and as a one and a half year member of the US Senate drawing a government salary of $174,000; among other income, a combined value in assets estimated to range from $2.7 million to $5.6 million. https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-politicians/republicans/j-d-vance-net-worth/

Alias Vance: Whimsical Critic, Cohort

2016: Alias Vance (reportedly) writes in a USA Today column: “Trump’s actual policy proposals, such as they are, range from immoral to absurd.” In broadcast interviews, characterizes Donald Trump as “cultural heroin…,” “opioid of the masses” and, on social media platforms, “reprehensible” and “America’s Hitler.”

2021: Alias Vance deletes his 2016 social media anti-Trump comments, apologizes to Donald Trump, and later visits Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate “to meet with (billionaires) Donald Trump and Peter Thiel ahead of an official announcement regarding (Vance’s) U.S. Senate campaign.”

2023 (January 31): Alias Vance endorses former US President Donald Trump for a return performance at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

2023 (June 30): on a television news program, Alias Vance (reportedly) affirms his belief that “…the president (of the United States) has broad pardon authority…, (and) … immunity” from prosecution.

2024 (May 15): Donald Trump with Alias Vance attends “a private (Cincinnati, Ohio) fundraising dinner.”

2024 (July 15): Presidential Candidate Donald Trump announces his choice of Vice-Presidential running mate: none other than alias JD.

    Today, in the United States of America, corruption is celebrated. Incompetence or by any name or to any degree unfitness is rewarded. Lawbreaking in flaunted. 

    The people of America throw up their hands or shut their eyes and take one side or another of what is totally unacceptable. 

    They stand and stare. Take a drug. Drop out or sit out of the whole "democracy" for hire (egregiously inept and undemocratic) process.  

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A Revolutionary Spirit … Once Upon a Time

Its principles held fast for some years before the militarists and mercenaries—their creed of all things purchasable, all life cheap—took root their tentacles of corruption spreading far and wide: across many countries and cultures and nations including the United States of America

THERE WAS A TIME WHEN

We took to heart, manifest solidly in policies and practice

1776 “We hold these truths to be self-evident— that all … are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights; that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.… [W]henever any Form of Government becomes destructive …, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it; and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to (effectuate) their Safety and Happiness. …

    “When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such Government; and to provide new Guards for their future security.… “The history of the present (regime) is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny ….” The facts are evident “to a candid world.” [Minor edits, excerpt from the American Declaration of Independence: A Transcription, in Congress, July 4, 1776, document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum. https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript]

Before every milestone became a Day of Gluttony, Celebrations of Violence

1777 “Resolved: that the flag of the thirteen United States shall be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the Union be thirteen stars, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation”— John Adams June 14, 1777, speaking before the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. 1818: the Fifteenth Congress stipulated that the thirteen original stripes would be retained and as each new state entered the Union, a new star would be added. 1949: the Eighty-First Congress of the United States of America designated “National Flag Day.”

Three Cheers for the Red White and Blue!

Before the Mercenaries, Reflective Gratitude
“America the Beautiful”

1893 originating from the original New England and Middle Colonies
A poem (lyrics revised in 1904 and 1911) by poet and author Katharine Lee Bates, music by organist and composer Samuel Augustus Ward

First published on July 4, 1895

America the Beautiful … God shed His grace on thee and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea… America! America! God mend (your) every flaw. Confirm (your) soul in self-control, (your) liberty within law… (your character refined) until all success be nobleness, every gain divine!

Poet and composer never met: Katharine Lee Bates of Falmouth, Massachusetts (August 12, 1859 – March 28, 1929) and Samuel Augustus Ward of Newark, New Jersey (December 28, 1848 – September 28, 1903).

Library of Congress Notes: On July 4, 1895, the poem by Katharine Lee Bates made its first appearance in a weekly newspaper (The Congregationalist). Bates amended and added to her lyrics in 1902 (published in November of that year in the Buffalo Illustrated Times) and in 1913. (America the Beautiful, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 2002, https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200000001/)

 

Happy Independence Day USA

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