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DIY-HP-LED

DIY-HP-LED

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Fogdog said:
Follow the money. Trump was Putin's money launderer before he moved on to bigger grifts as President. Oligarch money is found throughout the GOP congressmen.

www.opensecrets.org

Russian oligarch made political contributions to Sen. Schumer and the oligarch's associates spent millions on U.S. influence - OpenSecrets News

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) reported political contributions from Viktor Vekselberg and the Russian oligarch's associates poured millions into currying influence in the U.S.
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While Schumer’s campaign cash is Vekselberg’s only political contribution, the oligarch’s associates have poured millions more into U.S. influence.

Millions of dollars in political contributions and influence spending can be traced to Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska and billionaire Leonard “Len” Blavatnik, a native of Soviet Ukraine who grew up in Moscow and now has dual U.S.-U.K. citizenship. Both are business associates of Vekselberg.

Companies tied to Vekselberg, Blavatnik and Deripaska collectively own about three-quarters of Rusal, one of the world’s largest aluminum producers.

After a multimillion-dollar lobbying effort that helped Deripaska publicly distance himself from the companies, the Treasury Department lifted sanctions on Rusal in January 2019 as well as sanctions on its majority owner, EN+ Group, a hydropower-to-metals company once officially controlled by Deripaska.

Deripaska remains subject to U.S. sanctions imposed in 2018 due to his role in Russia’s 2016 election interference efforts as well as allegations that he “bribed a government official, ordered the murder of a businessman, and had links to a Russian organized crime group.”


Those oligarchs aren't just businessmen either. They are gangsters who operate within Putin's cartel. That's blood money they are using to buy up influence in the US and elsewhere.
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It was pouring like rain and hard to avoid getting some on ya, but republicans, well they just danced in the rain and jumped in the puddles and sang Moscow's tune...

 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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Fogdog said:
Follow the money. Trump was Putin's money launderer before he moved on to bigger grifts as President. Oligarch money is found throughout the GOP congressmen.

www.opensecrets.org

Russian oligarch made political contributions to Sen. Schumer and the oligarch's associates spent millions on U.S. influence - OpenSecrets News

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) reported political contributions from Viktor Vekselberg and the Russian oligarch's associates poured millions into currying influence in the U.S.
www.opensecrets.org www.opensecrets.org

While Schumer’s campaign cash is Vekselberg’s only political contribution, the oligarch’s associates have poured millions more into U.S. influence.

Millions of dollars in political contributions and influence spending can be traced to Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska and billionaire Leonard “Len” Blavatnik, a native of Soviet Ukraine who grew up in Moscow and now has dual U.S.-U.K. citizenship. Both are business associates of Vekselberg.

Companies tied to Vekselberg, Blavatnik and Deripaska collectively own about three-quarters of Rusal, one of the world’s largest aluminum producers.

After a multimillion-dollar lobbying effort that helped Deripaska publicly distance himself from the companies, the Treasury Department lifted sanctions on Rusal in January 2019 as well as sanctions on its majority owner, EN+ Group, a hydropower-to-metals company once officially controlled by Deripaska.

Deripaska remains subject to U.S. sanctions imposed in 2018 due to his role in Russia’s 2016 election interference efforts as well as allegations that he “bribed a government official, ordered the murder of a businessman, and had links to a Russian organized crime group.”


Those oligarchs aren't just businessmen either. They are gangsters who operate within Putin's cartel. That's blood money they are using to buy up influence in the US and elsewhere.
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That simply has to stop...American campaign finance laws are a joke, and need to be rewritten and then codified, so they can't be easily subverted.
The only way people are going to regain confidence in the government, and politicians in general, is if they start making laws that apply to themselves, as well as everyone else.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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Roger A. Shrubber said:
That simply has to stop...American campaign finance laws are a joke, and need to be rewritten and then codified, so they can't be easily subverted.
The only way people are going to regain confidence in the government, and politicians in general, is if they start making laws that apply to themselves, as well as everyone else.
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The trouble is, you’re asking legislators to voluntarily limit what goes into the slop trough.
It’s unnatural.
 
BudmanTX

BudmanTX

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Roger A. Shrubber said:
That simply has to stop...American campaign finance laws are a joke, and need to be rewritten and then codified, so they can't be easily subverted.
The only way people are going to regain confidence in the government, and politicians in general, is if they start making laws that apply to themselves, as well as everyone else.
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elimination of the dark money....hell yeah....only if it were so easy to do so though
 
Fogdog

Fogdog

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cannabineer said:
The trouble is, you’re asking legislators to voluntarily limit what goes into the slop trough.
It’s unnatural.
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Yep, it all goes back to the Citizen's United ruling that said money was protected under the first amendment even if it has a Russian accent. Note that Schumer is in the mix as well. I'm disappointed but then again, those were legal contributions, even if the money has a fresh clean smell that can only be had when it comes straight from the wash.
 
DIY-HP-LED

DIY-HP-LED

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Roger A. Shrubber said:
That simply has to stop...American campaign finance laws are a joke, and need to be rewritten and then codified, so they can't be easily subverted.
The only way people are going to regain confidence in the government, and politicians in general, is if they start making laws that apply to themselves, as well as everyone else.
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We do it in other places, it happens, but it is harder and easier to get caught and convicted, so it tends to keep a lid on it, somewhat.
 
DIY-HP-LED

DIY-HP-LED

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When the reckoning comes in a few weeks, this will make it worse for the Russians, many won't make it to the rear. Those assholes will end up killing a lot of their own troops who might have lived, if the Ukrainians had not seen that, it was shared among the troops in the trenches by cellphone and consequences will be swift and direct. In war the only justice there is, is what you mete out yourself sometimes.


Zelensky calls Russian soldiers 'animals' after Ukrainian beheading videos surface
 
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DIY-HP-LED

DIY-HP-LED

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With an FPV drone the receiver is often 2.4gHz, the same frequency that DJI drones use for two-way communications. Receivers are more sensitive to jamming and the tuned antenna is a pathway for the EMP that fries the electronics. The video transmitter often operates at 5.8Ghz and often at hundreds of milliwatts or over a watt and is not as sensitive to jamming, but the EMP pulse will overload the electronic systems of the drone, but the video might go down after the control does.



Russian FPV Drone Gets Zapped By Electronic Warfare -- Drone-Eye View
 
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