Data of American voters appeared on the Russian darknet. On one of the Russian hacker sites, they posted databases of 7.6 million Michigan voters, as well as millions of residents of other US states.
Forum users have found a way to make money on them, using the State Department’s program “Rewards for Aid to Justice”, which allows them to receive money for reporting the facts of interference in elections in the country.
Other commercial ways to exploit the leak are likely to be exhausted, experts say. Some of them admit that the publication of the bases may be a provocation before the next US presidential elections.
“Kommersant” discovered on one of the forums on the darknet an advertisement for free access to personal data of millions of US residents. User Gorka9 distributes archives of Michigan voters. His message states that the files contain detailed information on 7.6 million Americans. They contain the following lines: name, date of birth, gender, date of registration, address, postal code, e-mail, voter identification number and polling station number, Kommersant was convinced. According to the author, the data is current for March 2020.
The InfoWatch Group of Companies “Kommersant” confirmed the authenticity of this database, specifying that it initially “leaked” at the end of 2019.
Forum users have already found a way to monetize information about American voters that does not require any specialized skills. To do this, it is proposed to use the US Department of State program “Rewards for Justice” (Rewards for Justice).
One of the forum participants claims that within its framework he managed to receive a financial reward of approximately $ 4000 for a link to a leaked Connecticut voter base.
The Rewards for Justice program became widely known in the summer; in early August, Znak.com reported that Russians began to receive SMS messages from the State Department with an offer for a reward of up to $ 10 million to detail the facts of foreign interference in the American elections. The US Embassy confirmed to It`s My City that it was involved in the mailing, and Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Maria Zakharova on Facebook called the mailing a “hybrid attack” by the American special services.
The hackers themselves also speak about the weak protection of the personal data of American voters. In a correspondence with a Kommersant correspondent, one of the database vendors said that it would be easy enough to find one of the many vulnerabilities of the sites used in voting, and then use the SQL Injection method – the injection of malicious code into the database.
Another source of Kommersant believes that according to the nickname of the user who published the database, one can assume that this is “the first stage of preparation for accusing Russian hackers of interfering in the US presidential elections.” Nikita Korolev
Warnings Over the Last Four Years Have Been Ignored. We Have One Last Chance to Get It Right.
This post contains links to tells, warnings and strategies going back to “Russia, if you’re listening”. I am Joseph Aronesty, a person who knew Donald Trump from Wharton and Atlantic City, where I was also steeped in the “greed is good” mantra. I got away. Knowing him as I do, I’m certain he and his cronies will play this traitorous game out to the bitter end.
We are engaged in a cyber war with Russia. It doesn’t feel like “war” because we don’t see the bombs, but we can lose as much. The United States, long admired as the paragon of democracy, is the target in the world’s first major cyber war. The focus of our enemies is to induce Americans to engage in civil war with their fellow citizens, so the USA self-destructs. Divide and defeat.
Putin masterminded this new cyber way to war. It is brilliant because the US is way too powerful to defeat militarily. The enemies of democracy know how to play the cyber war game. Do we?
Howard Hughes was sued for putting profits ahead of country. This was deemed unpatriotic to the WW2 generation.
I have begun to think we don’t. I’m going to get allegorical here for a reason. Most people saw Aviator, about Howard Hughes, played by Leonardo DiCaprio. There is a scene where Howard Hughes is being tried for treason for building the Spruce Goose. The suit was fallacious. But the patriotism of those on both sides of this issue could not be denied.
Where is our patriotism today? Certainly not in the Senate. How about in industry? We’ve got people like Zuckerberg thinking of their bottom line before the country. Without patriotism we would have lost ww2. If we don’t recognize we are at war, our enemies can take us without a fight. “That’s the plan”, according to Kushner. Listen between the lines. Barr said they will “rewrite history”.
The dodo bird went extinct because it could not recognize its enemies. This cyber war does not present like a war with bombs.. So pay attention to their signals and act on them as if we are at war. We are. This craziness could not happen unless we are at war. It’s all roads lead to Putin with Donny. Sold out long ago. Russian mob fringe player since 1987.
These posts outline the motives and plans of those who want to benefit from democracy’s demise and suggests things we can do to make sure our enemies don’t succeed.
Dictators United – There is a global struggle going on now: autocracy vs democracy. Autocracy is 8000 years old – and democracy has been around about 250 years. More land is controlled by dictators than democracies. I show a map in this post. Basically, Citizens United ( which is really corporations vs people ) joined with Dictators United ( a meme I coined for the underground union dictators ) and the GOP at the 2016 GOP Convention. Their realzied their interests were aligned. The both will do anything to stay in power. There is money in power for them. That’s all they care about. Legal grifting. But Trump made a huge error when he took advice from Putin and refused to accept the results of our national election. We have laws about that. All we have to do is use the 14th sec 3. It’s doable. Call it a national emergency. Yet no one speaks loudly on the 14th , and it is the greatest mistake the left is making. It would be popular with the people -and that’s all we need. The Trumpists know the importance of being popular. The left has repeated shown they have no clue how to do excite their own base. This post shows the left how to create a meme based on the constitution that both sides of the America will respect.
How FDR Handled His Supreme Court Issue With the passing of RGB, the makeup of the Supreme Court will be just as important as the virus, and the fight vs. authoritarianism in this election. Read up! There is a way out.
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin: Partners in the Biggest Crime in World History If you don’t understand why a man with money and a cushy life would opt to risk it all for more wealth and power, this post describes the slippery slope of the greed trap that Trump fell into in the 1980’s with his casino profits. That’s where he met the Russian mob, who were busy bilking their own people. Money laundering is the oasis where dictators meet and drink.
Election Meddling by Foreigners Is an Attack on Our Commonwealth In 2018, I begged my rep, Ted Lieu to make sure that election meddling was treated just as if there was an attack on the lands, people and properties of our country. Until election meddling is considered an act of (cyber) war vs. the United States, its as if that wall Trump wants to build – is wide open on another flank.
Why Did Putin Say “Trump is Acting in Accordance with His Own Laws? -June 2017 – updated February 2019 – A CBS reporter catches Putin in his hockey game and Vlad reveals he is schooling Donald Trump in how to take over a democracy legally. But Vlad speaks in the gangster code Michael Cohen referred to and no one gets it except people who have been around that code. It goes undetected. THIS IS A SUPER IMPORTANT POST. People are just catching on now to what has been going on since 2016.
What If Trump and Key GOP Operatives Have Been Suborned? January 2018 – There is no way for Trump to have taken over the US reigns of power without corrupting and suborning others along the way. He’s always advertising for his “Roy Cohns”. If you pass his corruption test, you can stay in his administration and do all the looting you can hide, in your lane. McConnell, Barr, Pompeo, Kushner and Pence. That’s all he needs to break the USA and he has them. I advocate the House go after those five if they can’t nail Trump. Keep heat on.
Trump Trying to Destroy America Before the Election By May 2019, I had figured out that Trump knew he could not win a fair election and he was not even trying to be a good president. It meant he planned on either cheating to win again, or breaking this place so bad that there would be no definite election results. Looks like he is doing both.
“Cyber” is the New Way to War and Putin is Cyber Warfare’s First Master One of the main themes in my writing is recognizing one’s enemies. Putin, knowing he could never defeat the US with might, formed a plan to do it with a useful idiot. Trump is the malware in Vladimir Putin’s cyber war machine. This is a new form of warfare. We were not only not prepared, we let Vlad install a Trojan Horse.
Trump’s Main Problem: Cheating To Win August 2017 – I knew Trump cheated in our Penn class and that he did not pay NJ contractors who built his casinos. I was there. But cheating to win was exposed as his credo years ago. Ignored. They say, “Better late than never”, but it may actually be too late now. Hope not.
Why the GOP majority must end in 2018, or American democracy is dead. June 2017 – The first post that spoke to impeachment was about the timing of impeachment. I became an advocate to not turn impeachment over to a crooked Senate. This strategy was a huge Pelosi failing. I love Nancy still. But we need to be smarter during the run-up. Their team has teamwork, a quarterback and a coach. We need a war room too.
The Dark Hearts of Trump Republicans Will Not Deliver Light When Trump was making believe he was losing money in his casinos, I got close to Trump’s circle and worked around a lot of wannabe Trumps – as a jeweler in Atlantic City. One thing I learned in that environment is nothing good comes from a dark heart on purpose. If you don’t believe me, ask Michael Cohen.
What Can We Learn From the Pittsburgh Murders? Sad event. Trump projected the memes that drove a Pittsburgh man to attack and kill people worshiping their faith. Trump knows he is shouting fire in a crowded theater.
Indicting Trump Under the Espionage Act of 1918 – January 2017 – Explains why election meddling is an act of treason. Shared with Ted Lieu and a fundraiser. Ignored – and now we have to deal with it, don’t we?
Why We Should Not Work with Trump on Anything Until He Shows His Taxes – March 2017 – A reminder was sent that when you allow a criminal to operate as president nothing good can come of it. The fix is for the next Congress to set in motion. No public servants should be allowed to serve one day without revealing a number of years of taxes.
Preaching Jesus and Supporting Trump Will Not Square Any Longer – April 2018 – Roy Moore, a known child sex predator, runs for Senate in Alabama. It becomes clear that some Christians don’t live their lives following the teachings of Jesus. Trump throws his lot in with the rapist, who loses.
Maybe Joe Did This On Purpose Figuring Racist Mode Will Backfire
I have to admit, I was afraid of Joe Biden choosing Kamala Harris. If you read any of my posts last six months, I kept advocating for Warren or Duckworth for VP with the posts of AG and Secretary of State reserved for Harris and Rice to balance the administration. What was I afraid of?
Racism. I figured by running a white woman who cares about all people equally ( and all of Joe’s picks did ) we would side-step Trump’s racist rants on our team for election season and we’d just have “radical left” to deal with. I figured they could never attack Tammy Duckworth, since she was military in a wheelchair. Then someone reminded me that Donald would probably attack Tammy for being in a wheelchair the way he attacked John McCain for being captured.
So now, we’re early into Kamala Harris as VP and watching the reactions on both sides, I think Joe got it 100% right. So what if they go all racist? People realize that racism is not part of the solution any more. People know we have real issues – from income inequality ( which I deem the granddaddy of all social injustices ) to climate issues and the virus – The American people also know that being racist-friendly limits our potential deal with our issues and thrive.
In fact, Biden’s team may be hoping that Trump goes more racist because that means he won’t be focusing on the pandemic. If he could actually address and solve that issue, it might be the only way Trump could re-establish his cred as a president and have a chance to win without cheating.
So maybe Joe chose Kamala not only because Kamala is prepared and experienced, but also because she was a POC. They could see the dominoes falling onside Trump’s predictable brain, just as Putin can. Kamala Harris as VP forces Trump to run ads that are dog whistles for racism. Trump could be counted on for doing that. About 60 days from now, the GOP is going to realize that their entire strategy to hold power is in the hands of a child-man, a useful idiot at best.
Only this time, the one pulling Trump’s strings is not Vladimir Putin, but this old guy from Delaware – Joe Biden. Nice play Joe!
What is our commonwealth? It is the resources we share as Americans. Our roads, our national parks - and yes - our constitutionally mandated system of one vote for every citizen in free and fair elections.
TREASON IS
DEFINED AS ACT OF BETRAYAL DURING WAR.
What constitutes “WAR” is not defined in Constitution! The nature of wars change over time with technology. Today a cyber war is a real war! And we are losing this war with Trump in a dictator’s war room with all the powers of government at his command.
POLI-SCI 101
What is war but an effort to take something from another sovereign country? We have the Mueller Report saying Russia attacked our elections in a sweeping systematic way. That was an act of war. I have always considered “Russia if you are listening” to have been treasonous.
LET’S DECLARE THE RUSSIAN AGGRESSION IN THE 2016 NATIONAL ELECTIONS WAS AN ACT OF CYBER WAR!
Our generals should immediately declare that they will treat meddling by foreigners or Americans in our 2020 election as acts of (cyber) war with severe penalties and sanctions spelled out. We don’t see the GOP senate doing their job on this. So the generals, who are in charge of protecting the US in wars, must make a statement. Even Donald Trump won’t have the nerve to countermand a carefully worded statement on election security from our top generals.
The Biden team also needs to warn would-be election meddlers that his administration will treat meddling – which means trying to affect the election by any means except speaking – as an act of treason vs. democracy.
And let’s not be afraid to use the word war when referring to election meddling. The GOP would have us believe that it’s normal or that everyone does it. They are already advancing that meme.
Most GOP base supporters will agree with this. The GOP base won’t stand for selling out to Russia. And this is the week to make the statement. Timing. The sycophants in government are not the base.
If election meddling is perceived by Trump’s audience as an “act of war” it makes the actions of Trump, Barr, DeJoy, Mulvaney, Guiliani, Pompeo, Kushner and many other gop loyalists – treasonous.
THE POST OFFICE SABOTAGE
We have to shoot first in this cyber war. Words are the weapons. DeJoy can be arrested for something as simple as tampering with infrastructure or something akin to unscrewing a parking meter. Maybe Dems can figure better charges. But regardless, DeJoy must be arrested this week, if possible. He will not be allowed to comply and testify honestly, so be prepared to jail him. We have to shoot first. Trump wins if we don’t act. We will have proven we are spineless. Big mistake was turning impeachment over to the crooked Senate. We should have left it in the house and waited for the spring thaw. A lot of this strategy is weather affected.
Until sycophants see there are penalties to pay for following Trump’s orders, why should they refuse? So yes, we have to show them we are willing to be unreasonable now. If we really understand the psychology of MAGA people, we would realize some of them will respect us for that. MAGA folk don’t respect wusses. It’s why they like Trump’s profanity.
If we just wait for the election, Trump will declare he is still counting and we have to wait. In the dead of a pandemic winter, people won’t be in the streets. He knows that now. We have to act now.
The world is watching for the USA to lead again. The planet is so disappointed in our presidency – and if we don’t do something about it soon, they will also blame the character of our people for the damage he is doing to the order and trajectory of the planet.
Bring it up in the
house. Get in on the news. Talk about it. Create the meme: Election
meddling by foreigners is an Act of Cyber War.
Do you think the
American electorate won’t respect this? They are begging for this! Both sides will respect whoever
advances this meme. And there is our national unity – at last! Americans
want to believe in democracy. But how can they with what they
see and hear?
The most important people to convince are Trump’s base – and they don’t mind a little bit of incendiary language. In fact, they voted for that language and against wussiness. And so far – all they see on our side are wusses – in their minds. But tell them the POTUS is allowing this country to be attacked and does not want that to stop – that is a game changer, if they believe it. And everyone wants a well run Post Office – and we don’t care if it makes a profit or not. How ridiculous that is. We go by does the job of moving parcels and letters get done.
War powers should also reside with Congress until the election is settled and power transferred peacefully. Trump is capable of starting a war for his own purposes.
Please read the following posts to see the strategies we need (and are currently lacking) to defeat Trump-ism.
As of August 5th 2020, Trump’s virus response has cost the USA 160,000 Covid deaths. The USA has about 4.5% of the world’s population and 22.5% of the world’s Covid deaths. That means the USA has five times the deaths from Covid than the average country on Earth. Put another way, you are five times more likely to die from Covid if you live in the USA than in the average country. Trump and the GOP can’t unspin that. And it’s even worse because the US has the best scientists, doctors and hospitals on average. Trump’s inept lack of care and science denial is to blame here.
But the pandemic was just one of many potential disasters that scientists have been warning us about. Trump-ism’s uncaring attitude towards climate science, which was thought to be the most pressing issue that mankind had to wrestle with before the pandemic hit, is unique among the modern countries on the planet. if trump were to get another term, my best guess is that when things start unraveling here on climate issues, Trump would say “it is what it is” and continue on his merry self-dealing ways as the USA and the planet succumbs to mother nature.
The planet needs to USA to wake up. The extinction of the entire species may not happen, but the extinction of the United States as we know it, seems very likely if we continue to ignore the threats to our democratic institutions and people. Which begs this question:
Are Americans Like Dodo Birds?
The last sighting of the now extinct dodo bird was in 1662.The dodo bird lived in isolation on an island in the East Indian Ocean near Madagascar. They had no predators and did not recognize humans as predators when sailors began to visit that island in the 1600’s. That inability to recognize enemies, coupled with its inability to fly, made the dodo and their eggs easy prey for sailors and the animals they brought with them.
What we don’t want US history to record is this: The last widely accepted sighting of an American democracy was in 2020. Like many civilizations that kept stubbornly ignorant of history and science, Americans collectively wereunable to recognize and deal swiftly with their many threats both from nature and human predators.
So wake up Americans – on both sides! ( Whatever “both sides” means. I don’t see two sides in our hospitals or on the unemployment lines. Do you?)
This is the last chance we are going to get save what began here in 1776.
Doable Strategies To Defeat Trumpism
We all know what to do. Vote out the inept, uncaring and clearly corrupt administration that has failed us so miserably. Put our ship’s steerage into the hands of people who at least have a track record of caring for people, whether they are Democrats, Republicans, white, brown, gay, straight, deists or humanists. Americans are Americans. We need a government that has a heart and cares for us all – especially now.
We’ve given Trumpism four years. COnsidering we will see 250,000 dead on Trump’s watch four years is more than a fair chance for Trump to prove his governance is good for all Americans. Four more – and we are dodo birds.
About the author: Joseph Aronesty is an e-commerce pioneer, songwriter, and published author “Deciphering the English Code”. Husband to Diane, father to five sons and living in Los Angeles. He shared a class with Donny Trump (Penn ’67) and worked close to him in AC 86-99. He’s been writing here since Trump became a candidate and has the uncanny ability to anticipate Trump’s next moves.
Play Harball with Bill Barr Now – Impeach Him if Need Be – Barr’s prosecution would not subject to 90 day rule, as he is not President’s attorney. Barr and Trump won’t obey anyway. Start it now. So we don’t get an October surprise. Plan ahead. This is a (cyber) war. We need to act that way.
Ask Bezos, Bloomberg and Gates to support the Post Office. They can out of pocket change to them. Remind them that dictators always take the media companies once they cement power. They have to – to survive. Remind them that Trump actually hates real democracy.
Finally I still think Joe’s best best is Elizabeth Warren with Harris announced as AG and Rice at Sec of State.
(in medical use) the assignment of degrees of urgency to wounds or illnesses to decide the order of treatment of a large number of patients or casualties.
TRI – think TRY – a sense of a TRIP or TRAVEL exists in most TR-words. The R imparts the motion and energy. The short T is a starting place. The “I” often implies something small. A TRY is a sort of small motion, with the idea that a fuller motion of commitment may follow.
AGE – ACHE AGONY from the sound of AAGH!
Summing the original “code” meanings of the two smaller word parts get you to the first meaning of the word, in the mind of the person who first used it.
Now, in the days approaching the most important election in American history, no Trump hire is more dangerous to our democracy than his Attorney General Bill Barr. Let me go over why we should impeach Barr or at least make him be concerned about his fate should Trump lose.
I am not going to cite the grounds for impeachment of Bill Barr in this post. Many legal scholars have laid out valid impeachment counts against Barr already. What I want to impress upon us all is the importance of neutering Bill Barr as a Trump asset during the last 30 days before the election – and the 30 days following the election as well. Remember, we all expect Donald Trump to cheat as best he can in this election. And if it’s vaguely close, we expect him to challenge the results. That challenge will come from Barr if he feels secure enough to be lawless for his benefactor.
HISTORY IS WRITTEN BY THE WINNERS
Bill Barr recently said something that got airplay but not enough scrutiny. He said, “… history is written by the winners.” True. But that sort of thinking is usually reserved for major government upheavals like the fall of the Roman Empire or the defeat of the Sioux Nation. So why did Barr say that? That statement clearly means Trumpsters are intent on re-writing history by redefining American democracy and justice. If successful, America would still exist, but as if we had lost a major war to a foreign power – more the way Hong Kong exists as a Chinese satellite. I want to ask Barr what he was thinking when he said that.
Read: Trump Trying to Destroy America Before the Election In 2019, there was evidence Trump intended to cause strife in the the USA as a method the keep his base hating their neighbors. Now he's using the virus to gin up hate as well. Now he says he won't get out if he loses. Why is he doing all this? He's certainly risking a lot. There must a huge payoff, at least in his mind. There is.
Is Election Meddling an Act of (Cyber) War?
The map below encapsulates the real struggle on planet Earth. The three super powers are China, USA and Russia ( for its sheer size and militia, if nothing else ). We are in effect deciding as a species whether we want to be a planet ruled autocratically or democratically. On November 3rd, we will know the choice we have made. And you had better believe the dictators are weighing in and trying to affect that decision.
This November’s election is not just for the USA this cycle. When you see the map, you realize this is democracies vs. autocracies. And they do not co-exist better than cats and dogs because the citizens in oppressed countries can learn how citizens in democracies are faring via the internet. Despotic rulers want all the democracies gone. For that reason we want them gone. Tinderbox.
This is why I have been advocating that tampering with our vote be considered an act of (cyber) war with financial and personal penalties that are so high no one would consider even trying. If election meddling were considered an act of war or cyber war, then it would be treason – as it should be.
We should guard our institutions just as fervently as we guard our lands and bases.
So if the Trump Train is going to start going full dictator’s handbook here in these last 100 days, it will be Bill Barr that starts those motions, investigations, arrests – etc. We already see what he is doing to the prosecutors who don’t sell out to Trump-ism. What makes us think Joe and Hinter Biden, Obama and Comey are not on some Barr list to be prosecuted in the days before the election? That would be re-writing history.
Why would Barr say this if he had not pondered it? Barr’s leak of re-writing history informs us that a nefarious plot is afoot and Bill Barr will be the instrument of that plot. Donald will be calling the shots, but from afar.
At a Rose Garden event, Feb. 15th 2019, right after Trump hired Bill Barr, he said “God speed and have a great life” . We all heard that. That’s a major tell. That’s the code Michael Cohen spoke of. Trump only says that if he had a private discussion with Barr, in which he makes it clear his only goal in life has been to have a great life for himself. If Bill is on board with that goal for himself and agrees to stay loyal, Trump can make that great life happen for Barr with much more money than the paltry $145,000 that the AG position is paid. That also means if we look for foreign bank accounts opened between Feb 1 and 14 in 2019, and find something that ends with Barr – we have him. Barr is hiding something. At least, make him afraid with an inquiry. Put Barr on defense.
Barr’s loyalty had to be bought with money placed in a foreign bank account. These days, bitcoin would also suffice. No one sells out for free. That’s why they call it “selling out”. So I am advising people, if we can’t get Trump’s taxes now, let’s get Barr’s taxes. There may be a link. And just by requesting them, it could spook Barr enough to get him to walk back his pledged loyalty in the days before the election. It might even spook any other GOP sycophants on the take. Mission accomplished then.
Then there is the election itself and what happens after the results are in. Bill Barr will be there to state the election is too close to call regardless of the outcome, or cite coronavirus affected Trump voters inordinately or some other made up reason to hold the results in abeyance until they can sort it out. Or Trump can say “his people” are getting different numbers. He may even start a war thinking that will force us to keep him in office.
The potential for mayhem here is huge as long as Bill Barr is AG. And conversely, mayhem potential is greatly reduced if Bill Barr is tied up in impeachment hearings. Plus, the GOP can’t say we’re messing with the election by violating some unwritten 90 days out rule. That rule is reserved for releasing dirt or initiating an action on the actual candidates. Bill Barr is not a candidate for POTUS and he works for us – not the president. It’s not a foul play to impeach him. It’s a very smart play. And maybe it will undo the harm done when we turned the impeachment of Donald J Trump over to a crooked GOP Senate before seeing the whites of their eyes. They were not afraid in February. But things are changing. Let’s give the GOP a chance to abandon Trump before their convention and make life easy on everyone.
This post, written May of 2019, predicted that Trump would attempt to destroy the American experiment and bring it to its knees before the election. Pandemonium over the pandemic is a good thing for Trump now. He’s living up to his oath – to Vladimir Putin. That’s all he can afford to think about now.
PS. We should have our convention after theirs. Strategize. The date is sort of pliable due to the pandemic. Take advantage of every little thing. That’s how Trump won.
In my book, Deciphering the English Code, I explain how the roots of English and Indo-European languages can be traced to body sign language employed in Africa by our hunter-gatherer ancestors. I realize today there could be other ways for a language to begin, for example – computer language. But I don’t see how else the first spoken language could have developed, since any new mode of communication must be built on a tribe’s previous mode of communication. That leaves grunts and body/sign language as the only logical basis for the first spoken language.
SCHOOL
There’s a lot of talk about schools these days. Do we open them during a pandemic or find ways to teach them online until the pandemic is over?
The wordology process involves breaking words down to their most basic pieces and summing the meanings of the pieces to arrive at the meaning of the entire word when it was created. In English, it works about 92% of the time.
SCHOOL and SCHOLAR have the Motion Sprefix.
So we have to understand why S might denote motion in a word. That’s easy. It’s the continuing sound of SSS that seems to mean motion all by itself. SSSS like a snake in the desert. S even looks like a snake. And yes, there are two other attributes of the SSS sound which formed the basis for other S-words. I will list the two here and go over them in other posts. The sound SSS van refer to smallness – like shh means quiet. The length of time one can hold an SSS out links some S-words to things that can persist over time.
Other good examples of the Motion S Prefix include: SCOOP – (a moving cup is functionally a scoop) SWING, SHAKE, SHIMMY, SURREY, SHIP, SEND and SHOES. And what is a SNAKE if not a moving neck? S+NECK=SNAKE.*
We break SCHOOL down to S-CHOOL and S-CHOLAR. The operative second word is COL or COLLECTIVE. English words that begin with C are very often about anything a CLAW can do. I believe the letter C is a hieroglyph for a claw. My sense is that birds, which have always gone coo and caw, were admired for their CLAWS and their ability to CATCH prey. We’ll get into more C-words later.
SCHOOL then breaks down to MOVE(S) TOGETHER ( COL) . The school of of fish has the same basic meaning as does the schooling done in a schoolhouse. The fish and the children move together.
We may be able to tutor or teach children online, but real schooling involves moving children together through a graded system.
*Vowels carry less information than consonants. They are often quantifiers. Vowels also freely change from one part of a country to another. We don’t ignore vowels, but we look to consonants for the meaty parts of a word’s history.
We have about 100 days left until what will likely be remembered as the most significant election in US history. I want to lay out how crucial this decision is for the USA to get right, not only for its democracy but for the entire planet.
One question that looms is, will the people of the United States continue to allow its government to shield the criminals within its upper echelon like crooked police precincts shield their bad actor cops. Accountability is trending as a meme after George Floyd’s murder, but accountability is not just about cops any more. We must insist our elected reps be fully vetted and held accountable just as well as our police. The “frat boy” cronyism has to end – everywhere.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence …
The Preamble to the Declaration of Independence
I have also been asking myself this for four years: If a president works against “domestic Tranquility” and obstructs “Justice”, does he not betray the founding principles of this government laid out in the Declaration? And is not “betrayal” a cognate of the word “traitor”?
Looking back, the Trump presidency has essentially been one long four year war on the concept of equal justice for all. Trump is fighting for cronyism to prevail, so he routinely goes after his ( not ours, he’s fine with Putin) enemies and pardons his friends.
Why must he do this? Only one thing makes sense. Organized criminals depend on cronyism. It’s always been that way. And now, since impeachment failed, the ballot box is the battlefield upon which this final war will soon be waged.
Trump is aware he is way down in the polls. He had been banking on creating false enemies and scapegoats for his fans to hate, but the pandemic quickly became a mortal threat to the health and welfare of all Americans – which now especially includes his own base. Made up causes like Build That Wall, Lock Her Up, Make America Great Again are not resonating. People have real problems to navigate now.
Trump is even trying to blame his world’s worst virus response on China. But then, why are Korea and New Zealand doing so well versus the virus? Did they blame China? No. The reacted to science decisively and early. Our numbers of cases, deaths and tests reveal we can rightly blame Trump for about 80% of our deaths. The USA averages five times worse than the average country to Covid. So far, that’s about 100,000 more dead Americans owing to Trump’s uncaring incompetence.
Since Trump knows he is hopelessly behind in an honest election, he has already messaged that he plans to contest the election results. We should be preparing for that challenge now. Are we? Are we just hoping “it will all go away” the way Trump said of the coronavirus?
Neither the Virus Nor Trump-ism Can Be Wished Away
In order to beat the virus, we study science. In order to beat Trump-ism we need to study some political science. And that starts by knowing our enemies. Trump and his allies ( here and abroad) are performing as enemies to the founding principles of the Constitution. Why is that? Who are his allies?
Americans can all agree we don’t want a dictatorship here in the USA. Yet there seems to be no facility or viable process to challenge our POTUS even after we hear his words siding with dictators over our allies – and even over our own intelligence. It is madness for us to permit this kind of behavior from anyone, let alone our military commander. How powerful is this cabal of global dictators that Trump seems to belong to? To understand that, this map is instructive:
The Dictatorship vs Democracy Map*
As you can see, Russia, China, and most of the Middle East and Africa are dictatorships. I’ve made the Trump USA orange, and dubbed it a dysfunctional democracy. You can see right away that the United States is the tie breaker for land area and financial clout in the struggle between democracies and dictatorships. Without the United States, democracies would control about 35% of the world’s financial resources, making it easy for the dictatorships to take it all in a short time. That is precisely what is at stake here. The entire world order is on the US ballot in November.
Dictators are not Trumpism’s only allies. There are also the sold-out large corporations, such as Facebook. many are beholden only to their bottom line and would prefer a world where there is no competition and people are just needy consumers. The unbridled capitalism paradigm also leads to large wealth gaps just as a dictatorship does. So yes, we need to stand up to the billionaires, as Bernie and Warren have said, but first things first.
The remaining allies of the authoritarians are the poorly educated. They are usually sold on “religious” and phony “personal value” talking points. That’s why state-run media is so important to a successful dictatorship. That’s also why Putin took Pravda early in his regime.
Protect The Vote
Trump seems to be losing the election badly as of today. But he has powerful allies and they are more than willing to cheat again. Today I went online and Googled “VOTE AGAIN” at GoDaddy. I think we should create a site where people can vote again or at least register their votes again. I realize that it will never be their official vote. But the site I envision takes ID, and secures the voter’s ID and votes with blockchain encryption. It’s rather easy to do these days. That way, when Trump challenges the election results, as he will certainly do if he is still a force to reckon with in November, we are armed to fight back.
When people argue we would only get Democrats to vote at this pretend vote site, I counter with, “if our numbers are a majority of all votes in any county or state, we won’t need the GOP votes to be counted”. This would be a site created primarily to count Democrat votes because we fully expect the GOP to cheat wherever they can.
We need Democrat votes to be registered somewhere else besides then current state run voting machines, which are known to be subject to hacking. We still don’t know if Hemp won in Georgia. Trump and his allies know the ballot box is the battlefield upon which the war to decide his fate and the fate of the planet will be fought on November 3rd 2020.
SAVE THE POST OFFICE
Why are not the three super billionaires – Bezos, Gates and Bloomberg ( I have given up on Zuck ) – announced a financial pact to save the post office and vote by mail? Don’t they realize that dictators seize media businesses first to stay in power? it feels like we are sleeping, partying and just hoping all with go smoothly on 11/3. It’s 120 days out; we should be firing on all cylinders. It’s also 30 days out from the supposed cutoff date to announce bad news on candidates. Trump will not honor that convention. He expects the Dems to however. I hope we prove him wrong on that. The gloves are off. This is a war. Maybe it’s a cyber war, but we can lose our democracy in this war. Isn’t that what WW2 was about?
*I fully believe Putin showed Trump this above map in Helsinki and explained to him that together they could rule the planet. I found this map with a simple Google search “dictator vs democracy map”. Putin knows Trump has no sense of history, but also that Trump needs to stay in power or possibly be exposed for all the crimes he has committed. Putin knew Trump would see the world like a RISK board once he showed it to him that way.
Democracies and dictatorships are like cats and dogs. They are natural born enemies because their philosophies are diametrically opposed. Nearly all dictators steal from their own people to amass power and wealth. That’s why you see such large wealth gaps in most dictatorships. Since dictators are essentially thieves, they all need to continue to hide their deepest secrets.
If dictators could align, they could wipe out the democracies and protect their secrets for the foreseeable future. So that’s why they think this US election is important in Russia, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Their existence as dictators depends on the world not viewing democracy as the better way to go. Since its hard to have an Iron Curtain in today’s internet/social media world – their best hope is for Trumpism to prevail here.
This post is about the plight of US countrymen and the fate of democracy there and on the planet. You know how they say “we’re all in this together” about Covid. Well, it’s the same with this oligarchic, “Trump-crony” coupe of the US 250 year-old representative government. It will all go down if Trump stays on as POTUS. It will mean the US democracy is over – and soon after on the planet. Here’s a link to the democracy vs. autocracy map, the root of the struggle.
MANAGING THE PANDEMIC EFFICIENTLY IS THE KEY TO AVOIDING A SEVERE DEPRESSION
If a country does worse by population percentage than other countries, it will also suffer economically relative to the more efficient countries. Its currency will fall relative to other currencies.
Fellow Americans. European nations are currently thinking about banning travel from the US. The final nail in the coffin will be demoting the US dollar’s status as the world’s currency. So handling the virus better than we have from tomorrow on, is part and parcel of the survival of the United States. #TrumpDepression
There are crosses upon which great nation-states crumble and die. We are at such a crossroad right now. Our primary goal must be to stop what happened here in 1919, when then the second winter with the Spanish Flu was three times worse than the first winter. And that means we need to act now. We can’t wait until November 3 to unify against the virus. Or it it January 20th?
Act Boldly Now While Protesters Are in the Streets
If we act boldly while the people are in the streets for racial justice, we can get those same people to protest for financial justice and medical justice aswell. There is a correlation between racial and financial justice anyway. American racism evolved from its guilt over the institution of slavery, which largely imposes financial hardships on a select group. Autocratic cronyism makes us all financial targets – all slaves on some levels.
But more have to understand that Trumpism seeks to enslave us all. BLM protesters can just add some new memes, speakers and banners at their rallies. The Resistance is what Trump wishes he had – a true populist movement. Shape it. Transform it. Mature it. Address it. Enroll it. We are own our allies.
If we act outrageously now, The Resistance and the BLM protesters will have our backs. In fact, the crowd is more likely to stay calm if they see we can act boldly. They know what we are about to lose here. That’s why you see a rainbow coalition out there. Our kids know they are prime targets too – all colors.
If mishandling the pandemic is not a reason to ask Donald Trump to step down now as POTUS, then we are truly fools. There is no other way to think about this. This is science, biology and medicine. When you have cancer you go to an oncologist, you don’t take advice from a witch doctor.
Why is Trump doing this ugliness show? He knows it doesn’t look good. We know Donny can be cordial and smooth if he needs to be. He learned that in the casino business. I remember watching him smooth talk high rollers like Mike Tyson in his Plaza casino. Donny knows when the POTUS gig is up, the jig is up. He’s not stupid that way. Still, he seems to want to blow this place up. Right now, Trump has every reason to evolve, but he won’t. So why?
Donny is very worried about his taxes and dirt coming out of the SDNY. We all know his first crimes were financial. His finances only make sense if he has large undeclared reserves of money in foreign accounts. Monies he leverages to borrow from DeutscheBanke. His taxes will reveal that path.
We Are Running Out of Time – Impeach Barr
People generally hate Barr for what he did in DC. Barr has no charisma as well. I know Bill Barr has taken undeclared money into foreign banks accounts like Donny. When Donny said at the Rose Garden “God Speed, have a great life” this was the reiteration of their agreement. That’s the code Michael Cohen spoke about. if I don’t carry enough credence for you to believe me, ask Michael Cohen. he might be happy to weigh in on the Berman firing. Barr has an agreement. And for upholding his end of the bargain, he is paid off the books. He certainly can’t be paid on the books for this work. So Barr’s in too deep to get out. Bill Barr enables Trump’s obstruction. Trump needs Barr. So impeach Bill Barr ASAP.
140 days to Election Means 50 days to Be Outrageous Because of the Pre-Election 90 Days of Silence “Rule“!
The United States needs a single science-oriented commander to be totally in charge of the virus – yesterday. We cannot afford to wait for the election and then January 20th. Trump must at least step aside with respect to the pandemic and put all the power behind a leading epidemiologist, one he does not choose.
Speaking of Pence, why don’t we ( Chuck and Nancy) ask him if he wants to be president for these last six months? The GOP might go for it, now or soon. There’s the easy way out for everyone. Let Pence pardon Trump if he’ll step down now. Build it in on the QT. The states and private people can still come after him. Donny might even might go for it. All problems solved. Democrats in office have to think a little more like gangsters. They’re up against gangsters.
140 days to election means 50 days to be outrageous because of that pre-election 90 days of silence rulethat Dems will adhere to, but Trump won’t. If we are outrageous in that period, Donny will have Barr declare our candidate illegal for breaking that rule. He’s hinting at that now. We have to think one step ahead of Donny*. Being a gangster is not easy. Staying POTUS all he is consumed with now. He thinks the next term will be a jail term. Going after his protector, Bill Barr, is brilliant, but do it all the way this time. We don’t want Barr in there between November 3rd and January 20th!
*I use Donny often, as it was his Penn or child name. He’s not grown spiritually in all those years. Donald is too mature a name for him. I wish more would call him Donny. Some of his best friends, if you can call them that, still do.
TRUMP’STAXES MUST BE REVEALED
We must make all efforts – legal and back room – to get those taxes out into the public. Ask Bloomberg how to do this. He knows information. It can be done. Just the way Donny does it. It may take money. It’s just paper. We don’t have a war room – but we sure need one. So please, someone grab that mantle- this week. Or partner in the back rooms. It does not matter who does it. Keep Biden out of it. Leak them, if need be.
A UNION OF THE MULTI-BILLIONAIRES
Bloomberg should be asked to spearhead and announce a union of the billionaires – Gates and Bezos – the way the athletes unionized for BLM. – That would be like a lion roaring. Coordinate now. Don’t they know the autocrats take the businesses next? And don’t discount the advantage of having one leader during a war. The “I alone can do it” does not work for governing, but it can in a war.It’s in their interest to save the post office. They should each throw a billion at it. It won’t hurt them a bit.
Sorry to use this metaphor but we’ve got to begin to act as if this is World War II and Trump-ism is “the Nazis”. It really is that now, just 75 years later. The USA can lose to a German autocrat and Russian spymaster without a bullet or bomb. If we don’t start acting like we are at war, this place is going to suffer beyond words. The ends do justify the means to save democracy on the planet. That is what is at stake here. I asked Ted Lieu to make election meddling an act of (cyber) war so treason is a potential outcome for those who go that route.
Trump fully knows he can’t win being ugly. But he does ugly anyway. It must be part of his mission, perhaps sworn to Putin, to destroy the US democracy before the election, if he can. It’s before the election because he might lose, and Putin won’t have any say here after that. Donny’s negotiating with Vlad right now. The VOA grab will be help Putin run over some countries. It all comes comes down to autocracies vs. democracies. They do not co-exist well. Each system does better if they are the only system. The destiny of the planet is at stake.
Financial Criminals Are the Masterminds Behind Autocracies This post reveals the delicate balance of power in the world today. I don’t think enough people have seen the map and understand this struggle. Donny is working for and with the original 1980’s Russian Mob, the same players Kushner back-channels.
TRUMP’S CELL PHONE
We all saw Donny on his cell phone during the economic crisis meeting. He cared about what was on his cell phone more than the meeting. It was urgent, I guess. It could even have been Putin on the phone with him. Putin would have loved to taunt his puppet during a meeting, the way Anthony Hopkins did at the end of Silence of the Lambs with Jodie Foster at a police meeting. So …
The VOA grab should have those in the telephone business worried they are next. Taking Pravda was an essential step in Putin’s coupe of the Russian democracy. So, whatever cell phone company Trump uses, we should find a way to tap into that phone and get the last 30 days of talks. And then leak the right stuff out. If this sounds ignorant or illegal, I remind you we are at war and should act that way. War is just an attempt to steal from a sovereign country. In the old days, people used bombs. Putin could never do it with bombs here. But with his Trojan horse, we can just give it all away. And we are.
We are running out of time to act boldly. Soon we will hit 90 days out. Donny will violate that for sure. It’s not even a law. Comey did last time. But if we violate it, he will claim an unfair election. That’s where this is going in his mind. So any bold steps, leaks, moves, indictments, or impeachments should be announced in June. Let that sink in.
Subpoena Bolton
This is the time of year we should have impeached Trump the first time. The spring and summer are better times because the public can get out on the streets easier. I always remind people Occupy Wall Street died in the cold winter. Plus, with the virus having so many out of work, and with our youth the most resilient to the virus, there has never been a better climate in our history for a populist movement to galvanize.
So call John Bolton the the House to testify ASAP. The protesters will be there with you. America will be there with you.
It was not smart to turn impeachment over to the corrupted Senate. We could have waited for the Spring. I begged Pelosi to wait till she sees the sites of the GOP’s eyes. In this current environment, the impeachment outcome could have gone differently. Many GOP sycophants are looking for safe exit ramps – all but those in on the stealing with Donny. Too much PC in our party. Where is the bold brilliance? It’s time to be bold and brilliant. .
So let’s stop treating Donny Trump like a president with public support. He is a common blue-collar criminal. You know that. Act that way. Break some eggs. Unify the gripes of the anti-racists and the anti financial cronyism (Trumpism) people. You can be sure the protesters and the majority of Americans will have our backs. And do some bold secret back room stuff.
Hold this image in your minds as you ponder our planet’s future. This happened. Donny does not know political science. He’s being advised because is suborned. We could see that in Helsinki. Donny could have done a little better job. He’s just not allowed to.
about me
Joseph Aronesty. I’m a 72 year old family man, e-commerce pioneer and Penn grad who knew Donny from Wharton School (67) and AC as well.
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