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“We don’t kick the [expletive] out of them. We send them to other countries so they can kick the [expletive] out of them.” Rendered Meaningless: Extraordinary Rendition and the Rule of law. www.researchgate.net/profile/Marg...

Death Flight Tale Rekindles Memories of ‘Dirty War’ : Argentina: Ex-officer describes throwing leftists out of planes into sea. Thousands believed victims of this policy. www.latimes.com/archives/la-...

“The feudal system made it so that many different groups of people owed loyalty to one person. This person was the boss of the land, and they had absolute authority over what happened there.”

Authority for Use of Military Force To Combat Terrorist Activities within the United States. Seems to be lots of wiggle room for Trump. nsarchive2.gwu.edu/torturingdem...

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“There’s tremendous pressure to expand grounds of criminal activity, to prosecute people who might represent a threat. The material-support provisions have been the principal vehicle for pushing that envelope.” www.motherjones.com/politics/200...

“We don’t kick the [expletive] out of them. We send them to other countries so they can kick the [expletive] out of them.” Rendered Meaningless: Extraordinary Rendition and the Rule of law. www.researchgate.net/profile/Marg...

Extraordinary Rendition: A Human Rights Analysis journals.law.harvard.edu/hrj/wp-conte...

Trump tackling the global economic turmoil he set in motion by attending the UFC tonight in Miami. He’ll be up well into the wee hours but somehow will find the energy tomorrow…..for golf. People are talking. No one has ever seen anything like this.

“The bottom line is that large law firms exist to make money — ideally lots of it — and they are generally not paragons of virtue, principle or self-sacrifice.”

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“Autocrats famously surround themselves with toadies; ‘yes-men’ who simultaneously flatter them and deceive them into thinking they are performing well in their role. Such ‘loyalty’ takes precedence over competence, and these leaders in turn remove civil servants who report unpleasant news…”

“The bottom line is that large law firms exist to make money — ideally lots of it — and they are generally not paragons of virtue, principle or self-sacrifice.”

This has been an open secret amongst governments for literally decades. But the citizens aren’t allowed to know because bioweapons are prohibited and don’t exist. No worries though because our experienced people are being replaced with neophytes.

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Trump…..an example of why you take the car keys from grandpa.

More than 1 million noncitizen immigrants (one-third of them undocumented) work in healthcare in the U.S. Their ranks include skilled personnel who would be difficult to replace, especially if legal immigration is further restricted," according to a group led by Lenore Azaroff, MD

A must read by @claireberlinski.bsky.social claireberlinski.substack.com/p/impeach-hi...

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www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/defaul... REVIEW OF CIA’S EFFORTS TO PROVIDE FACILITATED MEDICAL CARE AND BENEFITS FOR INDIVIDUALS AFFECTED BY ANOMALOUS HEALTH INCIDEN

[1/2] Thanks to @politico.com's National Security Daily for spotlighting this recent Just Security article in "What to Read." This Is No Time for Business as Usual in Russia By Albert Torres and David Kramer www.justsecurity.org/109793/no-ti...

Patient Safety Network Abruptly Cut by Trump Administration “…the Trump admin’s decision to close the "cornerstone" of patient safety will hurt the general public by "compromising the quality and consistency of care across the entire healthcare landscape." www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...