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People, if you haven't read Bill Browder's <em>Red Notice</em>, it's high time you do. This lead to the Magnitsky Act, which is one of the biggest things that Putin and Russia's oligarchs want removed.
If you think that any US citizen that Russia wants to "question" will come back the same person (or come back at all), you're deluding yourselves. Russia has repeatedly tried to get Browder arrested and sent to Russia using fraudulent Red Notices, which Interpol have repeatedly refused to honor because they're so obviously corrupt.
Russia wants Browder, and they'll use any means to get him. Sending Americans over to be "questions" gives the sham of an "investigation" they're running legitimacy.
Don't let them succeed.
Also worth checking out his book: Red Notice. I listened to the audiobook and it was short but really entertaining and informative about all the shit that goes down in Russia
Yes, everyone should pick up Browder's book, crazy crazy story
https://www.amazon.com/Red-Notice-Finance-Murder-Justice/dp/1476755744
I'm not apologizing for him. His acceptance of Palin is a crucial step to why we are here now. I'm pointing out that of everyone in recent American politics, he's one of a significant few that did the literally one thing that has significantly angered putin. Read Red Notice [1], its insane the lengths Putin went to to punish Browder for unveiling his criminal antics and McCain was one of only a few that stood behind him (Browder).
You saying he's been completely asleep against Russian agents trying to take advantage of us is wrong by dint of this. However, Your underlying sentiment that he's not doing enough though isn't wrong. But we just have to be careful that we don't become so desirous of seeing things in black and white that we take on the stupider and purposefully ignorant aspects of the dumb right.
We should be able to see in nuance. We should still condemn but we shouldn't need to speak in grandiose terms of evil to make our point. The point is makeable while still being cognizant and not dismissive of the facts. The only people that need to bend facts and timebox peoples actions are people who don't have enough of truth on their side to make their point. We're not that and we don't need to be that to make the point that Republicans needed and need to do more.
[1] Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice https://www.amazon.com/dp/1476755744/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_IT.gBbEKYT9ZY
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If anyone is doing some holiday shopping and wants to "school some special snowflakes in the not-so-liberal art of war"
I highly recommend Bill Browder's book, aptly named Red Notice: https://www.amazon.com/Red-Notice-Finance-Murder-Justice/dp/1476755744/
It goes into great detail about his background, his investments in Russia and subsequent uncovering of widespread corruption, what happened to Sergei Magnitsky, and the process of getting the Magnitsky Act passed with the assistance of John McCain.
A thrilling, inspiring, sad and infuriating read.
> I previously thought that conspiracy are filled with people with 160 IQ and master plans that make Gendo's instrumentality look like a child play.
I think conspiracies are way more like the Umberto Eco book Foucault's Pendulum... You start with a premise like "This will be hilarious" or "I wonder if I can get away with XYZ" and then suddenly you're in a ride or die scenario with something that's ballooned way out of proportion to the original intent.
Bill Browder's Red Notice is a great look into the world of how Russia in general is Cronyism/Oligarchy to the extreme. His experiences led to the Magnitsky Act in an attempt to counter some of this corruption on the world stage.
This is quite a wild fan fic you have wrote.
It's like I'm reading an excerpt from https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077X12YNG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
That's true. I was glib.
What I'd actually want to see is an experienced prosecutor like Harris appointed to AG with her number 1 responsibility being the investigation into corruption if the Trump administration
Not Biden personally running down leads or anything
the BP story is a discombobulated mess... Can't decide if it's better or worse off as things like TRANSCENDENCE got cancelled (people scanned into computer become immortal robots.. WTF does this have to do with GHOST RECON).
They lost me with the the whole DEEP STATE kidnapping operators so they could use them for mind controlled drones... Just GTFO! Who wrote this garbage?!?!?
MOTHERLAND stands alone, as having a cohesive plot/objective.
If they had really wanted to do Spec OPS "ghost team" versus drone/tech then they should have just bought this guy's book: https://www.amazon.com/Kill-Decision-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0451417704
The story behind the Magnitsky act is so crazy, if you haven't heard much about it check out Bill Browder. He was the biggest western investor in Russia and his Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was horribly murdered in jail after uncovering massive amounts of corruption. They expected to be lauded for bringing it to the attention of the state, but instead they tried to pin the corruption/theft on Browder and Magnitsky. After Sergei was killed, Bill made it his life's mission to pass laws in as many countries as possible (Magnistky acts) that take away corrupt Russian assets. Putin hates it, and has made Bill Browder enemy number one, put in something like 7 'Red Notices' on him, and tried multiple times to extradite him back to Russia. He has a few books on it, including one called Red Notice in fact https://www.amazon.com/Red-Notice-Finance-Murder-Justice/dp/1476755744
You mean the memes about the Obama-Biden bromance?
You get that those were not making fun of Biden but celebrating the bromance right?
Also, if you really want to be entertained by the Biden Obama friendship someone also wrote crime novels about them.
You're welcome.
You, my friend, need to read Robert Harris' <em>Fatherland.</em>
> Women stick to YA fiction they should have given up at 19.
I mean, I had Foucault's Pendulum and The City and The City recommended to me by a woman. My main social group for a while was a board game club that was roughly evenly men/women, and the TTRPG campaigns that started in that group were roughly evenly men/women.
But of course, you'll say "there are exceptions", and so my experience doesn't count. So my question: what evidence will you accept? What would change your view?
Perhaps a touch too close to simple fiction and not fantasy--it's hard to say; the 'fantasy' aspect is mostly how the world gets clouded by... so, so many conspiracy theories...
But Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum is the thing that immediately comes to mind.
Excellent summary.
I read Bill Browder's book Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice shortly after it came out, so my recollection of the exact details of what went down is a little faded by time.
Highly recommend it.
I highly recommend Bill Browder's book Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice.
He's the reason the Magnisky Act happened. It was his lawyer.
And he's on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Billbrowder
> So about economics, price of oil before putin dropped to 10$. During next 10 years it was going up and up to 150$ in 2008. With liberal reforms of 90s and professional PM and ministers in 2000-2004, Russia could be rich as Norway (at least be closer to Norway then to Turkmenistan)
Norway also had circumstances that very were particular to itself at that time. I get what you're saying, but in no way just by observing the ways Norway benefitted from it, would the same opportunity have just been 'given' to Russia. Canada has more tar sands than Saudi Arabia does. You're directly extrapolating policies again.
> But he believes in government programs, wasting trillions (stadiums for world cup 2018 are good example). What he doesn't believe is private property, from 2003 any business can be taken by FSB (the last example is michael calvey, who was just investing in russia with no politics involved. now there is no businnes -- no investment in russia).
I'm curious, have you read Bill Browder's book?
> I've given just some examples, but to sum up you can open IMF and see their projected GDP growth for Russia, which drops from 3% now to 1.6% (and part of it is just manipulation with statisctics, russian opposition talks about it a lot and their economists like Aleksashenko gove a lot of proofs).
Right, I know how fucked up generally they are.
> Putin is the garant of that stagnation.
This is hardly 'solely' on Putin's shoulders alone.
> He also really hates to see rich Ukraine, doing everything to break us in economics wars (since 2006). So yes, Putin isn't a fanatic, but he makes a lot of lives worse
This I have no doubt about.
Oh man, this book looks amazing. It appears to be a thriller written by a machine learning bot fed Fox News stories.
The Rook by Daniel O'Malley (Amazon). I think the MC has some powers, but I can't remember what it is, so its clearly not a big deal. The MC is part of the UK's secret supernatural agency, e.g. SCP (but not quite as outlandish).
I've noticed a lot of these people view the world as just one big hierarchy where there has to be someone holding power over another at all times. When they hear someone say they don't like the country and want to make it better for minorities, women, LGBT people, etc. they think it means those people want to take control of the top spot on the hierarchy, which means straight white cis dudes with old fashioned values get kicked to the bottom.
From personal experience on a smaller scale, I see this a lot in the pro writing community. There's always complaining that publishers wanting diverse casts and diverse authors means straight white guys have no chance to tell their stories, but this unironic right wing power fantasy got published by an actual company and made money. POC and LGBT stories/authors being picked up more often doesn't mean there aren't any opportunities for everyone else. It just means they lost their unfair advantage now that all stories are being told. That's a pretty good metaphor for the liberal view of equality I guess.
Sim, pesquise por voucher privatization
Procure ler também o livro 'Red Notice', do Bill Browder. Livraço. Lê-se como um romance, apesar de ser uma história real. Não consegui parar antes de terminá-lo.
The Rook, by Daniel O’Malley https://www.amazon.com/Rook-Daniel-OMalley/dp/0316098809
This is some of the most creative writing I’ve ever seen. From memory, the first line reads “Dear you, the body you’re wearing used to be mine.” I’d check, but my copy’s being read by my neighbour right now. There was a TV series made of it but it really doesn’t compare. It features a host of unique characters, including Gestalt - who is 4 siblings that have a single mind. It’s fast paced, action and intrigue-packed, and accessible (I hate all those sci-fi novels with unpronounceable names filled with apostrophes). Don’t be put off by its size, there’s so much going on you’ll enjoy the ride. It feels like the author had a great time writing it. And just a tip - not just for this book but in general - if you want to start reading and aren’t used to it, just tell yourself you’re only going to do it for 10 minutes. You’re brain will just want more. I hope you check it out; it’s so clever.
I really enjoyed Bill Browder's reading of his book Red Notice. I learned an unbelievable amount about how Russia got to where it is and why Vladimir Putin hates America, Hillary and Obama so much.
I strongly recommend Red Notice by Bill Browder who helped get the Magnitsky Act passed in the US. It's very helpful in understanding Putin.
Apophenia: The human tendency to see patterns in things. We find come correspondance and we (people) want to put meaning into it.
Have I got some books for you:
A discussion, via a novel, of coincidences, and how we can find connections to everything: Foucaults Pendulum https://www.amazon.com/Foucaults-Pendulum-Umberto-Eco/dp/015603297X Best related scene: The Comte De Saint Germain (sort of) points to a magazine kiosk, and points out all the connections between its design and the solar system at large. Also points out you can find something connected to something else everywhere. Most of the book revolves and resolves around this concept (as well as a few others).
A more humorous, but very cool take, on "kabballistic" thought and correspondences: Unsongbook.com Best related scene: The main character Aaron, is challenged by someone one to defend a kabbalist's ability to find connections when looking at completed events, and in ability to predict future events.
The correspondence of Pi and the number of seconds in a year can be looked at through both these lenses. Sure... the number isn't exact. But you could go forward or backward in time (the earth's orbital velocity changes through the aeons), to find a moment when these numbers do correspond, maybe you could make some additional connections to that period.
Bonus connection: A pendulum that swings at exactly once a second is exactly one yard long at the equator. (I.e. one of the old definitions of a yard.)
Have you read Prey ? Amazing book that also deals w/ the perils of technology and humanity, but a little closer to home. Another Crichton good one.