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TronsawyerRussian war in <a href="https://muenchen.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ukraine</a>: <a href="https://muenchen.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> Is Offering <a href="https://muenchen.social/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Putin</a> Another <a href="https://muenchen.social/tags/Munich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Munich</a> <a href="https://muenchen.social/tags/Hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hitler</a> didn’t want a <a href="https://muenchen.social/tags/peace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#peace</a> deal, and neither does <a href="https://muenchen.social/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Putin</a>. By Robert <a href="https://muenchen.social/tags/Kagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kagan</a> <a href="https://muenchen.social/tags/TheAtlantic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheAtlantic</a><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/03/putin-hitler-munich-parallel/681973/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/03/putin-hitler-munich-parallel/681973/</a>

kuchinsterSpecific Authors of the Ukrainian War <blockquote>    In the early 80s, our ambassador Alexander #<a class="" href="https://hub.hubzilla.de/search?tag=Yakovlev" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Yakovlev</a> (a classic example of the genre - bed and whiskey) was recruited in Canada. In 1985, he became Mikhail Gorbachev’s chief adviser, and it was through Yakovlev that the last General Secretary was instilled with a plan to reform the USSR economy. In essence, the plan was very simple - to get rid of the superfluous Union republics and then, with the help of the USA, to become a prosperous capitalist state. It was this plan that #<a class="" href="https://hub.hubzilla.de/search?tag=Gorbachev" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gorbachev</a> proposed to Ronald #<a class="" href="https://hub.hubzilla.de/search?tag=Reagan" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Reagan</a> at his very first meeting.     And here is the first remark - historians will probably argue endlessly whether Gorbachev knew or not that this plan was foisted on him by the Americans themselves, or was simply a fool. Personally, I think that he knew and openly and purposefully destroyed the Union. Because this plan included not only the collapse of the country’s rather strong economy under the guise of reforms, but also the bringing to power of outright renegades - #<a class="" href="https://hub.hubzilla.de/search?tag=Yeltsin" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Yeltsin</a> and the group of American advisers who stood behind him, who came to “help” the Soviet Union.     …     Specifically, for the deployment of military operations in Ukraine, a number of contractors were involved, both already well-identified Russophobes and specially established ones at that. Here, we will only list some of them and, accordingly, their main sponsors:     The Atlantic Council- Sponsored by SAAB, Raytheon, and Lockheed. This is the director of the Ukrainian project. Their main lobbyist, by the way, is the same Alperovich who recently authored “The World on the Brink.”     The Center for Analysis of European Policy (established in 2005) - Sponsored specifically by Lockheed, BAE System, Bel Helicopter, and Raytheon, and was designed to promote the agenda in the media.     The German Marshall Fund- Sponsored by the Ministry of Defense of Latvia, Airbus, Boeing, and Raytheon. The main lobbyist is still the same William Kristol, and the former president of Estonia and our old enemy McFaul are also involved.     The Institute for the Study of War (2007) - Sponsored by Raytheon and General Dynamics Dean Corporation. The director of the institute is Kimberly Kagan (wife of Victoria Nuland’s husband’s brother).     These are just a few of the contractors that, by various estimates, handled up to $7 billion in U.S. government and private spending on military corporations to fuel the Ukrainian war. Much of that money ended up in the pockets of the #<a class="" href="https://hub.hubzilla.de/search?tag=Nuland" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nuland</a> family and the #<a class="" href="https://hub.hubzilla.de/search?tag=Kagan" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kagan</a> clan, who are connected to the #<a class="" href="https://hub.hubzilla.de/search?tag=Clinton" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Clinton</a> and #<a class="" href="https://hub.hubzilla.de/search?tag=Obama" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Obama</a> families.</blockquote> #^<a class="" href="https://diasp.eu/posts/b52e4d00481d013d5de8101b0efced44" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://diasp.eu/posts/b52e4d00481d013d5de8101b0efced44</a> #^<a class="" href="https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/specific-authors-of-the-ukrainian" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/specific-authors-of-the-ukrainian</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.hubzilla.de/search?tag=USA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">USA</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.hubzilla.de/search?tag=US" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">US</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.hubzilla.de/search?tag=american" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">american</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.hubzilla.de/search?tag=deepstate" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">deepstate</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.hubzilla.de/search?tag=CIA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CIA</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.hubzilla.de/search?tag=MIC" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">MIC</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.hubzilla.de/search?tag=warmongers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">warmongers</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.hubzilla.de/search?tag=neocons" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">neocons</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.hubzilla.de/search?tag=russophobia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">russophobia</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.hubzilla.de/search?tag=ukraine" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ukraine</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.hubzilla.de/search?tag=anti-Russia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">anti-Russia</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.hubzilla.de/search?tag=ukrainian" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ukrainian</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.hubzilla.de/search?tag=war" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">war</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.hubzilla.de/search?tag=history" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">history</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.hubzilla.de/search?tag=soviet" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">soviet</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.hubzilla.de/search?tag=russian" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">russian</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.hubzilla.de/search?tag=USSR" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">USSR</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.hubzilla.de/search?tag=Russia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Russia</a>

Chuck DarwinHarris backs Biden's supreme court reformsKamala Harris has endorsed Joe Biden’s push for supreme court reforms that include term limits for justices, a binding code of conduct and a constitutional amendment to remove immunity for crimes committed by a president while in office.“President Biden and I strongly believe that the American people must have confidence in the supreme court,” she said in a statement.Yet today, there is a clear crisis of confidence facing the supreme court as its fairness has been called into question after numerous ethics scandals and decision after decision overturning long-standing precedent.Harris added:These popular reforms will help to restore confidence in the court, strengthen our democracy and ensure no one is above the law." <a href="https://c.im/tags/immunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#immunity</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/immunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#immunity</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/terms" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#terms</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/limited" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#limited</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/stricter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#stricter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/enforceable" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#enforceable</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/rules" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#rules</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Kagan</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Thomas</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alito" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Alito</a>

Chuck DarwinBiden calls for supreme court reforms including 18-year justice term limits Joe Biden has called for a series of ⭐️reforms to the US supreme court, ⭐️including the introduction of term limits for justices and a ⭐️constitutional amendment to remove immunity for crimes committed by a president while in office.In an op-ed published on Monday morning, the president said justices should be🔸 limited to a maximum of 18 years’ service on the court rather than the current lifetime appointment, and also said 🔸ethics rules should be strengthened to regulate justices’ behavior.The call for reform comes after the supreme court ruled in early July that former presidents have some degree of <a href="https://c.im/tags/immunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#immunity</a> from prosecution, a decision that served as a major victory for Donald Trump amid his legal travails.“This nation was founded on a simple yet profound principle: ⭐️No one is above the law.⭐️ Not the president of the United States. Not a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States,” Biden wrote.“I served as a US senator for 36 years, including as chairman and ranking member of the Judiciary Committee. I have overseen more Supreme Court nominations as senator, vice president and president than anyone living today.“I have great respect for our institutions and separation of powers. ♦️What is happening now is not normal, ♦️and it undermines the public’s confidence in the court’s decisions, including those impacting personal freedoms. We now stand in a breach.”Biden called for a ⭐️“no one is above the law” amendment⭐️ to the constitution, which would make clear that no president is entitled to <a href="https://c.im/tags/immunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#immunity</a> from prosecution by virtue of having served in the White House. Biden also said justices’ <a href="https://c.im/tags/terms" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#terms</a> should be <a href="https://c.im/tags/limited" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#limited</a> to 18 years, under a system where a new justice would be appointed to the supreme court by the serving president every two years.The president also called for <a href="https://c.im/tags/stricter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#stricter</a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/enforceable" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#enforceable</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/rules" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#rules</a> on conduct which would require justices to disclose gifts, refrain from political activity, and recuse themselves from cases in which they or their spouses have financial interest.Last week Justice Elena <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Kagan</a> called for the court to strengthen the ethics code it introduced in 2023 by adding a way to enforce it. That code was introduced after a spate of scandals involving rightwing justices on the court: Clarence <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Thomas</a> was found to have accepted vacations and travel from a Republican mega-donor, while Samuel <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alito" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Alito</a> flew on a private jet owned by an influential billionaire on the way to a fishing trip. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/29/biden-us-supreme-court-reforms?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/29/biden-us-supreme-court-reforms?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a>

Chuck DarwinBiden to announce plans to reform US supreme court – reportThe US president also will seek constitutional amendment to limit immunity for presidents and various officeholdersJoe Biden will announce plans to reform the US supreme court on Monday, Politico reported, citing two people familiar with the matter, adding that the US president was likely to back <a href="https://c.im/tags/term" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#term</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/limits" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#limits</a> for justices and an enforceable <a href="https://c.im/tags/code" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#code</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/of" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#of</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ethics</a>.Mr. Biden said earlier this week during an Oval Office address that he would call for reform of the court.He is also expected to seek a <a href="https://c.im/tags/constitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#constitutional</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/amendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#amendment</a> to limit <a href="https://c.im/tags/immunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#immunity</a> for presidents and some other officeholders, in the aftermath of a July supreme court ruling that presidents have broad immunity from prosecution.Biden will make the announcement in Texas on Monday and the specific proposals could change, the report added.Justice Elena <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Kagan</a> on Thursday became the first member of the supreme court to call publicly for beefing up its new ethics code by adding a way to <a href="https://c.im/tags/enforce" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#enforce</a> it.“The thing that can be criticized is, you know, rules usually have enforcement mechanisms attached to them, and this one – this set of rules – does not,” Kagan said at an annual judicial conference held by the ninth circuit. More than 150 judges, attorneys, court personnel and others attended.The court had been considering adopting an ethics code for several years, but the effort took on added urgency after it was reported last year that Justice Clarence <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Thomas</a> did not disclose luxury trips he accepted from a major Republican donor.Public <a href="https://c.im/tags/confidence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#confidence</a> in the court has slipped sharply in recent years. In June, a survey for the Associated Press-Norc Center for Public Affairs Research found that four in 10 US adults have hardly any confidence in the justices and 70% believe they are more likely to be guided by their own ideology rather than serving as neutral arbiters. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/26/biden-to-announce-plans-to-reform-us-supreme?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/26/biden-to-announce-plans-to-reform-us-supreme?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a>

Chuck DarwinJustice Kagan calls for a way to enforce Supreme Court ethics codeJustice Elena <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Kagan</a> said Thursday that she would support the creation of a committee of judges to examine potential violations of the Supreme Court’s new ethics code, speaking out as President Biden and others are increasingly calling for reform at the high court.  In an interview before a crowd of judges and lawyers at a judicial conference, Kagan suggested that Chief Justice John G. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Roberts</a> Jr. could appoint an outside panel of highly respected, experienced judges to review allegations of wrongdoing by the nine justices. Last fall, in response to criticism from Democratic lawmakers and outside experts about perceived ethics violations, Roberts announced that the court for the first time had agreed to abide by an ethics code specific to the justices. But the policy did not include a way to examine alleged misconduct, or to clear or sanction justices who might violate the rules. Since then, a new round of ethical questions, and the court’s rulings this term, have increased calls for change.<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/25/supreme-court-kagan-ethics-code-reform/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/25/supreme-court-kagan-ethics-code-reform/</a>

Chuck DarwinUS supreme court strikes down 40-year precedent, reducing power of federal agencies The US supreme court has overturned one of its own most important precedents, the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chevron" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Chevron</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/doctrine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#doctrine</a>, that for the past 40 years has guided the work of federal government in critical areas of public life, from food and drug safety to environmental protection.In a ruling that the Biden administration has warned could have a “convulsive” impact on the functioning of government, the court’s hardline conservative majority delivered a major blow to the regulatory powers of federal agencies. Voting as a block, the six rightwing justices who wield the supermajority threw out the supreme court’s own 1984 opinion in Chevron USA Inc v Natural Resources Defense Council, which has required the courts to defer to the knowledge of government experts in their reasonable interpretation of ambiguous laws.Writing the opinion, chief justice John Roberts bluntly stated that the Chevron precedent “is overruled”. He lambasted the legal theory laid out in the ruling, claiming it “gravely erred” and calling it was “misguided” and “unworkable” despite the fact that it has steered the functions of the federal government for four decades.Roberts not only eradicated the Chevron doctrine, he turned it on its head. Under his ruling, the relationship between courts and federal agencies is reversed: in the modern era, the courts have shown deference to the expertise of agencies, but from now on the courts alone will decide.“The constitution assigns to the federal judiciary the responsibility and power to adjudicate cases and controversies,” Roberts wrote. “Agencies have no special competence in resolving statutory ambiguities. Courts do.”In recent years, the Chevron doctrine has become a central target of rightwing groups that blame it for what they see as a proliferation of government regulations executed by unelected bureaucrats in the so-called “deep state”. A key group behind the supreme court challenge, the 💥New Civil Liberties Alliance, 💥 was founded with seed money from the oil billionaire Charles <a href="https://c.im/tags/Koch" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Koch</a>. In a raft of amicus briefs to the court, alliances of scientists, environmentalists and labor organizations warned that undoing Chevron would roll back a regulatory framework that for four decades has improved the health, safety and welfare of Americans. It would also unravel efforts to protect the environment and fight the climate crisis.Elena <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Kagan</a> issued a withering dissent, which was joined by her fellow liberal justices, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson. She accused her rightwing peers on the bench of throwing out a precedent that had stood for 40 years as “a cornerstone of administrative law”. Chevron had been applied over that period in thousands of judicial decisions and become “part of the warp and woof of modern government”, said Kagan. By casting out decades of settled law, the conservative supermajority had once again asserted their authority.m👉“The majority disdains restraint, and grasps for power,” 👈Kagan added. The ruling was widely denounced by liberal observers. Elizabeth <a href="https://c.im/tags/Warren" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Warren</a>, the US senator from Massachusetts, said it was a “power grab by the far right to benefit the wealthy and well-connected”. Laurence <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tribe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Tribe</a>, professor of constitutional law at Harvard law school, said on social media: 🔥“The administrative state just died. The imperial judiciary” has “relegated Congress to a secondary role”.🔥<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/jun/28/us-supreme-court-chevron-doctrine-ruling?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/jun/28/us-supreme-court-chevron-doctrine-ruling?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a>

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Chuck DarwinLiberal justices blast Supreme Court majority for allowing Alabama executionThe three liberal Supreme Court justices took aim at their conservative colleagues for allowing the early Friday execution of an Alabama death row inmate who had raised claims about the state's history of botching the lethal injection process.The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, declined to block the execution of <a href="https://c.im/tags/James" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#James</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Barber" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Barber</a>, who was put to death at about 2 a.m. local time.<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/liberal-justices-blast-supreme-court-majority-allowing-alabama-executi-rcna95502" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/liberal-justices-blast-supreme-court-majority-allowing-alabama-executi-rcna95502</a>"This court’s decision denying Barber’s request for a stay allows Alabama to experiment again with a human life," Justice Sonia <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sotomayor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Sotomayor</a> wrote in a dissenting opinion joined by her liberal colleagues, Justices Elena <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Kagan</a> and Ketanji Brown <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jackson" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Jackson</a>. Barber had argued that the execution would violate his right to be free from <a href="https://c.im/tags/cruel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#cruel</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/unusual" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#unusual</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/punishment" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#punishment</a> under the Constitution's Eighth Amendment.

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Chuck DarwinBack in 2013, then President BARACK OBAMA quietly met with Supreme Court Justice RUTH BADER GINSBURG to subtly encourage her to retire before Republicans flipped the Senate. She didn’t, and the GOP went on to control the chamber for the following six years.Now in 2023, the conversation is starting all over again with 68-year-old Justice SONIA <a href="https://c.im/tags/SOTOMAYOR" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#SOTOMAYOR</a> with a few think pieces and podcast episodes urging her ( and sometimes fellow Justice ELENA <a href="https://c.im/tags/KAGAN" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#KAGAN</a> ) to step down, and for the White House to nudge them in that direction.<a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook/2023/01/11/what-to-do-about-sotomayor-00077506" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook/2023/01/11/what-to-do-about-sotomayor-00077506</a>

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