China, Russia and Iran Investing Billions in US Midterms
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Darjan Vujica: Aggregate annual spending on foreign influence is projected
to exceed $10 billion this year.
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“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.” ~ Gaius Cornelius Tacitus
You've seen the pictures out of the Nashville area I'm sure.
The number of people forced out of their homes by that is ridiculous and foolish....
sean scully has written a post about what he calls the four kinds of political corruption and gives examples of each.
"I have a theory of political corruption, which is somewhat simplistic but it does work generally. It seems to me that there are four kinds of corruption (Using this in a broad sense, to include anything that is a serious perversion of the political process, whether for explicit personal enrichment or not, although all four do contain elements of self-gratification):
First is the old-fashion "make me rich" stuff - run of the mill money deals like...second is what I would call "public good" corruption...Then there is this interesting fourth type, represented by Abramoff, Norquist, Karl Rove and some others, who have..."