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The Osage of Oklahoma were the richest people on the planet. Until they killed them. For their oil.
This is an investigation I’ve worked on quietly for 27 years. And now I’m finally able to give you a 100-second preview…
#LongKnife
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The results are astonishing. Of the more than 300,000 names that were purged from the rolls — nearly 4% of the total number of registered voters in the state — the study discovered that 198,351 Georgia voters were wrongly purged, a 63.3% error rate.
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BREAKING: In an extraordinary move, Judge Eleanor Ross has declared
#BrianKemp
the loser in a lawsuit brought by our team to compel the State of
#Georgia
to open up its complete files on the mass purge of over half a million voters from the rolls.
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This week, Scorsese releases his film Killers of the Flower Moon: the true story of the mass murder of the Osage and the theft of their oil wealth. But the story doesn’t end when the credits roll. For 27 years, I've been investigating what happened next... 🧵
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1. WaPo says
#Trump
won because "fewer blacks voted." They left out that Black folk TRIED to vote and were blocked
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BREAKING: We sued
#Georgia
Secretary of State
#BrianKemp
this morning for violation of the National Voter Registration Act. Experts found Georgia wrongly purged 340,134 voters.
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In 1996, I filmed an investigation that never saw the light of day. It was about the richest guys you’d never heard of, Charles and David Koch — and their theft of a mind-blowing $2 billion in oil from Osage tribal land. Now, I’m blowing open the files in a new film... 🧵
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BREAKING: In response to my threat of a federal law suit,
#Georgia
Secretary of State
#BrianKemp
has coughed up the names and addresses of every one of the 591,000 voters he deleted from the rolls in 2017.
#Crosscheck
#VoterSuppression
#StopTheSteal
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BREAKING: Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, admits to CNN that they did not use a USPS licensee to check addresses of voters on their purge list (we did!). This means his entire 2019 purge is illegal under the National Voter Registration Act.
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Until 1992, the US had just about the lowest electricity prices in the world and the most reliable system. Power companies were limited by law to recovering their provable costs plus a “reasonable" profit. But then George HW Bush deregulated the industry.
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▶️ First order of business. We need to get ALL the 198,351 voters Brian Kemp wrongly purged from
#Georgia
's voter rolls reinstated/re-registered before the run-off elections in January. Registration deadline: Dec 7.
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BREAKING: We just got a call from attorneys John Brakey and Chris Sautter from
#Alabama
. The State Supreme Court, without a hearing, but on the pure "ex-parte" (i.e. private) complaint of the State, "stayed" — that is, OVERTURNED THIS MORNING’S RULING TO PRESERVE ALL BALLOTS!
A Republican, a Democrat, an Independent, and a minister walk into an
#Alabama
court… and successfully sue to preserve digital voting records. This is no joke — the GOP's ballot-stuffing plans are now in trouble!
#AlabamaSenateRace
#RoyMoore
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You only see these long lines in Blacklanta, where state law eliminated most dropboxes.
The official wait times in white rural counties and suburbs was 10 minutes or at most half an hour.
#Georgia
#Runoff
#RunoffGA
#gapol
#BlackLivesMatter
#BlackVotesBatter
#BlackVotersMatter
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5. States with highest Black vote drop (MI, WI, OH, NC) had biggest vote list purges and new ID laws. It’s not "turn-out," it’s Jim Crow.
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This 92-year old
#Georgia
voter went to the polls only to find she’s one of
#BrianKemp
’s victims, purged from the voter rolls. This is why we’re suing Kemp:
#ElectionDay
#Midterms2018
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Whatever happened to Trump’s warning that, “When the looting starts, the shooting starts”? Does that only apply to protesters with un-white skin?
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Human rights lawyer
@SDonziger
was sentenced to six months in prison today for contempt of court. For the first time in US history in such a case, he was prosecuted not by the US Justice Dept, but by a private attorney who worked for Chevron.
#FreeDonziger
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BREAKING: We're suing the State of
#Georgia
for violating the National Voter Registration Act and wrongfully purging 198,000 citizens from the rolls. Our goal is to get these voters reinstated so they can vote in the Jan 5
#SenateRunoff
election.
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BREAKING:
#Georgia
's Board of Elections is trying to sneak through a new rule that could block new registrations before the Senate runoff to people who don’t have a car registered in the state.
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BREAKING:
#Indiana
has purged no less than 20,000 voters in violation of a federal court order and in total has cancelled the registrations of a mind-boggling 469,000 voters — the majority using suspect methods.
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In an Ohio judges’ chambers, I witnessed Ohio officials admitting they’d TURNED OFF tamper-detection software on vote machines
#Russiagate
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BREAKING: Just a few minutes ago John Brakey won a restraining order to keep copies of ALL ballots in the
#AlabamaSenateRace
#TheResistance
#Alabama
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My heart goes out to those who waited in the cold and dark for hours to vote. If all Americans were as committed to democracy as Black Atlantans, our nation would be transformed.
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I worked with
#RudyGiuliani
—and walked away after a week. In the late 80s he still had a rep as a tough prosecutor. I was helping him prepare a racketeering indictment. But he wouldn’t bust the criminals unless 60 Minutes gave him air time. It was sickeningly unethical.
#Borat2
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“It was horrific experience.. I am a sitting state senator that you brought off the rotunda of the Capital and you’re.. wanting me to take my dress off to strip search me. Then they wanted me to pee in a cup.. before they even told me what I was charged with.”—Sen Nikema Williams
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It’s said that behind every great fortune is a great crime. It was this Osage oil that created one of America’s greatest fortunes: the Koch family, whose wealth is calculated at over $120bn.
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BREAKING: Today we're releasing the names of the 90,000 residents of
#LasVegas
and
#Reno
purged in 2016 and 2017 by
#Nevada
’s Republican Secretary of State, Barbara K. Cegavske.
#Crosscheck
#PurgeByPostcard
#StopTheSteal
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#Trump
removes the Election Assistance Commission, the voting monitors created by George W — THAT should scare you!!
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BREAKING: An arrest warrant has been issued for
#DeAndreHarris
, the Black school teacher beaten by Nazis in
#Charlottesville
. I kid you not.
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#BrianKemp
and the new Secretary of State of
#Georgia
want to keep the lid on their methods for removing literally hundreds of thousands of low-income, young and minority voters on the basis of false information. They cannot hide any more.
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3. But WaPo fails to mention 75,355 ballots, mostly in Detroit, weren’t counted — fully explaining the Black vote drop in MI for example
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BREAKING: Lead
#recount
lawyer, Bob Fitrakis, tells me 19 counties in Wisconsin are refusing to give the recount team access to ballots!
The No-BS Inside Guide to the Presidential Vote Recount
#JillStein
#GreenParty
#Recount
#AuditTheVote
#Election2016
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4. If Black votes were counted & Blacks not blocked at polls, Trump would still be grabbing crotches in Trump Tower
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9. I repeat: It’s not "turn-out" it’s Jim Crow. Pls support our investigation into the theft of the 2016 election
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Over the past century, the
#Osage
Nation has continued to suffer massive oil thievery, poisoning, and impoverishment on their Oklahoma reservation.
“It’s not over,” Osage principal chief, Geoffrey Standing Bear, tells me. “It’s still happening.”
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#StaceyAbrams
’ files suit in federal court to end
#Georgia
mass purge and other
#BrianKemp
/GOP tricks. (There’s even a chance it could overturn the election!)
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It’s official: 1,913,369 ballots were cast but never counted in the 2016 presidential race. That’s from the US Elections Assistance Commission.
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While the Osage are appreciative of Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio bringing the 1920s Terror to the screen, they want the world to know that their story doesn’t end when the movie credits roll.
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This is a huge win and precedent for reporters trying to pry information from the hands of guilty officials.
#BrianKemp
#Georgia
#VoterPurge
#VanishingVoters
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Except that Koch truckers would take 30 barrels and write down 20. In 1996, I was brought in as a forensic expert on energy frauds. I calculated they had skimmed off $2.4bn (£2bn) – about $6bn in today’s money.
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Exit polls were correct, Hillary Clinton won —
#Crosscheck
& the other 9 methods to steal votes flipped the election
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BREAKING: 92-Year old
#Georgia
Grandmother Purged from Voter Rolls
#ElectionDay
#Midterms2018
#BrianKemp
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The Kochs have used this wealth to build a fearsome ultra-rightwing force that can create and destroy political careers. Lisa Graves of True North, calculates that Koch interests have spent no less than $200m on campaigns to attack climate change science.
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Hack-detecting software was TURNED OFF on Ohio machines by GOP officials before 2016 race
#RussiaGate
#UnHackTheVote
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Great news ➡️ It took us six years of investigating... but, finally,
#Kansas
, which generates the
#Crosscheck
scrub lists for other states, has agreed to kill the program. This effectively ends the entire national
#VoterPurge
operation.
#VanishingVoters
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BREAKING:
@DrJillStein
&
@GreenPartyUS
to force re-count in MI, WI & PA. A tiny 50,000 vote shift will un-
#Trump
the Electoral College.
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#BrianKemp
illegally purged at least 340,134
#Georgia
voters — with no notice. They showed up en masse and were either handed provisional ballots, which were thrown in the garbage — and about 50,000 people were simply denied a provisional ballot in violation of federal law.
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How to dismantle an AR-15
Video by Luis Aira, Palast team Spanish language producer
Note: The young people featured are all first time voters!
#GunControlNow
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Trump's lead in Georgia is down to less than 2,000 votes.
This election would be over if it wasn't for The Purge:
340,134 Georgians illegally purged before the 2018 midterms:
198,351 Georgians illegally before
#Election2020
:
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There are a mind-blowing 3.3 Million ballots still "unprocessed" from the California primary. Look out: in 2016, ballots remained uncounted—the presidential tally was 1.3 million votes less than the number of ballots submitted.
Learn more:
#CAPrimary2020
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BREAKING: Our lawyer just sent a letter to
#Georgia
Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, demanding he restore the 198,000 Georgia voters wrongly purged from the rolls—before the election.
#SaveMyVote2020
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We need your help, so these revelations can see the light of day.
We need your support to complete our film, Long Knife, about the Kochs and the Osage’s unending fight for control of their own lands and lives.
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“She held civil rights meeting in her home... And today, to come out and not be able to vote, and no one can give you an expiation, it’s extremely emotional. And it bothers me, it bothers me to my core."
#BrianKemp
#ElectionDay
#VoterSuppression
#ElectionFraud
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Former chief Jim Roan Gray, whose great-grandfather’s murder is at the centre of Killers, says the Osage want to be seen as more than victims: they are warriors confronting their US rulers for control of their own land and lives.
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In this now-deleted Periscope,
#AliAlexander
says he's working closely with congressmen Mo Brooks, Andy Biggs, and his "great friend" Paul Gosar to "maintain the White House" and "hold power."
See report:
h/t
@jason_paladino
#DCTerrorists
#DCRiot
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For the chief, it’s also personal. The US government to this day lists Chief Standing Bear as “incompetent”, despite his national recognition as one of America’s top trial attorneys.
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Only months ago, Everett Waller, Osage’s resource chair, confronted the Bureau of Indian Affairs at a tense hearing. “When you get a quote from Koch Oil that said they deserve a barrel for every two they had to pay for, you should have hung the bastards.”
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Are you a purged
#Georgia
voter that was forced to a provisional ballot because your name was not on the voter rolls? Or were you purged and turned away from the polls? If so, we urgently need to hear from you. Reply to this tweet and let's chat.
#PassItOn
....
▶️ First order of business. We need to get ALL the 198,351 voters Brian Kemp wrongly purged from
#Georgia
's voter rolls reinstated/re-registered before the run-off elections in January. Registration deadline: Dec 7.
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The Osage’s current misfortunes began in 1894 with, ironically, the discovery of a gigantic oil reservoir under their Oklahoma land. Suddenly, desperately poor Osage became the richest people on Earth.
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These guardians wrote themselves into Osage wills and insurance policies, then systematically murdered their wards and took their oil rights. That’s where Killers of the Flower Moon ends, in the 1920s.
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2. WaPo points out "change in turnout rates for different racial/ethnic groups" was "especially strong" in key swing states (MI, WI, PA)
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The chief took me to the Bureau of Indian Affairs office, where, in a leatherbound book, he and others in his family are listed as incompetent. It’s more than an insult. It is part of the legal structure that allows the government to remain as sovereign over reservation affairs.
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Since Trump’s narrow defeat in Georgia, Sec of State Brad Raffensperger has been portrayed as a heroic defender of democracy. In fact Raffensperger did all he could leading up to the election to suppress the rights of legitimate voters. Report coming soon!
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We can confirm with absolute certainty that 340,134
#Georgia
voters were wrongly purged. We have their names and addresses.
#StaceyAbrams
#BrianKemp
#Midterms2018
#Election2018
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No charges have been brought against the neo-Nazi with the 9mm Glock who threatened our photographer
@zdroberts
&
#DeAndreHarris
' rescuers!
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Back in 1996, not a single US news outlet could be bothered to tell the story of a couple crooks from Wichita nor their “inconsequential” victims. The real story of the Kochs has yet to be told. Until now. This film will shake you — and it should.
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Today, Koch’s trucks are gone, but Koch’s campaign to deny climate science and stop the government taking action on greenhouse gas emissions has undermined Osage demands for funds to seal up the thousands of methane-spewing, poisonous wells abandoned by corporate drillers.
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The chief explains: “This is our land, and we bought this land with our own money. But the federal government says: ‘The ownership title may belong to you, but the day-to-day control and operation belongs to the federal government.’ And who do they get to help manage? Koch oil!”
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But the predation continued. The US government barred the tribe from developing their own oil and instead auctioned off the Osage’s drilling rights. The giant reserves were then exploited by the behemoths we now know as Getty Oil, ConocoPhillips, Sinclair and Exxon.
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Stacey Abrams Hires Palast Investigations Team for Massive Federal Suit to Restore Voting Rights
#Crosscheck
#PurgeByPostcard
#VanishingVotes
#StopTheSteal
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Bush’s son, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, signed a law in 1999 forcing the state’s hapless customers to accept any price the “free” market dictated. Enron’s CEO Ken Lay showed his appreciation by becoming Baby Bush’s
#1
donor for his presidential ambitions.
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The US government still claims ultimate power over Osage money and lands, simply changing the murderous “guardianship” scheme to the “trusteeship” of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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Cobb County,
#Georgia
closed 6 of the 11 early voting stations, but the turnout is HUGE. I've never seen anything like it. People are not going to be dissuaded. They can move the polling stations to the Arctic and the public is going to show up.
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Right now, Chief Standing Bear is at war with the system that engendered the Koch heist, the 1920s Reign of Terror and continuing cruelties.
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Democrat
#DanMcCready
supposedly lost the special election in
#NorthCarolina
’s 9th Congressional District to Republican
#DanBishop
by less than 4,000 votes. However, racially biased
#VoterSuppression
schemes easily account for the GOP "victory" margin.
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Our history of slavery means black people are more likely to share common names — that's the key to Kobach's racist name-matching purge!
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At the heart of it is legal control of Osage native land by the US Bureau of Indian Affairs, an entity the Osage call the Ma-he-tah, or the Long Knife. Standing Bear, a lawyer himself, likens the arrangement to a military occupation.
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The Osage were left with small “stripper” wells producing too little oil to send out through pipelines. Beginning in the 1960s, a small operator out of Wichita, Kansas, Koch Industries, agreed to send out small tanker trucks to take the Osage crude.
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7. Add in students without the new IDs required in places like Madison, WI & Ann Arbor, MI
#TrumpStoleIt
#VoterID
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#MartinLutherKing
’s Cousin Blocked by
#BrianKemp
from Casting a Ballot — Despite Voting in every Election for 50 Years!
#ElectionDay
#Georgia
#Midterms2018
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"They told her she did not have to go on Tuesday, because her very acknowledgment over the phone for me was actually a registered vote for me." — Mike Espy makes stunning charge of push polling. And it’s a crime.
#MississippiRunoff
#MississippiSenateRace
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In 1906, the US Congress passed the Burke Act, named after congressman Charles Burke. Burke would head the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which determined that Osage were not sufficiently competent to handle their new wealth. It assigned each full-blood Osage a white “guardian”.
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#StevenDonziger
, a US attorney, classmate of Barack Obama at Harvard law, gave up everything — literally everything — to take on Chevron on behalf of the Cofan people of the Amazon in Ecuador.
#FreeDonziger
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BREAKING: Are YOU one of the 550,000 voters on the
#Illinois
Purge List?
Check NOW. You have until Sunday, Oct 21 to register online.
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To steal votes of POC,
#KarenHandel
& her successor
#BrianKemp
began raiding & impeding voter reg groups
#AMJoy
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This is the story of
#Venezuela
in black & white, a story not told by the MSM. The so-called popular uprising is, at its heart, a furious backlash of the whiter (and wealthier) Venezuelans against their replacement by the larger Mestizo (mixed-race) poor.
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Governor
#BrianKemp
’s family brought slavery to
#Georgia
— and he’s signed a law that makes sure you don’t know it
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Can you ID this man? He pulled a gun on
#DeandreHarris
' rescuers as well as our photographer
@zdroberts
: Please RT!
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But for the US government, that was too much oil and too much money under the control of a people who were not at that time recognised as US citizens.
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“Deregulate” is a misnomer. “De-criminalize” describes it best. With the “free market” supposedly setting the price of power, Texas-based Enron was free to blow prices through the roof when weather shut down power plants.
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Rep Paul Gosar (AZ) praises
#DCRiot
instigator
#AliAlexander
...
"Great work Ali." — Nov 14
"This is a true patriot working his butt off for America." — Nov 6
Why did the GOP team up with Ali? — See story:
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It’s said that behind every great fortune is a great crime. This is the crime, the genesis of the Kochs’ $120 billion empire — and the foundation of the fearsome Koch Network, that political Death Star, created solely to keep Charles Koch out of prison.
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