Alexei Navalny is the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation and the leader of a party for Russia of the Future. Earlier, he was a Russian Opposition Coordination Council member. In August 2020, Navalny was hospitalized in serious condition after he was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent. He was medically evacuated to Berlin and discharged …
Feb 19 2022
Alexei Navalny’s Video w/ Subtitles
- By Robert H. Kalk in 411 — Post Script, 415 - Foundation Sponsored Initiative (FSI), Union Frameworks
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February 19, 2022
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Feb 13 2022
They Want All of the Rhythm & None of the Blues
- By Robert H. Kalk in 411 — Post Script, 415 - Foundation Sponsored Initiative (FSI), Union Frameworks
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February 13, 2022
The struggle between the the players and the owners within the USA’s National Football League is hardly unique within our country’s great economic divide. And, as similar struggles within major league baseball discount the interests of host cities that actively and financially courted teams, such marginalized stakeholders continue to eat major losses. Few citizens are …
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Feb 06 2022
Shouting Fire!
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February 6, 2022
Just why is it considered criminal to yell “fire” in a movie theatre? While the applicable law within various locales is nuanced, the common thread is that people rely on the word of the screamer to their detriment. Clearly, when the screamer deliberately misleads people, in a way that is the proximate cause for crush …
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Jan 30 2022
Vladimir Putin’s Useful Idiots
- By Robert H. Kalk in 411 — Post Script, 415 - Foundation Sponsored Initiative (FSI), Union Frameworks
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January 30, 2022
As Biden’s push to defend democracy is seen by many as too little too late, the twenty first century’s John Birchers continue to deny that the United States was ever intended to be a democracy. They parrot the talking points of earlier demagogues while exhibiting no depth of knowledge and little interest in developing any. …
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Jan 23 2022
Focus on the Filibuster
- By Robert H. Kalk in 411 — Post Script, 415 - Foundation Sponsored Initiative (FSI), Union Frameworks
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January 23, 2022
On March the 7th in 2021, on Fox News Sunday, Senator Joe Manchin said “The filibuster should be painful, it really should be painful and we’ve made it more comfortable over the years.” On NBC’s Meet the Press, Manchin also said “If you want to make it a little bit more painful, make him stand there …
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