This Is Super Big and It's Not Impeachment | Talking Points Memo - 0 views
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If this set allegations bears out it will be a stunning, massive story. We may not care about Bezos’s marital embarrassment. But we should care a lot if a foreign head of state attempted to use theft and extortion to control the coverage of one of the most influential press organizations in the United States.
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if it bears out, this will be yet another example of a larger reality, perhaps the signature reality of the Trump Era and the era of global plutocracy and autocracy of which it is only a part. That is, the role of information theft and extortion as a key tool taking over the international system.
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secrecy, money, familial relationships and extortion appear to be common tools or currencies in many of these relationships. We see a growing number of examples where they are exerting an influence over events entirely out of the public eye and outside public channels.