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Russian interference efforts not in Barr’s Report

Secessionists, fundamentalists, the NRA, and the far-left all played their role, but they didn’t make it into Barr’s summary report.

Here are all the Russian interference efforts that didn’t make it into Barr’s letter

Secessionists, Jill Stein and her campaign, and members of groups organized around gun rights and far-right Christian movements have spent the past few years cultivating ties with those close to the Kremlin and using their platforms to promote Russia-friendly ideas.

Special counsel Robert Mueller may not have found the Trump campaign colluded with Russia, but plenty of Americans — wittingly or otherwise — have helped Moscow’s election meddling efforts in recent years.

None of these groups were mentioned by Attorney General William Barr, who issued a letter on Sunday confirming that Russia conducted coordinated campaigns to interfere in America’s elections.

Here are all the Russian interference efforts that didn’t make it into Barr’s letter

HEALTH #PurduePharma @PurduePharma Oxycotin maker expands into the anti addiction Market!

#Chutzpa #OxyContin Maker Explored Expansion Into “Attractive” Anti-Addiction Market

https://www.propublica.org/article/oxycontin-purdue-pharma-massachusetts-lawsuit-anti-addiction-market

Eight Sackler family members, company directors and current and former executives,  created the opioid epidemic through illegal deceit. the Sacklers pushed for higher doses of OxyContin, guided efforts to mislead doctors and the public about the drug’s addictive capacity, and blamed misuse on patients. Purdue paid two executives convicted of fraudulently marketing OxyContin millions of dollars to assure their loyalty, concealed information about doctors suspected of inappropriately prescribing the opioid, and was advised by global consulting firm McKinsey & Co. on strategies to boost the drug’s sales and burnish its image, including how to “counter the emotional messages” of mothers whose children overdosed.

Prescription OxyContinpainkiller first launched in 1996 now kills more than 100 a day.

2007 Purdue admitted it misbranded the drug.

None of the Sacklers are personally being sued over it.

After Arthur Sackler died in 1987, Mortimer and his younger brother Raymond bought his option of Purdue Pharma for $22.4 million

Oxycontin grandson heir David Sackler spends $22.5 million in Bel Air paid entirely in cash.

Sackler is the grandson of Raymond Sackler, one of the three brothers who together launched and ran Purdue Pharma. (By 1996, when the company introduced OxyContin, only two brothers and their families were still involved in the business.) According to The New Yorker, David runs an investment firm for the family and “is the only member of the third generation who sits on Purdue’s board.”

Secret portions of a lawsuit allege that Purdue Pharma, controlled by the Sackler family, considered capitalizing on the addiction treatment boom — while going to extreme lengths to boost sales of its controversial opioid.

Purdue Pharma, is controlled by the Sackler family.

An internal correspondence beginning in 2014, Purdue Pharma executives discussed how the sale of opioids and the treatment of opioid addiction are “naturally linked” and that the company should expand across “the pain and addiction spectrum,” according to redacted sections of the lawsuit by the Massachusetts attorney general.

In 1998, two years after OxyContin was launched, Dr. Richard Sackler, a son of Purdue co-founder Raymond Sackler, instructed executives in an email that its tablets were not merely “therapeutic” but also “enhance personal performance,” like Viagra.

The five Purdue directors who are not Sacklers always voted with the family, according to the complaint. The family-controlled board approves everything from the number of sales staff to be hired to details of their bonus incentives, which have been tied to sales volume. CEO Michael Friedman and then-legal counsel Howard  Udell each pleaded guilty in 2007 in U.S. District Court in Abingdon, Virginia, to a misdemeanor charge of misbranding OxyContin.

The Secretive Family Making Billions From the Opioid Crisis
You’re aware America is under siege, fighting an opioid crisis that has exploded into a public-health emergency. You’ve heard of OxyContin, the pain medication to which countless patients have become addicted. But do you know that the company that makes Oxy and reaps the billions of dollars in profits it generates is owned by one family?

Sackler Family photos

Yale donor linked to opioid crisis

Sackler family behind OxyContin made $4bn amid opioid crisis, filings claim. Purdue Pharma and leading Sacklers accused of deceiving public and doctors about dangers of opioid painkiller OxyContin

Tell the Smithsonian: Rename the Sackler Gallery. Take the blood money out of our museums.

Guggenheim Museum Says It Won’t Accept Gifts From Sackler Family

Opioid Protest at Met Museum Targets Donors Connected to OxyContin

London Museum Will Forgo Donation From Purdue Pharma’s Sackler Family

Why Wealthy Parents commit Fraud to get Kids into college.

Cheaters and Liars buy their kids way into college because they want to affirm their own status it’s all about having The Best for themselves and screw you.

Colleges have always known this happens and is happy to take the cheaters money – there is no “best” here. Advertising / marketing The Best and buying into that is horseshit.

Outright bribery at the Baby Ivies
It represents the gap between the haves and the have-mores. Families earning $500,000 who consider themselves middle class and the working poor.
At $50,000 a Year, the Road to Yale Starts at Age 5 Pre-K and kindergarten are as tough to crack as Ivy League. New York’s Baby Ivies, the private preschools and kindergartens where big money and bigger egos clash over whose three- or five-year-old will gain the first edge. Baby Ivies cull the weak, interview the hopeful and decide which lucky candidates slip past the velvet rope. Cornell University’s. Trinity’s tuition, at more than $52,000 for the K-12 school, exceeds Harvard’s without room and board, the same money as college.

What kind of America are we getting when making money is the only purpose?

What is the future of America? What makes an educated person in 2020?

Do we need rich celebrities who are liars, cheaters,  marketed the example of success? How stupid!

SELF ESTEEM VS. NARCISSISM
How college students think they are more special than EVER: Study reveals rocketing sense of entitlement on U.S. campuses 7 January 2013

Just Be Your Own Person – that is the definition of cool.

Character Education

Undeterred by philosophical disputes on the one hand and the preoccupation with academic achievement on the other, character education finds its strength at the grass roots, in those individual schools and communities where teachers, administrators, and citizens initiate programs designed to improve civility and citizenship — legitimate goals in their own right.

What does it mean to be an Educated Person
The modern character education movement emerged in the 1980s as a consequence of growing parental and public concern for moral drift.

The Image of rich people sold as the success”best” people because they are rich does not show us or promote their character .

In fact “good people” doing good for the world isn’t the focus as the criteria of a well lived life. A fair process and a well lived life was absolutely NOT the point.

The emphasis should NOT be about the  “prestige” of “getting in“, or having the best.

Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, were liars, they cheated, and bought their kids  into those supposedly “elite“ colleges.

2013 Dr. Dre paid $70 MILLION TO USC WITH JIMMY LOVINE THEN HIS DAUGHTER TRULY YOUNG GOT INTO THAT SCHOOL.

Truly said, “Dad pushing me to go to USC.”

USC HAPPY TO TAKE THE MONEY !!!!! SO YES IT WAS A BRIBE AND DRIVE.

REMEMBER: Colleges are only allowed to exist in the first place with permission from the public to provide an education to the citizens in America so that the common good of the future is secured. If the college is cheating and taking bribes the public and always revoke refuse them accreditation.

Role of the U.S. Department of Education in postsecondary accreditation

Barr usurps the Power of Congress

Congress is in charge not Barr, but Trump already got away with it.

It’s Mueller time but don’t forget: Trump has undermined the very idea of America
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/24/robert-mueller-report-donald-trump

Barr authored memo last year ruling out obstruction of justice
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/24/politics/barr-memo-mueller/index.html

@sarahkendzior “We are under kleptocratic rule and people need to understand what’s happening through that framework, in which old calculations do not apply. We do not have law. When you lose law, you are left with two things: raw power, and conscience.” — @gaslitnation

Will Wilkinson The media’s atrocious gullibility, which is letting this happen without serious resistance, is even more scandalous than the credulity that herded public opinion behind the invasion of Iraq. Because we already *know* this administration does nothing but lie.

Seth Abramson (THREAD) The already-infamous “Barr Letter” is a deeply dishonest and misleading document that richly deserves methodical public evisceration by committed journalists. So I hope you’ll read on and retweet this “live” dismantling of the Trump-Russia probe’s worst political hitjob.

twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1110266463506567168

Thread #1 Barr begins by conceding that, in accordance with DOJ regulations, the report he has received from Mueller only summarizes “prosecution or declination” decisions—meaning that it may well not include much of the raw evidence Mueller compiled, and be sparsely conclusory in form.

#6 Barr had a choice here: he could summarize the evidence or summarize the *summary* of the evidence. The decision he made was to summarize the summary, knowing that him doing so would feed into Team Trump’s false narrative that criminal evidence exists in an all-or-none binary.

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