Mafia meetings used to be much more discreet
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Mafia meetings used to be much more discreet

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The world wants to bury them in vomit.
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Treachery to one's own nation used to be a backroom deal sworn to secrecy.
Why so public?
More stock market manipulation?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-14/stock-market-today-dow-s-p-live-updatesMore oil price manipulation?
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/global-markets-wrapup-6-2025-08-15/More election interference?
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/14/trump-poll-russia-ukraine-00509843
What polls show ahead of Friday’s Trump-Putin meeting | CNN Politics
We’re all waiting to see what comes of President Donald Trump’s high-stakes meeting with Vladimir Putin on Friday.
CNN (www.cnn.com)
More public corruption?
https://www.newsweek.com/why-reject-trump-its-corruption-stupid-opinion-2109105
The US led the charge against global corruption. Now Trump is clearing the way for kleptocrats | Oliver Bullough
Britain used to solicit money that the US would not touch – but with oligarchs and fraudsters on the rise, it must now uphold the law, says author Oliver Bullough
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
More preparation for a fossil fuel funded world war?
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-minerals-zelensky-putin-ukraine-russia-fossil-fuels-1235292274/
Trump suggests that Russia could gain access to US fossil fuel development
The US President also emphasized that a meeting with Russian dictator Putin in Alaska would be very important for Russia and the United States
LIGA.net (news.liga.net)