On Thursday, I, along with some 4,500 others, tuned in to one of Indivisible’s weekly Zoom meetings led by Indivisible founders
#Ezra #Levin and
#Leah #Greenberg. There are about 1,600 local Indivisible groups scattered around the country
-- and more are springing up each day.

“Throughout history,” said Levin, “there has been no solution to creeping authoritarianism other than all of us — mass, broad-based organizing from people all over the country, from all walks life.”

“If your ideas are popular and you have a mandate for change,” Greenberg said
“you do not hide from your constituents.
We are the ones who are out there,
who are unafraid and organizing and showing up in public because our ideas are popular.
When people hear what we have to say, they want that, not them.”

The April 5 protests are meant to be a show of strength.

“‘Hands Off,’” said Greenberg, “is a message about everything that is happening, right?

It’s hands off Medicaid,
hands off our democracy,
hands off Social Security,
hands off our environment,
hands off veterans benefits.”

Now, for those who think that firebombing Tesla dealerships is a better tactic than nonviolent protests,
I would remind you of the world-changing work of Gandhi and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

And I would also tell you about the work of Harvard political scientist #Erica #Chenoweth and her colleagues.

To Chenoweth’s surprise — shock, actually — she discovered that over time, nonviolent protests are far more successful than violent ones.

Between 1900 and 2006, she says, campaigns of nonviolent civil resistance were twice as successful as violent campaigns.

She also came up with the so-called 3.5% rule:
No government can withstand a challenge from around 3.5% of its population without accommodating the movement.

In Avant-Garde & Kitsch, Clement #Greenberg clung to the idea that high art was a noble fight against the tide of mass-produced garbage. But his elitist handwringing only underscored the real problem: mass culture always wins. The moment high art starts looking over its shoulder, it's already toast.

Andy #Warhol didn't just blur the line between high & low culture, he threw it in a blender & hit 'liquify.'

How might the bond company be linked to Russia? To Trump?

In a pattern reminiscent of the Trump family, there is a father-son thing happening. However, neither Greenberg supported Trump directly in 2016 or 2020.

Evan Greenberg (Evan), 68/69, is the president and CEO of Chubb Ltd (incorporated in Zürich, Switzerland).

Federal Insurance Company (FIC), the company behind Trump’s surety bond, is a Chubb subsidiary.
Evan orchestrated the ACE Insurance absorption of Chubb Insurance in 2016.

Details below.

Evan donated to the Hillary Clinton campaign in the 2016 election cycle, not Trump.
However, in 2020, he donated almost exclusively to Republicans, but not Trump.

Trump appointed Evan to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations in late 2018.

Although Chubb was one of the first major insurance conglomerates to “adopt limited” restrictions on insuring fossil fuel underwriting, it is one of the largest insurers of oil and gas projects.

In 2020, Reuters reported that Chubb was insuring tar sands projects in Canada. In 2021, it withdrew from the Russian Nord Stream 2 pipeline due to U.S. government sanctions.

Evan’s father is #Maurice “#Hank” #Greenberg (Maurice), 98, the former “combative” chairman and CEO of American International Group ( #AIG ), which was once a subsidiary of Starr Insurance Companies.

Starr was founded in 1919 in Shanghai, China, by an American. Maurice has been chairman and chief executive officer of Starr since 1968. (Envision nested Russian dolls.)

Maurice is notorious for extensive #fraud that happened at AIG under his direction.

He paid $24,000,000 to the SEC (2009) and the state of New York (2017) for fraud that took place before 2005, the year he turned 80 and was kicked out of the CEO penthouse.

Maurice has direct ties to Russian president Vladamir #Putin.

In 2003, Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, welcomed Maurice to Moscow. The purpose of the visit? To develop mortgage loans in Russia.

In 2007, Maurice created a subsidiary, Starr Investments Russia, “to invest hundreds of millions in Russian real estate,” specifically “prime office space, residential housing and hotels.”

Putin was the president of Russia.
In the 2016 election cycle, Maurice donated $20,000 to Republican political action committees. According to the Washington Post, he gave more than $15,000,000 to #dark #money SuperPACs.

He supported Jeb Bush. In the 2020 cycle, he supported no presidential candidate directly.

There is no direct link between the surety bond company and Putin. There are links between projects, players, corporations.

If FIC asked for 2%, Trump had to pony up only (only!) $18,400,000.

Rather than his winning an appeal, I put money on Carroll winning another defamation suit.

♦️Who will pay his bills? ♦️

That’s the national and domestic #security #issue.

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#surety #bond #defamation #Carroll #Chubb #structured #prejudicial #Russia

Who posted the $91 million bond for Trump?

"Evan Greenberg’s ACE Insurance, which became Chubb in 2016, “does business” with his onetime Russian-bank-owning father’s Russia investment vehicle Starr International.

Greenberg’s father
—and longtime boss at AIG
—Maurice Greenberg, is a Vladimir Putin business associate who has also associated, as discussed in detail below, with Russian spies, other Kremlin agents, and the 2016 Trump presidential campaign.

If these entanglements continue to exist in 2024 it is highly likely that in fact Evan Greenberg’s company’s business interests are entwined, through his still-living father, with Russian government-owned entities.
- Seth Abramson

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