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🌀Bizarro🌀

Trump Has Told Friends That Gutting Medicare Could Be a Fun “Second-Term Project”

A scathing new Pentagon report blames Trump for the return of ISIS in Syria and Iraq

Dow plummets more than 600 points after Trump orders US manufacturers to leave China
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Some experts say Trump’s use of white nationalist troops is helping fuel a climate of violence.

Trump Says He Will Raise Existing Tariffs on Chinese Goods to 30% which will be paid by US consumers

New rules will give AG Wm Barr more say over immigration courts
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Docs newly released by a federal judge confirm that Trump’s former biz partner Felix Sater was a key US asset in major terror and Mafia cases

Russian-born Sater ‘went above and beyond’ in cooperating after facing fraud charges in 1998, unsealed letter shows. #Mob
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The judge gave Mr. Sater no prison time in part based on the letter, but kept the sentence confidential after prosecutors asserted that the information would jeopardize ongoing investigations.

🔑ONGOING INVESTIGATIONS!!

Savor the implications ... read on:
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Trump, Felix Sater, and the FBI

Sater really should be understood as a second Whitey Bulger, although one who worked very closely with the now president of the United States, as well as for the most powerful and dangerous crime boss in the world—Semion Mogilevich.
🌀Sater6🌀

Connecting the dots between Trump and the Russian mafia.

There are decades of connections between Trump and organized crime, including his mentoring by the venomous, mobbed-up Roy Cohn & his father.

Picture a series of three concentric circles:
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The Kremlin at the center, surrounded by oligarchs of varying degrees of legal legitimacy, & on the periphery, organized criminal gangs.

In 1979, Trump arranged with a Genovese Mob-controlled union to supply illegal Polish construction workers at far below union pay.
🌀Sater7🌀

As the RU mobs gradually muscled out the Italian gangs, it is not difficult to see young DJT going with the flow.

Trump’s SoHo Project, the Mob, & Russian Intel

Tamir Sapir was one of Trump’s shady business partners in the latter’s failed SoHo real estate project
🌀Sater8🌀

Tevfik Arif controlled Bayrock in the 2000s, a property developer living in the Trump Tower,

In 2006, Bayrock and the Trump Organization announced a deal to build Trump SoHo.

The building would be developed and built by Bayrock in partnership with the Sapir.
🌀Sater9🌀

Sater, Trump’s 3rdbiz buddy, unlike Arif & Sapir, he did not even possess a thin veneer of respectability.

He’s basically a garden-variety thug.

Yet he also managed to become an investor in Trump’s SoHo scheme.

Sater became a “senior advisor” to Trump in Jan 2010
🌀Sater10🌀

More recently Sater shows up at the door of Michael Cohen, the president’s personal lawyer, delivering a back-channel “peace plan” for Ukraine in exchange for ending sanctions

A Back-Channel Plan for Ukraine and Russia, For Sanction Relief Courtesy of Trump Assoc’s
🌀Sater11🌀

Cohen was the go-between, along with Felix Sater, for Ukrainian parliamentarian Andrii Artemenko, passing on a pro-Russian “peace plan” and compromising dossier on the current President of Ukraine to President Trump.
🌀Sater12🌀

Alex Oronov enabled Andrii Artemenko to set up the Ukraine Peace Plan meeting in late Jan 2017 w/ Cohen at the Loews Regency, aimed at helping give Putin control of Crimea

Alex Oronov died unexpectedly 3/17.

He was the father-in-law to Michael Cohen’s brother.
🌀Sater13🌀

Michael Cohen’s extensive ties to Ukraine made him a logical entry point for anyone “looking for the trail of money from the former Soviet Union into The Trump Org.”

Can Sater be trusted or has the FBI been “Whitey Bulgerized” by Sater & its other informants?🤔
🌀Sater13🌀

Another possibility has the FSB “tripled” Sater, using him in a much higher-level political op dwarfing in importance the info the US agencies were getting from him?

Curious he is not in witness protection.🤔

Missing WikiLeaks associate had kayak accident in Norway
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Atty’s for Trump's bankers refuse to tell judges whether they have the president's tax returns

As the judges grew frustrated by the attorneys’ resistance, Judge Hall added: “Should we go to court and seek an order?

I’m serious. We need to know.”
🌀Bizarro15🌀

Nadler requests information including docs & testimony, depositions, &/or interview transcripts you may believe relevant to the HJC’s impeachment investigation relating to President Trump

Trump’s EPA ordered to set stronger smog standards.
🌀Bizarro16🌀

Ghouliani says State Dept. aided his effort to press Ukraine on Trump opponents

Ghouliani pressed for investigations into former VP Joe Biden and the release of damaging information on Paul Manafort.

David Koch, Who Spent Heavily to Back Conservative Causes, Dies
🌀Bizarro17🌀

The U.S. manufacturing PMI was 49.9 in Aug, below the neutral 50.0 threshold for the first time since Sept 2009.

New orders received by manufacturers dropped the most in 10 years, & export sales tanked to the lowest level since Aug 2009, the data shows.
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The Paris prosecutor's office has opened an investigation into Epstein

The preliminary inv’n has been opened on the counts of rape & sexual assault of minors under & over 15 years of age, criminal association w/ a view to committing crimes...
🌀Bizarro19🌀

India’s Move in Kashmir: More Than 2,000 Rounded Up With No Recourse

Newly released docs reveal Facebook’s concerns over Cambridge Analytica’s use of user data as early as Sept. 2015.

CA used Facebook data to profile and target voters in the 2016 U.S. election.
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Zavadnikov spent tens of millions of dollars to build and maintain two lavish superyachts, the Celestial Hope and the Quinta Essentia.

His passion was paid for through a system of dozens of offshore companies OCCRP has dubbed the Troika Laundromat.
🌀Bizarro21🌀

Federal judges received a link to an anti-Semitic blog post. It came from the DOJ

A GOP group is pressuring @senatemajldr to stop obstructing election security legislation
Running ads in red states, a GOP group calls out "#MoscowMitch" for having double-standards
🌀Bizarro22🌀

Phone Records Raise Questions About Official Inv’n Into Ukrainian Activist’s Murder

U.S. fines Deutsche Bank $16 million to settle China, Russia corruption charges

The $16M settlement includes disgorgement of $10.8M, interest of $2.4M and a $3Mcivil penalty,
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Deutsche employees created false books & records that concealed corrupt hiring practices & failed to accurately doc & record certain related expenses, violating internal accounting rules.

India’s Move in Kashmir: More Than 2,000 Rounded Up With No Recourse
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US rescinded a $3.5B deal to sell Raytheon-produced Patriot missile defenses to Turkey after it received the Russian S-400 system in July.

New Polls Show That Trump Should Be Afraid. Very Very Afraid.

It's that his disapproval rating is so high.
🌀Bizarro25🌀

Why the Greenland situation is being handled by a chiropractor, Ambassador Carla Sands

Sands married a now-deceased multimillionaire — and as a soap-opera and B-movie star. Who can ever forget her role in “Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell”?
🌀Bizarro26🌀

The war inside Palantir: Data-mining firm’s ties to ICE under attack by EEs

Whistleblower gives House Dems evidence of "inappropriate" conduct on Trump tax returns

House DEMs say a federal EE has given them evidence of "inappropriate efforts" on Trump tax audit
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A New York Times reporter allegedly solicited a $30,000 donation from Jeffrey Epstein to a Harlem cultural center

Escalation in U.S.-China trade war threatens global economy, poses Trump reelection risk.

Trump presses U.S. companies to close China operations
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Amazon Has Ceded Control. 1000s of Banned, Unsafe or Mislabeled Products

Amazon has proven unable or unwilling to effectively police third-party sellers on its sit

House DEMs Demand Answers On Trump Adm’s Attempts To Weaken Action On White Supremacist Extremists
🌀Bizarro28🌀

Russia Launches Floating Nuclear Reactor in Wake of Latest Accident
Rosatom vying to be the first to commercialize technology

Vessel sailing through icy waters in the Arctic Circle

Exclusive: Belarus's Lukashenka, Weary Of Russia Union, Seeks To Buy U.S. Crude
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By Pushing Out Filthy Rich Vladimir Plahotniuc, Moldova Takes the Lead in Ending the Era of the Oligarchs

Hong Kong protesters form human chain 30 years after 'Baltic Way'

The Silence hacking crew grows louder

NK foreign minister calls Pompeo ‘poisonous plant’
🌀Bizarro20🌀

The alt-right manifesto that has Trumpworld talking

An anonymous book author has lit the online right on fire — including some in the Trump’s orbit.

Internal WH forecasts show that the economy could slow markedly over the next year, but could complicate 2020.
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“Everyone is nervous — everyone,” said a Republican with close ties to the WH & congressional GOP leaders. “It’s not a panic, but they are nervous.”

The NRA severed ties with its longtime outside counsel, intensifying a civil war that has upended the org.
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RU says isotope in doctor's tissue caused by diet, not accident

Moulton Ends 2020 Bid

More than 300 people accuse former OSU doctor of sex abuse

OSU has acknowledged its "fundamental failure" to prevent abuse by Strauss, apologized publicly to the survivors.
🌀Bizarro33🌀

New Grand Staircase plans greenlight mining on lands Trump stripped from Utah monument

Fruitport HS was designed to frustrate school shooters - All bought to you by the NRA & Trump’s American Carnage.

Yale missteps allowed prof to prey on students for decades
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FBI takes down Nigerian fraudsters in $46M case

Overstock CEO Resigns After Blaming “Deep State” for Sex with Russian Agent

Congress Told ICE to Detain Fewer People. Instead It Keeps Adding Private Prisons.

For the 7th time this year, ICE added a new jail in LA
Ex-Trump Affiliate Secretly Worked With Prosecutors, FBI and CIA for Years

Russian-born businessman Felix Sater ‘went above and beyond’ in cooperating after facing fraud charges in 1998, unsealed letter shows

wsj.com/articles/ex-tr…
These New Documents Confirm Trump Associate Felix Sater Helped Track Osama Bin Laden

Documents newly released by a federal judge confirm that Felix Sater was a key US asset in major terror and Mafia cases.
buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
Trump, Felix Sater, and the FBI
Sater really should be understood as a second Whitey Bulger, although one who worked very closely with the now president of the US, as well as for the most powerful and dangerous crime boss in the world—Semion Mogilevich.
washingtonmonthly.com/2017/04/02/tru…
Trump’s SoHo Project, the Mob, and Russian Intelligence
washingtonmonthly.com/2017/02/20/tru…
Mobbed Up

Connecting the dots between Trump and the Russian mafia.

There are decades of connections between Trump and organized crime, including his mentoring by the venomous, mobbed-up Roy Cohn & his father.🍎🌳

washingtonmonthly.com/2017/02/23/mob…
In 1979, Trump arranged with a Genovese Mob-controlled union to supply illegal Polish construction workers at far below union pay.
politico.com/magazine/story…
In 2006, Bayrock and the Trump Organization announced a deal to build Trump SoHo. The building would be developed and built by Bayrock in partnership with the Sapir
baltimorepostexaminer.com/all-about-tevf…
A Back-Channel Plan for Ukraine and Russia, Courtesy of Trump Associates

In truth, it is less a conventional diplomatic plan than a blackmail scheme involving threats to reveal corruption among Ukrainian politicians
nytimes.com/2017/02/19/us/…
Cohen popped up as the go-between, along with Felix Sater, for Ukrainian parliamentarian Andrii Artemenko, passing on a pro-Russian “peace plan” and compromising dossier on the current President of Ukraine to President Trump.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/says-wh…
Alex Oronov enabled Andrii Artemenko to set up the Peace Plan meeting in late January with Michael Cohen at the “Loews Regency, a luxury hotel on Park Avenue in Manhattan.”

Alex Oronov is dead. He was the father-in-law to Michael Cohen’s brother.
washingtonmonthly.com/2017/03/06/how…
Michael Cohen’s extensive ties to Ukraine made him a logical entry point for anyone “looking for the trail of money from the former Soviet Union into The Trump Organization.”

The Trump and Clinton Awfulness Relativity Index
washingtonmonthly.com/2016/07/17/the…
Michael Cohen’s extensive ties to Ukraine made him a logical entry point for anyone “looking for the trail of money from the former Soviet Union into The Trump Organization.”
washingtonmonthly.com/2017/03/06/how…
Trump Has Told Friends That Gutting Medicare Could Be a Fun “Second-Term Project” | Vanity Fair
vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/d…
Nadler requests information including docs & testimony, depositions, &/or interview transcripts you may believe relevant to the HJC’s impeachment investigation relating to President Trump
judiciary.house.gov/sites/democrat…
The war inside Palantir: Data-mining firm’s ties to ICE under attack by employees

After Google dropped a defense contract over employee pressure, Palantir’s leaders doubled down on controversial work with the U.S. government
washingtonpost.com/business/2019/…
Zavadnikov spent tens of millions of dollars to build and maintain two lavish superyachts, the Celestial Hope and the Quinta Essentia. His passion was paid for through a system of dozens of offshore companies OCCRP has dubbed the Troika Laundromat.
occrp.org/en/troikalaund…
The Paris prosecutor's office has opened an investigation into Epstein

The preliminary inv’n has been opened on the counts of rape & sexual assault of minors under & over 15 years of age, criminal association w/ a view to committing crimes...
cnn.com/2019/08/23/eur…
Federal judges received a link to an anti-Semitic blog post. It came from the Justice Department
washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
New rules will give AG William Barr more say over immigration courts
sfchronicle.com/politics/artic…
Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay more than $16 million to settle charges that it violated U.S. corruption laws by hiring relatives of foreign government officials in order to win or retain business, the U.S. regulator said in a statement.
reuters.com/article/us-deu…
The U.S. manufacturing PMI was 49.9 in Aug, below the neutral 50.0 threshold for the first time since Sept 2009.

New orders received by manufacturers dropped the most in 10 years, & export sales tanked to the lowest level since Aug 2009, the data shows.
cnbc.com/2019/08/22/man…
How Donald Trump's campaign manager Brad Parscale went from family bankruptcy to splashing out millions on mansions, condos and luxury cars through his companies that get a hefty cut of the president's $57M campaign contributions
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7…
European officials draft radical plan to take on Trump and U.S. tech companies
In a bid to counter Trump, EU officials are proposing to unilaterally slap tariffs on the United States.
politico.com/story/2019/08/…
Whistleblower gives House Dems evidence of "inappropriate" conduct on Trump tax returns
House Democrats say a federal employee has given them evidence of "inappropriate efforts" on Trump tax audit
salon.com/2019/08/23/whi…
House Democrats Demand Answers On Trump Administration’s Attempts To Weaken Action On White Supremacist Extremis
beyer.house.gov/news/documents…
Why the Greenland situation is being handled by a chiropractor, Ambassador Carla Sands

Sands married a now-deceased multimillionaire — and as a soap-opera and B-movie star. Who can ever forget her role in “Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell”?
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
New Polls Show That Trump Should Be Afraid. Very Very Afraid.
It's not that his approval rating is low (although it is). It's that his disapproval rating is so high.
thebulwark.com/new-polls-show…
France opens Epstein-linked rape investigation
miamiherald.com/latest-news/ar…
Fruitport High School was designed to frustrate school shooters - All bought to you by the NRA & Trump’s American Carnage.
washingtonpost.com/education/2019…
The Far-R Book Every Russian General Reads

In the Evola-Dugin playbook, sexual & racist anxieties lie at the root of today’s RU fascism. & w/ slight qualification, one can see Rob Porter, Bannon (an Evola fan), Roy Moore, & Trump as decadent facsimiles.
thedailybeast.com/the-far-right-…
Phone Records Raise Questions About Official Investigation Into Ukrainian Activist’s Murder

This raises the question of whether officials knew of the attack on Gandziuk before it happened and whether the investigation has been compromised.
occrp.org/en/investigati…
New Grand Staircase plans greenlight mining on lands Trump stripped from Utah monument
sltrib.com/news/environme…
The alt-right manifesto that has Trumpworld talking
An anonymous book author has lit the online right on fire — including some in the president’s orbit.
politico.com/story/2019/08/…
Newly released docs reveal Facebook’s concerns over Cambridge Analytica’s use of user data as early as Sept. 2015.

Cambridge Analytica used Facebook data to profile and target voters in the 2016 U.S. election.
cnbc.com/2019/08/23/fac…
Amazon Has Ceded Control of Its Site. The Result: Thousands of Banned, Unsafe or Mislabeled Products

Amazon has proven unable or unwilling to effectively police third-party sellers on its site
wsj.com/articles/amazo…
Russia Launches Floating Nuclear Reactor in Wake of Latest Accident

Rosatom vying to be the first to commercialize technology

Vessel sailing through icy waters in the Arctic Circle
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
By Pushing Out Filthy Rich Vladimir Plahotniuc, Moldova Takes the Lead in Ending the Era of the Oligarchs
thedailybeast.com/by-pushing-out…
Overstock CEO Resigns After Blaming “Deep State” for Sex with Russian Agent
vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/o…
The Silence crew is making a lot more noise. The Russian-speaking hacking group, which specialises in stealing from banks, has been spreading its coverage and becoming more sophisticated, according to a new report from cybersecurity company Group-IB.
nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/08/22/the…
A Republican group is pressuring Mitch McConnell to stop obstructing election security legislation
Running ads in red states, a GOP group calls out "Moscow Mitch" for having double-standards
salon.com/2019/08/21/a-r…
Top White House advisers notified President Trump earlier this month that some internal forecasts showed that the economy could slow markedly over the next year, stopping short of a recession but complicating his path to reelection in 2020.
washingtonpost.com/business/2019/…
🌳Breathe🌳

Wow, today was off the charts.

Lady Justice hurry, Trump is hell bent on destroying this country & impoverishing us. SS, Medicare & our 401ks all on the mobster’s chopping block.

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