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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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?🤔
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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.”
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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.
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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
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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...
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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.
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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
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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.
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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”?
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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
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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’
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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.
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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
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…
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.”
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.”
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…
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…
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
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/…
@WSJ of course paints the organization behind the Palestinian protests as “left wing” when it is actually a well know propaganda organization in support of Hammas currently being sued by survivors of the Oct 7th massacre. wsj.com/us-news/educat…
Survivors of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks filed a Fed lawsuit citing the nationwide college protests, arguing that Nat’l Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) and its parent org are working in the US "as collaborators and propagandists for Hamas."
Through NSJP, AJP Educational Foundation Inc. – also known as American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) – allegedly "uses propaganda to intimidate, convince, & recruit uninformed, misguided, and impressionable college students to serve as foot soldiers for Hamas on campus and beyond.”
Mr. Kushner’s plans in the Balkans appear to have come about in part through relationships built while Mr. Trump was in office. Mr. Kushner, who was a senior White House official, said he had been working on the deals with dirty trickster and Trump sycophant Richard Grenell.
These first two projects both involve land now controlled by the governments of Albania and Serbia, meaning a deal would have to be finalized with these foreign governments.
The elite British society magazine Tatler describes Zhukova as being "at the centre of a sprawling web of power that encompasses the art world, Russian oligarchs and one of the world's most influential Greek shipping dynasties." tatler.com/article/rupert…
All news outlets who pushed the Burisma smear campaign against Hunter & Joe Biden are guilty of aiding & abetting Putin & his Russian Intel Services disinfo & owe a huge apology not only to the Biden’s, but to the American people. @CBSPolitics @ABCPolitics @CNN @NBCNews @ABC
Three apartments in the Trump SoHo hotel-condominium, which Trump owned jointly with the real estate companies Bayrock and Sapir Org. LLC, were sold in April 2013 for a total of $3.1 million to shell companies ultimately controlled by Elvira Kudryashova
The Trump administration’s slapdash efforts to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan hurt the prospects of a negotiated settlement between Kabul and the Taliban, according to secret congressional testimony. politico.com/newsletters/na…
Afghanistan-focused officials were kept out of the loop by senior Trump aides. That ultimately put personnel at risk, endangered a fragile diplomatic effort and left a new administration in the dark about their inheritance, they said in previously unreported comments.
The Trump administration struck a deal with the Taliban in February 2020 that set the conditions for a U.S. withdrawal by May 2021.