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16 Nov, 9 tweets, 3 min read
Trump administration kick-starts drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on Monday - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…
❄️Polar Silk Road❄️

📌Is Trump’s goal to restore $500 billion Arctic Exxon oil deal now killed by sanctions?

📌Polar Silk Road
thinkprogress.org/putin-helped-t…
Russia is building military bases in the Arctic as it tries to control the region
nydailynews.com/news/world/rus…
China and Russia want to develop Arctic energy resources together, and current US disapproval via sanctions may not deter them

📌Trump tried but Rexxon failed.
scmp.com/comment/insigh…
China has helped to finance Russia’s quest to develop Arctic resources after US sanctions, and deeper involvement may follow if Beijing can acquire a management role
scmp.com/comment/insigh…
📌Global warming has made it easier to transport goods via the Arctic route, reducing reliance on the risky Malacca Strait and knocking days off the journey time. It has also made it easier to tap the vast mineral resources that lie beneath the ice.
scmp.com/comment/insigh…
The notion of a “Silk Road on Ice” goes back to a December 2015 meeting of Chinese and Russian heads of government that advocated cooperation in Arctic navigation.
scmp.com/comment/insigh…
A joint statement stated for the first time that both sides would work together to develop the northern sea route along the Russian Arctic coast into a competitive commercial sea route.
scmp.com/comment/insigh…

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25 Oct
White House chief of staff: 'We are not going to control the pandemic'

WH goal: exploit the pandemic to maximize profit for big pharma by encouraging rather than preventing the spread of the corona virus.

The American people are just the exploited marks cnn.com/2020/10/25/pol…
Drug company insiders are profiting handsomely from the world’s desperate hope for a COVID-19 vaccine

H/T @Moratel_Entles

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Russians Hacked Burisma at Center of Impeachment

It appears the Russians searched for potentially embarrassing material on the Bidens — the same kind of information that Trump wanted from Ukraine when he pressed for an inv’n of the Bidens and Burisma. nytimes.com/2020/01/13/us/…
The Russian tactics are strikingly similar to what American intelligence agencies say was Russia’s hacking of emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman and the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 presidential campaign.

nytimes.com/2020/01/13/us/…
Then, as now, the Russian hackers from a military intelligence unit known formerly as the G.R.U., and to private researchers by the alias “Fancy Bear,” used so-called phishing emails that appear designed to steal usernames and passwords. nytimes.com/2020/01/13/us/…
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27 Sep
18 Revelations From a Trove of Trump Tax Records

Times reporters have obtained decades of tax information the president has hidden from public view. Here are some of the key findings. nytimes.com/2020/09/27/us/…
📌Trump paid no federal income taxes in 11 of 18 years. In 2017, after he became president, his tax bill was only $750.

📌He has reduced his tax bill with questionable measures, including a $72.9 million tax refund that is the subject of an audit by the Internal Revenue Service.
Many of his signature biz’s, including his golf courses, report losing large amounts of money — losses that have helped him to lower his taxes.

The financial pressure on him is increasing as hundreds of millions of dollars in loans he personally guaranteed are soon coming due.
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“Hey, don’t close RAZOR (#Flynn).”

The partly redacted messages don’t indicate why the reversal occurred — it came just 20 minutes after the doc to close the case had been circulating and less than a week after Flynn spoke by phone to RU Amb Kislyak. politico.com/news/2020/04/3…
Transcripts of calls between Flynn, Russian diplomat (Kislyak) show that the two did discuss sanctions as the incoming administration sought to avoid escalating the conflict over Russian interference in the presidential election. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
RW media is attempting to characterize the FBI inv’n into Flynn as an op to “get Flynn.” It’s true the FBI was about to close the case when intercepts of Flynn’s convos with Kislyak dropped asking RU not to retaliate about the sanctions the Obama adm imposed re elex interference.
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#FINcenFiles JPMorgan, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank, DB & Bank of NY Mellon

Connex:

Dimon, Manafort, Madoff, Jho Low, 1MDB (Broidy, Kush, Barrack), Isturiz, Derwick Assoc/Betancourt (Giuliani/Gowdy), Mogilevich, Deripaska (Trump/🐢/Mnuchin), Firtash (TeamTrump), Kolomoisky
JPMorgan, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank, Deutsche Bank & Bank of New York Mellon kept profiting from powerful & dangerous players even after US authorities fined these financial institutions for earlier failures to stem flows of dirty money.

icij.org/investigations…
#FInCENfiles identify more than $2 trillion in transactions between 1999 & 2017 that were flagged by bank’s-internal compliance officers as possible money laundering or other criminal activity — including $514 B at JPMorgan and $1.3 T at Deutsche Bank.

icij.org/investigations…
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