My lizard brain tells me that the connections between Barrack & Manafort to the Saudis, Bushes, & criminal networks dating back to the 1970s might be significant. What was the name of the Saudi construction company that Manafort represented with Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease?
@sisu_sanity@clearing_fog are you catching my drift here? Sometime between 1977-1980, Manafort worked with a construction company in Saudi Arabia. Was this Saudi Binladin Group? Then by 1985, he was in The Philippines.
Yes I’m wearing my conspiratorial hat tonight. But why were 140 Saudis and 24 bin Ladens given special permission to fly out of the US when all other planes were grounded after 9/11?
So in 1978, the Bushes we’re going into business with the bin Ladens forming Arbusto Energy together and investing bin Laden cash into private equity via The Carlyle Group.
“In 1981, the bin Laden group also set up a local company, Sarco SAL, directed by the Sarkissian brothers, but which has not shown any activity.”
Sorry, this tweet was poorly phrased. It the late 1970s, Manafort worked on behalf of a Saudi construction company in Beirut. I want to know if that company was Saudi Binladin Group which is owned by the bin Ladin family.
So this is interesting (I’m mainly just collecting my thoughts here, not trying to present a coherent case). But @RFERL reported in 2002 that Putin was meeting with the head of the Communist party perhaps to kill an investigation into the relationship between EES & Falkon Capital
Vladimir Putin met with Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) head Gennadii Zyuganov on 7 February to discuss "legislative work in the Duma,"
According to gazeta.ru on 6 Feb, the KPRF began collecting signatures in the State Duma the same day in support of a request that the Audit Chamber investigate any links that Unified Energy Systems (EES) might have with a Czech Republic-based company Falkon Capital.
But get this: In the fall of 2001, the Czech government sold the debt owed to it by Russia to Falkon Capital for $580 million. Since then, reports have alleged that Falkon Capital is a subsidiary of the Saudi Binladen Group, the main source of terrorist Osama bin Laden's fortune
So do I understand correctly? In the Fall of 2001, the company owned by Osama bin Ladin’s family, for whom Manafort was working in Beirut when he met Tom Barrack, & with whom the Bush family had multiple business dealings, & with whom HW Bush & James Baker were meeting on 9/11…
…actually bought $580 million of Russian state debt from the Czech Republic??
The report called the Russia-Falkon deal "extremely tangled" and "difficult" for any government agency trying to monitor the cash flow. But essentially Falkon -- and allegedly by extension, Osama bin Laden -- was to make $770 million from the deal.
The final agreement was supposed to be signed in July. But the process was delayed. That's when allegations of bribery and organized crime began to surface.
An intelligence report written by the Czech Ministry of Interior and obtained by a Prague newspaper suggested Falkon may have ties to the Russian mafia and "foreign intelligence services." However, the report did not stop the dealmaking.
🚨🚨🚨 Did you catch that part? ⬆️⬆️ The company that Manafort appears to have represented in the late 70s and whose owners did business with the Bush family may have ties to the Russian mafia and foreign intelligence services.
A few days before the final agreement was signed in October, the economics newspaper "Hospodarsky noviny" -- an affiliate of The Wall Street Journal Europe -- charged that Falkon was tied to a heating-oil tax scandal.
That same month the political weekly "Respekt" claimed Falkon might use the debt transaction to launder millions of dollars in dirty money.
Remember how a few weeks ago, I suggested that perhaps the 9/11 attack and ensuing war on terror were just an elaborate financial fraud similar to Banco Ambrosiano, Enron, Parmalat, or Wirecard?
So we have to ask: If the bin Ladens made $770 million from the Russian debt deal, then did some or all of this money get laundered into Carlyle Group private equity? 🤷♂️
A cabal of KGB operatives stationed in Arab countries and Israel took over Russian foreign intelligence at the end of the Cold War. Their impact is still felt.
Kapitonov was part of a group known in Russian intelligence as “the Middle Eastern mafia,” a cabal of Arabist or Perisianist KGB officers who in the late 1980s took over the KGB foreign intelligence service and, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, reinvented it in their image
Their skill set, to sow disinformation and propaganda in a part of the world where conspiracy theories and lies are rife to begin with, has now become highly relevant again, affecting the psychological underpinnings of democracies and dictatorships alike.
“The KGB will help me [get to the U.S.],” the confident swindler replied. The Soviet secret police had helped his friends get to the United States by obtaining exit visas to Israel, he said, and he expected the same.
Sharansky’s encounter, described in a recent interview, reflects growing evidence that the KGB has systematically helped criminals leave the Soviet Union. And U.S. officials say the Kremlin appears to have, from its point of view, two eminently practical reasons for doing so:
The cast of characters includes Paul Marcinkus, the American archbishop who was head of the Vatican Bank (part-owner of Ambrosiano) when Mr. Calvi died; Opus Dei, the powerful conservative group within the Roman Catholic Church; Mr. Calvi's son Carlo, who lives in Montreal;
Giuseppe Calo and other Mafiosi; and P2 (Propaganda Due), the secretive Masonic lodge that counted among its members Mr. Calvi, Archbishop Marcinkus & the young Silvio Berlusconi, the property developer and budding media magnate who would later become Italy's prime minister.
They claim that their purpose is: “To help cause a positive and measurable change in the lives of the people of Nowruz countries, their health, their education, their environment and their degree of care about “people” all over the world.”
Nowruz countries being the modern states that traditionally celebrate the Persian New Year: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine