U.S. Attorney Damian Williams: “Malofeyev is closely tied to Russian aggression in Ukraine..US sanctions on Malofeyev prohibit US citizens from working for or doing business with Malofeyev..Hanick violated those sanctions by working directly for Malofeyev on multiple TV projects.
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Defectors from an internet comment factory employing about 250 people, many of whom, surprisingly, turned out to be not brainwashed propagandists, but ordinary people in search of money.-@EuromaidanPress 2014 euromaidanpress.com/2014/11/02/the…
Around 250 people work 12-hour shifts, writing in blogs 24/7..This is a full-cycle production: some write the posts, others comment on them. Most often they comment each other in order to boost the ratings.—@EuromaidanPress 2014
By the way, they don’t tell you what you will be doing until you start. They tell you you’ll be writing in a blog, like a housewife but in an office. Yeah, a housewife wakes up and starts writing about Ukraine, right.—@EuromaidanPress 2014
Ep15 @radicalizedpod I read an email from Martin Sheil—former IRS criminal investigator—near the top of the show dissecting Russia sanctions. Check it out:
Also threading: “Swift is HUUUUGE!”
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Detaching major Russian banks from SWIFT which was announced is HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This will be devastating to the Russian economy which is rather paltry - maybe analogous to that of Portugal or Texas.
What is scary is the sanctions are backing Putin into a corner.—Marty
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He sounds more and more paranoid. He is also very enamored of his nukes, and I am getting concerned that he is like a cat caught up in a tree that may decide to take desperate measures. Here is something else: Will the Russian Generals allow Putin to take nuclear measures?-MS
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A MORE ACCURATE HEADLINE: Leaked data shows Switzerland banks engaged in criminal activity, now trying to clean up their act. nytimes.com/2022/02/28/wor…
Now, an extraordinary leak of data from Credit Suisse, one of the world’s most iconic banks, is exposing how the bank held hundreds of millions of dollars for heads of state, intelligence officials, sanctioned businessmen and human rights abusers, among many others.-@nytimes
My dad was born in Czechoslovakia in 1934. Sudetenland was handed to Hitler. His sisters grew up hiding in hay stacks from Russian soldiers. We’ve learned nothing.
Four days later, during the famous Munich conference — now known as the centerpiece of the “appeasement” of the Nazis — Great Britain, France and Italy agreed to the handover of the Sudeten region to Germany, hoping it would prevent further aggression.-@washingtonpost
“It is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe,” Hitler said. Within six months, he took the rest of Czechoslovakia, and on Sept. 1, 1939, he attacked Poland, starting World War II.-@washingtonpost