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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat's your opinion on this read (Trial balloon for a Coup)? Sounds pretty accurate to me.
A person from the Women's March Delaware sent this out over FB. I hadn't seen any of this guy's articles, but I'm going to go back and read some of them. How on earth do we use our laws to stop these tyrants when branches of government are ignoring court orders? I can't see the Repubs in Congress pulling back from this. Hell, they're going along for the ride.
I was really torn as to whether I should tag Carper, Coons, Carney and Blunt-Rochester on my FB post. Not that it would necessarily do any good, but someone in their office might see it. I didn't because I wasn't sure if the source was good enough or not.
https://medium.com/yonatanzunger/trial-balloon-for-a-coup-e024990891d5#.2i07ssznd
"Finally, I want to highlight a story that many people havent noticed. On Wednesday, Reuters reported (in great detail) how 19.5% of Rosneft, Russias state oil company, has been sold to parties unknown. This was done through a dizzying array of shell companies, so that the most that can be said with certainty now is that the money paying for it was originally loaned out to the shell layers by VTB (the governments official bank), even though its highly unclear who, if anyone, would be paying that loan back; and the recipients have been traced as far as some Cayman Islands shell companies.
Why is this interesting? Because the much-maligned Steele Dossier (the one with the golden showers in it) included the statement that Putin had offered Trump 19% of Rosneft if he became president and removed sanctions. The reason this is so interesting is that the dossier said this in July, and the sale didnt happen until early December. And 19.5% sounds an awful lot like 19% plus a brokerage commission.
Conclusive? No. But it raises some very interesting questions for journalists to investigate."
lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)also, he should have added that someone in the inner circle outed the CIA assets inside the Russians cyber invasion operation, hence the arrests and one killing and a couple of disappearances of the last week or so
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)...must read for all DU...
Get thee on to the greatest pages...
PS: put some of the read on your post...
woodsprite
(11,916 posts)Pachamama
(16,887 posts)I hope that is further investigated. I also found the discussion about the state department exodus, or rather "purge" also fascinating and chilling. Finally the comments about the power that DHS has and their not only controlling the coastlines and borders within 100 miles and not answering and ignoring judicial orders, but that they have 45,000 officers and were given the green light last Wednesday 1/25 or hire an additional 15,000.
Coincidink? Hardly...
treestar
(82,383 posts)There is no way this immigration thing is truly for the purpose of national security. It's a power play. See if they can get away with it.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)mopinko
(70,112 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)Confirmation of the Rosneft deal!
Natasha Bertrand
Jan. 27, 2017, 7:06 AM
A dossier with unverified claims about President Donald Trump's ties to Russia contained allegations that Igor Sechin, the CEO of Russia's state oil company, offered former Trump ally Carter Page and his associates the brokerage of a 19% stake in the company in exchange for the lifting of US sanctions on Russia.
The dossier says the offer was made in July, when Page was in Moscow giving a speech at the Higher Economic School. The claim was sourced to "a trusted compatriot and close associate" of Sechin, according to the dossier's author, former British spy Christopher Steele.
"Sechin's associate said that the Rosneft president was so keen to lift personal and corporate western sanctions imposed on the company, that he offered Page and his associates the brokerage of up to a 19 per cent (privatised) stake in Rosneft," the dossier said. "In return, Page had expressed interest and confirmed that were Trump elected US president, then sanctions on Russia would be lifted."
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Page holds investments in Gazprom, though he claimed in a letter to FBI Director James Comey in September that he sold his stake in the company "at a loss." His website says he served as an adviser "on key transactions" for the state-owned energy giant before setting up his energy investment fund, Global Energy Capital, in 2008 with former Gazprom executive Sergei Yatsenko.
There is no evidence that Carter played any role in the Rosneft deal. But he was back in Moscow on December 8 one day after the deal was signed to "meet with some of the top managers" of Rosneft, he told reporters at the time. Page denied meeting with Sechin, Rosneft's CEO, during that trip but said it would have been "a great honor" if he had.
http://www.businessinsider.com/carter-page-trump-russia-igor-sechin-dossier-2017-1