http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:52%20section:30121%20edition:prelim)
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 00:16 (five years ago) link
Investigators are focused on two bursts of transactions that bank examiners deemed suspicious: one a short time after the meeting and another immediately after the November 2016 presidential election.
The first set came just 11 days after the June 9 meeting, when an offshore company controlled by Agalarov wired more than $19.5 million to his account at a bank in New York.
The second flurry began shortly after Trump was elected. The Agalarov family started sending what would amount to $1.2 million from their bank in Russia to an account in New Jersey controlled by the billionaire’s son, pop singer Emin Agalarov, and two of his friends. The account had been virtually dormant since the summer of 2015, according to records reviewed by BuzzFeed News, and bankers found it strange that activity in Emin Agalarov’s checking account surged after Trump’s victory.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/anthonycormier/trump-tower-meeting-suspicious-transactions-agalarov
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
better dead than red
https://abcnews.go.com/International/putin-us-dominance-ending-mistakes-typical-empire/story?id=58611354
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 23:54 (five years ago) link
Extremely self-serving analysis by Putin, but there's a kernel of truth about the USA making typical imperial mistakes by overextending its reach and overestimating its power. The British did this consistently from 1870 onwards, but they stayed in the power seat for nearly half a century more.
Where Putin indulges in wishful thinking is where he asserts a multi-polar world will emerge as US power hits some air gaps. The only nation ready to exploit US weakness enough to insert itself as our rival great power is China. Which, if it happens, makes for a bi-polar world again, not the multi-polar world Putin wishes for. Russia still wouldn't be in the game.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 00:09 (five years ago) link
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1102316/download
^ in case anyone's curious about the kremlin's (quite effective) strategy for dividing americans against each other, this DoJ complaint is rewarding reading
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 2 November 2018 12:32 (five years ago) link
So is the big moment coming when they finally take down Trump and all his cronies?
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 2 November 2018 14:10 (five years ago) link
When is that deus ex machina perp walk that saves us from having to actually accomplish anything politically?
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 2 November 2018 14:15 (five years ago) link
when flushing a particularly repulsive and sticky turd the jets of water must come from all directions
― Jacob Lohl (stevie), Friday, 2 November 2018 14:29 (five years ago) link
"Mark Whitaker, now in charge of the Mueller investigation, chaired the 2014 campaign of Sam Clovis, a grand jury witness in that investigation."
https://caffeinatedthoughts.com/2014/07/matt-whitaker-chair-sam-clovis-campaign-state-treasurer/
LOL @ GOPutin
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 22:58 (five years ago) link
so this guy has even more of a reason to recuse than Sessions did
guessing he won't but lol if he does
― frogbs, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 23:26 (five years ago) link
Cool. After two years of vaguely political comments on Reddit I finally attracted a Петербу́рг/Москва́ fan, who has followed me with pro-Trump comments on wholly unrelated threads.
The only thing I've said acknowledging our new acquaintance is "вы влагалище", which Google translates as "you are a cunt". Purely based on my English-language hierarchy dick,jerk < asshole < cunt. It's not a gender thing for me.
Is this an insult in Russian? Are their more cutting and less overtly misogynistic ways of making this point?
This may be important for many others on this thread with Russian followers.
― They Bunged Him in My Growler (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 23:50 (five years ago) link
i wonder who else benefited from this ; )
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-rosneft-privatisation-exclusive/exclusive-russian-state-bank-secretly-financed-rosneft-sale-after-foreign-buyers-balked-idUSKCN1NE132
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 9 November 2018 15:08 (five years ago) link
who else?
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 9 November 2018 15:58 (five years ago) link
maybe no one
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 9 November 2018 15:58 (five years ago) link
Eventually, I expect to sell my firstborn to the Qatari Wealth Fund and Glencore. As someone who has only hovered on the margins of commodity markets, the growth of both over the past two decades is just staggering.
― They Bunged Him in My Growler (Sanpaku), Saturday, 10 November 2018 00:20 (five years ago) link
from the office slack, re: barbara ehrenreich --
https://i.imgur.com/YQbuJx8.png
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
this is cute
Well now. Russians claiming a hack of the DNC was a legitimate "military attack"That's going to have repercussions for the Americans who were conspiring with them. https://t.co/ixw1jkl0Uj— Emma Kennedy (@EmmaKennedy) November 13, 2018
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 21:55 (five years ago) link
hm yeah doesn't conspiring in a military action against the US govt constitute treason
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
DNC isn't the government.
But as I've been trying to push out in monthly increments to Trumpster relatives, they're unwitting accomplices to a multi-faceted information warfare attack on American sovereignty and interests. The Trump campaign was just one arm, and probably not the most important one (given its likelihood of abject failure). The more important Russian information warfare attacks have infiltrated nodes of the U.S. electric grid and major corporations. Maybe its all deterrence against similar infiltrations of Russian infrastructure, but I suspect its really Russia turning one of its few strengths (a bunch of hackers, who will work for rubles) into a force multiplier.
At first my relatives responded by regurgitating kool-aid. After a dozen or so of these I don't get responses. Maybe they've all got me blocked, or maybe they are starting to see the pattern.
― Sanpaku, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 23:57 (five years ago) link
weird how emma kennedy has became a sort of louise mensch lite
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 14 November 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
weird how much better at chess russians are than americans
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 14 November 2018 00:05 (five years ago) link
carlos d would make a much better choice imho
More evidence of the absence of US leadership. Next up: A Russian official in charge of @INTERPOL_HQ . https://t.co/Qns7iNL9bl— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) November 18, 2018
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 18 November 2018 14:07 (five years ago) link
"the head of interpol has herpes"
― fajita seas, Sunday, 18 November 2018 20:33 (five years ago) link
Days after the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russian legal authorities deployed the rule of law for political purposes, Interpol is about to elect a Russian government official as its head. Crazy. https://t.co/uZ4oobjnPN— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) November 19, 2018
i don't know much about interpol *insert carlos D* joke, but
?
― Karl Malone, Monday, 19 November 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
"deployed the rule of law for political purposes" is a very strange uh, term of art? is it?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 19 November 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link
maybe it's a autocorrect-ism for "destroyed"
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 19 November 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/gop-sen-barrasso-shrugs-not-surprised-trump-was-doing-international-business
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 3 December 2018 01:03 (five years ago) link
I just want them to be sure. It’s a pretty serious charge. I know a lot about hacking and hacking is a very hard thing to prove. So it could be somebody else, and I also know things that other people don’t know, so they cannot be sure of this situation.
https://www.mediaite.com/online/i-know-things-other-people-dont-about-hacking-trump-casts-doubt-on-russias-election-interference/
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 6 December 2018 00:13 (five years ago) link
wait, he has a boy who is ten years old?
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 6 December 2018 01:03 (five years ago) link
Baron!
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 6 December 2018 01:35 (five years ago) link
12
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, 6 December 2018 01:38 (five years ago) link
What's Baron Von Trump been up to?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 December 2018 01:52 (five years ago) link
Baron is definitely not 10
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 6 December 2018 01:59 (five years ago) link
The story is from two years ago.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 December 2018 02:21 (five years ago) link
Maybe Baron was 12 then but he is 10 now
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, 6 December 2018 02:32 (five years ago) link
Checking in on Trump-Russia “no collusion” dead-enders. pic.twitter.com/eOpSN1VGz8— Zachary #FBPE 🇪🇺 (@zatchry) December 8, 2018
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Saturday, 8 December 2018 01:44 (five years ago) link
lol @ gop
“It turns out to be true now, that the Department of Justice and the FBI, under President Obama, rigged the investigation for Hillary and really turned the screws on Trump, and now it looks like in a corrupt & illegal way. The facts are out now. Whole Hoax exposed. @JesseBWatters— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 30, 2018
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 30 December 2018 13:47 (five years ago) link
You do not want to miss RT’s Christmas vid for The Donald (cc @joshtpm) pic.twitter.com/014766OGId— Noga Tarnopolsky (@NTarnopolsky) December 30, 2018
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 30 December 2018 15:34 (five years ago) link
lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 2 January 2019 18:33 (five years ago) link
what presidential campaign manager doesn't share internal polling data with kremlin officials #MAGA
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/09/politics/paul-manafort-donald-trump-robert-mueller/index.html?
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 17:22 (five years ago) link
This is the filing I've been waiting for today. The SCO says evidence in Roger Stone's case was found in accounts that were searched for the GRU case, in which 11 Russian military officers were charged with a conspiracy to interfere in the election. https://t.co/yjUIoCF0wG pic.twitter.com/YtnezsGx7K— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) February 15, 2019
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 February 2019 21:35 (five years ago) link
Oh man, I was just reminded of the fact that Eric Garland runs a premium Twitter account that's *still* doing $5,000/month in revenue, down from close to $20k/mo at its peak IIRC pic.twitter.com/qhyefqnlhX— Quantian (@quantian1) April 29, 2019
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 29 April 2019 21:38 (four years ago) link
https://www.lancerregister.com/attachment.php?s=13b024095f131e938cb2e292ac0c6aed&attachmentid=126936&stc=1&d=1233942749
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Monday, 29 April 2019 21:46 (four years ago) link
A source close to Deutsche Bank says Trump’s tax returns show he pays very little income tax and, more importantly, that his loans have Russian co-signers. If true, that explains every kind word Trump has ever said about Russia and Putin. @TheLastWord 10pm— Lawrence O'Donnell (@Lawrence) August 28, 2019
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 02:37 (four years ago) link
Today in Syria: Russia takes control of main U.S. military facility abandoned earlier this week by American forces on Trump’s orders. This area is south of Kobani and went to Russia under the Putin-Erdogan deal. Russia now also owns the airstrip we built. pic.twitter.com/uO5AHdKMi3— Brett McGurk (@brett_mcgurk) November 15, 2019
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 17 November 2019 19:32 (four years ago) link
symmetry demands it
https://www.axios.com/russia-hack-treasury-commerce-department-04aea4d9-1f96-4d22-9cda-36f004b1423d.html
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 14 December 2020 00:56 (three years ago) link
loose ends ;)
https://boingboing.net/2020/12/14/paul-behrends-longtime-aide-to-putins-congressman-dana-rohrabacher-dies-suddenly-of-head-injury.html
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
*cue the coda to "Layla"*
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 17:10 (three years ago) link
https://www.cjr.org/special_report/seth-abramson-twitter.php
dubbed "the index case for Twitter Morgellons" here https://www.todayintabs.com/p/no-true-poster, which is a pretty good burn
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 11 February 2021 23:34 (three years ago) link
that's a fair and thorough takedown of abramson
― Dusty Benelux (jim in vancouver), Friday, 12 February 2021 00:33 (three years ago) link