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ancianita

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28. I wonder how they were revealed. They probably work through Brit.Virgin Islands
Sun Dec 8, 2019, 06:12 PM
Dec 2019

and other tax haven laundering banks. Wonder, too, if they set up shells in Wilmington, DE, of businesses that buy up real estate and legitimate businesses in the U.S.

Of note: the 214,000 entities identified in the Panama Papers, about one half of them are located in the British Virgin Islands. I think there's a photo of the names, or we can link the publishing of the Papers on the nets.

Entities. I hate the shadiness of that word.

It's as if Americans can't know our legitimate businesses from the illegitimate anymore. No wonder our politicians appear so confused and unwilling to trace the sources of their dark money. Or that's their story.

So far, $7.35 MILLION WAS ACCEPTED FROM LEONARD BLAVATNIK, PUTIN OLIGARCH BY:

Mitch McConnell $2.5 M

Marco Rubio $1.5 M

Scott Walker $1.1 M

Lindsey Graham $800,000

John Kasich $250,000

Sources: FEC and OpenSecrets.org

Len Blavatnik, considered to be one of the richest men in Great Britain, holds dual citizenship in the U.S. and the U.K….

Blavatnik's got ongoing relationships with Russian oligarchs close to Putin, particularly Oleg Deripaska, whose aluminum business sits right in Moscow Mitch's Kentucky. Oleg's probably got use of any of McConnell's seven secure offices in Kentucky to "do business" with his Russian group back home. Hell, he probably uses the same unsecure phones Trump does, the whole lot of that Fifth Column updating to FSB Boss Putin.

This "settling in" through McConnell should be worrisome for Trump and the six GOP leaders who took Blavatnik's money during the 2016 presidential campaign. But if it is, they hide it well. Maybe that's why no one in media has noticed this. Or maybe they're afraid to get near it. If Kentuckians and Americans have a clue, no damn body's saying a damn thing.

Oleg Deripaska is the founder and majority owner of RUSAL, the world's second largest aluminum company, based in Russia. Len Blavatnik owns a significant stake in RUSAL and served on its Board until two days after Donald Trump was elected.

Source: https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/03/gop-campaigns-took-7-35-million-from-oligarch-linked-to-russia/

The dance between UK and Russia has a looong story, one major point being with The Cambridge Five, UK spies for Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Five

It could be one of the secret reasons UK's leadership and the Queen herself are not so concerned about getting out of the EU, with its own Russian insurgencies. There's more at stake for the safety of the monarch and banks than media analyses we've read so far.

It's been the stuff of novels and movies, but sometimes writers can only convey the details of intelligence, corruption and international skullduggery by putting it in a "fictional" story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Five

Side note: Speaking of movies and novels, I've learned a little more about Russia/Brit/Ukraine skullduggery from reading Tom Clancy's Command Authority, (his Jack Ryan series) that has SO much intel in it about Ukraine, Russia's methods, UK wealth and financial "consulting." And this novel is from six years ago!

This corruption tentacle has been growing around us since WWI, Bretton Woods, and the shedding of Keynes' plan to regulate banks of settlement. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) became an object of scrutiny when the Norwegian delegation put forth evidence that the BIS was involved in war crimes. Keynes' "bancor" that would create trade and debt balances, got squashed by Harry Dexter White, and so the IMF got modeled from what his US cohorts -- and probably the central banks of settlement -- wanted. I can't even believe the level of shady thinking they did.

I guess I'm rambling, but this is the level of mess democratic peoples find themselves in.

And why these "entities" fight so hard against candidates like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren -- whatever their mere political flaws-- who threaten their existing wealth hoarding structures.


Bancor Pachamama Dec 2019 #1
People are beginning to feel the consequences malaise Dec 2019 #2
Seriously? The people have known about this theft and have never, ever had recourse to get it back. ancianita Dec 2019 #7
Not sure we'll always be too late malaise Dec 2019 #8
One would think c-h would be supported by our military, but they don't see us as their paymasters. ancianita Dec 2019 #14
There are always counter-hegemonic challenges to existing systems malaise Dec 2019 #16
Me, too. I just think that hegemony is the overall System of systems. ancianita Dec 2019 #17
Taken literally I think you're correct malaise Dec 2019 #19
The cracks/openings are small -- ignored, denied and delayed by controllers of the hegemony. ancianita Dec 2019 #20
Commentary by George Monbiot -- wouldn't hurt to put that in the title. eppur_se_muova Dec 2019 #3
Except that the first link is about the 100th anniversary of Keynes malaise Dec 2019 #5
Oh, and about that IMF madness... ancianita Dec 2019 #15
This is a very serious post malaise Dec 2019 #22
Could you link it? Thanks.Also, shell company layers are as many as shells in the sea. Shells should ancianita Dec 2019 #23
Global web of firms for fraudsters created by British company Formations House malaise Dec 2019 #24
I wonder how they were revealed. They probably work through Brit.Virgin Islands ancianita Dec 2019 #28
Nice work malaise Dec 2019 #29
I added more stuff above about Tom Clancy that you might not have read. Bad edit, I know. ancianita Dec 2019 #30
Nice chart. So many ways to subvert information flows. Sometimes the smallest org is the most erronis Dec 2019 #27
and of course, with highly professional professionals malaise Dec 2019 #31
You mean imf.org? Its language is revealing about its Bretton Woods goals. ancianita Dec 2019 #32
Agree. Here's the link to George Monbiot's 2008 piece in The Guardian erronis Dec 2019 #11
Keynes merely pointed out a patch to capitalism Farmer-Rick Dec 2019 #4
Excellent point Farmer-Rick malaise Dec 2019 #6
It's such an easy dichotomy Roy Rolling Dec 2019 #10
It's not going to be that pleasant inside those armed gated communities. Maybe buy a decade or erronis Dec 2019 #12
Filthy rich. Yes, I remember people using that term. Nowadays, I call them billionaire PatrickforO Dec 2019 #13
They have dumbed down populations everywhere malaise Dec 2019 #18
Very interesting OP and thread. Thanks! . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2019 #9
That was eye opening - thanks rurallib Dec 2019 #21
"Why American and Britain are Self-Destructing" - great piece via Eudiamonics erronis Dec 2019 #25
That is an excellent read malaise Dec 2019 #26
It's also about how class war insurgency, and foreign insurgency, make a country give up and give in ancianita Dec 2019 #33
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