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gus5 ::

Matej22 je izjavil:

Kot drugo, konvencija o beguncih se nanaša na begunce prav tako kot 33. člen te konvencije, medtem pa osebe, ki so omenjene v tvojem članku, definitivno niso begunci.
Očitno gre za begunce. Nekateri med njimi so si ustvarili družine v ZDA. Razbijanje družin - problematično z vidika ženevske konvencije 1951.

PaX_MaN je izjavil:

gus5 je izjavil:

Razbijanje družin je v nasprotju z ženevsko konvencijo o beguncih iz leta 1951. Poleg tega: ukrep izgona zaradi bagatelnega kriminala ali prekrškov je nesorazmeren ukrep.

Ni res.
Navrženi primer (kvazi) nadomestnega materinstva, ki so ga uprizorili Italijan, Italijanka in Rusinja, nima veze z debato; sploh pa ne gre za primer razdvajanja družine: '/…/ the court held that a family life did not exist between the applicants and the child'.
Predlagam obisk tega tečaja.

murgle ::

gus5 je izjavil:

Očitno gre za begunce. Nekateri med njimi so si ustvarili družine v ZDA.


Naša dolžnost je da jih nahranimo, ker sami se očitno niso sposobni! Uvesti je treba zakon, kjer bo vsak šitskin dobil blond belko za parjenje, tako bomo povzdignili njihovo raso! TO JE NAŠA DOLŽNOST!!!

murgle ::

PaX_MaN ::

gus5 je izjavil:

Navrženi primer (kvazi) nadomestnega materinstva, ki so ga uprizorili Italijan, Italijanka in Rusinja, nima veze z debato; sploh pa ne gre za primer razdvajanja družine: '/…/ the court held that a family life did not exist between the applicants and the child'.

Seveda gre: starša sta živela z otrokom. Definicija družine.

Pac-Man ::

petrus je izjavil:

Ja, CNN ima spet štorijo stoletja! Ta osel enostavno noče z leda.
Pomagajo tudi nesposobneži v trumpovi ekipi. Že skoraj cel teden je jasno, da so v javnosti notranje informacije vsaj o tem sestanku pa še vedno lažejo/zavajajo.

https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/statu...

So, I've done crisis management for a long, long time. From my DOD days as a young man. It's not political. It's a process. It's amazing to me that this White House and Team Trump are handling this so badly. These aren't secret rules or esoteric practices. Even if you're a massive Trump fan, you can't be comfortable with how utterly incompetent they are at this story. I know these are alien principles, but tell the truth, get it all out fast, credible spokesmen, take responsibility, turn off the fan. A 5th and 6th person in the room. Drip drip drip. They don't get it; the bullshit tornado ONLY works on their hypnotized base. Person 5 is a former RUS counterintelligence officer. Who knows who the 6th person is? Even if it was innocent, this is bad crisis PR.

murgle ::

IMPIČ!

Pac-Man ::

Želeli so sesut liberalne demokracije, na koncu pa bo v ruševinah končalo ravno rusko PR in vohunsko omrežje, s katerim so se jih lotili. Upam, da imamo dovolj dobrih novinarjev, zgodba se piše kar sama. In vse se prekleto močno vrti okrog Magnitskega.

Veselnitskaya in Akhmetshin sta sproducirala & spromovirala film "The Magnitsky Act — Behind the Scenes," ki kao predstavi alternativno verzijo njegove smrti.

Leto nazaj so imeli predvajanje v D.C.-ju. Na koncu je bil organiziran Q&A s Seymourjem Hershom. Tistim Seymourjem Hershom, ki je na osnovi top sekret odlično obveščenega vira v javnost spravil luknjasto teorijo o (ne)uporabi kemičnega orožja v Kan Šejkunu.

https://www.rferl.org/a/rinat-akmetshin...

The hoots and jeers began the minute the movie ended and the lights went up on the seventh floor of the Newseum, a Washington museum dedicated to the free press. The film was a semifictionalized look at the story of Sergei Magnitsky, the Russian lawyer who helped to uncover a massive tax fraud and later died in a Moscow jail.

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That it was shown at all was a small coup for Rinat Akhmetshin, the man at the back of the room who for nearly 20 years has worked the shadowy corners of the Washington lobbying scene on behalf of businessmen and politicians from around the former Soviet Union.

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At the end of the screening of the nearly two-hour film, organizers planned a discussion moderated by Seymour Hersh, the renowned U.S. investigative journalist known for blockbuster scoops.

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Before the screening, Hersh explained to RFE/RL that he had seen the film a few months prior at Akhmetshin’s behest and was intrigued enough by it that he agreed to host the discussion free of charge.

Hersh said he knew Akhmetshin through mutual acquaintances. He said he had allowed Akhmetshin to park “a couple” of antique motorcycles in the driveway of his Washington-area home -- motorcycles he said Akhmetshin had bought thinking they dated from World War II but in fact were of German manufacture and had been painted over to look like Soviet motorcycles.

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At the conclusion of the June 13 event, as the discussion turned loud and rowdy, Hersh tried to get in a final word.

“This is the new truth,” he said.



Uporabni idiot.

Zgodovina sprememb…

  • spremenilo: Pac-Man ()

murgle ::

A je že impič?

Pac-Man ::

murgle ::

Pac-Man je izjavil:

Je že, lahko greš spat.


Zakaj lažeš, ti bo nos zrastel!!!

Mi tle trpimo in garamo da spravimo tega orahitlerja za zapahe, on pa hodi na večerje pa se zabava!!!!!!



IMPIČ!!!!!!!

Pac-Man ::

murgle je izjavil:

Zakaj lažeš, ti bo nos zrastel!!!

Fejk Njuz s tvoje strani.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-con...

H. RES. 438

Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 12, 2017

Mr. Sherman (for himself and Mr. Al Green of Texas) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
RESOLUTION

Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.

Resolved, That Donald John Trump, President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and that the following article of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate:

Article of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives of the United States of America in the name of itself and of the people of the United States of America, against Donald John Trump, President of the United States of America, in maintenance and support of its impeachment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors.
ARTICLE I

In his conduct while President of the United States, Donald John Trump, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has prevented, obstructed and impeded the administration of justice during a Federal investigation in that:

Knowing that Federal law enforcement authorities were investigating possible criminal law violations of his former National Security Advisor, General Michael Flynn and knowing that Federal law enforcement authorities were conducting one or more investigations into Russian state interference in the 2016 campaign for President of the United States, and that such investigation(s) included the conduct of his campaign personnel and associates acting on behalf of the campaign, to include the possible collusion by those individuals with the Russian government, Donald John Trump sought to use his authority to hinder and cause the termination of such investigation(s) including through threatening, and then terminating, James Comey, who was until such termination the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The pattern of behavior leading to the conclusion that he sought to cause the hindrance or termination of said investigation(s) include the following:

(1) Requesting that the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation curtail the investigation of the activities of General Michael Flynn under circumstances wherein it appeared that Director Comey might be terminated if he failed to adhere to such request.

(2) Making a determination to terminate the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and only thereafter requesting that the Deputy Attorney General provide him with a memorandum detailing inadequacies in the Director’s performance of his duties.

(3) Despite offering differing rationales for the termination of the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, admitted subsequently that the main reason for the termination was that the Director would not close or alter the investigation of matters related to the involvement of Russia in the 2016 campaign for President of the United States.

(4) Stated that, once he had terminated the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the pressure of said investigation had been significantly reduced.

In all of this, Donald John Trump has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.

Wherefore, Donald John Trump, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.

Pac-Man ::

Edini cuck v tej zgodbi je Trump.

Maj 1997.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/...
If the gossips hinted that he’d been cuckolded, they had it all wrong; untying the marital knot was based upon straightforward economics.

Pac-Man ::

Včeraj jih je bilo na sestanku pet. Danes smo na 8ih udeležencih.



OSMIH!!!

c3p0 ::

murgle je izjavil:

Pac-Man je izjavil:

Je že, lahko greš spat.


Zakaj lažeš, ti bo nos zrastel!!!

Mi tle trpimo in garamo da spravimo tega orahitlerja za zapahe, on pa hodi na večerje pa se zabava!!!!!!



IMPIČ!!!!!!!


Tako zgleda moderen impič, fancy večerja, sediš s svojo ženo nasproti mlademu paru.

Pac-Man ::

Fun fact: Macron je enak letnik kot "good boy" Donald Jr.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump...

"Don is — as many of you know Don — he's a good boy," Trump said on Air Force One to media in newly released remarks. "He's a good kid. And he had a meeting, nothing happened with the meeting. It was a short meeting as he told me — because I only heard about it two or three days ago. As he told me, the meeting went —and it was attended by a couple of other people who—one of them left after a few minutes—which is Jared [Kushner]."

murgle ::

IMPEAAAAIIIIIČČČ!!!!!!

2 SCOOOPSSS!!!!!!

A je že?

Zgodovina sprememb…

  • predlagal izbris: Poldi112 ()

Truga ::

a te mal daje?

branc ::

Ne, samo malo je inteligenčno podhranjen.

Pac-Man ::

CIA veteran o razliki med dokazi in obveščevalnimi podatki.

https://thecipherbrief.com/expert/John-...
https://www.thecipherbrief.com/column/e...

It is this critical distinction between evidence and intelligence that undermines the Trump campaign’s insistence that there is no “evidence” of its collusion with Russia. Of course there is no evidence. Evidence is what the investigation will uncover, if it exists. If one follows Mr. Gowdy’s logic, his implied demand to end the investigation based on no evidence of collusion is akin to demanding an end to all investigations because probable cause does not amount to evidence. The FBI does not investigate for fun. Any evidence of wrong-doing will not come out until the slow and deliberate process of the professional investigators is finished, and they present their case to the Justice Department.

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Unlike a wholly criminal investigation, a counterintelligence (CI) investigation often uses clandestinely acquired intelligence as a predicate to support further investigative measures. Since a secret source is unlikely to go on the witness stand, or have his/her intelligence parsed in front of a jury, the information is used instead to isolate a subject and try to catch him/her in the act. The best way to solve a CI case is to develop a strong hypothesis and prove it by catching the culprit red handed.

This goes to the heart of the difference between intelligence and evidence. Intelligence is for policymakers who need to look forward, while evidence is focused on looking backward to help the court make a judgment on guilt or innocence. In the realm of intelligence and information, we can know something to be true but still not be able to prove it in court, given the rules and restrictions related to evidence.

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While the intelligence and the law enforcement communities work together in CI cases, it is critical not to conflate secretly acquired intelligence with evidence. By its very nature, intelligence is fragmentary. An overheard conversation of a Russian intelligence officer speaking about an American official is intelligence worth collecting. Of course, it would be unfair to the official in question if we took the information as gospel. It may or may not be accurate. Evidence, on the other hand, is the government’s final assessment of a fact. It is information that has been vetted and prepared to take to a jury. So, when Trey Gowdy pressed the Director of CIA to answer under oath a question like, “Do you have evidence of Trump-Russia collusion or not?”, he knows full well that an intelligence professional can never claim to have collected “evidence.”

The 2001 arrest of FBI Special Agent Robert Hanssen for espionage is a good example of a successful CI investigation. (...) However, despite clear indications that Hanssen was guilty, including fingerprints on materials passed to the Russians, and an audio tape of his voice, the Justice Department was hesitant to go to trial. They knew that a savvy legal team could attack the motivation of the source and seek to throw out evidence, especially if a foreign source could not make his/her identity known and testify in open court.

Anyone who had access to the information at the time knew with near-100% certainty Hanssen was the spy. So, despite investigators having come to the definitive conclusion that they had their man, a conviction depended on going a step further and catching Hanssen in the act of communicating secret information to the Russians. Luckily, Hanssen did not know that the joint FBI-CIA team was on to him, and he was arrested red-handed loading a dead drop in 2001.

Pac-Man ::

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/russian-...

The husband of the former Florida chair of the Trump campaign obtained a front-row seat to a June 2016 House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing for Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian attorney who had met with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower eight days prior.

Lanny Wiles, the husband of former Florida campaign chair Susie Wiles, saved the prominent seat for Veselnitskaya at the June 14 hearing on “U.S. Policy Toward Putin’s Russia,” ABC News has confirmed.




Potem tole že prilepljeno ne drži? Kdo bi si mislil.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/20...

Now it is discovered via video and images, that only 5 days later, June 14th 2016, Ms. Veselnitskaya was a guest of former Obama administration Russian Ambassador Michael McFaul in Washington DC for a House of Representatives hearing on U.S. Policy Toward Putin’s Russia.

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It should also be noted that Ambassador McFaul’s friend, Ms. Natalia Veselnitskaya, was initially denied an entry visa into the United States in 2016 and appealed her situation to the U.S. District Court of New York.

zmaugy ::

Welcome to USA:



Ženska je belka, moški afroameričan, policaj je white trash nacist. Seveda nacist bi že afroameričana v dobrem avtu ustavil, da je pa še z belko, je pa za naci policaja povod za poniževalno proceduro. Dojenček na zadnjem sedežu ga ne ovira pri tem.

Brane22 ::

On a journey of life I chose a psycho path...

jype ::

Seveda. Anything not marxism is worse than marxism. A te niso pri STM naučili tega?

zmaugy ::

STM?

Sranje
Tumbanje in
Manipulacije?

jype ::

zmaugy je izjavil:

STM?
Samoupravljanje s temelji marksizma. Vsak pravi domoljub zna učbenik na pamet.

zmaugy ::

Ne razumem švedščine.

jype ::

To očitno ni edina reč, ki je ne razumeš.

zmaugy ::

Hvala enako.

zmaugy ::

Welcome to USA:

http://www.rtvslo.si/svet/policista-v-m...

"V Minneapolisu v ZDA preiskujejo tragedijo, v kateri sta dva policista ustrelila avstralsko učiteljico joge Justine Damond, ki ju je pred tem poklicala na pomoč in prijavila napad."


Pac-Man ::

NRA je na okopih skupaj s trumpa lumpami.

In ker ravno omeni neobstoječe povezave NRA z Rusijo:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/top-trump-...

Top Trump Ally Met With Putin’s Deputy in Moscow
Before the NRA poured more than $30 million into Trump’s election, it met with a notorious Kremlin hardliner, allegedly to discuss a rifle competition.

https://twitter.com/Rogozin/status/6757...


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics...

Guns and religion: How American conservatives grew closer to Putin’s Russia

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The burgeoning alliance between Russians and U.S. conservatives was apparent in several events in late 2015, as the Republican nomination battle intensified.

Top officials from the National Rifle Association, whose annual meeting Friday featured an address by Trump for the third time in three years, traveled to Moscow to visit a Russian gun manufacturer and meet government officials.

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But the apparent increase in contacts in recent years, as well as the participation of officials from the Russian government and the influential Russian Orthodox church, leads some analysts to conclude that the Russian government probably promoted the efforts in an attempt to expand Putin’s power.

“Is it possible that these are just well-meaning people who are reaching out to Americans with shared interests? It is possible,” said Steven L. Hall, who retired from the CIA in 2015 after managing Russia operations for 30 years. “Is it likely? I don’t think it’s likely at all. . . . My assessment is that it’s definitely part of something bigger.”


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At least one connection came about thanks to a conservative Nashville lawyer named G. Kline Preston IV, who had done business in Russia for years.
 G. Kline Preston IV sits at the desk in his office in Nashville, with a portrait off George Washington painted by a Russian artist on the wall behind him.

G. Kline Preston IV sits at the desk in his office in Nashville, with a portrait off George Washington painted by a Russian artist on the wall behind him.

Preston said that in 2011 he introduced David Keene, then the NRA’s president, to a Russian senator, Alexander Torshin, a member of Putin’s party who later became a top official at the Russian central bank. Keene had been a stalwart on the right, a past chairman of the American Conservative Union who was the NRA’s president from 2011 to 2013.

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“The value system of Southern Christians and the value system of Russians are very much in line,” Preston said. “The so-called conflict between our two nations is a tragedy because we’re very similar people, in a lot of our values, our interests and that sort of thing.”

Preston, an expert on Russian law whose office features a white porcelain bust of Putin, said he had told Tennessee friends for years not to believe television reports about the Russian leader having journalists or dissidents killed.

Preston was an international observer of the 2011 legislative elections in Russia, which sparked mass street protests in Moscow charging electoral irregularities. But Preston said he concluded that the elections were free and fair.

By contrast, Preston said he and Torshin saw violations of U.S. law — pro-Obama signs posted too close to a polling place — when Torshin traveled to Nashville to observe voting in the 2012 presidential election.


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In Russia, Torshin and an aide, a photogenic activist originally from Siberia named Maria Butina, began building a gun rights movement.

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Butina, now a graduate student at American University in Washington, told The Post via email that her group’s cause is “not very popular” with Russian officials and has never received funding from the government or from the NRA.

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Hall, the former CIA officer, said he was skeptical. He said he did not think Putin would tolerate a legitimate effort to advocate for an armed citizenry, and asserted that the movement is probably “controlled by the security services” to woo the American right.

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Relationships between Russians and American conservatives seemed to blossom in 2015, as the Republican presidential race geared up.

Butina posted social-media photos showing how she and Torshin gained access to NRA officials and the U.S. politicians attending events. That April, Butina toured the NRA’s Virginia headquarters, and she and Torshin met Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R), then a leading White House contender, at the NRA annual convention. Torshin told Bloomberg last year that he had a friendly exchange with Trump at the 2015 convention and sat with his son Donald Jr. at an NRA dinner the following year.

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Butina that summer immersed herself in U.S. politics. In July, she showed up in Las Vegas at FreedomFest, a meeting of libertarians where Trump and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a rival for the GOP nomination, were speaking.

She made her way to a microphone during Trump’s speech and asked in accented English, “What will be your foreign politics, especially in the relations with my country?”

It was the first time Trump had been asked about Russia as a candidate.

“I know Putin and I’ll tell you what, we get along with Putin,” he said.


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At the end of 2015, Butina welcomed a delegation to Moscow that included Keene, by then a member of the NRA board, as well as top NRA donors. The group also included a rising star in GOP politics, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, who went on to be a campaign surrogate for Trump and has been mentioned as a contender for a high-level job at the Department of Homeland Security. Clarke did not respond to requests for comment.

The group toured a gun manufacturing company and met with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who was among the officials sanctioned by the White House following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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After Trump’s victory, Torshin returned to the United States with a delegation of prominent Russians to attend the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington in February. In addition to his gun-rights work, Torshin also had helped build a similar prayer breakfast in Moscow from an obscure monthly event a decade ago into one more resembling the annual ritual in Washington.

Putin now sends an annual greeting to the Russian event, a recognition of its value in allowing “Russian and American guests to come together under one roof in order to rebuild the relationship between the two countries that has degraded under the administration of President Obama,” said breakfast organizer Peter Sautov in an email.

Torshin, accompanied by 15 Russian church and government officials, requested to meet the new president before Trump spoke at the event, according to people familiar with the arrangement.

But they said the meeting was canceled as reports surfaced from Spanish authorities alleging that Torshin led an organized crime and money-laundering operation.
Torshin has not been charged and denied wrongdoing in an interview with Bloomberg, which first reported the allegations.



https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles...

Alexander Torshin instructed members of the Moscow-based Taganskaya crime syndicate how to launder ill-gotten gains through banks and properties in Spain while he was a deputy speaker of the upper house of parliament, the Spanish Civil Guard said in a confidential report, seen by Bloomberg, on a three-year probe that ended in 2013.

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“Within the hierarchical structure of the organization, it’s known that Russian politician Alexander Porfirievich Torshin stands above Romanov, who calls him ‘godfather’ or ‘boss”’ and conducts “activities and investments” on his behalf, investigators concluded in the report. Romanov was sentenced to almost four years in a Spanish prison in May, after pleading guilty to illegal transactions totaling 1.65 million euros ($1.83 million) and $50,000.

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The allegations related to Torshin in the Civil Guard report are based on recordings made of phone conversations he had with Romanov in 2012 and 2013, as well as documents seized during a raid on a villa on the island of Majorca that Romanov owned at the time.

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Torshin, a veteran politician who served as deputy speaker for more than a decade, said his network of contacts extends to the U.S., where he’s a member of the National Rifle Association. He said he’s met Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and in May shared a dinner table with the billionaire’s son, Donald Trump Jr., at the gun lobby’s annual convention in Louisville, Kentucky. He keeps photos of the event on his computer tablet.

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One of Torshin’s superiors at the bank between 1995 and 1998, former First Deputy Governor Sergey Aleksashenko, said Torshin may have returned to his old post at the behest of the Federal Security Service, or FSB, with which he appears to have longstanding ties. Aleksashenko, a former head of Merrill Lynch in Moscow, is now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington.

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In a 488-page complaint reviewed by Bloomberg last year, the product of a decade of investigations, Spanish prosecutors said members of another Russian syndicate, the St. Petersburg-based Tambovskaya group, moved into Spain to launder criminal proceeds in 1996, when Putin was deputy mayor of the former czarist capital.

One of the prosecutors who wrote that report, Jose Grinda, told U.S. officials in 2010 that Putin runs a “virtual mafia” state where the activities of criminals are indistinguishable from those of the government, according to a classified cable from the U.S. Embassy in Madrid that was published by WikiLeaks. Grinda declined to comment.

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Prosecutors said in a summary of their case against Romanov that one of the sources of funds that he laundered related to the Taganskaya mob’s violent takeover of a prime piece of Moscow real estate, the Univermag Moskva department store, during which a lawyer was murdered.

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Now Torshin’s a senior official at an institution whose mandate includes stanching outflows of dirty money, which surpassed $1 trillion from 2004 to 2013, according to Washington-based research group Global Financial Integrity.




TrumpOrg se je v 90ih pred bankrotom rešila kot pralnica denarja za rusko mafijo. Odvisno, kako globinsko bo čiščenje, ampak zgodba zna postat resno grda.

next3steps ::

You do realise, da je bil takozvani bankrot načrtovan in je lajk v vsaki knjigi za bogataše, kako si zmanjšati davek za xyz let naprej? Popolnoma legit zadeva med biznismeni.

Pa ono o nastavljanju bodočih vladarjev imaš tudi v vsaki državi.
V kubi so si različni nastavljali svoje, v čilah so si jih, v Rusiji so si jih, v USA so si jih, v celotni jebeni EU so si jih, v S. Koreji so si jih, v J. Koreji pravtako. Ne bit jezen, če ni zmagal tvoj nastavljeni bodoči voditelj.

Pac-Man ::

Takozvani bankrot se je zgodil l. 1990. Mafijski posli so ga reševali po tem, še posebej v drugi polovici 90ih. Nato je prišel The Apprentice in je lahko začel prodajat še brandano vodo in zrezke neumitim masam.


Dolgo, ampak priporočam celoto.

https://newrepublic.com/article/143586/...

Trump’s Russian Laundromat

How to use Trump Tower and other luxury high-rises to clean dirty money, run an international crime syndicate, and propel a failed real estate developer into the White House.

In 1984, a Russian émigré named David Bogatin went shopping for apartments in New York City. The 38-year-old had arrived in America seven years before, with just $3 in his pocket.

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Instead, he was fixated on the glitziest apartment building on Fifth Avenue, a gaudy, 58-story edifice with gold-plated fixtures and a pink-marble atrium: Trump Tower.

A monument to celebrity and conspicuous consumption, the tower was home to the likes of Johnny Carson, Steven Spielberg, and Sophia Loren. Its brash, 38-year-old developer was something of a tabloid celebrity himself.

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The Russian plunked down $6 million to buy not one or two, but five luxury condos. The big check apparently caught the attention of the owner. According to Wayne Barrett, who investigated the deal for the Village Voice, Trump personally attended the closing, along with Bogatin.

If the transaction seemed suspicious—multiple apartments for a single buyer who appeared to have no legitimate way to put his hands on that much money—there may have been a reason. At the time, Russian mobsters were beginning to invest in high-end real estate, which offered an ideal vehicle to launder money from their criminal enterprises.

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In 1987, just three years after he attended the closing with Trump, Bogatin pleaded guilty to taking part in a massive gasoline-bootlegging scheme with Russian mobsters.

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A Senate investigation into organized crime later revealed that Bogatin was a leading figure in the Russian mob in New York. His family ties, in fact, led straight to the top: His brother ran a $150 million stock scam with none other than Semion Mogilevich, whom the FBI considers the “boss of bosses” of the Russian mafia.

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A review of the public record reveals a clear and disturbing pattern: Trump owes much of his business success, and by extension his presidency, to a flow of highly suspicious money from Russia. Over the past three decades, at least 13 people with known or alleged links to Russian mobsters or oligarchs have owned, lived in, and even run criminal activities out of Trump Tower and other Trump properties. Many used his apartments and casinos to launder untold millions in dirty money. Some ran a worldwide high-stakes gambling ring out of Trump Tower—in a unit directly below one owned by Trump. Others provided Trump with lucrative branding deals that required no investment on his part. Taken together, the flow of money from Russia provided Trump with a crucial infusion of financing that helped rescue his empire from ruin, burnish his image, and launch his career in television and politics.

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Mogilevich’s greatest talent, the one that places him at the top of the Russian mob, is finding creative ways to cleanse dirty cash. (...) And in 1991, he made a move that led directly to Trump Tower. (...) Sprung by Mogilevich, Ivankov made the most of his freedom. In 1992, a year after he was released from prison, he headed to New York on an illegal business visa and proceeded to set up shop in Brighton Beach.

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According to the FBI, he recruited two “combat brigades” of Special Forces veterans from the Soviet war in Afghanistan to run the mafia’s protection racket and kill his enemies.

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Like Mogilevich, Ivankov had a lot of dirty money he needed to clean up. He bought a Rolls-Royce dealership that was used, according to The New York Times, “as a front to launder criminal proceeds.” The FBI concluded that one of Ivankov’s partners in the operation was Felix Komarov, an upscale art dealer who lived in Trump Plaza on Third Avenue.

...

They also found he made frequent visits to Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, which mobsters routinely used to launder huge sums of money. In 2015, the Taj Mahal was fined $10 million—the highest penalty ever levied by the feds against a casino—and admitted to having “willfully violated” anti-money-laundering regulations for years.


...

The FBI also struggled to figure out where Ivankov lived. “We were looking around, looking around, looking around,” James Moody, chief of the bureau’s organized crime section, told Friedman. “We had to go out and really beat the bushes. And then we found out that he was living in a luxury condo in Trump Tower.”

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Throughout the 1990s, untold millions from the former Soviet Union flowed into Trump’s luxury developments and Atlantic City casinos. But all the money wasn’t enough to save Trump from his own failings as a businessman. He owed $4 billion to more than 70 banks, with a mind-boggling $800 million of it personally guaranteed. (...) But fortunately for Trump, his own economic crisis coincided with one in Russia.

In 1998, Russia defaulted on $40 billion in debt, causing the ruble to plummet and Russian banks to close. The ensuing financial panic sent the country’s oligarchs and mobsters scrambling to find a safe place to put their money. That October, just two months after the Russian economy went into a tailspin, Trump broke ground on his biggest project yet. Rising to 72 stories in midtown Manhattan, Trump World Tower would be the tallest residential building on the planet. (...) As Bloomberg Businessweek reported earlier this year, it wasn’t long before one-third of the units on the tower’s priciest floors had been snatched up—either by individual buyers from the former Soviet Union, or by limited liability companies connected to Russia.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Nektalov, who was being investigated by a Treasury Department task force for mob-connected money laundering, bought a condo on the seventy-ninth floor, directly below Trump’s future campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway. A month later he sold his unit for a $500,000 profit. The following year, after rumors circulated that Nektalov was cooperating with federal investigators, he was shot down on Sixth Avenue.

...

Trump had found his market. After Trump World Tower opened, Sotheby’s International Realty teamed up with a Russian real estate company to make a big sales push for the property in Russia. The “tower full of oligarchs,” as Bloomberg called it, became a model for Trump’s projects going forward.


...

To capitalize on his new business model, Trump struck a deal with a Florida developer to attach his name to six high-rises in Sunny Isles, just outside Miami. Without having to put up a dime of his own money, Trump would receive a cut of the profits.

...

According to a Reuters investigation in March, at least 63 buyers with Russian addresses or passports spent $98 million on Trump’s properties in south Florida. What’s more, another one-third of the units—more than 700 in all—were bought by shadowy shell companies that concealed the true owners.

...

Two buyers in Sunny Isles, Anatoly Golubchik and Michael Sall, were convicted for taking part in a massive international gambling and money-laundering syndicate that was run out of Trump Tower in New York. The ring, according to the FBI, was operating under the protection of the Russian mafia.

...

By 2004, to the outside world, it appeared that Trump was back on top after his failures in Atlantic City. That January, flush with the appearance of success, Trump launched his newly burnished brand into another medium.

“My name’s Donald Trump,” he declared in his opening narration for The Apprentice, “the largest real estate developer in New York.

...

The show, which reportedly paid Trump up to $3 million per episode, instantly revived his career. “The Apprentice turned Trump from a blowhard Richie Rich who had just gone through his most difficult decade into an unlikely symbol of straight talk, an evangelist for the American gospel of success

...

But the story of Donald Trump, self-made business genius, left out any mention of the shady Russian investors who had done so much to make his comeback narrative possible.

...

Trump SoHo was the brainchild of two development companies—Bayrock Group LLC and the Sapir Organization—run by a pair of wealthy émigrés from the former Soviet Union who had done business with some of Russia’s richest and most notorious oligarchs. Together, their firms made Trump an offer he couldn’t refuse: The developers would finance and build Trump SoHo themselves. In return for lending his name to the project, Trump would get 18 percent of the profits—without putting up any of his own money.

...

He boasted about the deal he was getting: Arif was offering him a 20 to 25 percent cut on his overseas projects, he said, not to mention management fees. “It was almost like mass production of a car,” Trump testified.

But Bayrock and its deals quickly became mired in controversy. Forbes and other publications reported that the company was financed by a notoriously corrupt group of oligarchs known as The Trio.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

According to a lawsuit filed that same year by two former Bayrock executives, Arif started the firm “backed by oligarchs and money they stole from the Russian people.” In addition, the suit alleges, Bayrock “was substantially and covertly mob-owned and operated.” The company’s real purpose, the executives claim, was to develop hugely expensive properties bearing the Trump brand—and then use the projects to launder money and evade taxes.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


In the end, Trump’s deals with Bayrock, like so much of his business empire, proved to be more glitter than gold. The international projects in Russia and Poland never materialized. A Trump tower being built in Fort Lauderdale ran out of money before it was completed, leaving behind a massive concrete shell. Trump SoHo ultimately had to be foreclosed and resold.

...

In April 2013, a little more than two years before Trump rode the escalator to the ground floor of Trump Tower to kick off his presidential campaign, police burst into Unit 63A of the high-rise and rounded up 29 suspects in two gambling rings. (...) In addition, unit 63A—a condo directly below one owned by Trump—served as the headquarters for a “sophisticated money-laundering scheme” that moved an estimated $100 million out of the former Soviet Union, through shell companies in Cyprus, and into investments in the United States. The entire operation, prosecutors say, was working under the protection of Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov, whom the FBI identified as a top Russian vor closely allied with Semion Mogilevich.

...

For the next seven months, the Russian crime boss fell off the radar of Interpol, which had issued a red alert. Then, in November 2013, he suddenly appeared live on international television—sitting in the audience at the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow. Tokhtakhounov was in the VIP section, just a few seats away from the pageant owner, Donald Trump.

dice7 ::

Ko republikance zacne skrbet za ranljive skupine, potem ves da je bila res katastrofalna reforma

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada...

c3p0 ::

Oh noez, teh Russians"!

DarwiN ::

Pohlep jih je ubil in so šli predaleč. Ker imajo kontrolo v zbornici, senatu in beli hiši, so bili prepričani, da jim lahko uspe še najbolj smrtonosna zdravstvena reforma. Zdaj pa malo backpeddlajo.

Že samo opustošenje Medicaid programa bi prineslo koliko neimenovanih smrtnih žrtev?
Malo too much, a ne.

Ampak sej jim bo uspelo..Obamacare so že dost sabotirali, ta dva renegade republikanska senatorja bodo pa tudi spravili v red in uresničili to njihovo sanjsko nižanje davkov za najbogatejše.
You don't see faith healers working in hospitals
for the same reason you don't see psychics winning the lottery!

anketar ::

Pac-Man je izjavil:

Takozvani bankrot se je zgodil l. 1990. Mafijski posli so ga reševali po tem, še posebej v drugi polovici 90ih. Nato je prišel The Apprentice in je lahko začel prodajat še brandano vodo in zrezke neumitim masam.


Dolgo, ampak priporočam celoto.

https://newrepublic.com/article/143586/...

Trump’s Russian Laundromat

How to use Trump Tower and other luxury high-rises to clean dirty money, run an international crime syndicate, and propel a failed real estate developer into the White House.

In 1984, a Russian émigré named David Bogatin went shopping for apartments in New York City. The 38-year-old had arrived in America seven years before, with just $3 in his pocket.

...

Instead, he was fixated on the glitziest apartment building on Fifth Avenue, a gaudy, 58-story edifice with gold-plated fixtures and a pink-marble atrium: Trump Tower.

A monument to celebrity and conspicuous consumption, the tower was home to the likes of Johnny Carson, Steven Spielberg, and Sophia Loren. Its brash, 38-year-old developer was something of a tabloid celebrity himself.

...

The Russian plunked down $6 million to buy not one or two, but five luxury condos. The big check apparently caught the attention of the owner. According to Wayne Barrett, who investigated the deal for the Village Voice, Trump personally attended the closing, along with Bogatin.

If the transaction seemed suspicious—multiple apartments for a single buyer who appeared to have no legitimate way to put his hands on that much money—there may have been a reason. At the time, Russian mobsters were beginning to invest in high-end real estate, which offered an ideal vehicle to launder money from their criminal enterprises.

...

In 1987, just three years after he attended the closing with Trump, Bogatin pleaded guilty to taking part in a massive gasoline-bootlegging scheme with Russian mobsters.

...

A Senate investigation into organized crime later revealed that Bogatin was a leading figure in the Russian mob in New York. His family ties, in fact, led straight to the top: His brother ran a $150 million stock scam with none other than Semion Mogilevich, whom the FBI considers the “boss of bosses” of the Russian mafia.

...

A review of the public record reveals a clear and disturbing pattern: Trump owes much of his business success, and by extension his presidency, to a flow of highly suspicious money from Russia. Over the past three decades, at least 13 people with known or alleged links to Russian mobsters or oligarchs have owned, lived in, and even run criminal activities out of Trump Tower and other Trump properties. Many used his apartments and casinos to launder untold millions in dirty money. Some ran a worldwide high-stakes gambling ring out of Trump Tower—in a unit directly below one owned by Trump. Others provided Trump with lucrative branding deals that required no investment on his part. Taken together, the flow of money from Russia provided Trump with a crucial infusion of financing that helped rescue his empire from ruin, burnish his image, and launch his career in television and politics.

...

Mogilevich’s greatest talent, the one that places him at the top of the Russian mob, is finding creative ways to cleanse dirty cash. (...) And in 1991, he made a move that led directly to Trump Tower. (...) Sprung by Mogilevich, Ivankov made the most of his freedom. In 1992, a year after he was released from prison, he headed to New York on an illegal business visa and proceeded to set up shop in Brighton Beach.

...

According to the FBI, he recruited two “combat brigades” of Special Forces veterans from the Soviet war in Afghanistan to run the mafia’s protection racket and kill his enemies.

...

Like Mogilevich, Ivankov had a lot of dirty money he needed to clean up. He bought a Rolls-Royce dealership that was used, according to The New York Times, “as a front to launder criminal proceeds.” The FBI concluded that one of Ivankov’s partners in the operation was Felix Komarov, an upscale art dealer who lived in Trump Plaza on Third Avenue.

...

They also found he made frequent visits to Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, which mobsters routinely used to launder huge sums of money. In 2015, the Taj Mahal was fined $10 million—the highest penalty ever levied by the feds against a casino—and admitted to having “willfully violated” anti-money-laundering regulations for years.


...

The FBI also struggled to figure out where Ivankov lived. “We were looking around, looking around, looking around,” James Moody, chief of the bureau’s organized crime section, told Friedman. “We had to go out and really beat the bushes. And then we found out that he was living in a luxury condo in Trump Tower.”

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Throughout the 1990s, untold millions from the former Soviet Union flowed into Trump’s luxury developments and Atlantic City casinos. But all the money wasn’t enough to save Trump from his own failings as a businessman. He owed $4 billion to more than 70 banks, with a mind-boggling $800 million of it personally guaranteed. (...) But fortunately for Trump, his own economic crisis coincided with one in Russia.

In 1998, Russia defaulted on $40 billion in debt, causing the ruble to plummet and Russian banks to close. The ensuing financial panic sent the country’s oligarchs and mobsters scrambling to find a safe place to put their money. That October, just two months after the Russian economy went into a tailspin, Trump broke ground on his biggest project yet. Rising to 72 stories in midtown Manhattan, Trump World Tower would be the tallest residential building on the planet. (...) As Bloomberg Businessweek reported earlier this year, it wasn’t long before one-third of the units on the tower’s priciest floors had been snatched up—either by individual buyers from the former Soviet Union, or by limited liability companies connected to Russia.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Nektalov, who was being investigated by a Treasury Department task force for mob-connected money laundering, bought a condo on the seventy-ninth floor, directly below Trump’s future campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway. A month later he sold his unit for a $500,000 profit. The following year, after rumors circulated that Nektalov was cooperating with federal investigators, he was shot down on Sixth Avenue.

...

Trump had found his market. After Trump World Tower opened, Sotheby’s International Realty teamed up with a Russian real estate company to make a big sales push for the property in Russia. The “tower full of oligarchs,” as Bloomberg called it, became a model for Trump’s projects going forward.


...

To capitalize on his new business model, Trump struck a deal with a Florida developer to attach his name to six high-rises in Sunny Isles, just outside Miami. Without having to put up a dime of his own money, Trump would receive a cut of the profits.

...

According to a Reuters investigation in March, at least 63 buyers with Russian addresses or passports spent $98 million on Trump’s properties in south Florida. What’s more, another one-third of the units—more than 700 in all—were bought by shadowy shell companies that concealed the true owners.

...

Two buyers in Sunny Isles, Anatoly Golubchik and Michael Sall, were convicted for taking part in a massive international gambling and money-laundering syndicate that was run out of Trump Tower in New York. The ring, according to the FBI, was operating under the protection of the Russian mafia.

...

By 2004, to the outside world, it appeared that Trump was back on top after his failures in Atlantic City. That January, flush with the appearance of success, Trump launched his newly burnished brand into another medium.

“My name’s Donald Trump,” he declared in his opening narration for The Apprentice, “the largest real estate developer in New York.

...

The show, which reportedly paid Trump up to $3 million per episode, instantly revived his career. “The Apprentice turned Trump from a blowhard Richie Rich who had just gone through his most difficult decade into an unlikely symbol of straight talk, an evangelist for the American gospel of success

...

But the story of Donald Trump, self-made business genius, left out any mention of the shady Russian investors who had done so much to make his comeback narrative possible.

...

Trump SoHo was the brainchild of two development companies—Bayrock Group LLC and the Sapir Organization—run by a pair of wealthy émigrés from the former Soviet Union who had done business with some of Russia’s richest and most notorious oligarchs. Together, their firms made Trump an offer he couldn’t refuse: The developers would finance and build Trump SoHo themselves. In return for lending his name to the project, Trump would get 18 percent of the profits—without putting up any of his own money.

...

He boasted about the deal he was getting: Arif was offering him a 20 to 25 percent cut on his overseas projects, he said, not to mention management fees. “It was almost like mass production of a car,” Trump testified.

But Bayrock and its deals quickly became mired in controversy. Forbes and other publications reported that the company was financed by a notoriously corrupt group of oligarchs known as The Trio.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

According to a lawsuit filed that same year by two former Bayrock executives, Arif started the firm “backed by oligarchs and money they stole from the Russian people.” In addition, the suit alleges, Bayrock “was substantially and covertly mob-owned and operated.” The company’s real purpose, the executives claim, was to develop hugely expensive properties bearing the Trump brand—and then use the projects to launder money and evade taxes.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


In the end, Trump’s deals with Bayrock, like so much of his business empire, proved to be more glitter than gold. The international projects in Russia and Poland never materialized. A Trump tower being built in Fort Lauderdale ran out of money before it was completed, leaving behind a massive concrete shell. Trump SoHo ultimately had to be foreclosed and resold.

...

In April 2013, a little more than two years before Trump rode the escalator to the ground floor of Trump Tower to kick off his presidential campaign, police burst into Unit 63A of the high-rise and rounded up 29 suspects in two gambling rings. (...) In addition, unit 63A—a condo directly below one owned by Trump—served as the headquarters for a “sophisticated money-laundering scheme” that moved an estimated $100 million out of the former Soviet Union, through shell companies in Cyprus, and into investments in the United States. The entire operation, prosecutors say, was working under the protection of Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov, whom the FBI identified as a top Russian vor closely allied with Semion Mogilevich.

...

For the next seven months, the Russian crime boss fell off the radar of Interpol, which had issued a red alert. Then, in November 2013, he suddenly appeared live on international television—sitting in the audience at the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow. Tokhtakhounov was in the VIP section, just a few seats away from the pageant owner, Donald Trump.


lastnik new republic od leta 2016 je Win McCormack, ki je As a political activist, McCormack served as Chair of the Oregon Steering Committee for Gary Hart's 1984 presidential campaign. He was chair of the Democratic Party of Oregon's President's Council and a member of the Obama for President Oregon Finance Committee

Win McCormack @ Wikipedia
The New Republic @ Wikipedia

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Cervantes ::

Đizes, kera čreva spet...

jype ::

If life gives you čreva, make klobase!

Zgodovina sprememb…

Pac-Man ::

MAGA - ko imajo konzervativci problem s privatno vojsko

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/...

On July 10, the New York Times revealed that the Trump White House had recruited Erik Prince, the founder of the notorious private security firm Blackwater, and wealthy Trump backer Steve Feinberg, the owner of the high-profile military contractor DynCorp International, to “devise alternatives to the Pentagon’s plan to send thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan.” The story suggested that the president and his top advisers were dissatisfied with the military’s thinking on the conflict, the subject of an intense series of a consultations between senior military officers and Trump’s national security team over the last several months.

...

But the proposal has shocked the handful of senior Pentagon and CIA officials familiar with it, who point out the difficulty the United States has had in controlling private armies—and those who run them. This was particularly true of Blackwater, whose contractors gave the U.S. military fits in Iraq’s Anbar Province in the aftermath of Operation Iraqi Freedom, where both national security adviser H.R. McMaster and Defense Secretary James Mattis served in key command positions. Senior military officers blame Blackwater for destabilizing Fallujah in 2004 (forcing Mattis to send his Marines into the city in “Operation Vigilant Resolve”) and for the deaths of 20 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad (the “Nisour Square Massacre”) in 2007.

“That Trump’s people would even think that McMaster or Mattis would listen to Prince shows just how tone-deaf they are,” a senior military officer told me after the Times piece was published. “If there’s one name guaranteed to get H.R.’s back up it’s Erik Prince. How you can’t know that is beyond me.”

...

In sum, Prince’s plan would turn Afghanistan over to an American version of Britain’s famed East India Company—which, as Prince wrote, “prevailed in the region” for 250 years by relying on private military units. It was a neat package: the Prince model would save the U.S. billions of dollars, help build Afghanistan’s economy, and settle the conflict by forcing the Taliban back to the negotiating table.

McMaster didn’t buy it, as he told Prince when they met at the White House soon after Prince’s Wall Street Journal article appeared. (...) McMaster, who is notoriously short-fused, told Prince “in no uncertain terms” that the United States wasn’t going to replicate the British colonial empire in South Asia and wasn’t going to serve as an agent for FSG profits.

But, while the reaction to Prince’s ideas on Afghanistan was immediate and negative, the views of Feinberg proved less controversial, in part because the New York financier went out of his way to solicit outside opinions on the conflict and to sidle up to Washington insiders with strong ties to officials close to both McMaster and Mattis.

...

“Sitting down with Gfoeller was the smartest thing Steve could do,” a Middle East hand says. “When you get to Mike, you get to Petraeus, when you get to Petraeus you get to Mattis. (...) “It’s an unbeatable constellation—you have the money man [Feinberg], the public intellectual who adds heft [Gfoeller], and the can-do adventurer, Erik Prince,” the high level former intelligence officer told me. “You add Krivo to that mix, with his JCS contacts, and suddenly this looks sellable. But Gfoeller is the key.”

Indeed, Gfoeller might well be the most important under-the-radar official in Washington

...

“I have to admit, watching this guy Feinberg work is pretty impressive,” says the high level former intelligence officer interviewed by TAC. “He’s checked all the boxes, conferred with all the right people and gotten Bannon on his side. Forget a MacArthur-like viceroy for Afghanistan. Right now it looks like that viceroy will be Feinberg.”

Yet when Steve Bannon suggested that Defense Secretary Mattis meet with Feinberg, Mattis politely but firmly declined. Mattis’s “no” was, in large part, the result of having to subdue Fallujah after four Blackwater contractors died there in 2004 (“he’s convinced that his Marines died for Blackwater,” I was told, “and he hasn’t forgotten that”). For Mattis, the issue with the Feinberg initiative is accountability. “The problem is that mercenaries don’t come under the Uniform Code of Military Justice,” a senior Pentagon officer says. “If they were under a UCMJ structure there could be confidence in command and control and there would be accountability. But they’re not; which means their behavior is impossible to control. Young testosterone filled men carrying weapons and operating outside the law is a recipe for disaster. That scared the hell out of Mattis in 2004, and it scares the hell out of him now.”

As crucially, TAC has been told, Mattis doesn’t believe that Prince or Feinberg understand the conflict. (...) The Taliban are making gains in Afghanistan, Riedel said, because Pakistan is allowing them to.

...

In “A New U.S. Approach to Pakistan: Enforcing Aid Conditions without Cutting Ties,” Curtis and Haqqani proposed the adoption of a new get-tough approach to Pakistan as a necessary centerpiece for resolving the Afghanistan war. The United States, the two wrote, should “no longer sacrifice its anti-terrorism principles in the region for the sake of pursuing an ‘even-handed’ South Asia policy, but rather should levy costs on Pakistan for policies that help perpetuate terrorism in the region.”

...

The key, ultimately, will be Trump. He will decide whether America’s wars should continue to be fought by Americans or whether they will be contracted out to an out-of-uniform army of guns for hire who will be allowed to kill in the name of America.

konspirator ::

pak
Spravi ta c/p čreva na lasten blog ali vsak teden doniraj st en 3tb hdd !
Nihče te ne bere sploh.
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Pac-Man ::

Tole zgoraj je v raw text cca 6 KB. Recimo, da sem dolžen 2 floppya na leto. Kam pošljem?

jype ::

konspirator je izjavil:

Nihče te ne bere sploh.
O, svoboda govora nenadoma ni več tako zelo sveta? Kaj pa laži v tvojem podpisu, te so OK?

Pac-Man ::

Bivši namestnik sekretarja pri Harryu Reidu.

https://twitter.com/AJentleson/status/8...

Having spent countless hours listening to McConnell & years working with his office, I'd like to offer a few thoughts on tonight's news.

First & foremost, what we're witnessing is an unprecedented, full-blown rebellion by Republican senators against their leader, McConnell. I worked for Reid for years. Democratic senators criticized him occasionally, although they'd usually joke about it. Nothing like this. Reid's status as leader was based on a mixture of love & respect from the caucus. McConnell's, only on respect - very little love.

McConnell's political victories have come at a steep price for the institution. He has taken power & influence away from other senators. His fellow Rs did not like losing their individual power, but they were willing to abide it as long as McConnell delivered victories. The ? has always been, what happen to McConnell when he hits a dry spell - especially one that his scorched-Earth tactics precipitated. We're seeing indications of that tonight. This sounds like trolling but I'm honestly shocked at how nasty Repuicans are being towards him. Accusing your leader of a "significant breach of trust" is about as harsh as it gets in Senate-speak.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/ron-johns...

Senators want to get things done. McConnell's pitch to his fellow Republicans was always, let's get power & THEN we'll get things done. Their problem now is that the tactics McConnell employed to accrue power undercut their ability to get things done. Earth, scorched.

Reid employed dramatic tactics at times, but he was able to balance it with empowering senators and delivering accomplishments. Suffice to say, McConnell is finding that balance harder to strike.

On prospects for repeal, I agree with everyone who's saying keep the pressure up- this bill is the Terminator. It will keep coming back. McConnell will play off this setback in that weird way that DC reporters intrepidly persist in finding charming. (I don't see it.) But make no mistake - this is a MASSIVE humiliation for McConnell. And he'll spend every waking moment plotting his redemption.

Lastly: the breadth of the rebellion is fascinating and suggests that this was coordinated. Lee/Moran jumped first to give others cover. That prospect is truly jaw-dropping: a COORDINATED rebellion against McConnell? Six months into unified Repubmican control?? Yeesh.

I wonder about the 2 cancelled weeks of recess- will that still happen? Public statements aside, members HATE having recess cancelled. That seemed punitive. McConnell's announcement came after a conference meeting that did not go well for him. I wonder how it fits in.

I'm just rambling now. But boy howdy, what a thing to witness. From the savior of the Senate, no less. Who could have predicted?

CODA: This feels punitive too, since moderate Rs have already rejected this approach. I neglected to mention...
https://twitter.com/SenateMajLdr/status...

McConnell is known within the Senate to have an extremely top-down leadership style. Cornyn, his #2, usually has no idea what's going on. You could compile an amazing list of all the times Cornyn was obviously, publicly out of the loop. McConnell doesn't trust anyone. The stories go that McConnell will literally email orders to his deputies, including Cornyn. They have no input into his process. Compare that to Reid, who would run every - and I mean EVERY - decision by Durbin, Schumer and Murray, and most big decisions by his broader leadership team (~10 members) and chairs/rankings and THEN get the buy-in of the full caucus. Would Reid have loved to make decisions by himself and then deliver marching orders to his caucus? Maybe. But that's not how it works. You have to get broad that kind of broad buy-in because every senator considers themselves a regent. And they have power. For all his talk about deliberative process, McConnell does not appear to have a deliberative process within his own leadership team. He seems to think he can simply hand down orders, urge his conference to fall in line and then punish them if they don't. We'll see.

If Cornyn, the #2 leader, didn't know, then either McConnell kept him in the dark or they were both blindsided.
https://twitter.com/WaPoSean/status/887...
CORNYN on Lee/Moran defection: Had "no idea" it was coming.
I can't think of a single time in his entire career as leader that Reid was blindsided by so many members on such a high-priority issue.

jype ::

Profesionalno:

Zgodovina sprememb…

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Berserker ::

jype je izjavil:

konspirator je izjavil:

Nihče te ne bere sploh.
O, svoboda govora nenadoma ni več tako zelo sveta? Kaj pa laži v tvojem podpisu, te so OK?


Naj posta, ampak na vsaj ureja te članke. Jaz ne mislim intenzivno skrollat dol, da preberem nekaj mnenj, ker je tip kr copy pastal v temo. Pravi lenuh.

Pac-Man ::

Berserker je izjavil:

Naj posta, ampak na vsaj ureja te članke. Jaz ne mislim intenzivno skrollat dol, da preberem nekaj mnenj, ker je tip kr copy pastal v temo. Pravi lenuh.


Veš tiste tri pikice?

Tam nekaj manjka. Nekaj, kar sem prebral in ocenil, da se lahko izpusti.

Berserker ::

Ja daj vsaj v spoiler alert da zakrije wall of text.

next3steps ::

Žal nisi dovolj kredivilen, da bi lahko namesto MENE ocenjeval, katero vsebino sem sposoben prebavljati.
Cmon, člouk! Sej imaš par dobrih postov, sam lenoba te naredi idiota na čase.

Cervantes ::

jype je izjavil:

If life gives you čreva, make klobase!

Od klobas do klobasanja je majhen korak.
Zgoraj je rezultat.

Pac-Man ::

Iz svežega intervjuja za NYT se mi zdi. Bom šel skozi, ko bo čas. :D

https://twitter.com/HelenKennedy/status...

In naj še kdo reče, da Doni nima omejenih mentalnih kapacitet. Dobi voden ogled muzeja in misli, da je profesor francoske zgodovine :)
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