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Flashback Origins of the anti-Russia sanctions: The CIA-MI6 plot to corrupt Russia, recruit Navalny, murder Magnitsky, and blame Putin (VIDEO)

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William Browder, Anglo-American financial terrorist
This documentary caused an uproar in Russia when it appeared in April of 2016.

This film was made by the main Russian government news broadcasting company, Rossiya 1.

It alleges that Bill Browder, the legendary American hedge fund manager who from 1995 - 2005 was the largest foreign investor in Russia, controlling billions of $ and a significant share of Russia's leading companies, was in fact a CIA front.

At one point his funds owned 7% of Gazprom, using what the film argues were illegal schemes to acquire shares.

The film argues that Browder's whole involvement with Russia was a CIA operation to disrupt Russia politically and economically.

It alleges that in 2006, Browder was instructed by the CIA to provide financial support to the rising opposition politician, Alexei Navalny, and that the two then closely cooperated for the next 5 years.


Comment: The above summary names the CIA only, but actually, the Russians also obtained significant documentation showing that British MI6 handled Bill Browder (code name 'Agent Solomon'), who in turn handled Navalny (code name 'Agent Freedom'). Among the dynamite revelations is a CIA memo signed by Valerie Plame in which she outlines how their "proxies" in the Russian prison system can see to it that Magnitsky's medications are withheld from him, causing his death...

And so, the anti-Russia sanctions actually predate the Kiev coup and re-taking of Crimea, which merely provided the opportunity to ramp up anti-Russia sanctions and the demonization of Putin to a whole new level. Western intelligence has clearly long had Putin in their its sights. Browder was booted out of Russia in 2006 (the same year Litvinenko was murdered, probably by Western intelligence agents), and thus began the intense PR campaign to portray Putin's Russia as singularly corrupt.

Little do its believers realize that the evidence they cite for said corruption is predominantly the handiwork of Western intelligence efforts to corrupt Russia from without. In reality, Putin is singularly incorruptible, a fact that drives the reality-creators in London and Washington to wage their multi-decade war against the man they have identified as the number one threat to Western hegemony and US unipolarity.


Snakes in Suits

Flashback William Browder: The financier behind the Magnitsky List, and the myth of 'Russian corruption'

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William Browder is trying to get justice for his lawyer
William Browder is trying to hold to account Russians who he claims are responsible for the death of his lawyer, and US officials have drawn up a blacklist of those said to have been involved in the case. This week, the BBC has learned, new names are expected to appear on the list.

Browder got the phone call in the early morning of 17 November 2009. It was an unseasonably warm day in London, and he was still in bed.

A colleague told him the news. Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer who had uncovered what he said was a $230m (£140m) tax refund fraud in Moscow and was being held in a detention centre, was dead.

Comment: And the last word went to a Russian fifth columnist egging her liberal-cosmospolitan brethren on!

The whole Magnitsky affair was subsequently busted wide open by the Russian authorities in April 2016, when a TV report exposed Browder as an agent of British intelligence who set up a network of companies for the express purpose of embezzling funds. The plan was then to 'expose' said corrupt network in order to foster the myth that Putin's Russia was corrupt. (Corruption is everywhere, but they wanted to push the lie that corruption in Russia is REALLY bad, and that it is Putin's fault.)

So Sergei Magnitsky - presented in the West as an anti-corruption fighter - was actually actively corrupting Russia, and on behalf of Browder and his financial cronies in London and New York. Browder also hired the services of Alexey Navalhny, the so-called 'political opposition' in Russia, to run a PR campaign inside Russia that talked up the scale and depth of said corruption.

The upshot of the 'Magnitsky Affair' is that US-imposed anti-Russian sanctions actually began in late 2012, the same year that Putin was re-elected (after changing the constitution so he could run again, and for longer terms), all part of the West's war against Putin, who they realized was a threat to their global hegemony in the early 2000s.

Magnitsky Act sends US-Russian relations into dangerous territory
"And nobody dies in your prisons?" Russian fury at U.S. Magnitsky Act


Chess

US sanctions on Russia stymie Japanese-Russian oil exploration projects

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© Aleksei Druzhinin / ReutersRussian President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
The US is maintaining a firm line on the restrictions even as some international companies press on with their energy deals

A Japanese group's plans to explore for Russian oil with state-run Rosneft PJSC have been stymied by US intervention over sanctions, according to people familiar with the matter.

Washington's objection to the Japanese oil exploration project in the ocean off Russia's Far East shows the US Treasury is maintaining a firm line on sanctions, even as some international companies press on with Russian energy deals.

In April, the US rejected a request from ExxonMobil for a waiver to allow it to drill with Rosneft in the Black Sea.

Rosneft signed a preliminary deal with a Japanese consortium of Japan Oil, Gas & Metals National Corporation - known as Jogmec - Inpex, and Marubeni for offshore exploration at a licence block to south west of Sakhalin Island in December. It was one of more than 60 agreements and memorandums signed during Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Japan.

Propaganda

Hello Stalin! Media hacks targeting independent journalists as 'Russian agents'

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Soviet Stalinism, denounced so many times for encouraging 'vigilant' citizens to report on the other, less vigilant ones, is now being reborn in many media and political circles in the United States and western Europe.

History repeats itself, and it is capricious enough not to repeat itself in just a single country. Don't believe me? Look at the recent article in The Washington Examiner about Marcus Papadopoulos, RT's frequent interlocutor, meeting Labour's candidate for British premiership, Jeremy Corbyn. The article carries the sensationalized and Stalinized headline, 'Jeremy Corbyn Just Met With a Russian Agent.'

The author, a young British-born American citizen named Tom Rogan, is an active journalist, churning out some 2-3 articles about Russian conspiracies per day in his most fruitful periods.


Comment: Wow, that is not easy to do if you're writing real reports. If you're writing fake ones, however, lying comes easily.


So, Rogan bluntly declares British citizen Marcus Papadopoulos a Russian agent and voices a "strong opinion" that the mere fact of having a lunch with such an "agent" makes Jeremy Corbyn "unsuited to hold Britain's highest elected office."

Target

Sean Hannity pushes US Congress to investigate Ukraine's election meddling collusion with DNC

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Sean Hannity continues to expose Alexandra Chalupa, and Ukraine's collusion with the DNC and Hillary Clinton campaign.

Fox News's Sean Hannity continues to push for action against Ukraine and the Hillary Clinton campaign for colluding with Ukraine.

Hannity spend his monologue diving deeper into Ukraine's admitted interference in the US election, and its conduit for that collusion, Alexandra Chalupa.

Comment: It's a very sorry state of affairs in the US when we're looking to Fox News personages like Sean Hannity for more or less objective information!


Video

Weaving myths to use against Russia: The Magnitsky Act

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© UnknownJohn McCain trumpeting for the Magnitsky Act
Exclusive: A documentary debunking the Magnitsky myth, which was an opening salvo in the New Cold War, was largely blocked from viewing in the West but has now become a factor in Russia-gate, reports Robert Parry.

Near the center of the current furor over Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer in June 2016 is a documentary that almost no one in the West has been allowed to see, a film that flips the script on the story of the late Sergei Magnitsky and his employer, hedge-fund operator William Browder.

The Russian lawyer, Natalie Veselnitskaya, who met with Trump Jr. and other advisers to Donald Trump Sr.'s campaign, represented a company that had run afoul of a U.S. investigation into money-laundering allegedly connected to the Magnitsky case and his death in a Russian prison in 2009. His death sparked a campaign spearheaded by Browder, who used his wealth and clout to lobby the U.S. Congress in 2012 to enact the Magnitsky Act to punish alleged human rights abusers in Russia. The law became what might be called the first shot in the New Cold War.

Comment: William Browder: The financier behind the Magnitsky List, and the myth of 'Russian corruption'


Bullseye

The Transformation of Progressive Democrats into a Force of the Far Right

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Over the past quarter century progressive writers, activists and academics have followed a trajectory from left to right - with each presidential campaign seeming to move them further to the right. Beginning in the 1990's progressives mobilized millions in opposition to wars, voicing demands for the transformation of the US's corporate for-profit medical system into a national 'Medicare For All' public program. They condemned the notorious Wall Street swindlers and denounced police state legislation and violence. But in the end, they always voted for Democratic Party Presidential candidates who pursued the exact opposite agenda.

Over time this political contrast between program and practice led to the transformation of the Progressives. And what we see today are US progressives embracing and promoting the politics of the far right.

To understand this transformation we will begin by identifying who and what the progressives are and describe their historical role. We will then proceed to identify their trajectory over the recent decades.

We will outline the contours of recent Presidential campaigns where Progressives were deeply involved.

We will focus on the dynamics of political regression: From resistance to submission, from retreat to surrender.

We will conclude by discussing the end result: The Progressives' large-scale, long-term embrace of far-right ideology and practice.

Attention

Ron Paul's warning: 'Central bankers are always wrong...especially before a bust'

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The global dollar-based monetary system is in serious jeopardy, according to former Texas Congressman Ron Paul. And contrary to Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen's assurances that there won't be another major crisis in our lifetime, the next economy-cratering fiat-currency crash could happen as soon as next month, Paul said during an interview with Josh Sigurdson of World Alternative media. Paul and Sigurdson also discussed false flag attacks, the dawn of a cashless society and the dangers of monetizing national debt.

Paul started by saying Yellen's attitude scares him because "central bankers are always wrong - especially before a bust."
"There is a subjective element to when people lose confidence, and when is the day going to come when people realize we're dealing with money that has no intrinsic value to it, we're dealing with too much debt, too much bad investment and it will come to an end. Something that's too good to believe usually is and it usually ends. One thing's for sure, we're getting closer every day and the crash might come this year, but it might come in a year or two."

"The real test is can it sustain unbelievable deficit financing and the accumulation of debt and it can't. You can't run a world like this, if that were the case Americans could just sit back and say "hey, everybody wants our money and will take our money."

Mr. Potato

Crazy Maxine Waters short circuits on live TV

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Liberal rock star Maxine Waters suffered an awkward moment during a live interview on Friday when she appeared to short circuit mid-sentence.

Waters was speaking to MSNBC's Katy Tur when she had a verbal malfunction.

Waters was once again slamming President Trump and spinning her Russia conspiracy theories when she questioned the patriotism of Trump supporters and said,
"I just don't understand why they don't call it like it is and recognize that evidence is pouring in and it's growing, or what— is matt— what, what is wrong with them, I just don't quite understand," she struggled to say.

Comment: With Democrats like Waters, Trump's re-election in 2020 is a sure thing.


Blackbox

Down the Rabbit Hole: Did Lynch order Manafort's phone tapped during Veselnitskaya/Trump Jr. meeting?

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© Kevin Lamarque/ReutersU.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch
Today, Fusion GPS employee Rinat Akhmetshin today confirmed his attendance at a meeting with Donald Trump Jr, Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner along with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.

Accusations have arisen that the meeting was part of a wider setup to achieve a FISA warrant to wiretap phones of the Trump campaign during 2016. President Trump himself has accused the FBI under Loretta Lynch of wiretapping his campaign.

Now, a former Trump campaign official reports that Paul Manafort's phone was subject to FISA wiretap during the infamous meeting.

Comment: See also: A Big Set-Up? DOJ let Russian lawyer into US before she met with Trump team