Oct 16, 2020- On The Backstory October 15th, I talked about the film “The Spider’s Web: Britain‘s Second Empire” about how in the 1960s the Brits took Swiss bank secrecy of the 1930s and expanded it to enable money-laundering by The City of London, the protected British banking cutout made independent from the government.
Sept 24, 2020- BuzzFeed, the internet news site, Sunday revealed a massive investigation about international banks‘ failures to act on documents filed with the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) that report evidence or suspicions of money-laundering. Its assertions appear solid. But there is a back story related to BF Russophobia.
Sept 22, 2020 – This is how companies help propagandize a population for war. This sign is on a storage facility on the West Side Highway and 44th Street in NYC.
Sept 21, 2020 -BuzzFeed takes a major hit to its credibility by opening an exposé of western banks‘ money-laundering with a fake story about Alexander Perepilichnyy, a Russian financial operative who was an asset of mega-tax cheat and conman William Browder.
Aug 31, 2020 – Robin Des Lois, a French organization that works for the rights of prison inmates around the world, today sent a letter to President Trump asking him to drop charges against Julian Assange based on his revelations of U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan.
Aug 21, 2020 – I‘m not an NPR listener, for reasons which will become clear, but I checked out its “fact check” of Joe Biden‘s nomination acceptance speech. Whew, many Pinocchios! On both sides.
Aug 19, 2020 – As the Democratic Convention is in progress, it is fitting to look at how Democrats in Congress and the White House, with Republican collaboration, were responsible for the Magnitsky Act, the law that protects tax fraudster William Browder and his henchman Mikhail Khodorkovsky by erecting a wall against their having to face justice for their financial crimes. And ramps up hostility to Russia.
Aug 6, 2020 – The Australian foreign affairs subcommittee is promoting a Magnitsky Act pushed by conman William Browder that is built on a tissue of lies. Here is an update from the broadcast I did for The Critical Hour, starting with background to the story.
July 29, 2020 – Swiss whistleblower Rudolf Elmer tells the story of his 15-year legal battle against Swiss judges and prosecutors and the Swiss bank Julius Baer over their charges that he violated Swiss bank secrecy.
le 29 juli – Le lanceur d‘alerte suisse Rudolf Elmer raconte l’histoire de sa bataille juridique de 15 ans contre les juges, les procureurs suisses et la banque suisse Julius Baer contre leurs accusations de violation du secret bancaire suisse.
29. Juli 2020 – Die Schweiz, ein Steuerparadies und legaler sicherer Hafen fíür Kriminelle, aber die Híölle fíür Informanten
July 21, 2020 – The association “Die Anstifter” awards the Stuttgart Peace Prize 2020 to the imprisoned Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. It is endowed with 5000 euros (about $5800).
July 20, 2020 – The FCPA Blog, a legal website about white collar crime and enforcement, continues to write lies about the Browder-Magnitsky hoax and refuses to publish comments that show evidence they are wrong.
July 6, 2020 – The U.S. and UK, are taking new actions to intensify their collaborative Cold War against Russia. In Washington, calls for sanctions are based on the fake bountygate, the UK has sanctioned selected Russians based on William Browder’s Magnitsky hoax.
June 21, 2020 – Hardly a surprise, but John Bolton buys into the Browder-Magnitsky hoax promoted by convicted tax fraudster William Browder. The place where it happens in “The Room Where it Happened” is the July 2018 Helsinki meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Here Bolton is shaking hands with the villain. Well, it was a photo op.
June 1, 2020 – The Australian Parliament Foreign Affairs subcommittee, considering a Magnitsky sanctions act, censors detailed evidence proving claims supporting the act are fake. It redacts key elements, including forensic photos of Sergei Magnitsky, on whose “killing” the act is based, showing no beating marks at all.
May 18, 2020 – On Fault Lines today, I spoke about the May 15th Australian Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing on the proposed Magnitsky Act. William Browder revealed Friday at a hearing before an Australian Parliament foreign affairs subcommittee that UK Foreign Secretary Dominick Raab told him about setting up an information sharing network with Canada and the U.S. on sanctions against their adversaries. Read Five Eyes.
May 12, 2020 – German Press Council rejects William Browder complaint against Der Spiegel. This starts my interview on Fault Lines today. First, the revelation yesterday that the German Press Council had rejected the complaint by William Browder, a former billionaire investor in Russia, against German reporter Benjamin Bidder and newsmagazine Der Spiegel. Their November investigative report nailed Browder as a fraudster and his death of my accountant Magnitsky story as fake.
May 5, 2020 – On Fault Lines today I revealed that I have obtained never published forensic photos of Magnitsky‘s body that show not a mark on his torso. Browder claims he was beaten to death by prison guards. Magnitsky died at 9:30pm Nov 16, 2009, and the photos were taken the next day. The half-hour interview starts at 2:30:00.
April 27, 2020 – The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists promotes itself as an independent, even heroic, organization of journalists who dig into the dark truth of global corruption. But this panel about the Panama Papers shows them as corrupt as they protect one of their friends, William Browder. And laughably as devious as Browder, the fraudster they choose not to write about.
April 22, 2020 – Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, a former CNBC TV host and registered Republican till a few years ago, is challenging Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Congress in the Democratic primary. She wants to abolish Medicare and Social Security, which will probably not endear her to a working-class district in Queens.
April 13, 2020 – I saw this post on a tweet, Thomas Merton on how good propaganda makes people think they made up their own minds. A Columbia Law prof, claiming the Russian government is targeting American voters with fake news and disinformation, turns out to be a victim of the propaganda he describes.
Three of my favorite things are wine, art and jazz. In Key West, you can have them all, and at the best times together.
Starting with natural art, I mean the gorgeous sunsets that splash vivid colors into the sky if you are lucky and the weather and clouds are right.
March 26, 2020 – As stocks are in free fall, a scam run by the big banks/broker-dealers for the benefit of themselves and their hedge fund clients threatens to worsen the situation of large and small American companies and investors.
March 23, 2020 – Knockout details about how Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky used transfer-pricing in sales of Yukos oil to cheat the Russian government and minority shareholders of massive amounts of money are found in this seemingly staid business-academic book by Mikhail Glazunov.
