Liegt eine Verschwörung zwischen den Schweizer Gerichten und der Schweizerischen Bundesanwaltschaft vor?
29. Juli 2020 – Die Schweiz, ein Steuerparadies und legaler sicherer Hafen fíür Kriminelle, aber die Híölle fíür Informanten
Julian Assange has won the Stuttgart Peace Prize for exposing U.S. war crimes
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).
Lawyers’ blog claims to oppose white collar crime but refuses to correct Magnitsky Act hoax when given proof
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.
U.S. & UK intensify campaign against Russia; UK harks back to first pillar of new Cold War, the Magnitsky hoax
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.
Bolton’s Russiagate fakery: he repeats the Browder-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.
Aussie parliament committee censors Komisar’s Browder take-down, redacting photos, text, evidence links
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.
Browder fake story of “theft‘ of his companies exposed; he hints at Five Eyes weaponizing human rights
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.
German Press Council supports Der Spiegel exposé of Wm Browder
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.
Told on Fault Lines: forensic photos of Magnitsky show no marks on torso
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.
Why is ICIJ protecting Bill Browder?
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.
An advocate of tax cheating challenges AOC for Congress
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.
Columbia Law prof is caught in the propaganda trap he describes
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.
Wine, sunsets and jazz in Key West
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.
Phantom shares on Wall Street threaten U.S. companies, investors
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.
“Corporate Strategy in Post-Communist Russia” details Khodorkovsky’s Yukos transfer-pricing & tax cheating
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.
Ivo van Hove‘s brilliant reimagining of “West Side Story” tells gritty tale of immigrants, racism and police brutality
I remember seeing “West Side Story” at City Center as a high school student in the late 1950s. We all laughed at the Officer Krupke (Danny Wolohan) comic riff by gang members whose satire of pop psychology has them sing, “We are no good because we are misunderstood.” Not so funny now in Ivo van Hove‘s version, with Krupke‘s nasty racism. Krupke holds a gun and aims it at blacks while someone takes his photo with a phone.
“The Unsinkable Molly Brown” puts progressive, feminist spin on 1960 show
Beth Malone plays a terrific, gutsy, leftist Molly Brown who started out illiterate in a western mining town, helped her husband strike it rich in a gold mine deal, and instead of joining the nouveau riche, devoted herself to helping the poor, the union activists at her husband‘s mine and the suffragists. Plus, she managed to survive the Titanic.
Introduction to Bill Browder’s story about Sergei Magnitsky, why it matters
March 5, 2020 –
The Fault Lines broadcast today is about two main elements of the Browder hoax, an introduction to the story.
First, Browder‘s tax evasion: taking the 5% profits tax
allowed by the Russia-Cyprus double taxation treaty for Cyprus investors when
he wasn‘t entitled to it.
“The Woman in Black” is engrossing, entertaining English ghost story, in a bar
Arthur Kipps (David Acton), a London solicitor in his 60s, is a man with a story that must be told. In fact, the story has been running in London since 1989. It started in a bar in Scarborough, Yorkshire, moved to the West End, and now it‘s in a bar at the Club Car at the McKittrick Hotel on West 27th Street in New York.
Assange lawyers‘ chambers‘ connection to conman Wm Browder causes concern
Feb 25, 2020 – Edward Fitzgerald, QC, on the defense team at the Julian Assange extradition hearings. published a Doughty Street Chambers (London) support of U.S. government’s key Russiagate asset, tax fraudster William Browder.
Rally to defend Julian Assange, at British Consulate in New York
Feb 24, 2020 – These people were at a rally in New York today, outside the British Consulate at 1 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza. It was one of dozens in cities around the world in a global protest the day of the start of the UK extradition hearing in London.
World-wide journalists condemn court action against Julian Assange
Feb 20, 2020 – 1200 journalists from 98 countries have released a joint statement today in defence of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange, in the lead up to proceedings in a UK court to extradite him to the United States to face the espionage charges. The court case begins on 24 February.
On Fault Lines: The corruption of Buttigieg donors the Ziff Brothers
Feb 13, 2020 – On Fault Lines today, I talked about some of Pete Buttigieg‘s corrupt billionaire contributors, the Ziff Brothers. Here are some of the key points.
Unpacking Astonishing Financial Fraud with Lucy Komisar
By Catherine Austin Fitts, The Solari Report, Feb 6, 2020 – Lucy Komisar is an investigative reporter”she publishes The Komisar Scoop. Lucy is my go to person for questions about complex financial frauds, particularly when they involve tax evasion and the offshore haven system.
“Jagged Little Pill” a terrific pop/rock morality tale for the current age
This is a terrific pop/rock morality tale, a soap opera musical for teens to help them understand their parents. Not bad for parents either. It‘s based on the music of Alanis Morrisette, with a book by Diablo Cody and smart direction by Diane Paulus.