Global Bloodbath: World Stocks Puke Over $8 Trillion As US Markets Collapse
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-26/bloodbath
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Russian Firm Mocks Mueller’s ‘Mindbending, Intergalactic’ Charges Against Trolls
Lawyers for an alleged Russian troll farm indicted by US special counsel Robert Mueller filed a vociferous motion to dismiss Thursday, arguing that the Mueller hasn’t actually come up with an allegation amounting to a crime.
In cartoonish style that is perhaps on par with the cartoonish Russiagate charade, the lawyers wrote in summary to Mueller's latest revised indictment: "WRONG ANSWER: Concord has consistently argued that the Indictment charges no crime at all (interference with an election), but to the extent it purports to charge a crime the essential element of willfulness is fatally absent. The Special Counsel's retort has been that he was not required to charge willfulness because he did not charge violations of FECA or FARA. Now, in mind-bending, intergalactic, whiplash fashion, he says for the first time, I did, I did, I charged violations of FECA and FARA.* Reminiscent of the old adage, ‘Give a man enough rope and he will hang himself,' the special counsel just did so."
FECA and FARA refer for Federal Election Campaign Act and Foreign Agents Registration Act, respectively.
Attorneys representing Concord Management and Consulting LLC initiated their most recent attempt to squash the lawsuit on October 25. The editors at Law & Crime were quick to point out that Tweety Bird's name was misspelled in a footnote in the court filing but acknowledged the proper citation of the character's catchphrase. In the citation, the attorneys note that Mueller's argument "sounds a lot like ‘I did, I did, I taw a puddy tat,'" and include the very lawyerly attribution "Tweetie (1948)."
Mueller's prosecutors and Concord's attorneys have been locked in a bitter fight litigating this case, even though many pundits predicted the Russian firm would never appear in court. Eric Dubelier, the lead defense attorney, criticized Mueller's prosecutors in court for dragging their feet during the presentation of evidence (even though the FBI and Mueller have been collecting evidence since at least midway through 2016).
According to Dubelier, who was characterized by The New Orleans Advocate in an article as "Local boy makes trouble: Outspoken lawyer for Russian firm indicted in Mueller probe has New Orleans roots," Mueller's subordinates are engaging in bad-faith tactics to prop up their "make-believe crime." In one instance, Mueller's prosecutors told a federal judge that the defense hung up during a phone conference — an assertion Dubelier condemned as "bulls**t," The Advocate reported in May.
https://sputniknews.com/us/201810261069255331-russian-firm-mocks-mueller-mindbending-charges/
Two Stories from the Propaganda War
The media has been silent about Maria Butina because the case against her is falling apart.
Two recent stories about Russians have demonstrated how the news is selected and manipulated in the United States. The first is about Maria Butina, who apparently sought to overthrow American democracy, such as it is, by obtaining a life membership in the National Rifle Association. Maria, a graduate student at American University, is now in detention in a federal prison, having been charged with collusion and failure to register as an agent of the Russian Federation. She has been in prison since July, for most of the time in solitary confinement, and has not been granted bail because, as a Russian citizen, she is considered to be a “flight risk.”
Maria, who has pleaded not guilty to all charges, is now seeking donations to help pay for her legal defense as the Russian government renews demands that she be released from jail or be tried on whatever charges the Justice Department can come up with, but her release is unlikely as she is really a political prisoner.
The media has been silent about Maria Butina because the case against her is falling apart. In early September prosecutors admitted that they had misunderstood text messages used to support claims that she had offered to trade sex for access to information. Demands that she consequently be released from prison were, however, rejected. Her lawyer observed that “The impact of this inflammatory allegation, which painted Ms. Butina as some type of Kremlin-trained seductress, or spy-novel honeypot character, trading sex for access and power, cannot be overstated.”
In an attempt to make the Butina embarrassment disappear from the news, the Justice Department has proposed an unprecedented gag order to prevent her attorney from appearing in the media in a way that could prejudice a jury should her case eventually come to trial. Currently there is no court date and Maria remains in jail indefinitely, but the press could care less – she is just one more Russiagate casualty in an ongoing saga that has long since passed her by.
Given the Maria Butina story and the hysteria over all things Russian it was perhaps inevitable that the tale of Kremlin interference in American elections would be resurrected and repeated. Federal prosecutors are now reporting that another Russian woman has illegally conspired with others to “defraud the United States” and interfere with the U.S. political system, to include plans for conducting “information warfare” to subvert the upcoming 2018 midterm elections.
http://theduran.com/two-stories-from-the-propaganda-war/
Tax Havens and Other Dirty Tricks Let U.S. Corporations Steal $180 Billion From the Rest of the World Every Year
Are tax havens an enraging but tangential subject? Or do they have a powerful effect on how the U.S. economy functions and should therefore be a part of every political debate?
The startling findings of a new academic study indicate that it’s the latter. Titled “The Exorbitant Tax Privilege,” the paper is co-written by Thomas Wright and University of California, Berkeley economist Gabriel Zucman, one of the world’s top authorities on tax havens and author of the best layperson’s introduction to the subject, “The Hidden Wealth of Nations.”
Tax havens — the most significant include Ireland, Singapore, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Hong Kong, and Bermuda — serve two purposes.
The first is tax evasion by individuals, which is illegal. Think of Russian or Nigerian plutocrats transferring their assets to small Caribbean nations with strict banking secrecy laws, freeing them from the dreary necessity of paying taxes in their home countries.
The second is tax avoidance by huge multinational corporations, which — as long as the lawyers are doing their jobs — is perfectly legal. Here imagine Apple using various forms of accounting chicanery to claim that tens of billions of its profits generated in countries with normal corporate tax rates were actually all made in Ireland, where Apple had negotiated a special 2 percent tax rate for itself. (Apple has on occasion gone even further, asserting that some of its profits were made, for the purposes of taxation, in no country at all.)
Zucman conservatively estimated in his book that tax avoidance and evasion translate into hundreds of billions of dollars in unpaid taxes every year — money that, for the most part, ends up in the pockets of the world’s wealthiest people.
The Zucman and Wright paper addresses the multinational corporation part of the equation. Among their conclusions:
• As of 1970, American multinationals claimed that under 10 percent of their profits were generated in tax havens; that number is now, preposterously enough, almost 50 percent. In other words, U.S. companies want us to believe that nearly half their economic activity is occurring in places like the Cayman Islands. Goldman Sachs, for instance, has 511 subsidiaries there, yet zero offices.
https://theintercept.com/2018/10/26/tax-havens-and-other-dirty-tricks-let-u-s-corporations-steal-180-billion-from-the-rest-of-the-world-every-year/
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We’re lucky that Zucman & Co. have ignored these incentives. “Some people in economics feel,” Zucman said, “that economics should be only about efficiency, and that talking about distributional issues and inequality is not what economists should be doing.” He’s even been accused of engaging in “French economics,” whatever that means. Fortunately, he and his colleagues continue to focus on what truly matters and have the talent to inform the rest of us.
Jeff Bezos-Funded Super PAC Takes Down Offensive Ad, yet Continues to Back Candidate Making Same Offensive Argument
A Super PAC boosted by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has taken down a controversial ad that attacked a Democrat, who was then in college, as unpatriotic in the wake of the September 11 attacks.
With Honor Fund, a congressional Super PAC supporting a bipartisan array of military veterans, condemned Lauren Baer, a Democratic candidate for Florida’s 18th Congressional District, for criticizing American foreign policy decisions in the Harvard University student newspaper a month after the September 11 attacks. The Super PAC is funded with a $10 million donation from Bezos, who is also the owner of the Washington Post.
“With Honor released a political advertisement that I believe does not live up to the spirit of our organization,” With Honor CEO Rye Barcott said in a statement emailed to The Intercept. “We commit to learn and do better.”
But Barcott added that With Honor continues to support Baer’s opponent, incumbent Republican Brian Mast, even though Mast also attacked Baer for her post-9/11 editorial in his own campaign ad. Mast’s ad appears to conflict with a political pledge all endorsed candidates of With Honor must sign, vowing to “publicly reject, and seek to remove, any advertisements in support of my campaign that lie about or baselessly attack the character of my opponent.”
The ad in question, which has been removed from YouTube, opened on images of 9/11, reminding viewers that “over 3,000 innocent Americans were killed by terrorists.” It adds that “just one month later, Lauren Baer criticized our country, calling our response to 9/11, when hundreds of first responders sacrificed their lives, ‘a moment of hypocrisy.’ … If Lauren Baer couldn’t stand with us after 9/11, how could she stand for us in Congress?”
Baer’s criticisms came in a student newspaper column for the Harvard Crimson, where she wrote that “at the same time that America calls on the world to ardently preserve our sacred values, it must live up to a shameful history of having so rarely stood up for those values itself.” In general, the column supports the concept of humanitarian intervention, a natural for someone who would later become an adviser to noted liberal interventionist Samantha Power, former President Barack Obama’s United Nations ambassador.
But whatever your opinion on her post-9/11 views, the ad is a throwback to a sad moment in American history. In the months and even years after 9/11, any criticism of America’s actions in the world was deemed to be borderline treasonous. Then-press secretary Ari Fleischer warned in a briefing that Americans should “watch what they say, watch what they do.” For those who didn’t live through that time, it may be difficult to conceptualize just how closed the debate was, but the Bezos-funded ad is stark reminder of that mindset.
https://theintercept.com/2018/10/26/jeff-bezos-with-honor-fund-lauren-baer/
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Mexican Cartel-Connected U.S. Criminal Network Busted Across Multiple States
The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon announced a nine-count indictment against 22 members of an alleged criminal organization responsible for trafficking and distributing large quantities of methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine in the Pacific Northwest.
During the early morning hours of October 24, FBI, Homeland Security Investigations, the Westside Interagency Narcotics (WIN) Task Force, and the Clackamas County Interagency Task Force (CCITF) conducted an operation leading to the arrest of 17 defendants.
According to an unsealed indictment, a drug cartel based in Michoacán, Mexico, distributed methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine to Víctor Álvarez Farfán, 43, of Oregon City. Farfán and his associates reportedly manufactured crystal methamphetamine from a liquid form and distributed it to other members of the conspiracy for sale in Hillsboro, Gresham, Portland, and Hood River, Oregon, and Tacoma, Washington. Farfán and his associates also allegedly distributed heroin and cocaine in the Portland-metro area. John Armas, 41, of Hillsboro, distributed methamphetamine he received from Farfán via local distribution cell in Hillsboro, according to authorities.
“While our country suffers from the effects of pervasive substance abuse, Mexican drug trafficking cartels continue bringing deadly narcotics into our communities. Stopping these transnational organizations requires steadfast and responsive law enforcement partnerships at all levels of government,” said Billy J. Williams, U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon. “Today, thanks to the vigilance and sustained cooperation of law enforcement agencies across Oregon, this cartel’s efforts to maintain their foothold in our communities has been dealt a lasting blow. We will continue pursuing criminal drug traffickers and ensure their actions are met with severe consequences.”
The nine-count indictment unsealed today alleges members of the organization conspired to possess with the intent to distribute and distribute methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine; use a communication facility, including cellular telephones, in the commission of a controlled substances felony; and maintain drug-involved premises to manufacture and distribute controlled substances. Other charges include the interstate distribution of drug proceeds and money laundering.
Fifteen of the 22 defendants were arraigned in federal court on Friday. The identities of the five remaining defendants remain under seal. All defendants are expected to make their first appearances within one week.
This case is the result of a joint investigation by FBI, HSI, WIN, and CCITF. WIN includes representatives from the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, Beaverton Police Department, Hillsboro Police Department, Tigard Police Department, Oregon National Guard Counterdrug Program, and the FBI. The CCITF includes representatives from the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office, Clackamas County Community Corrections, Oregon City Police Department, Canby Police Department, the FBI and DHS/Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2018/10/26/mexican-cartel-connected-u-s-crime-network-busted-across-multiple-states/
Spokesperson for DEM Baltimore D.A. Marilyn Mosby Reported Mail ‘Bomb’ Suspect to Twitter for Death Threats Just Days Ago
“Hey @Twitter remember when I reported the guy who was making threats towards me after my appearance on @FoxNews and you guys sent back a bs response about how you didn’t find it that serious.
Well guess what it’s the guy who has been sending #bombs to high profile politicians!!!!” — Rochelle Ritchie
Per the Baltimore Sun:
“Rochelle Ritchie, a former Baltimore journalist and former spokesperson for Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, tweeted Friday that she had reported to Twitter an alleged threat from an account connected to the suspect.”
Mosby is the crooked state’s attorney who tried to railroad Baltimore cops for the alleged murder of a drug dealer. All were cleared after their careers were ruined and families threatened.
https://truepundit.com/spokesperson-for-dem-baltimore-d-a-marilyn-mosby-reported-mail-bomb-suspect-to-twitter-for-death-threats-just-days-ago/
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