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Anonymous ID: ea51a4 Jan. 18, 2020, 2:40 a.m. No.7845085   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5121

>>7845076

>If any of you Law Enforcement do not want to enforce these unconstitutional laws, just know that we, the People of Virginia, stand behind you. And if you want to arrest this tyrant, we will support you and stand behind you in your legal defense should you need it.

Anonymous ID: ea51a4 Jan. 18, 2020, 3 a.m. No.7845158   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5249

>>7845149

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/poland-lithuania-vow-resist-russian-historical-offensive-68323278

 

Poland, Lithuania vow to resist Russian historical offensive

 

Poland and Lithuania say they will work together to defend themselves against official Russian efforts to minimize Soviet responsibility for the outbreak of World War II

Anonymous ID: ea51a4 Jan. 18, 2020, 3:34 a.m. No.7845277   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/01/12/fbi-satan-mobplot-kill-ted-kennedy-097180

 

Satan, the FBI, the Mob—and the Forgotten Plot to Kill Ted Kennedy

 

The FBI and Secret Service agents made their way through the streets of San Francisco’s foggy Richmond District neighborhood, about two miles from the Golden Gate Bridge, toward a narrow Victorian house that looked like it had tumbled out of the shadows of Alfred Hitchcock’s imagination. The building rose two floors to a sharply pitched roof; nearly every inch of the exterior had been painted the color of midnight.

 

The agencies had spent the better part of two weeks in October 1980 pursuing a case that had all the ingredients of a potential media firestorm, one that could stir up the country’s most traumatic political memories. Now—on Halloween—their digging had led investigators here, to 6114 California Street.

Anonymous ID: ea51a4 Jan. 18, 2020, 3:47 a.m. No.7845313   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>7845304

>https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliverwilliams1/2020/01/17/spanish-billionaire-sentenced-for-smuggling-with-his-superyacht

 

Spanish billionaire, Jaime Botin was sentenced to jail on Thursday for using his superyacht to smuggle a Picasso painting out of the country.

 

Botin is worth $1.7 billion due to his shareholding in the Spanish banking group, Bankinter. However, his sentence will see him pay €52.4 million ($60.1 million) of his wealth as well as serve 18 months in jail for breaking a court order prohibiting the removal of Picasso's Head of a Young Woman from Spain.

 

The painting has also been confiscated by the Spanish state, parting Botin from a further €26 million ($28.8 million), which is the estimated value of the artwork.

 

Despite a 2015 high court ruling that Head of a Young Woman was a "national treasure" and could not be removed from the country, Botin kept the painting on-board Adix, his 213 foot sailing yacht, as he sailed from Spain to the French Mediterranean island of Corsica.

 

Prosecutors allege that Botin then hired a private jet to take the painting from Corsica to Switzerland where had intended to sell it.

 

However, Spanish authorities were tipped off and raided in the superyacht while it was anchored off the Corsican town of Calvi. Head of a Young Woman was seized and transferred to the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid, where it remains.

Anonymous ID: ea51a4 Jan. 18, 2020, 4:02 a.m. No.7845352   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5361 >>5366

>>7845348

https://www.archives.gov/research/foreign-policy/katyn-massacre

 

Records Relating to the Katyn Forest Massacre at the National Archives

 

Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union each invaded Poland in September of 1939, having divided the country into separate spheres of influence under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. While the Germans began a massacre of Jews and Poles in western occupied Poland, the Red Army arrested and imprisoned thousands of Polish military officers, policemen, and intelligentsia during their occupation of eastern Poland. Prisoners of war and civilian internees captured by the Soviets were placed in several camps in the western USSR, run by the Soviet People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, or NKVD, a predecessor organization to the modern FSB-camps including Kozielsk, Ostashkov, and Starobielsk.

 

In April 1943, in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk in the Soviet Union, occupying German troops discovered eight large graves containing the remains of thousands of the Polish Army officers and intellectual leaders who had been interned at the prisoner-of-war camp at Kozielsk. Bodies of the prisoners who had been housed at Ostashkov and Starobielsk were discovered near Piatykhatky and Mednoye, respectively. Collectively, these murders are known as the Katyn Forest Massacre.

 

An internationally-staffed medical commission organized by the Germans excavated the area in early spring 1943. As the excavation progressed, the Germans brought in several groups of observers, including some American prisoners-of-war. This commission determined that the massacre occurred in 1940, when the area was under Soviet control – a determination which was then used as a propaganda tool intended to disrupt the alliance between the US, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union. This effort was successful in part, as Polish intelligence sources immediately blamed the Soviets for the atrocities, leading to a break in diplomatic relations between Poland and the USSR.

 

After their recapture of Smolensk in the autumn of 1943, the Soviet government organized its own excavation. This second enquiry concluded that the Polish prisoners of war had been captured and executed by invading German units in August 1941.

 

The official American response at the time was one of non-involvement. In a June 1943 telegram to Churchill, Roosevelt expressed approval that the British approach to Stalin was grounded "upon the obvious necessity of creating the most favorable conditions for bringing the full weight of the armed forces of all the United Nations to bear upon the common enemy….The winning of the war is the paramount objective for all of us. For this unity is necessary."

 

Later, on September 18, 1951, the United States House of Representatives established the Select Committee to Conduct an Investigation and Study of the Facts, Evidence, and Circumstances of the Katyn Forest Massacre, known as the Madden Committee after its chairman, Rep. Ray J. Madden of Indiana. The committee assembled records relating to the massacre and its aftermath, including records from the files of the State and War Departments, in addition to hearing extensive witness testimony. Their purpose was to determine which nation was responsible for the atrocities and whether any American officials had engaged in covering up the massacre.

 

The Madden Committee determined unanimously that the NKVD was responsible for the executions, and recommended a trial before the International World Court of Justice. The question of an American cover-up was less clear cut. In its final report, the committee concluded that American officials failed to properly evaluate and act upon clear danger signals in Russian behavior evident as early as 1942. In addition, the committee found that American policy toward the Soviet Union might have been different if information deliberately withheld from the public had been made available sooner.

 

In September 2011, the National Archives responded to a letter to President Barack Obama by Representative Marcy Kaptur and Representative Daniel Lipinski requesting the identification, declassification and public release of all records of permanent value in the custody of the US Government relating to the events at Katyn. The National Archives via the National Declassification Center subsequently made it a priority to process and declassify all known documents related not only to the initial events of the 1940s but also to the Madden Committee and the ongoing American response. This special effort has led to the declassification of over a thousand pages not previously released to the public, and the launch of a project to highlight Katyn material declassified by the National Archives over the previous few decades.