>https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/505745-qanon-scores-wins-creating-gop-problem
https://voat.co/v/QRV/3907965
>resist
>loose
What are your thoughts on Russia in Syria?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/world/europe/germany-military-neo-nazis-ksk.html
As Neo-Nazis Seed Military Ranks, Germany Confronts ‘an Enemy Within’=
https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-maxwells-scandal-conspiracy-and-more-than-a-few-days-in-court/
The Maxwells: Scandal, conspiracy and more than a few days in court
Ghislaine Maxwell’s arrest for allegedly procuring girls for Jeffrey Epstein spotlights her family history; father Robert died in a yacht fall after raiding his employees’ pensions
LONDON — Ghislaine Maxwell comes from a family dominated by her father, Robert, whose mysterious drowning at sea left behind conspiracy theories, financial scandal and a fallen empire.
Her arrest on Thursday in the United States for allegedly procuring young girls for the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein has put the family back in the news.
Robert Maxwell’s life read like a novel, having variously been suspected of working for the British, Israeli and Soviet secret services.
The Czechoslovakian-born businessman was born to Jewish parents who would be killed by the Nazis, and came to Britain penniless at the age of 16.
He changed his name from Jan Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch and fought for the British Army during World War II, going on to set up a publishing business after the end of hostilities.
From there, he built up one of the biggest media and publishing groups in the world.
At its peak in the 1980s, he employed 16,000 people in a raft of companies including Britain’s Mirror Group Newspapers, US publishers Macmillan, and the Berlitz language schools.
He was chairman of the Oxford United football club and a member of parliament from 1964 to 1974, representing the left-wing Labour party.
In business, he was an authoritarian — and often controversial — figure, who met world leaders of the time including Ronald Reagan, George H. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev.
In 1995, his youngest son, Kevin, said his father was capable of great generosity and charm but also demanded “absolute loyalty,” and reacted badly to criticism.
He was capable of “verbal brutality” and sometimes a bully, who worked up to 17 hours a day, seven days a week, and was “motivated by power.”
“He did not consider himself above the law… but would stretch it as far as it would go,” Kevin Maxwell said at his trial for defrauding the Mirror Group’s pension scheme.
Maxwell, dubbed “Cap’n Bob” and the “Bouncing Czech” in the British satirical magazine Private Eye, died when he fell from his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, off the Canary Islands in November 1991.
His death sparked conspiracy theories but his daughter was adamant: “One thing I am sure about is that he did not commit suicide. I think he was murdered,” she told Hello! in 1997.
After his death, over £400 million ($500 million) was found to be missing from his employees’ pension fund and was found to have been used to bail-out loss-making companies in his empire.
The revelations shocked the family, as his reputation changed from business guru to crooked tycoon.
>https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-maxwells-scandal-conspiracy-and-more-than-a-few-days-in-court/
The mother
Elisabeth Maxwell, a Protestant French national from Lyon, met her husband just after WWII and spent 46 years of her life with him.
The couple had nine children together and even after his death she defended his memory and reputation, despite the scandal leaving her distraught and in financial dire straits.
She defended him in an interview with The Times newspaper in 1991, suggesting he made enemies because his generosity matched his enormous bulk.
“He had great moral principles. He wanted to make the world a better place,” she said, but had no inkling of the massive fraud he perpetrated at the time.
Elisabeth — known as Betty — was a historical researcher of some repute, and looked into Maxwell’s own background growing up in Czechoslovakia, and the fate of his family.
She gave lectures on the Holocaust and promoted good relations between Christians and Jews.
Maxwell, who was buried on the Mount of Olives, referred to his wife as “the keeper of my Jewish soul.”
She died in France in 2013 at the age of 92.
The brothers
Two of Maxwell’s sons worked closely with him, Ian and Kevin, the number two in his father’s empire, and were the central focus of investigations into his misdealings following his death.
The brothers faced lengthy criminal proceedings but were acquitted of the fraudulent misuse of pension fund assets in January 1996 after a mammoth 130-day trial.
Kevin Maxwell, declared bankrupt by a London court for a record £406 million, sold his house in upmarket Chelsea, west London, and moved to a cottage near Oxford, southern England.
His wife, Pandora, told the fraud trial her husband’s relationship with his father had been strained in the months before his death, and he wanted to leave the family business.
>Maxwell, who was buried on the Mount of Olives, referred to his wife as “the keeper of my Jewish soul.”
>Syria is just a tiny part of the game
Syria is the Deep State's Stalingrad
Russia deployed S-400 air defense complexes at the Khmeimim airbase
https://medium.com/@GetterWetzel/russian-s-400-in-syria-what-does-it-mean-for-us-air-assets-6bd31605cedd
kief is so damned tasty
>https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/28/james-biden-lobbyist-virgin-islands-099318
Scott Green, a lobbyist with close ties to Joe Biden, purchased Virgin Islands property from James Biden and then extended him a private mortgage.
In 2005, Joe Biden’s brother bought an acre of land with excellent ocean views on a remote island in the Caribbean for $150,000. He divided it into three parcels, and the next year a lobbyist close to the Delaware senator bought one of the parcels for what had been the cost of the entire property. Later, the lobbyist gave Biden’s brother a mortgage loan on the remaining parcels.
The Virgin Islands land deal, reported here for the first time, furthers a pattern in which members of the Biden family have engaged in financial dealings with people with an interest in influencing the former vice president.
In this case, a Biden staffer left the Senate in the early ’90s to become a lobbyist. Both before and after the land transaction, his clients benefited from Biden’s support and appropriations requests. A firm the lobbyist co-founded — which features a testimonial from Biden praising his “emotional investment” in his work on its website — specializes in federal contracts for niche law enforcement and national security programs for which Biden long advocated.
After the land deal, Joe Biden vacationed elsewhere on the tiny island, which once protected a nearby submarine base before it became a tropical getaway, on at least three occasions.
The property itself has remained vacant and undeveloped. It is not clear why the lobbyist, Scott Green, purchased the parcel from Biden’s brother James, or why James Biden later went to the lobbyist for a loan, rather than to a bank. An easement James Biden obtained granting road access to the land before selling it to Green may have made the land more valuable, but it is unclear whether the dramatically higher price Green paid for his parcel reflected its true value. The terms of the loan were not disclosed in property records.
Water Island is a 500-acre spit of land in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Department of Defense purchased the island from a Danish company during World War II, using it to protect a submarine base on nearby St. Thomas. Since then, it has become an under-the-radar tropical getaway dotted with several-dozen homes, where the largest beachfront estates can fetch north of a million dollars.
In May 2005, James Biden and his wife, Sara, purchased a one-acre plot of land in the middle of the island, according to property records. Tax records describe the view from the property as “excellent.” The price: $150,000.
Then, the couple got an easement to access the land and divided it into three parcels. The easement, granted by the Virgin Islands territorial government, gave them the right to use an existing driveway to the property that cut across government land. A year later, in May 2006, the Bidens sold the northernmost parcel, just over a third of an acre, to Green and his wife, Julie, according to property records.
Among Lafayette Group’s biggest single days for government business during the Obama years was April 11, 2010, when records show it received two awards from the Federal Emergency Management Agency worth a total of $5.8 million as a subcontractor to Booz Allen Hamilton. Lafayette Group was charged with providing “Support for [the Office of Emergency Communications] contract developing communications strategies,” according to a description of the award. There is no indication that Biden played a role in the awarding of the contract.
that's pretty dope
>Water Island is a 500-acre spit of land in the U.S. Virgin Islands
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Island%2C_U.S._Virgin_Islands
alright boys you know what to do
https://www.google.com/maps/place/18%C2%B019'11.0%22N+64%C2%B057'12.0%22W/@18.3221195,-64.9472305,328m/
added 1km scale legend if someone wants to play with that
>baker seeking handoff next bread
Kiev's a wonderful time of year.