RUSSIA/РОССИЯ THREAD—ASSANGE CHRGD W/ SPYING—DJT IMPEACHED TWICE-US TREASURY SANCTS KILIMNIK AS RUSSIAN AGNT
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Anon were headed by the Russians. FBI shut down the cells in the U.S. pretty easily once they found the source.Btw whatever happened to “groups” like anon etc that were so prominent then vanished
Russia soon found out that having bots disguised as real Americans is easier at causing discourse and confusion than some shady underground hacker group.
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Good questionBtw whatever happened to “groups” like anon etc that were so prominent then vanished
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This shyt is a bait headline.
WTF BBC.
This dude is lying about this fake ass terror attack
Putin ordered plane to be downed
Mr Putin is expected to win re-election later this month
Russia's President Putin ordered the shooting down of a passenger plane that was reportedly carrying a bomb and targeting the opening of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, he says in a new film.
In the two-hour film, posted online, Mr Putin says he was told a plane from Ukraine to Turkey had been hijacked as the Games were about to start.
It was found to be a false alarm, he says. The plane was not shot down.
The film comes ahead of an election he is expected to win on 18 March.
Mr Putin faces seven challengers but none are expected to attract widespread support and the most prominent opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, has been barred from standing.
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The pilots of a Turkish Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737-800, flying from Kharkiv to Istanbul with 110 people on board, said a passenger had a bomb and had told them to divert the plane to Sochi, reporter Andrey Kondrashov says.
In the film, Mr Putin says security officials told him that the emergency procedure in such a situation was to down the plane.
"I told them: act according to the plan," Mr Putin says.
Mr Putin says he ordered the plane to be shot down shortly before the Sochi opening ceremony
Minutes later he received another call informing him that it was a false alarm, he says.
He arrived at the Olympic venue in Sochi with Olympic officials shortly afterwards, he says.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has confirmed Mr Putin's account, Reuters reported.
The first part of the documentary, entitled Putin, has been posted on social media accounts, including one belonging to key state media manager and commentator Dmitry Kiselyov, and a pro-Kremlin YouTube account.
Incredulity at Crimea question
During the film Mr Putin was asked by interviewer Mr Kondrashov - a top state TV presenter and currently Mr Putin's election campaign press secretary - if there were any circumstances in which he could envisage returning Crimea to Ukraine.
"What are you talking about? Such circumstances do not exist and never will," Mr Putin said. Russia's Tass news agency reported his remarks.
Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014
Russia annexed the peninsula from Ukraine after the country's pro-Russian leader was overthrown in 2014.
Last September the UN accused Russia of committing "grave human rights violations" in Crimea.
Betrayal 'unforgivable'
In the film, Mr Putin says that he may forgive some things, "but not everything".
When asked by Mr Kondrashov to clarify what cannot be forgiven, the Russian leader says: "Betrayal."
However, Mr Putin says he has not yet had to deal with "serious events that can be called betrayal".
"Maybe I have chosen people who are not capable of doing such a thing," he says.
Grandfather 'cooked for Stalin'
The Russian president's paternal grandfather worked as a chef for the former leaders Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, Mr Putin says.
Mr Putin's grandfather cooked for former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin
Spiridon Putin was a highly regarded member of Stalin's staff, Mr Putin says.
"[He] was a cook at Lenin's and later at Stalin's, at one of the dachas in the Moscow area," Mr Putin says, Reuters reported.
Spiridon Putin continued to cook for the Soviet establishment until not long before his death in 1965 at the age of 86, the film says.
Dose of admiration
Analysis by Sarah Rainsford, BBC News, Moscow
The Kremlin wants the highest possible turnout at next week's election to give "Putin 4" fresh legitimacy.
This two-hour hagiography is part of that. It seems crafted to fill Russians with admiration and ensure they head out to vote. The film presents Vladimir Putin as strong and focussed. But he's caring, too, filmed with lots of big close-ups, cheeky smiles and hints of emotion.
The key lines, though, come at the very start: the idea that the West will never put Russia in its place, Crimea will never be returned and Russia's president is not someone to be messed with.
There's also a stress on his appeal to the young, via adoring interviews with teenagers born on the day he came to power. As for the handling of the 2000 Kursk submarine tragedy, Putin is now cast as decisive and humane - far from the harsh image he projected at the time when he smirked at a question on the fate of the Kursk, and said "it sank".
But at the heart of it all is a story of how a strongman hero 'saved' a country from ruin. In that, it underlines how Putin inherited a military in tatters and developed a force that Russians can be proud of, and the world has to reckon with once again.
Trump Jr. partners with donor who pitched gov't
APNewsBreak: Trump Jr. partners with donor who pitched gov’t
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump Jr. has a previously undisclosed business relationship with a longtime hunting buddy who helped raise millions of dollars for his father’s 2016 presidential campaign and has had special access to top government officials since the election, records obtained by The Associated Press show.
The president’s eldest son and Texas hedge fund manager Gentry Beach have been involved in business deals together dating back to the mid-2000s and recently formed a company — Future Venture LLC — despite past claims by both men that they were just friends, according to previously unreported court records and other documents obtained by AP.
Beach last year met with top National Security Council officials to push a plan that would curb U.S. sanctions in Venezuela and open up business for U.S. companies in the oil-rich nation.
Ethics experts said their financial entanglements raised questions about whether Beach’s access to government officials and advocacy for policy changes were made possible by the president’s son’s influence — and could also benefit the Trump family’s bottom line.
“This feeds into the same concerns that we’ve had all along: The really fuzzy line between the presidency and the Trumps’ companies,” said Noah Bookbinder, who leads Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a public policy group. “Donald Trump Jr. sort of straddles that line all the time.”
Last February, just as Trump Sr. was settling into office, Beach and an Iraqi-American businessman met with top officials at the National Security Council to present their plan for lightening U.S. sanctions in Venezuela in exchange for opening business opportunities for U.S. companies, according to a former U.S. official with direct knowledge of the proposal.
Career foreign policy experts were instructed to take the meetings, first reported last April by the website Mic.com, at the direction of the West Wing because Beach and the businessman were friends of Trump Jr., the official said.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive government work, said that inside the NSC lawyers raised red flags about the appropriateness of the meeting.
The U.S. didn’t act on the pitch, which would have gone against the president’s hard-line stance on the South American nation and its president, Nicolas Maduro.
Seven months after the Venezuela meetings, Beach attended a private lunch in Dallas between Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Republican donors, including businessmen with petroleum interests, according to a copy of Zinke’s schedule.
The Interior Department didn’t respond to a request for comment about the meetings. A White House official said Trump Jr. didn’t arrange Beach’s visit to the NSC and his proposal was dismissed.
In a statement, the Trump Organization said Trump Jr. has never played a role arranging meetings “with anyone at the White House or any other government agency.”
Alan Garten, the Trump Organization’s general counsel, acknowledged that Trump Jr. had invested with Beach in the past, but referred AP to a statement released by the company in April, which said their relationship was “strictly personal.”
In a statement provided by a friend, Beach said it was “absolutely not true” that he’d ever “used my longtime personal friendship with Donald Trump Jr.” to influence government decision making.
According to his friends, Beach, who has known Trump Jr. since they attended the University of Pennsylvania together in the late 1990s, developed his own relationships during the campaign and inauguration and doesn’t need Trump Jr. to broker introductions.
Beach was an avid fundraiser and campaigner for President Trump, particularly in Texas, where Trump Jr. told donors last March that Beach and another longtime hunting pal, Tom Hicks Jr., raised millions for his father’s campaign, according to the Dallas Morning News.
After the election, Beach served as a finance vice chairman for the inaugural committee and faced scrutiny after a nonprofit he started at the time advertised hunting and fishing trips with Trump Jr. and his brother, Eric, to million-dollar donors.
Last October, Beach incorporated a business called Future Venture LLC in Delaware without listing any Trump connection, signing himself as the entity’s agent.
But a disclosure report filed with New York City officials and obtained by AP via a public records request shows Trump Jr. is named as the president, secretary and treasurer of the company.
The purpose of the limited liability company could not be determined from the filings. The Trump Organization said it was set up to pursue technology investments.
Previously unreported court documents show that the two men, each a godfather to one of the other’s sons, did business together well before they formed Future Venture.
In a 2010 deposition, Trump Jr. testified that he had twice made investments in ventures that Beach had an interest in: $200,000 in a dry Texas oil well managed by Beach’s father and an undisclosed amount in a failed mining stock affiliated with Beach’s uncle.
In August 2008, while the two men were golfing together in New York, Beach suggested Trump Jr. sell his shares in the tanking stock “if you need the tax loss,” according to a copy of his testimony filed in a long running civil lawsuit between Beach and a former employer, hedge funder Paul Touradji.
Beach’s father, Gary Beach, was convicted last month of federal bankruptcy fraud after a seven-day trial in Dallas.
Trump Jr. testified that he had other business discussions with Beach — but not all of them came to fruition, including a plan to buy a hunting preserve in Mexico with Beach.
Trump Jr. also referred Beach to someone he knew from Saudi Arabia when Beach was working on a potential oil purchase and invested $50,000 along with his sister Ivanka in an Argentine resort developed by one of Beach’s friends, he testified.
Trump Jr. estimated he exchanged roughly 500 emails with Beach at the time of his 2010 deposition.
Pressed for details about the oil well deal in his deposition, Trump Jr. indicated he wasn’t well versed in the oil-and-gas business.
“You know, I put some money with a friend,” he testified.
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Remember the Michael Wolff book?
He said Trump paid off "100 women" during the campaign
The other 99 need to step forward lol