@mau @ALFA @milano ammetto, l’ho scritto io questo…a mi avevo fatto aiutare da chatgpt…

@jbiserkov @nepravda As for the point you’re making, Russia has much larger capacity to finance his operations, and - as documented in this same article - it did.

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@jbiserkov @nepravda The USSR had very long traditions of sexual honey traps. There are several high profile Russian women currently on trial for government-sponsored prostitution in the US. For the historical account, see “mozhno girls”

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@jbiserkov @nepravda I don’t see any contradiction in him being at-least a double agent. After all, apparently he was the type of asset that only exposed high profile people, but was not provided intelligence information from the services themselves. 1/3

@nepravda "Things were picking up in 2019, as Putin was planning his invasion of Ukraine while Trump was preparing for the 2020 election.

In July 2019, Trump had conversations with five foreign leaders during and a presidential visit that month to Mar-a-Lago; they included Putin and the Emir of Qatar.

In one of those conversations Trump “made promises” to a “world leader” that were so alarming it provoked a national security scramble across multiple agencies."

@nepravda “Similarly, when they met in Helsinki on July 16, 2018, Trump and Putin talked in private for several hours and Trump ordered his translators’ notes destroyed; there is also concern that much of their conversation was done out of the hearing of the US’s translator (Putin is fluent in English) who may have been relegated to a distant part of the rather large empty ballroom in which they met.”

@nepravda "When Robert Mueller’s team tried to investigate Trump’s ties to Russia and they were stonewalled.

The Mueller Report identified ten specific instances of Trump trying to obstruct the investigation, including offering the bribe of a pardon to Paul Manafort, asking FBI Director Comey to “go easy” on General Flynn after Flynn’s dinner with Putin, and directing Attorney General Jeff Sessions to limit Mueller’s ability to investigate Trump’s connections to Russia."

@nepravda "There is no known parallel to this behavior by any president in US history and criminally bringing stolen top secret documents to Mar-a-Lago is just the tip of the iceberg.

The WP reported that Trump had a habit of carrying top-secret information that could severely damage our national security, leaving it in hotel rooms in hostile nations.

Was he bringing these documents with him to sell?.. Or because Putin told him to?"

@nepravda "Trump pardoned Manafort, which got him out of prison. He’s still fabulously rich from his work for Russia and his unpaid efforts to elect Trump.

As The New York Times noted in 2020:

“[I]nvestigators found enough there to declare that Mr. Manafort created ‘a grave counterintelligence threat’ by sharing inside information about the presidential race with Mr. Kilimnik and the Russian and [pro-Russian] Ukrainian oligarchs whom he served.”"

@nepravda "The manager of his 2016 campaign, Paul Manafort — who was previously paid tens of millions by Vladimir Putin’s people to install a pro-Putin puppet as Ukraine’s president in 2010 — has admitted that he was regularly feeding secret inside-campaign strategy and polling information to Russian intelligence via the oligarch who typically paid him on their behalf.

Throughout the campaign, he regularly let Russia know where Trump needed specific types of help, and how, and when."

@nepravda "Epstein, of course, died under deeply suspicious circumstances in jail while Trump was president (and now Epstein’s partner in crime, Ghislaine Maxwell, has been moved to a country club type of facility where she reportedly spends the days training puppies). As Republican consultant Harlan Hill noted on Twitter at the time of Epstein’s supposed suicide:

“Dead men tell no tales. Just as Jeffrey Epstein starts to name names, he decides to kill himself? Mkay. Totally believable.”"

@nepravda "As Don Jr. told wealthy attendees to a 2008 real-estate conference:
“In terms of high-end product influx into the U.S., Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets.”

Eric Trump told a friend, who later testified about it:
“‘Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.’ I said, ‘Really?’ And he said, ‘Oh, yeah. We’ve got some guys that really, really love golf, and they’re really invested in our programs.’”"

@nepravda "In return for giving Putin videos of wealthy, famous men in criminally compromising positions, Putin reportedly arranged for massive amounts of corrupt Russian money to be handed to Epstein to launder in the US.

America has the most lax and largely useless real estate transaction laws in the developed world, so a main way to launder such dirty cash is through cash-based real estate transactions (which are illegal in almost every other developed country)."

@nepravda
"“Epstein even seems to have secured audiences with Putin after his 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.”
Essentially, they’re arguing that Epstein was running an operation on behalf of the KGB/Putin that lured wealthy and powerful men to Epstein’s New York and Palm Beach mansions and his island where they were surreptitiously filmed having sex with underage girls.

That material was then presumably passed along to Putin, who used it for leverage when he needed it"

@velo “Той поясни, че маршрутите вече са утвърдени, като работна група вече прави проверки. Част от трасето обаче се нуждае от спешни ремонти на пътните настилки. По думите на Илиев има уверение от агенция “Пътна инфраструктура”, че ремонти ще бъдат направени в срок и всичко ще е готово за състезанието.”

@mapto@feddit.bg @foufoutos @balkanika this one is a bit more elaborate
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1296410/heavy-sentences-in-wiretapping-case/

@mapto@feddit.bg @foufoutos do you know more? If I understand correctly, they sentenced the foreigners (a sentence that probably cannot be enforced) and in a separate trial covered up the politicians and administrators. There seems to be one Greek sentenced (Yiannis Lavranos), but I don’t understand for what. Do they allege that he ordered the spying? If there’s noone guilty of spying, how do they link a purchase of software services to particular deployments of these services?

@balkanika

@choui4 most immediately, it destroys habitats, and even if sparsely populated, semi-deserts are habitats to extraordinary species. Totalitarian counties in particular don’t have the mechanisms of internal criticism and self-correctiveness, and as a consequence risk moving too fast for nature to adapt.

Hardly comparable, because we’re talking of an opposing action here, but here are examples of effects of water engineering:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern/_river/_reversal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado/_River/_Compact#Over-use,_climate_change,_and_other_issues
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gk1251w14o

This type of large scale engineering is quite dangerous, but still better this than what has happened for decades around the world and is still happening in Brazil.

@blackn1ght @science

@reabsorbthelight to give estimates, we’d need to see if the increased applications lead to increased awards to US researchers (which is quite probable). One of these grants leads to about a dozen new hires, and it’s very probable that senior researchers would want to pull their teams along.