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Gap03

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  1. 4 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Sourced or not, I don't believe that's real.  It has to be a fake planted in with docs as a decoy -- something done by a hacking team to discredit the release, etc.  That's not real, and we shouldn't buy that it is.

    People have been saying Sater has been cooperating with the FBI for a while now, right?  It would seem like that would be the sort of thing that Felix would be corroborating as part of his cooperation, I'd think.  That said, that email is pretty ridiculous.

  2. 31 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

    Oh and there’s this:

    Mystery company lost motion(s) at the DC Circuit to prevent attachment of its property/enforcement of civil penalty for refusing to comply with grand jury subpoena. Also filings seem to indicate the company has 22-27 characters in its name. Twitter speculation suggests: QATARI INVESTMENT AUTHORITY 

    QIA makes perfect sense.  Please, eight pound, six ounce, newborn baby Jesus, don't even know a word yet, just a little infant, so cuddly, but still omnipotent - let them track the Rosneft brokerage fee from the QIA back to Trump and co.  Would be so sweet if 95%+ of the Steele dossier ended up being true.

  3. 7 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

     

    Doesn't he realize that anyone that has been paying attention over the last 2 years is now scrambling to find these clips to figure out what Michael D'Antonio has said exactly right about his dumb ass?

  4. 26 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

    https://www.vtb.com/akcionery-i-investory/raskrytie-informacii/struktura-akcionernogo-kapitala/

    Looks wholly Russian owned to me...

    Also, Alston & Bird reps the company and they’ve rep’d several high profile Russian interests in the past

    That table only shows the >5% SHs.  Approximately 40% of the VTB ordinary shares aren't reflected there, many of which are held by non-state entities (based on the sources spoiler'd below).

     

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    Shareholders

    The main shareholder of VTB is the Russian Government,[8] which owns 60.9% of the lender through its Federal Agency for State Property Management. The remaining shares are split between holders of its Global Depository Receipts and minority shareholders, both individuals and companies.

    In February 2011, the Government floated an additional 10% minus two shares of VTB Bank. The private investors, who paid a total of 95.7 billion rubles ($3.1 billion) for the assets, included the investment funds Generali, TPG Capital, China Investment Corp, a sovereign wealth fund responsible for managing China's foreign exchange reserves, and companies affiliated with businessman Suleiman Kerimov.[47]

    In May 2013 VTB completed a secondary public offering (SPO), issuing 2.5 trillion new additional shares by public subscription. All the shares have been placed on Moscow's primary stock exchange. The government has not participated in the SPO so its stake in the bank decreased to 60.9% after the subscription has been closed. The bank has raised 102.5 billion rubles worth of additional capital. Three sovereign wealth funds Norway's Norges Bank Investment Management, Qatar Holding LLC and the State Oil Fund of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOFAZ) and commercial bank China Construction Bank became the largest investors during the SPO after purchasing more than half of the additional share issue.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTB_Bank#Shareholders

     

    Spoiler
    Name Equities %
    Federal Agency for State Property Management 6,093,477,999,999 60.9%
    Qatar Holding LLC 236,000,000,000 2.36%
    Future Private Pension Fund JSC 159,000,000,000 1.59%
    BlackRock Advisors (UK) Ltd. 2,147,483,647 0.022%
    Bessemer Investment Management LLC 2,147,483,647 0.022%
    UBS Asset Management (UK) Ltd. 2,147,483,647 0.022%
    Zürcher Kantonalbank (Investment Management) 2,147,483,647 0.022%
    BlackRock Fund Advisors 2,147,483,647 0.022%
    The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec 2,147,483,647 0.022%
    BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd. 2,147,483,647 0.022%

    https://www.marketscreener.com/BANK-VTB-PAO-6499155/company/

     

     

  5. 28 minutes ago, Gap03 said:

    I haven't been following along closely, but I didn't think either of VTB Bank or Alfa Bank were wholly-owned by Russia.  Any chance this might actually be the Qatari Investment Authority - i.e., the one that bought the stake in Rosneft and which is definitely a a wholly owned agency or instrumentality of a foreign state?  

    Just a reminder about the QIA / Rosneft / Page episode:

    https://medium.com/@gregolear/the-rosneft-commission-trumps-inevitable-downfall-will-involve-money-and-lots-of-it-81e87778288f

    https://medium.com/@gregolear/rosneft-revisited-did-trump-do-a-deal-in-russia-b2dfda6ce310

    Fingers crossed that Mueller has managed to substantiate some of the speculation around a Rosneft brokerage.  How sweet would it be if the Steele Dossier was spot on regarding Page's activities and they managed to track the money back to the Trump organization?

  6. 31 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    I’m guessing Alpha Bank

    I haven't been following along closely, but I didn't think either of VTB Bank or Alfa Bank were wholly-owned by Russia.  Any chance this might actually be the Qatari Investment Authority - i.e., the one that bought the stake in Rosneft and which is definitely a a wholly owned agency or instrumentality of a foreign state?  

  7. 18 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

    That was my first thought, but then after running through a list of the characters, Trumps, Stone, Corsi, Page, Spicer, The Mooch, Hannity, Dobbs, Sessions, Cohen, papadopoulos, etc,...  seems like Mike Judge would be the best person to produce it. 

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  8. 2 minutes ago, triplehorn said:

     

    See, now Fox News is just getting cocky, openly mocking the idiocy of its viewers ...  kinda like when Putin made Trump walk out in Helsinki and take a dump on the US.  I'm looking forward to when they couple that new MS-13 insurance with the Trumpy Bears - I'm sure that package will sell like hotcakes.

    Good times.

  9. 41 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

    The WSJ Editorial Board (and the WSJ op-ed page in general) has veered into Fox & Friends territory in recent years.  I canceled my subscription back in 2017.  As they often do, they wanted to discuss why I was canceling, and I explained that the Editorial Board pieces were absolute shitshows and that I didn't feel like I could trust them even for business news anymore.  Interestingly, the person I was speaking with admitted that they were getting a lot of cancellations for that reason.  I have to think that it ends up hitting the WSJ bottom line, but it's pretty apparent that Murdoch doesn't give a damn for whatever reason.  

  10. 41 minutes ago, Message Board User said:

     

    Every Cruz rally picture is strategically framed to make the crowd look big, but in reality there's never more than 5 or 6 rows of non-staff  / non-press attendees.  Goes to show that nobody really likes Ted.  Too bad it may not matter because of Texas and its "(R)" problem ...

  11. 2 minutes ago, RPM said:

    Then they must agree the 2nd only gives gun ownership rights to well regulated militia members. Slippery fuckin' slope.

    I'd be willing to clarify birthright citizenship by constitutional amendment if we can also address the 2nd Amendment and the issue of corporate personhood.  Let's get to it.

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  12. 4 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Olds trying to vote before they die.

    Between the data on the olds + early voting in Collin / Williamson / Brazoria counties, it looks like the GOP / Fox News tactic of continuing to scare the shit out of their base is working.  

  13. 8 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

    jtfc

     

    Obviously, someone in the admin (no way Trump wrote that) really wanted to trigger the libs on this most pseudo of pseudo-holidays.  Let's see how many take the bait ...

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