В фильме "Rocknrolla" Гая Ричи (2008) важной частью сюжета служит неизвестная картина, принадлежащая олигарху Юрию Омовичу.
Ныне про использовании живописи для отмывания денег стало известно немного больше - этим пользовались братья Ротенберги чтобы обходить американские санкции.
Powerful Russian oligarchs have allegedly discovered a surprising new tool to evade sanctions: the secretive and largely unregulated U.S. art industry
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Хорошая статья про Трампа, изобразительное искусство и Зураба Церетели:
His first media spectacle, in 1980, focused on the then-33-year-old developer destroying a pair of Art Deco reliefs that were part of the facade of the Bonwit Teller Building in midtown Manhattan, which Trump tore down to build his Trump Tower. The Metropolitan Museum of Art wanted the reliefs for its collection, as the Washington Post recalled in a bit of retrospective reporting recently, and Trump agreed to donate them, if the cost of their removal wasn’t prohibitive. It wasn’t, but Trump’s construction crew destroyed the works anyway. He has been flirting with a presidential run since the late ’80s; as early as 1999, he made a public call for censorship and claimed that his hypothetical presidency would cut federal funding for the arts. That was the year that Mayor Rudolph Giuliani embarked on a crusade against the Brooklyn Museum for its exhibition of Chris Ofili’s The Holy Mary Virgin (1996), which depicts the Madonna in materials including oil paint,
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Известный британский журналист Пол Вуд - в защиту Стила и с информацией про “pee tape” и «петуха» Трампа:
I’m told that in 2016 Danchenko gave Steele accounts of three meetings with Millian, as they happened, at restaurants in Washington DC, New York and Charleston. Steele called Danchenko his ‘head agent’ in the field. There was back and forth between them about these meetings. A lot of details were given afterwards. Either Danchenko was producing Pulitzer-prize-winning fiction for Steele or he later felt he had to be extremely careful with what he told the FBI. Steele’s supporters believe this is what happened. You can certainly imagine Danchenko’s state of mind, a Russian, terrified of being arrested and deported, trying to downplay his role in finding dirt on America’s new president. Time and again, he ‘could not recall’ something quoted in the dossier
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“Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump” is due out Sept. 8, publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books & Media said in a statement to The Associated Press
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Facebook, Google and other major tech companies said on Wednesday that they had added new partners and met with government agencies in their efforts to secure the November election
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Противопоставление досье Стила и QAnon - тренд среди новой поросли трампистов.
Winning candidates often receive a congratulatory message from an incumbent president. It’s one of those pro forma niceties of the Old Washington, and Trump’s staff craves moments that make him look like something other than a ranting, gouty old racist, so tweeting “Congratulations to future Republican Star Marjorie Taylor Greene on a big Congressional primary win in Georgia against a very tough and smart opponent. Marjorie is strong on everything and never gives up - a real WINNER!” probably seemed like a good idea. Hell, Republican victories these days are few and far between
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QAnon believers have waited for this day for years.
Some believed-no joke-that he would respond to this with the sentence "Ladies and gentleman, the storm is upon us," and this would trigger mass arrests of the babyeaters.
If you are going to ask QAnon-adjacent politicians about QAnon, it’s worth getting specific. Because it’s not “we just care about child trafficking.” It’s a smorgasbord of conspiracy theories, with a healthy dose of anti-Semitism (itself a conspiracy theory.) Note the file name. pic.twitter.com/AAQmzDnJk5 - Jane Coaston (@cjane87) August 14, 2020
While QAnon bubbled on the fringes of the internet for years, researchers and experts say it has emerged in recent months as a sort of centralized hub for conspiracy and alternative health communities. According to an internal document reported by NBC News this week, Facebook now has more than 1,000 of these QAnon groups, totaling millions of members. Users like Rein Lively who started off in wellness communities, religious groups and new-age groups on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram during the pandemic were then introduced to extremist groups like QAnon, aided by shared beliefs about energy, healing or God - and often by recommendation algorithms. And while anti-mask sentiment has surfaced in a variety of ways for a number of reasons, viral videos of anti-mask confrontations have become causes for celebration in conspiracy circles, embraced as examples of people taking the fight against their shadowy enemy into the real world.https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/
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В фильме "Rocknrolla" Гая Ричи (2008) важной частью сюжета служит неизвестная картина, принадлежащая олигарху Юрию Омовичу.
Ныне про использовании живописи для отмывания денег стало известно немного больше - этим пользовались братья Ротенберги чтобы обходить американские санкции.
Powerful Russian oligarchs have allegedly discovered a surprising new tool to evade sanctions: the secretive and largely unregulated U.S. art industry ( ... )
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His first media spectacle, in 1980, focused on the then-33-year-old developer destroying a pair of Art Deco reliefs that were part of the facade of the Bonwit Teller Building in midtown Manhattan, which Trump tore down to build his Trump Tower. The Metropolitan Museum of Art wanted the reliefs for its collection, as the Washington Post recalled in a bit of retrospective reporting recently, and Trump agreed to donate them, if the cost of their removal wasn’t prohibitive. It wasn’t, but Trump’s construction crew destroyed the works anyway. He has been flirting with a presidential run since the late ’80s; as early as 1999, he made a public call for censorship and claimed that his hypothetical presidency would cut federal funding for the arts. That was the year that Mayor Rudolph Giuliani embarked on a crusade against the Brooklyn Museum for its exhibition of Chris Ofili’s The Holy Mary Virgin (1996), which depicts the Madonna in materials including oil paint, ( ... )
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I’m told that in 2016 Danchenko gave Steele accounts of three meetings with Millian, as they happened, at restaurants in Washington DC, New York and Charleston. Steele called Danchenko his ‘head agent’ in the field. There was back and forth between them about these meetings. A lot of details were given afterwards. Either Danchenko was producing Pulitzer-prize-winning fiction for Steele or he later felt he had to be extremely careful with what he told the FBI. Steele’s supporters believe this is what happened. You can certainly imagine Danchenko’s state of mind, a Russian, terrified of being arrested and deported, trying to downplay his role in finding dirt on America’s new president. Time and again, he ‘could not recall’ something quoted in the dossier ( ... )
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Some personal news - my new book, Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump comes out on 9/8.
You can learn more and preorder here: https://t.co/AWIi2XaDgq
- Peter Strzok (@petestrzok) July 28, 2020
“Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump” is due out Sept. 8, publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books & Media said in a statement to The Associated Press ( ... )
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Election Day is in less than 90 days, which means many foreign nations might try to illegally influence the American political process through disinformation campaigns on social media platforms. Learn more at https://t.co/YzvMdmQ6QV. #Election2020 pic.twitter.com/5DBmDTSGqs
- FBI (@FBI) August 12, 2020
Facebook, Google and other major tech companies said on Wednesday that they had added new partners and met with government agencies in their efforts to secure the November election ( ... )
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Winning candidates often receive a congratulatory message from an incumbent president. It’s one of those pro forma niceties of the Old Washington, and Trump’s staff craves moments that make him look like something other than a ranting, gouty old racist, so tweeting “Congratulations to future Republican Star Marjorie Taylor Greene on a big Congressional primary win in Georgia against a very tough and smart opponent. Marjorie is strong on everything and never gives up - a real WINNER!” probably seemed like a good idea. Hell, Republican victories these days are few and far between ( ... )
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QAnon believers have waited for this day for years.
Some believed-no joke-that he would respond to this with the sentence "Ladies and gentleman, the storm is upon us," and this would trigger mass arrests of the babyeaters.
Still, Q folks will find a way to spin this into a win. https://t.co/8O9kucnaLU
- Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) August 14, 2020
If you are going to ask QAnon-adjacent politicians about QAnon, it’s worth getting specific. Because it’s not “we just care about child trafficking.” It’s a smorgasbord of conspiracy theories, with a healthy dose of anti-Semitism (itself a conspiracy theory.) Note the file name. pic.twitter.com/AAQmzDnJk5
- Jane Coaston (@cjane87) August 14, 2020
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Users like Rein Lively who started off in wellness communities, religious groups and new-age groups on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram during the pandemic were then introduced to extremist groups like QAnon, aided by shared beliefs about energy, healing or God - and often by recommendation algorithms.
And while anti-mask sentiment has surfaced in a variety of ways for a number of reasons, viral videos of anti-mask confrontations have become causes for celebration in conspiracy circles, embraced as examples of people taking the fight against their shadowy enemy into the real world.https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ ( ... )
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