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The GameStop Mess Exposes the Naked Short Selling Scam

By Lucy Komisar The American Prospect, Feb 25, 2021 — By Lucy Komisar The American Prospect, Feb 25, 2021 A decade ago, a Biden confidant tried to stop it. Now there’s another chance. At the House Financial Services Committee hearing last week on the GameStop debacle, there was an elephant in the room: naked short selling. Short selling, effectively betting…

Gamestop

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Apr 21, 2021

“Son of the South” riveting true docudrama of a white Alabama activist in the 1960s

By Lucy Komisar — By Lucy Komisar April 18, 2021 — I met Bob Zellner in 1960 at the Shaw University, Raleigh NC, conference that founded SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the youth shock troops of the 1960s civil rights movement. He was a young white guy from Alabama who had signed on…

Son Of The South

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Apr 12, 2021

British lawyer Geoffrey Robertson and his fake Magnitsky story

By Lucy Komisar April 2, 2021 — By Lucy Komisar April 2, 2021 Sometimes the people who work for the West’s Deep State are subtle. But not this time. A webinar by British lawyer Geoffrey Robertson, a self-proclaimed international human rights advocate who was promoting a book, was mired so deep in lies that if I was…

Geoffrey Robertson

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Mar 31, 2021

Cuomo prefers people to wait outside in the cold for hours in public venues

By Lucy Komisar Feb 21, 2021 — By Lucy Komisar Feb 21, 2021 I wrote a story about how my Covid vaccine appointment with Mount Sinai was cancelled, and how I’d learned that Gov. Cuomo stopped vaccine deliveries to Mount Sinai because it had criticized him. I got this response from a reader I know and trust: …

Andrew Cuomo

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Cuomo prefers people to wait outside in the cold for hours in public venues

Mar 25, 2021

Getting a Covid shot at a time of health care corruption

By Lucy Komisar Feb 19, 2021 — By Lucy Komisar Feb 19, 2021 I got a Covid vaccine yesterday at a center set up at the Ford Foundation on West 42 ndStreet in Manhattan. I went online Feb 17 and booked an appointment for the next day. Nyc.gov/vaccinefinder. …

Covid

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Oct 29, 2020

Weaponizing Human Rights: Can Magnitsky Act deny due process?

Arena (Melbourne, Australia) — Arena (Melbourne, Australia) The Australian parliament seems about to approve a ‘human rights’ law that would establish the ability to exert arbitrary state power over individuals in other countries who have been accused of human rights violations. …

William Browder

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Weaponizing Human Rights: Can Magnitsky Act deny due process?

Oct 19, 2020

The BuzzFeed Russiagate agenda

BuzzFeed, the internet news site, Sunday revealed a massive investigation about international banks’ failures to act on documents filed… — BuzzFeed, the internet news site, Sunday revealed a massive investigation about international banks’ failures to act on documents filed with the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) that report evidence or suspicions of money-laundering. Its assertions appear solid. But there is a back story related to BF Russophobia.

Buzz Feed

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Oct 19, 2020

How UK, U.S. created international money-laundering system

On The Backstory October 15th, I talked about the film “The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire” about how in the 1960s the Brits took… — On The Backstory October 15th, I talked about the film “The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire” about how in the 1960s the Brits took Swiss bank secrecy of the 1930s and expanded it to enable money-laundering by The City of London, the protected British banking cutout which operates independently from…

Offshore

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How UK, U.S. created international money-laundering system

On The Backstory October 15th, I talked about the film “The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire” about how in the 1960s the Brits took Swiss bank secrecy of the 1930s and expanded it to enable money-laundering by The City of London, the protected British banking cutout which operates independently from…

Aug 31, 2020

French justice minister supports call to US: freedom for Assange

Robin Des Lois, a French organization that works for the rights of prison inmates around the world, today sent a letter to President Trump… — Robin Des Lois, a French organization that works for the rights of prison inmates around the world, today sent a letter to President Trump asking him to drop charges against Julian Assange based on his revelations of U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan. Freedom for Assange is supported by the French…

Julian Assange

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Aug 31, 2020

How Democrats and Republicans made deals to pass Magnitsky Act

As the Democratic Convention is in progress, it is fitting to look at how Democrats in Congress and the White House, with Republican… — As the Democratic Convention is in progress, it is fitting to look at how Democrats in Congress and the White House, with Republican collaboration, were responsible for the Magnitsky Act, the law that protects tax fraudster William Browder and his henchman Mikhail Khodorkovsky by erecting a wall against their having…

Magnitsky Act

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