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originally posted by: tsurfer2000h
a reply to: sosobad
Wasn't asked about that, tsurfer said he wasn't a journalist.
WRONGl, the source I posted did get it right.
Nowhere in my post do you see me say this man was not a journalist.
So why are you spreading disinfo
The bank is 100 percent owned by a low-profile financier named Roman Popov, who has no known projects in France. Before he joined the bank as chief executive in 2002, Popov worked for Stroitransgaz, a major pipeline contractor for Russia's natural gas monopoly, Gazprom. Stroitransgaz once owned FCRB, but by the time the close Putin friend Gennady Timchenko acquired the pipeline builder, Popov and Stroitransgaz chief executive Viktor Lorenz were the bank's only shareholders.
Although FCRB has no direct ties to the Russian government or to any of the individuals on EU and U.S. sanctions lists, the loan has Kremlin fingerprints on it. Saint-Just said that European Parliament deputy Jean-Luc Schaffhauser recommended FCRB to him and Le Pen. The National Front legislator has close ties to Moscow: He recently visited Donetsk, Ukraine, with a spurious European mission to observe elections held there by pro-Russian separatist leaders. According to the French news site Mediapart, his Moscow contact was Alexander Babakov, a pro-Kremlin legislator who owns various businesses in Ukraine and who is on the EU's Ukraine-related sanctions list.
For Le Pen herself, taking Russian money is not a problem: She has never made a secret of her support for Putin, and her voters won't be scandalized. The battle lines are drawn, and there's no point in being shy about declaring one's allegiances. Le Pen's openness about her new funding source is yet another reason for the mainstream parties to get their act together and keep the National Front from making it big -- that is, unless they want Putin's backdoor into French politics to turn into a wide-open gate.
You quoted the exact phrase "fake journalist".
...as it means it came from an outside source, and not from me.
originally posted by: tsurfer2000h
a reply to: sosobad
Did I link a blog?
So you have never linked a blog?
As I didn't say you did in this thread did I?
So you don't believe the headline?
originally posted by: tsurfer2000h
a reply to: sosobad
So you don't believe the headline?
That isn't the point of this thread and what I believe isn't the topic so that really doesn't matter now does it?
I linked to a story that says different than what you posted, so if you have a problem take it up with the person that wrote it.
Or is it your job to just personally attack other members that don't agree with your mindset?
Can you show me which time I linked a blog? You have told members that linking blogs is worthless have you not?
ooks like both of you had some trouble with the reading comprehension.
originally posted by: sosobad
a reply to: tsurfer2000h
You asked me about it and then accusing me of derailing??? You feeling ok?
I see you just disregard what was posted, but try it again you might actually understand what is going on.
originally posted by: universalbri
a reply to: Aloysius the Gaul
Or more likely: A group or agency claiming to be hackers wrote some 'decent' fiction (that may be an overstatement) they claim is from the Kremlin and France.
blah blah blah.
originally posted by: DJW001
originally posted by: universalbri
a reply to: Aloysius the Gaul
Or more likely: A group or agency claiming to be hackers wrote some 'decent' fiction (that may be an overstatement) they claim is from the Kremlin and France.
blah blah blah.
Yep, that's how they framed Barbara Nuland.