Prelude To Detroit: Mariia Butina Reads From Her New Book From Inside The U.S. Prison System - With Introduction Into The Child Welfare System

If you think this is bad, wait until you find out what goes on in the Child Welfare System.

#maytheheavensfall

Voting is beautiful, be beautiful ~ vote.©

Dmitry Bosov Extracted Himself From Humanity

Dmitry Bosov extracted himself from humanity.

He just bought a $30 million mansion in Beverly Hills.

He invested $160 million into a legal marijuana company in 2018, too!

http://www.angelfire.com/journal/wallpaper/Foundation.html

Dmitrywas on the board of HC Sibir Novosibirsk .

Detroit Red Wings Russian Five played in that Hockey Club.

Sergei Fedorov has a Detroit children's trust fund.

https://cofs.lara.state.mi.us/CorpWeb/CorpSearch/CorpSummary.aspx?ID=800840841&SEARCH_TYPE=3&CanReturn=True

Hey, what do I know?

I know I found Detroit and children's trust funds in pediatric children's hospitals.

I also know his foundation bought a jet.

I wonder who was the pilot.

I wonder if Dmitry had any children's trust funds.

I guess we shall just have to wait.

Wait!

I found it!

Charity Fund "Day One"

https://www.day1fund.ru/about/#partnersAbout

POSITION Director
121108, Moscow city, Minskaya street, 11, floor / room 1/24
TIN 9731062231 PSRN 1207700128954 REGISTRATION DATE March 19, 2020
PRIMARY OCCUPATION 64.99 Provision of other financial services, except insurance and pension funding, nec

Taken from the charity by-laws:

The fund was created with the aim of forming property and funds on the basis of voluntary property contributions, as well as other proceeds not prohibited by law, and using this property and funds to carry out charitable activities aimed at: ¾ social support and protection of citizens, including improving the financial situation of low-income people, social rehabilitation unemployed, disabled and other persons who, by virtue of their physical or intellectual features, other circumstances are not able to independently exercise their rights and legitimate interests; одействие promoting the prestige and role of the family in society; ¾ promoting the protection of motherhood, childhood and fatherhood; одействие promoting activities in the field of education, science, culture, art, enlightenment, spiritual development одействие Promoting activities in the field of prevention and protection of the health of citizens, as well as promoting a healthy lifestyle, improving the moral and psychological state of citizens; 

¾ Promoting voluntary (volunteer) activities; деятельности Promoting activities for the production and (or) distribution of social advertising. Charitable activities of the Fund are understood as voluntary activities of citizens and legal entities on disinterested (gratuitous or on favorable terms) transfer of property to citizens and legal entities, including cash funds, disinterested work, the provision of services, the provision of other support in accordance with the objectives of the Foundation. 3.2. The subject of the Fund's activities is the implementation of the goals provided for in clause 3.1. of this Charter. To achieve its statutory goals, the Fund carries out the following activities: ¾ Attracting donations, investments, credit and other resources, including foreign ones, to implement projects aimed at achieving the statutory goals of the Fund; ¾o "

Dmitry Bosov: from wagons with mustard plasters to a coal empire in the Arctic

Dmitry was in the aluminium business with Oleg "The Ass" Deripaska in Detroit.

CHARTER Charity Fund "... by Beverly Tran on Scribd

I wonder if Dmitry had any Detroit Land Bank Authority properties?

We should ask Saskia.

Russian billionaire Dmitry Bosov found dead in apparent suicide

Dmitry Bosov

Russian billionaire Dmitry Bosov, whose core asset was a major coal company, was found dead Wednesday in an apparent suicide near his home in the Moscow region, local officials say. He was 52 years old.

A spokeswoman for Russia’s Investigative Committee told the Interfax news agency that relatives found Bosov with a gunshot wound to the head near his home in the town of Usovo.

A law enforcement source told the TASS news agency that investigators believe Bosov had committed suicide. A Glock 19 Gen 4 pistol was found near his body, according to Interfax.

Other details were not immediately known.

Bosov’s net worth was estimated to be $1.1 billion at the time of his death, according to Forbes magazine. His core assets were VostokCoal and the Sibanthracite Group, which unites several coal produces in Siberia. He and a partner also co-founded a company called Blackspace in 2015.

Voting is beautiful, be beautiful ~ vote.©

Maria Butina Got A New Job

I bet she is making lots of new friends who tell her lots and lots of tales...

FREED RUSSIAN AGENT MARIA BUTINA SAYS SHE WILL WORK FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AGENCY AND HELP CONVICTED DRUG, WEAPONS TRAFFICKERS

Who Is Alleged Russian Spy Maria Butina?

Confessed Russian agent Maria Butina, who was released from prison and immediately deported back to Moscow in October, has been invited to join Russia's High Commissioner for Human Rights to assist citizens in various predicaments overseas, according to comments she made in an interview published Tuesday.

Speaking with Russia's Federal News Agency, Butina said as part of her post-incarceration advocacy she will work to raise funds for Konstantin Yaroshenko and Viktor Bout, two Russians serving lengthy prison sentences in the United States.

Yaroshenko, a former aircraft pilot, was convicted in April 2011 of conspiring to smuggle cocaine into the United States. The Justice Department says he is a trans-national drug trafficker "who transported thousand-kilogram quantities of cocaine throughout South America, Africa, and Europe."

Bout, an international arms dealer, was convicted by a U.S. jury in November 2011 for his participation in a conspiracy to sell weapons to Colombian FARC rebels, an armed guerilla group that had long been in conflict with the country's security forces. The FARC officially disarmed in 2016 amid a broader peace deal with the Colombian government.

In the interview, Butina decried the "huge sentences" and "terrible conditions" both men are facing. Yaroshenko was sentenced to 20 years in prison; Bout was sentenced to 25.

In response to a request for comment, Lee Ginsberg, a lawyer for Yaroshenko, provided Newsweek with the following statement:

"I always believed that Mr. Yaroshenko's prosecution was the result of the overreaching of the U.S. government in a drug sting operation. Hopefully, this new development will lead to his release from custody."

Newsweek reached out to the Russian Federation's Commissioner for Human Rights about Butina's work and has not yet heard back.

As part of her plea deal with federal prosecutors in the District of Columbia, Butina admitted to establishing "unofficial lines of communication" with American powerbrokers in order to influence domestic politics at Russia's behest. Working to advance the interests of a foreign entity often requires pre-registration with the Justice Department, which Butina admitted did not do.

Butina's years-long efforts included attempts to infiltrate the National Rifle Association (NRA) and ingratiate herself with influential conservatives. By attending various NRA conferences and co-mingling with Republican attendees, she hoped to establish an unofficial back channel to a prospective Trump administration.

More than just a rogue operator, Butina has become a cause célèbre in her native Russia after making well-publicized comments about the conditions of her confinement in the United States.

Her characterizations of the American prison system and descriptions of languishing inside solitary confinement have served as fodder for Russian propaganda, but they also recall credible criticisms of how the United States treats detainees.

As part of the work she says she will do for the human rights commission, Butina described a hotline she will purportedly help develop to provide legal assistance to Russian citizens. She also said she will push to eliminate abusive prison practices internationally.

"I will be working to ban torture in the form of prolonged solitary confinement in places of imprisonment around the world," she said. "You need to call things by their names, a person is not meant to live in isolation. Solitary confinement is torture. Even though the U.N. convention classifies it as torture, this method of punishment is still widely used, especially in the United States. My four months in solitary confinement is a great example."

In the interview, Butina also recounted a previously untold story about being welcomed back to Russia once her prison sentence was complete. After being put on an Aeroflot plane in Miami, she claims, a reporter handed her a phone with Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson for Russia's Foreign Ministry, on the other end of the line.

According to Butina, Zakharova comforted her, saying, "Maria, the whole country is looking at you. Get ready, we have been waiting for you so much."

Butina says she will work on preparing a forthcoming report on the status of Russians currently in legal jeopardy abroad.

In terms of the cases of Yaroshenko and Bout, which the Russian government has been pressing for years, Butina believes that the President Donald Trump's administration is no longer willing to cooperate on these sorts of issues.

"We expected one thing, for example, that a friendly [President Donald] Trump would be interested in building a new, good relationship between Russia and the United States, and that the United States would stop being hostile towards Russia," she said. "But as you see, it turned out to be the opposite of that."

Butina professed a sense of patriotic duty in her purported work for Russian citizens on behalf of the government, which regularly detains dissidents and utilizes torture, according to Human Rights Watch.

"The Russians do not abandon their own, so now the baton is in my hands, and I consider it my duty to help those who find themselves in the same situation," she said.

Voting is beautiful, be beautiful ~ vote.©

BREAKING NEWS: Area 1 Security Claims Trump Had Russia Hack Burisma Because The CrowdStrike Psyoptic Did Not Go So Well

It seems those wily "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) over there at Perkins Coie Sucks are at it again!

I guess it would have been awkward to use CrowdStrike, again.

Impeach, I say! 

Dilly, dilly!

And, now, you know why the world was waiting for Nancy Pelosi to send over those Articles of Impeachment.

I guess Oren Falkowitz was a bit squeamish in executing the DNC's latest and greatest plan, but, then again, pending prosecution of war crimes always seems to impede those pesky timelines, but, hey, what do I know?

https://www.area1security.com/

Here is a list of the victims of the GRU hack....

https://www.hudson.org/

The DNC said Mueller warned us, but, obviously, no one listened...

Burisma targeted by Russia-linked phishing attack, raising election-meddling fears

It’s unclear if the hackers found any information

A Silicon Valley-based security firm called Area1 says it has found indications that state-sponsored Russian hackers have successfully hacked the Ukranian gas company Burisma, as first reported by the The New York Times. The company has taken on a central role in US politics because of its connection to Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden, whose son Hunter sits on the company’s board.

In July, President Trump asked Ukraine’s government to investigate Burisma to find damaging information on the Biden family, allegedly threatening to withhold military aid to the country if the prime minister did not announce an investigation. That request is at the center of the president’s ongoing impeachment proceedings, and has made Burisma a tempting target for anyone seeking to meddle in US politics.

According to Area1, the security firm that detected the attacks, says they detected phishing emails sent to Burisma employees bearing many of the hallmarks of GRU hacking campaigns. The hackers were apparently successful in getting employee login info they used to gain entry into one of Burisma’s servers, although it is unclear how much information was obtained. If the GRU is in fact involved, it’s possible the group could have been looking for embarrassing information to be released during the 2020 presidential campaign.

THEY REPORTEDLY GAINED ENTRY TO ONE BURISMA SERVER
In hacking Burisma, the Russian hackers could be following a similar playbook as what they reportedly did to undermine Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign during the 2016 election. In January 2017, US intelligence officials released a report outlining how that Russian intelligence services successfully hacked the Democratic National Committee and stole information that was slowly and regularly leaked to the public to help the campaign of then-candidate Trump.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/11/07/oren-falkowitz-area-1-security-hacking-presidential-campaigns/?fbclid=IwAR3nO2WP7xdfTrFr68B7lQsUJqZ6YCx0yBgbmF73tBLq7VRDST9YWFU2QS4

I know we need more LolCow bell.....

Area 1 Security Phishing Barisma Holdings Report by Beverly Tran on Scribd

Voting is beautiful, be beautiful ~ vote.©

Elizabeth Whelan Wails For Her Brother

The voice of Elizabeth Whelan wails for her brother, Paul Whelan's release.

The trials start soon.

Release of Marine veteran jailed as spy in Russia called for by lawmakers

Elizabeth Whelan, the sister of Paul Whelan, accompanied by Sen. Gary Peters., D-Mich., left, and Sen, Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., right, speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, to call on Congress to pass a resolution condemning the Russian government for detaining Paul Whelan. (Andrew Harnik/AP)

Canvas on Hold, Artist Elizabeth Whelan Works for Her Brother's Release
Noah Asimow
Saturday, October 5, 2019 - 6:30am

Bond movies are fun to watch. It’s a little different when your life becomes one.

But for the past year that has been the case for Chappaquiddick-based artist Elizabeth Whelan.

On. Dec. 28, 2018, Ms. Whelan’s brother Paul Whelan was arrested while he was in Moscow attending a wedding. Accused of international espionage, Paul Whelan has been held in the notorious Lefortovo prison for the past nine months.

Now Ms. Whelan has temporarily left her quiet life as a Martha’s Vineyard portrait artist and traded in her canvases for canvassing, moving to Washington D.C. in a tireless attempt to lobby all 535 members of Congress and the American ambassador in Russia, John Huntsman, for her brother’s release.

Letters are mailed to her brother but rarely received, Ms. Whelan said. — Jeanna Shepard
“I was literally in a Twitter spat with the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs the other weekend,” Ms. Whelan told the Gazette in an interview this week. “How often do you get in a Twitter spat with the state department of a foreign country — not to mention the one that is holding your brother hostage? When you talk about situations that you would have never dreamed of, I think that this one is pretty high on my list.”

Although the Russian government has not allowed her to contact Paul, her persistent work on Capitol Hill has played an instrumental role in the creation of two congressional resolutions that call on the Russian government to provide evidence of Mr. Whelan’s wrongdoing.

“I’m used to talking to people one-on-one for my portraits,” Ms. Whelan said. “But I’m not used to sitting at a table with all this fancy china laid out, and all of these very important people sitting across from me, in this historic room — and yelling. That is not what I do.”

Paul Whelan was arrested nine months ago. Since then, the Whelan family has undertaken an aggressive public relations campaign that has steadfastly asserted from day one that he is being unjustly held as a political chess piece. “Trade fodder,” she said. Ms. Whelan’s brothers, David and Andrew, have mobilized, sending weekly email updates, holding press conferences, and working with the governments of the three other countries where Paul holds citizenship — the United Kingdom, Canada and Ireland.

That left Elizabeth to deal with the American politicians.

“I basically ended up being the more flexible person, making me the one who went to D.C,” Ms. Whelan said. “This is a political situation, and unfortunately only a political solution will bring it to an end . . . when I said that to my brothers in January, I had no idea what that was going to turn into.”

She started by meeting with Cong. Bill Keating and the representative from Paul’s home district in Michigan, Haley Stevens, learning how to run back and forth between different sides of Capitol Hill like the proverbial K-Street lobbyist she is not. Almost a year later, Ms. Whelan has made contact with hundreds of members of Congress, non-governmental organizations, advocacy groups and embassies. But because the United States government isn’t calling Paul a hostage, she hasn’t gotten any help from the alphabet soup of bureaucrats and secret service agents whose job it is to bring home Americans who are being held hostage abroad.

“So what’s happened is that Elizabeth Whelan is running around D.C. trying to make her own fusion cell,” Ms. Whelan said.

“It’s crazy, because when I go to these meetings and talk to the Deputy Secretary of State, they aren’t telling me they are going to take care of this and get him out,” she added. “They are giving me suggestions about what I should do. And I tell them, I am more than happy to call President Putin myself and discuss the situation of my brother’s detention with him. But I will not meet with him in person because, as my brother David says, no Whelan will be going to Russia until Russia returns the Whelan they already have.”

With persistence, she has made inroads in Washington. The joint resolutions now in front of both the House and Senate say that if the Russians continue to not provide evidence of Paul’s purported crimes, he must be returned. A week after they were introduced, the bills received numerous co-sponsors and were released from committee. Now Ms. Whelan has three weeks to call all 535 legislators again before they reconvene in less than a month leading up to a vote.


“I am more than happy to call President Putin myself and discuss the situation of my brother’s detention with him.” — Jeanna Shepard
“It’s an extraordinarily large job for one person,” she said. “Luckily I’m a spreadsheet queen.”

Meanwhile, Paul has had little contact with anyone other than the U.S. Embassy consular staff, according to Ms. Whelan. He’s spent time in solitary confinement and hours in the interrogation room. His attorney was chosen by the Russian government. His family cannot speak to him. They’ve sent him hundreds of letters, including many from Martha’s Vineyard. Ms. Whelan said hardly any arrive.

“It’s extremely restricted, and when you compare it to how U.S. government treats Russians who we have, they are allowed to talk and to have family visits,” she said.

Things don’t appear to be getting any easier for the Whelan family. Ambassador Jon Huntsman, who has been the primary liaison to Paul, is stepping down and had his last meeting with Paul on Wednesday, Ms. Whelan said. President Trump has appointed his Deputy Secretary of State, John Sullivan, as Mr. Huntsman’s replacement, but it could take weeks or months for him to be sworn into office.

But that hasn’t stopped the Whelans from devoting their lives to getting their brother home.

“I never, ever thought I would be doing this,” Ms. Whelan added. “One of the reps from Michigan is going to be in Boston to talk about what we should do next. Who does that? Not a little artist working from Chappaquiddick. I just want to be behind my easel in the woods.”

artists
Comments (4)

Voting is beautiful, be beautiful ~ vote.©

Who Is The Ukrainian Liar - Schiff Or The U.S. Intelligence Community?

Adam Schiff said this about the Trump's phone call with Volodymyr Zelensky.

In Biden's own words on threatening withholding U.S. funds to the Ukraine if the prosecutor general was not fired.

This is the resignation of the Ukrainian prosecutor directly after Biden's mandate.

Either the intelligence community has generated a fraudulent unclassified document entered into the formal record or Schiff is lying, but hey, what do I know?

I know someone is lying.

This is the transcript of the call.

Trump's July 25 Ukraine... by Law&Crime on Scribd

Crowstrike video history

106th Congress                                              Treaty Doc.
                                 SENATE                                
 1st Session                                                  106-16
_______________________________________________________________________

                                     



 
  TREATY WITH UKRAINE ON MUTUAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE IN CRIMINAL MATTERS                               __________

                                MESSAGE

                                  from

                   THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

                              transmitting

TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND UKRAINE ON MUTUAL LEGAL 
 ASSISTANCE IN CRIMINAL MATTERS WITH ANNEX, SIGNED AT KIEV ON JULY 22, 
1998, AND WITH AN EXCHANGE OF NOTES SIGNED ON SEPTEMBER 30, 1999, WHICH 
                PROVIDES FOR ITS PROVISIONAL APPLICATION




 November 10, 1999.--Treaty was read the first time, and together with 
the accompanying papers, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 
          and ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate.

                               __________

                    U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
79-118                     WASHINGTON : 1999


                         LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

                              ----------                              

                                The White House, November 10, 1999.
To the Senate of the United States:
    With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the 
Senate to ratification, I transmit herewith the Treaty Between 
the United States of America and Ukraine on Mutual Legal 
Assistance in Criminal Matters with Annex, signed at Kiev on 
July 22, 1998. I transmit also, for the information of the 
Senate, an exchange of notes which was signed on September 30, 
1999, which provides for its provisional application, as well 
as the report of the Department of State with respect to the 
Treaty.
    The Treaty is one of a series of modern mutual legal 
assistance treaties being negotiated by the United States in 
order to counter criminal activities more effectively. The 
Treaty should be an effective tool to assist in the prosecution 
of a wide variety of crimes, including drug trafficking 
offenses. The Treaty is self-executing. It provides for a broad 
range of cooperation in criminal matters. Mutual assistance 
available under the Treaty includes: taking of testimony or 
statements of persons; providing documents, records, and 
articles of evidence; serving documents; locating or 
identifying persons; transferring persons in custody for 
testimony or other purposes; executing requests for searches 
and seizures; assisting in proceedings related to restraint, 
confiscation, forfeiture of assets, restitution, and collection 
of fines; and any other form of assistance not prohibited by 
the laws of the requested state.
    I recommend that the Senate give early and favorable 
consideration to the Treaty and give its advice and consent to 
ratification.

                                                William J. Clinton.
                          LETTER OF SUBMITTAL

                              ----------                                
        

                                       Department of State,
                                      Washington, October 19, 1999.
The President,
The White House.
    The President: I have the honor to submit to you the Treaty 
Between the United States of America and Ukraine on Mutual 
Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters with Annex (``the 
Treaty''), signed at Kiev on July 22, 1998. I recommend that 
the Treaty be transmitted to the Senate for its advice and 
consent to ratification.
    Also enclosed, for the information of the Senate, is an 
exchange of notes under which the Treaty is being provisionally 
applied to the extent possible under our respective domestic 
laws, in order to provide a basis for immediate mutual 
assistance in criminal matters. Provisional application would 
cease upon entry into force of the Treaty.
    The Treaty covers mutual legal assistance in criminal 
matters. In recent years, similar bilateral treaties have 
entered into force with a number of other countries. The Treaty 
with Ukraine contains all essential provisions sought by the 
United States. It will enhance our ability to investigate and 
prosecute a range of offenses. The Treaty is designed to be 
self-executing and will not require new legislation.
    Article 1 sets forth a non-exclusive list of the major 
types of assistance to be provided under the Treaty, including 
taking the testimony or statements of persons; providing 
documents, records and other items of evidence; locating or 
identifying persons or items; serving documents; transferring 
persons in custody for testimony or other purposes; executing 
requests for searches and seizures; assisting in proceedings 
related to immobilization and forfeiture of assets, 
restitution, and collection of fines; and, rendering any other 
form of assistance not prohibited by the laws of the Requested 
State. The scope of the Treaty includes not only criminal 
offenses, but also proceedings related to criminal matters, 
which may be civil or administrative in nature.
    Article 1(3) states that assistance shall be provided 
without regard to whether the conduct involved would constitute 
an offense under the laws of the Requested State.
    Article 1(4) states explicitly that the Treaty is not 
intended to create rights in private parties to obtain, 
suppress, or exclude any evidence, or to impede the execution 
of a request.
    Article 2 provides for the establishment of Central 
Authorities and defines Central Authorities for purposes of the 
Treaty. For the United States, the Central Authority shall be 
the Attorney General or a person designated by the Attorney 
General. For Ukraine, the Central Authority shall be the 
Ministry of Justice and the Office of the Prosecutor General. 
The article provides that the Central Authorities shall 
communicate directly with one another for the purposes of the 
Treaty.
    Article 3 sets forth the circumstances under which a 
Requested State's Central Authority may deny assistance under 
the Treaty. A request may be denied if it relates to a military 
offense that would not be an offense under ordinary criminal 
law. A further ground for denial is that the request relates to 
a political offense (a term expected to be defined on the basis 
of that term's usage in extradition treaties). In addition, a 
request may be denied if its execution would prejudice the 
security or similar essential interests of the Requested State, 
or if it is not made in conformity with the Treaty.
    Before denying assistance under Article 3, the Central 
Authority of the Requested State is required to consult with 
its counterpart in the Requesting State to consider whether 
assistance can be given subject to such conditions as the 
Central Authority of the RequestedState deems necessary. If the 
Requesting State accepts assistance subject to these conditions, it is 
required to comply with the conditions. If the Central Authority of the 
Requested State denies assistance, it is required to inform the Central 
Authority of the Requesting State of the reasons for the denial.
    Article 4 prescribes the form and content of written 
requests under the Treaty, specifying in detail the information 
required in each request. The article permits other forms of 
requests in emergency situations but requires written 
confirmation within ten days thereafter unless the Central 
Authority of the Requested State agrees otherwise.
    Article 5 requires the Central Authority of the Requested 
State to execute the request promptly or to transmit it to the 
authority having jurisdiction to do so. It provides that the 
competent authorities of the Requested State shall do 
everything in their power to execute a request, and that the 
courts or other competent authorities of the Requested State 
shall have authority to issue subpoenas, search and arrest 
warrants, or other orders necessary to execute the request. The 
Central Authority of the Requested State must make all 
arrangements for representation of the Requesting State in any 
proceedings arising out of an assistance request.
    Under Article 5(3), requests are to be executed in 
accordance with the laws of the Requested State except to the 
extent that the Treaty provides otherwise. However, the method 
of execution specified in the request is to be followed except 
insofar as it is prohibited by the laws of the Requested State.
    Article 5(4) provides that if the Central Authority of the 
Requested State determines that execution of the request would 
interfere with an ongoing criminal investigation, prosecution, 
or proceeding in that State, it may postpone execution or, 
after consulting with the Central Authority of the Requesting 
State, impose conditions on execution. If the Requesting State 
accepts assistance subject to the conditions, it shall comply 
with such conditions.
    Article 5(5) further requires the Requested State, if so 
requested, to use its best efforts to keep confidential a 
request and its contents, and to inform the Requesting State's 
Central Authority if the request cannot be executed without 
breaching confidentiality. This provides the Requesting State 
an opportunity to decide whether to pursue the request or to 
withdraw it in order to maintain confidentiality.
    This article additionally requires the Requested State's 
Central Authority to respond to reasonable inquiries by the 
Requesting State's Central Authority regarding the status of 
the execution of a particular request; to report promptly to 
the Requesting State's Central Authority the outcome of its 
execution; and, if the request is denied, to inform the 
Requesting State's Central Authority of the reasons for the 
denial.
    Article 6 apportions between the two States the costs 
incurred in executing a request. It provides that the Request 
State shall pay all costs, except for the following items to be 
paid by the Requesting State: fees of expert witnesses, costs 
of interpretation, translation and transcription, and 
allowances and expenses related to travel of persons pursuant 
to Articles 10 and 11. If during the execution of the request, 
it becomes apparent that extraordinary expenses will be 
entailed, the Central Authorities shall consult to determine 
the terms and conditions under which execution may continue.
    Article 7 requires the Requesting State to comply with any 
request by the Central Authority of the Requested State that 
information or evidence obtained under the Treaty not be used 
for proceedings other than those described in the request 
without its priorconsent. Further, if the Requested State's 
Central Authority asks that information or evidence furnished under 
this Treaty be kept confidential or be used in accordance with 
specified conditions, the Requesting State must use its best efforts to 
comply with the conditions. Once information is made public in the 
Requesting State in accordance with either or these provisions, no 
further limitations on use apply. Nothing in the article prevents the 
use or disclosure of information to the extent that there is an 
obligation to do so under the Constitution of the Requesting State in a 
criminal prosecution. The Requesting State is obliged to notify the 
Requesting State in advance of any such proposed use or disclosure.
    Article 8 provides that a person in the Requesting State 
from whom testimony or evidence is requested pursuant to the 
Treaty shall be compelled, if necessary, to appear and testify 
or produce items, documents and records. The article requires 
the Central Authority of the Requested State, upon request, to 
furnish information in advance about the date and place of the 
taking of testimony or evidence pursuant to this Article.
    Article 8(3) further requires the Requested State to permit 
the presence of persons specified in the request and to permit 
them to question the person giving the testimony or evidence. 
In the event that a person whose testimony or evidence is being 
taken asserts a claim of immunity, incapacity, or privilege 
under the laws of the Requesting State, Article 8(4) provides 
that the testimony or evidence shall be taken and the claim 
made known by written notification to the Central Authority of 
the Requesting State for resolution by its competent 
authorities. Finally, in order to ensure admissibility of 
evidence in the Requesting State, Article 8(5) provides a 
mechanism for authenticating evidence that is produced pursuant 
to or that is the subject of testimony taken in the Requested 
State.
    Article 9 requires that the Requested State provide the 
Requesting State with copies of publicly available records in 
the possession of government departments and agencies in the 
Requesting State. The Requested State may further provide 
copies of any documents, records or information in the 
possession of a government department or agency, but not 
publicly available, to the same extent and under the same 
conditions as it would provide them to its own law enforcement 
or judicial authorities. The Requested State has the discretion 
to refuse to execute, entirely or in part, such requests for 
records not publicly available. Article 9(3) provides that 
records produced pursuant to this Article shall, upon request, 
be certified by the appropriate form attached to the request. 
Article 9(3) also provides that no further authentication shall 
be necessary for admissibility into evidence in the Requesting 
State of official records pursuant to this Article.
    Article 10 provides a mechanism for the Requesting State to 
invite the voluntary appearance in its territory of a person 
located in the Requested State shall indicate the extent to 
which the expenses will be paid. It also states that the 
Central Authority of the Requesting State has discretion to 
determine that a person appearing in the Requesting State 
pursuant to this Article shall not be subject to service of 
process or be detained or subjected to any restriction of 
personal liberty by reason of any acts or convictions that 
preceded his departure from the Requested State. Any safe 
conduct provided for by this article ceases seven days after 
the Central Authority of the Requesting State has notified the 
Central Authority of the Requested State that the person's 
presence is no longer required, or if the person has left the 
Requesting State and voluntarily returns to it.
    Article 11 provides for temporary transfer of a person in 
custody in the Requested State or in a third State to the 
Requesting State for purposes of assistance under the Treaty 
(for example, a witness incarcerated in the Requested State may 
be transferred to have his deposition taken in the presence of 
the defendant), provided that the person in question and the 
Central Authorities of both States agree. The article also 
provides for voluntary transfer of a person in the custody of 
the Requesting State to the Requested State for purposes of 
assistance under the Treaty (for example, a defendant in the 
Requesting State may be transferred for purposes of attending a 
witness deposition in the Requesting State), if the person 
consents and if the Central Authorities of both States agree.
    Article 11(3) further establishes both the express 
authority and the obligation of the receiving State to maintain 
the person transferred in custody unless otherwise agreed by 
both Central Authorities. The return of the person transferred 
is subject to terms and conditions agreed to by the Central 
Authorities, and the sending State is not required to initiate 
extradition proceedings for return of the person transferred. 
The person transferred receives credit for time served in the 
custody of the receiving State.
    Article 12 establishes the authority of the Requested State 
to authorize transit through its territory of a person held in 
custody by a third State whose appearance has been requested by 
the Requesting State. The Requested State further has the 
authority and the obligation to keep the person in custody 
during transit. The Parties retain discretion to refuse to 
grant transit of their own nationals, however.
    Article 13 requires the Requested State to use its best 
efforts to ascertain the location or identity of persons or 
items specified in a request.
    Article 14 obligates the Requested State to use its best 
efforts to effect service of any document relating, in whole or 
in part, to any request for assistance under the Treaty. A 
request for the service of a document requiring a person to 
appear in the Requesting State must be transmitted a reasonable 
time before the scheduled appearance. Proof of service is to be 
provided in the manner specified in the request.
    Article 15 obligates the Requested State to execute 
requests for search, seizure, and delivery of any item to the 
Requesting State if the request includes the information 
justifying such action under the laws of theappropriate. The 
Central Authority of the State receiving such information is required 
to inform the Central Authority that provided the information of any 
action taken.
    Article 17 also obligates the Contracting States to assist 
each other to the extent permitted by their respective laws in 
proceedings relating to forfeiture of the proceeds and 
instrumentalities of offenses, restitution to victims of crime, 
and collection of fines imposed as sentences in criminal 
prosecutions. This may include action to temporarily immobilize 
the proceeds or instrumentalities pending further proceedings. 
The Contracting State having custody over proceeds or 
instrumentalities of offenses is required to dispose of them in 
accordance with its laws. Either Contracting State may transfer 
all or part of such assets, or the proceeds of their sale, to 
the extent permitted by the transferring State's laws and upon 
such terms as it deems appropriate.
    Article 18 states that assistance and procedures provided 
in the Treaty shall not prevent either Contracting State from 
granting assistance to the other Contracting State through the 
provisions of other applicable international agreements or 
through the provisions of its national law. The Contracting 
States may also provide assistance pursuant to any bilateral 
arrangement, agreement, or practice which may be applicable.
    Article 19 provides that the Central Authorities of the 
Contracting States shall consult, at times mutually agreed, to 
promote the most effective use of the Treaty, and may agree 
upon such practical measures as may be necessary to facilitate 
the Treaty's implementation.
    Article 20 provides that the Treaty is subject to 
ratification and the instruments shall be exchanged at 
Washington as soon as possible. The Treaty enters into force 
upon the exchange of instruments of ratification. Article 20 
further provides that either Contracting State may terminate 
the Treaty by written notice to the other Contracting State, 
with termination to be effective six months following the date 
of notification.
    A Technical Analysis explaining in detail the provisions of 
the Treaty is being prepared by the United States negotiating 
delegation, consisting of representatives from the Departments 
of Justice and State, and will be transmitted separately to the 
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
    The Department of Justice joins the Department of State in 
favoring approval of this Treaty by the Senate as soon as 
possible.
    Respectfully submitted,
                                                    Strobe Talbott.

Shokin Statement by JohnSolomon on Scribd

Voting is beautiful, be beautiful ~ vote.©

Cocktalis & Popcorn: Paul Whelan Indicted - Will Moscow Come To Detroit For Prosecution?

Сменить место проведения с Москвы на Детройт

If Paul Whelan is indicted, that means there exist charging documents.

When the indictment is unsealed, Trump will have no choice but to pull that IG Report from his backpocket, unless the Detroit - Grand Rapids Grand Juries are unsealed, first.

It would best serve justice for the Russia case to just come and enjoin in the Detroit Grand Jury prosecution.

After all, Detroit has a long and illustrious history of Russian influence because Poland used to be part of the Soviet Union and Hamtramck was part of Detroit.

Ex-US Marine Paul Whelan indicted on spying charges in Russia – lawyer

Paul Whelan, an ex-US Marine suspected of espionage in Russia, has been formally indicted. Whelan was detained on New Year’s Eve in Moscow while receiving a flash drive said to be full of Russian state secrets.

Paul Whelan

The accused will be presented with the indictment next week, Whelan’s lawyer, Vladimir Zherebenkov, told RIA Novosti on Friday. The date for the beginning of court proceedings remains unclear, as the defendant will have to rely on an interpreter to read the materials of the case, and this might take some time. The suspect denies all the charges and maintains his innocence, the lawyer said.

Whelan was arrested by the Federal Security Service (FSB) in a posh hotel in central Moscow back on December 31 as he received a flash drive, apparently containing state secret materials. According to his defense, the accused was set up by law enforcement.

Citizen of the world: Ex-Marine detained in Russia on espionage charges holds multiple passports

Is this Russia or Detroit?

Notably, the 48-year-old ex-US Marine, who worked as a security director for BorgWarner, a big Michigan-based car parts manufacturer, has been visiting Russia since 2007. Whelan’s family maintained that the goal of this ill-fated visit was to simply attend a friend’s wedding.

Following his arrest, more details about the suspect started to surface. It turned out that the man received a bad conduct discharge from the Marines back in 2008 over allegations of theft – and the news was actually a surprise for his family. It also emerged that the Canadian-born man holds citizenships of at least four countries – the US, UK, Ireland and Canada. All of the four issued statements on the arrest at the time and rallied in his support.

Despite the calls from abroad to release the ex-marine, Moscow maintained that he was caught “red-handed” and the case against him will go through. If found guilty, Whelan can face from 10 to 20 years behind bars.

Voting is beautiful, be beautiful ~ vote.©

Cocktails & Popcorn: With Love From Israel - Bibi Trolls Rashida With Why They Denied Her Entry In The First Place - Incompetence

"Would you do the honors
 and drop Detroit first, or shall I?"

This just keeps getting better and better.

Benjamin "Bibi" Netenyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, released the reasons for denying entry into Israel, but he was kind enough not to say "incompetence".

For instance: they listed the destination of their trip as Palestine and not Israel, and unlike all Democratic and Republican members of Congress who have visited Israel, they did not request to meet any Israeli officials, either from the government or the opposition.

— PM of Israel (@IsraeliPM) August 15, 2019

Such a shame Rashida was not as transparent as Bibi, but, then again, she does have that Epstein issue going on.

#sayhisname

In addition, the organization that is funding their trip is Miftah, which is an avid supporter of BDS, and among whose members are those who have expressed support for terrorism against Israel.

— PM of Israel (@IsraeliPM) August 15, 2019

Voting is beautiful, be beautiful ~ vote.©

Cocktails & Popcorn: Rashida Tlaib Goes To Israel, But How Shall She Return?

"Always enjoy a cocktail before exile."

But, will she be allowed reentry into the U.S. if the Detroit Grand Jury unseals the information redacted in the Mueller Report, is the question of the day.

And for something to bide her time on the plane, I wish to leave everyone with this fun conundrum, wrapped in an enigma:

Will Rashida be taken into Israeli custody if Trump stops obstructing justice and pulls that IG Report from his backpocket?

Will she be taken into Russian custody?

I do not believe we have legal precedent on expulsion of a member of congress, but Nancy Pelosi is the one who would call for the vote, and I have full faith in her to throw Rashida, and Ilhan Omar, under the bus.

Cocktails, anyone?

Israel grants request by Rep. Rashida Tlaib to visit West Bank on humanitarian grounds

(FOX 2) - Israel's interior minister said Friday he has received and granted a request by Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib to enter the Israeli-occupied West Bank on humanitarian grounds.

The news comes just hours after on Thursday the interior minister banned her as well as Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar from entering the country, due to their support of a Palestinian-led boycott movement.

Israel announced its unprecedented decision after President Trump said in a tweet that "it would show great weakness" if Israel allowed them to visit. "They hate Israel & all Jewish people, & there is nothing that can be said or done to change their minds," the president wrote Thursday, calling the two congresswomen "a disgrace."

The representatives were set to visit Israel this weekend with some of their colleagues when they learned of the ban but this was also a personal trip for Tlaib, whose 90-year-old grandmother lives in the West Bank. So she was planning on seeing her during that visit.

"I'm really disappointed. I really want to see my grandmother. She is - I am who I am because of her, her strength," Tlaib told FOX 2 Thursday night at an event in Canton.

In her letter of request, Tlaib said this would likely be the last chance to see her grandmother and that she would respect any restrictions and "not promote boycotts" during her visit.

On Friday, Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh Deri announced the latest twist - that Tlaib had requested and been granted permission to enter the West Bank to see her relatives.

Tlaib's office could not immediately be reached for comment.

Deri's office said he "decided to allow her entry to Israel and hopes she will stand by her commitment and that the visit will be for humanitarian needs only."

Tlaib's apparent pledge to conduct the visit in line with restrictions imposed by Israel was bound to anger Palestinians who had hoped the congressional tour, organized by a Palestinian group, would highlight their plight. Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war. Palestinians hope to establish an independent state on those lands.

Tlaib and Omar are known as supporters of "boycott, divestment and sanctions," or BDS, a Palestinian-led global movement. Israel alleges that BDS targets Israel's very existence, while the movement's supporters say it is intended as leverage to end more than half a century of Israeli military rule over Palestinians.

Voting is beautiful, be beautiful ~ vote.©

INTELLIGENCE: Mueller Testifies - Again, No One Will #sayhisname

Please take notice that the "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) have yet to recognize who is looking over their right shoulders during these proceedings leading up to impeachment.

When impeachment proceedings commence, House Judiciary will have no other option but to #sayhismane, but I do not believe they have figured this out yet, being "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending).

#sayhisname

Voting is beautiful, be beautiful ~ vote.©

Cocktails & Popcorn: Paul Whelan Is Legally Kidnapped & Wants Trump To Intervene

I guess Trump could file for legal guardianship of Paul Whelan considering the fact that everyone else does, including all those foreign corporations who privately contract with the States, like Bethany Christian, to file for corporate parental rights.

If Trump stopped Russia from keeping Paul as being Legally Kidnapped by adopting him, that would be an easy exchange for freedom in automatic asset forfeiture.

I like transposable child welfare models, for castigation purposes, only.

But, I sincerely doubt that Trump is going to do anything except to continue to obstruct justice, by keeping that IG report burning a hole in his backpocket.

Maybe Putin will pull out his GRU report, burning a hole in his backpocket, so Trump will not have to release any of that sealed, grand jury information.

That would be quite nice if he did, I say!

Accused spy Paul Whelan makes plea from Russia, asks Trump to intervene

From inside a glass enclosure in Moscow City Court, accused spy Paul Whelan appealed Thursday to President Donald Trump to intervene in his case, saying he is a victim of "political kidnapping."

“Mr. President, we cannot keep America great unless we aggressively protect American citizens wherever they are in the world,” Whelan, 49, of Novi told reporters.

He urged the president to Tweet about his intentions.

To date, Trump has remained quiet about Whelan, a former Marine who was the director of global security for the Auburn Hills-based auto supplier BorgWarner when he was arrested in his Moscow hotel in December and accused of spying.

Though Trump has yet to make a statement (or Tweet) about Whelan, others in his administration — most recently U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton — have spoken out against the continued detention of an American citizen without evidence from the Russian government to support its claims of espionage.

The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) alleges Whelan was caught in possession of a flash drive containing classified information at his hotel in Moscow. Whelan has told his lawyers that the flash drive came from a Russian friend, and that he was under the impression that it only contained photos of the friend's hometown.

The court ruled Thursday that Whelan's continued detention is legal, and that he is to remain locked up in Lefortovo prison while an investigation continues.

"There will be another extension of Paul's detention in August, before the 28th of August," Olga Karlova, one of Whelan's attorneys, told the Free Press in an email message. "Maybe the core hearing will be in autumn.

"We have been working on this case for six months already and we didn't see any real evidence. We tried to convince the court today to change the detention to house arrest. Paul said his position to the judge (that he is innocent), but everything was in vain."

Karlova said that the Russian Criminal Procedure Code doesn't require the court to consider the question of guilt or innocence at this stage of the process.

"We haven't seen all the evidence yet," she said. "It'll be possible only after the finish of the investigation." 

If Whelan is convicted of spying, he could be imprisoned for up to 20 years.

In his statement in court Thursday, Whelan — who was born in Canada to British parents and holds U.S., British, Canadian and Irish citizenship — also asked for assistance from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, British Prime Minister Theresa May and Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar.

“I am asking the leaders and governments in Ottawa, Dublin, London and Washington for their help and public statements of support,” he said, standing inside a glass cage.

"Time works against Paul," his brother David Whelan said in an email message. "Russian police continue to isolate Paul, who has limited communication with Embassy staff and has received only a handful of letters during the nearly six months of his imprisonment. Without evidence, the FSB's only option is to coerce a confession from Paul."

Accused spy Paul Whelan, right, as seen prior to a hearing in Moscow City Court on June 20, 2019, where he appealed the extension of his detention. Whelan, a citizen of the United States, Britain, Canada and Ireland, was detained on suspicion of spying by Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) in December in Moscow.

David Whelan said his brother is "an American businessman, a tourist, falsely accused and facing another three months of wrongful imprisonment. Three more months with an angry FSB investigator who is violating Russian and international law, and who has substantial control over Paul's welfare. The sooner he is returned to his family in the U.S., the better."

Voting is beautiful, be beautiful ~ vote.©

Cocktails & Popcorn: June 18th, 2019 Flynn And GRU Spy Chief Worked On $100B Saudi Reactor Deal. Would They Use Spies? - Does Detroit Love Fried Schrimps?

I do hope everyone knows I am just waiting, patiently, for Detroit.

This is so juicy.....there is going to be sex, drugs, and lots of fried 'schrimps'.

Voting is beautiful, be beautiful ~ vote.©

Cocktails & Popcorn: June 17th, 2019 Did Stranahan Film Chalupa's Chalupas? Did DNC Set Up Stranahan With Guccifer 2.0? -

Guciffer2 is dumb.

Hackers do not redact bank account routing numbers.

So, I just looked up the child welfare propaganda and found the children's trust funds.

Then, I found the work of "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending).

The porn doth cometh.

Voting is beautiful, be beautiful ~ vote.©

Cocktails & Popcorn: June 10th, Mike Flynn Timeline Revisited - Kislyak's Fuel Rods and Butina's Laptop

Voting is beautiful, be beautiful ~ vote.©

Cocktails & Popcorn: Will The U.S. Get Caught By The Brady Rule - Russia & U.S. Have Exculpatory Evidence On Each Other

Russia has Whelan.

U.S. has Butina.

Wanna motion to enjoin?

I will show you your exculpatory evidence if you show me mine.

I bet that would really piss off the United Nations.

#FreeMariaButina

Accused spy Paul Whelan says he's being threatened, denied showers in Russian prison

Michigan businessman Paul Whelan told reporters in a Russian courtroom Friday that he's being threatened, abused and harassed at Moscow's Lefortovo Detention Facility, and that his imprisonment on an espionage charge is akin to political kidnapping.

A judge extended the pre-trial phase of Whelan's detention for three more months on Friday, which means Whelan, 49, of Novi is to remain in prison at least until Aug. 29.

“This is typical prisoner of war isolation technique," Whelan told journalists in the courtroom, the Associated Press reported. "They’re trying to run me down so that I will talk to them."

Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine, center, who was arrested
 in Moscow at the end of last year, waits for a hearing in a court
in Moscow, Russia, Friday, May 24, 2019. The American was
detained at the end of December for alleged spying.

Whelan, an ex-Marine who was the director of global security for the Auburn Hills-based auto supplier BorgWarner, said he was in Russia in December for the wedding of a friend when he was arrested in his hotel and accused of spying.

He told the court on Friday that there was "absolutely no legitimacy" to the case against him, and said his imprisonment is retaliation for U.S. sanctions.

The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) alleges Whelan was caught in possession of a flash drive containing classified information. Whelan has told his lawyers that the flash drive came from a Russian friend, and that he was under the impression that it only contained photos of the friend's hometown. 

Whelan, who was born in Canada to British parents and grew up in Ann Arbor, holds U.S., British, Canadian and Irish passports. If he's convicted of spying, he could be imprisoned for up to 20 years.

More: Paul Whelan’s employer BorgWarner has Russian ties

More: Mysterious tale of Paul Whelan, accused of spying in Russia, steeped in contradictions

“We of course remained concerned by the lack of evidence in his case and the secretary is committed to continuing to raise this at the highest levels,” said Morgan Ortagus, a State Department spokeswoman.

Paul Whelan's twin brother, David Whelan, told the Free Press that he believes his brother was targeted by Russian authorities because he was an American businessman.

"Unfortunately, the FSB appears to have miscalculated whatever result they helped to extort out of Paul's false arrest," he said. "Paul has shared notes through his lawyer that he believes his arrest has some sanctions-related element, but we don't know why he says that."

Voting is beautiful, be beautiful ~ vote.©