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Private and public organized crime are direct competitors. Still, wherever there is construction, private organized crime is involved.

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*It’s even got to the point where (IIRC, I may have the numbers slightly wrong) many banks will not allow you to make electronic transfers of more than $9999.99 at a time from your banking app, but if you want to buy something that costs, say, $45,000 and so do transfers of $9999 plus one of $5004, that’s seen as “structuring” and is therefore potentially a crime - at the very least something that warrants a SAR.*

Currency transaction reports and structuring only apply to cash transactions. To the best of my knowledge, multiple electronic transfers (especially ones necessitated by the app itself) should not.

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I am happy to be corrected on this detail

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2020 arsons had enough killings that there is an interesting question of whether the national Democratic Party is a criminal conspiracy, with many judges as coconspirators.

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"Few people know or care that Washington used to subsidize Putin’s “United Russia” party [the Russian counterpart to the Uniparties in the US and UK] to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. But Victoria Nuland spilled the beans on this 10 years ago. Here:

United Russia received grants from the US Agency for International Development USAID, State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland said. According to her, the party participated in “some” programs of the International Republican Institute (IRI) and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI).

It should be noted that on September 18, official Moscow announced the termination of USAID in Russia, later the Russian Foreign Ministry noted that "the nature of the organization’s work did not always meet the stated goals." In particular, it was an attempt to influence political processes in the country through the distribution of grants.

Victoria Nuland did not name the specific unicross programs that were supported by funding from the United States, but noted that it was about training for young leaders, supporting civil society and healthcare.

“We regret this decision,” US Ambassador to the Russian Federation Michael McFaul commented on this decision on Twitter. Recall, on the eve, extend the working life of USAID in Russia until May 2013. asked US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a letter to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

In Russia, USAID has funded programs for the development of civil society, democracy and human rights for over 20 years. It should be noted that the Golos association, which carries out independent election monitoring, also received grants. The latter, commenting on the decision of the Russian authorities, said that it would probably be forced to close its projects.

Kommersant, however, said that the withdrawal of USAID from Russia does not mean the complete deprivation of American support for local NGOs. At least three organizations closely associated with the US government continue to work here - the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the National Democratic Institute (NDA) and the International Republican Institute (IRI)." Ibid.

Note that the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International Republican Institute (IRI) are the shadow state organizations behind the US DNC and RNC (perhaps until Trump...), respectively.

Putin is actively working to implement the WEF/UN/WHO program inside Russia, including universal biometric IDs, internal passports, "vaccinations", CBDCs, and so on... just like the globalists/oligarchs here and everywhere else. Interesting how "solutions" to "problems" are common, coordinated, and cross national borders...

It strikes me as amazing how to what extent US conservatives have been fooled by Putin and the likes of Tucker Carlson, et al., - "deceiving the very elect"... https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/if-this-ukraine-peace-plan-is-for

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