Monday, October 3, 2022

BIDEN OCTOBER SURPRISE PRESS RELEASE

                 BIDEN  SAYS HE IS TOO OLD TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2024

  The White house issued the attached Press Announcement at                             5 PM est , 2nd October 2022


CYCLOPS CONFESSES  that he has been completely wrong footed by this astonishing announcement Weary
  • While Cyclops has  been pushing for this as a strategy to rescue the House and Senate in the mid terms.
  •                              
  •  He had no idea that the idea had traction in the only place that mattered.
  •  Cyclops had moved from despair in May at the coming  November electoral bloodbath.
  •  
  •  He had obsessed --well at least worried about-- the stubborn gap in Biden's  approval ratings and the generic indications in the polls. 
  •  Which have narrowly favoured Democrats since the Row debacle [for the Publicans]  at the Supreme court.                                
  • Cyclops had concluded that the gap was most plausibly explained by "the AGE factor" .
  •  He feared that despite the Publicans fielding crazy election deniers  and Q annon sleepers;
  • Their leaderships pathetic fear of the DONald and 
  • Trumpfski unerring ability to command the headlines in one legal/ethical /political mal feasance after another 
  • That for a portion of the shallow USA electorate that pays alas scant attention to facts ;
  •  The look of  BIDEN would tip the balance the wrong way.
  •  Cyclops could not deny that Biden  press conferences were not Kennedyesque  and                                                       
  • That he shuffled off stage looking like every bodies affectionate but doddery grand father.                                                                                                                                                                                                           
 Much as Cyclops admires Joe: 
He is too old to be credible in 2024 against anyone but  crazy Trumpfski.

  • So no sooner was Cyclops ready to deliver to his adoring masses the sad prognosis :  
  • That the Dems would lose both the House[6 seat swing needed] and the Senate[1 seat swing needed]
Than Joe delivers the attached bombshell * from the Oval OfficeRoseNotesWoman facepalming

                                                     

 

 The pundits, prognosticators, puff artists, Publicans and "players"  will have their say in the coming days.
                                        
  The Publicans will run around trying to work out who they should be running against now--or do they now need some policiesSpeak no evil

           But my friends, now that Joe has announced he will not run and for the next two will govern only in the interests of the county he lovesVictory hand      

                                                                                
           HOW DO YOU THINK THIS ANNOUNCEMENT WILL                          AFFECT  THE  ELECTION  4 WEEKS FROM NOW

                           *        This just released by the White House

           The President will NOT be a candidate for reelection in 2024

Today President Joseph  Biden   announced that  it would not be in the interest of the country he loved if a sitting President ran for a new four-year term at the age of 82.

He expanded his statement to say that he “knew the pressures and needs of the Presidency and that it would be better for the country if he served the final two years solely focused on the needs ,desires and aspirations of our people .

“By  removing myself from the 2024 election there will be no doubt that the decisions  I take and the policies I propose are in our  nations interest and not designed to help my reelection.

Nor do I believe that anyone over the age of 80 can seriously be considered to be fully fit or suited to be the chief executive officer of the greatest  Democratic Republic yet known to mankind”

 

“ To believe otherwise would be a delusion , a vanity and a disservice to the country I love

He further called on others of his age to stand aside for the next generation.

He promised to expand on his decision in the coming weeks but emphasized that in his last two years he would work to

·        Continue to grow the economy and expand meaningful employment opportunities for American families

·        Focus on meaningful voting reform and remove barriers to voting for ALL our citizens and the outlawing of attaempts at voter suppression.

·        Support legislative proposals to guarantee the rights of women over control of their bodies free from prurient government interference

·        Propose significant reforms to an out of control and dysfunctional Supreme Court, which has lost the confidence of 3/4th of our fellow citizens and become the most  sectional activist Court in 250 year history of our Republic

·        Maintain and extend our full support to the Heroic defenders of Democracy in the  Ukraine

·        The principles which have impelled  the bi partisan support for President Zelensky and his people are the basis of USA policy throughout the world . Freedom loving peoples will know again that they can look to America as their friend and find succor with our people.

He called specifically on Senator McConnel[80] to join him in a new spirit of  comity and cease to oppose for oppositions sake . To join with Senate Leader Schumer[72] and Leader of the House Pelosi[82] to pursue governing in the interests of all the people.

Adding that leaders of all parties must treat their supports as serious citizens and disavow conspiracy theories,  Q annon, the fake rejection of election results.

Hoping that in future all would  accept the outcome of our legitimate election process and the peaceful transfer of power after elections at Federal, State and Local levels.

 

At the end of his remarks Biden called for  a healthy turnout in fair,transparent and unfettered elections in the coming mid terms and the universal acceptance of the results by all

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Trump Sued by New York Over ‘Fraudulent’ Asset Valuations

     ITS BEEN ALONG TIME       BUT CYCLOPS has been WAITING

               Trump Sued by New York Over ‘Fraudulent’ Asset Valuations  bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-21/trump-insiders-expect-civil-suit-from-new-york-attorney-general

This is a civil suit 

But it will force the Feds, the State and NY City to pursue criminal indictments

                         THE COURT FILING IS NEARLY 300 PAGES STUFFED WITH INFO.


"New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a sweeping lawsuit Wednesday against former President Donald Trump, his three eldest children and the Trump Organization in connection with her yearslong civil investigation into the company’s business practices.

In the suit, which runs more than 200 pages, James’ office details what it says are Trump's efforts to inflate his personal net worth to attract favorable loan agreements and alleges more than 200 instances of fraud over 10 years."     nbc news

Egregious examples of Donald Trump’s  inflation of his wealth used to con lenders, insurers and FORBES LIST

   

Trump’s New York City apartment

Trump  claimed in 2015 that his triplex apartment  on Fifth Avenue was 30,000 square feet               

More than three times its actual size of 10,996 square feet.                He valued apartment stratospherically at $327 million,30k/sq.ft .       At time one NY apartment had sold over $100 million                        Record price for an apartment in Trump tower was $16.5 million                      ----- less  $4,500 per square foot. 

Mar-a-Lago 

       Trump claimed that there were no restrictions on the property;                                                                                              could be  developed and sold for residential use at any time.      Placed a value on the property of $739 milIion.                                       In truth deeds Trump signed in 1985 severely restricted type of developement                                                                                      Professional valuation was $75 million

                                    AND ON AND ON

But these you can read for yourself

Do not feel ANY sympathy for the lenders who went along with this 

Deutsche Bank is Trumpski’s largest KNOWN lender, it extended him more than $1 billion while US Money Center Banks would not lend him a nickel.

 $300 million  of  which remains outstanding.

         Deutche made[under wrote]  huge loans, most of which IT sold on to unsuspecting smaller creditors in Europe and in the US sticks.

The team which put the loans together and their superiors made  huge commisions.

None of them now work for Deutche and and none of them have been indicted. 

Including the then head of their world wide real estate portfolio ; the son of Supreme Court Justice Kennedy

Not a single US money center Bank was involved in their origination or sale 

Much less taking any Trump exposure.

To work in real estate lending in NY when these loans were originated it was IMPOSSIBLE not to know about Trump or to to be able to assess the true value of the assets or the value of Trumps guarantees.

                        "None so blind who WILL NOT see"

                    The magic of the bonuses for bankers at work👿

I now append previous posts on DEUTCHE BANK loans to Trump

Enjoy,

Cyclops wrote this  in early 2017  in a blog entitled   "Russian connections"

  In 1995, Trump declares a  $900+million loss on his casino developments on his  income tax returns. U S banks “unwilling "to lend him money due to what they termed ‘the Donald risk.'

  • With the help of Wilbur Ross he turns to Deutsche Bank and the Bayrock Group'

  • In 1998 Deutsche Bank provides Trump $125 million to renovate an office building at 40 Wall Street.
  •      
  • Deutsche Bank goes on to underwrite over a $ billion of loans to Trump.

  • Deutsche Bank has been at the centre of Russian money laundering schemes

JULY 2018  over 4 years ago-- Cyclops posted

                      "SUPREME'S CONSPIRACY"                          

"How on earth is Trump's larcenous borrowing linked to the Supreme Court ?" you ask

READ ON 😇 Not a WORD is fiction

https://kingcyclops.blogspot.com/2019/05/deutsche-redux.html

MAY 2019  DEUTCHE REDUX

https://kingcyclops.blogspot.com/2018/07/supremes-conspiracy.html

"How on earth is Trump's larcenous borrowing linked to the Supreme Court ?" you ask

READ ON 😇 Not a WORD is fiction


An aside on the Supremes which CYCLOP wrote in June 2018 [over 4 years ago]

https://kingcyclops.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-supremes.html





 

Saturday, February 26, 2022

Chelsea Football Club may face going out of business--London Times And oodles of Russki money to BOJO and pals etc

  

Chelsea Football Club may face going out of business if the government were to impose sanctions against its owner, Roman Abramovich, finance experts have said.---article in today's Times of London

This was the headline over an article which inter alia quoted "financial experts" hyping" the consequences if  government attempted to "seize" Abromovich's assets :
“If the government do seize the assets, in which case they seize Chelsea, that is probably for him a bit of a final straw,” Wilson said.
 “He would likely try to walk away from the club . . which would create a problem for Chelsea because it would have to be sold or go out of business. 
  Who would buy Chelsea with a £2 billion loan?”

Lets hope that the expert was misquoted by the times journalist who, he is a journalist after all, did not understand what the "expert" said. 
The UK is a large , sophisticated economy with many financial experts and no doubt the Times could always find one to say whatever                                              was convenient and another to say the opposite.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Even in this simple sentence there are two non sequiturs to wit: 
  • If the government has legally "seized" the assets [presumably sequestered under UK law] then Abramovich would have no say in the disposition of said asset, i.e. Chelsea F.C. 
  • It would now be owned by the government .
  • By the same token under the presumably legal grounds which the government took the asset ,the malefactor--Abramovich--would not have standing to call the loan.            
  • There would be no need for the Chelsea FC to go out of business.  
  • The proceeds from gate receipts and its share of TV rights would be multiples of that needed to pay wages and keep the club running.                                                           
  • The government could if it wished --as the new owners--appoint a new board to run the club                                                                                                                             
  • While it created an auction to sell it off to the next narcissistic billionaire who wanted such a bauble.

If BOJO got his act together and actually did something about  Londonigrad and the Oligarch donors to his Tory party then Roman Abramovich[RA] would have a lot more                      to worry about than a football club worth perhaps $1-1 1/2 billion.
  • He owns a third of London listed steel & mining giant EVRAZ.
  • As of yesterday its market cap was just under £5 Billion .
  • This compares to £7 1/2 billion the day before Putin seized Ukraine's DONBAS region.
  • If  BOJO sanctions RA then he loses his stake and the company is delisted. 
  • He also loses his extensive property empire and will not be eligible for a bus pass when reaches 62.

Lets hope--for him -that his $400 million yacht is not in a British Marina.
By the way where did Putin moor his yacht last week.

If BOJO sanctions RA it likely pushes the USA and the EU to do the same.        Then Chelsea FC will look like chump change.

Yesterday the Guardian reported 
Roman Abramovich handed $450m dividend from Russian mining group his  London-listed Russian steel and mining business Evraz has given investors a $1.55bn (£1.2bn) dividend, worth approximately $450m to its shareholder Roman Abramovich"


Anyway Cyclops was sufficiently irritated by the  Times concern for poor old Chelsea and RA that he sent the following to their web site comments page under his commoner nomme de lettres.
I copy from their site:
  Chelsea may go bust ‘if Abramovich were to face any sanctions’                                              
irving kuczynski
2 HOURS AGO
I must say the reader comments on this article are much better than the idiot speculation from so called "financial experts" quoted in the article
1.     Taking at least this type of very modest action against Putins cronies is 20 years overdue
2.     The actions proposed merely takes Chelsea out of Roman's ownership -under sequestration by the state.
3.     The club can continue to play and operate
4.     The state can then sell the club to some other half witted billionaire or Gulf potentate--just like Newcastle--
5.   Certainly the Premiership has never stopped crooks, murderers and tyrants  from owning English clubs---all are always found "Fit and Proper".
6.     No need to repay Romans debt as he will have been found to be an "inappropriate owner/beneficiary" .
7.     The proceeds would go to UK treasury.
8.   The law actually allows the UK government to do this as the asset is owned illegally if was acquired using "unknown sources or illicitly obtained " money.
9.  Same goes for his other UK assets .
10.UK can also bar his entry or arrest him when he comes to London
11.Can also arrest his family
If any reader here thinks this cannot be done under UK law they can check with the oligarchs legal counsel. 
  • If Roman or the others think the UK is acting ultra vires they can get their lickspittle Barristers to take the Government to court to find out or                                                                                   
  • Perhaps they could just call the Tory Party treasurer and ask for their money back 
then ran out of "TIMES" comment space

                                  No sooner had Cyclops clicked "send" to the Times than the following appeared on their web page
WAR IN UKRAINE
  Roman Abramovich gives up control of Chelsea
                                       https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/roman-abramovich-putin-wb7sd2vf6
     Whatever the Times "financial experts thought--Cyclops thinks Roman blinked.

                                                                             Post Hoc propter Hoc Smiling face with horns    
                                                                      Nah could not have seen my post to the times that quicklyStuck out tongue closed eyes                                                                                                                                                                                                                        If BOJO is serious---silly question I know--then the UK needs to impose  sanctions that  cost the UK ;not just EU countries..                                                                                                         
  • Nor just brief against the Germans/Italians .
  •  Cutting gas imports will hurt their economies not the UK's.
  • They will face a real  sacrifice in supporting Ukraine.
  • Cyclops is a little hazy in understanding how BOJO s UK grandstanding costs the UK economy much at all.
HRHKC will take Boris seriously  [ED;no you won't] when he sees:  
  •       Yevgeny Lebedev removed from House of Lords . 
  •       Bojo donates to charity the over £2.5million  the Tories have received  from  Russian oligarchs and their stooges.                                                                    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/23/oligarchs-funding-tories
  •       Nullifies UK citizenships bought by said oligarchs ,their wives and children. 
  •       Bans ownership of UK newspapers by his said Russian chums    [ED: what about Rupert Murdoch?
  •                                                                                                               [Cyclops: Be my guest--is he a Russki too?
  •       Ex Tory cabinet ministers resign from the boards of Major Russian companies.

                                                Think Cyclops makes this stuff up ?   See no evilHear no evilSpeak no evil
   Just three Russki donors have given £1.7 million --after buying their British citizenship,w/o needing to give up  Russian

                                                                                                                                                                     
  • The biggest single donor to the Tories is  financier Lubov Chernukhin, who has donated £700,000. 
  • A British national since 2011, she is married to Vladimir Chernukhin, 
  •  Former deputy finance minister under Putin. 
  • Apparently he was allowed to leave Russia in 2004 with assets worth about $500m (£366m) and 
  • Retain Russian business connections                             
                                                                                  
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  • The industrialist Alexander Temerko, also a UK national,.

  • Has donated £357,000 since Johnson took office.
  • He is a minority shareholder and co-owner of a company called Aquind. 
  • Its majority investor is the Russian oil tycoon Viktor Fedotov.
  • Along with his partner, he has given the party more than £750,000 since 2017.
                       
                      
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      "The donor, the Russian deals and the Conservative money machine ' -FT                                                                                                                                                                                                        http:// The donor, the Russian deals and the Conservative money machine
  • Mohamed Amersi  has given £258,000 in last two years.
  • Amersi advised on Russian telecom deal    
  • Swiss tribunal subsequently found it to be controlled by an associate of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. 
  • Even the Swiss  Man facepalming thought the deal was dodgy                                                                                                                                                                               https://www.ft.com/content/5dab0a3e-687a-446f-8e55-58c999d4321f
                                         Amersi is "not a team player;rum sort of fellow"

"Give me back my £200,000, major donor tells Tories"  --Guardian feb 5th 2022

"Controversial telecoms mogul Mohamed Amersi takes on Conservative party over exclusion from elite gatherings and auction prizes never received"


  • He thought it was "pay to play"    
  • just like Lubov Chernukhin tennis games with BOJO 
  • But they did not let him play
  • Arriviste --I guess

There are many more.....
AND ON AND ON.........  All in Public sources on the web



A third of ministers who attend cabinet have taken donations from three ex-Russian businesspeople          daily mirror

                                                 


EXCLUSIVE: 

Quarter of Boris Johnson's Cabinet took Russia-linked cash

  

 




 

Irving Kuczynski Smiling face with halo