Think Tanks Oligarchs And Hidden Agendas Exposed

to keep that in mind, right? So we wanna think about who benefits and then who's writing the papers, okay? So that's just a little point of contention. All right, so let me scooch over here to this. Look at this piece here. Okay, so written by Diane Francis. Guess who Diane Francis writes for Boone? Look at this, I'm gonna tell you right now. I'm gonna share this tab instead. Look at the top corner of this, it says Atlantic Council. Time to cut out the middleman in Ukrainian gas trade. Now, granted, this is from several years ago, right? But this is the same organization. And you have this industrialist and you have the picture. Okay, so four years ago, Ukrainian protested the streets against jaw dropping. So I'll tell you right now, anytime I see something like jaw dropping or any kind of big word in front of corruption or anything. Loaded language is what we call it in my world. Loaded language. Yeah, yeah. So continues to siphon billions from Ukraine. These proceeds underwrite a sophisticated bribery scheme in Russia and Ukraine, and more recently helped subsidize Russia's war and occupation against Ukraine. Now keep in mind, this story's from 2018, but I think the lesson here holds. The heist was devised years ago by mafia kingpin Simeon Mogilevich, and he has been fronted by Dmitriy Furtash with the blessing of Russian president Vladimir Putin and his insiders. It was simple. A foreign intermediary company was established to buy gas from Gazprom, then sell it to Ukraine's utility, NAFTA gas for huge profits that would then be diverted to Russia and Ukrainian politicians and officials. And I will just say, I don't know if you can see this because it's kind of small and you're in, there is not one reference in that story written by this think tank, right? Not one reference. The offshore intermediary was dismantled in 2016, but Furtash immediately devised another gambit. He now controls zombie intermediaries or regional gas distribution companies inside Ukraine that NAFTA gas is legally obliged to sell 11 billion cubic meters of gas, about one third of the market at prices that are 50% below market. Worse, the most of these zombie never pay for the gas that NAFTA gas can't collect the bad debts in timely fashion or cut the gas supplies. Now look, any of these things might be true, right? But there's no references anywhere in here. There's nothing linked to take you anywhere else. And so we don't know. And the story continues and there's more charges and anybody should link this and I'll put this in here. The links into the show notes. Furtash fled Ukraine in 2014 and is in Vienna fending off extradition charges to the US regarding a $500 million bribery scheme involving titanium in India. He may come up again later on one of these other stories. The extradition was dismissed by the Vienna judge in 2015 and then upheld in 2015 and then delayed. And then another extradition request was, so this whole thing is a circuitous thing. So I guess the point here is you have oligarchs funding, also funded by Burisma, BP, Chevron, Think Tank that writes this story. What does this tell you when you see this kind of a story when you're targeting gas executives and you have all this stuff and there's, I don't know, what do you see in this? Do you want me to read more or do you have enough? No, no, I see a shaping operation. I mean, at the end of the day, there's shaping to create the bad guy, the good guy. You have to have a protagonist and an antagonist. This is going after the antagonist. And for anybody who wants to know how the world really works, I hate to say it, but go watch the Godfather because there's so many things in there about getting rid of your competition, about so on and so forth, about bribing people, about making people look bad, about using reporters to sell a certain story that you want to sell. There's so many things in there that are so right on, but you don't want to think about it that way because it's a story about the mob or at least the mob family. But really, there's a lot of truths in that whole series, except for part three, part three's a little funky. But for the most part, there's a lot of truth in one and two about how the world works. And I just think people should pay attention to it. When I see people naming people and using this loaded language, and then you turn back and you say, okay, who is funding this particular publication? Well, then you have a product, right? You have a product that people are selling to create some sort of frame of reference. That's what we call that, that frame of reference for certain people. And who knows what came out after this? I would be curious to find if we did any searches. Did that guy ever get extradited? Or is he still there? And if he hasn't been extradited, why hasn't he been extradited? Because there's nothing on it. And so they basically just keep the guy pinned down, make a lot of accusations, which we've seen in our own country with FISA and different things like that. It's the same game, only the players change. It's funny, there's actually a story with that particular dude in it, and they talk about him being a fugitive. Now he becomes just one line. So instead of that back and forth of it was extradited, they canceled the net. So there is this legal struggle that if you look for it, you can find it. But it's just easier just to say, he's a fugitive. And so they take all of that, all of that stuff where there's this legal fight that's been going on, boom, for 10 years. 10 years to extradite a guy who's apparently corrupt. Maybe he is, right? We just don't know. But here's the thing is Austria is like, hey, man, doesn't look like it to us, right? And there's a couple of times when they said it's, and I can find you a case, but we're not looking to prove this case right now. But one of the arguments is like Austria saying, this is political, so we're not gonna pursue it. He's been released at points during this thing because they're like, this is political. So you're right, there is secondary, tertiary, quintiary on down points in this case. So this case is still in the Vienna court at some point where I think, I believe the last time I saw an update, and again, I don't know exactly where it's at, but they were gonna start the whole thing over again and they were gonna look at it and see where it's at. And we are talking 10 years later, right? So if this is such a cut and dry thing, any reporter who's being legitimate, and I've got a mass comm degree, you'd say, this is alleged and it's gone on for 10 years. And so we don't really know where this is gonna, you would have to put some doubt because we don't know. At a minimum though, I mean, look at this particular operation. This guy's in Vienna. He's not doing the work he was doing. He's been neutralized, okay? And that's, I think, a big part of it. Like, okay, you can't get him, you can't prosecute him, you can't get him extradited, but you can at least use lawfare, which we need to talk about. Lawfare, using the law as warfare. Look at the lawfare involved here. This is a big deal. Get the guy neutralized so somebody else can slide into this place. Let's look again at the Atlantic Councils. I think they're another good example here. And that's great. This is exactly what I wanted for you. Let's look at the Atlantic Council again. And let's look at Fred Kemp, one of the prime people over there. And I'm not picking on the Atlantic Council because they're one, but these things, this is what they do. All right, so let me share this thing, stand by. All right. I just gotta pick the right one here. I think this is it, yeah. Okay, okay. So this is an op-ed by Frederick Kemp. He, guess who he works for. Just guess, Boone. Somebody who doesn't like the people that he's gonna write about. Yeah, he works for the Atlantic Council. So he actually likes these guys. Making a case for an oil CEO, Sultan Al-Jabbar, to lead the UN Climate Conference this year. So he's making a case for Al-Jabbar, the CEO, Sultan, and he wants him to lead the UN Climate Conference this year. And this is from January of 2023.