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ancianita's JournalTreasury Sanctions Russia-Linked Election Interference Actors
Source: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY Press Release
September 10, 2020
Washington – Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated four Russia-linked individuals for attempting to influence the U.S. electoral process. Russia uses a variety of proxies to attempt to sow discord between political parties and drive internal divisions to influence voters as part of Moscow’s broader efforts to undermine democratic countries and institutions. In the United States, Russia has used a wide range of influence methods and actors to target our electoral process, including targeting U.S. presidential candidates.
Treasury designated Andrii Derkach (Derkach) pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13848 for his efforts to influence the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Derkach, a Member of the Ukrainian Parliament, has been an active Russian agent for over a decade, maintaining close connections with the Russian Intelligence Services. Derkach has directly or indirectly engaged in, sponsored, concealed, or otherwise been complicit in foreign interference in an attempt to undermine the upcoming 2020 U.S. presidential election. Today’s designation of Derkach is focused on exposing Russian malign influence campaigns and protecting our upcoming elections from foreign interference. This action is a clear signal to Moscow and its proxies that this activity will not be tolerated. The Administration is working across the U.S. Government, and with state, local, and private sector partners, to make the 2020 election secure.
“Andrii Derkach and other Russian agents employ manipulation and deceit to attempt to influence elections in the United States and elsewhere around the world,” said Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin. “The United States will continue to use all the tools at its disposal to counter these Russian disinformation campaigns and uphold the integrity of our election system.”
Derkach’s Election Influence Efforts
From at least late 2019 through mid-2020, Derkach waged a covert influence campaign centered on cultivating false and unsubstantiated narratives concerning U.S. officials in the upcoming 2020 Presidential Election, spurring corruption investigations in both Ukraine and the United States designed to culminate prior to election day. Derkach’s unsubstantiated narratives were pushed in Western media through coverage of press conferences and other news events, including interviews and statements.
Read more: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm1118
Wikipedia noted under "Honors and recognition" that Derkach is an FSB officer who won the FSB Employee of the Year in 2019.
He had been feeding
-- Ron Johnson, WI Senator and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee (Wisconsin politician),
-- Devin Nunes (Ranking Member House Intelligence Committee), as well as
-- Rudi Giuliani, former New York City Mayor and current (as of Sept 2020) personal attorney to Donald Trump,
false documents in hopes to aid the re-election campaign of President of the United States Donald Trump, was confirmed to be an active FSB officer on September 10, 2020.
Officials in the United States Intelligence Community pushed for sanctions given Russia’s interference in the 2016 US Election had been allowed without repercussions. The US Treasury complied.
Whether Giuliani and/or Johnson were aware they were collaborating with a Russian spy is still unclear. They had been warned in advance, yet chose to continue with their collusion with the FSB agent to jeopardize the upcoming United States Presidential Election.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrii_Derkach
One of the suckers, dopes and babies, and maybe a journalist 'source.'
Because I'm in a mood ... I'm with Mad Dog in 2020. He might not be Chesty Puller, but he'll do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Mattis#George_Floyd_protests
Danny Goldman's Analysis of Michael Cohen
56 days out -- harden passwords
Don't think it can't happen just because it hasn't happened yet.
Governor Cuomo Press Briefing September 8 2020
Day 192Labor Day starts a different phase of the U.S. pandemic -- maintaining gains.
Problem creators:
-- bars
-- out-of-state visitors
-- colleges
-- schools K-12
-- voting
I've missed you, Andrew!
Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Is Now Linked to More Than 250,000 Coronavirus Cases
Yet another count of the fallout.
The explosion in cases, the study from the Germany-based IZA Institute of Labor Economics finds, is expected to reach $12 billion in public health costs.
https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/09/sturgis-motorcycle-rally-is-now-linked-to-more-than-250000-coronavirus-cases/
56 days out -- preparing
"The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." Sun Tzu
(excerpted lyrics)
Yeah, life is protest
We are weapons
God damn, love like Arab Spring
There are frontiers
They are endless
And they're in our everything
The sun ain't set on me yet
I ain't got much, but I'm not alone
Inside each life there are four fists
We are made whole through our broken jaws
Broken jaws
I'm ready, I'm patient, I wait
Wait...
Wait, no I ain't
I'm scared and I'm quick to escape
"Eh, he went that a way"
Maybe flattered and scattering?
Or flattened and shattering?
Or collecting data?
I don't have an idea that isn't unraveling
Whoa
Free where the breeze will take me
Helium and balloon but no string
This what nobody wanted
We stuck so far under
We so out of sync (yeah)
Just remember to breathe
Just remember to be
Just remember how beast you be
Reach for like anything
Do that shit easy
Nothing comes easy
Just take it easy
Do what the needs be
There ain't no freebies
Earn what you keeping
Or think they do not need me
Cause they don't if you sleeping
Caught in the romance and drama of, "woe is me!"
Stopped 'em from catching they opening
And there won't be credits
This won't stop happening, ever
The sun ain't set on me yet
I ain't got much, but I'm not alone
Inside each life there are four fists
We are made whole through our broken jaws
I'm learning it never makes sense
And that's OK
That life is a weapon itself
With the sharpest blade
There is not a heaven or hell
Just each day
And life is a death in itself
And I can change
I'm learning to let go as well
It's so strange
The past is a part of me now
There's no escape
I made up the bed by myself
So I'm sleepin' in it
There is no erasing the past
To get back what I lost cause
I ain't dead yet! I ain't-
I ain't dead! I ain't-
I ain't dead! I ain't-
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