Let's All Laugh At... Let's all laugh at Chelsea thread

yanno said:

Starter for Ten.

Ever since the Steele dossier was shown to be flaky and lacking in evidence, Chabad links to Trump Org have allegedly become the new focus of Mueller's probe into supposed Trump-Russia collusion.

Below is a mainstream source - Politico - which includes details of Abramovich's bankrolling of Chabad, with a predictable focus on links to Trump.

Given the current rampant Russophobia and demonisation of Putin, from his own perspective Abramovich is wise to take himself out of US extradition range.

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Starting in 1999, Putin enlisted two of his closest confidants, the oligarchs Lev Leviev and Roman Abramovich, who would go on to become Chabad’s biggest patrons worldwide, to create the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia under the leadership of Chabad rabbi Berel Lazar, who would come to be known as “Putin’s rabbi.”
A few years later, Trump would seek out Russian projects and capital by joining forces with a partnership called Bayrock-Sapir, led by Soviet emigres Tevfik Arif, Felix Sater and Tamir Sapir—who maintain close ties to Chabad. The company’s ventures would lead to multiple lawsuits alleging fraud and a criminal investigation of a condo project in Manhattan.

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Kushner and Ivanka Trump are also close with Abramovich’s wife, Dasha Zhukova. Abramovich, an industrialist worth more than $7 billion and the owner of the British soccer club Chelsea FC, is the former governor of the Russian province of Chukotka, where he is still revered as a hero. He owes his fortune to his triumphant emergence from Russia’s post-Soviet “aluminum wars,” in which more than 100 people are estimated to have died in fighting over control of aluminum refineries. Abramovich admitted in 2008 that he amassed his assets by paying billions of dollars in bribes. In 2011, his former business partner, the late Boris Berezovsky—an oligarch who had fallen out with Putin and gone on to live in exile at the Trump International on Central Park West—accused him of threats, blackmail and intimidation in a lawsuit in the United Kingdom, which Abramovich won.

Abramovich was reportedly the first person to recommend to Yeltsin that he choose Putin as his successor. In their 2004 biography of Abramovich, the British journalists Chris Hutchins and Dominic Midgely write, “When Putin needed a shadowy force to act against his enemies behind the scenes, it was Abramovich whom he could rely on to prove a willing co-conspirator.” The biographers compare the two men’s relationship to that between a father and a son and report that Abramovich personally interviewed candidates for Putin’s first cabinet. He has reportedly gifted Putin a $30 million yacht, though Putin denies it.

Abramovich’s vast business holdings and his personal life overlap with Trump’s world in multiple ways.

According to a 2012 report from researchers at Cornell University, Evraz, a firm partly owned by Abramovich, has contracts to provide 40 percent of the steel for the Keystone XL pipeline, a project whose completion was approved by Trump in March after years of delay. And in 2006, Abramovich purchased a large stake in the Russian oil giant Rosneft, a company now being scrutinized for its possible role in alleged collusion between Trump and Russia. Both Trump and the Kremlin have dismissed as "fake news" a dossier that alleges that a recent sale of Rosneft shares was part of a scheme to ease U.S. sanctions on Russia.

Meanwhile, his wife, Zhukova, has long traveled in the same social circles as Kushner and Ivanka Trump: She is a friend and business partner of Rupert Murdoch’s ex-wife Wendi Deng, one of Ivanka’s closest friends, and a friend of Karlie Kloss, the longtime girlfriend of Kushner’s brother, Josh.

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In 2013, a $50 million Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center opened in Moscow under the auspices of Chabad and with funding from Abramovich. Putin donated a month of his salary to the project, while the Federal Security Service, the successor to the KGB, pitched in by offering relevant documents from its archives.


https://www.politico.com/magazine/s...sh-group-that-connects-trump-and-putin-215007

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spursfan77 said:

Lev Leviev....surely thats not a real person?!?!

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Dillspur said:

I would be amazed if it was closer and steeper than what ours would be, from what I've read in the new stadium thread we are at the limit in regards to the rake and how close we are to the pitch. New builds have restrictions and I believe stands have to be a certain distance from the field

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Danners9 said:

good, good, good

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spursfan77 said:

Avram Grant! ??????????

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sebo_sek said:

Are you serious? A concrete cage. Something out of football's Mad Max 3.

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Bus-Conductor said:

At least the new Chelsea stadium design was innovative, had some architectural interest and merit and challenged the perceived norms, made some kind of architectural statement. Which is the least such a monumentally huge and expensive building should do.

All we’ve built is a circular airport terminal, that mimics the emirates.

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Bus-Conductor said:

At least the new Chelsea stadium design was innovative, had some architectural interest and merit and challenged the perceived norms, made some kind of architectural statement. Which is the least such a monumentally huge and expensive building should do.

All we’ve built is a circular airport terminal, that mimics the emirates.

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Bus-Conductor said:

At least the new Chelsea stadium design was innovative, had some architectural interest and merit and challenged the perceived norms, made some kind of architectural statement. Which is the least such a monumentally huge and expensive building should do.

All we’ve built is a circular airport terminal, that mimics the emirates.

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HailKingLevy said:

To think RA almost bought us, and we could possibly be in this position now...

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yanno said:

Starter for Ten.

Ever since the Steele dossier was shown to be flaky and lacking in evidence, Chabad links to Trump Org have allegedly become the new focus of Mueller's probe into supposed Trump-Russia collusion.

Below is a mainstream source - Politico - which includes details of Abramovich's bankrolling of Chabad, with a predictable focus on links to Trump.

Given the current rampant Russophobia and demonisation of Putin, from his own perspective Abramovich is wise to take himself out of US extradition range.

A couple of snippets:

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Starting in 1999, Putin enlisted two of his closest confidants, the oligarchs Lev Leviev and Roman Abramovich, who would go on to become Chabad’s biggest patrons worldwide, to create the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia under the leadership of Chabad rabbi Berel Lazar, who would come to be known as “Putin’s rabbi.”
A few years later, Trump would seek out Russian projects and capital by joining forces with a partnership called Bayrock-Sapir, led by Soviet emigres Tevfik Arif, Felix Sater and Tamir Sapir—who maintain close ties to Chabad. The company’s ventures would lead to multiple lawsuits alleging fraud and a criminal investigation of a condo project in Manhattan.

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Kushner and Ivanka Trump are also close with Abramovich’s wife, Dasha Zhukova. Abramovich, an industrialist worth more than $7 billion and the owner of the British soccer club Chelsea FC, is the former governor of the Russian province of Chukotka, where he is still revered as a hero. He owes his fortune to his triumphant emergence from Russia’s post-Soviet “aluminum wars,” in which more than 100 people are estimated to have died in fighting over control of aluminum refineries. Abramovich admitted in 2008 that he amassed his assets by paying billions of dollars in bribes. In 2011, his former business partner, the late Boris Berezovsky—an oligarch who had fallen out with Putin and gone on to live in exile at the Trump International on Central Park West—accused him of threats, blackmail and intimidation in a lawsuit in the United Kingdom, which Abramovich won.

Abramovich was reportedly the first person to recommend to Yeltsin that he choose Putin as his successor. In their 2004 biography of Abramovich, the British journalists Chris Hutchins and Dominic Midgely write, “When Putin needed a shadowy force to act against his enemies behind the scenes, it was Abramovich whom he could rely on to prove a willing co-conspirator.” The biographers compare the two men’s relationship to that between a father and a son and report that Abramovich personally interviewed candidates for Putin’s first cabinet. He has reportedly gifted Putin a $30 million yacht, though Putin denies it.

Abramovich’s vast business holdings and his personal life overlap with Trump’s world in multiple ways.

According to a 2012 report from researchers at Cornell University, Evraz, a firm partly owned by Abramovich, has contracts to provide 40 percent of the steel for the Keystone XL pipeline, a project whose completion was approved by Trump in March after years of delay. And in 2006, Abramovich purchased a large stake in the Russian oil giant Rosneft, a company now being scrutinized for its possible role in alleged collusion between Trump and Russia. Both Trump and the Kremlin have dismissed as "fake news" a dossier that alleges that a recent sale of Rosneft shares was part of a scheme to ease U.S. sanctions on Russia.

Meanwhile, his wife, Zhukova, has long traveled in the same social circles as Kushner and Ivanka Trump: She is a friend and business partner of Rupert Murdoch’s ex-wife Wendi Deng, one of Ivanka’s closest friends, and a friend of Karlie Kloss, the longtime girlfriend of Kushner’s brother, Josh.

(snip)

In 2013, a $50 million Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center opened in Moscow under the auspices of Chabad and with funding from Abramovich. Putin donated a month of his salary to the project, while the Federal Security Service, the successor to the KGB, pitched in by offering relevant documents from its archives.


https://www.politico.com/magazine/s...sh-group-that-connects-trump-and-putin-215007

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popstar7 said:

Didn't realise Abramovich was tied in with Felix Sater, Bayrock and that mob in Trump Tower (and when I say 'mob' I mean mob). Shouldn't be surprised, I suppose. Money from Russia, Qatar, UAE is stinking up everything from the Premier League and FIFA to the White House and far beyond.

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popstar7 said:

Didn't realise Abramovich was tied in with Felix Sater, Bayrock and that mob in Trump Tower (and when I say 'mob' I mean mob). Shouldn't be surprised, I suppose. Money from Russia, Qatar, UAE is stinking up everything from the Premier League and FIFA to the White House and far beyond.

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