Settle in, this one is super-duper juicy.
Several months ago, I read a long and highly technical article about the money trail from Russia to “green” organizations in the USA. Allegedly, the Russians were funding groups to stop fracking and promote alternate forms of energy. I thought, “hmmmm”, and made a mental note. We all have our doubts about the “Muh, Russia” investigation because it never made sense – no motive for Trump and the Russians already did business with Hillary/Bill. Yet, if the Russians primary export is oil, it would make sense for Russia to want to curb American oil production. The article was plausible, and the authors did a good job of tracking the money. I forgot about it because I’m a simple person behind a keyboard with no authority.
But the Steyer/Oil/Russians/Green/Anti-Trump story keeps coming back and it’s starting to make sense as part of a bigger picture.
Tom Steyer is the California billionaire who spent millions to run advertising on CNN and other outlets promoting the impeachment of President Trump. Please don’t click on this link as it leads to CNN.
Yesterday, we learned Steyer will fund opposition to Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows. Link to article from WaExaminer Steyer’s PAC, “Need to Impeach, is launching a weeklong TV ad campaign, worth $75,000, in the districts of Jordan and Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., two of Trump’s biggest defenders in Congress. Both congressmen cruised to easy re-election victories in 2018.” Further in the article, we learn Steyer threatens to spend 7 figures on his ad buys. It COULD be part of Jerry Nadler’s attempt to ‘persuade the public that impeachment is necessary’.
But what the heck is wrong with Steyer? Why is he so adamantly opposed to our President and everyone in the Trump Admin? Did they have a deal 30 years ago which went bad? Did Trump steal Steyer’s former girlfriend? Why all the animus? Check out these Steyer tweets and trust me, they WON’T age well. Note, we have Steyer retweeting Nadler (coincidence, part of a pattern, or planned?)
Did you hear the rumor Steyer made his money in oil? Does it seem strange Steyer would now be such a vocal proponent of green energy? Did Steyer have an epiphany which would explain his 180 degree turn on the subject of energy? Or was there a turn in opinion at all?
Then, this morning, I saw this line in a Breitbart article. A green campaigner whose war on the U.S. fracking industry curiously aligns with the one waged and heavily funded by his Russian friends?
You mean Steyer made his billions on Russian Oil????????? I had to get a new cup of coffee and read further. No kidding. Steyer is in bed with the Russians. How about that one?
From the article, a bit of background: “He made his fortune through his hedge fund Farallon Capital Management (at one point the world’s 19th largest) which in 2008 invested in Geotech Oil Services, one of the largest oilfield service companies in Russia. In 2010 Steyer sold part of his holding to the Volga Group, a privately held investment group that manages assets on behalf of Russian oligarch and Putin confidante Gennady Timchenko.”
And Timchenko is one of the Russians who were sanctioned by Mnuchin, Sec of Treas, in the Trump Admin.? And…… “A leaked U.S. State Department cable put a finer point on it stating that Timchenko “is rumored to be a former KGB colleague of Putin’s.” A real link to an actual Russian? Makes Steyer’s comments look rather odd.
It gets better.
Steyer’s been buttocks deep in Russia since the 90’s. When the Soviet Union fell apart, the US State Dept (USAID) called on Harvard to ‘advise’ the Russians on how to run an economy. Two guys were selected – Harvard economist Andrei Shleifer and Jonathan Hay, and they named the project Harvard University’s Institute of International Development (HIID). The two guys got into trouble, trying to make money for themselves, and were charged by our gov’t. Here’s a copy of the filing for the case: Link
Well, on page 5 of the indictment, we learn Andrei Shleifer is married to Nancy Zimmerman (follow the wives), who, during the time relevant to this litigation, managed a hedge fund known as Farallon Fixed Income Associates……. and Farallon was owned/managed by ………, guess who? Tom Steyer.
From the article, “Harvard would eventually shutter the HIID following the scandal. Farallon provided the investment vehicle for a number of those schemes and was also the target of legal action by the U.S. government for its role.” Ohhh, we’re going to need another cup of coffee. You mean Steyer was colluding with Russian oligarchs and doing something illegal? You mean Steyer’s company actions were soooooo nefarious, he was charged by the US Federal Gov’t? And no one went to prison………
But what happened to Steyer? “How did he get out of his problems?”, you might ask. Ohhh, I would never intentionally IMPUGN the honor of Tom Steyer, but suddenly he seems to have an epiphany …….. at the same time he becomes a backer of Hillary Clinton. Oh lookie here, we found a letter from students at Yale and others, protesting Steyer and questioning Farallon’s investment ‘ethics’ from the March of 2004.
From the Epiphany letter : “We are students and alumni who attend the universities that entrust millions of dollars of endowment funds to Farallon. We write to request a meeting with you to discuss the ethics of Farallon’s investment practices.” This letter is from people at Stanford, UPenn, Yale, and University of Texas and it’s pretty much a threat to Farallon and Steyer.
Keep in mind, the date of the charge against Harvard guys is June 28, 2004. AND only the two guys were charged. When and why did Steyer suddenly form “NextGen Super PAC” to support Hillary? Keep following the timeline, this is a year or so before all the Uranium One business cranks up. Keep in mind, no one from Farallon went to jail for making zillions in Russia, with help from the Harvard guys. And Steyer eventually sells out in ’08 and ’10.
So, what does Steyer do with his time? He is one greedy son of a bitch, this guy. Steyer decides to make money promoting the OTHER side of energy and hops into bed with the Russians (did he ever get out of bed?) and the Dems with their green activists, you know, those easily manipulated students, who don’t ask too many questions.
Get another cup of coffee, with Bailey’s this time, and peruse this sweet little document. It’s only 7 pages but here’s the summary. You guys have to see this to believe it: Link
“On July 30th 2014 the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works issued a Minority Staff report titled “The Chain of Environmental Command: How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama’s EPA.” The 92–page report details a dizzy web of “dark money” from foreign investments to the American environmental movement through a foundation called Sea Change Foundation. At one point, the authors identify the limitations of their report:
While this report sheds significant light on the who and the how, the truly outrageous nature of these complex arrangements are only understood by exploring the why. This report articulates several possible reasons for the convoluted and secretive structure of the far-left environmental movement; yet, at the end of the day, we are still asking – why? Why are members of the Billionaire’s Club going to such extreme lengths to hide their generous support of supposed charitable causes?
In the below report, we believe we have taken an important step toward answering that question with new information and never-before-identified players and connections.
Our report begins where the Senate report ended, with Klein Ltd. Klein Ltd., a corporation that “only exists on paper” and is based out of a Bermuda law firm called Wakefield Quin, gave $23 million dollars to environmental bundler Sea Change Foundation from 2010 to 2011, which has given tens of millions to other U.S. environmental groups.
While it is unclear who is funding Klein, the law firm controlling this shady offshore funder of the U.S. environmental movement has ties to Russian money laundering, a friend and advisor of Vladimir Putin, Russian oil production, and more. According to its Articles of Incorporation, Klein was formed by two employees of Wakefield Quin
(WQ), a Bermuda law firm. A Klein director and WQ senior counsel, along with another WQ senior counsel, have pasts that should be considered questionable at best. Both held directorship positions in a group, owned by Russian minister of telecommunications and longtime Putin friend Leonid Reiman, which was the subject of a 2008 money laundering case. The group was ultimately convicted in British Virgin Islands court.
WQ’s Russian involvement doesn’t stop there. Marcuard Spectrum, a Moscow-based investment firm, operates a hedge fund in Bermuda based out of WQ’s office. Both of the aforementioned WQ lawyers are listed in leadership positions. Further, one of the founders of Marcuard is also the chair of Russian owned oil giant Rosneft.
There have been significant questions about whether foreign interests—particularly Russian—are funding attacks on U.S. natural gas because it would hurt the Kremlin. Here we have a major foreign funder of the U.S. environmental movement tied through its Bermuda office to Russian money laundering and the Russian government.” And folks, that’s just the summary for Klein and Sea Change Foundation.
Here is the link to the 92 page report done by the Senate called “How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama’s EPA” Link
OMG, Rosneft? Does Steyer have another house in Bermuda AND in Moscow? Funneling money to a Bermuda shell corp? With a Russian hedge fund working out of the SAME law firm? To fund the green movement in the USA? To influence the Americans to STOP producing oil and LNG?
Sooooooooo, the Green Movement is funded by Russians who are influencing USA policy? OMG, this is too good for words. Green = Pro-Russia. Climate change narrative is coming from those already ‘influenced’ by Russians. Wow.
Are you ready? It’s not just Klein, LTD or Sea Change. And yes, Steyer did donate 4.15 million to the Sea Change Org. We found more trails of foreign money. Nest of Green money link Blue Green Alliance Foundation, Environmental Defense Fund, the Rockefeller Family Fund and many others. They oppose fracking, drilling, LNG export, pipelines, anything oil related. And Russians help to fund it.
Now, it all makes sense. Now, we understand, as clearly as I can see my empty coffee cup, why Obama wanted to kill coal……. and why the left opposes fossil fuels. It’s all about the money for a few people at the top of the pyramid and their dolts they fund as activists.
Did ANYONE think the legislature of California gave a damn about straws? If they’re really worried about ocean pollution, why aren’t they protesting the Chinese Embassy? Does ANYONE think AOC really wants us to all ride bikes and save the earth? Do you really think Socialist influenced teacher orgs would spend 20 yrs trying to indoctrinate our kids on “global warming” if there were not “trillions at stake”?
Color me suspicious.
Meanwhile the effing Russians and Germans are building the Nordstrom pipeline? And Merkel was ‘upset’ that President Trump ‘mentioned’ the pipeline? Oh yeah, buddy, we are onto you now. Now, I am actually mad at the Russians and their “green billionaire whores” here in the USA. Our President, his administration, and the boys from Texas are going to kick some Russian/Silicon valley ass.
In summary, NOW do you understand why Jill Stein was sitting at the table with Putin, right next to Putin’s Spokesman? and Chief of Staff? Gee whiz, maybe that’s why Mike Flynn was there (our guy in the room?). It might explain Carter Page’s periphery involvement and Papadopoulis too……., all experts on oil.
We can see clearly now. The fog has lifted. We understand why President Trump pulled out of the Paris Accord, and why we magically have 16 LNG ports coming on line. It explains the trip to Poland and the LNG deal. It explains Wilbur Ross using oil and LNG as bargaining chips. It’s all about the oil and the money.
Economic power, baby! And USA leverage!
Trump wins, USA wins, and we win!
