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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Tuesday 22 November. [Ukrainian sources]

The Trump Foundation admitted violating IRS rules by improperly giving money to someone close to the organization, according to a recent federal income tax filing.

The filing, which was first reported by the Washington Post, was published on the website GuideStar, and raises more questions about potential IRS violations.

In one instance, the Foundation checked a "yes" box when asked: "(Did the Foundation) transfer any income or assets to a disqualified person (or make any of either available for the benefit or use of a disqualified person)?"
A Senior Research Fellow at GuideStar, Chuck McLean, told CNN that "disqualified person" is essentially "IRS speak" for a person who "has significant influence over the activities of the organization or someone related to those people."

Trump overseas business interests subject to new scrutiny

GuideStar is a nonprofit information service that specializes in reporting on American nonprofit organizations. It has offices in Washington and Williamsburg, Virginia, that collect thousands of nonprofit tax returns annually and post them on its website.

The Trump Foundation also checked "yes" when asked if it had engaged in any acts of "self-dealing" in prior years.
McLean told CNN in an email that by checking that box, those actions had not been corrected.

There's no indication on the 990 filing about precisely who the "disqualified person" was or even what activities are involved. The Trump Foundation, GuideStar says, has to file a form called a 4720 and then explain what took place and possibly pay an excise tax on them.

There were some other interesting items of note in the recent foundation document. In its section devoted to contributions, the largest single donor was the Trump Corporation to the tune of $566,370.

The largest individual donation, though, came from a Ukrainian businessman who previously had donated more than $6 million to the Clinton Foundation over the years: Victor Pinchuk, who through his own foundation based in London, gave the Trump Foundation $150,000.

Pinchuk's total net worth has been valued by Forbes Magazine at just around $1.4 billion. According to emails reported by WikiLeaks, Pinchuk also hired a lobbyist to arrange meetings at the State Department while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. Some Republicans had called for a special prosecutor to look into both the donations by Pinchuk to the Clinton Foundation and to the reported hiring of the lobbyist................

Access complete text of the editorial:  cnn.com In English

Journalists reporting on Ukraine - the good, the bad, and the ugly

Excellent, EXCELLENT article here by a journalist I do not know -

How Russia’s worst propaganda myths about Ukraine seep into media language
http://euromaidanpress.com/2016/04/25/how-russias-worst-propaganda-myths-about-ukraine-seeps-into-media-language/?utm_content=bufferd9089&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer#arvlbdata

An excellent deconstruction of a bbc article (original here, but no name!)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36099885
(April 24) about Ukraine.
Author - of article which destroys this garbage - Paula Chertok - apparently went to Rutgers, Berkeley.
At Rutgers I would estimate in he mid-1980s, at a time when "deconstruction" and "semiotic analysis" were the buzzwords in many disciplines.



Language of equivalency. Worse still is the BBC’s use of language that suggests Russia and Ukraine are equally at fault for war, both equally guilty in the overall scheme of things. Just look at the unmistakable language of equivalence and mutuality: “each other,” “both sides,” “similarly” are repeatedly used, as is “tit for tat” twice. The reader is invariably left with the impression that both Ukraine and Russia are equally culpable.



....Now you might say, well, they are doing the same things to one another in certain realms, so why not use this language? The problem with this story is that it superficially addresses a superficial issue, without effectively providing the context for the reader to understand the balance of responsibility, using language patterns that support a distortion of reality. Russia invaded Ukraine, seized its territory, killed its people, tried its citizens on questionable charges of terrorism, while Ukraine bans Russian films. There is no equivalency here. But by using words repeatedly about equivalency, without the appropriate contextualization with well-established facts, we’re left thinking we’re reading about parties that are equally bad, equally dirty, and equally to blame for the current war “crisis.”

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To emphasize the bbc's hopeless standard of journalism, a tweet from yesterday from Sarah Rainsford; this time about MH17.
Note the use of language....  

Sarah Rainsford ‏@sarahrainsford  20 ч20 часов назад
Despite tabloid hype BBC ed says his prog finds it 'unlikely' #Ukrainian jet shot down #MH17; takes 'balanced view' on 'competing theories'

"Competing theories". Russian propaganda indeed is working very effectively.
The BBC desperately need somebody intelligent in their Moscow bureau.
From what I have heard elsewhere the bbc programme producer is a "sensationalist" (idiot) - wanting good viewing numbers, as opposed to telling the truth. $$$

This from Kasparov -
Garry Kasparov ‎@Kasparov63
Idiots at BBC, what did they think? “Competing theories” of #MH17?! Produced by the Kremlin? Next, BBC can question if Holocaust happened.

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"...intelligent journalist"? Maybe my heading is wrong.  The author describes herself as a "linguist, teacher, writer...." Intelligent, certainly