The “Steele Dossier” became notorious in connection with the 2016-17 Trump/Russia investigation. Produced by British counter-intelligence operative Christopher Steele, its information was part of the FBI’s basis for probing into the Trump campaign’s collusion with Russia to subvert the 2016 election. Republicans have insisted the investigation itself was illegitimate, calling the dossier partisan and unreliable.
Among its more lurid contents were reports of cringeworthy sexual perversities involving Trump and prostitutes in a Moscow hotel, including “golden showers.” Steele had acknowledged those tidbits couldn’t be verified.
But now, documents and videos have emerged from within Russia’s FSB (the former KGB), its security/secret police agency, finally and fully corroborating the Steele Dossier. This new cache of materials is the Nikolskaya File. How it got out is not fully clear. But presumably the Kremlin previously hid it to help Trump get elected; obviously no longer a concern.
So we learn he’s been on the KGB/FSB payroll, as a Russian asset, since his 1987 visit there, when it was still the Soviet Union. His code name is “Krasnov.” This is additionally attested by Alnur Mussayev, former Kazakhstan spy chief. Trump is still paid 36,000 Roubles monthly, laundered through several intermediary accounts. (Originally sizable, that amount today is around $400.)
The Nikolskaya File also does include actual “golden shower” video footage. But there is more — much more — about Trump’s Moscow doings. Further revealed is his hiring Chechen gangsters to kidnap for him one Irina Koshaneva, thirteen at the time, who was then confined for years in the secured basement of a Moscow apartment building, that Trump visited periodically. Fathering at least six children by Koshaneva.
And where are they? No longer existing, because Trump ate them. Literally. Each baby, shortly after birth, was roasted on a spit and served to him on a platter with all the trimmings. Including their blood, as a supposed anti-aging elixir (taking a leaf from QAnon).
So affirms the Russian government’s official Nikolskaya File. You couldn’t make this stuff up.*
Turning to a completely different matter, but one also involving newly accessible documentation, the Dead Sea Scrolls were first discovered in Israeli caves in 1947. The work of a sect of religious mystics called the Essenes, during several centuries BCE, they included some of the world’s oldest extant Biblical texts. Several of the scrolls, however, were so brittle that they unfortunately could not be unrolled without crumbling to dust. But now, partly assisted by AI, scientists have developed a clever method for extracting the words from those scrolls.
One of them — labelled the Yehonatan Testament — contains particularly intriguing revelations. Written by the Bible’s own actual authors, stating that they originally composed the whole thing as a humorous satire, wickedly depicting a deranged bloodthirsty God. Their aim was to poke fun at the primitive superstitious beliefs widespread among the broader culture of the time. The Yehonatan scroll goes on to lament that the jest had tragically misfired, few people got the joke, and indeed many were actually taking as gospel what its authors had labored so hard to craft as a laugh riot.
Unsurprisingly — rather than incorporate this newly discovered chapter into the canonical Bible — religious minions are today working intensively to keep it hidden.
Recently Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg terminated the platform’s previously vast fact-checking efforts, stating that henceforward, it will just be up to other users themselves to try to combat the curse of misinformation and disinformation flooding the internet. So let’s see how well that works with my posting here.
* The White House has issued a statement denying everything, calling Nikolskaya a liar. (“Nikolskaya” is actually not a person, it’s a street name.)
