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Butina met with top officials at Treasury, Federal Reserve
Post Date: 2018-07-22 10:09:09 by Willie Green
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The 29-year-old Russian woman accused of working as a foreign agent in the U.S. reportedly met with senior officials in the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve in 2015.Sources familiar with the meetings and the think tank that helped set them up told Reuters that Maria Butina met with Stanley Fischer, then-vice chairman of the Fed, and Nathan Sheets, then undersecretary for international affairs at the U.S. Treasury.Butina was indicted last week on charges of conspiracy and acting as an agent of the Russian Federation without notifying the attorney general. She is accused of trying to infiltrate the National Rifle Association to advance Russian interests in the U.S.She is being held in ...
The Real Reason the Ruling Class Hates Putin
Post Date: 2018-07-21 22:05:59 by VxH
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======== More evidence Putin is on the same page as Solzhenitsyn: "the great disasters that had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened." --Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Click for Full Text!
Nuclear War and Climatic Catastrophe: Some Policy Implications
Post Date: 2018-07-20 23:45:25 by VxH
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t is not even impossible to imagine that the effects of an atomic war fought with greatly perfected weapons and pushed by the utmost determination will endanger the survival of man. Edward Teller Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, February 1947 The extreme danger to mankind inherent in the proposal by [Edward Teller and others to develop thermonuclear weapons] wholly outweighs any military advantage. J. Robert Oppenheimer, et al. Report of the General Advisory Committee, AEC October 1949 The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon makes its very existence and the knowledge of its construction a danger to humanity. . . . It is . . . an evil thing. Enrico ...
US diplomats act like imperial governors riding roughshod over sovereignty of national governments
Post Date: 2018-07-20 22:32:51 by Hondo68
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Former US Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaulOn the world’s Grand Chessboard, the US is fighting for control and influence. And there are countries where its ambassadors are perceived more as imperial governors than simple channels of communication. At the height of the Maidan protests in Kiev in early 2014, a conversation was leaked between the US ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, and the then-Assistant Secretary of State in the Obama administration, Victoria Nuland. The conversation gained notoriety because Nuland said to Pyatt, "F**k the EU" and the recording was almost instantly available on Youtube. More shocking than Nuland's bad language, however, was what ...
Trump Says He’s ‘Ready’ to Slap Tariffs on Every Chinese Good Imported to the U.S.
Post Date: 2018-07-20 20:54:22 by Gatlin
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President Trump threatened to further escalate the ongoing trade war by placing tariffs on all $505 billion in Chinese goods imported to the U.S. during a Friday appearance on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “I’m ready to go to 500,” Trump told CNBC’s Joe Kernen, referring to the $505 billion in Chinese goods imported to the U.S. in 2017. While the administration is at work comprising a list of $200 billion in Chinese goods to be hit with tariffs if negotiations don’t progress, thus far only $34 billion in Chinese imports have been taxed. The Chinese have retaliated dollar-for-dollar and vowed to continue to do so. However, if the trade war continues to ...
Trump under siege from the PNAC crowd for seeking peace with Russia
Post Date: 2018-07-20 05:51:01 by Deckard
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Twenty-one years ago, Bill Kristol, Paul Wolfowicz, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and a host of other “neoconservatives” collaborated on the “Project for the New American Century.” That produced, among other documents, “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” in which Thomas Donnelly posited the US had an opportunity after the fall of the Soviet Union to do whatever it wanted militarily, before a new power rose to challenge it. Dominating foreign policy and entrenched throughout the military and intelligence establishments ever since, these neocons have attempted to prolong that unchallenged status, including doing all they can to ensure Russia would ...
CONTROVERSIAL JEWISH NATION-STATE BILL PASSES INTO LAW
Post Date: 2018-07-19 19:49:02 by VxH
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Jerusalem Post Israel News CONTROVERSIAL JEWISH NATION-STATE BILL PASSES INTO LAW The law passed after a stormy debate full of theatrics that stretched more than eight hours. BY GIL HOFFMAN JULY 19, 2018 02:53 2 minute read. > Thousands of protesters gather against nation-state bill in Tel Aviv > Analysis: Will the nation-state law change the Supreme Court? Share on facebook Share on twitter Knesset passes controversial Jewish nation-state bill into law, July 19, 2018 (Reuters) Knesset passes controversial Jewish nation-state bill into law, July 19, 2018 (Reuters) The controversial Jewish nation-state bill became Israel's 14th Basic Law early Thursday morning after it passed into ...
Men Have Forgotten God
Post Date: 2018-07-19 18:21:23 by VxH
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn played a major role in the collapse of the Soviet Union more than two decades ago. He exposed the reality of Soviet prison camps and was also a critic of the West. The basis for his observations was his Christianity.Solzhenitsyn was a committed communist until he was a young man. He was imprisoned by the Soviets at the end of World War 2 because he'd written something critical in a letter. He became a Christian in prison and began a writing career that would eventually expose the cruelty of the Soviet Union and contribute to its eventual demise. For fear of being punished, he committed his books to memory. After being released from prison in 1956, he found a ...
Trump: I'll be Vladimir Putin's 'worst enemy' if US-Russia relationship 'doesn't work out'
Post Date: 2018-07-19 17:53:04 by VxH
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President Donald Trump vowed in an interview with CNBC that if his dealings with Russian leader Vladimir Putin don't "work out, I'll be the worst enemy he's ever had." But he also said that, "Getting along with President Putin, getting along with Russia is postive, not a negative," Trump said. Trump blasted his predecessor, President Barack Obama, for having been a "patsy for Russia" — while claiming he has been "far tougher on Russia than any president in many, many years." Click for Full Text!
The great dollar dump: Russia liquidates US Treasury holdings
Post Date: 2018-07-19 16:37:08 by VxH
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Russia is continuing to diversify state reserves away from US debt. The latest data from the US Treasury shows that Russia's share hit an 11-year minimum and totaled only $14.9 billion. The share of US sovereign debt bonds in Russia's portfolio has been reduced dramatically in recent months. Russia held $96.1 billion in US Treasuries in March before selling half its holdings in April, dropping to 22nd place among major foreign holders of American treasury securities at $48.7 billion. In 2010, Russia was among the top 10 holders of US Treasuries at $176.3 billion. With its holdings falling to $14.9 billion in May, the country is now below the $30 billion threshold for inclusion on ...
First Win for Trump-Putin Summit: Agreement to Restrain Iran in Syria
Post Date: 2018-07-18 17:26:12 by nolu chan
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First Win for Trump-Putin Summit: Agreement to Restrain Iran in Syria Joel B. Pollack Breitbart 18 Jul 2018 President Donald Trump has been criticized by the media and by Beltway politicians of both parties for his meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday. But the summit has already produced a very significant win: namely, agreement to avoid a war in the Middle East by restraining Iran in Syria. As Breitbart News columnist Caroline Glick noted last month, it was crucial that Trump confront Putin over Syria, because Russia was about to allow Iranian and Hezbollah soldiers, dressed in Syrian uniforms, to move into southwestern Syria along the border with Israel ...
The Latest: Trump says he misspoke on Russia meddling
Post Date: 2018-07-17 15:10:46 by VxH
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resident Donald Trump says he meant the opposite when he said in Helsinki that he doesn't see why Russia would have interfered in the 2016 U.S. elections. Back at the White House on Tuesday, the president told reporters that he said he meant he doesn't see why Russia "wouldn't" be responsible. He also said he accepts the American intelligence community's conclusion that Russia interfered in the election, but he denied that his campaign had colluded in the effort. Click for Full Text!
Trump calls off Cold War II
Post Date: 2018-07-17 08:38:12 by tpaine
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- WND - http://www.wnd.com - Trump calls off Cold War II Posted By Patrick J. Buchanan On 07/16/2018 @ 7:03 pm Beginning his joint press conference with Vladimir Putin, President Trump declared that U.S. relations with Russia have “never been worse.” He then added pointedly, that just changed “about four hours ago.” It certainly did. With his remarks in Helsinki and at the NATO summit in Brussels, Trump has signaled a historic shift in U.S. foreign policy that may determine the future of this nation and the fate of his presidency. He has rejected the fundamental premises of American foreign policy since the end of the Cold War and blamed our wretched relations ...
‘Palestinian’ Man Skates Murder Charge for Stabbing Israeli Woman in Back, Sentenced on Assault
Post Date: 2018-07-17 08:03:59 by IbJensen
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A “Palestinian” man was just sentenced to 14 years in prison for his 2015 stabbing of an Israeli woman in the back. But the victim says justice was not done. Why? Nirit Zamora speaks to reporters inside the Judea Military Court beside her husband ahead of the sentencing of her attacker. The stabber, Hamza Faiz, was only charged with aggravated assault, not attempted murder. The Times of Israel has more: A military court on Monday sentenced a Palestinian man to 14 years in prison for stabbing an Israeli woman in the back at a West Bank junction in 2015. The case became controversial after the assailant, Hebron resident Hamza Faiz, was charged with aggravated assault and not ...
Trump Is Right to Meet Putin
Post Date: 2018-07-17 01:03:45 by buckeroo
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Trump Is Right to Meet Putin America needs fewer enemies. What’s wrong with reducing tensions? By SEN. RAND PAUL July 16, 2018 President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin today, days after meeting with our NATO allies in Europe. Both meetings are important, and both cause confusion among politicians and those who report on them back home. Foreign policy is difficult. It comes in many shades of gray, and those who treat it as a team sport do harm to our safety and to our politics. Politicizing international affairs is a dangerous game, but that hasn’t stopped far too many in Washington, who seem to have forgotten that a vital part of keeping America safe ...
Full transcript of Chris Wallace's interview in Helsinki with Russian president Vladimir Putin, as supplied by Fox News.
Post Date: 2018-07-16 23:08:12 by tpaine
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Full transcript of Chris Wallace's interview in Helsinki with Russian president Vladimir Putin, as supplied by Fox News. CHRIS WALLACE: President Putin, thank you for speaking with us. I am going to get to some specifics about the summit in a moment, but let's begin with the big picture. President Trump said in his news conference that our relationship has never been worse, but that changed a few hours ago. How has the relationship, big-picture, between the U.S. and Russia changed today? RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN: Primarily, I think we should be grateful to our staff and our aides who spent several last months working with one another and not just in the preparations of ...
Chris Wallace interviews Russian President Vladimir Putin
Post Date: 2018-07-16 22:15:02 by buckeroo
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Once Again, President Trump Is Magnificently Right—This Time About Russia [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-07-16 19:51:31 by nolu chan
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Once Again, President Trump Is Magnificently Right—This Time About Russia By David P. Goldman PJ Media July 16, 2018 President Trump offended the entire political spectrum with a tweet this morning blaming the U.S. for poor relations with Russia. “Our relationship with Russia has NEVER been worse thanks to many years of U.S. foolishness and stupidity,” the president said, and he is entirely correct. By this I do not mean to say that Russia is a beneficent actor in world affairs or that President Putin is an admirable world leader. Nonetheless, the president displayed both perspicacity and political courage when he pointed the finger at the United States for mismanaging ...
McCain rips Trump: 'One of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory'
Post Date: 2018-07-16 14:30:41 by Deckard
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Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., blasted President Trump for his comments during a joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin Monday afternoon, and called it "one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president" in his lifetime. McCain said in a statement that the summit with Putin was a "tragic mistake" that showed off Trump's "naivete" and "egotism." He also said Trump "proved" that he is unable to stand up to the Russian president. “Today’s press conference in Helsinki was one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory," McCain said. "The damage inflicted by ...
Reality vs Fantasy: President Trump warns Europe is ‘losing its culture’ by allowing ‘millions and millions’ of migrants, PM Theresa May praises their’ fantastic contribution’
Post Date: 2018-07-15 09:59:14 by IbJensen
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While Theresa May clings to the idea just by saying something (and having it repeated incessantly by a sharia-compliant media), then it will be so. But reality has a nasty way of shattering delusions. The fact is that mass Muslim migration into Europe has been a disaster. The continent is in a perpetual state of impending terror — London, Nice, Berlin, Paris, etc. It is a security state. And no less than 50% of British Muslim males and 70% of females are on welfare and entitlements. THERESA MAY PRAISES THE ‘FANTASTIC CONTRIBUTION’ MADE BY IMMIGRANTS AS SHE DISMISSES TRUMP’S CLAIMS BRITAIN IS ‘LOSING ITS CULTURE’ BECAUSE OF THE INFLUX Donald Trump slammed mass ...
NATO’s Problem Is that Europeans Won’t Fight
Post Date: 2018-07-15 09:03:17 by Tooconservative
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President Trump outraged European opinion by denouncing his allies on the far side of the Atlantic for their failure to meet NATO’s spending target of 2% of GDP. Other alliance members, he added, should spend 4% of their output on defense, just like America does. His dudgeon at the Europeans was more than justified: the Europeans really are deadbeats who don’t pay their fair share of the cost of defending their own countries and leave the burden in the hands of American soldiers and taxpayers. Trump’s remonstrations will fall on deaf ears. Why should Europeans spend money on arms, when they have no intention of using them? A recent opinion poll found that small minorities in ...
This Honda lawn mower will go 150 mph
Post Date: 2018-07-13 23:17:35 by Deckard
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Honda Mean Mower V2 (Honda)What did Honda’s super-fast Mean Mower need? More power, of course.Continue Reading BelowThe Japanese manufacturer, also known for its cars, jets, motorcycles and marine engines, wants to reclaim its title for making the fastest lawn mower in the world. The original Mean Mower could hit 130 mph and set a Guinness Book record at 116.575 mph in 2014. The current record-holder, a modified Viking mower made by a Norwegian group, hit a top speed of 134 mph a year later.Honda’s U.K. division and Team Dynamics are working on Mean Mower V2 and targeting a top speed of 150 mph. The new riding mower, a modified Honda HF 2622 lawn tractor, will have almost double ...
Trump: NATO partners "agreed to substantially up their commitment"
Post Date: 2018-07-12 09:30:26 by Tooconservative
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Mission accomplished? After a contentious NATO summit, Donald Trump held a surprise press conference earlier today to announce substantial increases in spending commitments by other members of the alliance. Trump declared NATO now a “fine-tuned machine” after his negotiations, but also hinted that he could have disassembled it if he wanted: "Everyone has agreed to substantially up their commitment": Pres. Trump says NATO member nations have agreed to spend more money on defense. https://t.co/rc4ztpQ6dg pic.twitter.com/RxIHuz0QoV — ABC News (@ABC) July 12, 2018 President Donald Trump declared NATO a “fine-tuned machine” in an impromptu news ...
Trump now wants NATO allies to spend 4 percent of GDP on defense
Post Date: 2018-07-11 21:28:40 by Tooconservative
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President Trump is suggesting that NATO allies double their military spending goal to 4 percent of their gross domestic product, the White House confirmed on Wednesday. Trump previously pressed members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to raise their spending to 2 percent by 2024. Most NATO nations spend less than 2 percent of their GDP on military programs, though the U.S. spends more. Trump has argued the U.S. effectively subsidizes its allies' defense. The new 4 percent goal was initially disclosed by Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, a supporter of the idea, following a meeting with Trump, and was later confirmed by White House press secretary Sarah Sanders. “During ...
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