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Study: Trump's Proposed Automobile Tariffs Will Destroy 195,000 American Jobs
Post Date: 2018-06-02 11:40:13 by Deckard
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And if other countries respond with similar tariffs, the U.S. could lose more than 600,000 manufacturing jobs.A new study says the American automobile industry will lose 195,000 jobs over the next three years if President Donald Trump presses forward with a plan to impose 25 percent tariffs on imported cars and auto parts. That's on top of the existing tariffs on steel and aluminum, which are already forecast to whack automakers and other manufacturing jobs. According to the study, which was released by the D.C.-based Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE), a 25 percent tariff on automobiles and auto parts would cause production in those industries to fall by about 1.5 ...
Trump Goes Full Neocon as Bolton Adds Fred Fleitz as NSC Chief of Staff
Post Date: 2018-06-01 09:28:46 by Deckard
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During the Trump campaign, I wrote a book on the influence of Frank Gaffney, the fringe neocon who has made a career pulling fire alarms, telling us Islam will destroy western civilization and enslave us to Sharia law. Earlier this week Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton installed Fred Fleitz as the National Security Council’s executive secretary and chief of staff. Fleitz worked for Bolton at the State Department during the Bush administration. He is a senior staff member at the Center for Security Policy (CPS), a hardline neocon think tank founded by Gaffney. Its raison d’etre is taking out the mullahs in Iran, who are invariably described as ...
[Truckers, teachers, farmers, taxi] Strike Could Bring Down The Mullahs In Iran, Mainstream Media Ignores It
Post Date: 2018-05-31 21:19:49 by Tooconservative
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A courageous truck strike in Iran, now in its tenth day, is threatening to bring down the Iranian government. Day 10 of nationwide strike by Iran's truckers. These truck drivers are refusing to deliver loads as #IranProtests persist. Workers are often not paid for months. They now realize there's more to be gained by striking. (Footage from Kavar, May 31 via MEK activists) #FreeIran2018 pic.twitter.com/mAEhmdlHf8 — M. Hanif Jazayeri (@HanifJazayeri) May 31, 2018 #Breaking, Kangavar, Kermanshah Province, West of Iran: 5/31: 10th day of truck drivers strike. #FreeIran2018 #IranRegimeChange #IranProtests ...
White House announces tech tariffs, investment restrictions on China
Post Date: 2018-05-29 14:28:13 by Tooconservative
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The White House announced this morning a plan to levy a 25% tariff on $50 billion worth of Chinese tech goods — with the exact list to be announced next month — as well as tech investment limits for Chinese nationals and entities. It also plans to pursue litigation at the World Trade Organization relating to Chinese intellectual property abuses.The big picture: It’s a show of force that has surprised some sources close to the White House who believed Trump would defer any aggression towards China until after the North Korea summit.A source close to the White House who has a keen understanding of the internal dynamics on China told me that this is an "initial ...
Poland would like a permanent U.S. military base [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-05-28 19:02:28 by Tooconservative
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Word has leaked out that Poland has delivered a proposal requesting a permanent American military base in their country and they’re willing to put up a couple of billion dollars to help make it happen. What should have been a fairly normal diplomatic request, however, has turned into a complicated mess before it could even be officially announced. Questions were immediately raised as to not only how or if this should happen, but even who came up with the proposal in the first place. (Politico) Poland wants a permanent U.S. military presence — and is willing to pony up as much as $2 billion to get it, according to a defense ministry proposal obtained by Polish news portal Onet. ...
Russia Just Blinked in Syria and It Isn’t an Accident
Post Date: 2018-05-28 14:53:02 by Tooconservative
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“When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature, they will like the strong horse.”–Osama bin Laden, terrorist mastermind and, as it turned out, prophet. One of the many signature accomplishments of the Obama administration was inviting Russia to take a role in the war in Syria. If one were writing a John le Carre-style novel one could draw a straight line from our withdrawal from Iraq to the rise of ISIS to the Arab Spring to our attempt to overthrow Assad to the rise of ISIS to the increase of Iranian power to using the Russians as our intermediary with Iran to negotiate the now-defunct Iran nuclear deal to a Russian military presence in Syria. But as Iran’s ...
Your Tax Dollars Bankroll Afghan Child-Molesters
Post Date: 2018-05-28 12:53:41 by Deckard
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Donald Trump was hailed by the media last August when he announced he was sending more U.S. troops to fight in Afghanistan. A Washington Post editorial praised his “principled realism” and saluted “a rare but welcome story of self-correction” (since Trump had portrayed Afghanistan as a lost cause when he was a presidential candidate). A New York Daily News op-ed praised the president because “Trump said ‘win’ and ‘victory’ more times in 15 minutes than President Barack Obama did in eight years.” CNN cheered that expanding the Afghan war allowed Trump to “stake out a more conventional presidential posture.” Trump assured the ...
EMP Commission warns ‘blackout’ of electricity, food, water to last ‘year or longer,’ huge death toll
Post Date: 2018-05-27 18:24:20 by tpaine
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EMP Commission warns ‘blackout’ of electricity, food, water to last ‘year or longer,’ huge death toll by Paul Bedard | May 09, 2018 11:11 AM Parts of the United States would be starved of electricity, water, food, internet service and transportation for a year or longer by the smallest electromagnetic pulse attack on the electric grid, according to a newly declassified report from a federal commission. The so-called EMP Commission report said that the threat is real, jeopardizes “modern civilization,” and would set back living conditions to those last seen in the 1800s. And as a result of the chaos, millions would likely die, according to the report ...
Putin to al-Assad: US, and Iran, will get out of Syria
Post Date: 2018-05-26 17:11:02 by Tooconservative
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Kremlin confirms Russian president was referring to Iran and Hezbollah Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was in Sochi, Russia for a surprise get together with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Thursday, amid a fast-changing strategic landscape in the Middle East. During the meeting, Putin notably stressed that in light of “the start of a more active phase of the political process […] foreign armed forces will be withdrawing from the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic.” The comments, as translated by the Kremlin’s website, were later clarified on Friday. Putin’s statement to al-Assad referred to foreign forces including Iran and Hezbollah, Russia’s ...
Germany Playing Kissy-Face With IranÂ’s Mullahs Is Going To Cost German Companies Plenty
Post Date: 2018-05-26 01:30:35 by Tooconservative
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I’ve posted a few times on the efforts on the part of some European countries, Germany, in particular, to continue to trade with Iran despite US sanctions (see here | here). This, of course, is nonsense. German, and European, companies that are hit with sanctions are cut off from US markets and, more importantly, their bankers are subject to sanctions, too. Two important things happened today that, hopefully, will hammer home to Europe that their plan to resist US sanctions on Iran won’t work. First, we have Ambassador Richard Grennell. Grennell, you’ll recall, is the guy who gave the Washington Post a brief bout of fecal incontinence when he tweeted, shortly after ...
KIM JONG UN CAVES TO TRUMP!! [Kim wants a summit "at any time"]
Post Date: 2018-05-24 21:42:34 by Tooconservative
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Well, it happened, it only took a few hours for North Korea to freak out that Trump had called their bluff, and they’re begging to come back to the table. BREAKING: North Korea says it is still willing to sit down for talks with the US 'at any time'.— The Associated Press (@AP) May 24, 2018 This is an unmitigated win for Trump. Now when he goes to the meeting, he’ll have the upper hand, and will be able to negotiate from a position of strength. That’s the way it is. I thought they might cave after reading this reaction to Trump’s announcement: .@willripleyCNN on phone from north korea now. says he was the first person to read to the north korean officials ...
The Great German Meltdown by Victor Davis Hanson
Post Date: 2018-05-24 14:00:47 by tpaine
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The Great German Meltdown by Victor Davis Hanson Wednesday, May 23, 2018 Every 20 to 50 years in Germany, things start unraveling. Germans feel aggrieved. Ideas and movements gyrate wildly between far left and far right extremes. And the Germans finally find consensus in a sense of victimhood paradoxically expressed as national chauvinism. Germany’s neighbors in 1870, 1914, 1939—and increasingly in the present—usually bear the brunt of this national meltdown. Germany is supposed to be the economic powerhouse of Europe, its financial leader, and its trusted and responsible political center. Often it plays those roles superbly. But recently, it’s been cracking ...
Trump lawyer 'paid by Ukraine' to arrange White House talks
Post Date: 2018-05-23 16:13:51 by Jameson
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Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, received a secret payment of at least $400,000 (£300,000) to fix talks between the Ukrainian president and President Trump, according to sources in Kiev close to those involved. The payment was arranged by intermediaries acting for Ukraine's leader, Petro Poroshenko, the sources said, though Mr Cohen was not registered as a representative of Ukraine as required by US law. The meeting at the White House was last June. Shortly after the Ukrainian president returned home, his country's anti-corruption agency stopped its investigation into Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort. A high-ranking Ukrainian ...
Pompeo to Iran: Get ready for "strongest sanctions in history"
Post Date: 2018-05-22 04:29:46 by Tooconservative
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Mike Pompeo offered both a clenched fist and an open hand to Iran in his first major policy speech. At the Heritage Foundation this morning, the new Secretary of State pledged never to “repeat the mistakes of past administrations” and rejected entirely the effort to “renegotiate the JCPOA,” the executive agreement created by the Obama administration. Instead, Pompeo offered to open full diplomatic and economic ties with Tehran, but only if they comply with twelve “basic requirements” for non-proliferation and the end of state-sponsored terrorism: If Iran agrees to US "requirements," Pompeo says US prepared to end all principal components of its ...
Germany’s military is dysfunctional and they have no plans to fix it
Post Date: 2018-05-22 03:08:28 by Tooconservative
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This weekend I was writing about the dismay being expressed by various European leaders these days as they come to realize that the status quo is changing and they can’t simply take advantage of the United States anymore. One area where that’s abundantly clear is found in the subject of military spending. Western Europe, in particular, has had a pretty smooth ride since the Second World War, being able to save a lot of money by not funding large military forces and relying on America to keep them secure. Nowhere is this more evident than in Germany. While we touched on this briefly yesterday, there are some recent developments in the news coming out of Europe which merit a closer ...
ISIS Militants Leave Damascus Under Evacuation Deal As Assad Takes Full Control Of Capital
Post Date: 2018-05-21 13:19:36 by Tooconservative
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Islamic State fighters began evacuating their last remaining positions in southern Damascus on Sunday under an agreement with the Syrian government, which was reached after months of furious fighting, according to a war monitor and local reports. The brief ceasefire allows IS militants safe passage out of Damascus to camps in Syria’s eastern desert, where the group still clings on to some territory. Their departure marks the fall of all rebel and militant Islamic groups in Damascus and gives Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government full control of the capital region for the first time since the country’s civil war broke out in 2011. “At dawn, six buses of IS ...
At the royal wedding, why was the heretic allowed to give the homily?
Post Date: 2018-05-21 12:24:50 by interpreter
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Why was the biggest heretic in the history of heretics allowed to preach the homily at the royal wedding? Yes, I'm talking about the black guy but it has nothing to do with his color. He is the presiding bishop of the US branch of the Anglican Church that the Archbishop of Canterbury has repeatedly threatened to excommunicate if he does not repent and quit ordaining openly sinning queers as priests, and quit allowing them to perform same-sex marriages. And I am one of many in my Church who are trying our best to get him removed from his position as head honcho. He has driven almost half of our members out of the Church, and I'm fixin to be one of them if he doesn't change his ...
Europe may be realizing America isn’t their sugar daddy or punching bag
Post Date: 2018-05-21 00:23:20 by Tooconservative
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This may prove to be an apt moment to discuss the state of the union. But I’m not talking about the U.S. State of the Union here, but rather the state of the European Union. According to some sources, things aren’t looking very good in Brussels when it comes to their view of America. And while President Trump has certainly been a major driver of distress among some European leaders, they’re worried about a sea change which could be the new normal in Euro-American relations. Michael Birnbaum, Brussels bureau chief covering Europe, and his Europe-focused colleague Griff Witte have an opinion piece at the Washington Post which describes the ongoing turmoil. While many of the ...
Has China succumbed to the art of the deal?
Post Date: 2018-05-20 11:28:13 by Tooconservative
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How real is the deal? We may not know for a couple of weeks yet (if not longer) but recent talks between China and the United States have resulted in an initial announcement that Beijing will prioritize closing the trade gap with the U.S. by purchasing significantly greater amounts of goods. Included in the few details offered thus far is a plan to increase both agricultural and energy exports from America. While China’s Foreign Ministry disputed some of the target amounts, the rest of the announcement looks as if it may soon become a reality. (CNN) Both parties said in a joint statement on Saturday that China has agreed to “significantly increase” purchases of US goods and ...
John Bolton: We May Punish Europe If They Don’t Pull Out Of Iran Deal Too
Post Date: 2018-05-20 09:57:00 by A Pole
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Poles Blasting EU for Gay Flag [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-05-19 10:25:11 by IbJensen
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Claims that display normalizes homosexuality BRUSSELS (ChurchMilitant.com) - Brussels is getting backlash from Poland for flying a gay flag outside of the European Parliament. On Thursday, a rainbow flag was hoisted up in front of the building for the first time in its history, marking "International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia." Despite outcry from Polish conservatives, the European Union said, "Regrettably, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) persons in Europe are still subject to serious discrimination and maltreatment on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity." Ryszard Legutko, co-chairman of the ...
I said Israel should be ashamed – now I am the one who is ashamed
Post Date: 2018-05-18 13:52:41 by no gnu taxes
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It’s never easy to say you’re sorry. To admit you’re wrong. To announce publicly, “I made a mistake”. But to apologise when that apology comes bound up with what is, perhaps, the most intractable conflict on earth, makes it a thousand times harder. But that is what I am. Sorry. A few days ago I wrote a column about the latest round of violence on the border with Gaza. It was a cry from the heart. I love Israel. I have always loved it, and cannot envision a time when I will not love it. But in my office, I sit near a television set. And on Monday, I saw the following, side by side. On the left, in Jerusalem, I saw happy faces. Self-congratulatory faces. I saw ...
U.K. Parliament Addresses President Trump Pulling Out Of The Iran Nuclear Agreement
Post Date: 2018-05-16 16:14:14 by A Pole
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Is a Russian-American Rapprochement Possible?
Post Date: 2018-05-16 13:09:13 by Tooconservative
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Major media outlets on both sides of America’s political divide ran denunciations of Russian President Vladimir Putin last weekend. These include a lengthy extract in the Wall Street Journal from the memoirs of Sen. John McCain, calling Putin “an evil man ... intent on evil deeds” who “means to defeat the West.” Meanwhile, Washington Post foreign policy pundit Jackson Diehl praised a delegation of Putin’s opponents, asserting that Russia “is a place where discontent is growing, the desire for civil rights is tangible and the prospect of democratic change is, in the longer term, real.” The Washington-based Foundation for Defense of ...
Iran in Panic Mode, Scrambles to Save Nuclear Deal
Post Date: 2018-05-16 12:47:47 by Tooconservative
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The Iranian ruling regime is racing to save the landmark nuclear deal after President Donald Trump bucked European powers and walked away from the agreement with a vow to reimpose a package of harsh sanctions on the Islamic Republic, according to U.S. officials and regional experts who say the hardline regime is scared about losing the sweetheart deal. Leading Iranian officials have been locked in tense meetings with European countries and former U.S. officials to ensure they continue to uphold the deal and keep doing business with the Islamic Republic. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, one of the country's lead negotiators, held a series of meetings with European Union countries ...
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