Putin: It would be nice for Russia if NATO were 'falling apart'
http://cnb.cx/2slXJCN
Trump's plan to eradicate IS by using the US named Communist Kurdish terrorist group PKK.....will in fact lead to far more confrontation inside Syria than the Trump WH and CENTCOM have ever envisioned...
Those U.S. plans to monitor weapons given to #YPG by their serial numbers?
Yeah - that’s pretty unlikely to work…
http://wapo.st/2rjvmq6?tid=ss_tw&utm...394b2a#…
BREAKING Kurdish militants claim downing of Turkish military chopper: report
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Putin: It would be nice for Russia if NATO were 'falling apart'
http://cnb.cx/2slXJCN
9 times Donald Trump twisted facts in his speech quitting the Paris Agreement
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...shpmg00000004#
NBC's @KeirSimmons asks Sergey Gorkov, the Russian banker who met w/ Kushner, over and over about their meeting. Gorkov refuses to answer.
Merkel throws Trump into the Briar Patch
Despite differences, Germany still needs to find common ground with US in the Middle East
By David P. Goldman at The Asia Times: *
Donald Trump and Angela Merkel now agree about the main issues in US-German relations. “The times in which we could rely fully on others — they are a way past us,” Merkel told a beer-tent rally of her political party. “We Europeans really have to take our fate into our own hands.” That is just what President Trump has been telling the Europeans since the beginning of last year’s US election campaign, demanding in particular that Europe pay more for its own defense. Both Trump and Merkel, moreover, say they want the Euro to strengthen against the US dollar. That buries the two bones of contention between Berlin and Washington. Everything else is political posturing and fake news.
The German Chancellor in effect threatens to throw President Trump into the proverbial briar patch, giving him what he wants while appearing to denounce him.
Merkel is running for re-election to a fourth term in next September’s national elections, and it does her more good to denounce Trump than to speak of policy convergence. The German public hates Donald Trump with a visceral passion. The country’s largest-circulation news magazine, Der Spiegel, titled an editorial last week, “It’s time to get rid of Donald Trump,” explaining: “Donald Trump has transformed the United States into a laughing-stock and he is a danger to the world. He must be removed from the White House before things get even worse.”
Trump’s unashamed nationalism elicits revulsion in a land whose 20th-century experience with nationalism was less than satisfactory. The Germans never will understand American populism; for them, populism is the dank fen of German politics that incubated National Socialism. Germany’s self-styled populists of the Alternative for Germany party are infested with Nazi apologists. In the distorting mirror of German history, Trump looks like a monster.
Even worse, Trump stepped on Germany’s sore toe with big boots when he denounced Germany’s 2015 decision to admit more than 1.2 million Muslim refugees supposedly from Syria, but including economic migrants from as far away as Afghanistan. For Germans, this was a grand national sacrifice to world-citizenship; to Trump and the American political right, it was a hallmark of civilizational decline. That may be true, but the Germans insist on their right to decline in their own chosen fashion.
Trump also raised hackles in Germany earlier this year by complaining that Germany had kept Europe’s common currency artificially weak in order to boost exports. This theory came from Trump advisor Peter Navarro (I characterized it at the time as “Navarro-Navarro Land”). The Germans responded that his was unfair: Germany had allowed Europe’s central bank to engineer negative interest rates for the benefit of economic laggards such as Italy, Spain and Portugal, to the detriment of German savers. Last week, Chancellor Merkel herself declared that the Euro was “too weak.” Again, she is running against the European Central Bank’s negative-interest rate policy, a smart move for a German politician before a national election. And once again, she agrees with Trump. Prof. Navarro meanwhile hasn’t been heard from in months.
Berlin and Washington agree on another important strategic issue, namely relations with Russia. If Berlin harbored concerns that President Trump might be too soft on Russia, they were allayed when presidential advisor Gary Cohn declared May 26 that Washington had no intention of removing economic sanctions on Russia imposed after its intervention in Ukraine. That is Merkel’s position.
Where do Trump and Merkel disagree? In Germany, where environmentalism is very nearly the established religion, Trump’s doubts about the Paris Climate Agreement place him outside the bounds of civilized discourse. But that is an ideological rather than a practical matter.
The Middle East, to be sure, remains an area of disagreement between Berlin and Washington. Trump sold $350 billion of advanced weapons to Saudi Arabia during his visit to the kingdom last week and denounced the Saudis’ main rival, Iran. By contrast, Germany’s Foreign Ministry, now directed by Merkel’s Social-Democratic coalition partners, hails Iran “as an important regional actor.” Germany has always taken a more benign view of Iran, and that is a disagreement of substance. It is nonetheless a secondary one.
Merkel and Trump both want a solution to the Syrian civil war, which among other things would reduce the stream of refugees pouring into Europe. As a practical matter, that requires an agreement with Russia, which adroitly inserted itself into Syrian affairs and cannot easily be extracted. Iran, Russia’s ally of convenience, can deploy a nearly inexhaustible reserve of Shi’ite fighters from Pakistan and Afghanistan as well as Lebanon as mercenaries in the Syrian war. Berlin knows as well as Washington that a Syrian deal requires a nasty negotiation. Trump’s effort to isolate Iran well might define the boundaries of a prospective deal with Russia.
For all the beer-tent talk about taking Europe’s destiny into its own hands, Chancellor Merkel knows perfectly well that she needs the United States to deal with the actual and prospective crises on Europe’s borders. Germany will increase its defense spending, but young Germans will not join the Bundeswehr to fight for future generations, for the simple reason that there won’t be much in the way of future generations. German women (excluding immigrants) average 1.3 children, one of the world’s lowest fertility rates. Germany’s infecund, aging population has no reason to fight for a dubious German future.
Germany’s military is in disrepair. As Elisabeth Braw reported in Foreign Policy, “Most of the Navy’s helicopters were not working [in 2014], and of the Army’s 64 helicopters, only 18 were usable. And while the Cold War Bundeswehr had consisted of 370,000 troops, by last summer it was only 176,015 men and women strong.”
Berlin spends only 1.4% of GDP on defense [1.17% in 2015]. An increase to the 2% NATO target, as Trump has demanded, will not make Germany into a military power. There is talk of a common European army, but only talk. That’s the sort of thing one discusses after a few beers in the depths of the briar patch.
* Emphasis added
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Getty has a photo of Jeff Sessions and Russian Ambassador Kislyak at the Mayflower Hotel last April. It IS #REAL.
Why Trump's climate deal exit may be a major win for China:
http://reut.rs/2qJ3lph
NOW Putin is using "little green underage daughters" as the excuse for who conducted Russian state sponsored DNC hacking....
Putin to Megyn Kelly: 'Your underage daughter' could hack an election
http://nbcnews.to/2qNK2uf#
Donald Trump just accomplished the impossible — a united Europe
http://politi.co/2qNAeAo
Again US MSM confirming what two social media journalists reported on three weeks ago...that Trump AG Sessions is also under FBI Russian collusion investigation...
The Associated Press
@AP
BREAKING: Special counsel's Trump campaign investigation includes Manafort case, may expand to include Attorney General Sessions.
Sessions was caught lying which was actually perjury in his Senate confirmations to once meeting the Russian Ambassador outside of his Senate dealings....THEN he submitted a statement indicating he "had forgotten" one meeting...NOW there is photo evidence of at least two more meetings not covered by his "first single meeting statement...
Trump's Cabinet pick for Education DeVos is now targeting K12 science teachers who teach climate warming to their classes...these are 18 years olds.....
DeVos backed group is targeting every K-12 science teacher in the US in effort to sow doubts about climate science
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/o...lteachers.html
Like abortion, climate has nothing to do with the climate. It’s about authoritarians who want to teach free people to obey without question.
LITTLE KNOWN FACT...PAUL SMITHS, N.Y. — The Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank known for attacking climate science, has been mailing a slim, glossy book to public school teachers throughout the United States. The institute says it plans to send out as many as 200,000 copies, until virtually every science educator in America has one.
The book, “Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming,” presents the false premise that the evidence for human-driven climate change is deeply flawed. To understand where the Heartland Institute is coming from, consider a recent comment by its president, Joseph Bast, who called global warming “another fake crisis” for Democrats “to hype to scare voters and raise campaign dollars.”
The book was first published in 2015, to coincide with the Paris climate conference and influence policy makers. The second edition was released this year with an instructional DVD.
deVos is a “dominionist,” a branch of Christianity about absolute control. It has nothing to do with Christ or the Gospels, but pure authority.
Reuters: Sources say FBI chief recruiting process is 'chaotic', interviews led by Trump only lasting 10-20 mins.
NOW Trump and his merry band of white nationalists are in a "dispute" with MIT although he is just a real estate salesperson over the false use of the Trump WH on the MIT climate study.....
MIT openly stated yesterday that the Trump WH had falsely misused or misunderstood their study.
White House scrambles to defend Trump’s use of climate data, disputed by the authors themselves
https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-hou...200714240.html
HOW does one explain "hyprocriscy" ?????
Nunes is bashing the former Obama administration for doing this as a protection for Trump and attempts to change the Russian investigation narrative to one of "Obama unmasking" and THEN suddenly "he requested the same thing"......Nunes-led House Intelligence Committee asked for ‘unmaskings’ of Americans
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) has cast the practice of “unmasking” U.S. individuals and organizations in classified reports as an abuse of powers by the Obama administration. But the panel he leads requested five to six such unmaskings between June 2016 and January 2017, according to a tally by U.S. spy agencies.
Old American Indian saying......"white man speaks with forked tongue"....
Second old American saying....."never directly challenge USG IC agencies as they keep records".....
The real victim of Trump’s NATO outburst: The US
http://www.politico.eu/article/donal...-real-victim/#
Reuters: In interviews with FBI director finalists, Trump "spoke mostly about himself and seemed distracted"Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09
Being massively investigated by the FBI for criminal activities (money laundering) and Russian collusion might do that????
It is just not only Trump having problems now the SoS is being investigated at the New York State level...
Exxon challenged us to put forth evidence of their potentially wide-ranging fraud. Today, we answered.
Quote from the NY AG Scheinderman
Rex Tillerson misled Exxon Mobil investors on climate change, NY AG says
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money...nge/102418492/
IS there truly anyone in the Trump WH that is not currently being investigated at the State and or Federal levels?????
APPEARS that all the tam tam by Nunes and the Congressional GOP about Susan Rice's "unmasking" WAS actually LESS than Nunes requested of IC.....
BUT they still try to deflect using Rice as a deflection story....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...115175#…
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SPOTTED at White House earlier today: high-wattage defense attorney Abbe Lowell. Told me he had a meeting in the EEOB, not to do w/Russia.
RUMINT...he was meeting with Kushner and his wife on RICO money laundering issues....WHICH in theory "is not about Russia".....
This lawyer does not "just simply drop by for a chat at 6K per hour billing charges"....
For those that do not know this small fact and I was here during the following riots......
OTD 50 years ago, the unprovoked killing of a student by a right-wing cop set off years of left-wing protests & worse in West Germany WHO then turned out to be a high level GDR Stasi officer.
In the light of the current Russian investigations, criminal investigations around RICO and money laundering on a grand scale AND obstruction of an ongoing Federal investigation.....
American history is not going to be the same after these investigations are completed....
REALLY READ this article....
What if everything you know is wrong?
February 24, 2013
https://20committee.com/2013/02/24/w...know-is-wrong/
WHEN viewing what is currently ongoing with the Trump Russian investigations one must be thoroughly prepared that what we think the "current reality" is.....it ani't necessarily so.....
This 'joke' in K.Pravda says a lot about US-Russian ties:
"If it hadn't been for Columbus, we'd have to put up with Americans in Europe."
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