Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Monday, May 22, 2017
Jake Tapper slams Trump for applauding Saudi suppression of dissent
Jake Tapper on Monday blistered Donald Trump’s trip to Saudi Arabia, arguing his administration is “not exactly leading by example” on American values including freedom of the press and freedom of assembly.
“The White House shutting out the U.S. media in Saudi Arabia and marveling at a lack of protestors. When in Riyadh, I suppose,” Tapper began on CNN’s “The Lead.”
Tapper pointed to Trump’s speech where he promised not to “lecture other countries on how to live.”
“Many took as an abdication of the traditional role of the United States, and publicly preaching the values of freedom and democracy,” Tapper said. “Values that some critics suggest the Trump Administration might not fully appreciate.”
Citing a source close to James Comey, Tapper said Trump expressed “irritation” over leaks about private phone conversations with leaders. According to a memo written by Comey, Trump instructed the former FBI director to “throw journalists in jail.”
“The White House shutting out the U.S. media in Saudi Arabia and marveling at a lack of protestors. When in Riyadh, I suppose,” Tapper began on CNN’s “The Lead.”
Tapper pointed to Trump’s speech where he promised not to “lecture other countries on how to live.”
“Many took as an abdication of the traditional role of the United States, and publicly preaching the values of freedom and democracy,” Tapper said. “Values that some critics suggest the Trump Administration might not fully appreciate.”
Citing a source close to James Comey, Tapper said Trump expressed “irritation” over leaks about private phone conversations with leaders. According to a memo written by Comey, Trump instructed the former FBI director to “throw journalists in jail.”
Israel settlements a sticking point in Trump's Jerusalem visit
Al Jazeera's Harry Fawcett reports from Efrat in the occupied West Bank.
OPEC struggles to maintain dominance - Counting the Cost (feature) Can the world's top producers prevent another collapse in the price of crude?
Can the world's top producers prevent another collapse in the price of crude?
Oil has been a hot topic ahead of the OPECmeeting on May 25. For the past six months there has been a production cut in place, with compliance from member states proving very positive at around 90 percent.
Saudi Arabia and Russia have both stated their desire for global producers to continue with the cuts through to 2018. But seasonal factors that helped to boost compliance in the first half of this year are fading away as the season for the highest demand is upon the industry.
OPEC is struggling to maintain its dominance over US shale producers, whilst Iranian production remains a grey area as the elections wrap.
Can the world's top producers prevent another collapse in the price of crude?
Richard Mallinson, energy analyst and partner at Energy Aspects, is optimistic about the continued cooperation of the OPEC states as per the kingdom's and Russia's request. "It is quite likely that a lot of diplomacy was done, at least amongst the GCC in a few key countries, before the Saudi and Russian announcement... we've seen many other countries in the OPEC group, and some of the none OPEC countries that were part of the cut, confirming that they are keen for an extension," he says.
As for OPEC's dilemma where the rising US shale markets are concerned, Mallinson says there is room for everyone in the market, "OPEC still matters, it still has influence, but it is needing to adapt to the new reality which is going to include US shale production for the forseeable future."
Richard Mallinson joins us from Energy Aspects in London to discuss whether OPEC can keep oil prices buoyed.
Oil has been a hot topic ahead of the OPECmeeting on May 25. For the past six months there has been a production cut in place, with compliance from member states proving very positive at around 90 percent.
Saudi Arabia and Russia have both stated their desire for global producers to continue with the cuts through to 2018. But seasonal factors that helped to boost compliance in the first half of this year are fading away as the season for the highest demand is upon the industry.
OPEC is struggling to maintain its dominance over US shale producers, whilst Iranian production remains a grey area as the elections wrap.
Can the world's top producers prevent another collapse in the price of crude?
Richard Mallinson, energy analyst and partner at Energy Aspects, is optimistic about the continued cooperation of the OPEC states as per the kingdom's and Russia's request. "It is quite likely that a lot of diplomacy was done, at least amongst the GCC in a few key countries, before the Saudi and Russian announcement... we've seen many other countries in the OPEC group, and some of the none OPEC countries that were part of the cut, confirming that they are keen for an extension," he says.
As for OPEC's dilemma where the rising US shale markets are concerned, Mallinson says there is room for everyone in the market, "OPEC still matters, it still has influence, but it is needing to adapt to the new reality which is going to include US shale production for the forseeable future."
Richard Mallinson joins us from Energy Aspects in London to discuss whether OPEC can keep oil prices buoyed.
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
CBO RELEASES ESTIMATE ON IMPACT OF GOP HEALTH CARE BILL | CNN THE LEAD W...
If he wanted to make the government more efficient, he could stop spending so much tax dollars on his mari lago trips: He's already exceeded Obamas annual travel expense in one month.And we allll know what making the Federal agencies more "cost-productive" means. It means getting rid of environmental protections and regulations which are a "burden" to companies who find not being allowed to poison people and destroy ecosystems too expensive...
CBO RELEASES ESTIMATE ON IMPACT OF GOP HEALTH CARE BILL | CNN THE LEAD W...
If he wanted to make the government more efficient, he could stop spending so much tax dollars on his mari lago trips: He's already exceeded Obamas annual travel expense in one month.And we allll know what making the Federal agencies more "cost-productive" means. It means getting rid of environmental protections and regulations which are a "burden" to companies who find not being allowed to poison people and destroy ecosystems too expensive...
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
BBC WikiLeaks The Secret Life of a Superpower Ep 1
+BeRnI Ayers
The situation you are in, in the USA is entirely of your own making, you have been warned time and again by the likes of Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, in his book 'War is a Racket' 1935
By vice president Henry A. Wallace in his piece 'The Dangers of American Fascism' published in the New York Times in 1944
And a guy known as Noam Chomsky who wrote an essay called:
If the Nuremberg Laws were Applied…
Noam Chomsky
Delivered around 1990
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. By violation of the Nuremberg laws I mean the same kind of crimes for which people were hanged in Nuremberg. And Nuremberg means Nuremberg and Tokyo. So first of all you’ve got to think back as to what people were hanged for at Nuremberg and Tokyo. And once you think back, the question doesn’t even require a moment’s waste of time. For example, one general at the Tokyo trials, which were the worst, General Yamashita, was hanged on the grounds that troops in the Philippines, which were technically under his command (though it was so late in the war that he had no contact with them — it was the very end of the war and there were some troops running around the Philippines who he had no contact with), had carried out atrocities, so he was hanged. Well, try that one out and you’ve already wiped out everybody.
Americancer wishes to see itself as 'exceptional' which is no different than seeing yourself as übermensch, it is really that simple, being so exceptional that you are better than other people, is the whole idea of the Nazi übermensch.
So, the ancient truth out there is: a people deserves its government.
Smedley Butler on Interventionism
-- Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC. War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
The highest decorated US marine ever.
Henry Wallace:
A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. The supreme god of a fascist, to which his ends are directed, may be money or power; may be a race or a class; may be a military, clique or an economic group; or may be a culture, religion, or a political party.
The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned. The really dangerous American fascists are not those who are hooked up directly or indirectly with the Axis. The FBI has its finger on those. The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.
Forewarned and foretold, you are what you get, that is why you get a Nazi government each time.
The American populace has been utter impotent to give their own presidents what you loved to give the Nazis at Nuremberg and recently in Baghdad, you accuse people of horrible crimes, but the most horrible crimes are Americancer crimes
The researcher james A. Lucas, death toll due to American interventions estimates that the rest of the world owes the USAdolph at least 10,000 9-11s
Simply because Americancer have murdered more innocent civilians since 1945 than Adolph and Stalin combined.
For instance the proxy war in Congo over control of the biggest deposit of Uranium in the world, was started by Americanism and is fueled by it time and again 20 million dead people so far
Vietnam 5 million
Cambodia 2.5 million
The list is endless
You get what you deserve.....now all we have to hope for is the time in which not Jews, not communists, not atheists and socialists are being gassed, no that the people who started it all:
Camp Sumpter Andersonville 13,000 POWs starved to death in 1864, the first ever concentration camp
Quantanamo Bay the last concentration camp.
Will be slaughtered wholesale by their own government, it would be poetic justice, and since the murders upon millions of innocent people is the doing of your government, think again, since the murders were done by your brothers, sisters sons and daughters, professional soldiers and conscripts alike from every part of the USA.
Do not think you can excuse yourself by drawing a line that does not exist, you have willingly chosen to feel yourself better than all the people you murdered. Your fault your problem.
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