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May 9, 2019
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Apr 27, 2019
New SALT and START's
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Trump Orders Push for New Arms Control Deals With Russia and China
Officials concede that the plans are in an early stage, but President Trump has ordered them to start preparing a new push to try to establish a new round of arms control treaties with both Russia and China.
Part of the plan is related to Trump’s concerns about how much all the proposals to create new nuclear weapons are going to cost, though it seems that the main goal is to place new limits on the Russian nuclear arsenal.
Getting a new round of talks going may be difficult after the US unilaterally withdrew from the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. That move is likely to raise concerns, particularly in Russia, that the US is only looking for a very one-sided deal.
Trump’s talk of broader limits on military spending across the three nations is even more ambitious, but it also has both Russian and Chinese officials expressing interest. The US, after all, spends vastly more than the other two nations, and this is the first indication Trump has given that he’s given any consideration to not just growing spending annually.
Part of the plan is related to Trump’s concerns about how much all the proposals to create new nuclear weapons are going to cost, though it seems that the main goal is to place new limits on the Russian nuclear arsenal.
Getting a new round of talks going may be difficult after the US unilaterally withdrew from the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. That move is likely to raise concerns, particularly in Russia, that the US is only looking for a very one-sided deal.
Trump’s talk of broader limits on military spending across the three nations is even more ambitious, but it also has both Russian and Chinese officials expressing interest. The US, after all, spends vastly more than the other two nations, and this is the first indication Trump has given that he’s given any consideration to not just growing spending annually.
Afghanistan
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US Agrees With Russia, China on Framework for Afghanistan Pullout
A new joint statement from the United States, Russia, and China expresses their mutual agreement on the general framework of the withdrawal of foreign (i.e. NATO) troops from Afghanistan.
The general idea is that the US and allied forces would leave Afghanistan as part of a peace deal, which would come with a commitment from the Taliban to keep ISIS and al-Qaeda out of the country.
These are the terms which were already reported to have been coming out of US-Taliban talks, and the State Department’s own statement said the other nations support an “orderly and responsible withdrawal of foreign troops.”
Negotiating the specifics beyond this framework, including timing, has yet to be done, and US efforts to get the Taliban talking with the Afghan government are on hold after Afghan officials failed to show for last week’s meeting.
Getting Russia on board with this deal is particularly important, as Russia has long feared that the inevitable NATO defeat, and withdrawal from Afghanistan was going to destabilize the region, and threaten some of Russia’s close allies, former Soviet states in the vicinity.
The general idea is that the US and allied forces would leave Afghanistan as part of a peace deal, which would come with a commitment from the Taliban to keep ISIS and al-Qaeda out of the country.
These are the terms which were already reported to have been coming out of US-Taliban talks, and the State Department’s own statement said the other nations support an “orderly and responsible withdrawal of foreign troops.”
Negotiating the specifics beyond this framework, including timing, has yet to be done, and US efforts to get the Taliban talking with the Afghan government are on hold after Afghan officials failed to show for last week’s meeting.
Getting Russia on board with this deal is particularly important, as Russia has long feared that the inevitable NATO defeat, and withdrawal from Afghanistan was going to destabilize the region, and threaten some of Russia’s close allies, former Soviet states in the vicinity.
Apr 16, 2019
Apr 13, 2019
Electricity production in Iran
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About 90 percent of power generation equipment, even complicated parts like turbines and generators, are currently manufactured inside the country, the energy minister said at the time.
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Iran’s power generation capacity nears 80,000 MW
By Middle East Moniter and antiwar.com
Iran’s nominal capacity to produce electricity has reached nearly 80,000 megawatts (MW) following the connection of a number of power plants to the country’s national grid over the past weeks.
Since the beginning of the current Iranian year (March 21), Iran’s overall nominal capacity to generate electricity has increased by 1,005 MW.
With the coming into service of several new power plants, the capacity reached 79,665 MW in the month of Mehr (September 23 – October 22).
Speaking to reporters at a press conference in Tehran back in February, Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardekanian highlighted the country’s self-sufficiency in the area of power generation and said the Islamic Republic is the top producer of electricity in the Middle East.
About 90 percent of power generation equipment, even complicated parts like turbines and generators, are currently manufactured inside the country, the energy minister said at the time.
Fighting corruption in Iran
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There is massive corruption in Iran, and as it faces American led sanctions it is of the upmost importance that the nation launches and maintains stringent anti-corruption initiatives in the country.
The Soviet Union, Iran's neighbor also faced severe sanctions for being the first nation on earth to embrace Communism, BUT the harsh anti-corruption regime and Stalin's puritanical lifestyle as an exemplar leader (wearing old boots that were torn with holes in them).......and a leader with GRIM DETERMINATION AND PURPOSE......
LED to the Soviet Union from being a third world agrarian basket weaving economy to one that was the third most industrialized nation on earth, behind the USA and Germany.
But the Iran mullahs are hardly Stalin, but rather puppets brought into power by the CIA. They EAT LAVISHLY, dress lavishly, travel lavishly to every nation earth.......they maintain secret offshore bank accounts...and they have very lavish fat rich children who reside with the old rich of Northern Tehran.
The puppet Shah of Iran found scapegoats to blame when the CIA destabilized his country. Instead of dealing with the free wheeling CIA in Iran he arrested his own appointed Prime minister and others and threw them under the bus to please the crowds.
In effect he cut his own hand.
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Iran to execute billionaire tycoon Babak Zanjani
By Middle East Monitor– Iran has ordered billionaire businessman Babak Zanjani to be executed for corruption, sources in the judiciary said.
In 2016, the Supreme Court of Iran upheld the death sentence against Zanjani who worked as a broker selling Iranian oil through Revolutionary Guards companies during the period of international sanctions, especially during the reign of former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Zanjani, 42, is one of the richest men in Iran with an estimated fortune of $14 billion. The business tycoon owns 70 companies.
Media reports online claim Judge Sadeq Amoli Larijani has maintained Zanjani’s death sentence in an effort to divert public attention from the espionage case against his daughter.
(The Larijani are four powerful brothers who constitute a government within the government)
The news website had reported that Zahra Ardeshir Larijani has been accused of spying for the UK. However, earlier this month, Iran’s Intelligence Minister, said Mahmoud Alavi denied the media report saying “none of the Larijani family members is suspected of espionage”.
Apr 11, 2019
The Globalist Carter administration brought the Mullahs to power for Londonistan
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It is the 1970's and another fine idea is ordained in Rothschild run UK.
Why not create a whole army of Islamic Fundamentalists to get rid of USA allies or undesirable Communist governments in the Greater Middle East?
Or as Brzezinski called them, 'Some stirred up Mooslems'.
Give it exotic names like the 'Arch of Crisis' 'Operation Cyclone" or how about 'The Clash of Civilizations'......sounds so high falutin, purposeful and logical.
and then from July 1979 start arming Islamic Fundamentalists ONLY in Afghanistan from Pakistan.
and earlier 1977--1979 in Iran.
What is this ALL about? I am Celtic and I feel insecure about Aryan's in Asia? Put some Hijab's and burka on them and at least I can pretend that they are Ay---raabs.
No it can't be........because just to balance things out Islamic Fundamentalists kill Sadat in 1981, and attempt a coup in Egypt.
In Syria in 1982, Islamic Fundamentalist attempt a coup.
So the USA exists as a gofer power of bat-shit Rothschild ideas articulated through Bernard Lewis at Princeton university in the 1970's.....using the services of the CIA.
There is persistent rumor that the IRA was run by British Intelligence, with the CIA heavily involved. ...........to make Celtic Catholic people look good and tough?????? 3500 dead people in the UK.
Total dead: 3,532
Total injured: 47,500+
If you grunt like a gorilla you are superior to an authentic Aryan, my boy.
'To be sure, to be sure'.........talk about predictive programming ...though intriguingly using a pint sized Irish guy with a blond wig. Ireland doesn't do GLOBALIST inspired wars anyway.
Just to satisfy the wrapped ego of one old rich powerful man who exists in the shadows.
Goofy looking untermensch the self appointed 'Celtic champion' Jacob Rothschild
"Fuck Iran" is the response of Khomenei, more or less, in replying to a question put to him by an American journalist on the Air France plane taking him back to Iran on 1st February 1979. The Iranian interpreter seen on the screen is later executed by Khomenei.
The CIA already used the anti-Communist right-wing conservative Mullahs in their coup in 1953, and again in 1979.
The 2 CIA puppet masters of Ayatollah Khomeini were Richard Cottam and EBRAHIM YAZDI (Iranian based in Texas)
Khomeini was a village idiot illiterate mullah who knew nothing about Politics or revolutions for that matter.
No mullah died in the 1977--1979 revolution in Iran organised by the GLOBALIST Carter administration.
GLOBALIST lefties released from prison at the behest of GLOBALIST CARTER under the guise of protecting human rights .......did the heavy lifting of protesting against the Shah, of whom 800 died in protests.
After creating this False flag unreality of 'peoples revolution' the Carter administration told the 'Policeman of the Persian Gulf' to go fuck off........and carefully maneuvered the mullahs into power.
The colonial West should keep well clear of Iran.
(1916-1919) The British ARMY occupied NEUTRAL Southern and Central Iran during WWI with cataclysmic effects......impounding food and transport for their war against the Ottoman empire.....40-60% of the population died in this forgotten genocide.
(1953) The CIA decides to carry out their first foreign subversive coup in Iran of all places in service to a British oil company. They create SAVAK, the worst intelligence organisation on earth who put the SS-Gestapo TO SHAME.
(1977-1981) The CIA install the mullahs into power in Iran (I will not list what the medieval mullahs have done inside Iran)
(2003---2019) The CIA starts destabilisation operations inside Iran using Marxist PJAK, Marxist MEK, Islamist ISIS and Islamist Jundullah with terrorist operations. They want Marxist MEK to take over Iran, and if that happens there will be a blood bath inside the country, and more refugees joining the 5 million Iranians who have already left the country.
Why is Capitalist America backing a Marxist terrorist group?
Why is America openly backing a Marxist terrorist group, whose Baptism of fire including the murder of American government officials stationed in Iran in the early days of its history?
Why does the Americans think that they can crisis manage a Marxist terrorist group any more than they can ISIS and 'al-CIA-duh'?
What are the long term goals of America funding and arming a Marxist group in Iran?
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It is the 1970's and another fine idea is ordained in Rothschild run UK.
Why not create a whole army of Islamic Fundamentalists to get rid of USA allies or undesirable Communist governments in the Greater Middle East?
Or as Brzezinski called them, 'Some stirred up Mooslems'.
Give it exotic names like the 'Arch of Crisis' 'Operation Cyclone" or how about 'The Clash of Civilizations'......sounds so high falutin, purposeful and logical.
and then from July 1979 start arming Islamic Fundamentalists ONLY in Afghanistan from Pakistan.
and earlier 1977--1979 in Iran.
What is this ALL about? I am Celtic and I feel insecure about Aryan's in Asia? Put some Hijab's and burka on them and at least I can pretend that they are Ay---raabs.
No it can't be........because just to balance things out Islamic Fundamentalists kill Sadat in 1981, and attempt a coup in Egypt.
In Syria in 1982, Islamic Fundamentalist attempt a coup.
So the USA exists as a gofer power of bat-shit Rothschild ideas articulated through Bernard Lewis at Princeton university in the 1970's.....using the services of the CIA.
There is persistent rumor that the IRA was run by British Intelligence, with the CIA heavily involved. ...........to make Celtic Catholic people look good and tough?????? 3500 dead people in the UK.
Total dead: 3,532
Total injured: 47,500+
Aggregate total of all casualties in the UK: 50,000+
If you grunt like a gorilla you are superior to an authentic Aryan, my boy.
'To be sure, to be sure'.........talk about predictive programming ...though intriguingly using a pint sized Irish guy with a blond wig. Ireland doesn't do GLOBALIST inspired wars anyway.
Just to satisfy the wrapped ego of one old rich powerful man who exists in the shadows.
Occasionally appearing on TV to talk about art, and the size of his extended family in Europe.
Goofy looking untermensch the self appointed 'Celtic champion' Jacob Rothschild
"Fuck Iran" is the response of Khomenei, more or less, in replying to a question put to him by an American journalist on the Air France plane taking him back to Iran on 1st February 1979. The Iranian interpreter seen on the screen is later executed by Khomenei.
US had extensive contact with Ayatollah Khomeini before Iran ...
The CIA already used the anti-Communist right-wing conservative Mullahs in their coup in 1953, and again in 1979.
The 2 CIA puppet masters of Ayatollah Khomeini were Richard Cottam and EBRAHIM YAZDI (Iranian based in Texas)
Khomeini was a village idiot illiterate mullah who knew nothing about Politics or revolutions for that matter.
No mullah died in the 1977--1979 revolution in Iran organised by the GLOBALIST Carter administration.
GLOBALIST lefties released from prison at the behest of GLOBALIST CARTER under the guise of protecting human rights .......did the heavy lifting of protesting against the Shah, of whom 800 died in protests.
After creating this False flag unreality of 'peoples revolution' the Carter administration told the 'Policeman of the Persian Gulf' to go fuck off........and carefully maneuvered the mullahs into power.
The colonial West should keep well clear of Iran.
(1916-1919) The British ARMY occupied NEUTRAL Southern and Central Iran during WWI with cataclysmic effects......impounding food and transport for their war against the Ottoman empire.....40-60% of the population died in this forgotten genocide.
(1953) The CIA decides to carry out their first foreign subversive coup in Iran of all places in service to a British oil company. They create SAVAK, the worst intelligence organisation on earth who put the SS-Gestapo TO SHAME.
(1977-1981) The CIA install the mullahs into power in Iran (I will not list what the medieval mullahs have done inside Iran)
(2003---2019) The CIA starts destabilisation operations inside Iran using Marxist PJAK, Marxist MEK, Islamist ISIS and Islamist Jundullah with terrorist operations. They want Marxist MEK to take over Iran, and if that happens there will be a blood bath inside the country, and more refugees joining the 5 million Iranians who have already left the country.
Why is Capitalist America backing a Marxist terrorist group?
Why is America openly backing a Marxist terrorist group, whose Baptism of fire including the murder of American government officials stationed in Iran in the early days of its history?
Why does the Americans think that they can crisis manage a Marxist terrorist group any more than they can ISIS and 'al-CIA-duh'?
What are the long term goals of America funding and arming a Marxist group in Iran?
Apr 7, 2019
The USA is moving in the right direction Internationally under President Trump
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Now that the Mueller investigation has exonerated the Trump Presidency of collusion, perhaps President Trump can waive reduce some of the sanctions against Russia, and attempt to enter into more meaningful friendlier adult relations with that country.
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Now that the Mueller investigation has exonerated the Trump Presidency of collusion, perhaps President Trump can waive reduce some of the sanctions against Russia, and attempt to enter into more meaningful friendlier adult relations with that country.
Apr 5, 2019
The Neocon Greater Kurdistan project and NATO Turkey
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The Jewish Neocon Greater Kurdistan project....is the source of the problem, and unless the USA drops this covert illegal little project, NATO Turkey will be seeking her old Steppe Eurasian roots via Russia and China.
After all modern secular Turkish republic was founded on critical Soviet arms in the early part of the 1920's, without which there would be no modern Turkey. The Deonme Jews of Mustapha Kemal Ataturk connected with the Bolshevik Jews of the New Soviet Union.
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The Jewish Neocon Greater Kurdistan project....is the source of the problem, and unless the USA drops this covert illegal little project, NATO Turkey will be seeking her old Steppe Eurasian roots via Russia and China.
After all modern secular Turkish republic was founded on critical Soviet arms in the early part of the 1920's, without which there would be no modern Turkey. The Deonme Jews of Mustapha Kemal Ataturk connected with the Bolshevik Jews of the New Soviet Union.
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U.S. - Turkey Spat Intensifies
By Moon of Alabama
The two tweets below are an update to the recent piece about Turkey's problems and how they will change the dynamics in the Jihadi infested Idleb governorate in Syria.
The U.S. threatens to hold back the F-35 fighter planes Turkey ordered, because Turkey also aquired the Russian made S-400 air defense system. We said that the consequence of that would be a further win for Russia:
Russia will be happy to supply Turkey with Su-35 fighter planes. They are arguable better than the F-35 and will likely be cheaper. But they will come with a political price.
The chances for that to happen grew after yesterday's short exchange between the vice presidents of the United States and Turkey. Vice President Pence spoke at the Atlantic Council about 70 years of NATO and said that Turkey risks its membership in NATO over the S-400 buy.
Pence also tweeted:
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The Kurdish PKK/YPG forces the U.S. uses as proxy force to occupy northeast Syria are indeed legally terrorists as soon as they cross the border with Turkey. What is the value of NATO when it protects Turkey's enemies?
Pence threat is also stupid as there is mechanism to expulse any member from NATO. NATO members can only leave voluntarily.
Around the Kremlin one could hear the champagne corks plop.
The unprofessional and threatening behavior of Pence and other U.S. administration officials will cost the U.S.
As Andrei Martyanov recently wrote:
I can totally understand the irritation Washington feels about this whole situation, after all Turkey is a key NATO member with an actual army, and seeing NATO member going for such a weapon systems from Washington's prime time arch enemy--this is a no-no. But then comes this question: so, the United States will stop (will it?) F-35 and associated technology deliveries to Turkey, then what? Do we really want to open this can of worms? Turks are not idiots, by far--they can calculate and while Erdo might still do rapid 180 degrees maneuver, he also can not fail to consider the fact that instead of F-35 Turkey may get her hands on, say, some decent version of SU-35. Possible? Possible! How probable? I don't know. But Obama should have thought twice when unleashing, or pretending that he didn't know, a coup against Erdogan in 2016. Or, for that matter, a bloody overthrow of government in Ukraine in 2014. But current American elites have no concept of own actions having consequences.
h/t Syricide
Mar 31, 2019
HELPING protect the integrity and POWER of the FBI and CIA.
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Tulsi Gabbard
'Go to your people' (base)
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Tulsi Gabbard
'Go to your people' (base)
Mar 30, 2019
Mar 24, 2019
Not alienating the base and pandering to the JEW.
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The 9 million DNC loving 'Liberal' Jews in America didn't elect Trump.
Sheldon Adelson the Mafia casino king did not elect Trump by throwing a few of his illegal shekels at Trump.
Hilary Clintons smooth GLOBALIST JEW $2 trillion campaign funded Presidential campaign didn't elect Trump.......NO REALLY.
Hassidic Orthadox Jew Soros funded Jared Kushner did not 'help' Trump win the election.
The Jew media didn't help elect Trump.
The Jew-neocons did not help elect Trump, but were alarmed by Trumps election talk of Putting America first.
The Jew linked DEEP STATE CERTAINLY DID NOT ELECT TRUMP----They had plans to kill him, and or sabotage his election/and Presidential run in office.
The law of Physics and natural law do not apply to Trumps victory. It was something else.
Trump was elected by the White Christian European Americans to save their country from the Jew and their GLOBALIST agenda, which would have submerged America as just another country to be 'managed' out of the 200 nations on earth through liberal multi-multiculturalism, open borders, AND forever TRILLION $$$$$ wars to distract America with phantom far away enemies manufactured out of thin air. (WARS ALSO RUN DOWN NATIONS EXHAUST THEM.....WHERE UPON THEY ARE EASIER TO MANAGE)
Globalists Jew revolutions took place in Imperial Germany (Wiemar republic) The Austro-Hungarian Empire, Imperial Russia and the Ottoman Empire....leading to disintegration after long wars.
(Neo-liberalism 101)
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The 9 million DNC loving 'Liberal' Jews in America didn't elect Trump.
Sheldon Adelson the Mafia casino king did not elect Trump by throwing a few of his illegal shekels at Trump.
Hilary Clintons smooth GLOBALIST JEW $2 trillion campaign funded Presidential campaign didn't elect Trump.......NO REALLY.
Hassidic Orthadox Jew Soros funded Jared Kushner did not 'help' Trump win the election.
The Jew media didn't help elect Trump.
The Jew-neocons did not help elect Trump, but were alarmed by Trumps election talk of Putting America first.
The Jew linked DEEP STATE CERTAINLY DID NOT ELECT TRUMP----They had plans to kill him, and or sabotage his election/and Presidential run in office.
The law of Physics and natural law do not apply to Trumps victory. It was something else.
Trump was elected by the White Christian European Americans to save their country from the Jew and their GLOBALIST agenda, which would have submerged America as just another country to be 'managed' out of the 200 nations on earth through liberal multi-multiculturalism, open borders, AND forever TRILLION $$$$$ wars to distract America with phantom far away enemies manufactured out of thin air. (WARS ALSO RUN DOWN NATIONS EXHAUST THEM.....WHERE UPON THEY ARE EASIER TO MANAGE)
Globalists Jew revolutions took place in Imperial Germany (Wiemar republic) The Austro-Hungarian Empire, Imperial Russia and the Ottoman Empire....leading to disintegration after long wars.
(Neo-liberalism 101)
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The Alt-Right Declares War on Trump for Betrayal on Immigration, Opposes Re-election
By Patrick Fleming
This is a major development which has not been widely noted in the media, alternative or mainstream.
Over the last two weeks the three most influential Alt-Right platforms, the podcasts 'Fash the Nation' and 'The Daily Shoah', and the website, the Daily Stormer, have called on followers to destroy Trump's chances to be reelected because they are furious about his inaction on immigration. A similar mood dominates on 4chan and 8chan, the meme-producing message boards.
They argue, convincingly, that there is so much Trump could have easily done on this issue, and that the fact that he hasn't done any of them shows that he has no intention to do so, and that he is betraying them on the issue they care most about. In this they are echoing conservative critics of Trump on immigration like Anne Coulter.
They further argue, again convincingly, that with the razor-thin margins with which Trump won key swing states, their influence in the alternative and social media is enough to prevent Trump from getting reelected.
This 15 minute segment from Fash the Nation gives a good sense of how angry these people are:
Here's another 20 minutes, it is brutal:
Immigration is the single most important issue which got Trump elected among a struggling working class, and it is the most important issue for the Alt-Right which is a very potent force on the American political scene due to their total dominance of meme culture, something explained in a recent popular article on RI:
The Alt-Right Now Dominates Teen Culture - It Will Change the World.
The Alt-Right Now Dominates Teen Culture - It Will Change the World.
The meme assault has already begun. Expect an avalanche of abuse to descend on Trump over the coming months, driving down his popularity. Here are a few examples:
Mar 22, 2019
President Trump is CLEARED of Russian Collusion
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Special counsel Mueller has no sealed indictments as Russia probe ends: NBC News
By Tucker Higgins
KEY points
- Special counsel Robert Mueller has concluded his investigation and will not file any more indictments in connection with his inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, NBC News reports, citing a senior U.S. law enforcement official.
- There are no sealed indictments.
Mar 3, 2019
Capitalist Neo-Liberal Russia
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By Paul Craig Roberts and Michael Hudson in Paulcraigroberts.blog
It is our view that the Western world, indeed all of life ON EARTH has an interest in a Russia that is too strong to be attacked or provoked. A strong Russia is the only way to curtail the Western aggression that is leading to nuclear war.
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Is Neoliberlism harming Russia?
By Paul Craig Roberts and Michael Hudson in Paulcraigroberts.blog
Putin’s approval rating is high, but it has declined over the past year. The decline is mainly related to domestic policy. Apparently, the public perceives recent Kremlin economic policy as a continuation of the disastrous policies that Washington imposed on Russia in the 1990s when Russia was loaded up with foreign debt while state assets were privatized and plundered by oligarchs sponsored by the West who “cashed out” by selling the assets to foreigners.
The approval rating of Putin and the government dropped in response to the recent increases in the retirement age and value added tax. The former raised concerns about pension security and reminded Russians of the collapse of Soviet pensions.
The latter reduced consumer disposable income and lowered consumer demand and the economic growth rate. These policies represent austerity imposed on the domestic population instead of on foreign creditors and reflect the neoliberal view that austerity leads to prosperity.
The latter reduced consumer disposable income and lowered consumer demand and the economic growth rate. These policies represent austerity imposed on the domestic population instead of on foreign creditors and reflect the neoliberal view that austerity leads to prosperity.
Russia is experiencing capital outflows due to the Russian private sector’s repayment of loans to Western creditors. Russia has experienced over $25 billion a year of capital outflows since the early 1990s, accumulating to over a trillion dollars. This money could have been invested in Russia itself to raise the productivity and living standards of its citizens. The outflow puts the ruble under pressure, and the interest payments draw money out of the country away from Russian uses. If it were not for these outflows, the value of the ruble and Russian wages would be higher.
or sell smuggle guns to Jihadis in Libya/Turkey/Syria.....who then kill 500,000 Syrian women children and old people....then you are NEO-LIBERAL
NEO-LIBERALISM 101....It is absolutely not ok for law abiding Americans to own guns, and so False Flags must be organised to persuade them to give up their guns, including the killing of innocent American bystanders.
On the other hand--Joooooooo Sicilians in Israel can own guns, as can the mafia, neo-Nazis...... Diego greasers, drug peddlers, MS-13 gang members and just ABOUT ANY OTHER LOW LIFE ON PLANET EARTH.
NEO-LIBERALISM 101....It is absolutely not ok for law abiding Americans to own guns, and so False Flags must be organised to persuade them to give up their guns, including the killing of innocent American bystanders.
On the other hand--Joooooooo Sicilians in Israel can own guns, as can the mafia, neo-Nazis...... Diego greasers, drug peddlers, MS-13 gang members and just ABOUT ANY OTHER LOW LIFE ON PLANET EARTH.
The US sanctions give Russians every reason not to repay their foreign loans; yet Russians continue to enable their own exploitation by foreigners, as neoliberal economists have told them that there is no alternative.
Russia’s economic problems are due to the looting of the country during the Yeltsin years, to the imposition of neoliberal economics by the Americans, and to financialization as a result of the privatizations.
Russia’s stock market became the darling of the West in the mid-1990s as underpriced mining, oil and infrastructure were sold for a fraction of their value to foreigners, thus transferring Russian income streams abroad instead of leaving the income to be invested in Russia. In effect, Russians were told that the way for their country to get rich was to let kleptocrats, oligarchs, and their U.S. and British stock brokers make hundreds of billions of dollars by privatizing Russia’s public domain.
Washington took advantage of the gullible and trusting Yeltsin government to do as much political and economic damage as possible to Russia. The country was torn apart. Historic parts of Russia such as Ukraine were split off into separate countries. Washington even insisted that Crimera, long a part of Russia and the country’s warm water port, was retained by Ukraine when the Soviet Union was dismembered.
People’s savings (called the “overhang”) were wiped out with hyperinflation. Privatization was not accompanied by new investment. The economy was not industrialized, but financialized. The proceeds from privatization were deposited by the Russian government in private banks where the money was used to privatize more Russian assets. The banking system thus served to finance the transfer of ownership, not to fund new investment, and the proceeds were transferred abroad.
Russia was turned into a financial colony in which proconsuls created wealth at the top.
Today privatization continues in the de facto privatization of public assets, such as charging fees for use of federal highways. As the Russian economic profession has been brainwashed by the Americans, the country is devoid of economic leadership.
We have pointed out on more than one occasion that it is nonsensical for Russia to indebt itself by borrowing abroad in order to finance investments. The Russians were sold a bill of goods that the central bank cannot issue rubles unless the rubles are backed by dollars. This advice served to prevent Russia from using its own central bank to fund public infrastructure and private investment projects by issuing rubles. In other words, Russia might as well not have a central bank.
Apparently, Russian economists do not understand that Russia does not spend borrowed foreign currencies inside Russia. If Russia takes a foreign loan, the borrowed money goes into central bank reserves. The central bank then issues the ruble equivalent to be spent on the project, and the cost of the project goes up by the pointless interest paid to the foreign lender.
As far as we can tell, the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences is so brainwashed by neoliberal economics that their minds are closed to correct policies.
The failure of Russian economic leadership imposes far more costs on the Russian economy than do Washington’s sanctions.
The failure of Russian economic leadership imposes far more costs on the Russian economy than do Washington’s sanctions.
Intellectual leadership is weak with many in the intellectual class favoring integration with the West rather than with the East. To be part of the West has been an important goal since Peter the First and Catherine the Great, and the Russian Atlanticist Integrationists cannot let go of the ancient goal.
This goal no longer makes sense. Not only does it imply Russian vassalage, but also Europe is no longer the center of power. The East is rising, and China is the center and will be in the 21st century. ($100 trillion PPP GDP by 2050)
This goal no longer makes sense. Not only does it imply Russian vassalage, but also Europe is no longer the center of power. The East is rising, and China is the center and will be in the 21st century. ($100 trillion PPP GDP by 2050)
Although Putin is a leader and has a sense of Russian purpose, many officials use their office not in service to Russia but in service to their own wealth, much of which is held abroad. Corruption and embezzlement seem to be the purpose of many office holders.
Scandals abound among members of government and reflect badly on Putin and Medvedev.
Scandals abound among members of government and reflect badly on Putin and Medvedev.
The Russian government’s popularity was at a peak when the government showed it had the intelligence and will to reincorporate Crimea into Russia. However, the Russian government, hoping to reassure Washington and Europe, refused the requests of the Luhansk and Donetsk republics to be reincorporated into Russia. Russian nationalists, the majority of the population, saw this as kowtowing to the West. Moreover, the Russian government’s decision has resulted in Ukraine’s ongoing military assault on the breakaway republics and to the arming of Ukraine by the West. Instead of acting decisively, the Russian government enabled the continuation of conflict that can be exploited by Washington. The Russian people understand this even if the government does not.
By failing to show firmness, the Russian government encourages the crony system of oligarchs who want a government that they can use for their narrow interests. Their interests include participating in the system of Western plunder known as “globalism.” These client elites of the West oppose a powerful Russian state that could assert itself on the world stage and offer an alternative policy to the West’s policy of plunder. The influence of this narrow interest group on government policy indicates that the Russian government is compromised.
Putin is trying to break free of the West’s grip by directing Russia’s economic orientation to the East. His effort is helped by the American sanctions. But Russia remains sufficiently mired in the Western system to be vulnerable to sanctions and is only slowly extracting itself.
Various aspects of Russia’s difficulties and transformation into a power with a foot in both West and East are discussed by commentators. What goes unacknowledged is that Russian economic policy is constrained—indeed, crippled—by the neoliberal brainwashing given to Russian economists by the Americans in the 1990s. Consequently, Russia is enfeebled by an economic policy that encourages privatization and foreign ownership, and by financialization of economic rents, that is, of income streams that do not result from productive investment but from such factors as location and rise in value due to public infrastructure development, such as a road built across a property. In a financialized economy credit is used to transfer property ownership instead of to finance new plant and equipment and construction of infrastructure.
The Russian government and central bank have been blinded to the fact that Russian infrastructure projects and private investment are not dependent on borrowing dollars abroad or by acquiring dollars by selling Russian assets to foreigners. Such projects can be financed by ruble creation by the Russian central bank. Money that flows into productive projects that raise output is not inflationary. Generally speaking, such projects lower costs.(AS AN ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIC MODEL THE VAST INVESTMENT IN INDUSTRY AND INFRASTRUCTURE IN CHINA--INVESTING A MERE $100 billion out of a $4 trillion economy on infrastructure is FAKE gesture tokenism politics in Russia)
For Russia to succeed, Russia needs an economic re-education and a government that finds its footing in Russian nationalism and discourages Western provocations with firmer responses.
It is our view that the Western world, indeed all of life ON EARTH has an interest in a Russia that is too strong to be attacked or provoked. A strong Russia is the only way to curtail the Western aggression that is leading to nuclear war.
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