No one hacked , It was provided by Seth Rich a young employee of DNC who was shot later in what was described as road side burglary.ramana wrote:It's possible some hackers located in Russia provided data to wikileaks. That's not same as Putin hacking US elections.
Did US really taste their own medicine named "Regime Change"?US-Russia tension is exploited by many countries. Islamic countries take advantage of it. ISIS expanded due to that.Rishi Verma wrote:Tillerson as the US Secretary of State will keep Russia further sliding into the Chinese trap but more importantly it means bad news for Saudis and their ISIS monsters. Extrapolating the logic, it certainly is bad news for the pakis which is in India's short-term interest.
Correct. I forgot about this.Austin wrote:No one hacked , It was provided by Seth Rich a young employee of DNC who was shot later in what was described as road side burglary.ramana wrote:It's possible some hackers located in Russia provided data to wikileaks. That's not same as Putin hacking US elections.
Assange has confirmed as Seth being the source indirectly http://europe.newsweek.com/seth-rich-mu ... 2084?rm=eu
The root of the word “evangelical” is evangel, which was passed down from Greek to Latin to Middle English. It translates to “good news,” a phrase Christians use to represent the belief that Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection provide a way for people to commune with God.
But in American religious life, the meaning of “evangelical” exceeds its etymology. Since 1989, most scholars have accepted that the word refers to anyone who holds four beliefs: a high regard for the Bible, an emphasis on Jesus’s crucifixion, the need for people to be converted, and a connection between faith and public life.
Source:For decades, evangelicals have overwhelmingly voted Republican.......In November, 81 percent of white evangelicals voted for the Trump ticket—a higher percentage than voted for George W. Bush, John McCain, or Mitt Romney.
The news that President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate Rex Tillerson, the chairman and chief executive of ExxonMobil, as his Secretary of State is astonishing on many levels. As an exercise of public diplomacy, it will certainly confirm the assumption of many people around the world that American power is best understood as a raw, neocolonial exercise in securing resources.
Tillerson figures prominently in “Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power,” a book I wrote about the corporation that came out in 2012......
The main themes of “Private Empire” involved the ways that ExxonMobil saw itself as an independent, transnational corporate sovereign in the world, a power independent of the American government, one devoted firmly to shareholder interests and possessed of its own foreign policy. Exxon’s foreign policy sometimes had more impact on the countries where it operated than did the State Department. Take, for example, Chad, one of the poorest countries in Africa. During the mid-two-thousands, the entirety of U.S. aid and military spending in the country directed through the U.S. Embassy in the capital, N’Djamena, amounted to less than twenty million dollars annually, whereas the royalty payments Exxon made to the government as part of an oil-production agreement were north of five hundred million dollars. Idriss Déby, the authoritarian President of Chad, did not need a calculator to understand that Rex Tillerson was more important to his future than the U.S. Secretary of State.
In Kurdistan, during the Obama Administration, Tillerson defied State Department policy and cut an independent oil deal with the Kurdish Regional Government, undermining the national Iraqi government in Baghdad. ExxonMobil did not ask permission. After the fact, Tillerson arranged a conference call with State Department officials and explained his actions, according to my sources, by saying, “I had to do what was best for my shareholders.”
The goal of ExxonMobil’s independent foreign policy has been to promote a world that is good for oil and gas production. Because oil projects require huge amounts of capital and only pay off fully over decades, Tillerson has favored doing business in countries that offer political stability, even if this stability was achieved through authoritarian rule. As he once put it, “We’re really thinking about, well, what is it going to be fifteen, twenty years from now, and so what are the conditions in some of these countries likely to be?”
The corporation maintains a political-intelligence and analysis department at its headquarters in Irving, Texas, staffed by former government officials, which tries to predict the stability of countries many years into the future by analyzing demographics, employment, political control, and other “fundamentals.” Although ExxonMobil has a stated policy of promoting human rights, and has incorporated the advice of human-rights activists in its corporate-security policies, it nonetheless works as a partner to dictators under a version of the Prime Directive on the original “Star Trek”: It does not interfere in the politics of host countries. The right kinds of dictators can be more predictable and profitable than democracies.
ExxonMobil has had more luck making money in Equatorial Guinea, a small, oil-rich West African dictatorship that has been ruled for decades by a single family, than in Alaska, where raucous electoral politics has made it hard for Exxon to nail down stable deal terms. Similarly, ExxonMobil promotes the rule of law around the world—especially that part of the rule of law that favors international investment and makes international contracts enforceable.
In nominating Tillerson, Trump is handing the State Department to a man who has worked his whole life running a parallel quasi-state, for the benefit of shareholders, fashioning relationships with foreign leaders that may or may not conform to the interests of the United States government. In his career at ExxonMobil, Tillerson has no doubt honed many of the day-to-day skills that a Secretary of State must exercise: absorbing complex political analysis, evaluating foreign leaders, attending ceremonial events, and negotiating with friends and adversaries. Tillerson is a devotee of Abraham Lincoln, so perhaps he has privately harbored the ambition to transform himself into a true statesman, on behalf of all Americans. Yet it is hard to imagine, after four decades at ExxonMobil and a decade leading the corporation, how Tillerson will suddenly develop respect and affection for the American diplomatic service he will now lead, or embrace a vision of America’s place in the world that promotes ideals for their own sake, emphatically privileging national interests over private ones.
Call him T-Rex (happens to be name of a big dinosaurs (Tyrannosaurus Rex)). This dude is not a career politician but a deep deep insider. Trump is following up with his election promise. Saudi Arabia is inRex Tillerson as the SoS of US means a couple things:
1. Any deal or progress on climate change policy is dead on arrival.
2. Diplomacy is purely business transactional now and is contingent on oil exploration and energy markets
3. We are definitely heading for interesting times.
“Take the oil” isn’t just an applause line — it’s a policy that has been discussed in Washington for decades.
Kit saar, Stratfor is the last place on planet web to understand dollar strength, Bretton Woods etc. Dollar's strength is "accepted" but its absolute level is very controversial. Pulling up Bloomberg screen to see Dollar chart, going up, is not good enough. Because most of what gets portrayed in the MSM is based on false reporting. If you happen to find out solid data point that suggests dollar's absolute strength, I'm curious learn about it. About India, in new coined term "Fragile Five" is also bit controversial. With capital slowly moving east, this is not going to be permanent, and hope India makes sure it becomes that way.
Good. Hopefully the US will pull out of the UN Framework on climate change which will in effect nullify the Paris Agreement. It will serve two purposes, one diminish the role of the UN and secondly allow India to build lots of coal and NG plants for cheap power. This will clean up the air and particulate emissions by preventing the burning of wood and reducing diesel generators.Hitesh wrote:Rex Tillerson as the SoS of US means a couple things:
1. Any deal or progress on climate change policy is dead on arrival.
2. Diplomacy is purely business transactional now and is contingent on oil exploration and energy markets
3. We are definitely heading for interesting times.
Speaking in an interview with Fox News broadcast on Sunday, Mr Trump said: "I don't know why we have to be bound by a One China policy unless we make a deal with China having to do with other things, including trade."
Mr Trump also said China was not co-operating with the US on its handling of its currency, on North Korea, or on tensions in the South China Sea.
"I don't want China dictating to me and this was a call put into me," Mr Trump said. "It was a very nice call. Short. And why should some other nation be able to say I can't take a call?
"I think it actually would've been very disrespectful, to be honest with you, not taking it."
What part do you think is fake? Mr. T and his staff's outrage at CIA is public news. Alleged Russian interference has been public news for months, and now CIA has confirmed it.svinayak wrote:Fake news
Just ignore all such news. This is a FUD campaign
Wash Post wrote:Trump dismisses CIA conclusion about Russia’s role in election as ‘ridiculous’
On his first Sunday show appearance since the election, Trump also denied the importance of the daily intelligence briefing: "I get it when I need it. ... I don't have to be told the same thing in the same words every single day for the next eight years."
Japan is a legatee of the US. We wrote their constitution. We recreated their economy.Austin wrote:https://twitter.com/JamesGRickards/stat ... 0704225280
Jim Rickards
@JamesGRickards
Entire Japanese parliament (Diet) was on a CIA payroll from 1950 to 1970. Now #Obama wants a report on Russian "influence" in U.S. politics.
Looks like the Bag of Deplorables were Zombied by Russians
duh......And you believe Santa Clause is real because OMG, Megan Kelley from Fox news or Anderson Cooper told you so? I don't know how long you have lived in US, or if you were born here, but elementary US 101 will tell you that US only puts out in the open what is acceptable for some silly Dem Vs Rep debate where the heavy weights set the tone, and the mouthpieces repeat from both sides regurgitate the party line position. Most often, US shoots first and then talks.Dipanker wrote:
What part do you think is fake? Mr. T and his staff's outrage at CIA is public news. Alleged Russian interference has been public news for months, and now CIA has confirmed it.
If you think any of this is fake then please furnish your argument and evidence.
.It is actually purple revolutionVirupaksha wrote:TSJones, in other words, the puppet masters. Yes sir, we know.
Has the US been "orange" revolutioned
Instead think about the great democrazy of US, it is the intelligence services which will certify whether an election is correct or not. Gestapo would have been proud to receive such suggestions
US elections = football between Saudi and Russian intelligence
The Purple Revolution Must Be Stopped Before It Really Gets Started
Isn’t it extremely odd that neither the POTUS nor ex-Candidate Clinton
have tried to discourage the nationwide riots and protest?!
State of the Nation
Truly, it was only a matter of time before a CIA color revolution was staged right in America’s own back yard.
Soros’s “Purple Revolution” brewing for Trump presidency
Am in India and have been meeting relatives. All of them ask me about Trump and fearfully want to know what a Trump Presidency will mean to Indian companies.
You are only thinking of short term. You need to think about the long term, especially when it comes to issues of coastal flooding and higher tide waters due to climate change. We still need to reduce our carbon footprint. So I do not think we should build more coal plants. We need to build more solar power farms and build more solar panel manufacturing plants and battery plants. We need to woo and persuade Elon Musks type of people and invest in India and build up those industries.Mort Walker wrote:Good. Hopefully the US will pull out of the UN Framework on climate change which will in effect nullify the Paris Agreement. It will serve two purposes, one diminish the role of the UN and secondly allow India to build lots of coal and NG plants for cheap power. This will clean up the air and particulate emissions by preventing the burning of wood and reducing diesel generators.Hitesh wrote:Rex Tillerson as the SoS of US means a couple things:
1. Any deal or progress on climate change policy is dead on arrival.
2. Diplomacy is purely business transactional now and is contingent on oil exploration and energy markets
3. We are definitely heading for interesting times.
No they are not sore losers. This is a real legitimate concern and your attempt of rubbishing or denigrating those who share the concerns only serve to highlight the fact that you or any Trump supporter are living in a reality distorted field.Muppalla wrote:there are too many day dreams happening in the liberal world of USA who are nothing but sore losers. The desperation is added to day dreams. They better get over and live in the reality.
Mort is thinking long term from Indian perspective. While you are thinking long term from US perspective. Twain can never meet. Climate change science is hocus-pocus.Hitesh wrote: You are only thinking of short term. You need to think about the long term, especially when it comes to issues of coastal flooding and higher tide waters due to climate change.
even modest sea level rises will see quite major changes in the Indian coast line - particularly east coast and the delta region, and the melting of the Himalayan ice sheets will have quite drastic effects on the river systems that come down from the mountains. the impact of which will be severe in India. whilst india has a lot of coal and it makes economic sense to exploit it, it is not of the cleaner type and its use with current technology will create a lot more emissions which will lead to a lot more environmental problems.panduranghari wrote:Mort is thinking long term from Indian perspective. While you are thinking long term from US perspective. Twain can never meet. Climate change science is hocus-pocus.Hitesh wrote: You are only thinking of short term. You need to think about the long term, especially when it comes to issues of coastal flooding and higher tide waters due to climate change.