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Trump considers imposing additional $500bln in tariffs on Chinese imports


RT
Fri, 06 Jul 2018 17:18 UTC
made in china
© Brian Snyder / Reuters
As US tariffs on Chinese imports worth $34 billion kicked in on Friday, President Donald Trump said he would consider imposing additional levies on $500 billion in Chinese goods, should Beijing retaliate.

Another $16 billion are expected to go into effect in two weeks and potentially another $500 billion, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on his way to Montana before the tariffs kicked in.

First "34 (billion dollars), and then you have another 16 in two weeks and then as you know we have $200 billion in abeyance and then after the $200 billion we have $300 billion in abeyance. Ok? So we have 50 plus 200 plus almost 300," Trump said, adding "It's only on China."
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Dominoes

Russia raises tariffs to 40% on some US imports as retaliatory measure


RT
Fri, 06 Jul 2018 17:13 UTC
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© Pavel Lisitsyn / Sputnik
Moscow has raised tariffs from 25 to 40 percent on some US imports in response to Washington's move to impose tariffs on Russian steel and aluminum.

"Compensating measures apply as additional, higher rates of import duties from 25 to 40 percent of the price of imported goods. They will cover certain US goods, whose alternatives are produced in Russia," Economic Development Minister Maksim Oreshkin said, as quoted by TASS news agency.

"In particular, measures apply to certain types of road construction machinery, oil and gas equipment, metalworking and rock drilling tools and optic fiber,"he added.
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Bullseye

Putin: Football fans have altered country's image through social networking, smashing stereotypes of life in Russia


RT
Fri, 06 Jul 2018 17:08 UTC
argentina soccer fan
© Carlos Garcia Rawlins / ReutersArgentina fan in the stadium before match, Kazan, Russia
Football fans visiting Russia for the World Cup have changed the country's image through social networks, effectively dispelling many myths, Russian President Vladimir Putin said as he met former stars of the game at the Kremlin.

"The so-called citizen journalists, those people who work through social networks, they contributed to dismantling many stereotypes about Russia," Putin said as he sat down with football legends in the heart of Moscow on Friday.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino, Danish goalkeeping great Peter Schmeichel, and former England international and six-time Premier League winner Rio Ferdinand were present at the meeting, among other stars of the game.
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Megaphone

Kremlin spokesman Peskov: Just the fact that Putin and Trump are preparing to meet is a positive considering state of relations


RT
Fri, 06 Jul 2018 17:04 UTC
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© AFP / SAUL LOEB
The Russian and US presidents readiness to meet is already a positive thing especially given the countries' deteriorating relations, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

"The very fact that presidents Putin and Trump are ready for this meeting and are getting ready for it is a positive fact, against the backdrop of, so to speak, [the] disastrous state of our bilateral relations," Peskov said on Friday. "Any such meeting plays a special role."

Trump and Putin are scheduled to hold their first full-scale face-to-face meeting in Helsinki on July 16.The two leaders are expected to touch upon a wide range of issues, possibly including an extension of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which requires the two nations to reduce their strategic nuclear weapons.

While some critics lashed out at the US leader for agreeing to meet his Russian counterpart, Trump himself thinks they will do "just fine" and that it is "a good thing" to get along with Russia.

US-Russian bilateral relations have been marred by multiple contentious issues, including the Ukrainian crisis, the war in Syria, and accusations in the US of Russian meddling in the presidential election. Moscow, however, has repeatedly stated that it is interested in good relations with Washington and that bilateral co-operation is vital on a number of international issues.
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Attention

It just gets better and better: Strzok created fake timeline of Weiner email recovery to leave misleading record

Cristina Laila
The Gateway Pundit
Fri, 06 Jul 2018 16:53 UTC
Comey Mueller Strzok
© AP; Ron Sachs/CNPJames Comey, Robert Mueller and Peter Strzok
Trump-hating FBI official Peter Strzok created a fake timeline of the Weiner email recovery in order to leave a misleading record for the file.

Strzok also created this document to get everyone in Comey's inner circle on the same page.

This is similar to what Susan Rice did when she sent herself a bizarre email on the same day Donald Trump was being sworn into office.

Investigative reporter Paul Sperry reported on this Thursday night.
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Life Preserver

'Immigration package': No camps, no unilateral actions - Germany's ruling coalition 'reaches deal' on migration


RT
Fri, 06 Jul 2018 18:30 UTC
Immigrants
© Leonhard Foeger / Reuters
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her coalition partners have finally reached an agreement on migration policy. The deal involves accelerated asylum procedures but no massive transit centers and no unilateral moves.

Following weeks-long painful negotiations, the German ruling coalition, which includes Merkel's Christian Democrats as well as their Bavarian allies from the Christian Social Union (CSU) and the Social Democratic Party(SPD), have finally reached a consensus on immigration and asylum policy. The deal was first confirmed by the head of the SPD, Andrea Nahles, who said that the new "immigration package" does not involve the establishment of any "camps," adding that Germany would also not act on its own and would instead cooperate with other EU members.

The agreement would allow the coalition to "readjust" its strategy in the field of immigration, Nahles told the German media, adding that this new strategy could still be implemented only if Germany would manage to reach bilateral agreements with other EU countries, which would agree to take back refugees that first registered in their territory. "All in all, we have found a good solution," the head of the SPD said.

Comment: Actually, Germany's ruling coalition reaches deal to NEGOTIATE with other EU countries on migration.

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Yoda

Putin: Cybersecurity a risk because some countries are too selfish


RT
Fri, 06 Jul 2018 16:22 UTC
computers
© Kacper Pempel / Reuters
Global cybersecurity needs uniform game rules to ensure the interests of all states, but some countries are too selfish and thus undermine global information security, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.

"We have repeatedly seen that selfishness of individual countries, attempts to act only in their own interests and for their own benefit, harm global information stability," the Russian leader said addressing the International Cybersecurity Congress in Moscow on Friday. He was joined by RT's editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan and CEO of Russian largest bank Sberbank German Gref among other members of the panel.
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Info

The Mueller indictments: Where they stand today

Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 15:40 UTC
deep state obama comey mueller
Dirty and Corrupt Cop Robert Mueller and his team of conflicted liberal attorneys and investigators are seeing their unconstitutional witch hunt fall apart. It seems like on a daily basis more and more information becomes available of the entire gang's unlawful acts. In spite of this, they charge forward hiring more troops while working with their mainstream media (MSM) to report their unlawful and phony leaks planned to keep their criminal conspiracy alive.

More than one year ago, on May 17, 2017, corrupt Assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed a Special Counsel to look into the phony Trump-Russia collusion allegations, a total scam to remove Donald Trump from the Presidency that he won.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself of anything related to Russia during the 2016 Presidential campaign and the Robert Mueller Special Counsel team took over to investigate the alleged Trump crimes. Ironically over the past year, no crimes related to the President have been uncovered but numerous crimes have been uncovered related to the Deep State's corruption, abuse and brazen disregard for the rule of law through the Trump-Russia 'Witch Hunt'.

One of the most profound interviews that described the events over the past few years by the corrupt and criminal individuals in the Deep State that led to the Mueller investigation was reported by the Daily Caller in January. Legal expert Joe DiGenova explained the many criminal activities by the Deep State -

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Info

Trump: I would offer Warren $1M to prove her Native American heritage by taking DNA test

Jacquelne Thomsen
The Hill
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 08:03 UTC
Trump and Warren
President Trump said Thursday that if he were facing Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) during a debate, he would offer her $1 million to take a test to prove her Native American heritage.

"But let's say I'm debating Pocahontas, I'll do this," Trump said during a campaign rally in Great Falls, Mont., referring to Warren by the racially charged nickname he gave her during the 2016 presidential campaign.

"I promise you I'll do this, you know those little kits they sell on television for $2? Learn your heritage," Trump said.

"I'm going to get one of those little kits and in the middle of the debate, when she proclaims she's of Indian heritage - because her mother said she has high cheekbones, that's her only evidence," Trump continued.

Comment: See also: Elizabeth "Pocahontas" Warren's in a pickle: Pretending to be Native will continue to haunt her in upcoming elections

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Japanese PM Abe cancels trip to Iran after US pressure


Reuters
Wed, 04 Jul 2018 14:49 UTC
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© AFP/Getty Images
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has given up on a plan to visit Iran this summer, Kyodo News said on Wednesday, as U.S. President Donald Trump has taken an increasingly tough line against Tehran.

The visit to Iran would have been the first by a Japanese leader in 40 years, forming part of Abe's scheduled tour through the Middle East from July 11, Kyodo said. But Japan has told Iran Abe would not be able to visit its capital, Tehran, despite arrangements it had been making for talks with President Hassan Rouhani, the agency added, citing government sources.

However, Motosada Matano, a spokesman for the Japanese prime minister's office, told Reuters nothing had been decided about Abe's overseas travel plans. The decision not to visit Iran was made in light of Trump's push to isolate Tehran and choke off its oil exports, after he pulled the United States out of the 2015 Iran nuclear pact in May.

The United States has urged Japan and its other allies to stop buying Iranian crude oil entirely by Nov. 4. Japan, which has traditionally had stable ties with Iran, on which it relied for decades as a key source of oil, has told the Trump administration it cannot further cut or halt crude imports from the country, for fear of risks to its economy, Kyodo added.
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