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Michelle Obama claims evil Hillary was the most qualified candidate in US history

Cristina Laila
Gateway Pundit
Fri, 06 Apr 2018 15:57 UTC
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Michelle Obama said Hillary Clinton was the most qualified candidate in US history.

So a corrupt woman who was under FBI investigation for mishandling classified information is Michelle Obama's idea of the most qualified presidential candidate.

Michelle Obama praised Crooked Hillary at the Simmons Leadership Conference in Boston on Thursday.

Hillary Clinton was "the best-qualified candidate," Michelle said. "She wasn't perfect, but she was way more perfect than many of the alternatives."

"Hillary Clinton, probably the most qualified person to ever seek the office of presidency-LOST. She lost," Michelle Obama continued.
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China retaliates in US trade war - but still has 'nuclear option' through holding of US Treasuries

Trevor Hunnicutt and Kate Duguid
Reuters
Sat, 07 Apr 2018 16:11 UTC
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It took China just 11 hours to retaliate against the United States for proposing tariffs on some 1,300 Chinese products, but Chinese officials are holding back on taking aim at their largest American import: government debt.

In a tit-for-tat response to the Trump administration's plan for 25 percent duties on $50 billion of Chinese imports, China hit back with its own list of similar duties on key American imports including soybeans, planes, cars, beef and chemicals. But officials signaled no interest for now in bringing their vast holdings of U.S. Treasuries to the fight.

China held around $1.17 trillion of Treasuries as of the end of January, making it the largest of America's foreign creditors and the No. 2 overall owner of U.S. government bonds after the Federal Reserve. Any move by China to chop its Treasury portfolio could inflict significant harm on U.S. finances and global investors, driving bond yields higher and making it more costly to finance the federal government.

Jeffrey Gundlach, the chief executive of DoubleLine Capital LP, said China can use its Treasury holdings as leverage, but only if they keep holding them.

"It is more effective as a threat. If they sell, they have no threat," said Gundlach, known as Wall Street's Bond King.

"It would only escalate the situation and eliminate their leverage."

Comment: China could cripple the U.S. if it chose to. Fortunately for the U.S., China has some common sense and will not do anything of the sort. There's always the chance a belligerent U.S. will push it too far, but China has what the U.S. lacks: restraint.

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Saudi Crown Prince MBS reportedly bragged that Kushner gave him CIA intel about his 'enemies' days prior to corruption crackdown

Ryan Parry and Josh Boswell
Daily Mail UK
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 15:56 UTC
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© ABACA/PASalman is currently on a US tour which has seen him meet President Donald Trump in the White House and hold talks with a string of the country's richest and most influential people. He's pictured above with Microsoft founder Bill Gates at the Gates residence in Seattle on March 30
Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman bragged of receiving classified US intelligence from Jared Kushner and using it as part of a purge of 'corrupt' princes and businessmen, DailyMail.com can disclose.

The de facto ruler of the Middle East's largest economy is currently on a US tour which has seen him meet President Donald Trump in the White House, hold talks with a string of the country's richest and most influential people and book the entire Four Seasons in Beverly Hills for himself and his entourage.

Sources have told DailyMail.com that the prince - known by his initials MBS - has been boasting about his close relationship with the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, and the intelligence which he has told his circle Kushner passed to him.

The crackdown on 'corruption' in the Saudi kingdom was led by MBS and began in November, days after he had met Kushner for talks in Riyadh.

But it saw allegations of torture as hundreds were rounded up, including princes from rival parts of the Saudi royal family and some of the country's wealthiest businessmen.

Comment: MBS has been in the news a lot during his recent U.S. tour. And he has had some interesting things to say, including an official what-everyone-knew-but-few-have-said-publicly admission about the U.S. sponsorship of radical Islamism for decades as a proxy army for defeating Russia.

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'Another leak': Maria Zahkarova reacts as fate of Skripal's pets finally revealed


Sputnik
Fri, 06 Apr 2018 23:41 UTC
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© REUTERS/ Toby Melville
While one of the victims in the Salisbury poisoning case appears to be recovering from the ordeal, the family pets turned out to be a lot less fortunate, apparently dying of hunger and thirst after being sealed off inside the house by British investigators.

Commenting on recent media reports about the demise of pets belonging to Sergei and Yulia Skripal, victims of an alleged nerve agent attack in Salisbury, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zahkarova remarked that it's strange that such important information was leaked to media instead of being officially released by British authorities.

Comment: Sergei Skripal's pets found dead after investigators seal off home

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US military spent $60 million on useless Afghanistan power lines to nowhere


RT
Sat, 07 Apr 2018 12:51 UTC
Afghan power lines
© Omar Sobhani / Reuters
The US military spent $60 million on a new section of power grid in Afghanistan's northeast. It doesn't work and may even put residents at risk, according to a report from the US government's reconstruction watchdog.

While the power lines have been built, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) found that mismanagement by the Army Corps of Engineers led to the grid remaining at best useless and at worst, dangerous.

In 2013, the US Army awarded a $116 million contract to an Afghan company to build a power grid for part of northeastern Afghanistan in several phases. The mismanaged third phase of the project cost $60 million.

Before construction was due to begin, the Afghan government agreed to purchase privately held land to clear a path for power lines. This never happened, and the Afghan contractors built the lines regardless, over the heads of Afghan farmers still living on land that should have been cleared.

The contract required the company to "provide power" but did not include any provisions for actually connecting the lines to the nearest substation, rendering them useless.

Comment: So this is an example of spreading "democracy"?

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Syrian Showdown: Trump wants to leave, the Generals tell him to stay

Patrick Buchanan
Creators
Fri, 06 Apr 2018 08:43 UTC
Donald Trump US Military Army
© Jonathan Ernst / ReutersUS President Donald Trump in Hampton, Virginia
With ISIS on the run in Syria, President Trump this week declared that he intends to make good on his promise to bring the troops home.

"I want to get out. I want to bring our troops back home," said the president. We've gotten "nothing out of the $7 trillion (spent) in the Middle East in the last 17 years. ... So, it's time."

Not so fast, Mr. President.

For even as Trump was speaking he was being contradicted by his Centcom commander Gen. Joseph Votel. "A lot of good progress has been made" in Syria, Votel conceded, "but the hard part ... is in front of us."

Moreover, added Votel, when we defeat ISIS, we must stabilize Syria and see to its reconstruction.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had been even more specific:

"It is crucial to our national defense to maintain a military and diplomatic presence in Syria, to help bring an end to that conflict, as they chart a course to achieve a new political future."

But has not Syria's "political future" already been charted?

Bashar Assad, backed by Iran and Russia, has won his seven-year civil war. He has retaken the rebel stronghold of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus. He now controls most of the country that we and the Kurds do not.

Comment: Trump is not in charge, but he doesn't seem to realize it!

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US lone Security Council member to block UN inquiry into Gaza violence


RT
Sat, 07 Apr 2018 12:44 UTC
wounded Palestinian is evacuated during clashes with Israeli troops at the Israel-Gaza border, April 6, 2018
© Mohammed Salem / ReutersA wounded Palestinian is evacuated during clashes with Israeli troops at the Israel-Gaza border, April 6, 2018.
The US was the only UN Security Council member to reject a call by the 14 other countries to independently probe the Gaza clashes, in which dozens of Palestinian protesters were killed by Israeli forces.

For the second week in a row, the US has vetoed a UN Security Council (UNSC) statement calling on Secretary General Antonio Guterres to launch an independent inquiry into the Gaza violence. Put forward by Kuwait, a non-permanent UNSC member, it also reaffirmed the Palestinians' right to peacefully oppose Israeli policies on the occupied lands.

Fourteen of the 15 Security Council members agreed to the statement, but the United States, Israel's closest ally, voted against, Palestinian UN envoy Riyad Mansour told reporters at the UN headquarters in New York on Friday evening. He said the UN rejection was "very irresponsible," and that it gives Israel "the green light to continue with their onslaught against the civilian population" in Gaza.

Comment: Also see: UN warns Israel against "unjustified and unlawful" murder of Palestinians in military occupied Gaza is breach of Geneva conventions

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Return of Japanese militarism: Yankees of the Far East activate first marines since WW2


RT
Sat, 07 Apr 2018 12:36 UTC
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© Issei Kato / Reuters
Japan activated its first marine unit since the Second World War in its latest move to strengthen its military defense capabilities. The development appears at odds with Japan's constitution, which outlaws war.

On Saturday, 1,500 members of the Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade (ARDB) were activated at a ceremony at a military base in Sasebo on the island of Kyushu. They took part in a mock exercise to take back an island from invaders, with some US Marines based in Japan also involved.

"The Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade will show to the international society our firm resolve to defend our islands," a senior defense ministry official said during the ceremony, Mainichi reports.

"Given the increasingly difficult defense and security situation surrounding Japan, defense of our islands has become a critical mandate," Vice Defense Minister Tomohiro Yamamoto said. The marines are the latest addition to Japan's defense, which has been increasing its military hardware in an effort to deter China. The ARDB unit will primarily defend the country's remote southwest islands. The new force contains 2,100 marines in total, with this number expected to rise to 3,000.

Comment: They still haven't apologized for the rape of Nanking, among other war crimes.

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Ex-top CIA official claims Brennan's attacks on Trump stoking divisions and causing Americans to lose faith in government

Michael Isikoff
Yahoo
Fri, 06 Apr 2018 12:00 UTC
John Brennan
© The Counter Jihad ReportFormer CIA Director John Brennan
A former top CIA official who served as the agency's station chief in Moscow is sharply criticizing his former boss, John Brennan, accusing him of doing Vladimir Putin's "bidding" through his harsh attacks on President Trump.

In an interview on the Yahoo News podcast "Skullduggery," CIA veteran Daniel Hoffman charged that Brennan's public comments and tweets in recent weeks have played into Putin's hands, helping the Russian leader stoke political divisions within the country and thereby undermine U.S. national security.

"I don't think we've ever seen something like this," said Hoffman about Brennan's public comments about the president. "Gosh, I can't remember ever seeing an instance of this in our history where a retired director of the CIA went as far as he did."

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Finian Cunningham: Humpty dumpty Boris Johnson

Finian Cunningham
Sputnik
Fri, 06 Apr 2018 17:38 UTC
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© AP Photo/ Bernadett SzaboHumpty Dumpty Boris Johnson
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty together again.

So goes the famous English nursery rhyme for children, which applies aptly to the hubristic and accident-prone Foreign Minister Boris Johnson.

The buffoonish Johnson - who has an unenviable reputation for making cringing public gaffes - was this week spectacularly caught out telling lies about Russian responsibility for an apparent nerve agent attack in England last month.

And like Humpty Dumpty in the nursery rhyme, the British foreign minister cannot repair the damage now that his facade of authority has been cracked wide open.

Appropriately enough, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn accused Johnson of "having egg on his face" after it emerged that the foreign minister has been making grave accusations against Russia without the scientific proof he had been earlier boasting to have.


Comment: British Government's Chemical Attack Narrative Falls Apart - Boris Johnson Lied About Russia


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