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US demands China reconsider "catastrophic" ban on importing foreign garbage


RT
Sun, 25 Mar 2018 02:12 UTC
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© Fred Prouser / Reuters
Amid fears of a potentially devastating trade war between the US and China, Washington has urged Beijing not to implement the ban on US garbage and recyclable materials that Asia's giant threatened to impose last July.

In an effort to battle the "illegal foreign garbage" influx into China, last July China's Ministry of Environmental Protection notified the World Trade Organization (WTO) that it plans to ban imports of 24 types of solid waste materials, such as soda bottles, mixed paper, recycled steel and newsprint. Despite the threat to implement the ban by the end of the year, the document stated that the "proposed date of adoption" is "to be determined."

Concerned over the massive impact the ban could have on the US economy, on Friday the US trade representative urged China to re-examine its decision.

Comment: Looks like China has had enough of America's crap - and not just in the area of recycling - and what better payback than to leave them to drown in it:

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Black Cat

Did Trump appoint Bolton because Republicans desperately need Sheldon Adelson's money?

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Sun, 25 Mar 2018 18:19 UTC
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© Andy AboudTrump with Sheldon and Miriam Adelson in Las Vegas, undated
The simple truth about John Bolton's appointment to national security adviser is that the Republicans need Sheldon Adelson's money in order to be competitive in the coming midterms, and John Bolton is a tool of Sheldon Adelson.

The appointment of course is a complete reversal of Donald Trump's declaration during the campaign that the Iraq war - which Bolton pushed and still thinks is a great idea - was the biggest mistake ever, and he was against it from the jump.

But Adelson was Trump's biggest donor during the 2016 campaign, and Trump needs Sheldon Adelson's money to keep Congress from flipping and cutting his throat.

It's little wonder that any Republican with political ambition was quick to extol John Bolton. Politico reported in February that many of those "desperate" Republicans were trekking to Las Vegas and "gushing" over Adelson because they need him "more than ever" to try and hold on to the House this year.
Confronting the potential loss of one or both chambers of Congress in the midterms, and struggling to raise money against an energized Democratic base, the party is desperate for Adelson's millions....
That Politico article mentioned Israel only once, to say Adelson couldn't attend the shindig because he was in Israel. It never mentioned Iran, either.

Comment: Some background on Sheldon Adelson

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Dollar

Matt Drudge predicted budget disaster - warned Paul Ryan blocked Trump's 'revolution' indefinitely

Joshua Caplan
Gateway Pundit
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 18:32 UTC
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To the dismay of conservatives, President Trump signed the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill Friday.

"As a matter of national security I've signed this omnibus budget bill. There are a lot of things that I'm unhappy about in this bill. There are a lot of things that we shouldn't have had in this bill," Trump told the media


Media icon Matt Drudge warned that Speaker Paul Ryan had blocked the 'Trump revolution indefinitely,' after the Democrat leadership "secured nearly $5 billion in new domestic spending," in May of last year.

Comment: What the military wants the military gets, because "national security". Now, you can add the Democrats to the camp of enemies with leverage over Trump. Well, it was fun while it lasted. Back to business as usual, it seems.

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War Whore

Photos allegedly show US military vehicles arriving in Jordan


Sputnik
Sun, 25 Mar 2018 20:56 UTC
us military tanks jordan
© AFP 2018/ ILMARS ZNOTINS
The news comes hot on the heels of the accusations of the US planning strikes on governmental forces in neighboring Syria by Russia earlier this week. Washington has previous experience of launching strikes without the authorization of the UN Security Council, when it attacked Syria's Shairat airbase in April 2017.

The Telegram channel Directorate 4, which monitors the situation in Syria and Iraq, has published pictures of US heavy military equipment arriving in Jordan via the military transport ship "Liberty pride" for future participation in the annual military drills "Eager Lion." During the process of unloading, vehicles looking like M1A2 "Abrams" tanks, the M113's variation for medical evacuation and the M2A3 "Bradley" armored personnel carriers were spotted.
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Propaganda

Skripal hysteria: Crazy "BoJo" likens Crimea's accession to Russia to Nazis' occupation of Czechoslovakia


RT
Sun, 25 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
Boris Johnshon
© ReutersBritish Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson
UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson seems to have become fixated on comparing Russia with Nazi Germany. Most recently, he has likened Crimea's reunification with Russia to Hitler's annexation of the Sudetenland.

The trouble with raising the specter of an enemy is that one can very easily take it too far. Johnson has apparently been so gripped by hysterical Russophobia that he has started seeing parallels between Russia and its sworn enemy, the Third Reich.

In his latest outburst to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, he went as far as to claim that Crimea joining Russia, following an overwhelmingly supportive referendum in March 2014, was similar to the partial occupation of what was then Czechoslovakia by Hitler's forces back in 1938. Johnson then claimed that it was "wholly apposite" to draw such comparisons between the Nazis then and Russia now.

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Brick Wall

Trump: US military may pay for border wall since it's now 'rich'


RT
Sun, 25 Mar 2018 17:52 UTC
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© Kevin Lamarque / ReutersUS President Donald Trump speaks while viewing US-Mexico border wall prototypes in San Diego, California, on March 13, 2018.
Donald Trump has long pushed for a wall to be built along the US-Mexico border, but he seems to be no longer insistent that Mexico pay for it. The US military should construct it because it's now "rich," he suggested on Twitter.

"Because of the $700 & $716 Billion Dollars gotten to rebuild our Military, many jobs are created and our Military is again rich. Building a great Border Wall, with drugs (poison) and enemy combatants pouring into our Country, is all about National Defense," Trump tweeted on Sunday. He ended his tweet by saying "Build WALL through M," apparently creating his own abbreviation for "military" due to Twitter's 280-character limit.
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Bad Guys

State-funded BBC gives Boris Johnson pass on claim about Russia "stockpiling novichok" : UK govt's Skripal "drama" defies sense & reason

Catte
The Off Guardian
Sun, 18 Mar 2018 18:01 UTC
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© BBCBoris Johnson is given free rein to talk nonsense by state-funded Andrew Marr on state-funded BBC
The Russian election is rolling on, so far with no major hitches, and maybe even less than the expected level of Western sniping. Ghouta continues to be liberated, and so far the predictions of a chemical weapons false flag to justify NATO cruise missile attacks on Damascus have not come about. For the sake of global survival we have to hope that continues.

Meanwhile the Skripal case is exposed more and more as a poorly executed, ragged and ridiculous piece of political theatre.

The name "novichok" was very possibly grabbed from a Sky TV drama aired earlier this year.

In the TV show novichok is presented as a secret and deadly and exclusively Russian nerve agent, and this is indeed the way May presented it in Parliament. Her research team possibly didn't bother to look any further, and this is why, when the truth about real-life novichoks emerged, the government was left floundering.

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Attention

Dems kept cheerleading Bush-era neocons, now they've got one in the White House

Caitlin Johnstone
Steemit
Sat, 24 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
bolton
© Raw StoryJohn Bolton
As so many of us have been dreading, PNAC's favorite bloodthirsty child killer John Bolton has been added to the Trump administration. And as many half-jokingly predicted, Democrats seized on this opportunity to accuse Bolton of being a Kremlin agent.

That's right, John Bolton, the guy who has been trying to start a war with Russia since long before the name Vladimir Putin meant anything to the average Democrat, is being accused of colluding with Russia. Count on Democrats to oppose the most virulent neocon in Washington by accusing him of not being hawkish enough.
"John Bolton once suggested Russian hack of DNC may have been a false flag operation by Obama Admin," fretted lead Democratic Russiagater Adam Schiff, mistaking brazen partisan hackery for actual skepticism about a likely intelligence community false flag.

"Don't forget the reason for H.R. McMaster's departure: He criticized Russia," added Democratic Coalition co-founder Scott Dworkin. "McMaster said publicly that Russia needed to face serious consequences for what they've done in Syria & for the gas attack in the UK. John Bolton would never say anything like that."
"Trump has outdone himself by selecting Bolton," Democratic Rep. Ted Deutch tweeted with a link to a story about Bolton having appeared in a 2013 video for a Russian gun rights group. "In one appointment, he simultaneously increased the influence of the NRA in his Admin. & found another way to tie himself to Russia. Does he still claim he hires the best people? #TrumpRussia."

Comment: Yes, we have lost political sanity both Left and Right. Today is anyone's guess and tomorrow...well, we aren't supposed to think about that, now are we! The warps and twists of American politics, where the innuendo and falseness become more important than maintaining integrity and doing the job required of the political arm of government, flashes warnings of the demise of this experiment. The rest is just mop up. And government isn't going to do that either.

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Cambridge Analytica scandal may provide hard evidence of 'Israeli' meddling in Trump election

Adam Garrie
Eurasia Future
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
Al Nix
© screenshotAlexander Nix, CEO Cambridge Analytica
During a statement before a hidden camera, the CEO of the data harvesting firm Cambridge Analytica Alexander Nix boasted of his ability to employ "Israeli companies" to gather intelligence on politicians that the firm is paid to slander, defame and entrap. Nix then went on to praise the ability of "Israeli" intelligence personnel in what can only be described as a power sales pitch to a would-be client.

Even before the depth of Cambridge Analytica's meddling in the US election was exposed, the Trump campaign's ties to "Israel" were widely known. Prior to the election, "Israeli" regime leader Benjamin Netanyahu held private meetings with both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. At the time, Trump's social media supporters boasted of the fact that Netanyahu's meeting with Trump was far lengthier than his meeting with Hillary Clinton.

Recent months have seen the full scandal of Michael Flynn's improper behaviour during the interim period between the US election and Donald Trump's inauguration, fully exposed as "Israelgate". At that time, Flynn, acting on the orders of Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, held conversations with foreign ambassadors, including the then Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak. During his conversation with Kislyak in December of 2016, Flynn lobbied for "Israel" by effectively begging Russia to delay a vote at the UN which ultimately saw Barack Obama's outgoing administration vote for a pro-Palestinian position.


Comment: With what Cambridge Analytica purports to know and the scary consequences of revelations, its 'silence is golden.'

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Probe demand: MoD gave Cambridge Analytica parent company top secret defense files


RT
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 16:50 UTC
CEO Alexander Nix
© CEO Alexander NixSuspended CEO Alexander Nix
New links between data harvesting firm Cambridge Analytica (CA) and the Ministry of Defence have surfaced. CA's parent company SCL was paid nearly £200,000 for two MoD projects which gave it access to top secret defence files.

The chair of the Commons home affairs committee has now called for an investigation into CA's activities after it was revealed that SCL was granted 'List X' status by the Ministry of Defence until 2013 - which allowed access to secret defence documents. List X contractors have to abide by tough rules to ensure secret documents stay secure. CA is being investigated by the information commissioner over a huge leak of Facebook data allegedly used to influence the 2016 US presidential election.


Comment: The raid on Cambridge Analytica London offices has taken place.
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