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'Russia is dangerous': Rex Tillerson says what he needs to to pass Senate confirmation hearings

Rex Tillerson
© Alessandro Della Bella/EPA/NewscomRex Tillerson, Secretary of State
In his Senate confirmation hearing Tillerson said Russia was a danger, it had acted agressively against America's national interests, and that sanctions against it should be kept in place.

However he also qualified every single one of these statements.

He said that Russia was a danger citing Crimea and Ukraine but added it was Obama's failure to take control of the situation that made it so. He said Russia is going to be an adversary on some things but added it must be made a partner in others. He said Russia sanctions should be kept in place for now.

Comment: Importantly, it's what Tillerson didn't say during the confirmation hearings, despite Marco Rubio's desire to hear him say it:

'Little Marco' Rubio tries & fails to get Tillerson to call Putin a 'War Criminal' in confirmation hearing

And, as reported on Russia Insider, Tillerson has already made a very positive impression on the Russian people:




Stock Up

IMF reports that Russian economy will grow steadily over next 5 years

Russian Central Bank
© BloombergRussian Central Bank
Russia will see average GDP growth of 1.5 percent in the next five years, according to International Monetary Fund (IMF) Deputy Managing Director David Lipton. However, he told the Gaidar Economic Forum in Moscow the country should strive for faster growth.

In an interview with TASS news agency, Lipton confirmed October's IMF forecast that predicts global growth of 3.8 percent by 2021, with the Russian economy to grow significantly slower at 1.5 percent.

According to Lipton, Russia should implement some policy changes, reforms and structural changes that will increase the capacity of the economy to catch up with global growth rates.

Stock Up

Dollar slumps & ruble hits 1.5yr high after Trump's press conference

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The US dollar slumped heavily on Thursday, as President-elect Donald Trump failed to clarify details on his pledge to boost fiscal spending and cut taxes. The Russian ruble enjoyed the dollar's fall, reaching an 18-month high against the greenback.

The Russian currency strengthened to 59.2 against the dollar, also slightly up against the euro at 63.06.

Trump takes office next week and did not dwell on his planned growth policies during a news conference on Wednesday, concentrating on pharmaceutical companies and other topics.

Blackbox

Deep State vs. Donald Trump: The Ukrainian Connection

Donald Trump
© Molly Riley/UPI
As remarked on January 6:
When Hillary Clinton was defeated in the U.S. presidential election the relevant powers launched a campaign to delegitimize the President elect Donald Trump.

The ultimate aim of the cabal is to kick him out of office and have a reliable replacement, like the Vice-President elect Pence, take over. Should that not be possible it is hoped that the delegitimization will make it impossible for Trump to change major policy trajectories especially in foreign policy. A main issue here is the reorientation of the U.S. military complex and its NATO proxies from the war of terror towards a direct confrontation with main powers like Russia and China.
The deep state campaign against Trump opened new grounds today with the publication of completely fake and thereby unverifiable anonymous assertions which include the smear that Trump had some fun in a Moscow hotel and that Russian secret services is using that to manipulate him.

Like many smears against Trump via proxies of the Clinton presidential campaign these new ones seem to origin from Ukraine related sources and Ukrainian "nationalist" (aka fascist) putsch supporters.

Comment: Further reading: Precious Snowflakes Cheer as 'Deep State Overlords' Declare War on Trump


Black Cat

Trump's Secretary of Defense James Mattis tells Congress: 'Putin is trying to break NATO, the US must push back"

James Mattis
Mattis says biggest threats to US come from: 'Russia, terrorist groups and what China is doing in the South China sea.'

As Trump's cabinet picks undergo their respective confirmation hearings, the million dollar question that is probably on everyone's mind is whether Trump's picks have broken rank with the President-elect, and want confrontation with Russia...or if they are simply saying they want an aggressive stance towards the Kremlin because that is what congressional war-hawk neocons like McCain and Graham want to hear.

Eye 1

President-elect Donald Trump conducts his own sting operation to ensnare intelligence briefers - and says he caught them leaking

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© APPresident-elect Donald Trump said he set a trap for his intelligence briefers and that they fell for it by leaking word of a classified briefing he had with them

President-elect Donald Trump, after growing suspicious that intelligence officials were leaking news about their classified briefings with him, says he conducted a sting operation to try to prove top spies were behind the leaks.

Trump revealed the extraordinary scheme to try to entrap the senior spies in a furious press conference where he suggested the intelligence community had been behind salacious and totally unproven allegations against him.

'I think it's pretty sad when intelligence reports get leaked out to the press. First of all, it's illegal. These are classified and certified meetings and reports,' Trump said during a press conference at Trump Tower - his first since getting elected.

Then he revealed the details of the stealthy sting he says he conducted on the nation's senior spooks.

'I'll tell you what does happen. I have many meetings with intelligence. And every time I meet, people are reading about it,' Trump complained, possibly referencing reports on his classified briefings, which he has chosen not to receive daily.

Comment: Trump trumped the intelligence briefers. He knows how to play their game.

See also: Trump's nemesis John McCain kicked off 'Kremlin memo' scandal by handing dossier to FBI


Eye 1

Behavior prediction methods of the PTB

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The globalists seem to have an overarching obsession with data collection. As we have seen with revelations from multiple government whistle-blowers, the establishment spends most of its time, energy and manpower collecting information not just on known threats to their supremacy, but information on EVERYONE through FISA-based surveillance protocols. This is because the establishment sees every individual as a potential threat.

Thus, the system, without warrant, is programmed to collate data from everywhere, not necessarily to be analyzed on the spot, but to be analyzed later in the event that a specific person rises to a level that poses legitimate harm to the globalist power structure.

There was a time not long ago when this notion was considered "conspiracy theory" by the mainstream, but with multiple exposures from Wikileaks to Edward Snowden it is now common knowledge that the government (and the globalists) spy on us en masse. However, I do not think that many people understand the greater implications or uses for this full spectrum surveillance. This is why you sometimes hear the argument that "if you aren't doing anything wrong, then you have nothing to worry about..."

The truth is, mass surveillance is not done merely for the sake of surveillance, and it is certainly not undertaken for the sake of public safety. There is a greater purpose, and it is something the elites crave dearly — the purpose of total and PREDICTIVE information awareness.

Bad Guys

Russian diplomat Zakharova concerned MH17 crash probe results might be censored

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© Dmitry Serebryakov/TASS
Russia fears that the results of a probe into the Malaysian airliner's crash over eastern Ukraine in 2014 may be censored and may fail to reach the public at large, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

The Russian diplomat made this statement after the Dutch authorities seized material evidence from the journalists found at the plane crash site.

According to the spokeswoman, the plane's debris "is still there, at the tragedy site, and it is not being investigated by a joint investigative group led by the Dutch Prosecutor's Office."

Comment: See also:


Attention

DOJ to probe FBI's handling of Clinton email investigation

Hillary Clinton with teleprompter
© Brian Snyder / Reuters
The US Department of Justice is launching a review of how the FBI handled the inquiry into Hillary Clinton's private email server, and whether public disclosures of the investigation cost Clinton the presidential election, as many have claimed.

DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz announced the investigation on Thursday, saying it comes, "in response to requests from numerous Chairmen and Ranking Members of Congressional oversight committees, various organizations, and members of the public."

The review will examine if FBI Director James Comey violated established procedures when he discussed the Bureau's findings at a press conference in July 2016, and when he sent Congress a letter about renewing the investigation in October, shortly before the election.

Bad Guys

Trump's nemesis John McCain kicked off 'Kremlin memo' scandal by handing dossier to FBI

John McCain
© CNN'What any citizen should do': The Arizona senator, 80, claimed he was simply acting as a concerned member of the public when he had his face-to-face meeting with the FBI Director
Sworn Donald Trump enemy John McCain admitted Wednesday that he passed the dossier of claims of a Russian blackmail plot against the president-elect - calling it 'what any citizen should do'.

McCain - a longstanding anti-Trump Republican who had disassociated himself from the candidate's campaign weeks before the election - cast himself as an innocent and concerned member of the public as he justified his move.

He claimed he had no idea whether it was accurate or not - but that he believed the FBI should have it because it was 'sensitive'.

'I did what any citizen should do. I received sensitive information and handed it to the FBI,' he told CNN - the network which broke the story that the document existed. It was then published in full by Buzzfeed.

'That's why I gave it to the FBI. I don't know if it is credible or not but the information I thought deserved to be delivered to the FBI, the appropriate agency of government.'