(titel en ondertitel, het artikel zelf is enkel voor subscribers)quote:RESCUING BORIS
THE SECRET STORY OF HOW FOUR U.S. ADVISERS USED POLLS, FOCUS GROUPS, NEGATIVE ADS AND ALL THE OTHER TECHNIQUES OF AMERICAN CAMPAIGNING TO HELP BORIS YELTSIN WIN
https://www.theguardian.c(...)sias-mutual-meddlingquote:In a little-known quirk of post-cold war history, the 1996 re-election campaign of Putin’s mentor, Boris Yeltsin, was secretly managed by three American political consultants who on more than one occasion allegedly received direct assistance from Bill Clinton’s White House.
There’s even a movie about it.
The 2003 comedy film Spinning Boris dramatises the true story of three American consultants who were hired to manage Yeltsin’s 1996 re-election campaign. The film stars Liev Schreiber as Joe Shumate, a Republican data analysis expert, Jeff Goldblum as George Gorton (who later became the campaign manager for Arnold Schwarzenegger), and Anthony LaPaglia as Richard “Dick” Dresner, a highly skilled political consultant who in the early 1980s helped elect Bill Clinton governor of Arkansas.
Dresner was a close associate of Dick Morris, a top political advisor in the Clinton White House who in 1996 was in the midst of managing Clinton’s own re-election campaign.
https://www.theguardian.c(...)n-bolton-mike-pompeoquote:'Dialogue of the deaf'? Iran deal talks persist as Trump looks poised to kill it
None of Trump’s serial deadlines is likely to be more consequential than the one looming on 12 May. That is the day on which he must sign a presidential waiver on sanctions on Iran, or violate a landmark multilateral agreement on the future of Iran’s nuclear programme signed in 2015 with European allies, the UK, France and Germany, Russia, China and Iran itself. Trump has threatened to keep his signing pen in his pocket.
The dramatic tension over what he will decide is fast diminishing. The greatest uncertainty now is over how rapidly it will be followed by a slide towards a new conflict in the Middle East.
Trump has repeatedly stated his hostility towards the nuclear agreement, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), made impossible demands for the deal to be changed, and named hawks to two top positions in the past month – Mike Pompeo for secretary of state and John Bolton for national security adviser. Both have devoted much of their careers to vilifying the agreement.
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“I think the Bolton appointment is another nail of the coffin of the Iran Deal,” said Kelsey Davenport, director of nonproliferation policy at the Arms Control Association.
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“We have given up hoping. He wants to tick the JCPOA off, another thing he said he would do in the campaign, that he did,” a senior European diplomat said. In that regard, he added, the transatlantic talks were “a dialogue of the deaf”.
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European diplomats refuse to speculate about a “Plan B” of what to do if and when Trump restores sanctions, claiming all their resources are focused on “Plan A”: trying to bridge the gap with the Oval Office.
Trump’s vocal hostility to the deal has contributed to a drying up of western capital and trading partners, which in itself represents a violation of the JCPOA.
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James Mattis, the defense secretary and a Marines veteran previously considered a hawk on Iran, is fast emerging as the lone pacifist of the administration, urging diplomacy on the Iranian and North Korean fronts. If Trump carries out his threat on 12 May, it might be that a retired general who has sometimes (reluctantly) gone by the nickname “Mad Dog” ends up the last best hope of staving off another Gulf conflict.
quote:Remarkably, some seem to be confused as to what "100% clean" means. It DOES NOT mean being honest with America just about the sex. It means being 100% truthful about the relationship, threats, intimidation, agreement, $130k payment, and cover-up. THAT is what it means. #basta
quote:[BREAKING] Trump taps Roseanna Barr for unspecified cabinet post (Guardian)
This is a developing story. Check back for updates...
Ik gok dat het een 1 april grap is.quote:Op zondag 1 april 2018 14:14 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Je kon er op wachten... hij trekt ze nog steeds letterlijk uit zijn TV...
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Ik hoop dat heel Trump's presidentsschap een extreem uitgebreide 1 april grap is en hij vandaag aankondigt dat Clinton het overneemtquote:Op zondag 1 april 2018 14:27 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Je bedoelt: je hoopt dat het een 1 aprilgrap is.
Dit ja...quote:Op zondag 1 april 2018 14:27 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Je bedoelt: je hoopt dat het een 1 aprilgrap is.
quote:Amid the hoopla over the reboot of “Roseanne” last week, people were scratching their heads over actress Roseanne Barr’s bizarre tweet hailing Donald Trump for freeing “hundreds” of children a month from their pimps. The president has “broken up trafficking rings in high places everywhere,” Barr tweeted Friday.
Barr, who’s no stranger to promoting right-wing conspiracy theories, was apparently referring to a fantasy birthed on the anonymous online message site 4Chan last year. The conspiracy theory claims that Trump is secretly busting satanic child sex rings linked to high-level Democrats. Barr retweeted posts and links backing the “untold story” that shares similarities with the “Pizzagate” hoax that Hillary Clinton was running a child sex trafficking ring out of a pizza shop in Washington, D.C.
Twitter didn’t give Barr a pass. Shortly after her Trump tweet, she apologized for posting it but didn’t deny that Trump is freeing hundreds of child sex slaves. “I have worked with victims of trafficking for decades & supported the fight against it,” she tweeted. “Sorry to have mentioned it here. It’s not the place.” Barr then posted another tweet saying she didn’t know so many were “not aware” of child sex slavery:
i thought today was a good day to talk about freeing kids from sex slavery, since it is Passover. I didn’t realize that so many were not aware of it. Anyway, no more opinions from me on twitter, it invites bullying. Moving on. — Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) March 31, 2018 (DELETED)
twitter:ETodes twitterde op zaterdag 31-03-2018 om 22:47:16 As someone who has worked to pass 33 Anti-human trafficking bills in the Michigan Legislature, literally nothing in your tweet is remotely true. He has not done anything above and beyond what our country normally does reageer retweet
twitter:SalKrinkle twitterde op zaterdag 31-03-2018 om 22:05:09 trump has actually done none of these. This must all be in that dream sequence. reageer retweet
twitter:JeffKimchijones twitterde op zaterdag 31-03-2018 om 22:25:33 Has he done this while drinking Diet Coke and grabbing them by the meow? He sounds like a superhero! Or does FoxNews flash a distress signal in the sky?? reageer retweet
Het is overigens niet Barrs enige verwijderde tweet, van maatschappij ABC moesten er nog een aantal sneuvelen.twitter:BelPatty twitterde op zondag 01-04-2018 om 00:17:07 From the man who supported Roy Moore? Nice try. reageer retweet
En kennelijk geen DACA "deal" meer, wat hij zelf heeft afgeschaft:twitter:
twitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 01-04-2018 om 15:56:34 Border Patrol Agents are not allowed to properly do their job at the Border because of ridiculous liberal (Democrat) laws like Catch & Release. Getting more dangerous. “Caravans” coming. Republicans must go to Nuclear Option to pass tough laws NOW. NO MORE DACA DEAL! reageer retweet
quote:Op zondag 1 april 2018 16:11 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
[ afbeelding ]En kennelijk geen DACA "deal" meer, wat hij zelf heeft afgeschaft:twitter:twitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 01-04-2018 om 15:56:34 Border Patrol Agents are not allowed to properly do their job at the Border because of ridiculous liberal (Democrat) laws like Catch & Release. Getting more dangerous. “Caravans” coming. Republicans must go to Nuclear Option to pass tough laws NOW. NO MORE DACA DEAL! reageer retweet
quote:Former Texas Comptroller Susan Combs, who has a long history of sparring with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over species listings, has been appointed to a key Trump administration post overseeing policy for the wildlife agency and national parks.
The Austin American-Statesman first reported the news on Thursday. Combs, also a former state representative and Texas’s first female agriculture commissioner, once likened proposed Endangered Species Act listings to “incoming Scud missiles” headed for her state’s oil and gas-rich economy.
President Donald Trump tapped Combs in July to serve as his assistant secretary of the Interior Department’s Office of Policy, Management and Budget, where she would have influence over the agency’s decisions on finance, policy, management and environmental affairs. But her nomination has remained stalled in the Senate.
Perhaps frustrated with the delay, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has reportedly named Combs to temporarily serve as acting assistant secretary for fish, wildlife and parks. In that role she will guide policy decisions at both the Fish and Wildlife Service, one of two federal agencies that administer the Endangered Species Act, and the National Park Service.SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.
quote:Former Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin says he was fired from his position last week, defying the White House’s statement Saturday that he resigned. “I came to fight for our veterans, and I had no intention of giving up,” Shulkin told NBC’s Chuck Todd on “Meet The Press” Sunday. “There would be no reason for me to resign.”
Shulkin, whose departure as head of the Department of Veteran Affairs was announced Wednesday on Twitter by President Donald Trump, said he never offered his resignation nor was he asked to submit a letter of resignation. A day earlier, White House spokeswoman Lindsey Walters told Politico that Shulkin had “resigned from his position.”
“Our statement still stands,” Ninio Fetalvo, assistant White House press secretary, told HuffPost in an email Sunday when asked for comment about Shulkin’s insistence that he was fired.SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.
Omdat adverteerders weglopen. FOX is geen nieuws maar een entertainment toko en tja, er moet wel geld in het laatje blijven komen.quote:
Dat is gewoon een doorsnee GOP benoeming. Gewoon doorgaan met afmaken van dieren omdat je r zogenaamd niks aan hebt. Zelfde als die Pruitt.quote:Op zondag 1 april 2018 17:07 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Only the best people... ("It’s like appointing an arsonist as the town fire marshal”)
Foe Of Endangered Species Act Lands Gig Overseeing — You Guessed It — Wildlife (HuffPo)
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Komt ook omdat het een pioniersland is waar lang de grondstoffen onbeperkt voorradig waren. Die mentaliteit is moeilijk om te gooien.quote:Op zondag 1 april 2018 23:06 schreef Freak188 het volgende:
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Dat is gewoon een doorsnee GOP benoeming. Gewoon doorgaan met afmaken van dieren omdat je r zogenaamd niks aan hebt. Zelfde als die Pruitt.
Dat verwonderd me wel van die Amerikanen. Leven alsof er geen limiet is. Wonen in de woestijn? Maakt niet uit hoe maar we halen ergens water vandaan. Slurpende auto’s? Waarom niet, benzine is toch 4 dollar per gallon. Prachtig land maar een groot deel van de mensen is onwetend.
quote:Trump adviser’s Russian contact closely linked to Putin family (Financial Times)
Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater private security group and a close campaign adviser to Donald Trump, met a Russian financier with direct ties to Vladimir Putin's family in the weeks leading up to Mr Trump's inauguration, according to multiple people briefed on the talks.
Although Mr Prince's meeting with Kirill Dmitriev in the Seychelles, which is being examined by special counsel Robert Mueller, has been previously disclosed, Mr Dmitriev's ties to the Putin clan have not been widely known. According to six people close to Mr Dmitriev, his wife is close friends with Mr Putin’s younger daughter.
The close links to Mr Putin's family are likely to raise new questions about whether Mr Prince was seeking a back-door communications route to the Kremlin on behalf of Mr Trump following earlier press reports that Mr Mueller was pursuing this line of inquiry.
Mr Dmitriev’s wife Natalia Popova was in the same year at Moscow State University as Yekaterina Tikhonova, Mr Putin’s younger daughter, and is the deputy director of her technology foundation, Innopraktika.
Ms Popova’s close friendship with Ms Tikhonova helped secure Mr Dmitriev’s job running the Kremlin’s $10bn Russia Direct investment Fund and has made him a powerful figure in the Kremlin, according to three people who work with Mr Dmitriev, a state banker, a fellow private equity executive and a person who knows him socially.
Mr Dmitriev is a member of Innopraktika’s board and a former board member of petrochemicals giant Sibur, where Ms Tikhonova’s husband Kirill Shamalov is a senior executive. RDIF gave Sibur a $1.75bn loan in 2015, when Mr Shamalov owned 21.4 per cent of its stock. (He reduced his share to 3.9 per cent in 2017.)
Mr Dmitriev regularly attends Ms Tikhonova’s performances in acrobatic rock and roll dancing alongside Mr Shamalov, according to the parent of another contestant.
Mr Mueller wants to determine whether Mr Prince — whose sister is US education secretary Betsy DeVos — was attempting to negotiate a back-channel with the Kremlin on behalf of the incoming Trump administration at their meeting in January 2017, according to reports in the New York Times and Washington Post. The emergence of close links to the family adds weight to that line of inquiry. Mr Dmitriev “rose to the top because he is part of the family,” a person who works on deals with RDIF said.
George Nader, an adviser to Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nayhan, the Crown Prince of the United Arab Emirates, has told Mr Mueller’s team that Mr bin Zayed set up the meeting between the two men as a way to discuss US-Russia relations informally, the newspapers reported earlier this month. Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala state investment company has a $2bn joint fund with RDIF that has invested in strategic Russian businesses. Mr Prince told congressional investigators in November that he met Mr Dmitriev by chance while discussing other deals with UAE officials in the Seychelles and left after drinking one beer.
Mr Dmitriev, who has degrees from Stanford and Harvard universities, was appointed to run RDIF when the Kremlin set it up in 2011 as an attempt to attract more foreign private equity investment in Russia.
His marriage to Ms Popova appears to have helped him secure the job after the preferred candidate dropped out when he refused to give up his French passport, three of the people said. Unlike most sovereign wealth funds, RDIF focuses on partnering with foreign investors to invest in Russian companies. The fund has mostly worked with Middle Eastern and Asian investors since it was placed under US sanctions in 2014. Mr Prince has declined to comment. Mr Dmitriev has not responded to requests for comment.
Last year, Ms Popova presented documentaries on state television about Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia in which she interviewed Mr Dmitriev’s business partners, officials who praised RDIF’s work with Middle Eastern investors, and Mr Dmitriev himself. The films were produced by a company owned by Arkady Rotenberg, Mr Putin’s childhood judo sparring partner.
Oh, lol, dit heeft ook nog politieke consequenties.quote:Op zondag 1 april 2018 19:52 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Bij een resignation mag Trump een vervanger kiezen. Bij ontslag moet de hele procedure worden gevolgd.
At Pruitt’s E.P.A.: No Studies, No Data, No Rules (NYTimes editorial)quote:
quote:The other day, Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, took yet another step to muzzle the scientific inquiry that for years has informed sound policy at an agency he seems determined to destroy. He told his subordinates that they could no longer make policy on the basis of studies that included data from participants who were guaranteed confidentiality. Over the years, such studies have been crucial to establishing links between mortality and pollution, led to regulations and saved many lives. Limiting policymakers to only those studies with publicly available health data greatly narrows the field of research.
This got us to searching again (we’ve been here before with Mr. Pruitt) for the word that best describes the Trump administration’s hostility to scientific inquiry. “Disdain” jumps to mind. Fourteen months into his term, President Trump has yet to name a director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, or any of the four associate directors authorized by Congress — jobs that have provided presidents for decades with unbiased counsel.
There’s another word: Fear.SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.
De treurnisquote:Op maandag 2 april 2018 00:14 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
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At Pruitt’s E.P.A.: No Studies, No Data, No Rules (NYTimes editorial)
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