Bigotry & xenophobia about ‘the Russians’ is the only kind PC culture allows

Corruption is in the Russian DNA. Sharing is not a Russian trait. The Russians are genetically driven to lie. In an increasingly politically-correct media landscape, “the Russians” are still fair game.

The three statements above have been made with various alterations by journalists, expert analysts, and US officials in recent years — and each time, the overt xenophobia within them flies almost completely under the radar, in a media culture which is otherwise hyper-vigilant of real or perceived slights against any one group of people. The Russians, however, are an exception. Their very existence offers a convenient outlet for pent-up hateful, racist, and xenophobic rage.

Go on, try it. I promise, you can say nearly anything you want about the Ruskies without any repercussions at all. Take journalist Josh Barro — always my favorite example. On Twitter — a veritable cesspit of anti-Russian sentiment — he mused a few years ago that Russia has been a “dystopic shithole since the dawn of history” and offered that Russian national pride was a peculiarity, “given how little they have to be proud of.”

It’s hardly necessary to ask readers to imagine the swift condemnation (and possible loss of a job) that would have followed those tweets, had Barro been spouting off about any other group of people. Say, “Jews,” or “Asians,” or “Hispanics.”

The latest offender is the Atlantic, with a long-read by Franklin Foer about how “Russian-style Kleptocracy” is “infiltrating” the United States — complete with shady red and black artwork intended to drive home the point: Russia is bad, bad, bad.

The thrust of the piece is that the collapse of the Soviet Union and emergence of Russia in the 1990s demonstrated how the world’s growing interconnectedness “could be deployed for ill.” As corrupt Russians shoveled state money into private bank accounts across Europe and the US, innocent America watched in dismay.

Congress told itself the “comforting story” that the corruption was not the norm, that “criminal outliers” and “rogue profiteers” were rushing to exploit the weakness of a new state and that good old American-style “democratic capitalist values” would win out in the end.

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https://www.rt.com/op-ed/451286-xenophobia-russians-pc-culture/

Rosneft Boss Wants Russia Out Of OPEC Deal

Rosneft’s chief executive Igor Sechin wants Russia to quit its production control deal with OPEC, Reuters reported last week, citing sources that have seen a letter Sechin wrote to President Putin. According to the sources, Sechin sees the OPEC deal as a threat to Russia that benefits the United States, but the likelihood of his opinion leading to a pullout from the deal is limited.

Sechin is one of the closest allies of Putin and one of the most powerful figures in Russian politics. As Forbes’ Kenneth Rapoza wrote last year, many politicians and big business executives seem willing to face Putin on a bad day. Less so are those willing to face Rosneft’s chief. What’s more, Sechin is not the only one unhappy with the OPEC deal.

“The letter is a threat to the deal extension. But anyway, Putin is the ultimate decision maker,” one of the Reuters sources said. The perspectives of Russia’s President and the biggest players in its oil industry may differ here. For Putin, the OPEC deal is really a geopolitical tool rather than a tool for raising oil prices. Russia does not need prices higher. In fact, if they go too high, they will hurt the Russian economy. For the oil industry, however, it’s about the oil and the markets more than it is about geopolitics.

Russia first joined forces with OPEC to exert more control over international oil prices in late 2016, when the first OPEC+ production cut agreement was sealed. It aimed to remove some 1.8 million bpd from the oversupplied global market that had pressured prices to below US$30 per barrel for Brent crude. The cuts worked so well that prices rebounded significantly, prompting last year a reversal, as large oil importers found it harder to keep buying at previous rates.

Another rebound followed, reinforced by the reimposition of U.S. sanctions against Iran, which would substantially reduce the availability of Iranian crude on international markets. The effect of the sanctions, however, did not unfold quickly and the granting of sanction waivers to the largest Iranian oil importers led to another slump in oil prices. That’s when OPEC started talking about a new round of cuts.

To be fair, Russia was reluctant about joining this round from the start. Moscow budgets lower than current prices, so higher prices were not a necessity for Russia. But the geopolitical agenda is still there, so it was hardly a surprise that despite the conspicuous reluctance, Russia eventually signed up for the new cuts, but at a lower rate than last time. Yet despite this, Russia has also made clear it would rather pass on the opportunity for a closer relationship with OPEC.

Earlier this month, The Wall Street Journal reported that OPEC was seeking to formalize its ties with Russia for the long term. However, Back in December, Energy Minister Alexander Novak said, “There is a consensus that there will be no such organization. That’s because it requires additional bureaucratic brouhaha.” The brouhaha is probably the least of Moscow’s reservations about such an arrangement that would be as binding for it as for the other parties—something Sechin and his peers will have trouble stomaching and something that is clearly not to Putin’s taste. If it was, it would have happened.

The OPEC+ group is meeting in April to review the cuts agreement. Igor Sechin may want to pull Russia out of it, which would probably lead to a sudden and sharp price drop, but his chances of success are doubtful. Vladimir Putin has indicated on numerous occasions and in numerous ways that he is playing the long geopolitical game, of which the cuts agreement is only a small part.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-12/rosneft-boss-wants-russia-out-opec-deal

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>>5142347, >>5142397, >>5142475 Chabad.prg Showing their love for the Rothschild's and all they say

The kitchen needs to start noting this shit

Kushner is Chabad

Trump was bailed out by Wilbur Ross when he was running Rothschild & Co, now he's in charge of finance.

US ‘lost all sense of shame’ in handling Venezuelan crisis – Lavrov

Washington has no “sense of shame” in its response to the Venezuelan crisis, Russia’s foreign minister has said. He also lambasted the US-backed opposition for derailing talks with president Nicolas Maduro.

The latter signaled he is ready to have a face-to-face with his opponents in case they needed to be heard by the government, but the opposition chose to neglect the offer, “probably because they are guided by the US,” Sergey Lavrov commented on Tuesday.

American politicians “have lost all sense of shame when speaking of the way the situation in Venezuela should be dealt with,” he argued.

While the remark by Russia’s top diplomat might sound over-emotional, various Washington officials indeed weren’t shy to suggest what should happen next to Venezuela. The Trump administration, for instance, continuously signaled that it was weighing up all actions against Venezuela, including military intervention.

In the meantime, Washington denied the mere possibility of talks with the Caracas government. As the State Department’s neocon appointee Elliott Abrams has put it, “the time for dialogue with Maduro has long passed.” In his view, Maduro could “manipulate” any negotiations to his advantage.

At some point in the crisis, Washington also slapped sanctions on the state oil company, PDVSA, and its US subsidiary Citgo. Aside from that, the White House also promised $20 million in ‘humanitarian aid’ to the fledgling government of Juan Guaido, the self-proclaimed interim president of Venezuela. Notably, the UN and the International Red Cross (ICRC) have issued concerns that the US may misuse the delivery for own political goals.

“We will not be participating in what is, for us, not humanitarian aid,” Colombia’s ICRC spokesperson, Christoph Harnisch, said recently.

In a separate move, the opposition leader obtained access to Venezuelan assets held in US banks. On the political front, the US and European allies have been pressuring Maduro to set up a snap election, a demand that he rejected.

https://www.rt.com/news/451290-lavrov-shameless-us-venezuela/

http://tass.com/world/1044257

EU will dissolve like Soviet Union unless Europeans ‘wake up’, George Soros said

The “sleeping pro-Europe majority” must “wake up” before the EU goes the way of the Soviet Union, billionaire George Soros has warned. He added that Europe’s political parties must give the bloc’s interests first priority, RT.com writes.

Pro-EU political parties must rally support ahead of crucial European Parliament elections in May, the Hungarian-American businessman and controversial influencer wrote in an op-ed published by Project Syndicate.

The bloc is “sleepwalking into oblivion” and could soon meet the same end as the Soviet Union, Soros prophesized. In order to avoid catastrophe, he argued, right-minded political parties must resist the lure of EU skepticism sweeping across the continent and “put Europe’s interests ahead of their own.”

He chastised Germany’s ruling coalition for not being adequately pro-EU out of fear of losing votes to the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD), while praising the German Greens for being “the only consistently pro-European party in the country.”

The outspoken opponent of Brexit suggested that it wasn’t too late for the UK to hold another referendum, “or, even better, for revoking Britain’s Article 50 notification” – advocacy which appears to clash with Soros’ self-declared affinity for democracy. In the UK, the billionaire has been sharply criticized for forking over £ 800,000 to pro-EU campaigns, including £ 400,000 to ‘Best for Britain’, a campaign group that has been at the forefront of anti-Brexit activism.

On the topic of Italy, Soros chided the EU for “strictly enforcing” an agreement “which unfairly burdens countries like Italy where migrants first enter the EU.” As a result, the massive influx of migrants into Europe has transformed the once pro-EU Italy into a bastion of populism, Soros lamented.

Curiously, he failed to mention that he is a leading champion of the EU’s open-door migrant policy – a policy which is directly responsible for Italy being swamped with asylum seekers.

If Europe’s political leaders fail to stamp out the rise of populist political parties within the bloc, “the dream of a united Europe could become the nightmare of the 21st century,” Soros wrote in closing. Sadly, Soros doesn’t elaborate on why he believes the democratic will of Europeans poses such a fearsome threat to his grand vision for a “united” Europe.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/02/eu-will-dissolve-like-soviet-union-unless-europeans-wake-up-george-soros-said/

Big Oil Asks Supreme Court To Strike Down Nuclear Plant Subsidies

Oil and gas industry groups asked the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down state subsidies for economically struggling nuclear power plants.

It’s the petroleum industry’s latest attempt to salvage its war against nuclear plant subsidies that has so far been unsuccessful in the courts.

The American Petroleum Institute (API) and Natural Gas Supply Association (NGSA) filed an amicus brief Monday asking the high court to take up the Electric Power Supply Association’s petition to reverse a lower court decision.

“We hope the Supreme Court recognizes the gravity of this issue, since wholesale power markets cannot continue to withstand the impact of such state actions,” Pat Jagtiani, NGSA’s executive vice president of NGSA, said in a statement.

New York and Illinois in recent years allowed a handful of nuclear power plants to take advantage of zero-emission credit (ZEC) programs to keep them from shutting down amid competition, mainly from low-priced natural gas.

States see nuclear plant subsidies as a way to meet goals to cut carbon dioxide emissions. Nuclear power is the largest source of zero-emissions energy and supporters say closures only increase emissions because of increased natural gas use.

Other states have followed suit, but keeping nuclear plants open isn’t cheap and it comes at the expense of natural gas. Oil and gas providers see this as the government unfairly hampering energy markets.

Federal courts in Chicago and New York ruled against the oil and gas industry and upheld state nuclear subsidies in 2018. The Electric Power Supply Association petitioned the Supreme Court to hear its case against nuclear subsidies in January.

“ZEC subsidies drive up costs to consumers by prolonging the life of uneconomic, aging resources,” Jagtiani said.

However, legal experts are skeptical the high court will take up the Electric Power Supply Association’s petition.

“I would estimate that the petitioners have less than a 10% chance of certiorari being granted, given the absence of any disagreement between the two appellate courts over the legality of the ZEC programs and the US government’s position on pre-emption,” Gordon Coffee, an attorney with law firm Winston & Strawn, told S&P Global Platts.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/12/big-oil-supreme-court-subsidies/

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You are blind that is how they've done it before Syria Yemen Africa wakey wakey

This headline bothers me!

French Church Is Ninth in Eleven Days Vandalised Across the Country

A French church in the commune of Maisons-Laffitte was vandalised over the weekend and has become the ninth church to be desecrated across France in the last 11 days.

The attack, which targeted the Saint Nicolas Roman Catholic church, saw the tabernacle of the church overthrown and vandalised and is not the first church in the area to be vandalised in recent weeks, according to local prefect Jean-Jacques Brot, Le Parisien reports.

Mr Brot commented on the incident saying, “This vandalism is part of a sensitive and distressing context and the church of Saint-Nicolas de Houilles also suffered damage three times last week,” and went on to add, “It is an attack on the freedom of worship because they are attacking what is the heart of belief.”

According to the Observatoire de la Christianophobie (Observatory of Christianophobia), the incident is the ninth church attack in only 11 days with another church in the city of Tarn being not only vandalised but partially set on fire on February 5th. Two teenagers were later arrested in connection with the Tarn attack.

In the Notre-Dame-Des-Enfants in Nîmes last week an even more grotesque attack occurred when not only was the tabernacle of the church attacked and desecrated but the attackers smeared faeces on the walls of the church, as well.

Robert Wattebled, Bishop of Nîmes, condemned the attack saying, “The sign of the cross and the Blessed Sacrament have been the subject of serious injurious actions. This act of profanation hurts us all in our deepest convictions.”

The incidents are just the latest attacks on French churches in recent years. Last year, two young women were arrested in the department of Morbihan in Brittany after being caught attempting to set a church on fire.

Only a few months later, a gang of Romanian migrants was arrested by French police after it was suspected of robbing six churches in the Paris area and stealing up to 70,000 euros’ worth of items.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/02/12/french-church-ninth-eleven-days-vandalised-across-country/

‘Anti-Semitism spreading like poison’: France stained by weekend of vandalism & year of hate crimes

France’s interior minister has vowed to take a tougher stance on hatred, after multiple incidents of anti-semitic vandalism, and a spike in anti-Jewish hate crimes last year.

Parisians were greeted with crudely daubed anti-Semitic slogans on shop fronts last weekend, including swastikas sprayed over images of late politician and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil, and the German word for Jews (“Juden”) sprayed on a bagel shop in the city center.

A memorial tree planted in honor of a young Jewish man, tortured to death in a 2006 attack, was also chopped down. Visiting the suburb where the tree once stood, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner declared that “anti-Semitism is spreading like a poison, like a venom.”

“It’s rotting minds, it’s killing,” Castaner continued, before vowing to crack down on anti-Jewish hatred.

Castaner did not blame any particular group for the spread of anti-Semitism, but some within the French government and media were quick to blame extremists among anti-Government ‘Yellow Vest’ demonstrators. Government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux linked the graffiti to an arson attack on the home of Parliamentary Speaker Richard Ferrand one week earlier, believed to be the work of the Yellow Vests. The Union of French Jewish Students also pinned blame for the racist daubings on the Yellow Vests.

https://www.rt.com/news/451307-france-anti-semitism-rising/

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more concerned with the 911 projection

Tony Blair Admits to ‘Nascent Alliance’ Between Islamist and Left-wing Politics

Former Labour leader Tony Blair has admitted there is a “nascent alliance” between Islamists and the political left in Britain.

In a wide-ranging interview focusing mainly on his desire to overturn the British public’s vote for Brexit in 2016, the controversial 65-year-old told Sophy Ridge of Sky News: “There is, I’m afraid, there is a kind of nascent alliance between what I would call bits of the sort of Islamist type of politics and the left.”

“And you can see this not just here in the UK, you can see it across Europe — and yes, it gives rise to anti-Semitism. It’s not your old traditional anti-Semitism of the old kind of right-wing nature of, you know, not wanting Jewish people in golf clubs and that type of thing, but it’s every bit as pernicious and, you know, to have a situation where you’ve got Labour MPs worried because they happen to be Jewish, I mean…” Blair added, trailing off.

Several of Labour’s Muslim politicians have been implicated in anti-Semitism scandals in recent years, such as Shadow Minister of State for Women and Equalities Naz Shah.

Shah was briefly suspended from the party over posting anti-Semitic remarks such as “The Jews are rallying” on social media — although she was not disciplined for liking and retweeting a comment saying that “abused girls in Rotherham and elsewhere just need to shut their mouths for the good of diversity” at a later date.

Hard-left party leader Jeremy Corbyn, too, has come under fire for previous remarks that British-born “Zionists” struggle to understand “English irony”, and for allegedly participating in a Tunisian wreath-laying ceremony for the Black September terrorists who murdered Jewish athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/02/12/tony-blair-admits-nascent-alliance-between-islamist-left-wing-politics/

"The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the "agentur" of the "Illuminati" between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. ~ Albert Pike 1871

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Marxists left V Zionist Right

Kaballah 101

#StandwithIlhan: Social media users defend Ilhan Omar after her forced apology over anti-Semitism

Social media users are flocking to #StandwithIlhan after Rep. Ilhan Omar was pressured to issue an apology for her tweets about the Israel lobby’s influence over US politicians, after she was accused of anti-Semitism.

Omar was seemingly forced to apologize by Democratic leadership after she tweeted about Israeli influence and named the powerful Israel lobbying group AIPAC as having a hold over US politicians.

Although her statements were backed up, Omar faced an onslaught of outrage from a wide range of commenters, from Chelsea Clinton to President Donald Trump, who said she should be “ashamed of herself.” This despite the fact that Trump faced criticism for making anti-Semitic tropes about members of the Republican Jewish Coalition liking money and making deals when he addressed them in 2015.

“I don’t think her apology was adequate,” he unironically said of Omar.

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https://www.rt.com/usa/451279-standwithilhan-support-omar-antisemitism/

Zionist take over & Election interference

Bannon and The Movement

Trump has self described himself as a Nationalist. Bannon is involved and leading a Nationalist movement in many countries around the world. We see it with Brexit which is already hurting trade. Trump is following the outline by breaking with our Europeon allies and aligning with authoriraian regimes.

LONDON – The former chief strategist for U.S. President Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, is setting up a foundation in Europe to support nationalist movements on the continent, according to reports. The group, called The Movement, will be a "clearing house for the populist, nationalist movement in Europe," Kassam Raheem, the former editor-in-chief of Breitbart London who is working with Bannon, told the Reuters news agency.

"We're focusing attention on assisting individuals or groups concerned with the matters of sovereignty, border control, jobs, amongst other things," Raheem said.

The group will be headquartered in Brussels, "because it is the heart of the European Union," Raheem continued, calling the bloc, "the most pernicious force against nation state democracy in the West today."

Nationalist, populist, and far-right movements have been gaining strength in Europe; Italy, the Czech Republic, Austria, and Hungary have all recently elected right-wing leaders.

Bannon sees an opportunity to support domestic nationalist parties in countries across Europe with a centralized operation that shares their larger priorities, the Daily Beast reported. He was surprised to learn that no such operation already existed, the Daily Beast said.

According to Bannon, grassroots nationalist movements in countries throughout Europe are ripe for mobilization.

"It will be instantaneous," he told the Daily Beast, "as soon as we flip the switch."

Bannon said that he hopes The Movement will rival George Soros' Open Society Foundations, which have, since 1984, given 32 billion dollars to fund mainly liberal causes across Europe.

"I want to win and then I want to effectuate change," Bannon told the Daily Beast.

https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/5539027/bannon-and-the-movement

https://euobserver.com/political/143125

Trump calls Omar’s apology for Israel tweets ‘lame,’ says she should resign

After Ilhan Omar sparks backlash for suggesting AIPAC buying US support for Israel, president says ‘anti-Semitism has no place in Congress’

https://www.timesofisrael.com/february-12-2019/

The Marxist (Left) V Zionist (Right) Deception

Puppet masters

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Soros (MB) v Netanyahu (Adelson) separate arms of the same beast and it's control system.

Same goals:

Control the world.

Elevate one class over another. Serfs/Elite. Jews/Goyim

Create a new world order.

Rule with an iron fist.

Control resources.

Eliminate competitors aka white people, black people, arab's, asians.

Greater Israel project.

Build third temple.

Bring forth the anti-christ.

Satanic rule.

Trick Christian's into believing the above must happen for the return of Jesus.

Control both sides of all arguments.

Endless death and suffering on competitors.

Traits of each:

Psychopaths.

Warmongers

Liars

Manipulators

Know thy enemy

JESUS IS THE WAY