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Trump and Ryan Tout Unity for the House
Published from CNN and last edited at 10:45 Thursday
"Washington (CNN)Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan concluded their highly anticipated meeting Thursday amid signals that the Republican Party will work to piece itself together after a fractious primary.
"While we were honest about our few differences, we recognize that there are also many important areas of common ground," Trump and Ryan said in a joint statement. "We will be having additional discussions, but remain confident there's a great opportunity to unify our party and win this fall, and we are totally committed to working together to achieve that goal."
I have always thought after listening so much from Russ Libaugh, Sean Hannity and Fox Bill O'Reily that this will be the result of the shaking of the GOP house.
Lo and behold the most anticipated meeting resulted in a very positive goal and that is to unite everyone to spear head the success of ousting the rule of the current socialist administration that has put us in this political predicament.
I knew that this is the only direction they can embrace in order to define the future of this country as unanimously declared by all the original 17 candidates now with only Trump remains standing to achieve that goal.
I am confident the people will all decide to put a new president in the coming November and that is the formidable and and indomitable Mr. Trump.
Thank you all for your reads and comments, if any.
"Washington (CNN)Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan concluded their highly anticipated meeting Thursday amid signals that the Republican Party will work to piece itself together after a fractious primary.
"While we were honest about our few differences, we recognize that there are also many important areas of common ground," Trump and Ryan said in a joint statement. "We will be having additional discussions, but remain confident there's a great opportunity to unify our party and win this fall, and we are totally committed to working together to achieve that goal."
I have always thought after listening so much from Russ Libaugh, Sean Hannity and Fox Bill O'Reily that this will be the result of the shaking of the GOP house.
Lo and behold the most anticipated meeting resulted in a very positive goal and that is to unite everyone to spear head the success of ousting the rule of the current socialist administration that has put us in this political predicament.
I knew that this is the only direction they can embrace in order to define the future of this country as unanimously declared by all the original 17 candidates now with only Trump remains standing to achieve that goal.
I am confident the people will all decide to put a new president in the coming November and that is the formidable and and indomitable Mr. Trump.
Thank you all for your reads and comments, if any.
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Ferdinand Marcos: The world's biggest “thieving po
"In the early hours of a February morning in 1986, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos flew into exile. After 21 years as president of the Philippines, Marcos had rigged one too many elections. The army had turned against him, and the people had come out on to the streets in their thousands. The Marcoses had seen the crisis coming and been able to prepare their escape, so when they landed that morning at the Hickham USAF base in Hawaii, they brought plenty of possessions with them.
The official US customs record runs to 23 pages. In the two C-141 transport planes that carried them, they had packed: 23 wooden crates; 12 suitcases and bags, and various boxes, whose contents included enough clothes to fill 67 racks; 413 pieces of jewellery, including 70 pairs of jewel-studded cufflinks; an ivory statue of the infant Jesus with a silver mantle and a diamond necklace; 24 gold bricks, inscribed “To my husband on our 24th anniversary”; and more than 27m Philippine pesos in freshly-printed notes. The total value was $15m.
This was a fortune by any standards, easily enough to see the couple through the rest of their lives.
Yet the new government of the Philippines knew this was only a very small part of the Marcoses’ wealth. The reality, they discovered, was that Ferdinand Marcos had amassed a fortune up to 650 times greater. According to a subsequent estimate by the Philippine supreme court, he had accumulated up to $10bn while in office.
Since his official salary had never risen above $13,500 a year, it was blazingly clear this was stolen wealth on the most spectacular scale. Some of his closest allies also stole billions. As their victim was a nation in which 40% of the people survive on less than $2 a day, the Republic of the Philippines decided urgently to try to retrieve its money.
Even amid the chaos of the revolution, the very first executive order issued by the new president, Cory Aquino, established the Presidential Commission on Good Government, the PCGG. It was to recover “all ill-gotten wealth accumulated by former president Ferdinand Marcos, his immediate family, relatives, subordinates and close associates” and given the power to sequester any assets believed to be the proceeds of crime.
Thirty years later, the PCGG is still working, its 94 lawyers, researchers and administrators housed proudly in a building recovered from the Marcos family. The government gives it an annual budget of $2.2m. Its staff have traced money through jurisdictions all over the world and fought their way through hundreds of court cases. And yet something has gone terribly wrong: to date, the PCGG has recovered only a fraction of what was stolen by the Marcos network; no one has served a prison sentence for their part in the crime.
The PCGG archive tells the inside story of the biggest theft in history, and of the master criminal who organised it: skilful, arrogant, cruel. It also opens a door into the offshore world revealed by the Panama Papers. Marcos was one of the first to exploit the rats’ nest of secret jurisdictions and hidden ownership then in the early stages of being built beneath the floorboards of public life.
But what is most important about Marcos is that he committed his crimes as a politician.
His career starts with a cynicism that now seems familiar – manipulating electorates, using money to buy power and power to make money. But he went one big step further in merging politics and finance, converting the instruments of government into one vast cash machine. A handful of other autocrats were also busy stealing from their people in that era – in Haiti, Nicaragua, Iran – but Marcos stole more and he stole better. Ultimately, he emerges as a laboratory specimen from the early stages of a contemporary epidemic: the global contagion of corruption that has since spread through Africa and South America, the Middle East and parts of Asia. Marcos was a model of the politician as thief."
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The official US customs record runs to 23 pages. In the two C-141 transport planes that carried them, they had packed: 23 wooden crates; 12 suitcases and bags, and various boxes, whose contents included enough clothes to fill 67 racks; 413 pieces of jewellery, including 70 pairs of jewel-studded cufflinks; an ivory statue of the infant Jesus with a silver mantle and a diamond necklace; 24 gold bricks, inscribed “To my husband on our 24th anniversary”; and more than 27m Philippine pesos in freshly-printed notes. The total value was $15m.
This was a fortune by any standards, easily enough to see the couple through the rest of their lives.
Yet the new government of the Philippines knew this was only a very small part of the Marcoses’ wealth. The reality, they discovered, was that Ferdinand Marcos had amassed a fortune up to 650 times greater. According to a subsequent estimate by the Philippine supreme court, he had accumulated up to $10bn while in office.
Since his official salary had never risen above $13,500 a year, it was blazingly clear this was stolen wealth on the most spectacular scale. Some of his closest allies also stole billions. As their victim was a nation in which 40% of the people survive on less than $2 a day, the Republic of the Philippines decided urgently to try to retrieve its money.
Even amid the chaos of the revolution, the very first executive order issued by the new president, Cory Aquino, established the Presidential Commission on Good Government, the PCGG. It was to recover “all ill-gotten wealth accumulated by former president Ferdinand Marcos, his immediate family, relatives, subordinates and close associates” and given the power to sequester any assets believed to be the proceeds of crime.
Thirty years later, the PCGG is still working, its 94 lawyers, researchers and administrators housed proudly in a building recovered from the Marcos family. The government gives it an annual budget of $2.2m. Its staff have traced money through jurisdictions all over the world and fought their way through hundreds of court cases. And yet something has gone terribly wrong: to date, the PCGG has recovered only a fraction of what was stolen by the Marcos network; no one has served a prison sentence for their part in the crime.
The PCGG archive tells the inside story of the biggest theft in history, and of the master criminal who organised it: skilful, arrogant, cruel. It also opens a door into the offshore world revealed by the Panama Papers. Marcos was one of the first to exploit the rats’ nest of secret jurisdictions and hidden ownership then in the early stages of being built beneath the floorboards of public life.
But what is most important about Marcos is that he committed his crimes as a politician.
His career starts with a cynicism that now seems familiar – manipulating electorates, using money to buy power and power to make money. But he went one big step further in merging politics and finance, converting the instruments of government into one vast cash machine. A handful of other autocrats were also busy stealing from their people in that era – in Haiti, Nicaragua, Iran – but Marcos stole more and he stole better. Ultimately, he emerges as a laboratory specimen from the early stages of a contemporary epidemic: the global contagion of corruption that has since spread through Africa and South America, the Middle East and parts of Asia. Marcos was a model of the politician as thief."
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What did the 70's oil crisis create ?
Back in the 70's some of you will remember the oil crisis that the Opec nations started, this was an embargo on all nations that supported the Yum Kippur war. This crippled the US and many countries that relied on its oil.
It was also a wake up call for the west, especially America, that if the whole Arab nations got together they could hold the rest of the world to ransom.
So if you want to know why we have got involved in getting Arabs to fight one another this is it.
Saddam was an a**hole but why did he really invade Kuwait ?..well the Kuwaitis di finance the Iraqis in the Iraq/Iran war..to protect the oil fields, but Kuwait was drilling under Iraq at the same time and stealing their oil, although it has alway been a disputed land, the Kuwaitis didn't give a feck.
The Kuwaitits were over producing 700,000 barrels a day over and above what opec had agreed, and Saddam was pissed..The Kuwaitis didn't care because they thought nothing would happen,they were wrong, even the American diplomat.. April Catherine Glaspie said:-
We can see that you have deployed massive numbers of troops in the south. Normally that would be none of our business, but when this happens in the context of your threats against Kuwait, then it would be reasonable for us to be concerned. For this reason, I have received an instruction to ask you, in the spirit of friendship — not confrontation — regarding your intentions: Why are your troops massed so very close to Kuwait's borders?
Later the transcript has Glaspie saying:
“ We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts, such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction, first given to Iraq in the 1960s, that the Kuwait issue is not associated with America.
This was the green light for Saddam to invade, which is exactly what the US wanted, fighting between Arabs, to prevent them hold the west to ransom again.
Subsequently the west has systematically caused the Arabs to fight each other..with the outcome we all see today...Why ?
Because Arabs can't tell us what to do !..
It was also a wake up call for the west, especially America, that if the whole Arab nations got together they could hold the rest of the world to ransom.
So if you want to know why we have got involved in getting Arabs to fight one another this is it.
Saddam was an a**hole but why did he really invade Kuwait ?..well the Kuwaitis di finance the Iraqis in the Iraq/Iran war..to protect the oil fields, but Kuwait was drilling under Iraq at the same time and stealing their oil, although it has alway been a disputed land, the Kuwaitis didn't give a feck.
The Kuwaitits were over producing 700,000 barrels a day over and above what opec had agreed, and Saddam was pissed..The Kuwaitis didn't care because they thought nothing would happen,they were wrong, even the American diplomat.. April Catherine Glaspie said:-
We can see that you have deployed massive numbers of troops in the south. Normally that would be none of our business, but when this happens in the context of your threats against Kuwait, then it would be reasonable for us to be concerned. For this reason, I have received an instruction to ask you, in the spirit of friendship — not confrontation — regarding your intentions: Why are your troops massed so very close to Kuwait's borders?
Later the transcript has Glaspie saying:
“ We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts, such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction, first given to Iraq in the 1960s, that the Kuwait issue is not associated with America.
This was the green light for Saddam to invade, which is exactly what the US wanted, fighting between Arabs, to prevent them hold the west to ransom again.
Subsequently the west has systematically caused the Arabs to fight each other..with the outcome we all see today...Why ?
Because Arabs can't tell us what to do !..
What is happening in our beautiful country? Orlan
Thank you for listening. These are ridiculously unacceptable.
From what just happened in Orlando, I can't seem to digest clearly what should be done but these are the events that describe our dire need of solution.
Donald Trump says he thinks GOP is starting to lik
Donald Trump says he thinks GOP is starting to like him
About the EU
I think the EU is a bit of a Trabant, it will always be unstable and unfit to carry any capacity of trade worthy of talking about despite being designed to do so.
And as for all the all the Lobbyist groups that have sprung up to suck it dry. I think they would agree it should have TIT painted on the side.
And as for all the all the Lobbyist groups that have sprung up to suck it dry. I think they would agree it should have TIT painted on the side.
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