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pbmus's JournalIn a Stormy mood': Melania stayed seated and stony-faced during Trump's 'faith and family' remarks
First lady Melania Trump stayed seated and remained stony-faced during the president's State of the Union address during his remarks on 'faith and family'
She also completely broke from tradition when she took a separate motorcade from her husband to the address on Capitol Hill
She hasn't been seen side-by-side with the president since January 15, when the first couple returned to the White House from Mar-a-Lago
The first lady is reportedly 'furious' over revelations that President Trump's lawyer paid a porn star hush money to keep quiet over an alleged affair
She already ditched a planned trip to Davos, Switzerland with her husband, spending time at the Holocaust Museum and Mar-a-Lago instead
Since more details have come out about the porn star, Stormy Daniels, the first lady has limited public appearances and rarely tweeted
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5337111/SOTU-Melania-seated-Presidents-faith-family-remarks.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Jimmy Kimmel had stupid Con voters on an interview
With a DACA family....what a hateful bunch of fools....it is really no wonder why we are in this fucked up world with Con people voting....
Sanctions....are the reason pour le jour...
Exxon/Rosneft/Blackstone/Trump
After a few hours of web surfing & note taking, I was able to identify a variety of investments/investors who stand to benefit from the lifting of the existing sanctions on Russia -- but also stand to lose if the sanctions are not lifted in a timely manner....
(I also found the trail between the 19.5% and Trump's Blackstone buddies...
The Exxon component is far greater than just the highly publicized $1billion loss from the Arctic Drilling project that was halted due to the sanctions .....
Timeline/Players:
1998 Tillerson was head of Exxon's
Neftgas Ltd
Neftgas + Rosneft = Sakhalin-1 (Siberian coast)
2006
Tillerson CEO/Pres. Exxon
& Sechin takes over Rosneft
2011
Rosneft + Exxon = Strategic Cooperation Agreement
Explore/Exploit Arctic & Black Sea
* Rosneft subsidiary gets 30% equity in Exxon's La Escalera Ranch project in W.Texas
* Rosneft gets rights to acquire 30% of Exxon Holdings (20 blocks) in Gulf of Mexico
* Rosneft subsidiary RNCardium oil acquires 30% of Exxon's stake in Canada -- Cardium formation to develop tar sands reserve
2012 Neftgas Holdings incorporates (Pável Ilyasov)
2013 Exxon had rights to
11.4 million acres in Russia &
(14.6 million in the US)
2014 Exxon had rights to
63.7 million acres in Russia
Sanctions halted Arctic drilling but did not prohibit acquisition of rights for future projects
Exxon holdings w/ OAO Rosneft include
* Laptev & Chukchi Seas
* Kara & Black Seas
These rights have expiration dates from 2017 -2023
and are to planned to begin contribution in 2020
Kara & Black Seas will cost estimated $350billion to develop
June 2016
St. Petersburg Economic Forum
Sechin (Rosneft) gives Tillerson (Exxon) thumbs up when Tillerson is asked about Sanctions and he says he will leave that to the governments...
(what does Sechin know?)
October 2016
Rosneft acquired Essar Oil (Indian Refinery- 400,000 bpd)
for $13billion
Includes: port terminals, power plants & pumps
Nov/Dec 2016
Rosneft acquired 30% of
Shouroulk in Egypt and its Zohr offshore gas field from Italy's ENI SPA for $1.575 billion
Dec. 2016
Rosneft Trading SA
Loans $1.5billion to
Venezuela PDV SA against 49.9% of US CITGO Holdings / CITGO Petroleum
Which includes 3 refineries and pipelines (749,000 bpd)
* Corpus Christi, Tx
* Lemont, Illinois
* Lake Charles, La. (6th largest in US)
(Hmmmm... sounds like a down payment on a future sale ... contingent upon sanctions being lifted)
Rosneft ownership is roughly
19.25% BP
19.50% QHG******
10% Russian Stock Market
50% Russia
1.25% other
The QHG 19.5% = the mystery shares referenced in the Steele/Trump Dossier ...
Russia's VTB temporarily loaned QHG 10.2billion (euro) to purchase the 19.5% of Rosneft
The loan was satisfied by a combination of payments:
300million euros from GlenCore
2.5 billion from Qatar
5.2 billion from Intesa SanPaolo on behalf of QHG (loan)
2.2billion ???? Not clear
QHG is made up of GlenCore & Qatar...
and
GlenCore = BP + Qatar
GlenCore
Lists as a director
Peter Grauer (Bloomberg) also a
director - Blackstone
QHG's loan from Intesa SanPaolo (Italian bank) who has partnership with GSO Capital division of Blackstone
Russian source says
QHG likely to default on loan
(Strange, Qatar has hundreds of billions... why finance? Why default? Perhaps just the mutually trusted neutral middleman?)
Meaning Intesa or whomever it assigns the loan to (GSO Capital/ Blackstone) will own that 19.5% upon default by QHG.... likely to occur immediately after sanctions are lifted.
IMF chief warns Trump's tax cuts could destabilise global economy
Christine Lagarde singled out Trump’s tax reforms as one of three risks that could destabilise the current economic recovery, especially given the boom in stock markets in the past year.
“While the US tax reforms certainly will have positive effects in the short term, for the US and other countries around, it might also lead to serious risks,” Lagarde told the World Economic Forum in Davos.
“That has an impact on financial vulnerability, particularly given the high asset prices that we see around the world, and the easy financing that it still available,” she added.
She was speaking shortly after the US president told Davos that his tax reforms had created “a big, beautiful waterfall” of pay rises for US workers, as American companies passed the tax cut on.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jan/26/imf-chief-warns-trumps-tax-cuts-could-destabilise-global-economy?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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America’s elites response....so what.
Cotton Tales
Tom Cotton, the Republican senator from Arkansas, is becoming President Trump’s right arm in the Senate. Or maybe it’s the other way around, and Cotton, a right-wing ideologue, is helping to steer the president. Either way, Trump’s behavior in the immigration debate—turning against a legislative compromise after Cotton was summoned to a White House meeting to oppose it—illustrates the young senator’s influence. In fact, Trump is said to be considering him as the next CIA director.
Cotton’s emergence is alarming. In part, that’s because what endears Cotton to Trump—and makes them particularly dangerous together—is Cotton’s unflinching willingness, in pursuit of an agenda, to say things that aren’t true.
Cotton is a veteran. He served with honor in Iraq and Afghanistan. But when he came home, he brought back the psychology of war. He treats liberals and moderates as the enemy. In 2015, he blocked one of President Obama’s ambassadorial nominees over an unrelated issue—she eventually died waiting for approval—because Cotton knew she was Obama’s friend. He depicts Obama as a traitor. Last month, Cotton said of the Iran nuclear agreement: “Barack Obama was willing to give away anything to get that deal.”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/01/tom-cotton-is-dangerously-deceptive.html
Sedition...
Sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that tends toward insurrection against the established order. Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontention (or resistance) to lawful authority. Sedition may include any commotion, though not aimed at direct and open violence against the laws. Seditious words in writing are seditious libel. A seditionist is one who engages in or promotes the interest of sedition.
Typically, sedition is considered a subversive act, and the overt acts that may be prosecutable under sedition laws vary from one legal code to another. Where the history of these legal codes has been traced, there is also a record of the change in the definition of the elements constituting sedition at certain points in history. This overview has served to develop a sociological definition of sedition as well, within the study of state persecution.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/johnson-certainly-not-trying-discredit-fb
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/01/25/its-looking-more-and-more-like-there-is-a-coordinated-gop-effort-to-discredit-the-trump-russia-investigation/?utm_term=.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/24/politics/richard-burr-devin-nunes-fisa-memo/index.html
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/370469-lou-dobbs-its-time-to-declare-war-on-deep-state
https://www.mediaite.com/online/breitbart-editor-blames-cnn-shooting-threats-on-network-climate-of-hate-comes-home-to-roost/
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This has been an ongoing onslaught of our traditional values and laws to incite riot and internal discontent with the established order. The ruling elite like to call it free speech and trample the rights of otherwise upstanding citizens. I for one am sick of the lies and dishonorable acts. These actions have become more than dangerous, there are real people dead, threatened and unlawfully accused. It is beyond the time to call it what it is...
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