Hillary Clinton’s attempts to paint Donald Trump as a pawn for the Russians have backfired in the most spectacular way possible for the Democratic candidate.
Few Democrats seem to remember, but it wasn’t that long ago when Clinton was singing a very different tune about Russia. Instead of harping on the Russian threat (and the power it supposedly exerts over Trump) like she is wont to do, she went out of her way to endear the US, as a matter of policy, to the country. In fact, one of her first goals as Secretary of State was to pursue a “reset” with Russia.
One of the major parties pushing for this reset was Skolkovo, a Moscow conglomerate that brought together companies from the US, Europe and Russia to exchange space, nuclear, and IT technology. Coincidentally, out of the 28 companies taking part in Skolkovo, 17 either donated to the Clinton Foundation or paid for speeches made by Bill Clinton.
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Especially from every Muslim Country that the People are Barbaric, many terrorists, ISIS is in everyone of them! Sickening! But She did help create ISIS. Have heard it awhile ago from Congressman, Senators, Politicians, analysts, over and over, then Trump brings it up and the Media goes nuts! He is absolutely right when He says He will not say exactly how He destroy ISIS! Why would any one in their right mind and give complete details! Really ticking Politicians off. But Hillary sold Us out, commuted perjury, lied, etc..but Politicians or Obama don’t give a Damn! I’m livid, bad nightmare and can’t wake up! Can You imagine what other Countries think??
Thinking about Her as POTUS is a bad nightmare and can’t wake up.
S**T ON THIS ROTTEN NO GOOD CROOK!
The Clinton’s are traitor’s.
#ThankYouDonald S.E. Native Michigander Yes! I am a City Delegate, Campaigning and Volunteering and Investing in Trump/Pence for President and Vice President of The United States of America!
Crooked, corrupt Hillary
Crook’s and Pinocchio’s
THIS IS WHAT OUR OBUMA GOVERNMENT WANT FOR OUR COUNTRY USA BECAUSE THEY ARE SCORNED. THEY WANT WORLD DEMONATION WITH MUSLIMS AND SOCIALISM AND SHARIA LAW! A NEW WORLD ORDER!!!
FYI-THIS IS WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO OUR USA COUNTRY AND MORE IF HELLARY OR BERNIE ARE ELECTED TO BE PRESIDENT!!! DICTATORSHIP!!!!
HELLARY WILL BE COMING ÀLSO FOR YOUR GUNS TO GET YOUR GUNS TO LEAVE YOU DEFENSELESS- THE FACTS READ THEM YOURSELF! –
MILTON Friedman once said that, if you put the government in charge of the Sahara desert, there’ll eventually be a shortage of sand. No wonder that, after 14 years of socialist government, Venezuela – the country with the world’s largest oil reserves – is currently importing gasoline. This fact highlights Venezuela’s painful descent into chaos, as the economy crumbles and the nation’s social fabric unravels.
Venezuela is now witnessing its largest protests in a decade. The government of President Nicolas Maduro has cracked down on demonstrations with unprecedented force, using the National Guard and armed paramilitary gangs. At least 14 people have been killed, with hundreds detained – including Leopoldo López, one of the most emblematic leaders of the opposition – and over a dozen cases of torture reported.
Driving the unrest is a large segment of the population that is fed up with the country’s rapidly deteriorating economy. Despite receiving over $1 trillion in oil revenues since 1999, the government has run out of cash and now relies heavily on printing money to finance itself. The result is the highest inflation rate in the world: officially 56 per cent last year, although according to calculations by Steve Hanke of Johns Hopkins University, the implied annual inflation rate is actually 330 per cent.
The government reacted to skyrocketing inflation by following the typical socialist script: it imposed draconian price controls and has been raiding businesses it accuses of hoarding. As a result, there are widespread shortages of food and medicines, and people have to endure hour-long lines in supermarkets. The scarcity index produced by Venezuela’s central bank reached 28 per cent in January, meaning that one out of four basic products is out of stock at any given time. Somehow, toilet paper is now more valuable than paper money.
The productive sector has been decimated after hundreds of nationalisations and expropriations. Oil now accounts for 96 per cent of export earnings, up from 80 per cent a decade ago. Moreover, due to gross mismanagement at PDVSA, the state oil monopoly, production has dropped by 28 per cent since 2000, the only major energy producer in the world to experience a decline in the last quarter of a century.
The economic hardship faced by Venezuelans is compounded by a horrific rise in crime. The country is now one of the most dangerous places in the world, with almost 25,000 homicides in 2013 – a murder rate of 79 killings per 100,000 inhabitants. One of the reasons the protests are growing, despite the government’s brutal repression, is that the country is quickly becoming unlivable and many Venezuelans think that they have nothing to lose.
As the economy is spiralling out of control, the government is casting aside any pretence of being democratic. Maduro, who currently enjoys the power to rule by decree, has consolidated his regime’s grip on the media: all TV stations either belong to the government or toe its line. International networks have been blocked from cable. Dozens of opposition radio stations have seen their licenses revoked, and the newspapers, the last bastion of the free press in Venezuela, are weeks away from shutting down because the government denies them the hard currency they need to buy print paper.
Maduro’s main challenge is that he doesn’t command the same level of loyalty, much less adoration, as his predecessor Hugo Chávez. Thus, with the indispensable help of Cuba’s security apparatus, he relies on ever more ruthless tactics. He even said recently that he doesn’t mind being called a dictator. Unfortunately, the army and the National Guard are firmly aligned with the government and there is little or no chance that they might baulk at exercising unrestrained violence against unarmed civilians. With no diplomatic pressure coming from other Latin American nations or regional groupings such as the Organisation of American States, the Venezuelan government has a free hand to repress its people.
Venezuela was once South America’s richest country, taking in immigrants from all over the world. For many years, it was also a remarkable democracy in a region where most nations were ruled by military dictatorships. Today, socialism has turned Venezuela into an authoritarian basket case that thousands try to escape every year. With millions of Venezuelans no longer willing to put up with deteriorating living conditions, and a government willing to take whatever means necessary to hold on to power, it looks like the worst is yet to come.
Juan Carlos Hidalgo is a policy analyst on Latin America at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity.
SOMALI MUSLIM WOMAN: “If more Muslims would read the quran, more Muslims would leave Islam”
MAY 05, 2015by ADMINin OPINION
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“Allah is a god who hates and Islam is NOT a religion of peace,” says this Somali woman who is now an ex-Muslim.
Vdare via TROP Mona Walter, an ex-Muslim living in Sweden who left Somalia for Scandinavia as a refugee, says she read the Koran for the first time and discovered the truth of what Islam is about. Her search eventually led her to Christianity, but her mission is still with Islam, namely to tell Muslims what the quran really says.
“It’s about hating and killing those who disagree with Islam. It’s about conquering. Mohammed, he was immoral. He was a bloodthirsty man. He was terrible man, and Muslims can read that in his biography — what he did to Jews, how he raped women, how he killed people. I mean, he killed everyone who didn’t agree with him,” she explained.
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Absolutely! She knows no other way but dishonesty and corruption for her personal gain.