Disliked{quote} Dear Surgefx I am not sure why I have failed in making things clear to you. Your assumptions are 100% incorrect. The whole point of my method of Forex teaching is to see if the trader has the proper DISCIPLINE and the DESIRE to do things completely different from the way that they have been doing their Forex trading. There is only one way that this works and it is the reason for my success. So... if you want to do this the way that it needs to be done that is fine. However if you want to do it your way than there is no way that I can help...Ignored
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Disliked{quote} The markets can and usually do by the second especially in these times of great confusion and conflict in the world. See my first post that I did today for a more detailed explanation. The RISK ON and RISK OFF is always what we need to know 24 hours a ... ... You will NOTICE if the North American Equity Markets have a BIG SELL OFF as in RISK ON then this usually rotates to Asia and then to Europe. I hope that my reply makes it clear for you and everyone else that reads and participates in the thread. I thank you very...Ignored
The following sentence in your reply is RISK OFF and not Risk ON. Please advise.
You will NOTICE if the North American Equity Markets have a BIG SELL OFF as in RISK OFF
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Disliked{quote} Hi BenjaminIs Thank you so much. The following sentence in your reply is RISK OFF and not Risk ON. Please advise. You will NOTICE if the North American Equity Markets have a BIG SELL OFF as in RISK OFF RISK ON then this usually rotates to Asia and then to Europe.Ignored
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You will notice my CORRECTION above by where I have put the brackets around RISK OFF.
Quoting BenjaminIs
The following sentence in your reply is RISK OFF and not Risk ON. Please advise.
You will NOTICE if the North American Equity Markets have a BIG SELL OFF as in RISK OFF
Comments from Benjaminis: I have some comments to make of a very personal nature to everyone that reads my thread.
I made a mistake as you can see from my comments above even though I have developed the methods however the mistake opened the door to making many important points about my agenda and what I wanted and have accomplished.
When the student can correct the teacher then that clearly shows that the student is starting to understand the lessons taught.
KeepCalmfx was and is the only one of many that has reached a level of Forex trading and understanding that I have been able to know with certainty that ANYONE with the DESIRE and the INTEREST can be a very successful and wealthy Forex trader.
My method works as my results show. I sincerely enjoy helping people however I also do not appreciate people who have their own agenda and then when I stand up to them they get angry and attack.
That has happened once with Teek and was the only time that it has ever happened on my thread.
However today I read the reply that I now share here and after we read it I will make my final point about my thread and my intentions.
Dear Surgefx
I am not sure why I have failed in making things clear to you. Your assumptions are 100% incorrect. The whole point of my method of Forex teaching is to see if the trader has the proper DISCIPLINE and the DESIRE to do things completely different from the way that they have been doing their Forex trading.
There is only one way that this works and it is the reason for my success. So... if you want to do this the way that it needs to be done that is fine. However if you want to do it your way than there is no way that I can help you or anyone else for that matter. As for other subscribers the reason that they have for not being active has nothing to do with our subject here.
Have a great day.
Here is the reply that I got from Surgefx...
Am OK with the way I trade. Too bad that I got you wrong from the start. So now I will leave you to do your thing while I do mine my way as their are plenty ways to skin the cat. Good luck with getting your subscribers to participate given the way you run the show. Am out.
COMMENTS FROM BENJAMINIS: He got me wrong from the beginning because he had his own agenda and his own attitude. For myself it does not really bother me since KeepCalmfx and myself who only does the work here because of my asking and without financial reward of any kind. We have discussed working together in the future however there is nothing finalized at this moment.
The FRUSTRATION of Surgefx because of the way that he thinks while surely NOT on the level of Teek whose remarks you can read on the Shout Outs on my profile still is not polite and unkind. I refer to this remark of his. "Good luck with getting your subscribers to participate given the way you run the show. Am out."
I would appreciate feedback from anyone that cares to comment and please say whatever you really want to say. I am looking forward to hearing from KeepCalmfx who is quite busy with important matters that do not revolve around this thread of ours.
I say thread of ours since without the day to day participation of KeepCamfx there would have been no chance that we would have had 146 pages of material for the new corporate website of my corporation still scheduled to be officially opened on May 15, 2017.
After I hear from KeepCalmfx I will make my decision of how much time that I intend on posting here each day. I see that we have over 2900 posts on this thread started 130 days ago and that averages out to 22 posts a day of which I have contributed over 70% of them spending probably well over 1000 hours of my time which I have gladly done since it was in my own interest to do so.
Now I need to decide if it is in my interest to continue under the present circumstances.
Respectfully posted
Benjamin
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Putin Warns “Trust Between US And Russia Has Collapsed Under Trump” As Tillerson Gets Frigid Reception
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by Tyler Durden
Apr 12, 2017 7:25 AM
Trust between Russia and the US has collapsed under the Trump administration, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated on Wednesday, as Moscow delivered an unusually frigid if not hostile reception to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a face-off over Syria, shortly after Putin said the recent chemical attack was a staged “false flag” and predicted that more are coming, while at the same time the US accused Russia of a gas attack “cover up.”
In an interview on Wednesday, Putin said that if Donald Trump had intended to bring about a thaw in US relations with Russia, he has failed to see this intention through.
“One could say that the level of trust on a working level, especially on the military level, has not improved but has rather deteriorated,” Putin said in an interview broadcast on Russian television moments after Tillerson sat down with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an ornate hall. Putin doubled down on Russia’s support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, repeating denials that Assad’s government was to blame for the gas attack last week and adding a new theory that the attack may have been faked by Assad’s enemies.
Moments earlier, Lavrov greeted Tillerson with unusually icy remarks, denouncing the missile strike on Syria as illegal and accusing Washington of behaving unpredictably.
Quoted by Reuters, Lavrod said that “I won’t hide the fact that we have a lot of questions, taking into account the extremely ambiguous and sometimes contradictory ideas which have been expressed in Washington across the whole spectrum of bilateral and multilateral affairs. And of course, that’s not to mention that apart from the statements, we observed very recently the extremely worrying actions, when an illegal attack against Syria was undertaken.”
Lavrov also noted that many key State Department posts remain vacant since the new administration took office – a point of sensitivity in Washington.
Just as Tillerson sat down for talks, a senior Russian official assailed the “primitiveness and loutishness” of U.S. rhetoric, part of a volley of statements that appeared timed to maximize the awkwardness during the first visit by a member of Trump’s cabinet.
“In general, primitiveness and loutishness are very characteristic of the current rhetoric coming out of Washington. We’ll hope that this doesn’t become the substance of American policy,” Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told Russia’s state-owned RIA news agency.”As a whole, the administration’s stance with regards to Syria remains a mystery. Inconsistency is what comes to mind first of all.”
Tillerson kept to more calibrated remarks, saying his aim was “to further clarify areas of sharp difference so that we can better understand why these differences exist and what the prospects for narrowing those differences may be.” “I look forward to a very open, candid, frank exchange so that we can better define the U.S.-Russian relationship from this point forward,” he told Lavrov.
After journalists were ushered out of the room, Lavrov’s spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, wrote on her Facebook page that U.S. journalists traveling with Tillerson had behaved as if they were in a “bazaar” by shouting questions to Lavrov. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tillerson might meet Putin later on Wednesday if the two top diplomats decided it would be useful to brief the Russian president on their talks. But Peskov too did not hold back his criticism, saying calls from Western powers for Russia to cut support for Assad amounted to giving terrorists a free hand.
Moscow’s hostility to Trump administration figures is a sharp change from last year, when Putin hailed Trump as a strong figure and Russian state television was consistently full of effusive praise for him. Trump’s repeated claims that he could mend relations between Washington and Moscow has fueled accusations that he secretly colluded with Russia to win the US presidential election last year. His administration is currently under a congressional investigation over alleged ties with Russia.
Some have even gone so far to suggest that Trump’s entire Syria operation has been staged – in cooperation with Russia – to deflect attention from his proximity toward Russia, making it appear that he and Putin remain foes. Judging by the complete disappearance of stories involving Trump being manipulated by Russia over the past week, if indeed this was the strategy, it has succeeded.
* * *
Meanwhile, Moscow has has stood by Assad, defying western demands to cut loose with the Syrian leader, saying the poison gas belonged to rebels, an explanation Washington dismisses as beyond credible. Putin said that either gas belonging to the rebels was released when it was hit by a Syrian strike on a rebel arms dump, or the rebels faked the incident to discredit Assad.
Tillerson traveled to Moscow with a joint message from Western powers that Russia should withdraw its support for Assad after a meeting of the Group of Seven industrialized economies also attended by Middle East allies.
Overnight, in an interview with the Fox Business Network, Trump said he was not planning to order U.S. forces into Syria, but that he had to respond to the images of dead children poisoned in the gas attack. “We’re not going into Syria,” he said in excerpts of the interview on the station’s website. “But when I see people using horrible, horrible chemical weapons … and see these beautiful kids that are dead in their father’s arms, or you see kids gasping for life … when you see that, I immediately called (Defense Secretary) General Mattis.”
Putin and Trump are yet to meet face to face to discuss the tensions between Russia and the US. A meeting of the two leaders has not been scheduled so far, even though Moscow has indicated it is willing.
COMMENTS FROM BENJAMINIS: The WORLD has a very MAJOR PROBLEM as of this moment. The article speaks for itself. There has been a report just now on Fox that I am watching now that Tillerson is now going to meet with Putin.
I see that KeepCalmfx is online at this moment. I have a very important business meeting at 2:00 PM today and I have put on two positions this morning one of which I have already closed for a profit of $514 US Dollars. I would like to leave on my open position of 100 units of US 30 and hit my LIMIT OUT target of $1000 US Dollars so if possible , KeepCalmfx , I would appreciate it if you could do a SCREENSHOT of my two Forex trades of today.
Putin Warns “Trust Between US And Russia Has Collapsed Under Trump” As Tillerson Gets Frigid Reception
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by Tyler Durden
Apr 12, 2017 7:25 AM
Trust between Russia and the US has collapsed under the Trump administration, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated on Wednesday, as Moscow delivered an unusually frigid if not hostile reception to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a face-off over Syria, shortly after Putin said the recent chemical attack was a staged “false flag” and predicted that more are coming, while at the same time the US accused Russia of a gas attack “cover up.”
In an interview on Wednesday, Putin said that if Donald Trump had intended to bring about a thaw in US relations with Russia, he has failed to see this intention through.
“One could say that the level of trust on a working level, especially on the military level, has not improved but has rather deteriorated,” Putin said in an interview broadcast on Russian television moments after Tillerson sat down with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an ornate hall. Putin doubled down on Russia’s support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, repeating denials that Assad’s government was to blame for the gas attack last week and adding a new theory that the attack may have been faked by Assad’s enemies.
Moments earlier, Lavrov greeted Tillerson with unusually icy remarks, denouncing the missile strike on Syria as illegal and accusing Washington of behaving unpredictably.
Quoted by Reuters, Lavrod said that “I won’t hide the fact that we have a lot of questions, taking into account the extremely ambiguous and sometimes contradictory ideas which have been expressed in Washington across the whole spectrum of bilateral and multilateral affairs. And of course, that’s not to mention that apart from the statements, we observed very recently the extremely worrying actions, when an illegal attack against Syria was undertaken.”
Lavrov also noted that many key State Department posts remain vacant since the new administration took office – a point of sensitivity in Washington.
Just as Tillerson sat down for talks, a senior Russian official assailed the “primitiveness and loutishness” of U.S. rhetoric, part of a volley of statements that appeared timed to maximize the awkwardness during the first visit by a member of Trump’s cabinet.
“In general, primitiveness and loutishness are very characteristic of the current rhetoric coming out of Washington. We’ll hope that this doesn’t become the substance of American policy,” Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told Russia’s state-owned RIA news agency.”As a whole, the administration’s stance with regards to Syria remains a mystery. Inconsistency is what comes to mind first of all.”
Tillerson kept to more calibrated remarks, saying his aim was “to further clarify areas of sharp difference so that we can better understand why these differences exist and what the prospects for narrowing those differences may be.” “I look forward to a very open, candid, frank exchange so that we can better define the U.S.-Russian relationship from this point forward,” he told Lavrov.
After journalists were ushered out of the room, Lavrov’s spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, wrote on her Facebook page that U.S. journalists traveling with Tillerson had behaved as if they were in a “bazaar” by shouting questions to Lavrov. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tillerson might meet Putin later on Wednesday if the two top diplomats decided it would be useful to brief the Russian president on their talks. But Peskov too did not hold back his criticism, saying calls from Western powers for Russia to cut support for Assad amounted to giving terrorists a free hand.
Moscow’s hostility to Trump administration figures is a sharp change from last year, when Putin hailed Trump as a strong figure and Russian state television was consistently full of effusive praise for him. Trump’s repeated claims that he could mend relations between Washington and Moscow has fueled accusations that he secretly colluded with Russia to win the US presidential election last year. His administration is currently under a congressional investigation over alleged ties with Russia.
Some have even gone so far to suggest that Trump’s entire Syria operation has been staged – in cooperation with Russia – to deflect attention from his proximity toward Russia, making it appear that he and Putin remain foes. Judging by the complete disappearance of stories involving Trump being manipulated by Russia over the past week, if indeed this was the strategy, it has succeeded.
* * *
Meanwhile, Moscow has has stood by Assad, defying western demands to cut loose with the Syrian leader, saying the poison gas belonged to rebels, an explanation Washington dismisses as beyond credible. Putin said that either gas belonging to the rebels was released when it was hit by a Syrian strike on a rebel arms dump, or the rebels faked the incident to discredit Assad.
Tillerson traveled to Moscow with a joint message from Western powers that Russia should withdraw its support for Assad after a meeting of the Group of Seven industrialized economies also attended by Middle East allies.
Overnight, in an interview with the Fox Business Network, Trump said he was not planning to order U.S. forces into Syria, but that he had to respond to the images of dead children poisoned in the gas attack. “We’re not going into Syria,” he said in excerpts of the interview on the station’s website. “But when I see people using horrible, horrible chemical weapons … and see these beautiful kids that are dead in their father’s arms, or you see kids gasping for life … when you see that, I immediately called (Defense Secretary) General Mattis.”
Putin and Trump are yet to meet face to face to discuss the tensions between Russia and the US. A meeting of the two leaders has not been scheduled so far, even though Moscow has indicated it is willing.
COMMENTS FROM BENJAMINIS: The WORLD has a very MAJOR PROBLEM as of this moment. The article speaks for itself. There has been a report just now on Fox that I am watching now that Tillerson is now going to meet with Putin.
I see that KeepCalmfx is online at this moment. I have a very important business meeting at 2:00 PM today and I have put on two positions this morning one of which I have already closed for a profit of $514 US Dollars. I would like to leave on my open position of 100 units of US 30 and hit my LIMIT OUT target of $1000 US Dollars so if possible , KeepCalmfx , I would appreciate it if you could do a SCREENSHOT of my two Forex trades of today.
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UPDATE ON RUSSIA and USA TALKS in RUSSIA
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Tillerson meets with Putin amid deepening tensions over U.S. missile strikes in Syria
Tillerson meets with Russia's foreign minister in Moscow
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on April 12, acknowledging "sharp differences" with the Kremlin. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on April 12, acknowledging "sharp differences" with the Kremlin. (Reuters)
By Carol Morello and David Filipov By Carol Morello and David Filipov
Europe
April 12 at 9:21 AM
[ Breaking: Russian President Vladmir Putin holds direct talks with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Kremlin says]
MOSCOW — Tense comments and warnings from Russia set the tone Wednesday for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson as he attempts to persuade Moscow to abandon its support for Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.
In opening remarks ahead of his meeting with Tillerson, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned the United States not to attempt another attack against Syria after last week’s missile strike plunged U.S.-Russian relations to one of the lowest points since the Cold War.
“I will be frank, we have a lot of questions regarding very ambiguous and contradictory ideas on the international agenda in Washington,” Lavrov said after shaking hands with Tillerson and sitting down at a conference table to welcome him to Moscow, a rite typically marked by polite pleasantries. “And I’d like to say, apart from words, we saw some very alarming actions regarding the unlawful attack in Syria.”
“It is of paramount importance to avert risks and recurrences of such actions in the future,” he added.
https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/im...EeetdDp0Km6Tpw Secretary of State Rex Tillerson talks to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during their meeting in the Russian Foreign Ministry guest house in Moscow. (Sergei Chirikov/EPA)
Tillerson, looking directly at his counterpart while speaking, acknowledged what he called “sharp differences” between the two countries. He said he hoped they could candidly discuss ways to narrow them going forward. He also said it was important the two governments maintain open lines of communication.
But Moscow appeared unready to budge on the primary goal of Tillerson’s mission — persuading Russia to help remove Assad from power.
In what was effectively an ultimatum, Tillerson on Tuesday said that Moscow must calculate the costs of remaining an ally of Assad, the Iranians and Lebanon’s Shiite militia Hezbollah. Russia’s Foreign Ministry dismissed Tillerson’s remarks Wednesday.
“I believe everyone realized a long time ago that there is no use in giving us ultimatums. This is simply counterproductive,” ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in remarks aired on the Internet news site TVDozhd.
The Trump administration on Tuesday said it had collected intelligence that purportedly proved Syrian forces had carried out the deadly chemical weapons attack in the northern Idlib province that led to the U.S. missile strike. Washington further claimed that Russia had advance knowledge of the chemical strike — an assertion that Moscow denied.
[U.S. reveals intelligence disputing Russian claim about Syria chemical attack]
“We reject any accusations to this effect and would like to remind everyone that Russia has been the only country to demand an unbiased international inquiry into the circumstances of the use of toxic chemicals near Idlib from the very start,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Trump calls Assad an 'animal,' blasts Russia and North Korea
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In an interview on the Fox Business Network, President Trump called Syrian President Bashar al-Assad an "animal" and blasted Russia for its support of Assad. Trump was also combative on the subject of North Korea. In an interview on the Fox Business Network, President Trump called Syrian President Bashar al-Assad an "animal" and blasted Russia for its support of Assad. (Reuters)
In an interview broadcast Wednesday, President Trump sharply dialed up the rhetoric on Syria, calling Assad “an animal” whose regime was saved by Russian intervention.
“And frankly, Putin is backing a person that’s truly an evil person. And I think it’s very bad for Russia,” Trump said on the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria” show. “I think it’s very bad for mankind. It’s very bad for this world.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin, in excerpts of an interview to be broadcast in full on Russian television later Wednesday, argued that there is no proof Assad’s forces carried out the attack and called the U.S. strikes a breach of international law.
Putin also said that confidence in an improvement in U.S.-Russian relations was lower now than it had been under the Obama administration.
“The level of trust at the working level, especially at the military level, has not improved, but most likely has been degraded,” Putin said in remarks on the Mir television channel.
In his opening remarks, Lavrov also took a subtle dig at the Trump administration, saying it was difficult to get clarity on U.S. stances since there are so many vacancies in top positions at the State Department.
Tillerson and Lavrov talked for more than two hours before breaking for lunch. They are scheduled to hold a joint news conference amid growing indications that Tillerson might meet personally with Putin.
The U.S. ambassador to Russia, John Tefft, has said that Tillerson expects to meet Putin on Wednesday. Peskov also suggested that such a meeting was possible.
“You know that negotiations between the foreign minister and the secretary of state are underway, and if it is found reasonable to report the outcome of the negotiations to the president today, we will inform you in due course,” the Interfax news agency quoted Peskov as saying.
Putin derisively compared the current situation in Syria to the buildup to the war in Iraq in 2003, when U.S. officials insisted that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction over the objections of international investigators.
Moscow wants the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to investigate the use of chemical weapons in Idlib, one of the last strongholds for beleaguered rebel factions fighting Assad’s government.
Brian Murphy in Washington contributed to this report.
Read more:
Where are Russian and U.S. troops in Syria
Expectations of a new U.S.-Russian relationship were tanking even before missile strike
U.S. strikes against Syria prompt both praise and condemnation
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Carol Morello is the diplomatic correspondent for The Washington Post, covering the State Department.
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David Filipov is The Post’s bureau chief in Moscow, focusing on Russia and the republics of the former Soviet Union. He previously reported for The Boston Globe from Boston, Russia, Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Tillerson meets with Putin amid deepening tensions over U.S. missile strikes in Syria
Tillerson meets with Russia's foreign minister in Moscow
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on April 12, acknowledging "sharp differences" with the Kremlin. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on April 12, acknowledging "sharp differences" with the Kremlin. (Reuters)
By Carol Morello and David Filipov By Carol Morello and David Filipov
Europe
April 12 at 9:21 AM
[ Breaking: Russian President Vladmir Putin holds direct talks with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Kremlin says]
MOSCOW — Tense comments and warnings from Russia set the tone Wednesday for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson as he attempts to persuade Moscow to abandon its support for Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.
In opening remarks ahead of his meeting with Tillerson, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned the United States not to attempt another attack against Syria after last week’s missile strike plunged U.S.-Russian relations to one of the lowest points since the Cold War.
“I will be frank, we have a lot of questions regarding very ambiguous and contradictory ideas on the international agenda in Washington,” Lavrov said after shaking hands with Tillerson and sitting down at a conference table to welcome him to Moscow, a rite typically marked by polite pleasantries. “And I’d like to say, apart from words, we saw some very alarming actions regarding the unlawful attack in Syria.”
“It is of paramount importance to avert risks and recurrences of such actions in the future,” he added.
https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/im...EeetdDp0Km6Tpw Secretary of State Rex Tillerson talks to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during their meeting in the Russian Foreign Ministry guest house in Moscow. (Sergei Chirikov/EPA)
Tillerson, looking directly at his counterpart while speaking, acknowledged what he called “sharp differences” between the two countries. He said he hoped they could candidly discuss ways to narrow them going forward. He also said it was important the two governments maintain open lines of communication.
But Moscow appeared unready to budge on the primary goal of Tillerson’s mission — persuading Russia to help remove Assad from power.
In what was effectively an ultimatum, Tillerson on Tuesday said that Moscow must calculate the costs of remaining an ally of Assad, the Iranians and Lebanon’s Shiite militia Hezbollah. Russia’s Foreign Ministry dismissed Tillerson’s remarks Wednesday.
“I believe everyone realized a long time ago that there is no use in giving us ultimatums. This is simply counterproductive,” ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in remarks aired on the Internet news site TVDozhd.
The Trump administration on Tuesday said it had collected intelligence that purportedly proved Syrian forces had carried out the deadly chemical weapons attack in the northern Idlib province that led to the U.S. missile strike. Washington further claimed that Russia had advance knowledge of the chemical strike — an assertion that Moscow denied.
[U.S. reveals intelligence disputing Russian claim about Syria chemical attack]
“We reject any accusations to this effect and would like to remind everyone that Russia has been the only country to demand an unbiased international inquiry into the circumstances of the use of toxic chemicals near Idlib from the very start,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Trump calls Assad an 'animal,' blasts Russia and North Korea
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In an interview on the Fox Business Network, President Trump called Syrian President Bashar al-Assad an "animal" and blasted Russia for its support of Assad. Trump was also combative on the subject of North Korea. In an interview on the Fox Business Network, President Trump called Syrian President Bashar al-Assad an "animal" and blasted Russia for its support of Assad. (Reuters)
In an interview broadcast Wednesday, President Trump sharply dialed up the rhetoric on Syria, calling Assad “an animal” whose regime was saved by Russian intervention.
“And frankly, Putin is backing a person that’s truly an evil person. And I think it’s very bad for Russia,” Trump said on the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria” show. “I think it’s very bad for mankind. It’s very bad for this world.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin, in excerpts of an interview to be broadcast in full on Russian television later Wednesday, argued that there is no proof Assad’s forces carried out the attack and called the U.S. strikes a breach of international law.
Putin also said that confidence in an improvement in U.S.-Russian relations was lower now than it had been under the Obama administration.
“The level of trust at the working level, especially at the military level, has not improved, but most likely has been degraded,” Putin said in remarks on the Mir television channel.
In his opening remarks, Lavrov also took a subtle dig at the Trump administration, saying it was difficult to get clarity on U.S. stances since there are so many vacancies in top positions at the State Department.
Tillerson and Lavrov talked for more than two hours before breaking for lunch. They are scheduled to hold a joint news conference amid growing indications that Tillerson might meet personally with Putin.
The U.S. ambassador to Russia, John Tefft, has said that Tillerson expects to meet Putin on Wednesday. Peskov also suggested that such a meeting was possible.
“You know that negotiations between the foreign minister and the secretary of state are underway, and if it is found reasonable to report the outcome of the negotiations to the president today, we will inform you in due course,” the Interfax news agency quoted Peskov as saying.
Putin derisively compared the current situation in Syria to the buildup to the war in Iraq in 2003, when U.S. officials insisted that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction over the objections of international investigators.
Moscow wants the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to investigate the use of chemical weapons in Idlib, one of the last strongholds for beleaguered rebel factions fighting Assad’s government.
Brian Murphy in Washington contributed to this report.
Read more:
Where are Russian and U.S. troops in Syria
Expectations of a new U.S.-Russian relationship were tanking even before missile strike
U.S. strikes against Syria prompt both praise and condemnation
https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-ap...pg&w=180&h=180
Carol Morello is the diplomatic correspondent for The Washington Post, covering the State Department.
Follow @CMorelloWP
https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-ap...32&w=180&h=180
David Filipov is The Post’s bureau chief in Moscow, focusing on Russia and the republics of the former Soviet Union. He previously reported for The Boston Globe from Boston, Russia, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Follow @davidfilipov
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Good day BenjaminIS
All I can say is ignore the negativity and the naysayers. I am here to learn. In forex you have to be humble and to stay small as someone once said. Trading forex in a live account, is a humbling experience. You have a choice and that is to ignore the negativity and and concentrate on the positives. I need not elaborate further. I have a full time job, and in order for me to keep up with your thread, I have made a concerted effort to rise two hours before sunrise to catch up with your market insights on this thread and to understand the current market pulse. And I have fast tracked my learning by following KeepcalmFx's journey on this thread from his first post on 26th Dec 2016.
So I request that you stay on at least until the 15 May 2017.
Warmest regards, Roger
All I can say is ignore the negativity and the naysayers. I am here to learn. In forex you have to be humble and to stay small as someone once said. Trading forex in a live account, is a humbling experience. You have a choice and that is to ignore the negativity and and concentrate on the positives. I need not elaborate further. I have a full time job, and in order for me to keep up with your thread, I have made a concerted effort to rise two hours before sunrise to catch up with your market insights on this thread and to understand the current market pulse. And I have fast tracked my learning by following KeepcalmFx's journey on this thread from his first post on 26th Dec 2016.
So I request that you stay on at least until the 15 May 2017.
Warmest regards, Roger
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- Apr 12, 2017 12:14pm Apr 12, 2017 12:14pm
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Good day BenjaminIS
All I can say is ignore the negativity and the naysayers. I am here to learn. In forex you have to be humble and to stay small as someone once said. Trading forex in a live account, is a humbling experience. You have a choice and that is to ignore the negativity and and concentrate on the positives. I need not elaborate further. I have a full time job, and in order for me to keep up with your thread, I have made a concerted effort to rise two hours before sunrise to catch-up with your ramblings on this thread and to understand the current market pulse. And I have fast tracked my learning by following KeepcalmFx's journey on this thread from his first post on 26th Dec 2016.
So I request that you stay on at least till the 15 May 2017.
Warmest regards, Roger
Good Day Roger
I have copied the remarks from your last post and posted them above as you can see
I very much appreciate your reply and I will await the comments from KeepCalmfx before making my decision.
However if I even have one person here that shows that they are serious and really want to learn than I will do my best to keep this thread going until May 15, 2017.
I have closed my other Forex trade of one position of US 30 which was 100 units. I entered the Forex trade at 6:56 AM this morning at the price of 20,647.00 having determined this morning that we HAD RISK OFF and my instincts were correct. Of course my many posts on information not ramblings are what gave me the confidence to expect the Equity Markets to continue down as they have because of what is going on at the moment in Russia and the World.
Please read my VERY IMPORTANT POST Number 2900 of this morning published by David Stockman.
I closed my position of US 30 at 11:55 AM this morning at 20,558.50 for a Net Profit of $885 US Dollars.
SO... RISKING $2450 US Dollars which was the margin of $1350 US Dollars and $1100 US Dollars for my two positions So... my NET PROFIT for the day in less than 5 hours of time is $1399 US Dollars OVER 50% return on investment in a short period of time.
When KeepCalmfx has the time to do the SCREENSHOOT you will all see my closed balance is now $72,015.16 US Dollars.
My profits have all come since February 21, 2017 which was 50 days ago and are OVER 44% or 22% Return On Investment in less than two months.
NEED I SAY MORE ?
I will not trade again today as I have done my job in trading and teaching.
Benjaminis
All I can say is ignore the negativity and the naysayers. I am here to learn. In forex you have to be humble and to stay small as someone once said. Trading forex in a live account, is a humbling experience. You have a choice and that is to ignore the negativity and and concentrate on the positives. I need not elaborate further. I have a full time job, and in order for me to keep up with your thread, I have made a concerted effort to rise two hours before sunrise to catch-up with your ramblings on this thread and to understand the current market pulse. And I have fast tracked my learning by following KeepcalmFx's journey on this thread from his first post on 26th Dec 2016.
So I request that you stay on at least till the 15 May 2017.
Warmest regards, Roger
Good Day Roger
I have copied the remarks from your last post and posted them above as you can see
I very much appreciate your reply and I will await the comments from KeepCalmfx before making my decision.
However if I even have one person here that shows that they are serious and really want to learn than I will do my best to keep this thread going until May 15, 2017.
I have closed my other Forex trade of one position of US 30 which was 100 units. I entered the Forex trade at 6:56 AM this morning at the price of 20,647.00 having determined this morning that we HAD RISK OFF and my instincts were correct. Of course my many posts on information not ramblings are what gave me the confidence to expect the Equity Markets to continue down as they have because of what is going on at the moment in Russia and the World.
Please read my VERY IMPORTANT POST Number 2900 of this morning published by David Stockman.
I closed my position of US 30 at 11:55 AM this morning at 20,558.50 for a Net Profit of $885 US Dollars.
SO... RISKING $2450 US Dollars which was the margin of $1350 US Dollars and $1100 US Dollars for my two positions So... my NET PROFIT for the day in less than 5 hours of time is $1399 US Dollars OVER 50% return on investment in a short period of time.
When KeepCalmfx has the time to do the SCREENSHOOT you will all see my closed balance is now $72,015.16 US Dollars.
My profits have all come since February 21, 2017 which was 50 days ago and are OVER 44% or 22% Return On Investment in less than two months.
NEED I SAY MORE ?
I will not trade again today as I have done my job in trading and teaching.
Benjaminis
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- Apr 12, 2017 12:33pm Apr 12, 2017 12:33pm
Hi Benjamin,
Your thread is great, and I actually learnt from your posts. Your posts are fun to read and are interesting. I would love to learn from you with the demo, but I have a 20-hour job (a researcher who has insufficient time as always).
I hope to spend some time to learn, but only sometime in the future if you are still willing to.
Please keep this thread alive.
Best
Your thread is great, and I actually learnt from your posts. Your posts are fun to read and are interesting. I would love to learn from you with the demo, but I have a 20-hour job (a researcher who has insufficient time as always).
I hope to spend some time to learn, but only sometime in the future if you are still willing to.
Please keep this thread alive.
Best
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- Apr 12, 2017 12:56pm Apr 12, 2017 12:56pm
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http://davidstockmanscontracorner.co...imperial-city/
The Lemmings of Wall Street And Cockroaches of the Imperial City
By David Stockman. Posted On Wednesday, April 12th, 2017
We are damn perplexed this AM. During much of last year's campaign we offered Donald Trump loads of advice including a policy menu called "Ten Great Deals For The Donald". We even got a call from Jared Kushner for advice on economic policy matters, and sent him the full menu.
When he replied "thanks" by email we took that as a sign that more help was wanted. So we turned our musings and recommendations into a book called, "Trumped!" and worked night and day to get it out by early September. We wanted to do our part to help stop Hillary and the Deep State regime she had served for a lifetime.
To that end, we also roundly denounced Hillary's support for the Obama's asinine "sanctions" on Russia and ridiculed her for her fatuous comparison of Putin to Hitler.
So, too, we wrote numerous essays on why the civil war in Ukraine is none of Washington's damn business and that the return of Crimea to Russia was no big deal for many reasons.
Those included the fact that it had been part of Russia since Catherine the Great bought it for good gold money in 1783 in order to have a warm water naval port at Sevastopol; and that it had ended up as part of the Ukraine by sheer accident during a drunken celebration in 1956 when the new Soviet dictator, Nikita Khrushchev, deeded it to his Ukrainian compatriots on the Central Committee.
That is to say, Crimea was part of Russia 63 years before Washington "annexed" California and got its own naval port in San Diego!
At the same time, we further described in chapter and verse how the current bloody civil war in Ukraine was instigated by Washington's massive support for the putsch in Kiev in February 2014. The latter was absolutely an illegal intervention that overthrew a constitutionally elected President who chose to make an economic deal with Moscow rather than the West, as is absolutely the prerogative of any sovereign state.
No, we did not go so far as to praise Russia's thuggish, kleptomaniac ruler, Vlad Putin. But we didn't mind saying that he is clearly the most disciplined, shrewd and rational statesman on the world stage today, and self-evidently is no threat whatsoever to the safety and security of American citizens.
Accordingly, we urged the Donald to make:
.........A Peace Deal with Putin for dismantlement of NATO, cooperation in the middle east, strangulation of ISIS by the Shiite Crescent and a comprehensive worldwide agreement to end the arms trade and pave the way for general disarmament.
So where is our wiretap?!
How come the FBI didn't get a FISA warrant to monitor and investigate us for consorting with the enemy or even worse?
We are miffed about that because we are quite sure we were just as friendly to the Kremlin, and far closer to the Trump inner circle, than was Carter Page. And the latter point is not saying much at all.
For instance, we did once meet the Donald in the lobby of the Plaza Hotel in NYC. And we even spent several hours on a private plane ride with the Under-Donald, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, on the way to a destination wedding a few years back.
By contrast, Carter Page was a "volunteer" foreign policy advisor to the Trump campaign, but apparently never even personally met the Donald.
Still, according to the latest breathless revelation from the Washington Post (WaP0), his showing up on the fifth floor of the Trump campaign headquarters several times was enough to make poor Carter the subject of an FBI probe and a FISA warrant.
Well, his campaign volunteering and the fact that he was an investment banker in Moscow for Merrill Lynch 10 years ago. Apparently, the suspicious thing about the latter was that while working the deal beat there he became acquainted with the Rex Tillerson of Russia----Rosneft CEO, Igor Sechin.
Thus, last night's WAPO intoned in its best Joe McCarthy imitation:
Pages role as an adviser to the Trump campaign drew alarm last year from more-established foreign policy experts in part because of Pages effusive praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his criticism of U.S. sanctions over Moscows military intervention in Ukraine.
In July, Page traveled to Moscow, where he delivered a speech harshly critical of the United States policy toward Russia.
While there, Page allegedly met with Igor Sechin, a Putin confidant and chief executive of the energy company Rosneft, according to a dossier compiled by a former British intelligence officer and cited at a congressional hearing by Rep. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. Officials said some of the information in the dossier has been verified by U.S. intelligence agencies, and some of it hasnt, while other parts are unlikely to ever be proved or disproved.
Well, Dorothy, this ain't Kansas anymore---or even Nixon's third rate burglary at the Watergate. What you have here is a bald-faced abuse of FBI power that more deeply offends the constitution and threatens America's historic democratic processes than anything Richard Nixon ever did or might have even contemplated.
For crying out loud, Carter Page was a volunteer cipher in the Trump campaign and had every right as an American citizen to travel to Russia and talk to anyone there he pleased-----including the head of one of the world's largest oil companies.
That the FBI was able to obtain a FISA warrant from a purportedly sentient US judge is proof positive not only that the Surveillance State is utterly out of control, but that the Imperial City has come off the rails. The judge should have laughed the FBI out of his court-room, and slapped it hard for such an hideous abuse of the wiretapping authorities that it shouldn't even have in the first place.
By Carter Page's own reckoning, he was just another faceless citizen who had gotten no closer to the Donald than the standard gawking grounds of Trump Tower:
I have frequently dined in Trump Grill, had lunch in Trump Caf, had coffee meetings in the Starbucks at Trump Tower, attended events and spent many hours in campaign headquarters on the fifth floor last year, Page wrote in a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is investigating Russias hacking of Democratic groups and possible campaign contacts with Moscow.
Our purpose in all of this, of course, is not merely to give a sermon on civil liberties and the constitution. The larger point is that with the Imperial City self-evidently crawling with Deep State cockroaches bent on trampling upon every semblance of historical rectitude and normality, why in the world do the lemmings of Wall Street keep rushing toward the sea?
It is alleged that Walt Disney doctored his famous film of the Norwegian lemmings leaping to their death by the thousands, but there is no falsification of the madness of the crowds leaping to their demise down in the S&P 500 pits.
The latter index is still up by an unaccountable 11% from November 7. That's even as the evidence pours in by the day that the US economy is grinding to a halt, and that there will be no great Trump Stimulus whatsoever----only an unprecedented outbreak of dysfunction, paralysis and unmitigated mayhem in the Imperial City.
As to the US economy's slide toward the flat line or below, the nosedive of Q1 GDP might even count for something this time. It's been distorted by the "weather" again----but this time with the wrong sign. That is, the least wintery winter in years appears to be generating a mere 0.4% blip in economic growth:
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/defau.../atl%20fed.gif
To be sure, we generally think short-term GDP and other outpourings from the Washington statistical mills are a second cousin of random noise, but this time there is a plethora of "incoming data" from the commercial sphere that can't be gainsaid.
Exhibit number 1 is the outbreak of what amounts to near-Armeggedon in the retail sector. With the recent chapter 11 filing by Payless, it now appears that upwards of 3,500 stores will close in early 2017 alone.
Even the BLS fudge factory seems to be getting the word about the scorched earth condition of the malls. During the last two months, it has reported a 60,000 decline in the seasonally maladjusted job count; and a 758,000 drop in the actual count since the December holiday peak. By the way, that compares to only a 644,000 drop over December-March during the prior year.
http://static2.businessinsider.com/i...b008b5d56-1200
The fact is, other than easy credit fueled auto sales, which are now also rolling over, and purchases through Jeff Bezos' cut rate e-Commerce juggernaut, the American consumer has been quasi-comatose for nearly three years now.
Reported sales at general merchandise stores in February were no higher than they were 30 months ago in August 2014---and we do mean "nominal" sales. Since the CPI is up 2.8% during the last year alone, inflation adjusted sales are actually already well into recession.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=dljj
The debt-encumbered American consumer is dropping, not shopping, because the entire so-called recovery has been wasted. That is, consumers can't spend energetically because there has been no significant deleveraging since the 2008 crisis.
That means, in turn, that the Keynesian predicate of Washington's economic policy has again been refuted, and that Say's law is back in the saddle. In fact, notwithstanding a 5X gain in the Fed's balance sheet----from $900 billion on the eve of the Lehman meltdown to $4.4 trillion today---our Keynesian central bankers simply could not cause consumers to borrow and spend their way to prosperity.
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.co...19-480x283.jpg
Accordingly, any "growth" we are getting must come from expanded production and enterprise. But the latter is hobbled with $13.4 trillion of business debt and the wanton strip-mining of trillions from business balance sheets and cash flows to fund a financial engineering spree on Wall Street. The latter drastically inflated financial assets, while leaving investment in productive assets 30% below their turn of the century level.
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.co...11-480x307.jpg
Indeed, Janet Yellen's recent boast that the Fed had steered the US economy back to virtual full-employment is downright risible. Outside of energy, industrial production is actually still down 7.3% from its pre-crisis peak. The Fed's "mission accomplished" rhetoric, in fact, is part and parcel of the fantasy world that has descended upon the Imperial City.
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.co...20-480x317.jpg
Based on the run-rate during Q1 it now appears that nearly 150 million square feet of retail space will be closed this year-----an all-time record that far exceeds anything which has gone before. But our point is not merely that mall REITs and any retail chains left standing are an excellent short.
The larger point is that the retail Armeggedon now underway is not a one-off hit to the US economy; its symptomatic. It's the result of the massive falsification of financial asset prices and the resulting flow of cheap debt and over-valued equity capital that caused a hideous over-building of the retail sector in the first place.
Stated differently, the carnage in the retail sector is just the beginning of the traumatic financial and economic "morning after" which lies ahead.
https://ci4.googleusercontent.com/pr...mall&width=832
Under these circumstances, what possible reason is there for owning the S&P 500 at 24X reported earnings----other than the completely groundless delusion that the Donald is going to kickstart the nation's languishing economy?
Needless to say, we have a different idea. As the Donald's reckless Syrian bombing caper makes clear and as the Page Carter disclosure reminds, the Deep State rules like never before in American history.
This we know. Enabling the Donald to succeed at making the American economy great again, or anything else, is not even remotely on the agenda.
Like Woodrow Wilson a century ago, in fact, the Donald has now swallowed the bait. He ran in November to "keep us out of war" with Russia just as Wilson did with respect to Germany.
Yet on the same day in the month of April that the foolish Wilson asked for a declaration of war on a nation that could not have possibly harmed America in 1917, the Donald did the same with respect to the god-forsaken pile of rubble that remains of Syria and its economic and militarily pint-sized but nuclear-armed protector in Moscow.
Call that world class folly. And also call it an opportunity to sell, sell, sell.
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COMMENTS FROM BENJAMINIS: I have discussed many times on this thread the difference between PERCEPTIONS and REALITIES.
PECEPTIONS ARE RARELY BASED ON FACTS THAT ARE TRUE. The markets today are based on PERCEPTIONS.
REALITY is what you just read in the excellent analysis of David Stockman. During my Forex Trading and teaching day from 6:00 AM Eastern Standard Time to about 4:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (10 Hours) with a lunch break of one or two hours I spend my time making sure that I know what the REALITY is so that when PERCEPTIONS change and they always do then I am in a better position to know what to do next.
I post the information to this thread so anyone interested can read it.
The whole purpose of this thread is to determine if your skills will allow you to consider making it a full time job and very few will reach that level for business and personal reasons. However those that do not want it to become a full time business and profession can only become a much better Forex trader than do it the losing way in most cases.
On some of my posts yesterday I included excellent ones about trading psychology written by an accomplished expert in the field. Please read it carefully because if you cannot overcome those issues ALL MY TEACHING HERE and on my NEW Corporate Website will not really change much.
Now perhaps other than KeepCalmfx and a few others here you can understand why I want to see if you can show yourself that this is what you really want to do ?
KeepCalmfx has more than done it and in a most professional way. I have high hopes for the future of my teaching business and it is a joy for myself to meet and help the TRUE WINNERS and that has nothing to do with money.
It has everything to do with character and honesty and loyalty and having a word.
The only thing that we truly own in this World is our Word. If we cannot even keep our word to ourselves how can we possibly keep our word with anyone else ?
Benjamin
The Lemmings of Wall Street And Cockroaches of the Imperial City
By David Stockman. Posted On Wednesday, April 12th, 2017
We are damn perplexed this AM. During much of last year's campaign we offered Donald Trump loads of advice including a policy menu called "Ten Great Deals For The Donald". We even got a call from Jared Kushner for advice on economic policy matters, and sent him the full menu.
When he replied "thanks" by email we took that as a sign that more help was wanted. So we turned our musings and recommendations into a book called, "Trumped!" and worked night and day to get it out by early September. We wanted to do our part to help stop Hillary and the Deep State regime she had served for a lifetime.
To that end, we also roundly denounced Hillary's support for the Obama's asinine "sanctions" on Russia and ridiculed her for her fatuous comparison of Putin to Hitler.
So, too, we wrote numerous essays on why the civil war in Ukraine is none of Washington's damn business and that the return of Crimea to Russia was no big deal for many reasons.
Those included the fact that it had been part of Russia since Catherine the Great bought it for good gold money in 1783 in order to have a warm water naval port at Sevastopol; and that it had ended up as part of the Ukraine by sheer accident during a drunken celebration in 1956 when the new Soviet dictator, Nikita Khrushchev, deeded it to his Ukrainian compatriots on the Central Committee.
That is to say, Crimea was part of Russia 63 years before Washington "annexed" California and got its own naval port in San Diego!
At the same time, we further described in chapter and verse how the current bloody civil war in Ukraine was instigated by Washington's massive support for the putsch in Kiev in February 2014. The latter was absolutely an illegal intervention that overthrew a constitutionally elected President who chose to make an economic deal with Moscow rather than the West, as is absolutely the prerogative of any sovereign state.
No, we did not go so far as to praise Russia's thuggish, kleptomaniac ruler, Vlad Putin. But we didn't mind saying that he is clearly the most disciplined, shrewd and rational statesman on the world stage today, and self-evidently is no threat whatsoever to the safety and security of American citizens.
Accordingly, we urged the Donald to make:
.........A Peace Deal with Putin for dismantlement of NATO, cooperation in the middle east, strangulation of ISIS by the Shiite Crescent and a comprehensive worldwide agreement to end the arms trade and pave the way for general disarmament.
So where is our wiretap?!
How come the FBI didn't get a FISA warrant to monitor and investigate us for consorting with the enemy or even worse?
We are miffed about that because we are quite sure we were just as friendly to the Kremlin, and far closer to the Trump inner circle, than was Carter Page. And the latter point is not saying much at all.
For instance, we did once meet the Donald in the lobby of the Plaza Hotel in NYC. And we even spent several hours on a private plane ride with the Under-Donald, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, on the way to a destination wedding a few years back.
By contrast, Carter Page was a "volunteer" foreign policy advisor to the Trump campaign, but apparently never even personally met the Donald.
Still, according to the latest breathless revelation from the Washington Post (WaP0), his showing up on the fifth floor of the Trump campaign headquarters several times was enough to make poor Carter the subject of an FBI probe and a FISA warrant.
Well, his campaign volunteering and the fact that he was an investment banker in Moscow for Merrill Lynch 10 years ago. Apparently, the suspicious thing about the latter was that while working the deal beat there he became acquainted with the Rex Tillerson of Russia----Rosneft CEO, Igor Sechin.
Thus, last night's WAPO intoned in its best Joe McCarthy imitation:
Pages role as an adviser to the Trump campaign drew alarm last year from more-established foreign policy experts in part because of Pages effusive praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his criticism of U.S. sanctions over Moscows military intervention in Ukraine.
In July, Page traveled to Moscow, where he delivered a speech harshly critical of the United States policy toward Russia.
While there, Page allegedly met with Igor Sechin, a Putin confidant and chief executive of the energy company Rosneft, according to a dossier compiled by a former British intelligence officer and cited at a congressional hearing by Rep. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. Officials said some of the information in the dossier has been verified by U.S. intelligence agencies, and some of it hasnt, while other parts are unlikely to ever be proved or disproved.
Well, Dorothy, this ain't Kansas anymore---or even Nixon's third rate burglary at the Watergate. What you have here is a bald-faced abuse of FBI power that more deeply offends the constitution and threatens America's historic democratic processes than anything Richard Nixon ever did or might have even contemplated.
For crying out loud, Carter Page was a volunteer cipher in the Trump campaign and had every right as an American citizen to travel to Russia and talk to anyone there he pleased-----including the head of one of the world's largest oil companies.
That the FBI was able to obtain a FISA warrant from a purportedly sentient US judge is proof positive not only that the Surveillance State is utterly out of control, but that the Imperial City has come off the rails. The judge should have laughed the FBI out of his court-room, and slapped it hard for such an hideous abuse of the wiretapping authorities that it shouldn't even have in the first place.
By Carter Page's own reckoning, he was just another faceless citizen who had gotten no closer to the Donald than the standard gawking grounds of Trump Tower:
I have frequently dined in Trump Grill, had lunch in Trump Caf, had coffee meetings in the Starbucks at Trump Tower, attended events and spent many hours in campaign headquarters on the fifth floor last year, Page wrote in a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is investigating Russias hacking of Democratic groups and possible campaign contacts with Moscow.
Our purpose in all of this, of course, is not merely to give a sermon on civil liberties and the constitution. The larger point is that with the Imperial City self-evidently crawling with Deep State cockroaches bent on trampling upon every semblance of historical rectitude and normality, why in the world do the lemmings of Wall Street keep rushing toward the sea?
It is alleged that Walt Disney doctored his famous film of the Norwegian lemmings leaping to their death by the thousands, but there is no falsification of the madness of the crowds leaping to their demise down in the S&P 500 pits.
The latter index is still up by an unaccountable 11% from November 7. That's even as the evidence pours in by the day that the US economy is grinding to a halt, and that there will be no great Trump Stimulus whatsoever----only an unprecedented outbreak of dysfunction, paralysis and unmitigated mayhem in the Imperial City.
As to the US economy's slide toward the flat line or below, the nosedive of Q1 GDP might even count for something this time. It's been distorted by the "weather" again----but this time with the wrong sign. That is, the least wintery winter in years appears to be generating a mere 0.4% blip in economic growth:
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/defau.../atl%20fed.gif
To be sure, we generally think short-term GDP and other outpourings from the Washington statistical mills are a second cousin of random noise, but this time there is a plethora of "incoming data" from the commercial sphere that can't be gainsaid.
Exhibit number 1 is the outbreak of what amounts to near-Armeggedon in the retail sector. With the recent chapter 11 filing by Payless, it now appears that upwards of 3,500 stores will close in early 2017 alone.
Even the BLS fudge factory seems to be getting the word about the scorched earth condition of the malls. During the last two months, it has reported a 60,000 decline in the seasonally maladjusted job count; and a 758,000 drop in the actual count since the December holiday peak. By the way, that compares to only a 644,000 drop over December-March during the prior year.
http://static2.businessinsider.com/i...b008b5d56-1200
The fact is, other than easy credit fueled auto sales, which are now also rolling over, and purchases through Jeff Bezos' cut rate e-Commerce juggernaut, the American consumer has been quasi-comatose for nearly three years now.
Reported sales at general merchandise stores in February were no higher than they were 30 months ago in August 2014---and we do mean "nominal" sales. Since the CPI is up 2.8% during the last year alone, inflation adjusted sales are actually already well into recession.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=dljj
The debt-encumbered American consumer is dropping, not shopping, because the entire so-called recovery has been wasted. That is, consumers can't spend energetically because there has been no significant deleveraging since the 2008 crisis.
That means, in turn, that the Keynesian predicate of Washington's economic policy has again been refuted, and that Say's law is back in the saddle. In fact, notwithstanding a 5X gain in the Fed's balance sheet----from $900 billion on the eve of the Lehman meltdown to $4.4 trillion today---our Keynesian central bankers simply could not cause consumers to borrow and spend their way to prosperity.
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.co...19-480x283.jpg
Accordingly, any "growth" we are getting must come from expanded production and enterprise. But the latter is hobbled with $13.4 trillion of business debt and the wanton strip-mining of trillions from business balance sheets and cash flows to fund a financial engineering spree on Wall Street. The latter drastically inflated financial assets, while leaving investment in productive assets 30% below their turn of the century level.
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.co...11-480x307.jpg
Indeed, Janet Yellen's recent boast that the Fed had steered the US economy back to virtual full-employment is downright risible. Outside of energy, industrial production is actually still down 7.3% from its pre-crisis peak. The Fed's "mission accomplished" rhetoric, in fact, is part and parcel of the fantasy world that has descended upon the Imperial City.
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.co...20-480x317.jpg
Based on the run-rate during Q1 it now appears that nearly 150 million square feet of retail space will be closed this year-----an all-time record that far exceeds anything which has gone before. But our point is not merely that mall REITs and any retail chains left standing are an excellent short.
The larger point is that the retail Armeggedon now underway is not a one-off hit to the US economy; its symptomatic. It's the result of the massive falsification of financial asset prices and the resulting flow of cheap debt and over-valued equity capital that caused a hideous over-building of the retail sector in the first place.
Stated differently, the carnage in the retail sector is just the beginning of the traumatic financial and economic "morning after" which lies ahead.
https://ci4.googleusercontent.com/pr...mall&width=832
Under these circumstances, what possible reason is there for owning the S&P 500 at 24X reported earnings----other than the completely groundless delusion that the Donald is going to kickstart the nation's languishing economy?
Needless to say, we have a different idea. As the Donald's reckless Syrian bombing caper makes clear and as the Page Carter disclosure reminds, the Deep State rules like never before in American history.
This we know. Enabling the Donald to succeed at making the American economy great again, or anything else, is not even remotely on the agenda.
Like Woodrow Wilson a century ago, in fact, the Donald has now swallowed the bait. He ran in November to "keep us out of war" with Russia just as Wilson did with respect to Germany.
Yet on the same day in the month of April that the foolish Wilson asked for a declaration of war on a nation that could not have possibly harmed America in 1917, the Donald did the same with respect to the god-forsaken pile of rubble that remains of Syria and its economic and militarily pint-sized but nuclear-armed protector in Moscow.
Call that world class folly. And also call it an opportunity to sell, sell, sell.
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http://ads.agorafinancial.com/www/de...&cb=03d15064fc
Copyright 2017 Subsidium LLC. All Rights Reserved
COMMENTS FROM BENJAMINIS: I have discussed many times on this thread the difference between PERCEPTIONS and REALITIES.
PECEPTIONS ARE RARELY BASED ON FACTS THAT ARE TRUE. The markets today are based on PERCEPTIONS.
REALITY is what you just read in the excellent analysis of David Stockman. During my Forex Trading and teaching day from 6:00 AM Eastern Standard Time to about 4:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (10 Hours) with a lunch break of one or two hours I spend my time making sure that I know what the REALITY is so that when PERCEPTIONS change and they always do then I am in a better position to know what to do next.
I post the information to this thread so anyone interested can read it.
The whole purpose of this thread is to determine if your skills will allow you to consider making it a full time job and very few will reach that level for business and personal reasons. However those that do not want it to become a full time business and profession can only become a much better Forex trader than do it the losing way in most cases.
On some of my posts yesterday I included excellent ones about trading psychology written by an accomplished expert in the field. Please read it carefully because if you cannot overcome those issues ALL MY TEACHING HERE and on my NEW Corporate Website will not really change much.
Now perhaps other than KeepCalmfx and a few others here you can understand why I want to see if you can show yourself that this is what you really want to do ?
KeepCalmfx has more than done it and in a most professional way. I have high hopes for the future of my teaching business and it is a joy for myself to meet and help the TRUE WINNERS and that has nothing to do with money.
It has everything to do with character and honesty and loyalty and having a word.
The only thing that we truly own in this World is our Word. If we cannot even keep our word to ourselves how can we possibly keep our word with anyone else ?
Benjamin
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Thank you Benjamin
Just read your post now as I was away from my pc.
Just read your post now as I was away from my pc.
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DislikedHi Benjamin, Your thread is great, and I actually learnt from your posts. Your posts are fun to read and are interesting. I would love to learn from you with the demo, but I have a 20-hour job (a researcher who has insufficient time as always). I hope to spend some time to learn, but only sometime in the future if you are still willing to. Please keep this thread alive. BestIgnored
Hi Benjamin,
Your thread is great, and I actually learnt from your posts. Your posts are fun to read and are interesting. I would love to learn from you with the demo, but I have a 20-hour job (a researcher who has insufficient time as always).
I hope to spend some time to learn, but only sometime in the future if you are still willing to.
Please keep this thread alive.
Best
COMMENTS FROM BENJAMINIS: You have given me an idea that I will discuss with KeepCalmfx my friend and associate in this thread.
On my new corporate website which will be FREE (FOR ANYONE SUBSCRIBED TO MY THREAD) for the lifetime of my business which I expect to go on for at least another 10 years. perhaps I can have a special section for people that for personal and other reasons cannot yet or not want to make Forex trading a full time vocation.
I will let everyone know by posting here in due course.
Thank You Very Much for your post CKXnlp3R
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Disliked{quote} Thank you for your post. In case it is cut off because of my quoting you here is your post in the full. Hi Benjamin, Your thread is great, and I actually learnt from your posts. Your posts are fun to read and are interesting. I would love to learn from you with the demo, but I have a 20-hour job (a researcher who has insufficient time as always). I hope to spend some time to learn, but only sometime in the future if you are still willing to. Please keep this thread alive. Best COMMENTS FROM BENJAMINIS: You have given me an idea that I will...Ignored
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DislikedGood day BenjaminIS All I can say is ignore the negativity and the naysayers. I am here to learn. In forex you have to be humble and to stay small as someone once said. Trading forex in a live account, is a humbling experience. You have a choice and that is to ignore the negativity and and concentrate on the positives. I need not elaborate further. I have a full time job, and in order for me to keep up with your thread, I have made a concerted effort to rise two hours before sunrise to catch-up with your ramblings on this thread and to understand...Ignored
Here is your updated screenshot.
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Hi, Benjamin
My apologies, I meant no disrespect to your work here. I have amended my post to correct the unfortunate use of the incorrect word. Please continue with with your work here.
regards, Roger
My apologies, I meant no disrespect to your work here. I have amended my post to correct the unfortunate use of the incorrect word. Please continue with with your work here.
regards, Roger
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More or less a year ago, after testing a few methods, following some successful traders, doing a few courses I had the belief that you can be a consistent profitable trader only following price action on the charts. Then after following a brilliant trader I realized that you have to know what is going on out there, how the news effect different currency pairs, especially the news about the pairs you traded. Then I came across Benjamins posts.
I honestly thought this guy was mad posting so much material to read, to go through and to absorb. It was like another language I could not understand. Then I took a big loss due to a certain event that was not even on the FF Calendar but Benjamin explained what it was in one of his posts and it made sense.
I then made a decision that I must learn about these economic events and how the different events have an effect on the money flow and I might as well follow this trader that seems to know a great deal about what is going on out there and how everything effects each other.
I made a promise to myself that I will for 3 months do my best to comprehend what Benjamin is teaching and explaining and to be open minded. I was lucky, when I started middle December to follow his thread I think there was like 20 pages to catch up on. It was also the start of my 3 week break, so everything worked out perfectly. I took a week to read everything and then started trading on my $50 000 demo account.
My 1st month I made 20%, not knowing actually what I was doing, think it was a bit of luck as well.
My 2nd month I lost that 20% profit, I went through some physiological issues, I had some bad habits to un learn. My 3rd month I worked on a few things I knew I had to work on before I could proceed to follow the way Benjamin teaches. Like, Jumping the gun, Overtrading, Fear of missing out, but buy learning on a $50 000 Demo account this has helped me to start trading without fear, greed and ego.
I had to learn patience and to get rid of the feeling of wanting to trade each day. I set some goals for myself, like not to trade for 1 week, just to observe the markets and in March there was big news events, so I forced myself to sit on my hands, and to trade less. I also forced myself to go through all of the explanations Benjamin has posted. To recap. Then I started +/-2 weeks ago to slowly easing back into trading.
When my original account was in less than the $50 000 I started with, I thought I would start fresh with a new demo account, my very first trades went well, and then I took those losses. I decided that I will go back to my original Demo account that was at that stage less than the $50 000 I started with.
I also now had access to Benjamins demo account, so I could see where he enters and exit which was of a big help to even understand better.
Looking back at the last few months, it was very hard work so far. I still have a lot to learn from Benjamin, but I am truly thankful to all of the hours you have put into this thread explaining over and over again. If I could only learn/understand one more thing each day while following this thread then I am making progress.
I agree with Roger, lets not take note of trolls and push on with this thread until the website goes life. This thread has helped me a lot and I am sure it is helping many others out there.
I honestly thought this guy was mad posting so much material to read, to go through and to absorb. It was like another language I could not understand. Then I took a big loss due to a certain event that was not even on the FF Calendar but Benjamin explained what it was in one of his posts and it made sense.
I then made a decision that I must learn about these economic events and how the different events have an effect on the money flow and I might as well follow this trader that seems to know a great deal about what is going on out there and how everything effects each other.
I made a promise to myself that I will for 3 months do my best to comprehend what Benjamin is teaching and explaining and to be open minded. I was lucky, when I started middle December to follow his thread I think there was like 20 pages to catch up on. It was also the start of my 3 week break, so everything worked out perfectly. I took a week to read everything and then started trading on my $50 000 demo account.
My 1st month I made 20%, not knowing actually what I was doing, think it was a bit of luck as well.
My 2nd month I lost that 20% profit, I went through some physiological issues, I had some bad habits to un learn. My 3rd month I worked on a few things I knew I had to work on before I could proceed to follow the way Benjamin teaches. Like, Jumping the gun, Overtrading, Fear of missing out, but buy learning on a $50 000 Demo account this has helped me to start trading without fear, greed and ego.
I had to learn patience and to get rid of the feeling of wanting to trade each day. I set some goals for myself, like not to trade for 1 week, just to observe the markets and in March there was big news events, so I forced myself to sit on my hands, and to trade less. I also forced myself to go through all of the explanations Benjamin has posted. To recap. Then I started +/-2 weeks ago to slowly easing back into trading.
When my original account was in less than the $50 000 I started with, I thought I would start fresh with a new demo account, my very first trades went well, and then I took those losses. I decided that I will go back to my original Demo account that was at that stage less than the $50 000 I started with.
I also now had access to Benjamins demo account, so I could see where he enters and exit which was of a big help to even understand better.
Looking back at the last few months, it was very hard work so far. I still have a lot to learn from Benjamin, but I am truly thankful to all of the hours you have put into this thread explaining over and over again. If I could only learn/understand one more thing each day while following this thread then I am making progress.
I agree with Roger, lets not take note of trolls and push on with this thread until the website goes life. This thread has helped me a lot and I am sure it is helping many others out there.
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Thank You Very Much KeepCalmfx for your friendship and your open honest style of communicating and reviewing.
I will comment more tomorrow however I just wanted to post this before I go to bed.
I also have one more post to do about the other side of REALITY as what really is going on in Russia and the USA and the World.
Thanks
Benjamin
I will comment more tomorrow however I just wanted to post this before I go to bed.
I also have one more post to do about the other side of REALITY as what really is going on in Russia and the USA and the World.
Thanks
Benjamin
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London-Saudi Global Terror
Stop WWIII
U.S. and Russia To Establish a "Working Group;" British Are Furious; Plus, More Truth Comes Out Exposing Lies Against Syria
April 12, 2017
https://larouchepac.com/sites/defaul...?itok=Ve6ngpyG
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov hold a joint press conference following their bilateral meeting in Moscow, Russia, on April 12, 2017. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
At the U.N. Security Council meeting today-- called to vote on yet another anti-Syria resolution by the UK, France and the USA--the truth rang out that, the aim of Britain's foreign policy is to destroy any chance of the United States and Russia working together.
This was said forcefully by Russian Deputy envoy to the Security Council, Vladimir Safronkov, directly to British Ambassador Matthew Rycroft, who had just denounced Russia for backing Bashar al Assad in Syria.
Safronkov told Rycroft he was acting to thwart the peace efforts of U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Steffan De Mistura, and sow confrontation in the Security Council, because, "you are afraid that we might work with the U.S. This is what you lose sleep over."
In effect, the Russian diplomat nailed the evil nature of the dying British Empire, which is intervening to play off East vs. West, and each against all, in attempt to stay on top of the heap, even to the point of risking provoking nuclear war.
In Moscow, the very thing Britain fears so much, came about today, even if in small measure. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, then with President Vladimir Putin.
At the joint press conference afterward by Tillerson and Lavrov, it was announced that a "working group" would be established between the two nations, to be made up of envoys that Russia and the United States will designate. The mandate is to take up lesser matters, given so many differences; but the consultative process will be underway.
Lavrov said that the two nations share a "special responsibility" for the "strategic responsibility" for the world. Tillerson spoke of how today's meetings, "represent a continuation of our communications and discussions and dialogue that began in Bonn" [at the G20 Summit in February.]
It was explicitly stated by both officials that deep differences remain on Syria. But Mr. Lavrov reported that it was discussed with President Putin, to potentially restore the memorandum on deconfliction, given certain conditions.
At the same time, experts internationally are coming forward to expose the British-orchestrated lies about the Syrian government gassing its people. This backs up the growing demand for a real investigation of the charges against Syria, on which pretext the April 4 U.S. bombing of the Shayrat airbase in Syria was done. Russia is filing for such an investigation with The Hague. The British have already responded to that, with Rycroft announcing today, they will "be at The Hague" tomorrow, opposing an investigation.
Today a powerful study was issued, refuting the four-page White House document released yesterday, which falsely asserted that Syria is conclusively guilty of using chemical weapons on its people. Theodore Postol, a technology expert, Professor Emeritus of M.I.T., wrote a 14-page "A Quick Turnaround Assessment" of the four-page White House April 11 paper; Postol included satellite images and detailed analyses. He states that, "I believe it can be shown, without doubt, that the [White House] document does not provide any evidence whatsoever that the U.S. government has concrete knowledge that the government of Syria was the source of the chemical attack in Khan Shaykhun, Syria...on April 4, 2017." Postol's refutation is now getting international attention.
Finally, not only has a critical new connection been made between Russia and the United States--despite all the British Empire filthy tricks, but likewise there is the China-United States connection. It is important that today, President Xi Jinping and Pres. Donald Trump spoke by phone on the very dangerous situation regarding North Korea, and also discussed Syria.
These are the key developments on the eve of the historic Schiller Institute international conference in Manhattan--"One Belt, One Road: The Promise of A New Economic Platform for the World."
Stop WWIII
U.S. and Russia To Establish a "Working Group;" British Are Furious; Plus, More Truth Comes Out Exposing Lies Against Syria
April 12, 2017
https://larouchepac.com/sites/defaul...?itok=Ve6ngpyG
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov hold a joint press conference following their bilateral meeting in Moscow, Russia, on April 12, 2017. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
At the U.N. Security Council meeting today-- called to vote on yet another anti-Syria resolution by the UK, France and the USA--the truth rang out that, the aim of Britain's foreign policy is to destroy any chance of the United States and Russia working together.
This was said forcefully by Russian Deputy envoy to the Security Council, Vladimir Safronkov, directly to British Ambassador Matthew Rycroft, who had just denounced Russia for backing Bashar al Assad in Syria.
Safronkov told Rycroft he was acting to thwart the peace efforts of U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Steffan De Mistura, and sow confrontation in the Security Council, because, "you are afraid that we might work with the U.S. This is what you lose sleep over."
In effect, the Russian diplomat nailed the evil nature of the dying British Empire, which is intervening to play off East vs. West, and each against all, in attempt to stay on top of the heap, even to the point of risking provoking nuclear war.
In Moscow, the very thing Britain fears so much, came about today, even if in small measure. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, then with President Vladimir Putin.
At the joint press conference afterward by Tillerson and Lavrov, it was announced that a "working group" would be established between the two nations, to be made up of envoys that Russia and the United States will designate. The mandate is to take up lesser matters, given so many differences; but the consultative process will be underway.
Lavrov said that the two nations share a "special responsibility" for the "strategic responsibility" for the world. Tillerson spoke of how today's meetings, "represent a continuation of our communications and discussions and dialogue that began in Bonn" [at the G20 Summit in February.]
It was explicitly stated by both officials that deep differences remain on Syria. But Mr. Lavrov reported that it was discussed with President Putin, to potentially restore the memorandum on deconfliction, given certain conditions.
At the same time, experts internationally are coming forward to expose the British-orchestrated lies about the Syrian government gassing its people. This backs up the growing demand for a real investigation of the charges against Syria, on which pretext the April 4 U.S. bombing of the Shayrat airbase in Syria was done. Russia is filing for such an investigation with The Hague. The British have already responded to that, with Rycroft announcing today, they will "be at The Hague" tomorrow, opposing an investigation.
Today a powerful study was issued, refuting the four-page White House document released yesterday, which falsely asserted that Syria is conclusively guilty of using chemical weapons on its people. Theodore Postol, a technology expert, Professor Emeritus of M.I.T., wrote a 14-page "A Quick Turnaround Assessment" of the four-page White House April 11 paper; Postol included satellite images and detailed analyses. He states that, "I believe it can be shown, without doubt, that the [White House] document does not provide any evidence whatsoever that the U.S. government has concrete knowledge that the government of Syria was the source of the chemical attack in Khan Shaykhun, Syria...on April 4, 2017." Postol's refutation is now getting international attention.
Finally, not only has a critical new connection been made between Russia and the United States--despite all the British Empire filthy tricks, but likewise there is the China-United States connection. It is important that today, President Xi Jinping and Pres. Donald Trump spoke by phone on the very dangerous situation regarding North Korea, and also discussed Syria.
These are the key developments on the eve of the historic Schiller Institute international conference in Manhattan--"One Belt, One Road: The Promise of A New Economic Platform for the World."
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-0...ops+to+zero%29
Assange Reminds The World: "The Potential For The Disastrous Rise Of Misplaced Power Persists"
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/defau.../picture-5.jpg
by Tyler Durden
Apr 12, 2017 10:15 PM
Authored by Julian Assange, editor of WikiLeaks, published op-ed via The Washington Post,
On his last night in office, President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered a powerful farewell speech to the nation — words so important that he’d spent a year and a half preparing them. “Ike” famously warned the nation to “guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
Much of Eisenhower’s speech could form part of the mission statement of WikiLeaks today. We publish truths regarding overreaches and abuses conducted in secret by the powerful.
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/defau..._assange_0.jpg
Our most recent disclosures describe the CIA’s multibillion-dollar cyberwarfare program, in which the agency created dangerous cyberweapons, targeted private companies’ consumer products and then lost control of its cyber-arsenal. Our source(s) said they hoped to initiate a principled public debate about the “security, creation, use, proliferation and democratic control of cyberweapons.”
The truths we publish are inconvenient for those who seek to avoid one of the magnificent hallmarks of American life — public debate. Governments assert that WikiLeaks’ reporting harms security. Some claim that publishing facts about military and national security malfeasance is a greater problem than the malfeasance itself. Yet, as Eisenhower emphasized, “Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”
Quite simply, our motive is identical to that claimed by the New York Times and The Post — to publish newsworthy content. Consistent with the U.S. Constitution, we publish material that we can confirm to be true irrespective of whether sources came by that truth legally or have the right to release it to the media. And we strive to mitigate legitimate concerns, for example by using redaction to protect the identities of at-risk intelligence agents.
Dean Baquet, executive editor of the New York Times, defended publication of our “stolen” material last year: “I get the argument that the standards should be different if the stuff is stolen and that should influence the decision. But in the end, I think that we have an obligation to report what we can about important people and important events.” David Lauter, Washington bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times, made a similar argument: “My default position is democracy works best when voters have as much information as possible . . . And that information often comes from rival campaigns, from old enemies, from all sorts of people who have motives that you might look at and say, ‘that’s unsavory.’ ”
The media has a long history of speaking truth to power with purloined or leaked material — Jack Anderson’s reporting on the CIA’s enlistment of the Mafia to kill Fidel Castro; the Providence Journal-Bulletin’s release of President Richard Nixon’s stolen tax returns; the New York Times’ publication of the stolen “Pentagon Papers”; and The Post’s tenacious reporting of Watergate leaks, to name a few. I hope historians place WikiLeaks’ publications in this pantheon.
Yet there are widespread calls to prosecute me.
President Thomas Jefferson had a modest proposal to improve the press: “Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some such way as this. Divide his paper into 4 chapters, heading the 1st, ‘Truths.’ 2nd, ‘Probabilities.’ 3rd, ‘Possibilities.’ 4th, ‘Lies.’ The first chapter would be very short, as it would contain little more than authentic papers, and information.” Jefferson’s concept of publishing “truths” using “authentic papers” presaged WikiLeaks.
People who don’t like the tune often blame the piano player. Large public segments are agitated by the result of the U.S. presidential election, by public dissemination of the CIA’s dangerous incompetence or by evidence of dirty tricks undertaken by senior officials in a political party. But as Jefferson foresaw, “the agitation [a free press] produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep the waters pure.”
Vested interests deflect from the facts that WikiLeaks publishes by demonizing its brave staff and me. We are mischaracterized as America-hating servants to hostile foreign powers. But in fact I harbor an overwhelming admiration for both America and the idea of America. WikiLeaks’ sole interest is expressing constitutionally protected truths, which I remain convinced is the cornerstone of the United States’ remarkable liberty, success and greatness.
I have given up years of my own liberty for the risks we have taken at WikiLeaks to bring truth to the public. I take some solace in this: Joseph Pulitzer, namesake of journalism’s award for excellence, was indicted in 1909 for publishing allegedly libelous information about President Theodore Roosevelt and the financier J.P. Morgan in the Panama Canal corruption scandal. It was the truth that set him free.
Comments from Benjaminis: Without TRUTH we have War and it effects all of us on Planet Earth....
We have no idea of what will happen tomorrow and as powerful as China and Russia and the USA are unless they find political and peaceful means we all will be destroyed. What is said in this article has it's TRUTH's started with President Dwight D. Eisenhower (who) delivered a powerful farewell speech to the nation — words so important that he’d spent a year and a half preparing them. “Ike” famously warned the nation to “guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
They DESTROY the Country than they CONTROL the Country or at least try to then they rebuild the Country so they need PERPETUAL WAR.
Tomorrow North Korea celebrates 150 years and we need to be aware because this one event could make matters even worse !!!
I think Tillerson and Putin who met might actually have created something positive. COMMUNICATION so now we need to see how it all plays out.
Assange Reminds The World: "The Potential For The Disastrous Rise Of Misplaced Power Persists"
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/defau.../picture-5.jpg
by Tyler Durden
Apr 12, 2017 10:15 PM
Authored by Julian Assange, editor of WikiLeaks, published op-ed via The Washington Post,
On his last night in office, President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered a powerful farewell speech to the nation — words so important that he’d spent a year and a half preparing them. “Ike” famously warned the nation to “guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
Much of Eisenhower’s speech could form part of the mission statement of WikiLeaks today. We publish truths regarding overreaches and abuses conducted in secret by the powerful.
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/defau..._assange_0.jpg
Our most recent disclosures describe the CIA’s multibillion-dollar cyberwarfare program, in which the agency created dangerous cyberweapons, targeted private companies’ consumer products and then lost control of its cyber-arsenal. Our source(s) said they hoped to initiate a principled public debate about the “security, creation, use, proliferation and democratic control of cyberweapons.”
The truths we publish are inconvenient for those who seek to avoid one of the magnificent hallmarks of American life — public debate. Governments assert that WikiLeaks’ reporting harms security. Some claim that publishing facts about military and national security malfeasance is a greater problem than the malfeasance itself. Yet, as Eisenhower emphasized, “Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”
Quite simply, our motive is identical to that claimed by the New York Times and The Post — to publish newsworthy content. Consistent with the U.S. Constitution, we publish material that we can confirm to be true irrespective of whether sources came by that truth legally or have the right to release it to the media. And we strive to mitigate legitimate concerns, for example by using redaction to protect the identities of at-risk intelligence agents.
Dean Baquet, executive editor of the New York Times, defended publication of our “stolen” material last year: “I get the argument that the standards should be different if the stuff is stolen and that should influence the decision. But in the end, I think that we have an obligation to report what we can about important people and important events.” David Lauter, Washington bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times, made a similar argument: “My default position is democracy works best when voters have as much information as possible . . . And that information often comes from rival campaigns, from old enemies, from all sorts of people who have motives that you might look at and say, ‘that’s unsavory.’ ”
The media has a long history of speaking truth to power with purloined or leaked material — Jack Anderson’s reporting on the CIA’s enlistment of the Mafia to kill Fidel Castro; the Providence Journal-Bulletin’s release of President Richard Nixon’s stolen tax returns; the New York Times’ publication of the stolen “Pentagon Papers”; and The Post’s tenacious reporting of Watergate leaks, to name a few. I hope historians place WikiLeaks’ publications in this pantheon.
Yet there are widespread calls to prosecute me.
President Thomas Jefferson had a modest proposal to improve the press: “Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some such way as this. Divide his paper into 4 chapters, heading the 1st, ‘Truths.’ 2nd, ‘Probabilities.’ 3rd, ‘Possibilities.’ 4th, ‘Lies.’ The first chapter would be very short, as it would contain little more than authentic papers, and information.” Jefferson’s concept of publishing “truths” using “authentic papers” presaged WikiLeaks.
People who don’t like the tune often blame the piano player. Large public segments are agitated by the result of the U.S. presidential election, by public dissemination of the CIA’s dangerous incompetence or by evidence of dirty tricks undertaken by senior officials in a political party. But as Jefferson foresaw, “the agitation [a free press] produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep the waters pure.”
Vested interests deflect from the facts that WikiLeaks publishes by demonizing its brave staff and me. We are mischaracterized as America-hating servants to hostile foreign powers. But in fact I harbor an overwhelming admiration for both America and the idea of America. WikiLeaks’ sole interest is expressing constitutionally protected truths, which I remain convinced is the cornerstone of the United States’ remarkable liberty, success and greatness.
I have given up years of my own liberty for the risks we have taken at WikiLeaks to bring truth to the public. I take some solace in this: Joseph Pulitzer, namesake of journalism’s award for excellence, was indicted in 1909 for publishing allegedly libelous information about President Theodore Roosevelt and the financier J.P. Morgan in the Panama Canal corruption scandal. It was the truth that set him free.
Comments from Benjaminis: Without TRUTH we have War and it effects all of us on Planet Earth....
We have no idea of what will happen tomorrow and as powerful as China and Russia and the USA are unless they find political and peaceful means we all will be destroyed. What is said in this article has it's TRUTH's started with President Dwight D. Eisenhower (who) delivered a powerful farewell speech to the nation — words so important that he’d spent a year and a half preparing them. “Ike” famously warned the nation to “guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
They DESTROY the Country than they CONTROL the Country or at least try to then they rebuild the Country so they need PERPETUAL WAR.
Tomorrow North Korea celebrates 150 years and we need to be aware because this one event could make matters even worse !!!
I think Tillerson and Putin who met might actually have created something positive. COMMUNICATION so now we need to see how it all plays out.
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-0...ops+to+zero%29
Thomas Frank: America In The Age Of Hypocrisy, Hubris, And Greed
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by Tyler Durden
Apr 12, 2017 8:45 PM
Via Jesse's Cafe Americain blog,
In 2012 I said that such unsustainable social arrangements as we have now are backed by force and fraud. And as the fraud loses its power over time, force must increase, until there is a correction of the system in genuine reform, or an eventual reset.
"The whole world wants to know about what the hell is happening with us. So let's talk about it. I live in Washington now, and the people I live among have no idea how people live here in the Midwest, not the faintest idea...
The last couple of years here in America have been a time of brisk prosperity according to official measurements, with unemployment down and the stock market up.
For Americans who work for a living however, nothing ever seems to improve. Wages do not grow, median household income is still well below where it was in 2007. Economists have a way of measuring this, they call it the 'labor share of the Gross National Product' as opposed to the share taken by stockholders. The labor share of Gross National Product' hit its lowest point since records were started in 2011, and then it stayed there right for the next couple of years.
In the fall of 2014, with the stock market hitting an all time high, a poll showed that nearly 3/4 of the American public believed that the economy was still in recession, because for them it was.
There was time when average Americans could be counted upon to know correctly whether the country was going up or down, because in those days when America prospered, the American people prospered as well. These days things are different.
Let's look at it in a statistical sense. If you look at it from the middle of the 1930's (the Depression) up until the year 1980, the lower 90 percent of the population of this country, what you might call the American people, that group took home 70 percent of the growth in the country's income. If you look at the same numbers from 1997 up until now, from the height of the great Dot Com bubble up to the present, you will find that this same group, the American people, pocketed none of this country's income growth at all.
Our share of these great good times was zero, folks. The upper ten percent of the population, by which we mean our country's financiers and managers and professionals, consumed the entire thing. To be a young person in America these days is to understand instinctively the downward slope that so many of us are on."
Thomas Frank, Kansas City Missouri, 6 April 2017
What shall we blame for the manner in which our economic system has gone wrong? Or will any with a public podium even admit it has gone wrong? After all, what is truth?
Is it a problem of 'fakes news sites' running contrary opinions to the established narrative?
Is it the failure of working people to rise to the occasion and elevate the 'lesser of two evils' to power so that she might further enrich herself and her supporters, whose disappointment and outrage at a missed payday knows no bounds?
Is it the impersonal forces of technology, and trade, and all of the superficially structured but high sounding economic laws that have served to promote almost every abuse of the public good that has been suffered for the past thirty years?
Or perhaps it is time for people of conscience to stop standing idly by while a powerful few are serving themselves the most of our gains, at great cost to others, and to break the silence about where we have gone wrong, and what is needed to be done to correct it.
"And some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak."
-Martin Luther King, 4 April 1967
"The problem of the last three decades is not the 'vicissitudes of the marketplace,' but rather deliberate actions by the government to redistribute income from the rest of us to the one percent. This pattern of government action shows up in all areas of government policy."
-Dean Baker
"When the modern corporation acquires power over markets, power in the community, power over the state and power over belief, it is a political instrument, different in degree but not in kind from the state itself. To hold otherwise — to deny the political character of the modern corporation — is not merely to avoid the reality. It is to disguise the reality. The victims of that disguise are those we instruct in error."
-John Kenneth Galbraith
Thomas Frank: America In The Age Of Hypocrisy, Hubris, And Greed
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by Tyler Durden
Apr 12, 2017 8:45 PM
Via Jesse's Cafe Americain blog,
In 2012 I said that such unsustainable social arrangements as we have now are backed by force and fraud. And as the fraud loses its power over time, force must increase, until there is a correction of the system in genuine reform, or an eventual reset.
"The whole world wants to know about what the hell is happening with us. So let's talk about it. I live in Washington now, and the people I live among have no idea how people live here in the Midwest, not the faintest idea...
The last couple of years here in America have been a time of brisk prosperity according to official measurements, with unemployment down and the stock market up.
For Americans who work for a living however, nothing ever seems to improve. Wages do not grow, median household income is still well below where it was in 2007. Economists have a way of measuring this, they call it the 'labor share of the Gross National Product' as opposed to the share taken by stockholders. The labor share of Gross National Product' hit its lowest point since records were started in 2011, and then it stayed there right for the next couple of years.
In the fall of 2014, with the stock market hitting an all time high, a poll showed that nearly 3/4 of the American public believed that the economy was still in recession, because for them it was.
There was time when average Americans could be counted upon to know correctly whether the country was going up or down, because in those days when America prospered, the American people prospered as well. These days things are different.
Let's look at it in a statistical sense. If you look at it from the middle of the 1930's (the Depression) up until the year 1980, the lower 90 percent of the population of this country, what you might call the American people, that group took home 70 percent of the growth in the country's income. If you look at the same numbers from 1997 up until now, from the height of the great Dot Com bubble up to the present, you will find that this same group, the American people, pocketed none of this country's income growth at all.
Our share of these great good times was zero, folks. The upper ten percent of the population, by which we mean our country's financiers and managers and professionals, consumed the entire thing. To be a young person in America these days is to understand instinctively the downward slope that so many of us are on."
Thomas Frank, Kansas City Missouri, 6 April 2017
What shall we blame for the manner in which our economic system has gone wrong? Or will any with a public podium even admit it has gone wrong? After all, what is truth?
Is it a problem of 'fakes news sites' running contrary opinions to the established narrative?
Is it the failure of working people to rise to the occasion and elevate the 'lesser of two evils' to power so that she might further enrich herself and her supporters, whose disappointment and outrage at a missed payday knows no bounds?
Is it the impersonal forces of technology, and trade, and all of the superficially structured but high sounding economic laws that have served to promote almost every abuse of the public good that has been suffered for the past thirty years?
Or perhaps it is time for people of conscience to stop standing idly by while a powerful few are serving themselves the most of our gains, at great cost to others, and to break the silence about where we have gone wrong, and what is needed to be done to correct it.
"And some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak."
-Martin Luther King, 4 April 1967
"The problem of the last three decades is not the 'vicissitudes of the marketplace,' but rather deliberate actions by the government to redistribute income from the rest of us to the one percent. This pattern of government action shows up in all areas of government policy."
-Dean Baker
"When the modern corporation acquires power over markets, power in the community, power over the state and power over belief, it is a political instrument, different in degree but not in kind from the state itself. To hold otherwise — to deny the political character of the modern corporation — is not merely to avoid the reality. It is to disguise the reality. The victims of that disguise are those we instruct in error."
-John Kenneth Galbraith
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