The tit-for-tat diplomatic battle between Turkey and the Netherlands has been one of the top international stories this week.
It all started with the Dutch refusing to allow the Turkish foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, entry to the Netherlands to attend a rally of the Turkish expatriate community.
The rally was being held in support of a referendum called by Turkish president Erdogan to greatly expand his powers.
BOOM!
Rand Paul fired back at John McCain, after the senile Arizona Senator (infected with a special strain of Russia red scare virus), got up in front of Congress and declared Senator Rand Paul was “working for Vladimir Putin.”
Speaking to MSNBC, Senator Paul said…
The big news from MSNBC and Rachel Maddow…the scoop on Trump’s tax controversy, is that the President paid a lot in taxes in 2005.
TRUMP EARNED $153M AND PAID $36.5M IN TAXES IN 2005
President Donald Trump earned $153 million and paid $36.5 million in income taxes in 2005, paying a roughly 25 percent effective tax rate thanks to a tax he has since sought to eliminate, according to highly sought-after newly-disclosed tax documents.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is the Merkel protege, ready to keep the status quo in tact within the Netherlands and throughout Europe, even as Rome burns.
Geert Wilders is a provocative nation-statist who wants to do away with the neo-liberal, Merkel dogma, and return the Netherlands back to its Dutch identity.
Russophobia watchers got a real treat on Tuesday. That is, if you manage to maintain a sense of humor about these things.
The ambassadors of Poland, Georgia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were joined by the foreign minister of Ukraine, the diminutive dweeb Pavlo Klimkin, for a deluxe crying and whining session. The goal: extract as much money as possible from US taxpayers by licking Washington’s boots.
A historic thing happened at Friday’s White House press conference. And it was so brief it could have easily been missed.
There was a short exchange between White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and a reporter, who asked if the White House acknowledged the existence of a “deep state” – the entrenched government bureaucracy and those in intelligence agencies who continue in their posts, formulating policy regardless of which party is in power.
An incident allegedly occurred in the Strait of Hormuz on March 6th between a US naval vessel and several Iranian patrol boats (or “fast attack” boats – in case you need help deciding the aggressor).
Here’s the account from Reuters, citing the US Navy:
No it was not the Russians. It was not James Comey, or the Green party, or fake news, or the “depolorables.” And it was not Wikileaks that cost Hillary Clinton the election.
HRC was the worst candidate we have seen this century, running for just about any public office in all the land.
Her campaign was staffed with snowflake, liberal idiots, who blew through billions of dollars discussing identity politics and zero policy ideas…and now a A Wesleyan University study proves this point out.
So much for a “Digital Geneva Convention” to protect web users from the full spectrum access afforded to the CIA form various digital weaponry, as documented in Wikileaks’ Vault 7 data release.
Yesterday The Duran reported that during Assange’s press conference covering the 8,700 classified CIA files contained in Vault 7 that…
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