Whatever else might be said about them, Russians have this weird little gremlin approach toward political humor that is actually quite funny. I still think it was Oleg Deripaska who made up the Ritz Carlton Pee-Pee tapes Trump story just to see if the FBI would run with it. Perhaps the snark is part of the reason why our ever serious and joyless state dept hates them so much. {Direct Rumble Link} – WATCH:
The U.S. government is preparing evacuation plans for American citizens living in Taiwan, three sources told The Messenger.
The planning has been underway for at least six months and “it’s heated up over the past two months or so,” said a senior U.S. intelligence official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the planning.
The official said a “heightened level of tension” had driven the preparations. “It’s nothing you wouldn’t read in the news,” he told The Messenger. “Forces building up. China aligning with Russia on Ukraine.”
Incredible, and maybe even unprecedented, answer by Arnaud Montebourg – former French Minister of Economy – to the question “what method do the Americans use to wage economic warfare against us?”
“They use military tools. First of all, they use all the listening and intelligence systems that they built on after 9/11. They don’t listen to terrorists…well they certainly do and that’s very good…but they listen to foreign companies that compete with theirs.
So it’s very simple, it became clear in 2014 when Snowden revealed that there were 75 million conversations and emails that had been exploited by the NSA on France, on French companies. When Pierucci – a man who should wear the Legion of Honor today because he defended France rather than its interests by agreeing to serve two unjustified years in prison in US jails in the Alstom affair… when Mr. Pierucci was taken into custody in Manhattan by the prosecutors they put under his nose 1 million emails. How did they get 1 million emails? By illegal eavesdropping. 1 million emails: it would have taken a lawyer 3 years to read through them… so he couldn’t defend himself. So those are the military tools.
Second, they have a tool called extraterritorial law. The Americans are using a form of law, which is an imperialist law, which consists in declaring themselves competent for matters which in no way concern them.
Incredible, and maybe even unprecedented, answer by Arnaud Montebourg – former French Minister of Economy – to the question "what method do the Americans use to wage economic warfare against us?"
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