StoneByStone
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Gee, I wonder why the State Department would side with Israel.
And yes, Tulsi is pissed
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Gee, I wonder why the State Department would side with Israel.
reagansghost
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Tulsi Gabbard Hires Russian Agent to Keep Hawaii Media in Check
Russia has lots of experience in media censorship. So perhaps it is logical that Rep Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI-2) hires an agent of the Russian government as a ‘consultant’ to keep Hawaii media under control.
But Gabbard’s consultant, Chris Cooper of the Potomac Square Group, is no ordinary Russian agent. Cooper is allegedly one of seven identified as being at the center of illegal Russian lobbying efforts reaching into the Trump campaign and Congress.
Inquiries with Gabbard’s DC office last June by reporter Christine Gralow—then stringing an article for Honolulu Magazine--must have piqued the attentions of the numerous Hare Krishna cultists employed there. Within 24 hours a letter from Cooper, identifying himself as “a consultant to Rep. Tulsi Gabbard,” riddled with misspellings and inaccuracies, landed in the in-box of Honolulu Magazine’s editors.
It worked. Honolulu Magazine suddenly lost interest in Gralow’s articles – which she eventually published on her own website, www.MeanwhileinHawaii.org. And confirming its obsequience, on November 20, Honolulu Magazine characterized a Gabbard cult expose in the New Yorker as “another project in otherizing Gabbard’s faith journey.”
Gralow says she became aware of the Cooper letter in November when a source sent her a copy. She posted the letter on her website December 31, 2017. Cooper—who has not previously been publicly known to be tied to Gabbard—is one of seven people named by Hermitage Capital Management CEO William Browder in a July 15, 2016 memo to the US Department of Justice identifying unregistered agents working illegally in the US “under the direction/control/influence of the Russian Government.” The seven are seeking repeal of the now-famous 2012 Magnitsky Act signed into law by President Obama in response to the imprisonment and 2009 murder of Hermitage’s anti-corruption investigator, Sergei Magnitsky, by agents of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya is also among the seven agents cited by Hermitage. Repeal of the Magnitsky Act was the subject of a well-known June 9, 2016 Trump Town meeting between Veselnitskaya and Trump campaign officials. This meeting is a focus for numerous Trump-Russia conspiracy investigations.
The interests of Russia’s Syrian client-dictator Bashar al-Assad were front and center when Gabbard met personally with then President-elect Trump November 21, 2016. Gabbard afterwards told reporters, “I shared with (Trump) my grave concerns that escalating the war in Syria by implementing a so-called no fly/safe zone would be disastrous for the Syrian people, our country, and the world.” In January, 2017, Gabbard travelled to Syria and met with Assad in a highly criticized trip organized by a pro-Assad political party. Gabbard has repeatedly argued that President Obama was arming ISIS and al-Qaeda via his support of anti-Assad rebels.
Gabbard’s Hare Krishna guru Chris Butler seeks recognition from mainstream Hinduism in India. Gabbard has developed close ties with the Hindu nationalist government of India. India’s foreign policy is traditionally aligned with Russia. The Hindu nationalists are anti-Islamist. By aligning with India’s foreign policy, Gabbard’s work relating to Russia and
Syria dovetails with Butler’s drive for recognition from India.
International intrigue is nothing new for the Butler Cult. Cult followers were convicted in New Zealand in 2008 and 2010 for trafficking 240 tonnes of hashish into the US--in part from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
According to Hermitage, Cooper arranged a June 13, 2016 Washington, DC showing of an anti-Magnitsky Act ‘documentary’ along with Rinat Akhmetshin “a former member of the Russian military intelligence services (GRU).” Hermitage continues: “…the day after the Newseum event, Congressman Royce chaired a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on U.S. policy towards Putin’s Russia… attended by…Natalia Veselnitskaya and Rinat Akhmetshin.”
Cooper’s website informs readers that he “help(s) clients define and disseminate their narratives” and “client work focuses on interests in the US and Europe and countries that include Russia….”
The New York Times buttonholed Cooper at the documentary showing and reports: “Mr. Cooper rented the theater in the Newseum and declined to say who was paying his company.”
http://www.hawaiifreepress.com/Arti...sian-Agent-to-Keep-Hawaii-Media-in-Check.aspx
Asked who paid him to write the letter to Honolulu Magazine, Cooper likewise did not respond to Hawai’i Free Press.
Gabbard’s FEC records and the Congressional Statement of Disbursements for the timeframe show no payment of campaign funds or Congressional office funds to Cooper or Potomac Square. Neither Gabbard nor her office responded to our query.
Darth Omar
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Sounds like they got her lol.
reagansghost
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Darth Omar
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StoneByStone
It's OK to Be White
America funds the Israeli war machine. All we would need to do to beat them is cut them off.
Tulsi aside, I oppose the isolationist- nation state first US world view.
To any who don't get it, think it through. Power abhors a vacuum. It would be really great if the US could just
turn within herself, forget the trappings of "empire" say FU to the benefits and burdens of all alliances we have agreed to
and just focus on feeding clothing and housing the 50 states people. But only in principle. We have seen and foresee that
doing so even to the extent we have alienates Europe, causes tariff wars and increases the power and influence of Russia and China
and satellite states within spheres of influence. We can't retreat without a coordinate expansion of China and Russia. So ask yourself,
what are the principles that China and Russia stand for that you believe warrants an increase in their influence? Is it the
kleptocracy? The non transparency? The disrespect for human rights at home and indifference to them abroad? Is it their
respect for the rule of law? Their court systems that ensure all their citizens have recourse to justice? What is it about them you like?
The intellectual property theft? The beatdown of the free press? The espionage on their own citizens?
Because that is what the world gets more of each time and each place we pull out. So it would be great if we could be great alone.
We can't and it is an irreversible ceding of influence to darker forces in the world. So I reject the framing of the debate as a battle
for US people over globalism. The frame is right versus wrong. It is the maintenance of a rules based order and we should thank our lucky stars and stripes every single day
that our forefathers fought and died to make the world at least as good as it is today. No Tulsi, no Trump, we aren't going to turn our backs
on western allies and give the world to China state run business conglomerate and Russian crime lords.
To any who don't get it, think it through. Power abhors a vacuum. It would be really great if the US could just
turn within herself, forget the trappings of "empire" say FU to the benefits and burdens of all alliances we have agreed to
and just focus on feeding clothing and housing the 50 states people. But only in principle. We have seen and foresee that
doing so even to the extent we have alienates Europe, causes tariff wars and increases the power and influence of Russia and China
and satellite states within spheres of influence. We can't retreat without a coordinate expansion of China and Russia. So ask yourself,
what are the principles that China and Russia stand for that you believe warrants an increase in their influence? Is it the
kleptocracy? The non transparency? The disrespect for human rights at home and indifference to them abroad? Is it their
respect for the rule of law? Their court systems that ensure all their citizens have recourse to justice? What is it about them you like?
The intellectual property theft? The beatdown of the free press? The espionage on their own citizens?
Because that is what the world gets more of each time and each place we pull out. So it would be great if we could be great alone.
We can't and it is an irreversible ceding of influence to darker forces in the world. So I reject the framing of the debate as a battle
for US people over globalism. The frame is right versus wrong. It is the maintenance of a rules based order and we should thank our lucky stars and stripes every single day
that our forefathers fought and died to make the world at least as good as it is today. No Tulsi, no Trump, we aren't going to turn our backs
on western allies and give the world to China state run business conglomerate and Russian crime lords.
you mention spheres of influence...good
Who has the "sphere" in Syria? why should we contest it?
No one has brought up that left wing talking point yet. Micabwer will be unable to answer.
not just him.. all I hear is "da Russians will take over Syria"
-being complete morons that Russia is already firmly planted with Tartus Naval facility, as well as Khmeimim Air Base.
I like your knowledge of things before you speak of them. It is impressive.
likewise..but thank you very much,I greatly respect your opinion as well
anonymoose
Classical Liberal
dukkha thinks matters thru. One of the few on the board that does, much more so than me. In fact I often read his posts just to gain knowledge of foreign affairs. It's more accurate than most of the fake news I see.
Regarding foreign policy this is typical knee jerk of those with TDS and fake news media...
...only because it is 180 degrees opposite of Trump or Tulsi.
I learned a long time ago if you want to be anti war -you gotta understand war.
same with foreign affairs..it's really sad to see us stumble into Cold War 2.0 by pure Russiaphobic reactionarism.
It hurts us by forcing Putin and China together - this after decades of the "China card" policy established by Nixon
Not to mention the insanity of NATO expansion.. You can see that by the fact we are in the Black Sea
and funding the war between Ukraine and Donbass.
And I make no exceptions for Trump either -although his early attempts to coexist with Russia were thwarted by the Deep State creeps
we have no clue what we are doing. staying in Syria was bad idea all around we could have been easily sucked into that war as well ( if we got killed)
Darth Omar
Russian asset
Who the frick cares lol?
Syria isn’t exactly Boardwalk or Park Place of the Middle East.
Darth Omar
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