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Trump says China is not a currency manipulator after all: Shanghaiist

US President Donald Trump appears to have had an epiphany, perhaps brought on by some chocolate cake, declaring that he will not label China as a currency manipulator after all.During his presidential campaign, Trump had repeatedly promised to label China a currency manipulator on his first day in office. To explain his sudden change of heart on the issue, Trump told the Wall Street Journal that taking the step could wreck his master plan to get China to handle the North Korea crisis and anyway the Chinese government had not been manipulating its currency for months. “They’re not currency manipulators,” Trump said in the interview. Two months ago, Trump called China the “grand champions” of currency manipulation, and just last week he said they were the “world champions. “As always, there’s a relevant Trump tweet for the occasion. However, Trump’s flip-flop now brings him in line with his own cabinet members, experts and reality on the issue. Previously, Trump had long charged Beijing with artificially keeping the value of the renminbi low in order to hurt American manufacturers. Trump had stuck with this conviction, even as data, the International Monetary Fund and the US Treasury Department said that it was false with most experts believing that China is in fact manipulating the yuan up, not down.Of course, Trump’s about-face on China’s currency manipulation follows his first meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping last week at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida where the two bonded while eating “the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake” and listening to Trump’s granddaughter sing “Mo Li Hua.”

Source: Trump says China is not a currency manipulator after all: Shanghaiist

President Trump’s thoroughly confusing Fox Business interview, annotated – The Washington Post

Even Trump thinks Hitler did not gas Jews?

“No. But if I see them using gas and using things that — I mean even some of the worst tyrants in the world didn’t use the kind of gases that they used. And some of the gases are unbelievably potent.”

Source: President Trump’s thoroughly confusing Fox Business interview, annotated – The Washington Post

Breast Milk is Exported to the US | Inter Press Service

In a shed made of boards and tarps, one-year old Nune is in deep sleep as his mother Check Srey-Toy gently rocks his hammock. Then she tells me that she sells her breast milk to the US. They have no front door. Privacy is a sheet of cloth drawn across an opening. A gas burner on the ground. A saucepan with leftover porridge. “It’s been three months. Since I started”, Check Srey-Toy tells Arbetet Global.

Source: Breast Milk is Exported to the US | Inter Press Service

 

The demand for breast milk has increased and is now a commodity on international markets. The US company Ambrosia Lab have donators in several different countries. They target US mothers who pay close to 25 dollars for a bag of just under 150 millilitres of milk.

Monday Open Thread | Attorney General White Citizens Council’s Impending Attack on the Black Community | 3CHICSPOLITICO

Make no mistake- the War on Drugs is a war on Black people.Period.Nothing about how they must crackdown on those opioid/heroin users. They aren’t a menace?Well, isn’t that interesting.We already know what the War on Drugs cost the Black community.Attorney General White Citizens Council doesn’t think that’s enough.Where are the Blackademics? They couldn’t rush fast enough to a microphone to decry what President Obama WAS NOT DOING. Yet, they continue to be quiet as church mice pissing on cotton in the era of Dolt45.Michelle Alexander will have a few more chapters to an updated ‘ The New Jim Crow’, after these evil people are through.

Source: Monday Open Thread | Attorney General White Citizens Council’s Impending Attack on the Black Community | 3CHICSPOLITICO

“True this!” Trump’s change of heart on Syria isn’t reassuring, it’s profoundly disturbing | David Shariatmadari | Opinion | The Guardian – #LoserTrump-#TraitorTrump is just about the tweet, the sale and looking good for the minute of the next thing

All this may just be routine strategic ambiguity. But, as ever with the Trump administration, we are in uncharted territory. No one quite knows whether Haley et al are speaking from a Trump-approved hymn-sheet, or concerned with protecting their own reputations in an administration not exactly known for its message discipline. No one quite knows whether Haley’s statement, only last week, that “Our priority is no longer to sit there and focus on getting Assad out,” will stand or be overturned. Since the latter would represent a 180-degree turn, however, it’s worth considering in more detail.AdvertisementThose celebrating the possibility of a shift should ask how it may have come about. If there’s one thing we do know, it’s that Trump wants us to see that he cares. This is a president who is obsessed with how he is perceived, griping about unflattering photos and the size of the crowd at his inauguration.It’s not even clear that he has any ideological aims, other than to win, and to be liked. He has, after all, donated to both Republicans and Democrats. He supported the Iraq war, then didn’t, then claimed that he never had.

Source: Trump’s change of heart on Syria isn’t reassuring, it’s profoundly disturbing | David Shariatmadari | Opinion | The Guardian

Trump condemns chemical attack as his U.N. ambassador assails Russia’s role – The Washington Post #TraitorTrump, #LoserTrump still just selling himself and could care less about facts – Who unleashed the gas? All sides of this conflict spin and lie, so how are we to know who to blame?

“History will judge all of us in how we respond to these unforgettable and unforgivable images of the innocent,” British Ambassador Matthew Rycroft said. “How long are we going to sit here and pretend that actions in these chambers have no consequences?”

Source: Trump condemns chemical attack as his U.N. ambassador assails Russia’s role – The Washington Post

Mediterranean fish stocks deteriorate ′at alarming rate′ | News | DW.COM | 03.04.2017

Some 93 percent of researched fish stocks in the Mediterranean are overexploited, the EU’s Joint Research Centre says. It also says more than a third of the sea’s total fish population has vanished in the past 50 years.

Source: Mediterranean fish stocks deteriorate ′at alarming rate′ | News | DW.COM | 03.04.2017

Donald Trump and Russia: The Spanish connection with Trump’s Russia scandal | In English | EL PAÍS

On February 1, Alexander Torshin, 63, a Russian politician and banker who is close to Vladimir Putin and whom the Spanish anti-corruption prosecutor and the Civil Guard define in their reports as a godfather from a notorious Russian mafia organization, had in his diary for the next day an appointment to meet in Washington with the world’s most powerful man: Donald Trump. The encounter was due to take place before an official and well-attended breakfast meeting, which Torshin attended as the head of a Russian delegation. The meeting was canceled that very night, according to sources from the White House, given the wave of criticism in the US press related to the influence of determined Russian circles in President Trump’s power teams. But the information reveals the heights to which this person, who has been investigated by the Spanish authorities, had reached in his rise to the upper echelons of the American leader’s circle.

Source: Donald Trump and Russia: The Spanish connection with Trump’s Russia scandal | In English | EL PAÍS

Breaking: Reporter Makes Convincing Case Alleging Treason On The Part Of Trump And His Associates | The Intellectualist

(MEGA-THREAD) The plot to sell America’s foreign policy for foreign oil _and_ steal an election in the bargain began at the Mayflower Hotel. pic.twitter.com/XkoFpmMAeJ —

Source: Breaking: Reporter Makes Convincing Case Alleging Treason On The Part Of Trump And His Associates | The Intellectualist

The scandal involves claims Trump was given 0.5% of Rosneft and aid in getting elected in exchange for lifting US sanctions. pic.twitter.com/epnrPl9ngo

Star Witness In Treason Trial Involving Trump’s Campaign Chair Was Just Shot Dead

Yesterday, documents surfaced showing that former Trump Campaign Chair Paul Manafort had received at least $750,000 in illegal payments from former Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych, who is about to be tried for treason in absentia in Ukraine.Today, Denis Voronenkov was shot to death in the streets of Kiev in broad daylight, just a few weeks after he said he would testify against Yanukovych and his cohorts — Manafort included.This is only the latest in a list of Russian dissidents to be murdered or die under mysterious circumstances since the U.S. Election. The timing of Voronenkov’s murder in conjunction with the latest revelations about Manafort — a man he was likely to incriminate — makes this latest tragedy all the more suspect.

Source: Star Witness In Treason Trial Involving Trump’s Campaign Chair Was Just Shot Dead