America goes to the polls

It would be wonderful to have a completely transparent person as the next President, Bonny.

Hillary is scared of something coming out. AGAIN.

Surely not, Lily? Doesn't everyone have a private server in their basement?

NO!

There have been quite a few scandals surrounding the Clintons. This could be the one to end her presidential hopes.

Both the Clintons are very highly intelligent so they know what they are doing/have done.

From 2010:

http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2010/07/exclusive-where-clintons-are-staying-chelseas-wedding/

Only eight days before Chelsea Clinton ties the knot with her long-time boyfriend, RadarOnline.com has learned that her famous parents and only daughter will be staying at a multi-million dollar estate, Glenburn, in Rhinebeck, New York, Minutes away from the lavish Astor Estate where the two will tie the knot.

The Hudson Valley News will report that former President Bill Clinton, his wife Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,and Chelsea herself will be staying at the  posh estate — known as Glenburn — owned by Eric and Andrea Colombel. Andrea Colombel is the daughter of huge Clinton supporter and billionaire George Soros.

I knew that, Bonny.  

The house and gardens looked beautiful too and their wedding was at sunset. 

Ah, I hadn't come across it before, Lily.

You know, I am starting to think that most of the trouble in the world has one thing, or rather, person, in common.....

I am right there with you and I think more people are getting the same horrible feeling.......

Oh, looks like the UK is going to be put on Obama's sanction list.

Don't tell me we've joined the BRICS bank or something? *goes to find out more*

Oh Gawd, look what we've done!



You can read it blown up, and Washington is spitting its dummy.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-12/u-k-seeks-to-join-china-s-asian-infrastructure-investment-bank

(Bloomberg) -- The U.K. is looking to join China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, becoming the first “major western country” to apply for membership, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said.
“Joining the AIIB at the founding stage will create an unrivaled opportunity for the U.K. and Asia to invest and grow together,” Osborne said in a statement Thursday. The U.K. will hold talks with the China-backed investment bank’s founding members later this month, according to the Treasury.

More at link.

Yup, that'll be us on the Evil list now, along with 90% of the globe.

Er, no, it's EXACTLY the way to engage with a rising power....always best to get in with the brickwork.

Did no-one tell Obama and co that Westminster and the City of London have been scheming and backstabbing since Machiavelli was a lad?

Oh, and SWIFT has totally ignored Washington and given Russia a seat on their board....

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-12/wests-plan-drop-russia-swift-hilariously-backfires

Way to go, Obama, you've isolated yourself.

 Can't help it.  What a faux pas.  

It's turning into, Go away, Bam-bam, the grownups are talking....

He and his cronies are going to be fuming, Lily. His supposed closest allies in the UK joining the Chinese bank startup is bad enough, but SWIFT not only not kicking out Russia, but giving them a seat on the board are enormous slaps in the face.

It also suggests that not too many people are actually listening to Washington and the warmongers, because they are interfering with trade and business.

Whoever said he was not good at anything got it wrong.  He excels when it comes to the trashing of the US.

I find it astounding to observe from a distance, Lily. I remember pre-Obama, when the US had things like diplomats, statesmen and a foreign policy. Now, Washington just seems to go around falling out with people - just about every nation on earth.

I saw that, on top of Venezuela being put on the Enemy list this week, Vietnam got a finger-wagging lecture for the heinous sin of letting the Russian air force refuel at one of its bases.

That it had naff-all to do with Washington, or the irony of trying to bully Vietnam (have they forgotten how that ended last time?) seems to be lost on the Obama administration.

And now the UK has done something fairly major without permission and is Evil.

I know, Bonny.  How on earth could any of you dare to do that?  

I mean......come on.  This is B.O.  He used to have girls and grown women screaming at him in adoration.   I hope they still do not do that....

Bolivia and Ecuador are annoyed with him now, over Venezuela:

http://rt.com/news/240325-venezuela-sanctions-obama-america/

olivia’s Foreign Ministry has joined a chorus of condemnation over US sanctions on Venezuela. A statement called on the US to “abandon its interventionist practices,” shortly after the rest of Latin America bonded in defense of Caracas.

Setting off the Latin outcry was US President Barack Obama’s decision to label Venezuela a ‘national security threat’ in early March, something President Nicolas Maduro countered by saying that Obama had taken it upon himself to “defeat” and “control” the country.

La Paz is striking back at Washington in defense of Caracas, after Bolivian President Evo Morales earlier this week signaled his support for Maduro. In a Thursday document the Foreign Ministry expressed its “regret” at Obama’s stance, saying “Bolivia rejects these interventionist actions of the US government to violate the sovereignty and self-determination of the Venezuelan people. These undemocratic actions of President Barack Obama threaten the peace and security of all countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

READ MORE: Maduro: US trying to ‘defeat’ Venezuela govt with sanctions, we’ll fight back

“Bolivia reiterates its full support for the legitimate government of brother Nicolas Maduro, a president democratically elected by his people, and pledge our solidarity to the Venezuelan people in this unfair and difficult time in which democracy is again trying to be sacrificed to serve foreign interests,” the document also read.

Some of the loudest criticism in Latin America came from Cuba, which questioned Obama’s decision-making wisdom. Calling the president’s actions “arbitrary and aggressive,” its Foreign Ministry also issued a statement.

“How is Venezuela a threat to the United States? Thousands of kilometers away, without strategic weapons and without the resources … to conspire against the US constitutional order; the [White House] declaration has little credibility,” Cuban newspaper Granma cited the document as saying.

Similar outrage was heard from Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, who took to Facebook to voice his objections, calling the US sanctions “a bad joke, which reminds us of the darkest hour of our America, when we received invasions and dictatorships imposed by imperialism.



Offering its “full support” to Maduro, Correa reiterated that such actions will not stand with Latin America “in the 21st century.”

Meanwhile, Secretary-General of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) Ernesto Samper said this week that the body rejects “any attempt at internal or external interference that attempts to disrupt the democratic process in Venezuela.”

The 12-nation bloc has agreed to hold a high-level meeting on March 14 in Quito, Ecuador, to discuss how to go about responding the new measures. The ad hoc meeting was announced urgently by Correa shortly after Obama’s remarks on how Venezuela is a threat to the US. Like other Latin-American partners, Correa sees this as a move to isolate Caracas and finish the job that the opposition could not.

The nations are also part of the anti-imperialist ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our America) group of Latin American and Caribbean nations, which earlier said that the move by Obama “constitutes an unprecedented aggression against that country and thus our region.....more at link.

Nice choice of pic there - Obama looks thoroughly Evil.

Seriously, is he crazy? His regime (it can barely be called an administration these days) is doing what would once have been thought impossible, and isolating the US from the world.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/11468997/Britains-plan-to-join-Chinas-World-Bank-angers-Washington.html

Britain has announced plans to become the first major Western country to join a Chinese-led development bank, drawing a concerned response from the US.
The $50bn (£33.6bn) Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has been feted by Beijing as a way of financing regional development, and is seen as a potential rival to US-based institutions such as the World Bank.
Chancellor George Osborne said Britain would join discussions with other founding members to set out the institution’s governance and accountability structures later this month, in a move to bolster relations with China.
“Forging links between the UK and Asian economies to give our companies the best opportunity to work and invest in the world’s fastest growing markets is a key part of our long-term economic plan,” Mr Osborne said in a statement.
“Joining the AIIB at the founding stage will create an unrivalled opportunity for the UK and Asia to invest and grow together.”

The move drew a cautious response from Washington, a rare note of discord in the special relationship that follows criticism from the US about Britain’s falling defence spending.
“We believe any new multilateral institution should incorporate the high standards of the World Bank and the regional development banks,” said US National Security Council spokesman Patrick Ventrell.
“Based on many discussions, we have concerns about whether the AIIB will meet these high standards, particularly related to governance, and environmental and social safeguards.”
China and 20 other countries signed a memorandum of understanding to establish the Beijing-headquartered bank in October.
The bank has support from countries including India, Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. However, several major economies allied to the US, including Japan, South Korea and Australia, have declined to become founding members.

The City of London hasn't survived for hundreds of years by being dumb; this is, IMO, a rather big clue as to which way things are going longterm.....

Next stop, leaving the EU and NATO and joining the Eurasian Union, because that's where the REAL money is. Not the debt-laden paper money backed up by thin air.  IMO!

ETA, it's worth reading the comments on that piece. There are few who don't think the US is in big, big trouble, between money and this persistent meddling and bullying by Obama and his chums, who all appear to have thrown diplomacy out the window.

I think many sane people here know that there is a crash coming sooner or later.  It's the course we are on...

From what I can make out, Lily, the seeds of this one seem to have been sown in the bank bailouts of 2008-ish? When PUBLIC money was thrown at PRIVATE failure?

Whereas if something like the Iceland model had been followed, yes, there would have been a period of pain, when the US HAD to live within its means, and not print money to cover the shortfall, but the economy would be stable and improving by now?

And a good few banker crooks would also have been jailed....

Instead, a huge problem then is turning into a real disaster further down the road? Not that the UK is much better, I hasten to add, with the RBS shenanigans.....

I believe that 100%, Bonny.  Yes billions of taxpayers money thrown at that ponzi scheme must have ended up somewhere cushy....

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/13/obama-first-lady-flew-separate-planes-la-same-day/

Obama, first lady flew on separate planes to L.A. on same day

Taxpayers paid for President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama to fly separately Thursday to Los Angeles, where they appeared on separate TV talk shows on the same day.

Mr. Obama flew on Air Force One, which costs about $228,000 per hour of flight time, to appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday night in Los Angeles.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Obama flew on a different plane Thursday across country to Burbank, California, to tape an appearance on Ellen Degeneres‘ show. That show will be broadcast on Monday.

White House deputy press secretary Eric Schultz told reporters Friday that the president and first lady’s “schedules were not in sync in order to travel together.”

“I’m not even sure they overlapped,” he said when asked if the president and first lady saw each other in southern California Thursday.

Mr. Obama flew Friday morning from Los Angeles to Phoenix, where he was visiting the veterans’ hospital that sparked a scandal in health care services last year. He was scheduled to return to Washington late Friday.


t was Mrs. Obama’s fourth appearance on the “Ellen” show. She is promoting the fifth anniversary of her initiative to combat childhood obesity.

The show’s producers released video Friday of the segment, which includes Mrs. Obama and Ms. DeGeneres performing a high-energy dance with a troupe of backup dancers.

“There is some hip thrusting,” the first lady said after the microphone battery pack clipped to her waist came undone as they began the routine. “There’s a lot of it.”

Mrs. Obama’s office had not previously announced that she would be in California on Thursday.




The show’s producers released video Friday of the segment, which includes Mrs. Obama and Ms. DeGeneres performing a high-energy dance with a troupe of backup dancers.

“There is some hip thrusting,” the first lady said after the microphone battery pack clipped to her waist came undone as they began the routine. “There’s a lot of it.”

Those two never tire of demeaning the office of the President.

That was 100% utter contempt for the taxpayers.

Again, think about the message the sight of the 'First Lady' hip-thrusting with de Generes sends to, oh, China and a few other rather large and important countries.