Politics

President Vladimir Putin has said the deployment of the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier group to Syria was his own idea. The Russian president says he does not intend to interfere in Syria’s internal affairs, but wants to deal with jihadists and international terrorists who pose a threat to Russia. RT.com reports: Russia’s aircraft carrier group from the Northern Fleet inflicted significant damage to extremist groups in Syria, Putin said at a meeting with the officers who distinguished themselves during the operation in the Mediterranean near Syria’s shores.

With each passing day it's becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the apparent breakdown in communications between the Trump White House and his various agency chiefs.  Earlier this morning we noted one of the more egregious communication mishaps since Trump took the White House in which Kellyanne Conway told MSNBC that General Michael Flynn enjoyed the "full confidence" of the President just hours before he was fired (see "Kellyanne Conway Blasts CNN Reports That She's Been "Benched" From TV Appearances").

Shortly after taking center stage at CPAC, Steve Bannon once again unleashed on the media, quickly calling the press the "opposition party" as he did in his infamous NYT interview, during his conversation with Reince Priebus.

Via The Daily Bell

 

Top Republicans Propose Carbon Tax Plan To Stop Climate Change ... There’s a new climate change prevention plan in town, and unbelievably, it’s coming from some rather senior Republicans, the de facto party of science denial. Two former Secretaries of State – James Baker III and George Shultz – along with former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr., met with Vice President Mike Pence, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and Gary Cohn, director of the National Economic Council this week in Washington D.C. -IFL Science

The US national debt has been reduced by a staggering 12 billion dollars during President Trump’s first month in office. Inheriting a national debt of $19,947 billion – an enormous figure that was thought irreversible and had been blowing out by billions every day Obama was in office – President Trump immediately got to work and began turning the situation around. On February 21st, just month later, the US debt load stood at $19,935 billion – a reduction of $12 billion, and the first time in decades a President has turned the debt clock backwards.