Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com,
The Trump administration is mulling over sanctions against senior Venezuelan government officials, and additional measures could include sanctions against the country’s oil industry, such as halting imports into the U.S., according to senior Washington officials who spoke to media.
Despite years of gridlock, this year's legislative achievements are de minimus to say the least, and according to at least one congressman, it's all Trump's fault.
As The Hill reports, Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) says President Trump and his family are a “distraction” from the GOP's attempts to enact its legislative agenda.
Simpson on Wednesday told Politico that he doesn’t “even pay any attention to what is going on with the administration because I don't care.”
Israel Uber Alles
Anyone who does not understand that Israel owns the US Congress needs to read Glenn Greenwald’s article: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47480.htm
Anyone who does not understand that Israel owns the Western media needs to read “The Brutal Realities of Israel’s Iron-fisted Occupation,” by Dennis J. Bernstein and John Pilger: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47481.htm
Authored by David Stockman via The Daily Reckoning,
It’s all over now except the shouting about Obamacare repeal and replace, but that’s not the half of it.
The stand by Senators Lee and Moran was much bigger than putting the latest iteration of McConnell-Care out of its misery. The move rang the bell loud and clear that the Imperial City has become fiscally ungovernable.
The "worst crisis between Germany and Turkey since World War II" just took another turn worse, after German media reported that in the latest escalation to date between Berlin and Ankara, Chancellor Angela Merkel will freeze present and future Turkish orders of defense goods amid souring diplomatic relations between the two nations, Bild Zeitung said citing unidentified govt officials.