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Senator John McCain illegally propositioned Russian ambassador Vitaly Churkin to donate to his presidential campaign in 2008, according to new documents released by WikiLeaks. Churkin, who was Russian ambassador to the United Nations, mysteriously died last Tuesday at the age of 65. According to the WikiLeaks release, McCain has kept quiet his involvement in forcing Russia to interfere in the 2008 presidential campaign, by asking the ambassador and Russian embassy for bucket loads of cash.

The disenfranchised, hurt-feeling liberals of California, who are herding towards 'CalExit' in ever-increasing numbers since the election of Donald Trump, are about to face up to an ugly reality in their perception of their virtue-signaling. As NYT reports, the president of the 'Yes California' movement lives in Russia.

Submitted by Eric Zuesse via The Strategic Culture Foundation,

The Gallup organization samples Americans’ approval-disapproval of Russia in February of each year, and the approval-figure for this year is only slightly more than half as high as it had been back in 2012 when Obama publicly mocked his Presidential-campaign opponent Mitt Romney’s famous statement that «Russia, this is, without question, our number one geopolitical foe».

Russia has announced plans to usher in a peoples version of the ‘New World Order’ as citizens around the world reject globalization en masse.  Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Russia would now be seeking closer ties to Washington following Trump’s victory, and will push to promote sovereign interests whilst continuing to strongly reject NATO.

Russia Gold Buying Returns - Adds Substantial One Million Ounces To Reserves In January

Russia gold buying returned in January with the Russian central bank buying a very large 1 million ounces or 37 metric tonnes of gold bullion.

The increase in the gold reserves came after Russia did not buy a single ounce in December - a move seen as potentially a signal or an olive branch to the U.S. and the incoming Trump administration.